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Kaiser and his Generals (LOC)

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  • 2 older comments, and then…
  • jgury said:
    Is WWI the most pointless, stupid major war in the history of the world or what?
  • swanq said:
    This picture looks suspciously as if it was composed from different portraits. Or at least with some plugged in afterwards. The lighting direction on faces doesn't quite seem consistent to me. But I'm not certain.

    Candidates for constituent portraits include:
    Von Kluck Gen. Von Kluck (LOC)
    and
    Mackensen Gen. Mackensen (LOC)
  • jgury said:
    swanq Yes it does look a bit like one of those Monty Python composites. Here is a different version, done as a postcard:


    From this site: www.zum.de/psm/1wk/krer5.php
  • Art Siegel said:
    Maybe von Bulow and von Tirpitz. I think you might be on to something, swanq. But I think jgury's postcard is the same one in the Bain collection, not a different version.
    Gen. Von Bulow (LOC)Adm. Von Tirpitz (LOC)
  • swanq said:
    Just found that the Washington Times featured this photo as "very popular right now" on April 04, 1915 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026749/1915-04-04/ed-...