A ghostly grey photograph of Bétheniville — a small village in the Marne département of Champagne, France — shows modest stone farmhouses and bare-limbed trees standing in an eerie stillness that belies the catastrophic war raging nearby when this card was sent in August 1915. Published by Verlag A. Lange of Leipzig-Connewitz and captioned in German ("Bétheniville, Frankreich"), this real-photo-style card was produced for German soldiers occupying the region during World War I. The reverse is dense with handwritten German script and bears the critical military censorship stamp of the 7. Königlich Sächsisches Grenadier-Reserve-Regiment Nr. 100 (7th Royal Saxon Grenadier Reserve Regiment No. 100) — a unit that saw extensive action on the Western Front. A rectangular blue censor box reads "S.B. / 7. K. Gren. Res. Reg. Nr. 100." A circular postmark from a German military post expedition is dated 10.8.15 (August 10, 1915). The card is addressed to "Herrn Schankhase" in Blasewitz, Dresden — a civilian recipient on the home front. A military maps office reference "88 Gen. v. Stellv. G. St. Berlin" is printed at lower left.