a average German Soldier uniform from World War I

Chapter 2 about the trench warfare facts
yeah World War 1 was pretty tough machine gun fire explosion trench foot harsh conditions having to sit in a trench and try not to get sniped by snipers running up top being shot at and days inside of a trench was terrible lots of storming days bombs
Trench warfare in World War I was employed primarily on the Western Front, an area of northern France and Belgium that saw combat between German troops and Allied forces from France, Great Britain and, later, the United States.from airplanes dropping on you massive casualties bad conditions wounded soldiers being put in different areas having more young people joined the battle it's crazy
Especially mustard gas or poison gas that kills dozens of people and soldiers and especially all that bog wire getting stuck into land mines tanks being shot at you flamethores terrifying Most soldiers spent between a day and 2 weeks in a trench on the front line before being relieved. Sanitary conditions in the trenches were poor and many soldiers suffered from gangrene and cholera. Often, dead bodies were simply left out in the open rather than buried.

Although trenches were hardly new to combat: Prior to the advent of firearms and artillery, they were used as defenses against attack, such as moats surrounding castles. But they became a fundamental part of the strategy with the influx of modern weapons of war.....
Long, narrow trenches dug into the ground at the front, usually by the infantry soldiers who would occupy them for weeks at a time, were designed to protect World War I troops from machine-gun fire and artillery attacks from the air.

As the “Great War” also saw the wide use of chemical warfare and poison gas, the trenches were thought to offer some degree of protection against exposure. (While significant exposure to militarized chemicals such as mustard gas would result in almost certain death, many of the gases used in World War I were still relatively weak.)
Thus, trenches may have afforded some protection by allowing soldiers more time to take other defensive steps, such as putting on gas masks.

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