A Child Dreams of Battle – 1915

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In this 1915 German children’s book the child has just awakened.


He tells his mother “I was just in the field and killed all the enemy in some great battle.”


She smiles and tells him it was just a dream. But he can hardly grasp that all that beauty was just a dream. 


 


via: Rob Schäfer@GERArmyResearch. Historian, Author, German military history 1848-1945, Historical Consultancy, Military Research & Genealogical Services. http://gmuhistoricalconsultancy.wordpress.com


 



 


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