German soldiers helping wounded Romanian prisoners, 1917. Colourised by @cassowarycolorizations (Who thought these were Belgian soldiers, and colourised them as such). Today 106 years ago, on August 6, 1917, the Battle of Mărășești began between German and Romanian forces - a key battle on the Romanian Front. Following the Battle of Mărăști in July 1917, the Central Powers planned to go on the counter-offensive against Romania. The German 9th Army would strike the Romanian 1st Army and Russian 4th Army at Mărășești west of the Siret river, and the Austro-Hungarian 1st Army would attack the Romanian 2nd Army further northwest in the Oituz Valley, with the goal of forming a pincer movement encircling the Romanian 2nd Army and knocking them out of the war. On August 6, 1917, following a powerful 3-hour-long artillery bombardment, the German 9th Army attacked the Russian 4th Army at Mărășești, breaking through and forcing a 10 km breach, as the Russians retreated east across the Siret. The...