The weight of artillery barrage in the mud would mean

炮火击中了湿地这导致
the earth would move when, indeed,

地表运动
the artillery barrage hit a particularly wet part of the front.

特别是当炮火击中前沿阵地的湿地时
So, a group of men were buried alive,

因此一整队人被活埋
which is a very normal practice in the course of the First World War.

这在一战中很寻常
The German group of soldiers, the platoon that took it,

当时有一个排的德军不幸遭遇这种事
put bayonets basically sticking up out of the ground

他们把刺刀插在地上
to indicate to the Frenchmen where to find the dead,

来告诉法国人尸体的位置
so that they could be buried during a lull in the fighting.

这样法国人就可以在休战期间帮助掩埋尸体
The French didn't interpret it that way.

不过法国人却扭曲了事实
What they said was, "Here are fifteen French men

他们声称这里有十五位法国人
who stood with their bayonets there until they were buried alive

他们和他们的刺刀一起