Tale of Two Fronts
In 2013, while helping her mother, Ingrid, comb through family possessions, Karin Wagner came across a large folio handwritten in German in the back of a dresser drawer. When Karin asked her mother what the document was, Ingrid replied, “Oh, that is your grandfather’s Great War memoir.”
Schiller was a seventeen-year-old student in Bromberg, Prussia, when World War I broke out in August 1914. He enl...
In 2013, while helping her mother, Ingrid, comb through family possessions, Karin Wagner came across a large folio handwritten in German in the back of a dresser drawer. When Karin asked her mother what the document was, Ingrid replied, “Oh, that is your grandfather’s Great War memoir.”
Schiller was a seventeen-year-old student in Bromberg, Prussia, when World War I broke out in August 1914. He enl...
