Description
Object description
whole: the nine images occupies the majority. The title is separate and positioned across the top edge, in white. The text
is separate and is positioned above each image, in white. Further text is integrated and positioned within the images, in black. The title
and text are set against a gray background.
image: nine separate maps depicting campaigns dating from August 1914 to spring 1918.
text: Der Weg zum Frieden!
Die Russennot!
Aug. 1914
Einmarsch in Nordfrankreich
[first map, showing Russia's attack on Germany from the east, and Germany entering northern France via Belgium in the west; with a inset
listing numbers of prisoners, artillery guns and machine guns captured]
Hindenburg kommt!
Aug.-Dez. 14
1. Tannenberg.
2. Masuren.
3. Polen.
[second map, showing German victories over Russia at the Battle of Tannenberg, the First Battle of Masurian Lakes, and in Poland; with a
inset listing numbers of prisoners, artillery guns and machine guns captured]
Die Russen geschlagen!
Sommer 1915
Durchbruch bei Tarnow-Gorlice / Fall der Weichselfront
[third map, showing German victory at Gorlice-Tarnow on the Eastern Front; with a inset listing numbers of prisoners, artillery guns and
machine guns captured]
Serbiens Niederwerfung!
Herbst 1915
Der Weg zum Orient frei!
[fourth map, showing the Central Powers' invasion of Serbia; with a inset listing numbers of prisoners and artillery guns captured]
Das verführte Rumänien!
Herbst 1916
Siebenbürgens Befreiung - Einnahme von Bukarest
[fifth map, showing the Central Powers' invasion of Romania; with an inset listing numbers of prisoners, artillery guns and machine guns
captured]
Der Verräter Italien!
Herbst 1917
Der Zusammenbruch der Italiener am Isonzo
[sixth map, showing the German and Austro-Hungarian victory over the Italians at Isonzo; with an inset listing numbers of prisoners,
artillery guns and machine guns captured]
Befreite Völker!
Frühjahr 1918
Friede im Osten! Der gesprengte Ring!
[seventh map, showing the territories gained by Germany at the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk; with an inset listing numbers of prisoners,
artillery guns, machine guns, railway carriages and locomotives captured]
Die Mauer im Western!
1915 1916 1917
Die Rückendeckung der Sieger im Osten.
[eighth map, showing the Western Front, 1915-17; with an inset listing the names and dates of battles]
Zur Abrechnung
Frühjahr 1918
Die prossen Schlachten in Frankreich
[ninth map, showing the German Spring Offensives of 1918, with a inset listing numbers of prisoners, artillery guns, machine guns and
aircraft captured]
v. Sartor.18.
Druckstöcke Bauer u. Gemberg, Berlin N. 54.
Hofbuchdruckerei Hermann Bergmann, Berlin SW. 48
[The way to peace! The Russian emergency! Aug. 1914. March into Northern France. [first map] Hindenburg is coming! Aug.-Dec. 14. 1.
Tannenberg. 2. Masuria. 3. Poland. [second map] The Russians defeated! Summer 1915. Breakthrough at Tarnow-Gorlice, fall of the Weichsel
front. [third map] Serbia's subjugation! Autumn 1915. The way to the Orient is free! [fourth map] The seduced Rumania! Autumn 1916
Siebenbürgen freed – the taking of Bucharest. [fifth map] The traitor Italy! Autumn 1917 The collapse of the Italians at Isonzo. [sixth
map] Freed nations! Spring 1918. Peace in the east! The demolished ring! [seventh map] The wall in the west! 1915. 1916. 1917. The victors'
back covered in the east. [eighth map] To accounting. Spring 1918. The great battles in France. [ninth map] Plates Bauer and Gemberg,
Berlin N. 54. Court book printers Hermann Bergmann, Berlin SW. 48.]
Label
The Battle of Tannenberg in August 1914 was a major German victory against the Russian Second Army, halting its advance
into East Prussia. The Russians sustained 50,000 casualties and 92,000 of them were taken prisoner. The defeated Russian commander,
General Aleksandr Samsonov, shot himself.
Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg and his Chief of Staff Erich Ludendorff became national heroes after the victory and took effective
control of the German war effort. The Germans named the battle after the nearby village of Tannenberg, the site of a German defeat in 1410
in which the Poles had overthrown their rulers, the Teutonic Knights.
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[unreadable] Der Weg zum Frieden