Photos WW1 Germany and Their Allies

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German soldier on a small horse in Mladenovac in Serbia, 1915.

 

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German Stormtroopers in a frontline trench

 

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An Austro-Hungarian soldier of k.k. Landwehr Infantry Regiment No.35 in the regiment's positions east of Prokopiwna.

 

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A7V tank in Roye, Somme, 26 March 1918

 

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A German marine field artillery battery digging in outside Tsingtao, China, during the Japanese siege of the German colony, 1914.

 

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Legionnaires of the 1st Brigade of the Polish Legions crossing Wisła (Vistula) river on a pontoon bridge, 4 July 1915

 

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A German soldier of Infantry Regiment No.168 in a trench at Verdun, August 1916. Note that he's wearing his helmet front-to-back.

 

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Austro-Hungarian artillery officers on the Eastern Front

 

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German soldiers stand besides a British MkIV "Bear" tank, abandoned after fighting near Inverness Copse, the Battle of Passchendaele on August 22 , 1917.

 

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German soldiers and a horse mounted with a captured Russian Maxim machine gun, complete with its wheeled mount and ammunition box

 

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A young Jäger from Reserve-Jäger-Bataillon Nr. 22 (50th Reserve Division) in his garrison town of Goslar, 1915

 

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A German soldier of a Bavarian bicycle company with folding bike on his back, 1915

 

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A7V clattering along somewhere in France, 1918

 

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An Austro-Hungarian sentry in a trench on the Piave Front, 15 September 1918.

 

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German dugouts, sandbagged positions at The Bluff, Ypres Salient c.1916-17.

 

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German invention by Julius Neubronner for WW1 - pigeon mounted camera. In theory, the wind-up device took a series of photos in flight. No surprise that it didn't see wide use.

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Austro-Hungarian soldiers in a trench running straight through a cemetery in Skala on the Zbrucz River, 1917. Note that the soldier on the left is armed with a Mannlicher M.1893, originally produced by Steyr for the Romanian Army.

 

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Austro-Hungarian and German soldiers struggle to free a couple of horses stuck in the thick mud during the Rasputitsa (the Russian thaw), Spring 1917.

 

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An Austro-Hungarian sentry in a trench in a field in Galicia on the Eastern Front, 25 September 1917.

 

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Two cavalry officers, an Austro-Hungarian (right) and a German (left), converse after a successful counterattack near Snjatin in Galicia, following the failed Russian Kerensky Offensive, 29 July 1917.