Jeff Cremer
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…

Jeff Cremer

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