Mapping Modernity

16. So steht der Krieg!

25 October 2023

This is how the war stands

The pamphlet cards titled ‘This is the state of the war,’ are issued every two weeks by order of the German army. The front side of  this particular card from late July 1915 contains reports on recent fighting both on the western front and the eastern front. The course of these fronts can be tracked with date lines.

O. Forkel, So steht der Krieg! Schematische Darstellung der von den verbündeten Heeresleitungen amtlich bekantgegegebenen Kriegsereignissen, Ende Juli 1915, from: Paasche's Kriegskalender mit Karten, September 1914 - November 1918 (Monatliche Ausgabe), Stuttgart 1915. Coll. S/T K.87, 45 x 59 cm.