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Constructing Barbed Wire Entanglements

Date: 1915
Description: Austrian soldiers are building barbed wire entanglements in a lake reed bed on the southwestern battlefront in South Tyrol. One man holding a coil of wire ...
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Constructing Barbed Wire Entanglements on a Shoreline

Date: 1915
Description: Austrian soldiers are setting up a barbed wire defense on a shoreline in the South Tyrol. The men are barefoot and standing in the water, while one of the ...
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Constructing Barbed Wire Entanglements on the Shoreline

Date: 1915
Description: Austrian soldiers are setting up a barbed wire defense on the shoreline. The men are barefoot and standing in the water with their pants rolled up.
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Music in Front of the "Iron Hindenburg" Statue in Berlin

Date: 1914
Description: German military band playing at the base of the "Iron Hindenburg" statue in Berlin.
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Vicinity of the "Iron Hindenburg" Statue in Berlin

Date: 1914
Description: The life and hustle and bustle at the "Iron Hindenburg" monument. The military band playing in front of the statue. People are gathered around a booth to m...
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Metal Scrap Drive

Date: 1914
Description: Metal collecting site located in Friedenau (Berlin). The drop-off site.
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Metal Scrap Drives

Date: 1914
Description: Metal collecting site located in Friedenau (Berlin). Separating pieces of iron.
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Picnic for Convalescing Soldiers

Date: 1915
Description: German soldiers having a picnic outside of the "Kaisereck" convalescence home for wounded soldiers on Hartenbergstrasse 16 (Berlin). Soldiers having coffee...
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German Soldiers Playing Billiards at a Convalescence Home

Date: 1914
Description: The "Kaisereck" convalescence home for wounded soldiers on Hartenbergstrasse 16 (Berlin). Soldiers are playing billiards.
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Building Model Trenches

Date: 1914
Description: A view of model trenches, built in Berlin by convalescing German soldiers. These were used both for training and for exhibition.
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Wounded Turkish Officers in Berlin

Date: 1914
Description: Wounded Turkish officers in Berlin are standing on the sidewalk near the entrance to a building. The officers are convalescing in Berlin sometime after the...
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Turkish Officers on the Streets of Berlin

Date: 1914
Description: Two Turkish soldiers are walking the streets of Berlin. The men are convalescing in Berlin sometime after the Ottoman Empire entered the war on the side of...
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Wounded Turkish Officers on the Streets of Berlin

Date: 1914
Description: Turkish officers convalescing in Berlin sometime after the Ottoman Empire entered the war on the side of Germany in October 1914. The group of men are stan...
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Speech of the German Reichs Chancellor

Date: 1914
Description: Speech of the German Reichs Chancellor (Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg) at the dedication of the "Iron Hindenburg" statue in 1914
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"Iron Hindenburg" Statue

Date: 1914
Description: The wife of Prince August Wilhelm, accompanied by the wife of General Fieldmarshall Hindenburg, are attending the opening of the "Iron Hindenburg" statue ...
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Dedication of "Iron Hindenburg" Statue

Date: 1914
Description: Dedication of the "Iron Hindenburg" statue in Berlin. Present were the wife of Prince August Wilhelm, the wife of Field Marshall Hindenburg, and German Rei...
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Zeppelin Flyover

Date: 1914
Description: An airship flying over the celebration of the opening of the "Iron Hindenburg" monument in Berlin.
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"Iron Hindenburg" Statue

Date: 1914
Description: Arrival of the wife of Prince August Wilhelm at the opening of the "Iron Hindenburg" statue in Berlin.
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Artillery Explosion on the Russian Front

Date: 1914
Description: Impact of an Austrian 305mm mortar shell in a Russian position. Taken with a telephoto lens.
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Austrian Machine Gun Detachment

Date: 1915
Description: In South Tyrol. An Austrian machine gun detachment firing at the Italian enemy.

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