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Nicolai Eberholst (Pike Grey 1914-1918)
@PikeGrey1418
Danish military historian/archivist focusing on WWI. Particularly: Austria-Hungary, Central Powers, Eastern Front, Denmark/Danes & the war as a global conflict.
Dec 25, 2022 • 26 tweets • 8 min read
Merry Christmas to all who are celebrating today! 😁

Throughout December, I've been posting daily quotes on Christmas during WWI. Here's a thread that puts them all in one place:

01: From the history of the Austro-Hungarian k.u.k IR 59 on Christmas on the Italian Front, 1915: 02: Quote by Austro-Hungarian soldier Alfred Totzauer of k.u.k Infantry Regiment No.73 about Christmas on the Eastern Front, 1914:
Sep 17, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
(THREAD) From a letter by Danish soldier Jules Eliasen, who served on the Western Front with the French in 1915-16. Writing to his brother in march 1916, he recounts an episode from the early days of the infamous Battle of Verdun.

(Any mistakes in the translation are mine alone) 1/ "A big devil [a German soldier] got close to me. He raised the butt of his rifle to crack open my skull, but a long spike [a bayonet] went into his stomach, causing him to fall on top of me, and I in turn fell down in the bottom of the trench."