Photos WW1 Germany and Their Allies

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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

 

[JimHPTN]

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.

 

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German troops run through their trenches during an allied artillery bombardment. Perhaps between Monfalcone and Gorizia, Isonzo front on 25th Aug 1917.

 

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German troops pose with the shattered remains of a British tank in the Somme circa 1917

 

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German colonial troops, Rabual 1914

 

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German soldier posing for a photograph with a serrated bayonet, February of 1915.

 

[NebrHogger]

Germans with captured Russian Maxim 1910.

 

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Snipers of the Bavarian 23. Reserve-Infanterie-Regiment which at this time saw service in Siebenburgen, deep in the Carpathian borderlands. 1917

 

[NebrHogger]

Naval battle of Dogger Bank
Germany hoped to lure Royal Navy ships into a trap that would reduce their numbers... didn't work. The big German mistake was sending their battleships to the Baltic Sea on exercises.

SMS Blucher before the fight.
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SMS Battle cruisers Seydlitz, Moltke and Derfflinger

HMS Lion

SMS Blucher - only ship sunk during the battle

Battle of Dogger Bank (1915) - Wikipedia

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[NebrHogger]

Photo that somehow vanished from the OP above - SMA Blucher before the fight.

 

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Control room of the German sub, UB-110 1918. You'd need a master's degree in hydraulic engineering to make sense of all those valves!