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Eine verwüstete Landschaft in Nieuwpoort, ein unter Wasser stehender Bunker oder ein Selbstporträt in Armeeuniform … Das sind bloß einige Szenen, die die Künstler der Section Artistique zwischen 1916 und 1918 gemalt haben. Im Lauf der Jahre traten sechsundzwanzig flämische und französischsprachige Maler in den Militärdienst dieser ...
Due to difficulties in provision and strict rationing, preparing a decent meal was not easy during the First World War.
Discover recipes for housewives in this collection and find out how people reacted to a plea for vegeterianism as a possible ...
At the outbreak of the First World War, the American president Woodrow Wilson decided that the United States should stay neutral. A series of diplomatic and military incidents gradually made this neutral stance untenable, and on 6 April 1917, Wilson asked Congress to declare war on ...
En raison du rationnement strict et alimention limité, il n'était pas toujours facile à presenter un repas satisfaisant pendant la guerre.
Decouvrez dans cette collection ici quel recettes on proposait aux femmes au foyer, ou voyez vous-même comment on réagissait sur un plaidoyer pour le végétarisme comme ...
Un paysage dévasté à Nieuport, un abri antiaérien inondé ou un autoportrait en uniforme militaire… Ce ne sont là que quelques-uns des tableaux peints par les artistes de la Section artistique entre 1916 et 1918. Au fil des ans, vingt-six peintres flamands et francophones rejoignirent les rangs de cette section ...
In de vroege ochtend van 7 juni 1917 werd het na enkele dagen van intense beschietingen plots rustig aan het Duitse front rond Mesen en Wijtschate. De Duitsers waren verbaasd en begonnen zelf te schieten. Opeens klonken er geweldige ontploffingen en daverde de grond als bij een aardbeving. Negentien reusachtige ondergrondse mijnen ontploften onder ...
À l'aube du 7 juin 1917, après plusieurs jours de tirs intenses, le calme régna soudain sur le front allemand près de Messines et Wijtschate. Surpris, les Allemands se mirent à tirer. De violentes explosions retentirent tout à coup et le sol se mit à trembler comme lors d'un tremblement de terre. Dix-neuf énormes mines souterraines ...
When Wilson ran for a second term in office in 1916, his campaign team presented him as ‘the man who kept the United States out of the war.’ Wilson’s declaration of neutrality met with general approval from his party, as many Americans were in favour of isolationist politics.
His contestant, Charles Evans Hughes, was very ...
Il était une fois …
Déjà dans la Première Guerre Mondiale, les contes de fées des frères Grimm avaient plus de cent ans. Comme aujourd’hui, les histoires du Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Perrault ou Grimm étaient parti du mémoire collectif. Des legendes, des contes de fées et des mythes imaginatif égayaient les journaux ...
In the occupied area, the Germans almost immediately curtailed press freedom with the setting up of a Pressezentrale. The directions were clear: German military achievements were to be presented in a positive light, not a word was to be said about the Belgian government, and reports that could foment hatred of Germany were forbidden.
In order to ...
Wilsons Neutralitätserklärung konnte auf die große Zustimmung seiner Anhängerschaft zählen. Sehr viele Amerikaner befürworteten ja eine isolationistische Politik ihres Landes.
Als Wilson 1916 für eine zweite Amtszeit kandidierte, stellte sein Wahlkampfteam ihn sogar als den Mann vor, „der die Vereinigten Staaten aus dem Krieg ...
Weil die Briten über eine mächtige Kriegsflotte verfügten, beschlossen die Deutschen, bei der Kriegsführung auf See eine neue Waffe einzusetzen: das Unterseeboot.
Spätestens seit die deutsche Armee am 1. Februar 1917 den uneingeschränkten U-Boot-Krieg ausgerufen hatte, spielten U-Boote eine wichtige Rolle. Militärisch war die Waffe recht ...