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title: Siegeszug durch Rumänien, Montanus-Markbücher Band 4 (Victory March through Romania)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/siegeszug-durch-rumaenien-montanus-1918/
description: A shop-window poster for a one-mark war book. A facsimile preface from Field Marshal von Mackensen is the endorsement, set in a box over his signature…
section: Collection
---

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# Siegeszug durch Rumänien, Montanus-Markbücher Band 4 (Victory March through Romania)

A shop-window poster for a one-mark war book. A facsimile preface from Field Marshal von Mackensen is the endorsement, set in a box over his signature, and the copy speaks of 'the victorious, storming force' of the Romanian campaign. Stylised black and pink birds of prey fill the picture; the text names no casualties, costs or later course of the campaign.

## Text on the object

Original (German) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
Montanus-Markbücher Band 4
Siegeszug
durch
Rumänien
Fr. W. Frerks wundervolle Schilderungen geben uns ein packendes zusammenfassendes Bild der Kämpfe und führen uns mitten hinein in d. siegende stürmende Kraft unseres Siegeszuges durch Rumänien.
Generalfeldmarschall v. Mackensen
der geniale Armeeführer in Rumänien widmete d. Buche aus dem Felde eine Einführung, die nach einem zusammenfassenden Hinweis auf die ungeheuren Schwierigkeiten dieses Feldzuges mit den Worten schließt:
[handwritten facsimile of the closing words, illegible in this scan]
Im Felde 20. 2. 1917.   v. Mackensen, Gener. Feldmarschall.
1-100 Tausend
Eine Mark
[artist's signature in the picture: Blank]
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
Montanus Mark Books, volume 4
Victory march
through
Romania
Fr. W. Frerks's wonderful descriptions give us a gripping, summarising picture of the battles and lead us right into the victorious, storming force of our victory march through Romania.
General Field Marshal von Mackensen,
the brilliant army leader in Romania, dedicated an introduction from the field to the book, which, after a summarising note on the enormous difficulties of this campaign, ends with the words:
[handwritten facsimile of the closing words, illegible in this scan]
In the field, 20 Feb. 1917. v. Mackensen, General Field Marshal.
1st-100th thousand
One mark
[artist's signature in the picture: Blank]
```

The author's surname reads 'Frerks' in this scan. The handwritten facsimile is not legible at this resolution.

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