The Berlin Wilhelm Street was pitch dark in the late night, with only the General Staff's lights still on.
Since the Somme battle started, the lights at the General Staff have never been turned off. The staff are divided into two shifts, monitoring and directing the frontline battles day and night.
For Germany, the Somme battle was a victory, a well-deserved victory. They exchanged a few square kilometers of defense lines for the lives of hundreds of thousands of Allied soldiers, with their own casualties being less than half of the enemy's.
Even the German Emperor William II sighed:
"We originally intended to drain the French blood at Verdun, but we did it at the Somme, including the British."
"Unbelievable, why did they attack our strongest defensive position at the Somme instead of elsewhere?"
"Is it just because we attacked Verdun?"
Verdun was France's strongest defensive part, and the Allies seemed to be retaliating.
