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This is adaptation and translation of an article I published in Decorare in 2011
What is this photo?

After finding the photo that is the theme of this blog I saw myself confronted with something impossible. Dutch military officers among a group of Austro-Hungarian soldiers, so probably on the eastern front in the first Worldwar?

As you may know the Netherlands were a neutral country during the first worldwar (and they tried, unsuccesfully, to do the same in the second worldwar – but that is a different story). Surrounded by warring countries the war had a great impact on the Netherlands but there was no military participation of any kind so the big question that arised is: what is the story of this photo?

The photo had a Hungarian text on the back that helped to shed some light on this. It can be translated as follows: Dutch officers visiting Lieutenant Colonel Safrán. So the Dutch are not participating but visiting the front and we know whom they were visiting, a good starting points for further research.



verder lezen:
https://www.erikscollectables.com/2019/05/28/historical-riddle-dutch-neutral-officers-on-the-eastern-front-in-ww1/?fbclid=IwAR0CliefrTVfQbolCN5L9KC3RMJiFQ5gq2u4RkOvrTk-LN9TuF2B2A9toJI