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Poster

Souvenez-Vous!

Date: 10 1917
Description: Poster commissioned by the Rememberance League for an October, 1917, exhibition on German war crimes in France. Poster image shows a drawing of a German so...
Poster

Come On!

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of an American soldier standing over the body of a German soldier. The soldier is facing the viewer, clutching his bayonet...
Poster

Hun Or Home

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a young woman clutching an infant and turning to look at a German soldier, who is rising out of the shadows. The soldie...
Poster

Fighting In France For Freedom! — Are You Helping at Home?

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a man wearing a kilt with his arm in a sling. Soldiers are standing around him. There is a map and a broken window in t...
Poster

Pour la France Versez Votre or L'Or Combat Pour La Victoire

Date: 1915
Description: Poster with an illustration of a large gold French coin, with the image French rooster and the words: "Liberte • Egalite • Fraternite 1915," crushing a Ger...
Photograph

Wounded on a Train

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Description: Wounded German soldier leaning out a train window reaching for a drink being held up by an Austrian colleague standing on the ground near the railroad car.
Photograph

Buying Refreshments from a Young Girl

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Description: German soldiers standing on a platform near a stopped troop train buying refreshments from a young girl.
Photograph

Medical Unit

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Description: German medical unit column passing through a village. Snow-covered mountains are in the background.
Photograph

Soldiers and Field Artillery Wagons

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Description: German soldiers conversing with their Austrian brothers-in-arms in front of a roadside calvary.
Photograph

"A Difficult Passage"

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Description: German troops crossing a log bridge.
Photograph

German Troops Entering Skiernewize

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Description: Residents of Skiernewize (Skierniewice) decorate their houses with garlands to welcome the arrival of German troops.
Photograph

Field Marshal Baron Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf

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Description: Field Marshal Baron Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf was the Chief of Staff of the Austro-Hungarian army from 1910 to 1917.
Photograph

German Soldiers and Dutch Officials

Date: 1914
Description: Dutch officials and German soldiers in front of the locomotive pulling the train returning Belgian refugees from Holland.
Photograph

Messenger Camel with Two German Riders

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Description: Two soldiers riding a camel to the front.

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