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ALL WORLD WARS
GERMAN WORLD WAR I PHOTOGRAPHIC POSTCARDS
1914-1916
PART I
German railway troops explore stretch of the railroad near Arras (Northern France).
First spring days in Poland: Fishing in the carp pond on the Russian-Polish border.
Hastily deserted Russian artillery position in Poland.
Colonel von Feldkeller (X) with his staff on important observation post in Russian Poland.
Battalion staff receives important phone message, passing it on to the front.
English Royal Scotts (Highlanders) on outpost in the dunes.
Champagne: French motor battery on the route to the front.
East: breakfast on a Polish farm.
Catholic mess before the battle in Russia, near Korkovo.
Last battles in Carpathian Mountains: Russian POWs before the evacuation.
Transport of the heavy mortars by specially designed lokomobile.
Ammunition column in the west: cooking of the evening meal.
Medics and baggage carriages in Douai (Northern France) shortly before moving to the front.
Austrian armoured train in the Carpathian Mountains.
The King of Saxony with Hindenburg Army: (1) King of Saxony, (2) His Excellency von Hindenburg, (3) von Ludendorf.
Western front: Big spring clean-up in one of the canals near Lâon.
Turkish artillery firing on the Suez Canal.
Turkish artillery on the move to Suez Canal.
Destructions in East Prussia: the marketplace of Lyck with the Protestant church.
Battle of Gorlice (Western Galicia) wounded Russians are evacuated by car from the battlefield.
Loading carriages, ammunition and horses in the Port of Memel.
Battle of Gorlice (Western Galicia): city downtown after being stormed by the Germans.
General von Emmich meets with the Kaiser: discussion the battles on the San line.
Battle on the San (Galicia): wholesale capture of Russians, their train was cut-off.
Battle for Neuve Chapelle: heavily wounded Englishmen on the German forward position.
Russian Poland: machine guns firing on the enemy's aircraft.
German Kaiser (X) with His Excellense von Heeringen (1): Kaiser greets general staff officers. Prince Heinruch von Preussen is on the background (2).
Live and activity on the command post. Generals and His Excellency v. Emmich (X) in East Galicia.
German staff officers on Galician battlefield having launch soup. Grand Duke of Oldenburg (X).
Hard fighting for Neuville (France): destroyed mayor's office in Neuville.
Soldiers rest on the east front near Villa Gerda.
Russian Poland: bath made in a brook.
After the storm of the Russian barricade, which was blocking the road.
Wounded soldiers on the Jaroslav-Rzezow railroad, Eastern Galicia.
Armoured train of the Austrian-Hungarian army.
Heavy German mortars firing on Przemysl forts before the attack.
Galician war theatre: Evacuating wounded Russian soldiers from the battlefield.
Fight in Russian Poland: Evacuation of Russian deserters.
Western theater of war. German columns pass though completely destroyed Vigneulles.
Eastern theater of war. Cleaning of the field kitchen (goulash cannon) in a small river.
Life and activities of the reconvalescent soldiers in the Grunewald field hospitalt. Boxing always excites a lot of cheerfulness.
Reconquest of Lvov (Lemberg). German Cuirassiers enter the village desolated by the Russians near Lvov.
German Army postal service car crosses a river in Galicia.
German heavy mortar battery being transported to the firing position.
Proviant department in the army corps. The assigned pieces of meat are supplied by the coach to the units.
Searchlight during the war. Observation officer and telegraphiston the left, on the foreground is the guards' position.
Eastern theater of war. In the last fights in Galicia Russians were captured together with their machine guns.
Western theater of war. The church in Brimont, near Reims, completely destroyed by the French artillery fire.
The peculiar bath for our soldiers for which all conceivable vessels were used.
Light cruiser Königsberg which was sunk after courageous struggle against a far superior enemy forces in East Africa.
Eastern theater of war. Russian castle in Poland in which at present a German Dragoon's regiment is accommodated.
Fight in Russia. Machine guns in the trench before Warsaw in action.
Mail delivery in the field. The mail in the hands of the receiver promises great joy.
Pieces of large caliber guns on the modern battlefield.
The high street of the small town of Sochaczew from where German advance on Warsaw has begun.
Narev bridge near Pultusk, which Russians completely burnt down after their retreat from the fortress.
Destroyed city of Josefow on the Vistula. In the background ia an emergency bridge used by Austrians.
Well-developed main position of the Russians near Szuki before Makow, which was stormed by the German.
Bedroom in the trench.
German landsturm (Home Guard) being transported to the Warsaw suburb Praga to the place of their service.
West: Wooden logs for the shelters being moved on a light railway.
View of the city of Kowno with the Neman bridge burnt down by the Russians.
After the capture of Novo Georgievsk: Russian mortars being removed.
Crown prince Rupprecht von Bayern leaves castle La Vallee to proceed to the front.
Ccelebration of the "Iron Hinderburg". Reich Chancellor Bethmann von Hollweg presents the address. (1) Princess August Wilhelm, (2) Her Excellense frau von Hindenburg.
Fort #1 of the Russian fortress Osovec. Re-inforced barracks in the central work of the fortress with the splinters-proof windows.
Turkey:English soldiers, captured in the fight for Dardanelles.
The art in the field. Living room in an officer's shelter in Voges Mountains, France.
The blown up casemates in Osovec.
Russian mobile protection shield for the riflemen.
Belovies forest. Russian church in a village, with German horse patrol on the foreground.
In the foreward trench in the Argonnen. Sentry observes the enemy using mirrors.
The blown up railway bridge near the Grodno fortress.
On the pursuit in the Poliesie. Soldiers rest after a fight with the fleeing Russians.
Staff ride in Flanders.
French torpedo mines, found in the west. Smaller one has 38 cm in diameter, and 248 cm long, big ones are 52 cm in diameter, and 432 cm long
Opening of the new "von Beseler" bridge across Vistula River in Warsaw. General-Governor von Beseler with his aids checking out the new bridge.
Auxiliary activity of the "barbarians" in Flanders: German medical officer performs dentistry on a Belgian woman.
German cavalry crosses Bug River near Ogrodniki (Losovica).
Supply column passes a totally destroyed settlement in Russian Poland.
Gigantic fight in the west: His Excellense von Heeringen (X) with his staff observing the battle.
Heavy fighting in the west. Lighly injured soldiers are driven from the fight line to the military hospital.
Fight in the West: 12000 French 12cm shells being moved out.
Great battle in the west: fallen Englishmen before our positions.
Coastal artillery in action in the dunes of Flanders.
Dixmuiden. Destroyed city hall on the foreground, with destroyed church behind.
Water delivery station on the Isonzo front. These cars supply water to the different troop units.
Street in Dixmuiden.
The German Kaiser with the crown prince takes parade of the troops in the field, Vosges Mountains.
The Austrian 120th Searchlight unit on the move to the Isonzo front.