Attack of the Dead Men 1915: The Great War's Supernaturally Horrific Battle and History's First Weapon of Mass Destruction
Built by the Russian Empire of Czar Nicholas II during the 1880’s Osowiec Fortress, located in modern day northeastern Poland, was designed with its large caliber artillery and concrete steel-reinforced bunkers to repel even the most determined German assault on northern Russia in the direction of the Czar’s capital city of St. Petersburg. In the years 1914 and 1915 during the First World War Osowiec Fortress was the scene of near constant bloodshed as the highly trained and technologically advanced German forces of Kaiser Wilhelm II repeatedly attempted to storm the fortress, overwhelm the numerically superior Russian garrison and drive towards St. Petersburg. In fact, from the start of World War One in August of 1914, until German forces finally overran the fortress one year later in August of 1915, no fewer than four major battles encompassing six total months of daily hand to hand combat took place in and around the fortifications of Osowiec Fortress. Osowiec Fortress today