Collection items

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...

Our enemies: 96 character heads from German prison...

Book, Photograph

These men are prisoners of war from various countries, captured in Germany. Nearly all of them glower into the camera, a...

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...

Phrasebook for the conversation with wounded perso...

Book, Manual

This multilingual phrase book helped German soldiers and hospital workers communicate with wounded or captured foreigner...

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 mill in the Ardennes

Illustration

This is the story The Mill in the Ardennes – one volume in a series of penny magazines. Penny magazines were cheap bookl...

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 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 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...

War calculation tasks: modern complement to the ar...

Book

This maths problem is one of about 300 in a book dedicated to the war. Children are given a calculation using the statis...

War imprisonment in France: 131 views of the Germa...

Book, Photograph

This book, published in Switzerland, shows daily life for German prisoners of war in France. It gives information on nut...