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In the pipe is tobacco. Of course, you say. But wait. In the pipe is German tobacco. Haha, you say, from a prisoner or found in a captured trench. Oh dear, no! From a German soldier. Yes a live German soldier from his own trench. Yesterday the British & Germans met & shook hands in the Ground between the trenches, & exchanged souvenirs, & shook ...
German military personnel killed in World War I (197 P) Pages in category "German military personnel of World War I" The following 122 pages are in this category, out of 122 total.
German decorations of the First World War were those medals, ribbons, and other decorations bestowed upon German soldiers, sailors, pilots and also for civilians, during the First World War. These special awards were awarded by both Imperial Germany and various German Kingdoms and other states and city-states of the Reich.
Tombstone of Zalmen Berger (d. 1915), a Jewish soldier who fell while serving in the German army during World War I, Jarosław, Poland. Feldrabbiner Aaron Tänzer during World War I, with the ribbon of the Iron Cross and a Star of David, 1917 Fritz Beckhardt in his Siemens-Schuckert D.III fighter of Jasta 26; the reversed swastika insignia was a good luck symbol.
German troops parade down the Champs-Élysées in Paris after their victory in the Franco-Prussian War. Among the most famous parades are the victory parades celebrating the end of the First World War and the Second World War. However, victory parades date back to ancient Rome, where Roman triumphs celebrated a leader who was militarily ...
An enthusiastic crowd cheers soldiers after their mobilisation in Lübeck in 1914. The Spirit of 1914 (German: Geist von 1914; or, more frequently, Augusterlebnis, lit. ' August Experience ') was the name given to the feeling of euphoria that affected parts of the German population at the start of World War I. For many decades after the war ...
Commemoration ceremony in the Reichstag, March 1928 A memorial to First and Second World War German soldiers in Tannheim, Baden-Württemberg. In 1893, the Kingdom of Prussia consolidated many days of repentance and prayer celebrated by various Protestant denominations and in various German-speaking regions into Buß- und Bettag, a national work-holiday celebrated on the Wednesday before ...
The battle was sparked by the mutual collision of French and German invasion forces in the lower Ardennes Forest. [6] The pre-war French strategy expected German forces in the area to be light, and the French light, rapid firing artillery was expected to convey an advantage in forested terrain over the bigger German guns.