'Hey, brothers, our eternal enemy Germany is trying to enslave Russia - our country that has long suffocated under Germany's dead weight. The time has come to end their Teutonic rule!'
Russian officer Museus
When people think of ethnic hatred, virulent anti-Semitism and titanic conflict between Russia and Germany, they often think of World War II. However, these features were also present on the Eastern Front during World War I, albeit in a less organised or rigidly ideological manner.
The 1914-17 Eastern Front was an extremely mobile theatre in which many thousands of civilians were uprooted from their homes. It was also here that people could be persecuted for speaking the wrong language or holding the wrong religious beliefs. In many ways, the Eastern Front was a harbinger of terrible horrors to come.
