Clandestine exhumation of ww1 soldiers
As a guide I knew the story of several attempts by locals to exhume bodies on behalf of family members. I wondered if German family would have tried the same.…
Rui’s Renditions
The gunner of a ground-attack aircraft Rui’s Renditions The gunner of a ground-attack aircraft poses for the camera. Of particular interest are the infantry steel helmets worn by both the…
PEEBLES PROFILES
EPISODE 129 Bruno Loerzer Born in the German capital of Berlin on January 22, 1891, Bruno Leopold Loerzer was an army officer who learned to fly when the Great War…
Zuydcoote
This week Sabine's battlefield guide Saturday : ZuydcooteA visit to Zuydcoote Military Cemetery where I found not only a CWGC section of graves but also a French and a German…
Rui’s Renditions
The Portuguese Mauser A Portuguese machine-gun post on the shores of the Rovuma River, the border between Portuguese and German East-Africa. 1916 Among several interesting details visible in this scene…
PEEBLES PROFILES
Part of a common family, Clemens Gottlieb Ernst von Delbrück was born in Halle an der Saale on January 19, 1856. After high school, he studied theology at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität…
PEEBLES PROFILES EPISODE 125 Otto Kissenberth
Born in Landshut, Bavaria on February 26, 1893, Otto Kissenberth studied at Grenoble University before completing an engineering degree in Munich. Soon, he was working for the Gustav Otto aircraft…
Erwin blumenfeld and Feldfreudenhaus 209
Erwin Blumenfeld (1897-1969), became a world-famous fashion photographer, for American Vogue, Life and the fashion magazine Harper's Bazar. His parents were Albert Blumenfeld and Emma Blumenfeld, born Cohn. He received…
PEEBLES PROFILES EPISODE 124 Georg Fuchs
MILITARY RISEBorn on Christmas Day 1856 in the Prussian city of Danzig, Georg Fuchs was a college graduate Prussian Army soldier at the age of twenty. Georg later became a…
Alcohol
This week Sabine’s battlefield guide SaturdayAlcoholThe British had rum, the French red wine and the Russians vodka. German soldiers were entitled to 10 cl. of brandy a day, well known…
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