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    Posted 8 years ago

    SpiritBear
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    First pic is edited to make it ''pop.'' Second is unedited.

    Notice the main focus, the Church, in ruins. Behind it the city burns as a airship drops bombs into it. The bridge out is shattered and its lamps lay blown out and at odd angles as the sun sets on the doomed city.

    It's dated 9.12.14., from Munchen, and says (hand-written) "Feld-postkarte" (Field postcard?)
    I'm not sure on much about it. It has printed on it, "Franz Josef Huber's Kunstveriag, Munchen." He comes up as a Nazi in WW2, so is it the same guy?
    It also says "Zestorte Festung."

    Help on anything? Anyone able to translate the writing, too?

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    1. blunderbuss2 blunderbuss2, 8 years ago
      Since only the Germans used dirigibles in WWII, the scene would be damages done in Western Europe or the U.K. .
    2. SpiritBear, 8 years ago
      This is WW1, not 2.
    3. blunderbuss2 blunderbuss2, 8 years ago
      Sorry. I meant WWI. Hey, everybody is allowed 1 mistake & I finally made mine ! LOL!!
    4. SpiritBear, 8 years ago
      It's fine. :P
      I had typed up a response, having missed the mistake, then deleted it all when I realised. LOL.
      I'm wondering if it were meant to be the enemy and neighbour of France. If that Church in the pic is based off of a real one, we have a partial answer. Or if all were translatable. I know very little German. Not enough to figure out the card. :/
      If what you suggest is true, as I had feared in the thought that this was a bit too early to be bombing cities in Germany, this shows a true aggressive side of my ancestors.
      There is moderate excitement-- what looks like an exclamation mark, writing that gets heavier, the list to it, etc.
      It was sent to Frau Anna Miller from.... *Really hates cursive.* LOL
    5. blunderbuss2 blunderbuss2, 8 years ago
      This is a propaganda picture. No damage was done in Germany by dirigibles. They were very ineffective & only hit target with bombs by luck/chance. Estimated that the cost of the dirigibles & servicing was 15 X the value of damage done. Damage done is probably imagined damage in Belgium, France, Eng. etc..
    6. SpiritBear, 8 years ago
      Interesting. Thank you for that info.
    7. Chrisnp Chrisnp, 8 years ago
      WWI Zeppelin raids on the UK didn't happen till after the postmark on this card. Zeppelins did bomb Liege Belgium on August 6th 1914, and bombed Antwerp on 25 August and 2 September 1914.
    8. SpiritBear, 8 years ago
      Very helpful. Thank you!
    9. SpiritBear, 8 years ago
      Well, I cannot find it anywhere online. Sold e-Bay listings, several sites dedicated to WW1 postcards and dirigible/zeppelin-themed cards, and general Images searching turns up similar but not nearly identical pieces.
    10. SpiritBear, 8 years ago
      After so long of wondering, a member on my own postcards site had her father translate what the back said:

      written dec. 8, 1914 (postmark the 9th)
      from the battlefront in Munich.
      To his wife anna (could be a sister).
      He sends his love (lieben) and he wishes for a good new year. She should try a mixture (can't read what) that's good with coffee.
      He also sends greetings to anna's mother (or maybe their mother).
      (can't read last line, looks like Ansag which means announcement)
      from August
      divisional headquarters destroyed (postal cachet at bottom)?
    11. blunderbuss2 blunderbuss2, 8 years ago
      Munich wasn't on the front during WWI, unless you consider 3 bombs dropped by the French. (Not by dirigibles)
    12. SpiritBear, 8 years ago
      I can only post what she said. Her father collects German postcards from his home town, and she typed up a paragraph about what he said.
    13. blunderbuss2 blunderbuss2, 8 years ago
      That's OK S.B.. Propaganda is BS is part of war (& peace). The U.S. & Israel, especially, are true masters of the art ! In the '50's, the U.S. complained to the UK about their jamming RFE & the The Voice of Freedom of the U.S. while not jamming Radio Moscow. The UK refused to stop saying, "The U.S. puts out more propaganda than the Soviets & they didn't want their citizens exposed to it.". Interesting & true.

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