Postcard of Kaiser Wilhelm II and Kaiser Franz Joseph, in the Secessionist style. Kaiser Wilhelm is wearing the uniform and shako of the Death's Head Hussars.
Völkerkrieg (people's war)1914; In Treue FestPeople's WarFirm in Loyalty
"On September 21, [1914] Conrad ordered a further retreat — to the Dunajec River, a tributary of the Vistula. The Second, Third, and Fourth Armies would dig in there. . . . A worsening shell shortage was on everyone's mind; so much ammo had been fired off or surrendered, and there were no stockpiles in the rear. Even with German assistance, Austrian defeat seemed inevitable. [Austro-Hungarian General] Auffenberg had abandoned so many guns and supply wagons in his retreat that the derelict vehicles would be visible from the air for months."
The Russians defeated Austro-Hungarian Commander Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf and his generals in the Battles of Gnila Lipa and Rava Russka, the conquest of the fortress at Lemberg, and the siege of that at Przemyśl, and turned his retreat across Galicia into a rout that was still in progress on September 21, 1914.
A Mad Catastrophe by Geoffrey Wawro, pp. 249, 250, copyright © 2014 by Geoffrey Wawro, publisher: Basic Books
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