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After the slaughter on the Somme and the stalemate of trench warfare, the key word became Disenchantment, the apt title of C.E. Montague’s account of the process. It pervaded the work of Edmund Blunden, Siegfried Sassoon , and Wilfred Owen in Britain, of Henri Barbusse (author of Under Fire ) in France, and of Erich Maria Remarque (author of All Quiet on the Western Front ) in Germany.
World War One ended at 11am on 11 November, 1918. This became known as Armistice Day - the day Germany signed an armistice (an agreement for peace) which caused the fighting to stop. People in ...
The continued use of the term 'German Empire', Deutsches Reich, by the Weimar Republic ... conjured up an image among educated Germans that resonated far beyond the institutional structures Bismarck created: the successor to the Roman Empire; the vision of God's Empire here on earth; the universality of its claim to suzerainty; and a more prosaic but no less powerful sense, the concept of a ...
For the German people, the situation on the front and at home is hopeless. Kaiser Wilhelm II had once promised his people glorious times. In October 1918, shortly before the war's end, the head of the Imperial fleet suddenly orders a last great battle in the name of honor. Not wanting to die a meaningless death, the sailors mutiny.
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25. Juni 2019 · The German military was just neutered, basically,” Qualls says. Articles 164-172 disarmed the German military, limiting the number of weapons and even how much ammunition it could possess ...
The German troops in East Africa were to surrender; the German armies in eastern Europe were to withdraw to the prewar German frontier; the treaties of Brest-Litovsk and Bucharest were to be annulled; and the Germans were to repatriate all prisoners of war and hand over to the Allies a large quantity of war materials, including 5,000 pieces of artillery, 25,000 machine guns, 1,700 aircraft ...
Wilhelm II [b] (Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert; 27 January 1859 – 4 June 1941) was the last German Emperor and King of Prussia from 1888 until his abdication in 1918, which marked the end of the German Empire and the House of Hohenzollern 's 300-year reign in Prussia and 500-year reign in Brandenburg . Born during the reign of his granduncle ...
