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Major Extension of the Route des Crêtes – Sudelkopf Photo Impression! Last spring a good pen friend of La Bresse, Vosges, an expert on historic French railways, send me some rare and very interesting period photos of the Alaska Sled Dogs at le Collet and of the Hohneck Tramway. Later he...

I would like to ask your attention, please, for a new photo impression about a sector of the Saint Mihiel Salient. You may consider this photo impression , as the last keystone in my seven chapters about the salient, which starts with “Les Eparges Ridge”, and which for the time being ends at the...

Dear Pickelhaubes Friends, Recently, on 28 April 2012 I had the honour to give a lecture for the knowledgeable company of the members of the Western Front Association of the Netherlands, an association of which I am also a proud member myself. Due to the unexpectedly many questions and...

Thanks a lot for keeping the Forum again online! :bravo:

For you all, I wish you a healthy, prosperous and peaceful 2012! Pierre

On the battlefield the spikes were often screwed off. This is a picture, taken somewhere in France on a to me unknown date of Crown Prince Willie and also Kronprinz Rupprecht, Rupert, von Bayern, while the Kronprinz Willie inspects his troops and he is possibly on his way to a nearby medal...

Dear Pickelhaube Friends, I realize that there are many forum members here, who are always interested in my updates or extensions of my photo impressions of the Battlefields of the Western Front nowadays. With the introduction of a new photo impression about Lorraine I decided to add on my...

A link to perhaps a disputable new use of Stahlhelme, or it is a link to a modern art form of some Dutch artists from Amsterdam: http://www.il-studio.nl/helm.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; . Abuse or not; It depends how you look at it. :)

In relation to all your samples of all your awesome collections, gentlemen: I hardly post here periods. But this period photo I had to share with you. It is not my own; I found it in a French book: The photo is made in September 1915 and it represents 2 soldiers of L.I.R. 119, stationed at the...

I would like to invite you to the release of my last Special Photo Impression: “Cambrai”. I called this new Cambrai Photo Impression a Special Photo Impression considering it’s extraordinary size of 278 images; many modern maps, satellite views, details of trench maps, period pictures, and of...

Petty news from Holland, but perhaps rather remarkable: Translation from the official website of Huis Doorn, the Kaiser's Exile. Source; http://www.huisdoorn.nl/nld/nieuws/ . ( Dutch section) Virtual tour to Huis Doorn, click on http://pierreswesternfront.punt.nl/?id=410295&r=1&tbl_archief=& .

Dear Friends, In the Netherlands and in other countries in Europe a translation of an already controversial, English book has been recently published; Thomas Weber’s "Hitler’s First War". These critical reviews in the printed media and even on the Dutch radio not only aroused my curiosity, but...

"To the brave sons of the city of Krefeld". Dear Pickelhaube-friends, Sometimes, I find on my trips along the Western Front memorials, like this one on the photo above, which generates more questions than answers. I found this war time memorial in a wood on a northern slope of the Hirzstein...

I am studying nowadays General der Infanterie von Gaede, a rather unknown general with for the period remarkable progressive insights, like being responsible for introducing the first helmets, the creation and the deployment of the first mountain ski-units, the first Flammenwerfer-Abteilungen...

Wishful thinking? Proud Chasseur Alpin with Pickelhaube.

Franz von Papen. Recently, while researching some facts for my Dutch article about the Vanceboro Bridge Bombing Incident of 2-2-1915 along the American-Canadian border, I stumbled on this picture of Franz von Papen, in 1914 and 1915 being a Hauptmann and Military Attaché of the German Embassy...

During my searches in my digital photo collection , I sometimes stumble on period pictures of German Royals, visiting the Eastern and the Western Front. Perhaps it is interesting to open a topic here, to show to each other and to help each other identifying dates and other high officials on the...

Interesting period videoclip: The arrival of the German Emperor Wilhelm II in Eijsden, the Netherlands, at 9 November 1918. Click on: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mapit1418/3957635489/ . Visit for more details about this event my website...

My Great War Aficionado Friends, today I published an bilingual editorial, an account of my experience of viewing an excellent and recommendable movie about Minewarfare: “Beneath Hill 60 – The Silent War”. You may read this concise article in the language you prefer, being it English or Dutch...