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 SchulterUntrennbar vereintin Freud und in Leid!'Shoulder to shoulderInseparably united in joy and in sorrow!
"But the exodus did not end with the safe transport of veterans out of northern Italy. By 6 November, about 14 trains per day left Innsbruck, 18 Villach and Klagenfurt, and 32 Laibach to return 140 000 men to their homes in the new national states of the erstwhile Empire. By mid-November, 400 000 soldiers had been trans-shipped out of the Inn Valley, 400 000 out of Carinthia, and 800 000 out of the Laibach basin. More than 460 000 Austrian troops from the Alps and the Tyrol marched home on foot.The price of Austria-Hungary's great folly had been horrendous: of the 8 million men mobilized 1 015 200 had died, 1 943 000 had been wounded, and 3 748 000 had been hospitalized due to illness. Additionally, 480 000 of the 1 691 000 men taken prisoner had perished over the course of the 52 months of fighting."
Innsbruck (on the Inn River) is north of the Trentino and Asiago front in north central Italy. Villach, Klagenfurt, and Laibach lay behind the Isonzo front in northeastern Italy, the first two cities becoming part of a new Austro-German state, the last, Laibach or Ljublana, in the newly-emerging Yugoslavia. The first declaration of war of the Great War had been that of Austria-Hungary on Serbia, political predecessor to military follies including its invasions of Serbia and Russia in 1914.
The First World War: Germany and Austria Hungary 1914-1918 by Holger H. Herwig, pp. 438–439, copyright © 1997 Holger H. Herwig, publisher: Arnold, publication date: 1997
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