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Pictures from my visit back to Europe last Summer

Pic 1: Small Inn near Lictenstein castle

Pic 2: Grave of Saint in Trier Cathedral

Pic 3: Small part of Organ in Trier Cathedral

Pic 4: Monument in Pfalz that says “Unseren Sohnen” which means “Our Sons” with a Mother and Daughter

I took these pls no steal ty

Comrade, I did not want to kill you. . . . But you were only an idea to me before, an abstraction that lived in my mind and called forth its appropriate response. . . . I thought of your hand-grenades, of your bayonet, of your rifle; now I see your wife and your face and our fellowship. Forgive me, comrade. We always see it too late. Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death, and the same dying and the same agony—Forgive me, comrade; how could you be my enemy?

Im Westen nichts Neues (All Quiet on The Western Front)

#all quiet on the western front

Just some artwork I enjoy: 3 ww1 addition

Pic 1: Die Wacht am Rhein (song used heavily during the Francho-Prussian war and ww1, the song’s roots lied within the never ending rivalry and hatred between the Germans and the French over the conflict for west of the Rheine river area, the French’s scorched earth policy affected large amounts of land and people. Its supposed to be a patriotic song since the unification of germany in 1870)

Pic 2: The infamous Christmas truce that took place during 1914 on Christmas Eve and Christmas day. It was practically an unofficial truce between many german, french, and british forces in which they came to one another’s trenches and exchanged gifts and talks. Also during this truce the infamous soccer games took place in the no man’s land in between the lines.

Pic 3: Another artist illustration of what a typical Christmas truce meetup would have looked like

Pic 4: German Empire Prussian battle flag

I do not own any of this artwork I just find them interesting.

#oldar #ww1 #germans #prussia #christmas truce #die wacht am rhein