Collection items

Army Supreme Command Scholz New Year 1916

Book, Drawing

A naked muscleman, armed with a sword, is sitting on a warhorse. Ukrainian men and women, walking their pig, stare anxio...

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...

Illustrations of German and enemy aircraft

Book, Drawing

This booklet includes detailed drawings showing how to identify different aircraft. It starts with how to recognise Germ...

Military views in the field

Book, Drawing

Good knowledge of a territory is crucial to any war. If you are a soldier who has to move forward into an unknown area,...

Our blue-jackets: A marine album

Illustration, Drawing, Photograph

This illustrated propaganda leaflet was a humorous way of reinforcing the strength of Germany in the minds of its people...

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 picture book of the Landsturm Man

Book, Drawing

These humorous illustrations are of someone introduced as Gottlieb Schulze, a friendly, ordinary man. His first name mea...

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...