[GERMAN TROOPS IN RUSSIAN POLAND] [Allocated]

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Other title(s): [GERMAN TROOPS IN RUSSIAN POLAND] [Allocated]
Year: 1915
Runtime: 4 mins
Description: The wreckage of a village, "destroyed by the Russians in their retreat", shows damaged houses with clothing and artifacts abandoned outside them. German soldiers in a wood emerge from a deep and well-concealed dugout from which smoke is pouring. (According to the captions it has been set on fire by Russian shellfire.) Nearby is a German Army blacksmith's in the open air. The stables for the horses next to the blacksmith's are camouflaged by the soldiers to prevent aerial observation. At Lyck, just over the border in East Prussia, orderlies unload wounded on stretchers from a hospital train.
German troops in Russian Poland following the Russian retreat of August 1915.
Keywords: EFG1914 / World War I / Imperial German Army / demolition, Russian - denial / defences, German - emplacement / animals, mammals: horse / operations, German military - routine / industry, German - craft: blacksmith (military) / transport, German military - rail: hospital train / medical, German military - movement / 01/3(4-11).4 / Russia & Russian Poland / Germany & East Prussia
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Provider: Imperial War Museums
Rights: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
Colour: Black & White
Sound: Without sound
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