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A Disciple of Bernhardi

Raemaekers, Louis, 1916, Chromolithograph
A Disciple of Bernhardi
A Disciple of Bernhardi
A Disciple of Bernhardi
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Item no
32961
Title
A Disciple of Bernhardi
Description
"It's all right. If I hadn't done it someone else might."

"Evidence from the diaries of German soldiers in Belgium.

I. Extract from the diary of R. Rossberg, private of the 101st Grenadier regiment, 2nd Saxon XIIth Army Corps:
'Dinant, Aug. 23. We sleep on the pavement not far from the corpses, after having first plundered two cafés. We got about 150 bottles of wine, champagne and liqueurs. We are fearfully hungry and take everything, bread, butter, coffee, meat, ham, and everything!
Friday, A day of rest, so it seems to us. We get hold of every kind of food, wine, cigars; we kill geese, fowls, rabbits. I play the piano. We plunder, etc....."
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Date
1916
Size
34.5 x 25.8 cm
Location
Art and Design Library
Copyright
Louis Raemaekaers' drawings are reproduced by kind permission of the Louis Raemaekers Foundation.