Welcome to some more questions and answers here on the old front line.

These are questions submitted by you, the podcast, listeners,

and each month we select some of the best questions that have been submitted via email and the Discord server to answer here and hopefully give us all fresh perspectives

and new knowledge of this vast subject of the Great War.

So let's begin.

Thanks for joining us on another question and answer episode of the old front line podcast.

We're still currently going through the questions that came in this summer, even though we're now approaching the autumn.

And it just goes to show just how many questions you're sending in and some really, really excellent questions that have come through in the last couple of months.

There's two main ways you can submit your question.

One is via email and the other is via the Discord server where you log on and you can leave

a question there.

So keep them coming and this week we're going to go straight in with our first question and that question comes from

John Henderson on the Discord server. John writes, I've always wondered what happened in the days

after the armistice. Did soldiers stay in the trenches for long before they were moved out?

Was there any worry that the Germans would betray the deal

and attack? In the medium term, how much of the trench infrastructure was moved out with the men

when they left? Were soldiers free to wander over no man's land and into German positions,

as I'm sure they would have been fascinated to explore those areas? Did any men sleep in the trenches on the night of the 11th November

and immediately afterwards?

What was the plan to immediately decommission the battlefield

and were the Germans allowed or even required to assist in this process?

So there's quite a few different questions there, John, but at the kind of central

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