Das Geheimnis von Luttich - The Secret of Luttich
- 1914
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16 4/5 x 43 1/2 inches ~ (40 x 109 cm)
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RARE German WWI poster printed in the actual size of a 42cm artillery shell. Featuring a portrait of Kaiser Wilhelm II with the Imperial German eagle and two images from postcards issued by Gustav Lierch & Co. Berlin showing bomb damage to the Fort de Loncin at Liege in Belgium and inscriptions in stylised gothic text reading Unser Bombenerfolg Luttich gefallen am 7. August 1914 - Originalgroosse des 42cm Geschosses
Our bomb shell dropped on 7 August 1914.
The German armaments manufacturer Krupp secretly designed this heavy artillery mobile weapon that was built to destroy reinforced concrete and became known as Big Bertha / Dicken Bertha after destroying the Fort de Loncin in 1914; the Fort is now a Great War memorial site and museum.