WWI photos from the Eastern front

[Ser Clegane]

I just came across a website with WWI photos from the Eastern Front (most were privately owned by a German officer).

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 Now, a blogger in Estonia has placed over 120 photos, most of them previously unpublished, on the Web.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 A German blogger in Estonia named Jens-Olaf Walter has posted a Flickr series of remarkable and mostly unpublished photographs from this "forgotten front" of the Great War, once the property of a single (unnamed) German officer.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.

From Spiegel Online

Thought this might be interesting for some patrons here

[Brutus]

Thank you very much for that! I work for a historical magazine (mainly staffed by students) and this years' december issue is about Germany in WWI. At least one of our articles is directly about Russian and German propaganda and the occupation of the Baltic lands. These pictures might actually just be the thing we need to nicely illustrate the matter!

[CBR]

Interesting find. Thx for the link.


CBR

[dgfred]

Great stuff! Thanks for the link.