Images - Germany at War, 1914-1918: Battle

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11.	Impact of a Heavy Grenade at Verdun (Fortification Ring) (1916) This photograph of a heavy grenade exploding in the fortification ring at Verdun testifies to the devastating effects of firepower in World War I. Although artillery had been part of warfare since....
12.	Otto Dix, Flanders (1934-36) The artist Otto Dix (1891-1969) was 23 years old when he volunteered for military service in 1914. He served first in the field artillery and later in a machine-gun unit. In the fall of 1915, he....
13.	Devastated Landscape near Ypres with Destroyed British Mark IV Tank (1917) By November of 1914, German troops advancing toward the Channel coast had been pushed back and halted by British and French forces at the Belgian town of Ypres in West Flanders. At approximately....
14.	British Soldiers with Gas Masks (c. 1917) Poison gas was used extensively during the First World War. Although chemical weapons accounted for fewer than three percent of all casualties, ghostly images of soldiers in gas masks symbolized....
15.	Captured Munitions (March 1918) Enormous amounts of munitions were used during the First World War. This photograph shows British munitions captured by German soldiers near Abigny in France during the initial phases of the “Ludendorff....
16.	German and Austrian Prisoners of War (1918) According to the rules of warfare, enemy prisoners of war had to be interned. Here one sees a group of exhausted German and Austrian soldiers asleep in an internment camp following the Battle of....
17.	Devastated Landscape in Armentières (April 1918) The military engagements in Armentières on April 9-18, 1918, were part of the Germans' spring offensive in the final year of war. As did other battles along the Western Front, they left scenes of....
18.	Advance of a German Machine Gun Unit on the Western Front (June 1918) Between March 21 and July 17, 1918, the Supreme Army Command attempted to resolve the deadlock on the Western Front through the so-called Ludendorff Offensive. Although the Germans initially made....
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