Peacemaking in Paris: A selection of photos  from The Treaty of Versailles : A Reassessment after 75 Years, and other sources


Here you can see:

1) Title photograph of The Treaty of Versailles: A Reassessment after 75 Years, edited by Manfred F. Boemeke, Gerald D. Feldman, and Elisabeth Glaser (Cambridge University Press, 1998). The photograph shows French soldiers waiting in front of the Versailles castle for the signature of the Treaty of Versailles.(©Roger Viollet, Paris and Cambridge University Press)
 

2) A Humoristic map of Europe, 1914, by a German artist (© Bundesarchiv Koblenz, Germany)
 

3) The Armistice railway wagon at Compiègne (©Roger Viollet, Paris)
 

4) Foch and Wemyss at Rethondes after signing the Armistice Treaty on 11 November 1918 (©Roger Viollet, Paris)
 

5)  President Wilson comes to Paris - a crowd at the Place de la Concorde, December 1919   (©Roger Viollet, Paris)
 

6) Arrival of President Wilson in Paris, Avenue du Bois, together with President Raymond Poincaré, 14 December 1918 (©Roger Viollet, Paris)
 

7) Clemenceau recuperating after the attempt on his life (©Roger Viollet, Paris)

 

8) Couriers for the delegates at the Paris Conference (©Roger Viollet, Paris)
 
 

9) Signature of the Peace Treaty: A dance in the streets of Paris, 28 June 1919 (©Roger Viollet, Paris)
 

10) Clearing a path for President Wilson (on his right: Poincaré) after the signature of the Treaty of Versailles, 1919 (©Roger Viollet, Paris)
 

11) Women polishing the floors of the Palace des Glaces before the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, 28 June 1919   (©Roger Viollet, Paris) (back photograph of the volume's cover -- a contribution to the social history of the era)
 

12)  Treaty of Versailles: German Signature, 28 June 1919  (© Roger Viollet, Paris)


13) The pen with which the Treaty of Versailles was signed (©Roger Viollet, Paris)
 

14)   Kohle ist Brot. German propaganda poster against coal reparations  (© Bundesarchiv Koblenz)
 

15)  69 Jahre Tribut! German propaganda poster against the Young Plan, 1930  (© Bundesarchiv Koblenz)