Title	Boche soldiers
Description	Several decomposing bodies of slain German soldiers are pictured strewn across a battlefield in the Roye (Oise) region of France.
Historical note	"Boche" is a derogatory trench slang term used by the French (and sometimes borrowed by the British) to refer to Germans. As such World War I idioms go, this designation was considered particularly offensive to the Germans, for it carried with it implications of obstinacy and uncivilized nature. It is possible that this photo reflects the Oise-Aisne Offensive, August 18-September 16, 1918. This was one of the three distinct parts of the Second Battle of the Marne that proved a turning point of War.
Date	approximately 1918
Place	Roye (Somme, France) Oise (France)
Collection name	Karl Kleeman World War I Photograph Collection, 1914-1918
Collection finding aid	https://sos.tn.gov/products/tsla/kleeman-karl-m-world-war-i-photograph-collection-1914-1918
Accession number	2006-059
Education Tags	US.28 World War I All Quiet on the Western Front
Subjects - LCSH	World War, 1914-1918
Subjects - TGM	War casualties Campaigns & battles
Owning Institution	Tennessee State Library and Archives
ID#	33135
Digital Type	Still Image
Digital format	Image/jp2
Media Type	Photographs
Copyright	No copyright - United States: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
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