Conquer Germany:
"Remember!"
Join our French army in order to fight against the Germans! This piece of artwork explains that,
"This Hun who bombed, burned, and pillaged and this commercial travaller /who calls for your orders and wants to sell his wares and wants to settle once more in our midst/ are one and the same man/ never forget it!".
Remember that all Germans are to be viewed as equal enemies, no matter what occupation they have!
Join our French army in order to fight against the Germans! This piece of artwork explains that,
"This Hun who bombed, burned, and pillaged and this commercial travaller /who calls for your orders and wants to sell his wares and wants to settle once more in our midst/ are one and the same man/ never forget it!".
Remember that all Germans are to be viewed as equal enemies, no matter what occupation they have!
The Trenches at Albain
Become a part of the French army in order to experience the rewarding feeling of capturing German soldiers as prisoners!
Become a part of the French army in order to experience the rewarding feeling of capturing German soldiers as prisoners!
Germans- "The Other Flock of Men"
Join the French army in order to get revenge on Germany! In the book, Visions of War in France: Fiction, Art, Ideology, Catharine Savage Brosman writes that,
"The "herd" of the title (by definition a collectivity) is, of course, metaphorically, the millions of men who are sent off to battle as to slaughter. This slaughter stands in implicit contradistinction to the Biblical and other pastoral models of flock and shepherd. The metaphor of the herd is far from unique to Giono; one finds it in Benjamin's 1915 novel and in countless subsequent works, where it is associated usually with the theme of sacrifice, an enduring theme in war writing from the earliest texts of Western civilization and central in much French war rhetoric from the Franco Prussian War on…The Germans themselves are seen as "that other flock of men.”"
If you are part of the French army, you will have the opportunity to conquer Germany. Sacrifice is necessary in order to get revenge on "that other flock of men" known as the Germans.
"The "herd" of the title (by definition a collectivity) is, of course, metaphorically, the millions of men who are sent off to battle as to slaughter. This slaughter stands in implicit contradistinction to the Biblical and other pastoral models of flock and shepherd. The metaphor of the herd is far from unique to Giono; one finds it in Benjamin's 1915 novel and in countless subsequent works, where it is associated usually with the theme of sacrifice, an enduring theme in war writing from the earliest texts of Western civilization and central in much French war rhetoric from the Franco Prussian War on…The Germans themselves are seen as "that other flock of men.”"
If you are part of the French army, you will have the opportunity to conquer Germany. Sacrifice is necessary in order to get revenge on "that other flock of men" known as the Germans.
Germany's Declaration of War with France August 3rd, 1914
Fight for France so that the country can triumph over Germany!
Presented by the German Ambassador to Paris
M. Le President,
The German administrative and military authorities have established a certain number of flagrantly hostile acts committed on German territory by French military aviators.
Several of these have openly violated the neutrality of Belgium by flying over the territory of that country; one has attempted to destroy buildings near Wesel; others have been seen in the district of the Eifel; one has thrown bombs on the railway near Carlsruhe and Nuremberg.
I am instructed, and I have the honour to inform your Excellency, that in the presence of these acts of aggression the German Empire considers itself in a state of war with France in consequence of the acts of this latter Power.
At the same time, I have the honour to bring to the knowledge of your Excellency that the German authorities will retain French mercantile vessels in German ports, but they will release them if, within forty-eight hours, they are assured of complete reciprocity.
My diplomatic mission having thus come to an end, it only remains for me to request your Excellency to be good enough to furnish me with my passports, and to take the steps you consider suitable to assure my return to Germany, with the staff of the Embassy, as well as, with the Staff of the Bavarian Legation and of the German Consulate General in Paris.
Be good enough, M. le President, to receive the assurances of my deepest respect.
(Signed) SCIIOEN
Fight for France so that the country can triumph over Germany!
Presented by the German Ambassador to Paris
M. Le President,
The German administrative and military authorities have established a certain number of flagrantly hostile acts committed on German territory by French military aviators.
Several of these have openly violated the neutrality of Belgium by flying over the territory of that country; one has attempted to destroy buildings near Wesel; others have been seen in the district of the Eifel; one has thrown bombs on the railway near Carlsruhe and Nuremberg.
I am instructed, and I have the honour to inform your Excellency, that in the presence of these acts of aggression the German Empire considers itself in a state of war with France in consequence of the acts of this latter Power.
At the same time, I have the honour to bring to the knowledge of your Excellency that the German authorities will retain French mercantile vessels in German ports, but they will release them if, within forty-eight hours, they are assured of complete reciprocity.
My diplomatic mission having thus come to an end, it only remains for me to request your Excellency to be good enough to furnish me with my passports, and to take the steps you consider suitable to assure my return to Germany, with the staff of the Embassy, as well as, with the Staff of the Bavarian Legation and of the German Consulate General in Paris.
Be good enough, M. le President, to receive the assurances of my deepest respect.
(Signed) SCIIOEN