En route from Augsburg to Ingolstadt, the colors of the week
The Army Museum in Ingolstadt, the medieval to modern section
(Neue Schloss, Bayerisches Armeemuseum)
![]() A suit of armor from the 16th century |
![]() A Frankish knife blade, 8th-9th century
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A hat, horn, and leather vest from the Thirty Years' War
Below, helmets in a row |
Stacked spears make a work of art
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Again, a fine mixture of art forms and information
Two covers from a trench newspaper called "Die Sappe" (linked her to the
Bibliothèque nationale).
"Weinacht in Biebenbürgen":
German soldiers as shepherds at the Nativity (1916);
right: A windmill in Flanders (1917)
![]() With God for Kaiser & Kingdom |
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An art form I did not know about: creating the Crucifix, along with the instruments of the Passion, in bottles. | ||
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Left and below, a Communist newspaper
shortly after the war ended. The illustration shows farmers well-off before the war began,
impoverished by the time it was over, the landscape dominted by a cemetery and, in the middle
of it, perhaps, a new war memorial. The accompanying editorial says that people should take
peace into their own hands
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A fine building, too.
Visited 1-13-2010