German soldiers posing for a photograph with serrated bayonets, 1915. The following is excerpts of 22-year-old Danish-German soldier Kristian Tastesen's account of an attack on Russian positions on September 10, 1915 - today 108 years ago - on the Eastern Front near the town of Neugut (Biržai) in modern-day Lithuania. Translated by myself: ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ "At 10 AM on the morning of the 10th we received the order to attack. It was down a hillside, and the machine-guns made sure there was a whistling surrounding us at all times. Many fell on the hillside, but I made it down to a field further ahead. Here the gun-fire was so intense that it was impossible to stay there any longer. A salvo of machine-gun bullets pummeled the earth a few meters from us, and I knew if we were to stay lying there, it would've been the certain death. I leaped up, my comrades shouted at me, but still I ran towards some woods on the other side of the field. The bullets sang, sounding like a swarm...