First aid station. Forest. In Belgium Transportation of the wounded on a relay road, October 16th 1917, gelatin silver print on paper, coll. Historial de la Grande Guerre, Péronne
Document 1
Document 2
Photo postcard depicting a German military hospital, September 12th, 1915, gelatine silver print on paper, coll. Historial de la Grande Guerre, Péronne
The photo postcard has a postmark of Nowawes, a town located to the east of Potsdam near Berlin.
- I observe
- 1° Document 1: Describe the first aid station and its surroundings.
- 2° Document 2: Describe the people in the photo. In what state are the wounded? What are they doing?
- I identify
- 1° Document 1: What element allows us to identify this as a first aid station? What impression do you get from this snapshot?
- 2° Document 2: Which elements allow you to identify the German military hospital (the quarantine station)? In what sense does this photo only partially reflect life in the hospital in times of war?
- I associate
- Trace the trajectory of the wounded, using these two documents. How is the care for the wounded portrayed in these two documents?
- I put in perspective
- How does the trajectory of the wounded become the trajectory of the survivors?
