In 1914 the eleven-year-old Franz Tauschmann from Altenmarkt near Fürstenfeld began to keep a war diary. However, it didn’t contain the classical chronological notes of what was lived through and experienced; it was far more an anthology of poems, pictures, lists and descriptions of the events of the war, “friends and foes among the nations”, collecting actions and so forth. Franz Tauschmann’s notes testify to the war–propagandist indoctrination of children and young people in the Habsburg Monarchy.
