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{{Short description|War memorial in Meuse, France}}
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|name        =  Verdun Memorial
|country     =  France
|image       = [[Image:Memorial de Verdun.jpg|300px]]
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|commemorates= the French and Germans who fought in the [[Battle of Verdun]]
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The '''Verdun Memorial''' is a [[war memorial]] to commemorate the [[Battle of Verdun]], fought in 1916 as part of the [[World War I|First World War]]. It is situated on the battlefield, close to the [[French villages destroyed in the First World War|destroyed village]] of [[Fleury-devant-Douaumont]] in the ''[[département in France|département]]'' of [[Meuse (department)|Meuse]] in north-eastern [[France]].<ref name=Sherman>Sherman, Daniel J. [https://books.google.com/books?id=AN-uIdVPITYC&q=Verdun+memorial+inauthor%3ASherman ''The Construction of Memory in Interwar France'' (in English)] University of Chicago Press.</ref>

It was built during the 1960s, financed by [[Maurice Genevoix]] and has been open to the public since September 17, 1967. It remembers both French and German combatants as well as  the civilian populations lost during the [[Battle of Verdun]]. Furthermore, it is a military museum which displays French and German armaments (including rifles, machine guns and field artillery), military vehicles, uniforms and equipment of both French and German troops during the battle.<ref name=Sherman/>

==The Douaumont ossuary==
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.

==Gallery==
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[[Category:Battle of Verdun]]
[[Category:Museums in Meuse (department)]]
[[Category:World War I memorials in France]]
[[Category:World War I museums in France]]
[[Category:Tourist attractions in Meuse (department)]]
[[Category:Buildings and structures in Verdun]]


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