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German War Pictures - page 3

A German gun has been knocked out. Two of its crew are dead and the third is falling as one more shell hits the gun position.

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Gas Cloud

Protected by gasmasks Germans troops advance during a gas attack.
Gas Victims

German victims of British gas
Burial

German soldiers attending a mass burial.
Flanders

German soldiers on the Flanders front, 1917
Help

German soldier helping a wounded comrade. Flanders, 1917.
Children

In 1917 Germany called all the boys born in the year 1899 into active military service. This is how these new soldiers looked like.
Advance

German shock-troops take their machinegun up to the front after having conquered a British position.
Picture made in March 1918.
Flame Throwers

German soldiers attack using flame throwers.
The tank is a German A7V which was designed by Joseph Vollmer and built by the firms of Daimler, Büssing and Loeb. There were only twenty of this kind built and used in combat.
Rats

German soldiers after a succesful rathunt in the trenches.
Rats were a terror, as they ate from the corpses and from the rations. They sometimes grew as big as cats.
Machine Gun

Initially German defenders succeeded in preventing an allied breakthrough in the summer of 1918.
Picture made in the Champagne-area.
After the Battle

In the turmoil after a battle German soldiers and allied prisoners-of-war lick their wounds.
Crackle

In that summer and autumn of 1918 the whole frontline the Germans lay under heavy fire. The German lines began to crackle.
Sharpshooter

Although there were no more German offensives the front was as dangerous as always.
Sharpshooters like the soldier above continued to make many victims.
Ambulances

A column of German ambulances drives through Northern France.
Retreat

Under an heavy artillery attack a German machine gun unit retreats.
Picture made during one of the last battles on the Western Front.
Return Journey

After the Armistice German troops march through the Dutch province of Limburg back to Germany.
The (neutral) Dutch government had given permission for this shortcut. This roused anger in Belgium and France.

Quote

"The German Army, as a whole, was the best in the Field until its débâcle in July 1918. It had been prepared exclusively for a European War, a war likely to demand the maximum effort. Its leaders and highy qualified staff were accustomed to handle large bodies of troops; some of the former had experienced a European war - against France in 1870. It was trained to close with an enemy and its driving force was tremendous; in defence it was no less formidable. Behind the Fighting Forces stood, schooled to weapons, the entire manhood of Germany and all her resources..."

(J.L. Jack, DSO, British infantry officer, one of the first to arrive and fight in France, 1914, and of the last to leave, 1918)

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