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Paul Bäumer's gravedigger
Mar 22, 2002
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Those are just the headlines the book has whole 3 or 4 paragrasph articles. I own it so I will reproduce a bit more from one here.

November 6, 1918 CORPSE-EATING RATS NOW LARGEST MILITARY FORCE IN EUROPE
Vermin outnumber all military forces 2 to1

(nice map showing the central powers in gray the allies in white and tyrol, champagne, alsace and lorraine all in black. The black is the territory held by corpse eating rats and is about the size of belgium and switzerland combined.)

Caption on this map reads

"An Anglo-French offensive was launched against the rats last wek at A (in the verdun region), but it was turned back in the face of superior gnawing. It is rumored that the Kaiser will send top diplomats to the rats mountainous corpse-fortress (B) (near kleeves) with offers of alliance."

Tons of Rotting Human Flesh Provide Formidable Foritifcations for Rat Forces...Allied Command Prepared to Make Overatures to Rat Leaders

Near the western front Nov. 5, Alarming intelligence reports from France today claim that rat battlions have fortified lands as far east as brussels and as far west as rouen. Vast stretches of no-mans-land are now controlled by the rats. A combined offensive against the rats near the Somme was turned back in the face of superior enemy numbers and the nausiating stench of the corpse piles in which the rats took shelter. An artillery barrage was later brought to bear in an attempt to pulverize the corpses into tiny scraps. War theorists had thought this would make the bodies hard for the rats to consume...