1925 GERMAN MILITARY WWI CHRISTMAS BOOK FAIRY TALE OF 50TH REGIMENT w ART PLATES


1925 GERMAN MILITARY WWI CHRISTMAS BOOK FAIRY TALE OF 50TH REGIMENT w ART PLATES

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1925 GERMAN MILITARY WWI CHRISTMAS BOOK FAIRY TALE OF 50TH REGIMENT w ART PLATES:
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1925 GERMAN WWI Christmas FAIRY TALE OF 50TH REGIMENT LITERATURE & ART BOOK

German WWI Christmas literature and art book by Walter Flex.36 pages with6awesome pasted-in plates (all shown). Published in 1925 in Germany.4th edition. The beautiful full-page art pictures are by Benno Eggert. It measures 6 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches and is inused condition (browning, a fewstains and somenice red coloring in 3 of the plates: I don\'t know if this was done originally or later).Signed by a former owner in 1929 (only in this sense \"signed\"). Check out my other GermanWWIChristmas books!

Walter FlexBorn(1887-07-06)6 July 1887
Eisenach, German EmpireDied16 October 1917(1917-10-16) (aged30)
Pöide Parish, Russian EmpireNationalityGermanOccupationAuthor Lyricist

In his brief life prior to the outbreak of war he worked as a teacher, publishing, amongst other works, Das Volk in Eisen and Sonne und Schild, a series of well received nationalist works. As a song, his poem Wildgänse rauschen durch die Nacht gained popularity with the Wandervogel youth and was well known and sung in Germany until the 1970s. He enlisted as a volunteer at the outbreak of war in 1914. He was injured in action and died on October 16, 1917 at Oti Manor, Saaremaa, Estonia. He was originally buried at the village cemetery of Peude (now Pöide), Saaremaa Island (formerly Ösel Island), Estonia. His epitaph was a quote from one of his works Preußischer Fahneneid (\"Prussian Military Oath\" written in 1915): \"Wer je auf Preußens Fahne schwört, hat nichts mehr, was ihm selbst gehört.\" = He who swears on Prussia\'s Flag has nothing left that belongs to himself. His body was later, in 1940, moved to a new military cemetery in front of the Sackenheimer Tor at Königsberg (now Kaliningrad, Russia). Walter Flex\'s grave, along with much of the city, was destroyed either in air raids or during the three-month siege prior to that city\'s April 9, 1945 surrender to the Russian Army.





1925 GERMAN MILITARY WWI CHRISTMAS BOOK FAIRY TALE OF 50TH REGIMENT w ART PLATES:
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