The German soldier’s experience in WW1 was far more complex than the battlefield clips we see today — long marches, freezing nights, hunger, confusion, and sudden moments of violence. Yet they carried on because they had no other choice. Lt. Alexander Pfeifer, a Jäger officer who fought from 1914–1918, documented every step of his four-year journey in his diary — from fierce mountain battles to the daily grind of trench life. His account is one of the most detailed surviving German officer diari