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East Prussia

Date: 
Description: Scene of burned buildings after the Russian occupation.
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Ortelsburg

Date: 
Description: Scene of destroyed and burned buildings.
Poster

Remember Belgium. Buy Bonds. Fourth Liberty Loan

Date: 1918
Description: United States government bonds poster in the Fourth Liberty Loan "B" series. Depicts in silhouette a German soldier running and dragging a girl against a b...
Photograph

Ortelsburg in East Prussia

Date: 
Description: Scene of destroyed and burned out buildings.
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Locale Destroyed by Fire

Date: 1914
Description: View across muddy ground towards a village building in Galicia destroyed by fire after shelling.
Photograph

East Prussia

Date: 
Description: Scene of burned buildings after the Russian occupation.
Photograph

Ortelsburg in East Prussia

Date: 
Description: Scene of destroyed and burned buildings.
Photograph

Ortelsburg in East Prussia

Date: 
Description: Scene of destroyed and burned buildings.
Poster

Charity Bazaar for the Benefit of War Sufferers

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a house burning in the background and a silhouette of a person with two children at their side in the foreground. Text ...
Photograph

Niedenburg in East Prussia

Date: 1914
Description: Scene of destroyed and burned out buildings after the Russian occupation. Handwritten at bottom right: "Niedenburg."
Photograph

Ruins in Ortelsburg

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Description: Ortelsburg in East Prussia after the Russian occupation.
Poster

Tsingtau Orchestra

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a house burning in the background and a silhouette of a person with two children at their side in the foreground. Text ...
Poster

That Liberty Shall Not Perish From the Earth

Date: 1918
Description: United States government bonds poster in the Fourth Liberty Loan "B" series. "Buy Liberty Bonds. Fourth Liberty Loan." Depicts enemy aircraft bombing New Y...
Poster

Souvenez-Vous!

Date: 10 1917
Description: Poster commissioned by the Rememberance League for an October, 1917, exhibition on German war crimes in France. Poster image shows a drawing of a German so...
Poster

All They Ask Is Your Old Clothes

Date: 1918
Description: Poster shows two open hands in front of the burning remains of a city across the water. Text reads "All They Ask Is Your Old Clothes. Send everything you c...
Photograph

Ortelsburg in East Prussia

Date: 
Description: The Russians destroyed the fire fighting apparatus so that the residents could not put out the flames.
Postcard

Burning German Materials in Galesville

Date: 11 11 1918
Description: Crowd of men and young boys gathered around a smoldering pile of ash and scraps in the Galesville Town Square. The burned items were most likely German boo...

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