Images - Beginnings: War and Revolution

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31.	The First Session of the National Assembly in Weimar (February 6, 1919) The national assembly was elected on January 19, 1919, and on February 6 it held its constitutive meeting in the National Theater in Weimar. The body met away from the capital because revolutionary....
32.	French Cavalry in the Streets of Mainz (April 23, 1919) The surrender of the left bank of the Rhine as well as the garrison cities of Cologne, Koblenz, and Mainz was among the conditions of the November 11, 1918, ceasefire that officially ended the hostilities....
33.	Mounted Troops Enter Munich after the Defeat of the Councils' Republic [Räterepublik] (May 1919) After Kurt Eisner’s murder and the violence that followed, political chaos predominated in Bavaria.....
34.	Soldiers with Machine Guns in Augsburg (April 1919) The fighting in Munich between supporters of a parliamentary republic and those who wanted a councils’....
35.	East African (Askari) Member of the Freikorps Lettow-Vorbeck in Munich (May 1919) Freikorps were volunteer military units composed of former front-line soldiers; they were first recruited in November 1918. They were supposed to serve as protective troops for the new government....
36.	The German Negotiators at Versailles (1919) The version of the peace treaty presented by the victorious powers on May 7, 1919, at Versailles was universally rejected throughout Germany. But Matthias Erzberger (1875-1921) of the Center Party....
37.	Mass Demonstration in front of the Reichstag against the "Brutal Peace" (May 15, 1919) The conditions of the Treaty of Versailles met with harsh protest in Germany, from both the government and the population alike. All parties summarily rejected the territorial transfers in the west....
38.	Mass Demonstration in Berlin's Lustgarten against the Treaty of Versailles (1919) The conditions of the Treaty of Versailles met with harsh protest in Germany, from both the government and the population alike. All parties summarily rejected the territorial transfers in the west....
39.	Friedrich Naumann, Speech on Berlin’s Königsplatz (1919) In the photograph below, taken only a few months before his death in 1919, the liberal politician Friedrich Naumann (standing in front of pillar) speaks out against the Versailles Treaty and the....
40.	"Germany's Dismemberment" (1928) This map was commissioned by the government in 1928 for school books. It depicts German territorial losses after World War One according to the terms of the Versailles....
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