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Kriegsbriefe 1914-1919 von Christian Tramsen, einem 16-jährigen Kriegsfreiwilligen an der West- und Ostfront
Transcripts of postcards to his mother from Christian Tramsen who joined the army as a volunteer aged 16. Postings to Cambrai, Bapaume (close to Arras), Puisieux, Champagne: Ardeuil, Sedan (1914), Somme: Noyon, Péronne, Chemin de Dames (1916), Tarnopol
Correspondence with relatives was an important factor for the war veteran in order to be able to mentally cope with the often dramatic experiences but also with the tedium of everyday wartime life. The description of the events was played down for the relatives so as not to frighten them. The war letters were copied into notebooks by the mother of the combatant (Sütterlin script) and later recorde…
Contributors
- Dirk Tramsen
Creator
- Christian Tramsen
Subject
- World War I
- Home Front
- Medical
- Trench Life
- Central Powers
- World War I
Type of item
- Story
- Postcard
- Postcard
Date
- November 1914 bis November 1919
- 1914-11
- 1919-11
- 1919-11
- 1914-11
- 1919-11
- 1914-11
Contributors
- Dirk Tramsen
Creator
- Christian Tramsen
Subject
- World War I
- Home Front
- Medical
- Trench Life
- Central Powers
- World War I
Type of item
- Story
- Postcard
- Postcard
Date
- November 1914 bis November 1919
- 1914-11
- 1919-11
- 1919-11
- 1914-11
- 1919-11
- 1914-11
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
Creation date
- 2011-03-26 12:53:29 UTC
- 2011-03-26
- 2011-03-26
Temporal
- November 1914 bis November 1919
Places
- Eastern Front
- Western Front
Provenance
- UNKNOWN
Source
- UGC
Identifier
- https://1914-1918.europeana.eu/contributions/169
- 169
Language
- deu
- Deutsch
Is part of
- EnrichEuropeana
- EnrichEuropeana
Providing country
- Europe
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2019-09-11T08:33:01.397Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2023-06-05T08:05:33.085Z