The Museum of the Great War (French: Historial de la Grande Guerre) located near the heart of the World War I Somme battlefields, is housed within the Château de Péronne, a castle in the town of Péronne, France.
Péronne was under German occupation during the war, and inhabitants of it suffered a lot because their town was almost completely destroyed.
[2] Additionally, it has two major permanent specialist exhibits: According to museum research,[1] 500,000 French, 160,000 British and (at June 1916) 85,000 Germans were prisoners of war.
[1] The exhibition deals with all aspects of captivity: the food, for example, was insufficient and of poor quality; illness was rife; and prisoners of war were required to work hard.
Simplified versions of soldiers, sailors and nurses became popular for children and toys took on a military air.