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First Day of Mobilization in Berlin

Date: 1914
Description: Crowds in front of the Royal Palace in Berlin on the first day of mobilization, August 2, 1914, after Germany had made the decision to declare war.
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The First Day of Mobilization in Berlin

Date: 1914
Description: View of the crowd at the Royal Palace in Berlin on the first day of mobilization, August 2, 1914.
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"The Goodbye Kiss"

Date: 1914
Description: A German soldier is kissing a woman before boarding a train.
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Belgian Refugees Return Home

Date: 1914
Description: Belgian refugees returning home to Antwerp after having fled to neutral Holland in the wake of the German invasion inn 1914.
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Austrian Red Cross Nurses

Date: 1915
Description: Austrian Red Cross nurses, from Graz, strolling on a road in Syrmien during World War I.
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Emir Ali Pasha in Berlin

Date: 1914
Description: Emir Ali Pascha was the Vice-President of the Turkish legislature. He visited Berlin in late 1914 or early 1915 on a goodwill trip. Here, accompanied by a...
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Group Portrait of PoW's

Date: 1914
Description: PoW's, of varying nationalities, in the Zossen PoW camp.
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"Selling in the Rubble"

Date: 1915
Description: After the occupation and subsequent looting of a Galician city by the Russian Army, a Jewish merchant is selling his remaining wares to an Austrian soldier...
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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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"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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"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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Shrine of the Black Madonna Convent

Date: 1915
Description: In front of the Convent of the Black Madonna in Czenstochau. Vendors selling souvenirs.
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Sven Hedin in Berlin

Date: 1914
Description: The Swedish author and naturalist Sven Hedin during a visit to Berlin.
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Training Recruits

Date: 1914
Description: Wounded German officer training recruits who are still in civilian clothing.
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Recruits at a Meal

Date: 1914
Description: German Army recruits, still in civilian clothing, taking a meal break.
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Volunteer Unit

Date: 1914
Description: Deutschwehr (war volunteer) unit in training.
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Marquis Pallavicini

Date: 1915
Description: Marquis Pallavicini was an Austrian diplomat and ambassador to Turkey.
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American Military Attachés at the Austro-Hungarian Headquarters

Date: 1915
Description: U.S. Army officers — Captain McIntire and Major Ford. Military attachés from neutral countries, such as the United States, would have received permission t...
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Wounded Austrian Soldiers in Vienna

Date: 1915
Description: Wounded Austrian soldiers posing in front of the monument. In the "Wiener Secession."
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Weekly Market in Antwerp

Date: 1914
Description: Our naval soldiers buying fruit. German forces occupied Antwerp on October 10th, 1914 after a two week siege.

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