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Trenches were infested with rats, which lived in the mud and slime where all the food is stored and dead bodies. Lice infested clothes and hair. Most soldiers got the lice everywhere and it caused them problems everyday. People died of trench foot which is caused by your feet constantly being in muddy water.

The trenches could be defended with barbed wire and machine guns.The biggest danger was the risk that the enemy could reach the end of a trench and fire along it, althought this was almost impossible with the continuous line of trenches streching miles along the western front. One of the trenches even stretched from one end of France to the other.The germans used deadly gases such as Poison Gas. Attacks could leave a victim in agony for days and weeks before they would finally give into their injuries and die having suffered terrible pain.   

Life in the trenches

Trench warfare

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