Collection items

Christ is risen! An Easter greeting in the field

Booklet, Illustration

This is an example of the incredible number of religious publications during the war. The energised title ‘Christ is ris...

Cook book for the trenches

Book, Drawing

Today’s men are often able to cook well, partly as a result of the emancipation process and changes to role perceptions ...

Designs for war memorials, gravestones and cenotap...

Book, Drawing

These designs for gravestones and cenotaphs were created by Ludwig F Fuchs. Fuchs was an architect, and his designs woul...

Hurray! A war picture-book for children

Book, Illustration, Children's book

These illustrations are from the children’s book Hurray! A War Picture-Book by the magazine illustrator and commercial a...

Letter from Franz Marc asking his gallerist to sel...

Letter, Manuscript, Postcard

Franz Marc was one of Germany’s most important Expressionist artists. Together with Wassily Kandinsky and others he foun...

Little knitting book - Edited by the Patriotic Wom...

Book, Manual, Photograph

Work towards the war effort wasn’t only at the front line. Women at home knitted clothes to protect soldiers against icy...

Our enemies' lies! German propaganda toilet paper

Object

This ‘best German toilet paper’ is printed with extracts from foreign newspapers. It is a German solution to deal with t...

Pictures from the war: a colouring book for young...

Book, Illustration, Children's book

With every pencil stroke, children using this colouring book experienced the brutal everyday lives of their relatives at...

Postcard by Adolf Loos about Oskar Kokoschka's inj...

Postcard

The Austrian architect Adolf Loos wrote this postcard to Herwarth Walden, a German Expressionist artist and a key promot...

Puzzle book for our warriors

Book, Drawing

This picture puzzle shows a soldier marching through the forest. But ‘Where is the franc-tireur [sharpshooter]?’ He’s no...

The field-grey Nutcracker! All kinds of puzzles, r...

Booklet, Drawing

A huge nutcracker wearing a uniform bares its teeth, presumably against its enemies, not all of which are nuts. This is...

The new way: war cooking creations without meat, w...

Book

Until the outbreak of war, the German Empire imported a third of its food. As a result of the British trade embargo agai...

The world war in personal expressions by children:...

Essay

These essays reveal the experiences of children during World War One. In this collection of more than 150 compositions c...

The world war in photographs

Book, Photograph, Drawing

Soldiers took pictures of their life away from home. Among these 50 personal photographs from World War One are smiling...