A mass of German troops bear an enormous egg striped in the black, white, and red of the german flag. Atop the egg, a cannon is fired by troops with a Hungarian flag. The target, diminutive in the distance, is Paris, Eiffel Tower gray against the brown city.
The watercolor is labeled,
Husvét . Páris piros tojása . 1918
Easter . Red eggs for Paris . 1918
The front of the card is postmarked 1918-04-05 from Melököveso.
The card is a Feldpostkarte, a field postcard, from Asbach Uralt, old German cognac. Above the brand name, two German soldiers wheel a field stove past a crate containing a bottle of the brandy under the title Gute Verpflegung, Good Food. Above the addressee is written Einschreiben, enroll, and Nach Ungarn, to Hungary. The card is addressed to Franz Moritos, and is postmarked Hamburg, 1918-03-30. A Hamburg stamp also decorates the card.
A hand-painted postcard by Schima Martos. , Germany on registered fieldpost card, 1918, message: Red Egg for Paris, Easter, 1918.
The German advance in Operation Michael in the March, 1918 nearly broke the Allied line, and threatened Paris, putting it once again in range of a new German supergun capable of hitting the city from 70 miles away.

Husvét . Páris piros tojása . 1918



Easter . Red eggs for Paris . 1918



The front of the card is postmarked 1918-04-05 from Melököveso

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Monday, November 11, 1918

"[Meriden, Connecticut, November 11, 1918] I had just turned four and I remember . . . awaking one morning in November to my mother asking my father to please turn down the record player. It was about six in the morning. My father had put on the 'Star Spangled Banner' and turned up the volume while I and my four siblings were still asleep. It was Armistice Day, November 11th, and World War I was over. Later that morning, my father, older sister and I walked down to the town square where crowds were celebrating. I became fascinated with a cluster of overhead wires with switchboards and electrical components to handle the trains that crossed right through the center of the square. I had never been down there before and the interruptions or invasions of the patch of sky that appeared between buildings seemed very strange and I asked my father if that were the Kaiser. That was a word that I had heard frequently in conversations between my father and mother. He was the bad guy leading the Germans. It was only a word to me. My father said no, but look over there: that's the Kaiser. And suspended from a pole was an effigy in three dimensions so life-life, I became frightened."

Quotation Context

John Cavanaugh speaking of his recollections of Armistice Day, November 11, 1918, in Meriden, Connecticut.

Source

John Cavanaugh: Armistice Day, 1918 by John Shea, none, publication date: 2018-11-11

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Armistice Day, 1918, November, Cavanaugh, John Cavanaugh, Meriden, Connecticut, Meriden Connecticut