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Currently we are forming a Committee of Recommendation; wise people from the world of arts, culture, literature, politics, science and society. Meanwhile we have welcomed: In Flanders Fields Museum, Ieper / Ypres (BE) mr. Flip Bool, MA, The Hague (NL) / art and photography historian His Excellency mr. Frank J.S. Geerkens, The Hague (NL) /… Lees verder Committee of Recommendation

This was a very pleasant afternoon and our first scheduled meeting with the first of our 100Friends. They support us by buying one of the two limited edition photographs available for this occasion. Today they received the photo of their choice that was signed and dated by Serge and me and written on the back… Lees verder 1st meeting of our 100Friends

Friday, august 9, 2013 / The 1st meeting with the board. Concrete plans were made for the future of the project.     the hardcore center of the Hindenburgline Project at lunch meeting from left to right: Frank de Haas (treasurer), Pim Milo (chairman), Jes van der Bijl (my dearest help and support), Serge R.… Lees verder 1st meeting with the Board

august 8, 2013 / Withuis, near the border Belgium-Netherlands  // © photo: Martijn Kicken The Maastricht connoisseur Martijn Kicken invited us for a day to visit Maastricht and around and to bring us to the former border crossing Withuis (near Eijsden) where Kaiser Wilhelm II on November 10, 1918 travelled from Belgium to the Netherlands… Lees verder to the border

july 8th, 2013_16.30 uur > the signing of the document by notary mr. Th. A. de Hair (De Hair Vrijdag Maris notarissen, Oisterwijk NL) ,

The Hindenburgline Project Foundation is almost a fact. We have formed a board of directors and next week the memorandum and articles of association will pass at our notary office. In our next newsletter we will introduce you to the members of the board.

Just after announcing our new website to a broader audience yesterday, the first poppy-donation is a fact! Thank you Le Pentachorde from France to be the first! And not just one poppy, but a bunch of 10. Thanks for your contribution & your support.

Events on the home fronts were as tumultuous as on the battle fronts, as the participants tried to mobilize their manpower and economic resources to fight a total war. By the end of the war, four major imperial powers—the German, Russian, Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires—ceased to exist. The successor states of the former two lost… Lees verder The trenches are horrific

Stanley Kubrick’s Paths of Glory is among the most powerful antiwar films ever made. In this Stanley Kubrick’s movie the futility and irony of the war in the trenches in WWI is shown as a unit commander in the French army must deal with the mutiny of his men and a glory-seeking general after part… Lees verder Stanley Kubrick > Paths of Glory (1957)