During the general mobilization of August 1914, diaries became the medium of the hour: as miniature notebooks in front soldiers' kit bags, as preprinted war calendars, or as collections of newspapers in school lessons. This study looks at previously overlooked diaries to show how a wealth of war impressions were processed in war diaries and how a private historiography began to take shape all over Germany and France.

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Marie Czarnikow , German Historical Museum, Berlin, Germany.

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