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German Military Medical Recovery Retreat, Coastal Poland, 1915

ITEM: Weekly issue of Illustrirte Zeitung (Leipzig) for 22 July 1915. 15x11 inches, pp 103-130, with many illustrations. Removed from larger bound volume, with that evidence along the spine. Nice copy, fine quality paper. $45 Ref: JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post

This image, from the 22 Juli 1915 issue of the Illustrirte Zeitung (Leipzig) shows a collection of German soldiers that were treated at a medical aidstation. The woman in white is the German crown princess, accompanied by her four navy-uniform-clad sons, are adrift in a sea of astonished ("verwundete", or amazed) soldiers who I guess were given leave from the war, celebrating their survival at the old spa and vacation spot Ostseebad, in Zoppot (Sopot, Poland).

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