#WW1-Feldpost von Franz Mack. 5. Kgl Bayer. Inf-Div, 21. Inf-Reg., 4. Komp. Getwittert 100 Jahre danach von Enkel @der_mack aus Niederkassel. #GOA16 nominiert.
🧊🏔️ “The Ötzi discovery was huge,” said Morosini. “Here was a relic of the prehistoric era, and today we are finding relics of the first world war.”
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Die Dreharbeiten zu Im Westen nichts Neues, inspiriert von Erich Maria Remarques gleichnamigem Bestseller aus dem Jahr 1928, sind gestartet. Mit dabei sind u.a. Felix Kammerer, Albrecht Schuch, Aaron Hilmer, Edin Hasanovic, Daniel Brühl, Devid Striesow.
Update: Die Sondierungen am #Winterbergtunnel im Wald nahe Craonne (Picardie) haben heute weitere Funde gebracht: https://t.co/Jtkv5vttPL
Im dichten Wald am Chemin des Dames haben Archäologen jetzt einen Uniformmantel sowie Schulterklappen gefunden. Foto: Uwe Zucchi
"[...) in the 1970s, the decision was made to bury the gun as it was in such poor condition, restoration seemed like an unrealistic possibility." 🤨
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“This is a disease of wartime conditions, it is a disease of refugee camps (...) It just reflects that fact that there are people in our society who live in conditions that we shouldn’t tolerate.” https://t.co/nuaGlvKQ0r
Grandpa Franz never felt the need to come back to the the french battlegrounds. He once overflew the Champagne area with a Lufthansa plane on his way to Canada in the 60s. He said he was glad to (kind of) revisit France with his wife and not with his rifle.
In 1961, these WW1 veterans returned to Flanders Fields and came face-to-face with their former enemies.
What would you have done in WWI? Visit https://t.co/lWnuXUkB7w to discover more.
Doku von @ZDFinfo über den Tunnelkrieg im Ersten Weltkrieg ⛏️ Einer der Experten: @ProfPeterDoyle, dem ich in Ypern beim Bier schon mal Opas Feldpost gezeigt habe 🍻 https://t.co/j3RG86FMlM
Here Charles de Gaulle was kept pow in 1918. The future general & President of France was captured by the germans during the Battle of Verdun & later brought to the Wülzburg, a fortress of the Renaissance-age in Bavaria.
De Gaulle tried to escape five times but always failed.
Looking for medal experts: This is my great great grandfather Otto Merkisch (1851-1937). I think he's decorated with the Merit Cross for War Aid & the Prussian Order of the Crown (III. class). Anyone that knows a thing or two about medals? Help is needed, thanks! #uromaskrieg
#opaskrieg now officially turns to #uromaskrieg:
I just finished an entry in german on my blog about the discovery of the war diary my great grandmother Erna Merkisch kept at the begin of #WW1.
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This is my maternal great grandmother Erna Merkisch. She kept a diary during the first months of #WW1 that I recently discovered. At this point I'm busy gathering information on all family members mentioned in the diary & on former East Prussia. #uromaskrieg
Habe ich bei Oma Käthe, Franz' Frau, leider nicht mehr geschafft. Aber aus Fehlern lernt man.
Redet mit euren Großeltern und Eltern! Lasst sie ihre Geschichten erzählen. Wer weiß wie lange sie noch da sind.
@chaoskraehe@weltvorfahren Dann nehmen sie alles mit ins Grab.
Man kann es nicht erzwingen. In meinem Fall hatte ich da Glück, dass absolute Bereitschaft zur Kooperation vorhanden war.