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General Alexander von Kluck and other officers, World War I, 1915. Kluck (1846-1934) commanded the German First Army in the invasion of France in 1914. His army was only 13 miles from Paris when the French victory at the First Battle of the Marne stopped the German advance. He suffered a serious leg wound in March 1915 and retired from active service the following year. A photograph from Der Grosse Krieg in Bildern.