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Topping out on Köderhöhe, photo, 1915

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    (N)O for a roof over our heads!

    To protect the troops against weather conditions and the foe, the aim was to build shelters that were as well-constructed and as practically appointed as possible. In practice, this ambition could be realised only with limitations; all depended on the scene of military operations and climatic/geographical conditions and whether the troops were moving, thus advancing or retreating, or were stationary in the “Stellungskrieg”, in trench warfare.