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German postcard "Humanität" (Humanity), 1914:
This German postcard titled “Humanität” - Humanity was drawn by German artist Gebhard Fugel most likely in 1914, depicting a German soldier offering his canteen to a wounded French soldier on the battlefield.
The postcard was probably produced for propaganda purposes, in order to combat Allied propaganda portraying German soldiers as savage barbarians.
Although German atrocities in Belgium certainly did take place, often referred to as the "R**e of Belgium", these incidents largely ceased after 1914 and was in many cases German soldiers acting on their own accord rather than orders from the German high command.
In any case, Allied propaganda of German barbarism was notoriously exaggerated, with myths of Germans rendering their own fallen down for fat and using dead kittens to lubricate their shells among some of the more extreme examples.
