{"id":2167,"date":"2017-09-18T14:28:12","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T14:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/?p=2167"},"modified":"2017-12-21T00:03:12","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T00:03:12","slug":"france-lorraine-region-more-interesting-than-normandy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/france-lorraine-region-more-interesting-than-normandy\/","title":{"rendered":"France&#8217;s Lorraine Region MORE Interesting Than Normandy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a cold, drizzly day with the constant pitter patter of rain.\u00a0 I thought my eyes had deceived me as I noticed, a few steps ahead, a German soldier standing guard. I moved closer. It <em><u>was<\/u><\/em> a German soldier in a WW1 uniform trying, very cleverly, to make tourists aware of a unique attraction. I was near the village <strong>Vienne Le Chateau<\/strong>, deep in the heart of the Argonne forest. The uniformed man was Frenchman Serge Tourovsky, who provides a marvelous \u201cYou-are-here\u201d feeling that \u201cYes,\u201d you\u2019re back in WW1.\u00a0 Discovered in 1996, Camp Moreau is a 10 year re-creation of a real German rest camp from WW1. It\u2019s so realistic you expect German infantrymen to appear any second and fire the menacing looking cannons nearby.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2156\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Camp-Moreau1.jpg\" alt=\"Camp Moreau roadway sign and concrete parts of the base used as both billets and storage space for ammunition\" width=\"850\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Camp-Moreau1.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Camp-Moreau1-600x275.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Camp-Moreau1-300x138.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Camp-Moreau1-768x352.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2155\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Camp-Moreau2.jpg\" alt=\"colorful Frenchman in a WW1 German Uniform with visitors at Camp Moreau\" width=\"500\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Camp-Moreau2.jpg 500w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Camp-Moreau2-300x253.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>Although a \u201cTourist Site Attraction,\u201d Camp Moreau is NOT publicized with any major billboards, but rather as an \u201cAfterthought\u201d with these two roadway signs. When John was there in 2005, \u201cit looked\u201d he said, \u201cthat if the nearby foliage grew too much, the signs would disappear.\u201d Photo above right shows one of the concrete parts of the base used as both billets and storage space for ammunition. Photo on the right is the (very!) colorful Frenchman, no less, in his WW1 Uniform of a German soldier of that era. His explanation of the camp was, said John, \u201cabsolutely fascinating.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2162\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2162\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2162\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Interpretive-Center-Aircraft.jpg\" alt=\"WW1 aircraft at the Interpretive Center\" width=\"540\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Interpretive-Center-Aircraft.jpg 540w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Interpretive-Center-Aircraft-270x300.jpg 270w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2162\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Part of the Interpretive Center display with an aircraft used in the battle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As much of WW1 was fought in trenches, it\u2019s hard trying to imagine how it REALLY was in those deep gouges in the ground, but <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marne14-18.fr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Marne Interpretive Center 14-18<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>has an exhibit that brilliantly re-creates trench warfare. You\u2019re surrounded by sandbags, like a real 1914-1918 trench, and you undergo what it was like to fight in those yawning ditches &#8212; the rat-a-tat of the machine guns convince you this\u00a0<u>is<\/u> the real thing.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the biggest fort in the area of Verdun, and is another reason why the <a href=\"http:\/\/travelingboy.com\/archive-travel-corinna-champagne.html\">Lorraine<\/a> battlefield sites of WW1 are more interesting than Normandy. It\u2019s the <strong>Citadelle Souterraine. <\/strong>Inside you\u2019re treated to a fascinating 25 minute ride aboard a Disneyland type vehicle seating five people, that gives you a mesmerizing trip around the fort &#8212; it\u2019s cold and dark for most of the journey, but you\u2019ll be intrigued by the 15 tableaux depicting the life of a French infantryman; the fort\u2019s bakery in action; the hospital; and even the trenches. This ride are so real you wonder how the actors in front of you keep warm in the bone chilling cold &#8212; then it hits you; what you\u2019re seeing are holograms. Tours, including English, are in six different languages.