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Postcard map of East Prussia and Polish Russia with a message and postmark, Vienna, August 20, 1915. From a series that asks, 'Do you know the high times?' Text: Kennen Sie schon 'Die grosse Zeit' die neue vom Verlag Ullstein & Co. herausgegebene illustrierte Kriegsgeschichte? Wenn nicht, lassen Sie sich die bereits erschienenen Hefte von Ihren Buchhändler vorlegen. Das Werk gibt in zeitlicher Reihenfolge eine packende reich illustrierte Darstellung der Kriegsereignisse; jedes Heft ist erzeln erhältlich und kostet 30 Pfennig. Do you know 'The big time' new from publisher Ullstein & Co., a published illustrated history of the war? If not, you can acquire the already published issues from your bookseller. In chronological order, the book gives a gripping and richly illustrated presentation of the war; each issue is available and costs 30 cents. Reverse: B.Z. Kriegskarte Verlag der B.Z. am Mittag, Berlin B.Z. War Card Publisher of B.Z. at Noon, Berlin Message and postmark, Vienna, August 20, 1915

Postcard map of East Prussia and Polish Russia with a message and postmark, Vienna, August 20, 1915. From a series that asks, 'Do you know the high times?'

Image text

Kennen Sie schon 'Die grosse Zeit'

die neue vom Verlag Ullstein & Co. herausgegebene illustrierte Kriegsgeschichte? Wenn nicht, lassen Sie sich die bereits erschienenen Hefte von Ihren Buchhändler vorlegen. Das Werk gibt in zeitlicher Reihenfolge eine packende reich illustrierte Darstellung der Kriegsereignisse; jedes Heft ist erzeln erhältlich und kostet 30 Pfennig.



Do you know 'The big time'

new from publisher Ullstein & Co., a published illustrated history of the war? If not, you can acquire the already published issues from your bookseller. In chronological order, the book gives a gripping and richly illustrated presentation of the war; each issue is available and costs 30 cents.



Reverse:

B.Z. Kriegskarte

Verlag der B.Z. am Mittag, Berlin



B.Z. War Card

Publisher of B.Z. at Noon, Berlin



Message and postmark, Vienna, August 20, 1915

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Sunday, October 11, 1914

". . . most of the fighting is on Polish ground. It is our towns, fields, and estates which are being ravaged, burnt and looted by both sides! But that isn't all. Owing to the partition of Poland, this war is having the most dreadful effects. Look at my family! I'm a Russian subject; my bother's an Austrian subject. One of my brothers-in-law is a German subject, another a Russian; all my cousins and nephews are similarly distributed by the necessities of inheritance among the three countries. Though all of the same race, we are condemned to civil war!"

Quotation Context

Count Joseph Potocki to Maurice Paléologue, French ambassador to Russia, on October 11, 1914. He started by reporting that he and his Polish compatriots did not believe that Grand Duke Nicholas's manifesto of August 16 promising to re-establish Poland with a large measure of autonomy would ever take effect, both because it would be undermined by reactionaries within Russia, and because Russia would not conquer Polish territories held by Germany and Austria-Hungary. As the two men spoke, and to Potocki's final point, Russia, Germany, and Austria-Hungary were battling in Russian Poland, and the Central Powers were countering a major Russian offensive to seize Berlin.

Source

An Ambassador's Memoirs Vol. I by Maurice Paléologue, page 165, publisher: George H. Doran Company, publication date: 1925

Tags

Poland, 1914, October, 1914-10-11, Paléologue, Paleologue