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Newsletter #5 // december 2014 stichting.fondation.foundation.stiftung HIndenbuRglIne pRoject . UPDATE: We’re hard at work on the contents of our book and making . Team: Besides the collaboration of our excellent French translator, steady progress on both the text and the photography. As you know, our Valérie Charbey of Alphen a/d Rijn, we have also invited two other project is based on places described in diaries and letters written by translators (on the basis of sample translations) to enrich our soldiers who at some point were stationed on the Western Front, men who team: Hanna Kok-Ahrens (of Vertaalwerk Duits, Hilversum) for the never lost sight of their sense of humanity. We visited and photographed Dutch/German translation and Nancy Forest-Flier (of Forest-Flier a large number of those places in 2014: the ‘Westhoek’ of Belgium as well Editorial Services, Alkmaar) for the Dutch/English translation. The as northern France around Arras and the infamous Vimy Ridge, the area final editing of the book will be undertaken by the Dutch language northwest and south of Verdun and finally the area around Orbey in the specialist Josette van Heck of Tilburg. Vosges. This coming December we’ll be working around Péronne along the Somme. The accompanying map provides a brief glimpse of the places . Hindenburgline Project >> supported by (in progress) we’ve already visited or plan to visit (93 so far!), a selection of which will With a sympathetic contribution from the famous German firm be included in the book (around 50) and/or the exhibition. Leica Camera AG, and with the De Pont museum in Tilburg as our next partner in the project’s exhibition segment, we have come . ‘If Only We had Spoken the Same Language!’ >> The Book one step further. There’s still a great deal of work to do, but At the moment we’re working with Lecturis, our publisher, on the fortunately we have some time left. We’re investigating locations book’s prepublication stage. As things now stand—subject to change, in England, Germany and France as possible venues for the of course—we’ll be coming out with Dutch-French and English-German exhibition, and once these are firmly in place and the contracts editions of the book. with all parties are signed we can expand our fundraising efforts. Naturally we warmly welcome your suggestions! Our designers, Attak Powergestaltung, have produced a 3D impression of the book, and although the cover design isn’t definite, it could look Steadily forward...United we stand! something like these examples. Here, too, we have to allow for possible changes. After all, the visual material is far from complete; we still have a winter, spring and summer ahead of us in which to gather all the ingredients for our story. It won’t be until this time next year that we know exactly which photos and text will or will not be included in the book or exhibition. • The Westfront—Hindenburg Line 1914–1918 // according to creyghton & Van Duijnhoven 2014 –2018 Scale 1 : 875.000 20 km A North Sea B C the netherlands D E F London PHOTOs Eindhoven Nieuport / Nieuwpoort St. Idesbald / Sint Idesbald Ramscapelle / Ramskapelle Kaaskerke — Trench of Death Ostend Bruges Antwerp Dixmude / Diksmuide Vladsloo / Vladslo england Dover Nieuport Gravenstafel Ridge Passchendaele / Passendale — Tyne Cot Cemetery Ypres / Ieper Ghent belgium Zillebeke — Hill Yser Vierstraat Calais Wytschaete / Wijtschate — Bayernwald Hasselt Wytschaete / Wijtschate — Petit Bois Ypres Wytschaete / Wijtschate — Pool of Peace Maastricht Brighton Brussels Mount Kemmel / Kemmelberg Rhine WOtan line Aachen Béthune Annequin Nœux-les-Mines Mazingarbe Liège 1 Lille Vermelles Loos-en-Gohelle Sallaumines Notre-Dame-de-Lorette Namur Vimy Ridge Mons Vimy Charleroi Neuville-Saint-Vaast Mont-Saint-Éloi English Channel Chérisy Arras Siegfried line Beaumont-Hamel Thiepval — Thiepval Wood Warlencourt — Butte de Warlencourt germany Albert Bazentin-le-Grand Longueval Montauban-de-Picardie Somme Combles Bray-sur-Somme Hirson Morval Péronne Saint-Quentin Riqueval luxembourg Saint-Quentin Alberich line Vendeuil Cerny-en-Laonnois Bouconville-Vauclair — Chemin des Dames La Fère Craonne 2 Aisne Luxembourg Beine-Nauroy — Mont Cornillet Rethel Saint-Hilaire-le-Petit Le Havre Corbény Saint-Martin-l'Heureux Saint-Souplet-sur-Py Sainte-Marie-à-Py Oise Vauquois Romagne-sous-Montfaucon Montfaucon Saarbrücken Cuisy Caen Béthincourt Reims Seine Cumières-le-Mort-Homme Verdun Forges-sur-Meuse Metz Haumont-Prés-Samogneux Brunhilde line Flabas Chaumont-devant-Damvillers Marne Beaumont-en-Verdunois Louvemont Douaumont Bezonvaux Paris Ornes Fleury-devant-Douaumont Krimhilde line Vaux-Devant-Damloup Les Éparges Saint-Remy-la-Calonne Tranchée de Calonne 3 Vigneulles-lès-Hattonchâtel Heudicourt-sous-les-Côtes Lac de Madine — mistletoe legend Belligerents Lac de Madine — swans Meuse Remenauville Bloncourt Battle line November 11th 1918 Belgium Pettoncourt Avricourt Main Hindenburg line April 5th 1917 france Blâmont france Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines Hindenburg line February 25th 1917 british empire Kaysersberg Orbey — Collet du Linge Segregation of battle lines/Stellungen u.s.a. Munster Grand Ballon French—German border during WWI Hartmannswillerkopf — Vieil-Armand Wattwiller River german Empire Gildwiller Wolfersdorf Altenach Capital Saint-Ulrich Hindlingen City Friesen Basel Pfetterhouse Photo Pfetterhouse Withuus [NL] switzerland 4 www.hindenburgline.eu.