TIL That in World War I, the Germans tried to use a picture of Quentin Roosevelt's body as propoganda to increase moral. This backfired, as soldiers wondered why the sons of American Presidents were fighting and dying at the front, while the Kaiser's sons were not.

http://francerevisited.com/2012/07/quentin-roosevelt-presidents-son-the-most-famous-american-killed-in-france-in-wwi-2/



Submitted February 21, 2015 at 12:25AM by Try_Another_NO http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2wkq4q/til_that_in_world_war_i_the_germans_tried_to_use/