Close-ups of German 'Landsturm' Stormtroopers posing for a photograph with hand-grenades, 1918.
Close-ups of German 'Landsturm' Stormtroopers posing for a photograph with hand-grenades, 1918. We are now entering the month of March, in which the German Army launched their 1918 Spring Offensive on the Somme on March 21, 1918. . In his memoir from 1953, Danish-German veteran A.P. Andersen reported on the Spring Offensive with remarkable, insights, detail and degree of comprehension. Translated by myself: ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ "On March 1, 1918, we moved from St. Marceau by railway to Picardy. The following day we arrived at our new quarters, a tiny village, Sequehart, a few miles north of St. Quentin. We ended up residing in the village church. . From day to day, the village became more and more overcrowded with soldiers in their masses of all units, and it was rumored that soon a mighty offensive would be launched from this area, which would run over the Englishmen. . Later we discovered that the so-called "Kaiseroffensive", one of the greatest German events of the...