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!
"— Out of 192 former students at the Teachers' Training College who were commissioned as second-lieutenants in the infantry, 110 have been killed.. . . — The communiqués are printed with all the devices of the compositor—bold type, underlining—which leaves our defeats inconspicuous, while throwing our successes into prominence. Anybody who reads them quickly, simply fails to notice the defeats. How convenient it is!"
Entries from July 6 to 10, 1916 from the diary of Michel Corday, a French senior civil servant.
The Paris Front: an Unpublished Diary: 1914-1918 by Michel Corday, pp. 181, 182, copyright © 1934, by E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., publisher: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., publication date: 1934
1916-07-07, 1916, July, Etinehem Military Cemetery
