Diary of a Stosstrupp Leader

Guide to the Series

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Parts 1-10

Basic Training

Diary of a Stosstrupp Leader

Into the Trenches

Many Minenwerfer

Into the Woods

Diary of a Stosstrupp Leader

Repairing the Damage

The Russians Attack

Friendly Fire

On Watch

Rain

Parts 11-20

Lice

The Cliff

Fortunes of War

Source for the Series

Alwin Lydding Meine Kriegstagbuch (My War Diary), unpublished manuscript, Bundesarchiv (German Federal Archive) N 382/1

Source for the Photo

Vogel, Walther Die Kämpfe um Baranowitschi. Sommer 1916 (Oldenburg: Stalling, 1928)(Digital study room of the Ministry of Defense of the Czech Republic)

For Further Reading

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