DJ P4NTSL3SS
Inactive Member
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For more details: http://hill80.com/
To help fund it: Kickstarter
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Hey guys, its your friendly neighborhood pants-free music artist here with an announcement.
For those of you with an interest of any sort in our history, this is a program I strongly encourage you get involved in. It specifically relates to World War I and the German military forces in Belgium. While many of you can simply watch the video where Magz will explain it far better than I, for those who can't allow me to explain.
Hill 80 was an observation outpost that was established by the German military outside the Belgian town of Whitesheet (as it was called by the British). It was held for nearly three years by the German forces, which was unprecedented in World War I where defensive positions could change hands quickly and often violently. It was expanded in ways that no other defensive works were and in a sense the young men who came to Hill 80 turned it into a home of sorts so far away from their own.
At the end of the war it was filled in and more or less forgotten about.
It was found again quite recently when a local construction company sought to expand residential construction in the area. Under Belgian law this requires that several test trenches be dug in order to make sure they aren't damaging potential undiscovered historical sights or architecture, as well as checking for dangers that construction could present to the local environment. However over the course of the test digs they found the incredibly well-preserved remains of Hill 80 to include both German and British soldiers who died there.
Belgian law requires that a certain level of archeological work be done on a site before they make legal moves to preserve it, however the original construction company has no interest in paying for such work to be done. The archeological team that they brought in as a third party for the test dig has expressed interest in setting up crowd-funding to perform a total recovery of the site. The hope is that they will receive the funding and be able to have the site ready for a tour and display to preserve this rare piece of history.
They hope to have a presentation ready at the site by November 11th, 2018. The 100th anniversary of Armistice Day.
For those who are worried about the money they commit: its an all-or-nothing pledge. If they don't meat their goal then nobody will be charged. But it would be amazing to see them hit their goal so that we can preserve yet another amazing piece of history.
This would be a glimpse into the life of the soldiers who suffered through one of the most horrendous times in human history and yet still managed to make something like a home for themselves in the middle of it all. Not to mention it would be a rarity as one of the only preserved German defensive fortifications of WWI.
Thank you for taking your time and I hope you'll consider donating.
