A German Soldier in WW1: Diary and Photos from 1914-1918 (Documentary)00:34:59

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More than 13 million men served in the German army during the First World War. Most wrote letters home, some kept diaries, and some wrote memoirs if they survived. But over a century later, its rare to have a window into the everyday thoughts and feelings of one man, a time capsule of the experience of one of those 13 million.


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Pfeifer, Alexander, and Philipp Cross. The Other Trench. The WW1 Diary and Photos of a German Officer. True Perspective, 2024.
Leonhard, Jörn. Die Büchse der Pandora. Geschichte des Ersten Weltkrieges. CH Beck, 2014.
Stevenson, David. 1914-1918. Penguin, 2012.


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Presented by: Jesse Alexander
Written by: Jesse Alexander
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