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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 Fest
People's War
Firm in Loyalty |
Kaiser, Wilhelm, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Wilhelm II, Kaiser Wilhelm, Hohenzollern, Franz Josef, Franz Joseph, In Treue Fest, 1914, sucession |
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Two German marines, of the IX and XI Marine Artillery, watching in the dunes along the North Sea or Baltic Sea coast. |
Lieb Vaterland magst ruhig sein
Dünenwache.
XI and IX Matrosen Artillerie
Dear fatherland, you want to be quiet
Dunes guard.
XI and IX sailors artillery |
Dünenwache, dune watch, marine, marines, marine artillery, marine artillery dune watch |
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Zweibund — the Dual Alliance — Germany and Austria-Hungary united, were the core of the Central Powers, and here join hands. The bars of Germany's flag border the top left, and those of the Habsburg Austrian Empire and ruling house the bottom right. |
Schulter an Schulter
Untrennbar vereint
in Freud und in Leid!'
Shoulder to shoulder
Inseparably united
in joy and in sorrow! |
Germany, Austria, Austria-Hungary, 1915, empire, Zweibund, Zweibund handshake, Dual Alliance, 1916-12-27, December, map, Central Powers |
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Postcard by Willi Scheuermann of the British coming to the continent, spreading rumors, and then being kicked back to England. After their defeats in the Battles of Mons and Le Cateau on August 23 and 26, 1914, the German First Army lost contact with the British Expeditionary Force and assumed they had withdrawn to the channel coast if not to England. |
Er kam---
Er sah---
Er log---
Er flog.
[Signed] WS
Russen vor Berlin
Franzosen in München
Helgoland in die Luft geflogen
He came
He saw
He lied
He flew
[the lies:]
Russians at Berlin
French in Munich
Helgoland blown up
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Logo: W S S B 577 |
Scheuermann, British Expeditionary Force, BEF, 1914, August, 1914-08-26 |
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A folding postcard from a pencil sketch of an unsuccessful Allied gas attack in Flanders. |
Erfolgloser feindlicher Gasangriff in Flandern
Unsuccessful enemy gas attack in Flanders
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Feldpostkarte
Nachdruck verboten.
Field postcard
Reproduction prohibited. |
Flanders, gas, gas attack, poison gas, Flanders gas attack |