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2160\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/German-Cemetery-Lorraine.jpg\" alt=\"WW1 German Cemetery in Lorraine, France\" width=\"850\" height=\"571\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/German-Cemetery-Lorraine.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/German-Cemetery-Lorraine-600x403.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/German-Cemetery-Lorraine-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/German-Cemetery-Lorraine-768x516.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAnother aspect of WW1, and visiting the Lorraine region of France, says John, \u201cis that as you\u2019re driving along in the wide open, countryside, you quite suddenly come across a cemetery. There is no \u2018advance notice,\u2019 or a billboard announcing it,\u00a0 it is just there in the middle of nowhere, like this one of German military. We often saw them with no identification of what nationality it was, and one had to get out the bus &#8212; or car &#8212; to see the gravesites up close and personal, to know what country the soldiers were from.\u201d He goes on to say that is NOT the case of any American military cemetery. \u201cAll are cared for with loving attention, and all are in First Class condition,\u201d he said, \u201cand it makes you proud to be an American to know how WE care for OUR military who paid the ultimate price fighting &#8212; and dying &#8212; to protect the freedom of others.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Fort de la Pompelle<\/strong> is about 3 miles outside Reims. Inside there\u2019s a stunning array of military memorabilia &#8212; including a collection of French 75 mm cannons, to uniforms and a vast array of military items &#8212; from medals to lots of personal items, plus 560 of those classic looking German Wurttemberg steel helmets with the large pointed spike on top. Each helmet, in mint condition, is worth about $3,000.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2170\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Fort-de-la-Pompelle-Artifacts.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"850\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Fort-de-la-Pompelle-Artifacts.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Fort-de-la-Pompelle-Artifacts-600x353.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Fort-de-la-Pompelle-Artifacts-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Fort-de-la-Pompelle-Artifacts-768x452.jpg 768w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Fort-de-la-Pompelle-Artifacts-413x244.jpg 413w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Part of the spellbinding and for sure, mesmerizing artifacts on display at Fort de la Pompelle \u2013 one of the cannons (or maybe it\u2019s a Howitzer?) and the always intriguing helmets of WW1 worn by the German military<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2171 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Fort-Douaumont.jpg\" alt=\"inside Fort Douaumont, Verdun\" width=\"396\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Fort-Douaumont.jpg 396w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Fort-Douaumont-300x242.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 396px) 100vw, 396px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>The \u201csteel plate\u201d (seen lower center of photo on the right) that our Guide was able to lift up and then crash down on the stone floor. Note too, the \u201cdampness\u201d that pervaded the entire Fort, \u201cit was, says John, \u201cextremely cold in the Fort, and must have added \u2013 enormously \u2013 yet another debilitating aspect, to the suffering endured by those who fought and died in these appalling conditions.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Lorraine region is bursting with unique memorials and museums, but for me, <strong>Fort de Douaumont<\/strong> in the Meuse region is the most mesmerizing. Wandering around this forbidding fort, I looked up at the walls. They were dripping with moisture, and rivulets of water were slowly sliding down to the already wet and slippery floor &#8212; how unremittingly awful, I thought, it must have been for the soldiers who lived and died here all those years ago. My reverie was interrupted by our guide, saying she wanted me hear the sound when, in WW1, a huge shell exploded on the fort. With both hands she lifted up an enormous steel plate from the hard stone floor. \u201cBlock your ears with your fingers\u201d I heard her say, as she dropped the steel plate back down. Even with a roof that\u2019s 40 feet thick, the noise was so shatteringly loud it was like a 100 freight trains colliding at hi speed.<\/p>\n<p>The sights and sounds of WW1 in the Lorraine region of France, is thrilling, captivating and absolutely mesmerizing. There\u2019s nothing like it in <a href=\"http:\/\/travelingboy.com\/archive-travel-john-normandy_ww2beaches.html\">Normandy<\/a>, and if you require something different in your travels, plan on visiting France\u2019s Lorraine region.\u00a0 It\u2019s stunning.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a cold, drizzly day with the constant pitter patter of rain.\u00a0 I thought my eyes had deceived me as I noticed, a few steps ahead, a German soldier standing guard. I moved closer. 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