Photograph of Polish Legion officers with Prussian army officers [PSZ staff ?] with General Felix von Barth, head of the Training Inspectorate [before 1918].

Photograph of a group of officers of the Polish Legions and their Prussian counterparts [PSZ staff ?] with General Felix von Barth, head of the Training Inspectorate, who was actually the direct commander of the PSZ - Polish Armed Forces (German: Polnische Wehrmacht). All soldiers visible in the photo with sabers at their sides, sabers with slings, f. 23 x 17cm in light passe-partout, 35 x 27 overall. Photo in frame behind glass, very good condition.

The photograph shows, among others, Gen. Felix von Barth [sits centrally in the center ], Lt. Infantry Lt. Maksymilian Milan-Kamski [second from the left (standing) ], rtm. cav. Juliusz Kleeberg [first on the left (seated) ].

Polish Armed Forces (German : Polnische Wehrmacht) - the armed forces of the Kingdom of Poland acted on November 5 in the period from April 10, 1917, when Austria-Hungary transferred the Polish Positional Corps to the orders of the General Governor of Warsaw Hans Hartwig von Beseler , until October 13, 1918, when the Polish Army was sworn in allegiance to the Regency Council. The oath crisis provoked by Jozef Pilsudski on July 9, 1917 resulted in the internment of 15,000 legionaries from the Kingdom and the sending of 3,000 legionaries from Galicia to the Italian front.