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Fallen Russian soldiers after an attack, photo, 1916

The photo shows the “forest of death” after a failed Russian attack on the positions of the German and Austrian armies at Kiseline near Luzk (Volhynia). From: Der Weltkrieg in seiner rauhen Wirklichkeit, Munich 1926, p. 419

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    The Calamity of the Tsarist Army

    At the beginning of May 1915, the Russian front began to totter as a result of the German-Austrian breakthrough near Tarnów-Gorlice. Galicia, which had been occupied by the troops of Tsar Nicholas II, was reclaimed after just a few weeks. The ensuing forays by the German High Command in the East led to the conquest of Russian Poland and parts of the Baltic States.