Collection items

School essay written by a student about a fictitio...

Essay, Drawing, Manuscript

In his story ‘How I made a nightly attack on London with my Zeppelin’, the schoolboy I Biberl writes about being in a tr...

Sorting station for invalids in Pradl

Photograph

The railway network was used to transport not just goods, weapons and ammunition, but also sick and wounded soldiers. Ho...

Street fight - child's drawing

Drawing

This pencil drawing is entitled ‘straszenkampf’, street fight. It is by a student probably named Villefort and depicts a...

The King of Italy has declared war on me - Proclam...

Proclamation

This document is a proclamation from Emperor Franz Joseph I to the people of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In April 1915,...

The proclamation of the abdication of Emperor Karl...

Proclamation

In November 1918, the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire was unstoppable. Following the recommendation of govern...

The returning soldier - Poem by an 11 year old sch...

Poem, Manuscript

An 11-year-old schoolgirl, Anny Politzer, wrote this poem about a soldier returning to Vienna. He sees St Stephen’s Cath...

The sinking of an enemy ship by a zeppelin airship...

Drawing

In his pencil drawing ‘The sinking of an enemy ship by a Zeppelin-airship’, F Sorto, who was probably 12 years old, show...

To my faithful Austrian people! Proclamation by Em...

Proclamation

Despite Austria-Hungary’s military successes in 1917, the dissolution of the monarchy in 1918 was unavoidable. Not only ...

To my people! Emperor Franz Joseph's proclamation...

Proclamation

In this key document relating to World War One, Emperor Franz Joseph I seeks for understanding among ‘His’ population fo...

To my people! Emperor Karl I’s Proclamation of 21...

Proclamation

On 21 November 1916, Emperor Franz Joseph I died. Karl Franz Joseph, the grandson of his brother Ludwig, became his succ...

Viennese! Get to know the Italians! – Leaflet drop...

Leaflet

Numerous propaganda leaflets such as this one were dropped out of planes or balloons over enemy lines. On 9 August 1918,...