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@ScheerTamara @andyblanck1 @goschue My personal favourite crossover 😆:
#WW1Olympians: Miltiades Manno competed in the men's eight rowing event for Hungary at the 1912 Games. In WW1, he served as a cavalryman and was wounded several times. After the war, he became an artist and won Silver in the sculpting art event at the 1938 Olympics. #Tokyo2020
#WW1Olympians: Felix Bürkner competed in individual dressage for Germany at the 1912 Games. In WW1, he commanded a German cavalry squadron. He continued to serve in the Reichswehr after the war and during WW2, he was the head of the Army Riding School in Krampnitz. #Tokyo2020
"Full Speed Ahead Towards World Domination" - The illustration from the Austro-Hungarian magazine "Die Muskete" (6 September 1917) shows Uncle Sam (Unired Statea) as a stoker showelling soldiers into the furnace of the world war.
"Bayonet Fight" (1916) by Romanian painter Ion Stoica Dumitrescu (1886-1956).
#Easter - Easter Greetings from the Austro-Hungarian Army, 1915
#Easter: Austro-Hungarian Easter greeting card.
On 27 February 1915, 106 years ago today, the Austro-Hungarian 2nd & 3rd Armies fighting in the Carpathians reported a staggering 40,000 soldiers MIA - many were simply 'lost in the snow'. During the 3-month long campaing, the Austro-Hungarians suffered some 800,000 casualties.
Interestingly, this relatively obscure vehicle also served as inspiration for the armored car used in Sergio Leone's 'A Fistful of Dynamite' (1971):
21 December: Christmas without a father - Austro-Hungarian Christmas-card.