1914 – 1918 A garrison town in a long warPosádkové mesto v dlhej vojne

Košice went into the First World War as a garrison town of Austria-Hungary, and its regiments went to Galicia. In the winter of 1914–15 the Russian army pushed over the Carpathian passes into the north-east of the kingdom, and although it never reached Košice, the wounded, the refugees and the prisoners came down the railway into the city; schools and public buildings became hospitals. Four years of war emptied the workshops of men, put women into the factories, and by 1918 had produced hunger, influenza and no confidence at all in the state. When Austria-Hungary collapsed in October and November 1918, it did not fall to an invading army — it simply stopped being obeyed.Do prvej svetovej vojny vstúpili Košice ako posádkové mesto Rakúsko-Uhorska a ich pluky odišli do Haliče. V zime 1914 – 1915 prenikla ruská armáda cez karpatské priesmyky na severovýchod kráľovstva, a hoci sa ku Košiciam nedostala, ranení, utečenci a zajatci prichádzali po železnici do mesta; zo škôl a verejných budov sa stali nemocnice. Štyri roky vojny vyprázdnili dielne od mužov, poslali ženy do tovární a do roku 1918 priniesli hlad, chrípkovú epidémiu a nulovú dôveru v štát. Keď sa Rakúsko-Uhorsko v októbri a novembri 1918 rozpadlo, nepodľahlo cudziemu vojsku — jednoducho ho prestali poslúchať.