Rui’s RenditionsPostcard from Drakegoodman’s collection depicting German soldiers from an unknown unit in no-man’s-land with what seems to be a very crude ‘listening device’.The note on the back reads: “Funnel…
Today for Gus' Gear I have additions to the German section of the collection aside from the two artillery helmets previously presented. Last year, I acquired a German made Argentine…
We continue with another Medal Bar with a “different” and also “exotic” Orden as what I previously shown.The “Ordensspange” contains the following decorations:- Eisernes Kreuz 2. Klasse.- Hanseatenkreuz.- Kronenorden 4.…
EARLY YEARSFriedrich Christiansen was born into an old seafaring family on December 12, 1879 in Wyk auf Föhr, located in Schleswig-Holstein. At sixteen, he joined the merchant marine and served…
This week Sabine’s battlefield guide Saturday is going to BoezingeThe first prisoners of war in the villageOn Wednesday 14 October , one week before the infantry reached the Boezinge area,…
Generalfeldmarschall and future president of the German Republic, Paul von Hindenburg (1847-1934)In this portrait, besides a healthy tanned complexion, Hindenburg shows a few of the decorations bestowed upon him during…
Right, i have previously told the story of German Gewehr 88/05 sent as aid to the Ottoman empire. The story behind that can be found here:https://german1914.com/tores-tuesday-a-german-gewehr.../...So, just to recapitulate, I…
I have shown this picture already, when I showed a Medal Bar with a Romanian Orden, which you will find below.https://german1914.com/antonio-wednesdays-wonders.../This time, I am going to talk about the Foto…
EARLY YEARSOskar Cohn was born in Guttentag, Silesia (now Dobrodzień, Poland) in the Kingdom of Prussia on October 15, 1869… the eleventh child of Bernhard and Charlotte Cohn (née Dresdner).…
Three German soldiers in body armor demonstrate the use of a 2 cm Becker-Flugzeugkanone Type M2 mounted on an anti-aircraft platform. Late war periodThe Becker Type M2 began mass production…