Harte Nüsse, aber auf müssen sie alle!

Date

• ca. 1914-ca. 1918

Summary

• Humor at the enemy's expense has always bolstered a soldier's morale. And that a soldier's fears seem always to lighten with laughter is affirmed by the sheer quantity -- and variety -- of postcards which ridicule and caricature the enemy.
• "Hard nuts indeed!" says the German soldier pictured on Card 91 on the French side of the Rhine, "but they've all got to be cracked!" : the Belgian cities of Liege and Namur, as well as the French town of Maubeuge, near the Belgian border. Belfort is next, and the biggest "nut" of all: Paris. "Germania," Germany's monumental symbol of unity on the Rhine, is visible in the background.