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GERMAN WOUNDED

 

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MUTILATED

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German soldier WW1 guerre 14 18 1914 1918 blessé wounded mutile

Hospital train, Germany

Wounded German soldier being helped off train by medical personnel.

between 1914 and 1916

Bain News Service photograph

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

olsztyn allenstein German soldier WW1 guerre 14 18 1914 1918 blessé wounded mutile

Olsztyn - Allenstein

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Wounded arriving in Allenstein, Prussia

Photograph shows

wounded German soldiers being assisted by nurses as they get off a train in Allenstein

(now Olsztyn, Poland) in Prussia, during World War I.

(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

1914 Dec. 1

Bain News Service, publisher

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

German soldier WW1 guerre 14 18 1914 1918 blessé wounded mutile

Hospital train, Germany

Wounded German soldier being helped off train by medical personnel.

between 1914 and 1916

Bain News Service photograph

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

German soldier WW1 guerre 14 18 1914 1918 blessé wounded mutile

Staff of Kaiserin's Hospital train -- Dr. Israels

Photograph shows staff of the hospital train of Kaiserin Augusta Victoria

(wife of Wilhelm II of Germany), during World War I.

between ca. 1914 and ca. 1915

Bain News Service, publisher

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

German soldier WW1 guerre 14 18 1914 1918 blessé wounded mutile

Kaiserin's Hospital Train – kitchen

Photograph shows the kitchen on the hospital train of Kaiserin Augusta Victoria,

(wife of Wilhelm II of Germany), during World War I.

between ca. 1914 and ca. 1915

Bain News Service, publisher

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

German soldier WW1 guerre 14 18 1914 1918 blessé wounded mutile

Sleeping room in Kaiserin's Hospital Train

Photograph shows a room on the hospital train of the Kaiserin Augusta Victoria

(wife of Wilhelm II of Germany) during World War I.

between ca. 1914 and ca. 1915

Bain News Service, publisher

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

kaiserin victoria wraclaw breslau German soldier WW1 guerre 14 18 1914 1918 blessé wounded mutile

Kaiserin visiting a train of the wounded at Breslau

Photograph shows Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (1858-1921),

the last German Empress and Queen of Prussia (wife of Wilhelm II),

visiting wounded soldiers on a train at Breslau, Prussia (now Wroclaw, Poland), during World War I.

(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

between 1914 and ca. 1915

Bain News Service, publisher

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

Wraclaw - Breslau

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kaiserin victoria German soldier WW1 guerre 14 18 1914 1918 blessé wounded mutile

Kaiserin's farewell to Red Cross Sisters

Photograph shows Kaiserin Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (1858-1921),

wife of Wilhelm II of Germany, at a train station with nuns during World War I.

(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

between ca. 1914 and ca. 1915

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

German soldier WW1 guerre 14 18 1914 1918 blessé wounded mutile

Transporting the wounded, Germany

between 1916 and 1919

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

German soldier WW1 guerre 14 18 1914 1918 blessé wounded mutile

U.S. soldiers & German wounded

between ca. 1915 and ca. 1920

Bain News Service, publisher

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

berlin German soldier WW1 guerre 14 18 1914 1918 blessé wounded mutile

Berlin

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Nursing wounded near Berlin

Photograph shows nurses with wounded soldiers outside a building near Berlin,

Germany during World War I.

(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

between ca. 1914 and ca. 1915

Bain News Service, publisher

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

belgium German soldier WW1 guerre 14 18 1914 1918 blessé wounded mutile

Belgian Sisters and wounded Germans to whom they are ministering

29 August 1914

Photographer : ARC, Underwood & Underwood (cop.)

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

berlin German soldier WW1 guerre 14 18 1914 1918 blessé wounded mutile

Berlin -- Christmas in soldier's hospital

Photograph shows a woman playing the piano for soldiers in a hospital in Berlin, Germany at Christmas, during World War I.

(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

between ca. 1914 and ca. 1915

Bain News Service, publisher

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

Berlin

Berlin.jpg
German soldier WW1 guerre 14 18 1914 1918 blessé wounded mutile

Convalescent German soldier

Photograph shows a German soldier sawing wood as a nun looks on, during World War I.

between ca. 1915 and 1918

Bain News Service, publisher

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

belgium navy German soldier WW1 guerre 14 18 1914 1918 blessé wounded mutile

That the hatred of one people for another is manufactured, rather natural is the conviction of many, and this picture furnishes proof of the contention.

A German marine and a French Turco,

both wounded in the fighting are seen here fraternizing in the courtyard of a Belgian hospital

and with the good hearted Belgian Red Cross nurse as a companion they all forget their emnity

and become the best of friends

26 February 1915

Photographer : ARC, Underwood & Underwood

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

belgium navy German soldier WW1 guerre 14 18 1914 1918 blessé wounded mutile

[close up]

That the hatred of one people for another is manufactured, rather natural is the conviction of many, and this picture furnishes proof of the contention.

A German marine and a French Turco,

both wounded in the fighting are seen here fraternizing in the courtyard of a Belgian hospital

and with the good hearted Belgian Red Cross nurse as a companion they all forget their emnity

and become the best of friends

26 February 1915

Photographer : ARC, Underwood & Underwood

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

kaliningrad konigsberg German soldier WW1 guerre 14 18 1914 1918 blessé wounded mutile

Kaliningrad - Konigsberg

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Maimed German at work

Photograph shows a German disabled soldier with a prosthetic arm working as a carpenter

in a workshop in Hindenburg's house at Konigsberg, Prussia

(now Kaliningrad, Russia) during World War I.

(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015 and similar image on the Imperial War Museums website

between ca. 1915 and ca. 1918

Bain News Service, publisher

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

kaliningrad konigsberg German soldier WW1 guerre 14 18 1914 1918 blessé wounded mutile

Kaliningrad - Konigsberg

Kaliningrad.jpg

Crippled German soldier

Photograph shows a German disabled soldier with two prosthetic arms riding a bicycle

on his way to work in Hindenburg's house at Konigsberg, Prussia

(now Kaliningrad, Russia) during World War I.

(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015 and similar image on the Imperial War Museums website

between ca. 1915 and ca. 1918

Bain News Service, publisher

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

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