A collection of colorized photos from Frédéric Duriez that shows German forces during the First World War.
Flamethrower pioneers of Assault Battalion No. 5 (Rohr)9 cm Batterie Hoffman in Fuerstellung, Ersatz Btn.44101st Grenadier Saxon, 1914A German mortar section with horse-drawn transport moving through wooded country on the Montdidier – Noyon sector of the front, June 1918A sharp 1918 field portrait of a young sergeant from an unidentified Saxon formationA young Bavarian infantrymanAngres, France, 1916Anonymous Portrait of an officer of a German cuirassier regimentBoche prisoners captured by Canadians on Hill 70 are paraded through town, August, 1917Bringing wounded down an awkward slope, Advance East of Arras, October 1918Captured railway guns at Mont-Notre-Dame, 7 km west of Fismes and 19km southeast of the city of Soissons in northern France, 1918Fabulous example of an emergency bridge build by ski-troops of the Alpenkorps, 1915Fliegerabteilung Nr. 260 Lichtbild Artillerie (air reconnaissance)French and British soldiers standing around a German A7V tank captured at Villers-Brettoneux, May 1918German infantryman in the middle of the damaged or destroyed buildings of the village, Etricourt, FranceGerman military aerodromeGerman prisoner captured by the British, Battle of Ypres road to Menin – End September 1917German prisoners arriving from Tilloloy. In the foreground a machine gun, Labuissière (Somme), August 18, 1918German prisoners at Mareuil, July 1918German prisoners at work ( beef drivers pause then plowing in a field)German prisoners captured during the offensive of July, near Villers-Bretonneux (Somme), July 30, 1916German Red CrossGerman soldier recently captured by Canadians, July 1917German soldier with gas maskGerman soldiers supervising Belgian civilians employees road repair, Belgium, 1916German troops loading for transport to the front, 1915German troops stationed in front of the ‘Palais des Princes-Évêques’ of Liège in 1914German uniform during World War IPortrait of a great and stylish German soldier, probably taken on the Eastern FrontIn the park, a German corpse, Plesier Roye ( Plessis de Roye – France , Somme ), April 2, 1918Kurhessisches Pionier-Bataillon Nr.11Landsturmmmann Leopold Schmälter, Preußisches Landwehr Infanterie Regiment 15, III. Bataillon, 11. Kompagnie, August 1917Medical staff in the shade of the willows, 1918Otto Frank (father of Anne Frank) during the First Word War in 1917. He fought for Germany. Of the eight people who hid in the Annex, only Otto Frank survived the arrest and genocidePortrait of a German officer (Artillery), 1917Portrait of Ernst Jünger, a highly decorated German soldier, author, and entomologist who became publicly known for his World War I memoir ‘Storm of Steel’Prisoners, Vimy, 1917Prisoners, Vimy, 1917Prisoners, Vimy, 1917Prisoners, Vimy, 1917Prisoners, Vimy, 1917Prisoners, Vimy, 1917Prisoners, Vimy, 1917Prussian infantryman from the 93rd Reserve Infanterie Regiment‘Remembering the time when I was severely wounded during an air-raid in France on 25.04. 1917. Dominikus Müller’Retreat of German troops, Echternach, November 1918Saint Chamond Char captured by the GermansThe Battle of the Menin Road Ridge. Two wounded Germans, one showing the newly dressed wound in his leg, at a dressing station at Zillebeke, 20 September 1917The ship’s diverTwo Fokker Dr.Is marked with the yellow cowlings and tails of Royal Prussian Jasta 27 are readied for takeoff at Halluin-Ost aerodrome in May 1918Western Front, German A7V tanks drive through a village near Rheims in 1918Young German prisoners at Mareuil, July 1918
(Photos colorized by Frédéric Duriez)
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