28 June 1919, the fifth anniversary of the Austrian archduke's violent death in Sarajevo, the second half of the afternoon in Versailles, France. It is rightfully known to many, in which contemporaries cannot be distinguished from later generations, that Germany's summoned delegation consisting of two men was guided to enter the Hall of Mirrors in...

Kolloquium „À la recherche d'une patrie européenne. Cent ans de représentation de l'Europe dans la revue „Europe“. An diesem 105. Jahrestag des Waffenstillstandes von Compiègne/Rethondes, überblickte Peter de Bourgraaf mit dem oben stehenden Titel diese brandaktuelle Linie der Zeitgeschichte.

Galoppierte die Inflation seit dem Vorjahr, 1923 glich sie einer Art Walkürenritt. Fünfzig Millionen Mark, d.h. 50.000.000, kostet in 🇩🇪 das Frühstück.

Am 6. und 7. Oktober fand in Bonn die Jubiläumsveranstaltung der Zeitschrift Wissenschaft und Friede statt. Für den Samstag stand de Bourgraafs Vortrag „Vom 💯-sten ins Tausendste kommen“ im Programm.

Cologne is Germany's biggest city on the Rhine's left bank. The Ruhr and right Rhine may be seen as the country's inner part where cities such as Duisburg, Düsseldorf, Dortmund are situated. Almost ten years after the outbreak of the Great War (1914–1919), the return of peace was written in the stars on either side of the river. Since January...

In Osteuropa wird der postsowjetische, Vierteljahrhundert alte Ost-West-Konflikt mit Waffengewalt ausgetragen. Scholarly and non-academic authors are brought together in a bilingual survey that lives up to our mission: the memory culture and historiography of the seminal catastrophe of the twentieth century.

Turkey's Versailles undone on the battlefield and sealed in Lausanne 🇨🇭. The Treaty of Sèvres was overruled by the application of armed resistance. What did this mean to Weimar Germany's Versailles?

Aidelaide, 🇦🇺 "Best of Enemies" conference. January 1919: Considering the Paris peace conference's opening stage and the first themes of its shuffled agenda, which delegates took centre stage?

A remote detail? While the British and the Empire took the Entente and would-be League in their Winter-1919 endeavour in Paris to put themselves altogether on moral high ground, the facts on the ground in both Asia and Africa told a different story. Here's the case of Afghanistan 1923.