A land without people, for a people without a land...

Bazaar held at Notre Dame de France in aid of the Red Crescent Society,
Jerusalem, 1917.

Source: American Colony Photo Department, Library of Congress, Washington DC, LC-DIG-matpc-
08170.

@palestine
@israel
@histodons #histodons
#Palestine #WWI

Early air battles: 2 compelling book illustrations by #Czech #Jewish artist Georg Jilovský. Producing art for Austria-Hungary during #WWI did not help him during the #Holocaust. He survived Auschwitz, but his sons died there & his wife died of the consequences of imprisonment
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As long as we're on the subject of the dangers of early 20th-century aviation and burnt fuselages, I of course have to share this classic piece of World War I sheet #music (details in alt text)

#aviation #WWI

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Back in 2016, Ciara Phillips painted the Fingal in wartime "Dazzle" camouflage, as part of the 1914-1918 centenary commemorating the War to End All Wars - https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/27324051846/

@overholt

I attended a school for #blind and #LowVision students for grades 8-10.

We had large, wooden #topographic and #Political maps of #Europe and the #USA. They were basically giant #puzzles.

Europe was made/acquired between #WWI and #WWII. In ninth grade, our World History teacher would sometimes quiz us. This why I can identify #Latvia, #Estonia, and #Lithuania. Same teacher read us All Quiet on the Western Front, and shared this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Fuehrer%27s_Face#Song.

#VeteransDay was originally called Armistice Day in the #UnitedStates to mark the end of #WWI. After #WWII & the #KoreanWar, it was renamed, & its scope was expanded to honor all US #military #veterans. Memorial Day, which falls on the last Monday in May, specifically honors those who gave their lives for the country.

[but we know what #Trump thinks about military #ServiceMembers & veterans: “suckers & losers”]

#IdiotInChief #idiocracy #USpol
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/09/trump-americans-who-died-at-war-are-losers-and-suckers/615997/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxQH1eUKBazgJAqYoHpOVCuU&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

@MAKS23

Ok so for the record

WWI started in July 1914 . The USA declare war to Germany only in April 1917 . Despite his conviction that Germany must be defeated, President Wilson went to war to ensure the US played a leading role in shaping the peace.

WWII started in September 1939. The USA didn’t first declared war to Germany or Italy. In fact after the Pearl Harbor attack on the 7 th December 1941 , the USA did nothing regarding the European front.

../… TBC

"Litteris et Patriæ”

The content of the #WWI Easter greeting book from the Kaiser Wilhelm University of Straßburg to its students at the front stressed the German character of the region, as in this medieval Easter hymn, Christ is risen, from an early Strasbourg imprint 2/n
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