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(25) X.32066 - Common scene in a German trench after our men had been over
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| First World War 'Official Photographs' > Germans > (25) X.32066 - Common scene in a German trench after our men had been over |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/74549334 |
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| Description | Dead German soldiers, Western Front, during World War I. The most shocking thing about this photograph is not the image of four dead German soldiers crumpled in the mud at the bottom of their trench, but the rather triumphant note of the caption written by the photographer. The poems and memoirs of the ordinary soldiers far more often show a pity for the dead, regardless of their nationality. [Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT. A coomn [sic] scene in a German trench after our men had been over.'] |
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| Description | Photographs taken in Germany, by Germans or of Germans. |
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| Description | Black-and-white photographs mainly of the Western Front during the First World War. Official British war photographers took many of them for propaganda purposes. Unless otherwise stated, titles are the photographs' original captions. From the papers of Field Marshal (Earl) Haig (1861-1928). The Haig Papers also contain Douglas Haig’s diaries. |
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| Shelfmark | Acc.3155 |
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