Wounded soldiers in striped hospital gowns gather with their nurses around a decorated Christmas tree in this real photo postcard set from a German military hospital's holiday celebration — a chalkboard held by patients in the foreground dates the scene precisely to December 19, 1914, the first Christmas of a war that had begun barely five months earlier. A third image shifts to a children's ward, where young boy patients share the same small wartime Christmas.

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