Postcard of a German soldier guarding French POWs, most of them colonial troops, the colorful uniforms of a Zouave, Spahi, Senegalese, and metropolitan French soldier contrasting with the field gray German uniform. A 1915 postcard by Emil Huber.
Emil Huber 1915Reverse:Unsere FeldgrauenSerie II? preussischer Infanterie-SoldatPrussian Infantry SoldierLogo: K.E.B.
"— The 31st. The Press still mention 'French soldiers' as if they were a special caste. Do they forget that they are talking about ordinary peasants torn from the land, and that the young soldiers called up since the war were given only a few months' training? Thus, is any case, they are not regular soldiers. The French soldier is merely a peasant in a steel helmet."
Entry from March 31, 1916 from the diary of Michel Corday, a senior civil servant in the French government critical, at least in his diary, of the war and its boosters in the government, the military, the press,and the public.
The Paris Front: an Unpublished Diary: 1914-1918 by Michel Corday, pp. 154, 155, copyright © 1934, by E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., publisher: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., publication date: 1934
1916-03-31, 1916, March, French soldier, French army, French Trench
