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And you see exactly what Douaumont is about.
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It's a huge necropolis which was inaugurated in summer 1932.
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It's aim was at the same time
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to bring together most of the identified bodies of the Battle of Verdun.
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The cemetery here contains more than 15,000 bodies.
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And the other aim was to contain the remains of those who remained unidentified,
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estimated as here, estimated 32,000 inside the building, 32,000.
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So, the cemetery which appears also in the famous 1937 remake of j'accuse!
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by Abel Gance where dead soldiers,
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here the cemetery, rise from it--can you imagine that, too?
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arise from the grave in douaumont, at the Douaumont Cemetery
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to haunt the living and prevent another war.