Killed in Action During Great War

"Killed in Action"

(Drawing by Kathe Kollwitz, 1919)

The drawing above is from Kollwitz's Krieg-series. Click here to see Widows and Orphans, another anti-war drawing by this German artist.
Kathe Kollwitz lost her only son in the war (and later, in the Second World War, her only grandson).

The illustration right shows a enveloppe, that was returned to the sender, because the soldier the letter was addressed to, was 'killed in action'.

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