Frames that did not pass censorship during the First World War
A selection of photographs taken on the battlefields and in the training camps of the United States and its allies. All these pictures were censored in due time so as not to cause defeatist attitudes among the population and not to give secrets to the enemy side. Now, after a hundred years, censorship is removed.
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This fighter died not in battle, but during exercises. The picture was considered demoralizing and banned for printing.
Pictured is the president of the United States, Woodrow Wilson. A moment after the photographer took a picture, a soldier came out of under a stone made of papier-mâché. The picture was banned for printing, believing that he could give the enemy a new method of disguise.
A black American soldier who received flowers from French women for helping to liberate France. Snapshot banned.
The dead soldiers before the burial, a photograph, was overtaken by censorship.
A rare shot - an explosion of the American airship (similar to the German zeppelin).
Soldiers drowned during training.
House destroyed by the retreating Germans.
American soldiers killed in battle.
The secret prototype of the English bomber.
American soldiers drinking after taking enemy positions. The picture was censored because alcohol was officially banned.
Skeletons before burial.
A soldier gassed during exercises.
This picture was banned for printing, so as not to disclose the secrets of hand-to-hand combat to the enemy.
Sleeping soldiers are very similar to the dead, this picture also caught up with censorship.
Due to lack of weapons, in training sometimes used wooden models. The picture was banned for printing in order to exclude its use in enemy propaganda.
Tests of old cuirass for fitness in modern combat. The metal shells coped with the task, but they still did not let the picture go to print.
A set of grenades on the test. Some of them have long been used in battle, and some were new and secret developments.
At the beginning of 1917, the rise in prices for bread and staples led to a wave of "bread riots" in New York. This picture in print, of course, did not hit.
With the help of a photograph, this woman tried to convey some secrets to the German side by encrypting a message in an apron lace.
American soldiers have fun with a troupe of ballet dancers. The picture was banned, as too frivolous.
New Zealand soldiers sailing on the Panama Canal. This trip was a secret one and they were not allowed to print it.
New guns against submarines, secret development.
The grave of Quentin Roosevelt, brother of President Theodore Roosevelt (years of presidency - 1901 - 1909). Quentin died in a 14 air battle on July 1918.
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This fighter died not in battle, but during exercises. The picture was considered demoralizing and banned for printing.
Pictured is the president of the United States, Woodrow Wilson. A moment after the photographer took a picture, a soldier came out of under a stone made of papier-mâché. The picture was banned for printing, believing that he could give the enemy a new method of disguise.
A black American soldier who received flowers from French women for helping to liberate France. Snapshot banned.
The dead soldiers before the burial, a photograph, was overtaken by censorship.
A rare shot - an explosion of the American airship (similar to the German zeppelin).
Soldiers drowned during training.
House destroyed by the retreating Germans.
American soldiers killed in battle.
The secret prototype of the English bomber.
American soldiers drinking after taking enemy positions. The picture was censored because alcohol was officially banned.
Skeletons before burial.
A soldier gassed during exercises.
This picture was banned for printing, so as not to disclose the secrets of hand-to-hand combat to the enemy.
Sleeping soldiers are very similar to the dead, this picture also caught up with censorship.
Due to lack of weapons, in training sometimes used wooden models. The picture was banned for printing in order to exclude its use in enemy propaganda.
Tests of old cuirass for fitness in modern combat. The metal shells coped with the task, but they still did not let the picture go to print.
A set of grenades on the test. Some of them have long been used in battle, and some were new and secret developments.
At the beginning of 1917, the rise in prices for bread and staples led to a wave of "bread riots" in New York. This picture in print, of course, did not hit.
With the help of a photograph, this woman tried to convey some secrets to the German side by encrypting a message in an apron lace.
American soldiers have fun with a troupe of ballet dancers. The picture was banned, as too frivolous.
New Zealand soldiers sailing on the Panama Canal. This trip was a secret one and they were not allowed to print it.
New guns against submarines, secret development.
The grave of Quentin Roosevelt, brother of President Theodore Roosevelt (years of presidency - 1901 - 1909). Quentin died in a 14 air battle on July 1918.
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