#german lines

Amid the appalling devastation and bodies of dead soldiers, a crucifix stands tall - miraculously preserved from the shell fire. The powerful image was captured after a bloody skirmish in 1917 - and Walter's son Volkmar says: 'This photograph is like an accusation - an accusation against war'

First World War.

Shelters for rent (95 pfennigs per a week) in a German trench line. The soldier in the foreground carries an unexploded aircraft bomb which had just been dropped.

Walter Kleinfeldt, pictured carrying ammunition in a Somme trench, joined a German gun crew in 1915 and fought at the Somme aged just 16, taking pictures of life on the frontline with his Contessa camera.

A german medic kneels by an injured comrade -but he can do no more than offer comfort

A German flamethrower team in training, April 1917

German POW captured on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. July 1916.

German troops carrying buckets of water by the ruins of Rocquigny church, February 1917.