Sources

  1. “Patriotic Recording Made by Deutsche Grammophon for the Benefit of German Soldiers and Their Families” (August 1, 1914)

  2. Wilhelm II, Speech at the Outbreak of War (August 6, 1914)

  3. General Paul von Hindenburg, Message to the Soldiers of the 8th Army after the Battle of Tannenberg (August 31, 1914)

  4. Bulletins from the Front I (1914)

  5. Bulletins from the Front II (1918)

  6. The German Steamroller at the Gates of Paris: Simplicissimus Cover (September 15, 1914)

  7. Postcard from the First World War: “2 against 7” (1914)

  8. Johann Knief on the Slaughter of Modern Battle (September 29, 1914)

  9. Reasons for Volunteering (1914)

  10. Letters from a Farmer to His Wife (October 1914)

  11. “Reading Die Woche Is Reading World History” (November 1914)

  12. Individual Portrait (November 7, 1914)

  13. Young German Infantrymen March Singing into the Battle of Langemarck on November 10, 1914 (Undated Painting)

  14. Decrees against Fraternization (1914/16)

  15. Soldiers Describe Combat I: Eduard Schmieder (1914–15)

  16. German Infantrymen on the Frontline with Weapons at the Ready (1914)

  17. Soldiers Describe Combat II: Sophus Lange (1914–15)

  18. Postcard: Resting in the Trenches (c. 1914)

  19. Soldiers Describe Combat III: Hans Stegemann (1914)

  20. Soldiers Describe Combat IV: Max Beckmann (1915)

  21. Max Beckmann, Mars Unleashed and Woman Mourning (1915)

  22. Hans Bohrdt, The Last Man (1915)

  23. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Self-Portrait as a Soldier (1915)

  24. Wilhelm II and his Officers (1915)

  25. Two Soldiers (June 7, 1915)

  26. A War Song: The Serbs Are All Criminals (1915)

  27. War Reports from a Messter-Woche Newsreel (August 1915)

  28. Tree Ravaged by War (December 4, 1915)

  29. Erich von Falkenhayn’s “Christmas Memorandum” (December 1915)

  30. Film Footage of Trench Warfare at the Western Front (1915-1916)

  31. Erich von Falkenhayn on the Military Situation in Early 1916

  32. Soldiers Describe Combat V: Peter Hammerer (1916)

  33. Trench Warfare on the Western Front (1917)

  34. The Battlefield in the Argonne Forest (1916)

  35. Otto Dix, Flanders (1934-36)

  36. Impact of a Heavy Grenade at Verdun (Fortification Ring) (1916)

  37. Unrestricted Submarine Warfare (December 22, 1916)

  38. Cross-Section of a Submarine (1915)

  39. A Frontline Soldier on Poison Gas Warfare (May 10, 1916)

  40. A Junior Military Doctor on His Mental Trauma (November 17, 1916)

  41. Group Photograph (November 26, 1916)

  42. Soldiers with Gas Masks (c. 1916)

  43. Explosion in Lille on January 11, 1916 – Crater and Destroyed Factories (December 12, 1916)

  44. Trenches and Bunkers (December 22, 1916)

  45. Street in Lille Following the Explosion on January 11, 1916 (April 3, 1917)

  46. A Neurologist on Shell Shock (1917)

  47. Devastated Landscape near Ypres with Destroyed British Mark IV Tank (1917)

  48. “Reinforcement” (August 1917)

  49. Anthony Fokker Films Manfred von Richthofen and Other German Fighter Pilots at the Front in Belgium (1917)

  50. Alfred von Tirpitz on Submarine Warfare against Great Britain (January 24, 1918)

  51. Spent Shell Cases on the Western Front (1918)

  52. German Prisoners of War Interned in France (1918)

  53. Devastated Landscape in Armentières (April 1918)

  54. Advance of a German Machine Gun Unit on the Western Front (June 1918)

  55. Erich Ludendorff Admits Defeat: Diary Entry by Albrecht von Thaer (October 1, 1918)

  56. A War-Widow Remembers Her Husband’s Eagerness to Volunteer (Retrospective account, 1931)

  57. Carl Zuckmayer on the Christmas Truce of 1914 (Retrospective account, 1966)