Photos WW1 Germany and Their Allies

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German soldiers are removing lice from their uniforms, c. 1916-18

 

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A German cavalryman on the eastern front, winter of 1914-15

 

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A German infantryman from a reserve unit on the eastern front, winter of 1915-16

 

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The Third Battle of the Aisne. A German field battery (7.7 cm Feldkanone 16) in action against the British IX Corps in the ruins of a village near Fismes, Marne in north-eastern France. May 1918.

 

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Verdun, 1916

 

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A German Mauser T-Gewehr anti-tank rifle team in position on the Western Front, 1918. The photo was likely taken during the Hundred Days Offensive, which pushed the German Army back to the battlefields of 1914.

 

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A German 17cm SLK L/40 railway gun firing near the Marne River, France, July 1917.

 

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German troops try to fend the attack of a tank Mark IV with a flamethrower. Near river Somme, probably August 1918, Battle of Amiens

 

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German sharpshooters move to a position near the front line, during the fighting near the Aisne River, circa 1914.

 

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The Third Battle of the Aisne. German infantry advancing over a captured trench during the attack between Montdidier and Noyon, June 1918.

 

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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.