Germans Collection (page 11)

French generals in Villers-Cotterets, France, WW1
French generals Mangin, Duparge and Petain in Villers-Cotterets, northern France, towards the end of the First World War. They are in the main square

Germans at a laager in German South West Africa
Germans bringing cattle to a sharpshooters laager (encampment) in German South West Africa (now Namibia). A rebellion by the Hereros against the German colonists took place between 1904 and 1907

Still Smiling by George Ranstead
Humorous postcard by George Ranstead, an amateur artist of the Great War who served in the Army Pay Corps. This particular postcard, with the cheeky caption

German street band, 1870
Out of time and out of place: a German band perform on Regent Street, London. Traffic whizzes past as two policemen close in... Date: 1870

German street band, 1857
A German street band in Paris, 1857. Date: 1857

Aerial photograph of Fort Souville, France, WW1
Aerial photograph (German) of the Fort at Souville, north eastern France, which was attacked by heavy shelling by the Germans during the Battle of Verdun, First World War

Generals Foch and Fayolle with captured German cannon
General Ferdinand Foch and General Fayolle at Chateau de la Haie (or Haye), in the village of Carency, Northern France, inspecting cannons captured from the Germans during the First World War

Von Brandis and German officers in 1916
German officers who took Fort Douaumont on 25th February 1916 during the Battle of Verdun during World War One. Cordt von Brandis (1888-1972) is on the right. Date: 1916

Hauptman Ernst Brandenburg and Gotha crews
Hauptman Ernst Brandenburg and the crews of the Kampfgeschwader III (Gotha aircraft pilots) in World War One. Date: World War One

Wellborn German Couple
Well-born Germans, he in a long flowing wig, she in hooded cape and muff Date: circa 1715

Well to do Germans 1550
Well to do Germans of the period of Emperor Karl V Date: circa 1550

WW2 / 1940 / DUTCH LOOT
The occupying Germans load their vehicles with Dutch pictures, objects and all kinds of goodies, while the Dutch people stand in line for bare necessities Date: 1940

Well-Born Germans 1550
Well-born Germans of the period of Emperor Karl V Date: circa 1550

WW1 / 1918 / JOAN OF ARC
Jeanne d Arc sees her country destroyed during World War One - even she would be helpless to withstand the might of the Germans ! Date: 1918

Two Germans 1475
The young man with plumed cap and cape over one shoulder eyes the lady, but she is off to mass, missal in hand... Date: circa 1475

Our gallant allies of the far east in action
Japanese forces in action in Kiao-Chau against the Germans. Date: 1915

Friederichstrasse, Berlin, Germany
A wonderful three-section fold-out postcard of the Friederichstrasse in Berlin, Germany. The detail is superb, right up to the expressions on the pedestrians faces, horse cabs

German dummy trenches WWI
Germans from Berlin viewing dummy trenches and a dummy mine thrower in Germany during World War I

Helsinki WWI
The Germans moving into Helsinki during the liberation of Finland in World War I

Germans in Helsinki WWI
Germans exchanging shots with the Reds in Helsinki, Finland, during World War I

Germans occupy Russian town 1918
Following the signing of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, which took Russia out of World War I, German cavalry occupy a Russian town in territories ceded to the German Empire by the terms of the treaty

Germans in Paris WWII
Germans in a Parisian nightclub during World War II

Paris posters WWII
Posters advertising for Parisian nightclubs that continue for the Germans

German artist at the Front during WWI
An artist, somewhere along the German line in France or Belgium during World War One, paints the scene in front of him. Several German soldiers

Argentina - Hamburger German Bier Halle
Hamburg Beer Hall, probably at Buenos Aires, run by German ex-patriot Augusto Hanning - Argentina. Some Germans enjoy a taste of home!

St Germains Priory, Cornwall
View of St Germains (or St German s) Priory, Cornwall

Colonel Billy Bishop VC with German air aces
Air Marshal William Avery Bishop (1894 - 1956) VC, Canadian First World War flying ace, being toasted at a gathering of air aces in Berlin where he was guest of honour

German Looted Art Found
A story in the 1919 ILN featuring paintings taken by the Germans from the University of Colmar in Alsace during WWI

Germans cross Vistula 1914 - 1915
German troops and supplies cross the Vistula river, as the forward lines move eastwards into Russian occupied Poland

A Nasal Reconaissance
Three British bobbies on the beat during WWI, attempt to lure a suspected German spy from his flat in Tottenham Court Road in London, by frying some delicious looking sausages beneath his window

Germans - Button Magnets
A new method of German frightfulness as magnets are used to attract buttons away from the braces of British soldiers by a German plane and thus render em incapacitated

For big projectiles used by the Germans in the Great War: Wicker cases for shells

Algerian light cavalry escorting captured Germans
WWI, 1st World War, World War One, World War 1, The Great War

Laundry on an Italian Submarine; Second World War, 1943
Photograph showing the crew of an Italian submarine airing their blankets and bedding on arrival at Malta in 1943. When Italy fell that year

Doing his Little Bit
Humorous illustration from the First World War period showing a boy scout leading three German soldiers, plus a Zeppelin behind him. Earnshaw regularly drew boy scouts

French soldiers taking cover from artillery fire inside a ca
A photograph of two French soldiers taking shelter from artillery fire inside a captured German ammunition depot. The Illustrated London News reported that the men were in the process of removing

Ball at Warsaw
As a public relations gesture, the President of Warsaw invites the bourgeois of Warsaw to a grand ball : hardly any accept, those who do being mainly Germans

Poland Kostrzyn
(aka Kustrin) situated at the confluence of the Oder and Warta rivers : often held by the Germans, but finally bestowed on Poland in 1945

Heinrich II at Verdun
The newly-elected Holy Roman emperor receives an ecclesiastical blessing at the cloister of saint Vitus, to whom Germans have a special devotion

German Invasion - 2
With the railways in their hands, it will be easy for the Germans to seize control of a strategic town such as Colchester as headquarters (scene 2 of 4)

Germans & Turks at a new munitions factory
Turkish and German soldiers at the entrance of a Krupps munitions factory near Constantinople. Turkey entered the war as an ally of Germany in October 1914

Germans taken by the French
Germans photographed in their trench by a French soldier from a distance of 15 metres. The Germans were asked if they would like to have their photograph taken

British gas mask
A British soldier wearing a respirator or gas-mask with an air-valve on the top. The Germans first used poisonous gas at Ypres on April 22nd 1915

The Dog in War
A Canine member of the German Red Cross, seen with two orderlies, equipped for field service with a flask, cup and first-aid case

The wooden Hindenburg
A big wooden statue of Field-Marshal von Hindenburg erected in Berlin. It was proposed that Germans could drive nails into the statue for a fee, with proceeds to go to charity

What War has become
Cartoon by A. Forestier showing a German soldier carrying a burning-oil distributor on his back and wearing respiratory apparatus

British War Dog
A British war-dog being trained for cross-country work. Dogs were used frequently, particularly by the Germans, during World War I, as auxiliaries in ambulance work, and for sentry and patrol work

Belgian soldiers retreat
Belgian soldiers in August 1914, retreating to Antwerp, accompanied by dogs pulling machine guns. As the Germans pushed their invasion through Belgium, the Belgium army was forced to retreat

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