Die Zuckerfabrik in Vis-en-Artois ist ebenfalls bei Ernst Jüngers "In Stahlgewittern" beschrieben:09.12.1917
Mein Unterstand war in die steile Wand einer hinter der Stellung gähnender Kiesgrube getrieben, die fast jeden Tag stark beschossen wurde. Dahinter ragte in schwarzen Umrissen das Eisengerüst einer zerstörten Zuckerfabrik... ..., da der Feind bislang die Zuckerfabrik für den Sitz der Befehlsstelle zu halten schien und die Hauptmenge der Geschosse auf das alte Eisengerümpel verschwendete.
(S.247)
The sugar factory in Vis-en-Artois is also mentioned in Ernst Jünger´s "Storm of Steel":09.12.1917 My shelter was dug back into to vertical wall of a gravel pit that gaped behind the line, and was shelled allmost every day. Behind it rose the blackened iron skeleton of a destroyed sugar factory...
..., because the enemy seemed to take the sugar factory for our headquarters, and expended most of their powder on that old iron shell.
(p.247)
recommended site about E. Jünger: http://stahlgewittern.blogspot.com
Lo zuccherificio di Vis-en-Artois è menzionato anche in “Nelle tempeste d’acciaio” di Ernst Jünger:09.12.1917 – il nostro rifugio sprofondò tra le pareti verticali di una cava di ghiaia che si spalancò dietro le linee, e fu bombardato quasi tutti i giorni. Dietro di esso emergeva lo scheletro annerito di uno zuccherificio…poiché sembrava che il nemico avesse scambiato lo zuccherificio per il nostro quartier generale, e lanciava gran parte dei colpi su quel vecchio guscio di ferro.
(pag. 247)
Sito raccomandato su Ernst Jünger: http://stahlgewittern.blogspot.com
"In Stahlgewittern" von Ernst Jünger ist erschienen im Klett-Kotta Verlag, 46. Aufl. 2008, ISBN: 978-3-608-95208-7
Jünger's remarks say a lot. When I saw the photo, I thought "That's the sort of building that an army would regard as useful for billets", but by the time Jünger got there in 1917 it's been reduced to the cast-iron skeleton.
AntwortenLöschenJust the sort of feature that armies, speaking out of the other side of their mouths, tell their people to avoid because they are such obvious targets for enemy artillery.