SZ Photo - Po­si­tion­al warfare in the First World War, 1914-1918

01.07.1915 - Bodies of Russian soldiers, entangled in the barbed wire of a German emplacement at the Eastern front. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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01.01.1917 - German soldiers during a lull in a trench at the Western Front during the Second Battle of Artois. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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01.01.1918 - Russian army positions near Jakobstadt (Jekabpils) reinforced with wooden planks captured by German troops. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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01.01.1914 - A soldier of the Austro-Hungarian army stands guard in the exit of a shelter carved into the mountain. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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01.01.1930 - From the film 'All Quiet on the Western Front', Germany 1930, directed by Lewis Milestone, this photo was taken in a trench in the mechanized warfare of the First World War. German...
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01.01.1915 - Soldiers rest in a trench at the front lines of the Western front. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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01.01.1915 - Soldiers should seek cover from artillery fire in this trench with walls supported by wood and an arched roof covered with a layer of dirt. It is a communication trench, which ensu...
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01.01.1915 - Bunkers dug into the ground protect from the effects of artillery fire. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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01.01.1916 - A German soldier smokes a pipe in his shelter. A family of hedgehogs, which he keeps in the bunker, help him - according to the caption - with pest control. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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01.01.1915 - Infantrymen dig ground covers to protect themselves from enemy artillery fire. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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01.01.1915 - Soldiers on the Western front have erected a position out of paper. On the right stands an officer, the soldiers behind him belong to a machine gun division. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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01.01.1918 - Soldiers during an exercise with a flame thrower. The German troops prepared for the March offensive of 1918 with exercises and intensely trained for the action with small combat p...
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01.01.1914 - German infantry soldiers dig trenches at the Western Front of the First World War. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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01.01.1915 - A French communication trench in a town is inspected by German soldiers. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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01.01.1914 - German soldiers have taken cover and wait for the assault to begin. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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01.09.1916 - On the Eastern Front, an Austrian soldier watches the enemy line through field glasses. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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01.01.1917 - On the Western front soldiers of the infantry regiment 157 man an MG 08 machine gun in a bunker. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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01.01.1914 - In front of their own trench, soldiers have driven wooden stakes with sharpened ends ("wolf pits") into the ground to impede enemy attacks. In the background the barbed wire is vis...
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01.01.1916 - Soldiers kill time in a shelter on the Western front. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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01.12.1915 - Soldiers of the infantry regiment 10 on guard in a trench at the Western front. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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01.01.1914 - Soldiers on their narrow beds in a bomb-proof shelter under the ground. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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01.01.1914 - On the Western front infantry men wait on ladders in a trench for the order to attack. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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01.01.1915 - Soldiers eat in a shelter. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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01.01.1917 - Crew dugout of the Austro-Hungarian troops in the mountains of South Tyrol. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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28.04.1915 - Soldiers of the Austrian army, that was allied with Germany in World War I, with a regiment dog in a trench in Russian-Poland (Congress Poland). [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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01.01.1914 - Infantry men have taken up position in a trench. The photo was taken at the beginning of the war, the soldiers are still wearing spiked helmets, which were later stripped down due...
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15.01.1919 - View over German trench lines in a decimated forest near Moully/Mouilly, Dep. Meuse, on the Western front. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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01.01.1915 - Soldiers on break in a position near Ypres. The soldiers are reading or writing letters. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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01.01.1915 - Soldiers settle into their bunker at the Western front. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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