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Friday, September 17, 2021

OFFICIAL HISTORIES OF WORLD WAR I - GERMANY - PART 1

 

This is just a list I compiled based upon this site: The Great War 1914-1918. The texts that put in yellow boxes are quoted from this site. I have not created and by no means claim to create this compilation. I do translate the title from German into English (with occasional help from Google Translate). The prime purpose for copying them here is that if that website is taken down, I would still have it here so I could personally consult them.

[Added on 9/12/2021] I have found out that this collection has been digitalized by State Library of Upper Austria. As such, I have provided direct links to its electronic scans.

Series that are included in part 1 of this compilation includes:

  • Der Weltkrieg 1914 bis 1918
  • Die deutschen Luftstreitkräfte im Weltkriege

  • Sanitätsbericht über das Deutsche Heer


Cover of German official history of the Great War

Der Weltkrieg 1914 bis 1918: Bearbeitet im Reichsarchiv (The World War 1914 to 1918: edited in the Reichsarchiv (the archive of the State)

Published by E Mittler & Sohn between the years 1925 and 1930 the volumes are as follows:

Band 1 (Volume I):

Die militärischen Operationen zu Lande: 1. Bd. Die Grenzschlachten im Westen.

(The military operation on Land: The battle of Frontiers in the West)

Band 2 (Volume II):

Die Befreiung Ostpreussens

(The liberation of the Eastern Prussia)

Band 3 (Volume III):

Der Marne-Feldzug; von der Sambre zur Marne.

(The campaign of Marne: From Sambre to Marne)

Band 4 (Volume IV):

Der Marne-Feldzug: die Schlacht.

(The campaign of Marne: The Battle)

Band 5 (Volume V):

Der Herbst-Feldzug; im Westen bis zum Stellungskrieg, im Osten bis zum Rückzug

(The autumn campaign: From the west to static warfare, from the East to the Retreat)

Band 6 (Volume VI):

Der Herbst-Feldzug; der Abschluss der Operationen im Westen und Osten

(The autumn campaign: the completion of operations in the East and West)

Band 7 (Volume VII):

Die Operationen des Jahres 1915; die Ereignisse im Winter und Frühjahr.

(The operation in 1915: Events in Winter and Spring)

Band 8 (Volume VIII):

Die Operationen des Jahres 1915; die Ereignisse im Westen im Frühjahr und Sommer, im Osten vom Frühjahr bis zum Jahresschluss.

(The operations in 1915: Events in the West in Spring and Summer, in the East from Spring till the end of the year)

Band 9 (Volume IX):

Die Operationen des Jahres 1915; die Ereignisse im Westen und auf dem Balkan von Sommer bis zum Jahresschluss

(The operations of 1915: The events in the West and in the Balkan from Summer to the end of the year)

Band 10 (Volume X):

Die Operationen des Jahres 1916 bis zum Wechsel in der obersten Heeresleitung

(The operations of the year 1916 till the change in the highest command of the army)

Band 11 (Volume XI):

Die Kriegführung im Herbst 1916 und im Winter 1916/17; vom Wechsel in der obersten Heeresleitung bis zum Entschluss zum Rückzug in die Siegfried-Stellung

(The war in the autumn of 1916 and in the winter of 1916/17; from the change in the Supreme Command to the decision to retreat to the Siegfried position)

Band 12 (Volume XII):

Die Kriegführung im Frühjahr 1917

(The war in Spring 1917)

Band 13 (Volume XIII):

Die Kriegführung in Sommer und Herbst 1917, die Ereignisse ausserhalb der Westfront bis November 1918

(The war in the summer and autumn of 1917, the events outside the Western Front up to November 1918)

Band 14 (Volume IX):

Die Kriegführung an der Westfront im Jahre 1918. + Beilagen

Die militärischen Operationen zu Lande: Das deutsche Feldeisenbahnwesen

(The warfare on the Western Front in 1918. + Enclosures)

(The military operations on Land: The German Field Railways Time Table)


Die deutschen Luftstreitkräfte im Weltkriege (German Air Force in the Great War)

Apart from the above tomes of the German official history of the Great War, there is also a single volume official account of the German air force written by Major Georg Paul Neumann


German government also published a volume in 3 books on the casualties sustained by the country during the Great War. 

Sanitätsbericht über das Deutsche Heer (Deutsches Feld- und Besatzungsheer) im Weltkriege 1914/1918 (Medical report on the German Army (German field and occupation army) in the World War 1914/1918)

Published by Mittler&Sohn between the years 1935 and 1938 the volumes are as follows:

There are currently no ebooks for these volumes. However, you could order them on this website. Thank you Charlie2 on Great War Forum for introducing me to that website.

Volume I:

Gliederung des Heeressanitätswesens, 1935

(Structure of the medical system of the army)

Volume II:

Der Sanitätsdienst im Gefechts- und Schlachtenverlauf, Stichwortverzeichnis für I., II. und III. Band, Berlin 1938

(The medical service in the course of combat and battles, index for I., II. and III. Band, Berlin 1938)

Volume III:

Die Krankenbewegung bei dem Deutschen Feld- und Besatzungsheer

 




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