Today is Gustav’s story - the daily account of a grandfather living on the German homefront during World War I. While the glorious war starts as “the greatest time of my life”, he worries about his son Ludwig fighting on the front. 

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Picture from Gustav’s diary:  Ludwig Schlott. 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Marshall von Hindenburg.  Translated by F.A. Holt.  Out of my Life. Cassell and Company, ltd.  1920

Gustav Schlott memoirs.  Deutsches Tagebucharchiv, DTA Reg.Nr. 3768, 1 translation by Robyn Thompson.