5 min readMay 16, 2020
The Life and Times of a World War I Soldier: The Julius Holthaus Story
Chapter 20 — The Killing Continues
“Ultima Ratio Regius” — “The Last Argument of Kings”
A Latin inscription cast into the breach of a German 77 mm howitzer.
The fighting stopped on November 11, 1918, the soldiers moved on, the dead were interred in cemeteries across the…