![]() ![]() The tower is 46 metres (151 ft) high and has a panoramic view of the battlefields. The architects of the ossuary were Léon Azéma, Max Edrei and Jacques Hardy and George Desvallières designed the stained glass windows. ![]() The ossuary was officially inaugurated on 7 August 1932 by French President Albert Lebrun. It was initiated in 1923 by Verdun veteran André Maginot, who would later create the Maginot Line. In front of the monument, and sloping downhill, lies the largest single French military cemetery of the First World War with 16,142 graves. On the inside of the ossuary building, the ceiling and walls are partly covered by plaques bearing names of French soldiers who fell during the Battle of Verdun plus a few names of those who died fighting during World War II, as well as for veterans of the Indochina and Algerian Wars. Through small outside windows, the skeletal remains of at least 130,000 unidentified soldiers of both nations can be seen filling up alcoves at the lower edge of the building. The ossuary is a memorial containing the remains of both French and German soldiers who died on the Verdun battlefield. It is located in Douaumont, France, within the Verdun battlefield and has been designated a "nécropole nationale", or "national cemetery". The Douaumont ossuary ) is a memorial containing the remains of soldiers who died on the battlefield during the Battle of Verdun in World War I. 17 Documents at the National Archives in Kew.13 Memorial to the men of the 130th Division at Douaumont.10 Memorial to the men who maintained the Voie Sacrée at Moulin-Brûlé.9 The chapel of Saint-Nicolas at Fleury-devant-Douaumont.8 The wall of the Israelites at Fleury-devant-Douaumont.5 Memorial to 137th Regiment of Infantry/The Bayonet Trench.3 Monument at Mort Homme and the Monument to the 40th French Infantry. ![]()
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