The year 1914 as seen from below: unprecedented glimpses of the everyday lives and emotional state of Germans through their private diaries.
For almost a hundred years, they remained in private hands, unpublished – then they found their way into the German Diary Archive. Voices of simple soldiers and officers, of those who stayed behind, mothers, lovers and children, medics, field ministers, workers in munitions factories, wives.
Using accounts of individual destinies as a starting point, Hidden Chronicles 1914 recounts everything from the complicated lead-up to the war to the great euphoria that welcomed its outbreak, from the early victories to the first setback, when the war got bogged down in the West, in the trenches by Somme and Marne, and in the East.
