Collection items

Discover World War One historical sources from both sides of the conflict, contributed by institutions from across Europe.

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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...
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...
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...
Map with bullet hole and photograph of Walter Flex
Map, Photograph, Manuscript
The corners of this handcrafted map are covered in mud. And there is a hole – apparently from a bullet. This bullet prob...
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...
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...
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...