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* 1916 – Germans captured Fort Douaumont during Battle of Verdun.
The main fortifications were Fort Douaumont, Fort Vaux and the fortified city of Verdun itself.
The forts situated to the north and east of Verdun ( e. g. Fort Douaumont, Fort Vaux, Moulainville ) had been thoroughly hardened during the early 1900s with very thick steel-reinforced concrete tops resting on a sand cushion.
When the general in command of the Verdun sector showed up to inspect Fort Douaumont in January 1916, he was refused entry because he did not carry the necessary authorizations emanating from Paris.
In the meantime, the Germans were now in possession of Beaumont, the Bois des Fosses, the Bois des Caurières and were moving up the Hassoule ravine which led directly to Fort Douaumont.
At 16: 30 on 24 February, infantrymen from three companies of the German 24th ( Brandenburg ) regiment entered the centrepiece of the French fortification system: Fort Douaumont.
The first German raiding party to enter the fort was led by Leutnant Eugen Radtke, Hauptmann Hans Joachim Haupt and Oberleutnant Cordt von Brandis ( after the war, a certain Feldwebel Kunze claimed to have been first to enter Fort Douaumont but this was never confirmed officially ).
Firstly, a non-commissioned officer named Chenot was the highest ranking French personnel inside Fort Douaumont and the de facto commander of the fort's technical maintenance garrison ( 68 men ).
In May 1916, the main event was the French failed attempt to reoccupy Fort Douaumont.
Three days later, the French attempt had failed, although French infantry had occupied the superstructure of Fort Douaumont for over 12 hours.
Later in May 1916, the German attacks shifted from the left bank ( Mort-Homme and Côte 304 ) and returned to the right bank, south of Fort Douaumont.
The final assault on Fort Douaumont combined an infantry attack following behind a " creeping " forward artillery barrage timed to keep the enemy machine gunners down.
Unquestionably, German morale at Verdun had begun to deteriorate after the failure to seize Fort Souville and then later after the loss of Fort Douaumont.
The French lost control of Fort Douaumont.
After a change in French command at Verdun from the defensive-minded Philippe Pétain to the offensive-minded Robert Nivelle the French attempted to re-capture Fort Douaumont on 22 May but were easily repulsed.
With the development of the rolling barrage, the French recaptured Fort Vaux in November, and by December 1916 they had pushed the Germans back from Fort Douaumont, in the process rotating 42 divisions through the battle.
De Boeldieu and Maréchal are then taken to a prisoner-of-war camp, where they meet a colorful group of fellow French prisoners and stage a vaudeville-type performance just after the Germans have taken Fort Douaumont in the epic battle of Verdun.
The construction work for Fort de Douaumont started in 1885 and the fort was continually reinforced until 1913.
* " Fort Douaumont " ( Revised edition ), Christina Holstein, 2010, Pen and Sword Books Ltd, ISBN 978-1-84884-345-5.
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