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100 Year-Old WW1 Photographs Discovered

posted by LaminatorX on Monday March 10 2014, @12:13AM   Printer-friendly
from the war-to-end-all-wars dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

"Hidden for 100 years, the astonishing photos by 16-year-old soldier shows how his brothers-in-arms would forever be haunted by the spectre of defeat

...taken by Walter Kleinfeldt who joined a German gun crew in 1915 and fought at the Somme aged just 16. As his haunting pictures, taken with a Contessa camera, make all too clear, life in the trenches was a harrowing experience. The images provide an insight into the epic machinery of war – and capture the darkest moments of battle, with bodies strewn among the rubble.

(Mail Online)"

 
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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 10 2014, @03:33AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 10 2014, @03:33AM (#13773)

    His studio photo looks 16, but in later ones he is visibly tired.

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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Monday March 10 2014, @04:04AM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) on Monday March 10 2014, @04:04AM (#13776) Journal

    War can do that. My dad lied about his age, and enlisted in the Navy at age 15. He was shipped home from the Pacific in pieces. He survived, or I wouldn't be here - but he doesn't look like a teenager again in any pictures.