berlin-to-baghdad

Updated: May 28, 2025

Quite a number of Indians who had been set to work on the construction of the Berlin-to-Baghdad Railway between Nisibin and Mosul made good their escape and struggled through to our lines. It was a great relief when the Red Cross lorries came in and we could turn over the wounded to them.

Kermit Roosevelt - War in the Garden of Eden

The seventy miles of railroad from Baghdad to Samarra were built by the Germans, being the only Mesopotamian portion of the much-talked-of Berlin-to-Baghdad Railway, completed before the war. It was admirably constructed, with an excellent road-bed, heavy rails and steel cross-ties made by Krupp.

Kermit Roosevelt - War in the Garden of Eden