(Wieder)entdeckt: Ordner mit Geburtstagspost, und -reden für/auf Opa Franz. Zu seinem 80. vor 45 Jahren hat sein Enkel Karl auf ihn gereimt und Biographisches in Paarreime gepresst. 3 Verse widmen sich Franz' Kriegszeit. #WW1 #Ahnenforschung #OpasKrieg

Habe ich bei Oma Käthe, Franz' Frau, leider nicht mehr geschafft. Aber aus Fehlern lernt man. Redet mit euren Großeltern und Eltern! Lasst sie ihre Geschichten erzählen. Wer weiß wie lange sie noch da sind.

Yesterday Grandma Anneliese discovered her mother's #ww1-diary. She completely forgot about it even though she transcribed it in 1981. The diary begins with the July Crisis & ends in feb 1915. My great grandmother was from East Prussia and witnessed warfare on the eastern front.

This is my maternal great grandmother Erna Merkisch. She kept a diary during the first months of #WW1 that I recently discovered. At this point I'm busy gathering information on all family members mentioned in the diary & on former East Prussia. #uromaskrieg

#opaskrieg now officially turns to #uromaskrieg: I just finished an entry in german on my blog about the discovery of the war diary my great grandmother Erna Merkisch kept at the begin of #WW1. opaskrieg.de/de/uromas-krie…

Watching 1917 tonight.

Im Bereich "Beste Kamera" konnte es auch nur "1917" werden, oder? 🎥🎞️🎬

This sounds promising. All Quiet On The Western Front starring Daniel Brühl. variety.com/2020/film/glob…

Looking for medal experts: This is my great great grandfather Otto Merkisch (1851-1937). I think he's decorated with the Merit Cross for War Aid & the Prussian Order of the Crown (III. class). Anyone that knows a thing or two about medals? Help is needed, thanks! #uromaskrieg

Here Charles de Gaulle was kept pow in 1918. The future general & President of France was captured by the germans during the Battle of Verdun & later brought to the Wülzburg, a fortress of the Renaissance-age in Bavaria. De Gaulle tried to escape five times but always failed.

Doku von ZDFinfo über den Tunnelkrieg im Ersten Weltkrieg ⛏️ Einer der Experten: Peter Doyle, dem ich in Ypern beim Bier schon mal Opas Feldpost gezeigt habe 🍻 zdf.de/dokumentation/…

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Grandpa Franz never felt the need to come back to the the french battlegrounds. He once overflew the Champagne area with a Lufthansa plane on his way to Canada in the 60s. He said he was glad to (kind of) revisit France with his wife and not with his rifle.

“This is a disease of wartime conditions, it is a disease of refugee camps (...) It just reflects that fact that there are people in our society who live in conditions that we shouldn’t tolerate.” theguardian.com/society/2020/d…

"[...) in the 1970s, the decision was made to bury the gun as it was in such poor condition, restoration seemed like an unrealistic possibility." 🤨 windsor.ctvnews.ca/first-world-wa…

Vielleicht einer der bedeutendsten Funde der letzten Jahrzehnte in diesem Bereich und trotzdem: Unberührt 😱 bbc.com/news/world-eur…

Neues vom Winterberg-Tunnel, in dem im Mai 1917 über 200 badische Soldaten lebendig verschüttet wurden:

Exciting news! Remarques "Im Westen nichts Neues" (All Quiet On The Western Front) gets a reboot from Netflix.

🧊🏔️ “The Ötzi discovery was huge,” said Morosini. “Here was a relic of the prehistoric era, and today we are finding relics of the first world war.” theguardian.com/environment/20…

Because I can!