Photos WW1 Germany and Their Allies

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A 7.7cm FK 96 German field gun in operation, circa 1914.

 

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Storm Troops c. 1917 waiting in a trench. Although storm troop or “Hutier” tactics were not invented by Oscar Von Hutier, he certainly implemented and improved upon them in the field.

 

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German infantrymen hauling a 7.58cm light trench mortar (minenwerfer) on the Western Front; c. 1918

 

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A German trench in Russian Poland, c. 1915.

 

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A German machine gun crew, probably of the 18th Infantry Regiment, manning their Maxim machine gun. July 1916

 

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German cavalry machine gun detachment on the Western Front, 1918

 

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German soldiers sniping from a ruined house using 7.92 mm Gewehr 98 rifles. Probably Staged, 1915

 

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Eastern Front. Loading wounded German soldiers on a sanitary transport at a field evacuation point in the forest, 30 July 1915

 

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Western Front. Loading horses of an artillery battery into railroad cars, June 1917.

 

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A German dog hospital, treating wounded dispatch dogs coming from the front, ca. 1918.

 

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Colourised photo of British POWs escorted by German soldiers through a town.

 

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German soldiers use a house, adapted to encompass their trench to keep watch for any sign of enemy troop movements. August 1914

 

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German medics treating a head wound, with rescue dogs at their side. Circa 1917.

 

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A German flamethrower in action during a training exercise in a dummy trench system near Sedan, France, May 1917.

 

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Fraternization of Russians with Germans, 1917.

 

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German Hussars poke around a destroyed Russian gun in the aftermath of the Siege of Kovno, August 1915.

 

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German soldiers training with Madsen and Lewis light machine guns in preparation for the 12th Battle of the Soča (13 October 1917)

 

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Austro-Hungarian trench raiders near Caporetto, 1917

 

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I bumbled into this video on Youtube. While it doesn't give details, it has good colorized film of the pre WW1 army on parade, as well as a nice marching music sound track.

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German torpedoboat firing a torpedo at the Battle of Jutland, 31 May 1916.