Pre-war
1914
Outbreak of the war
1915
1916
1917
1918
End of the war
Post-war
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Procession of Austrian war invalids in the First World War, film extract, around 1918

Production: unknown.

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    Broken heroes and hero worship

    By the end of the war at the latest, the consequences of the years of fighting had become evident to everyone. The war invalids had to be integrated into post-war society. Films also began to show the war-wounded victims, but there was still no end to the hero worship. Almost no family had come out of the war unscathed, and they wanted at least to ensure that their lost relatives were seen as heroes. One-sided war films in the interwar years were very popular as a result, and anti-war films were not well received at all.