Image: Kaiser Wilhelm II Truppenbesuch Ostpreußen Lyck 1915
Description: Military propaganda postcard of the German Empire, litho, graphic, colored from the World War I "In Memory of the World War 1914/15 Kaiser Wilhelm II in Lyck". Wounded soldiers cheer to the German Emperor Kaiser Wilhelm II, who is in a car. The city is partially destroyed. A euphemistic representation of the war. Elk (now Ełk) is located in East Prussia until 1945, a German city and is now Polish. The card was on 10/15/1915 as field post from Pula (at thist time part of the Austro-Hungarian Littoral, now Croatia) to Obermillstatt in Carinthia sent. The card is from a recruit who worked on the SMS Custoza, a training ship for cadets (auxiliary boat) as a carpenter.
Title: Kaiser Wilhelm II Truppenbesuch Ostpreußen Lyck 1915
Credit: scan and uploaded by Joadl
Author: Verlag: Hanns Konrad, k. u. k. Hoflieferant, Brüx. Nr. 183
Permission: Public domain because its copyright has expired. Permission: Sammlung J.P. Adlbrecht. Scanned by Joadl | Gallery. If you use this photograph outside Wikimedia, I would highly appreciate if you let me know by email or on my talk page, as I'm curious where my work is used. Please choose a Free license to abide by. If you would like to use this image in a way which is incompatible with the given Free licenses (de: Freie Inhalte), please contact me.
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
Attribution Required?: No
Image usage
The following page links to this image:
