Hermann Staratzkys Kriegstagebuch "Der Große Krieg"

The author, then 17 years old, reports in detail in his diary how he experienced the time immediately before and after the outbreak of war in 1914. He writes about the mood at the time of the impending entry into the war and in the first days of the war, the mood among travelers, in the city, among peers, among his teachers, at the barracks gate, with his mother and also with himself the author ha…