Views from the Front
Twenty samples of about 160 German propaganda postcards mainly from the Western Front.
“The album belonged to my uncle’s wife’s aunt, Marie Linder of Füssen, Bavaria. In the 1970s, I found it in the attic. I wasn’t interested in history then, but it seemed such a pity to throw away something so old that someone had worked hard to put together. When I came to Ireland in 1990, I brought this album with me and I have always wanted to show it to someone. Marie Linder’s cousin Walter sent her quite a few of the postcards in the album but there are also some from other soldiers. Some have messages and stamps, others are blank. The writing on the postcards is in an Old German script and is different to modern German.”
Tanks and Armoured Fighting Vehicles
Album contains about 150 postcards, 2 per page
Remembrance
Marie Linder's postcard album
Women
Collection
Trench Life
Western Front
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Postcards from the Front
Deutsch
Dead soldiers
Dead soldiers, unknown location
Postcard
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Battle of Fromelles, 1916
Propaganda
Aftermath of Battle of Fromelles
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Leintrey church in ruins
Ruined church at Leintrey, France
German propaganda postcard showing dead 'English' soldiers at Furnes.
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Dead 'English' soldiers at Furnes, 1916
Postcards of German troops, location and regiments unknown
Four German propaganda postcards showing off-duty troops. One group at an outdoor restaurant.
Fieldmarshall Hindenburg
Eastern Front
Field Marshall Hindenburg
German armaments
German armaments, 1915
The city of Lille in ruins, 1916
Destruction of Lille, 1916
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Ace of Spades, symbol of British 12th Division. This is (female) tank C51 'Chaperon II' commanded by 2nd Lt. Annett, knocked out south of Lateau Wood on 20th November 1917.
British tank
Destroyed British tank, Ace of Spades logo indicating British 12th Division
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Australians from the 56th Battalion, killed near Fromelles around 19.7.1916.
The 56th Battalion arrived in France on 30 June 1916 and entered the trenches on 12th July 1916. The Battalion fought its first major battle at Fromelles a week later. The battle was a total disaster, resulting in heavy casualties across the division. Despite these losses the 5th Division continued to man the front in the Fromelles sector for a further two months.
Australian casualties at Fromelles
Australian casualties at Fromelle, 1916
Russian machine gun in use against the French
Russian machinegun for use against the French
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Flaucort
The town of Flaucort in Picardie, France
Photograph
Views of Flaucort, France
Flaucort, France during WW1
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Propaganda postcard
Ruined house and city hall
Shelled house near Eckirch-Markich and ruined city hall in Saales
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Transport
Views of Luvigny and of the train station at Bourg-Bruche
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Luvigny and Bourg-Bruche
Captured Russian cannon, Suwalki.
Artillery
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Eastern front: Fifty captured Russian cannon outside the Catholic church in Suwalki.
'Concrete shelter with front-lying ditch.'
Concrete shelter/fortification
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Propaganda postcard, c. 1915
World War 1914-15. Destroyed French officers' shelter at Ban de Sapt.
Destroyed French officers' shelter
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La Bassée
La Bassée in ruins
CREATOR
Ingrid Redmond and John Bolger
DATE
1914 - 1918
LANGUAGE
deu
ITEMS
20
INSTITUTION
Europeana 1914-1918
PROGRESS
METADATA
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