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World War One

The German Experience
on the Somme

• The Cambridge Magazine, 1916 •

During the First World War Karl Von Wiegand (1874 – 1961) was the foreign correspondent for the Hearst News Syndicate; he was also an eye witness to the opening British attack on the Somme (July 1, 1916), which he observed from the German side of no-man’s land:

“We stood awe-stricken. Mankind, like Frankenstein, was being devoured by the monster it had created”.

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World War One

The German Experience on the Somme

• The Cambridge Magazine, 1916 •

The German Experience
on the Somme