The Guns of August....German mobilization order

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I have been cleaning out closets and my home office in the last month or so, and unearthing some interesting things. I came across this piece which I had framed but had not hung after our last move--that has now been rectified. I obtained it unframed many years ago--it was apparently in the desk of a mayor in some German town. Anyway, it is an August 1914 Mobilization order for the area of the IXth Armeekorps, for August 2-6th 1914.

It is saddening to read--so many young men from both sides jauntily marching off to a war all were confident would be over by Christmas, but probably virtually none of those reading and responding to that mobilization order survived a war that really no one won.

Ed

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