
Originally Posted by
Spiegel Online
Everyone knows about the Somme and Verdun. But the eastern front of World War I was deadly as well. Now, a blogger in Estonia has placed over 120 photos, most of them previously unpublished, on the Web.
The famous, bloody battlefields of World War I were in "the West" -- meaning west of Germany -- but not everyone died in the trenches of Belgium and France. German soldiers marched east, too, through land that now lies in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, and Russia. A German blogger in Estonia named Jens-Olaf Walter has posted a Flickr series of remarkable and mostly unpublished photographs from this "forgotten front" of the Great War, once the property of a single (unnamed) German officer. Trenches, corpses, gunfire, peasants, mosques and farm villages all rise like fading ghosts from the photos.
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