Signing of the Treaty of Versailles (1918-1919)

View of a revolutionary rally in Berlin in November 1918 (top).

People demonstrating on a street in Berlin.

German Red Guards on duty.

View of a Berlin street.

The wall of a building, partially destroyed during street fighting with government troops in January 1919. View of a street in Berlin (top), people walking to a demonstration.

Sculpture of a lion.

Lowering the flag of the German Empire.

The crossed-out text of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (animation).

View of the Champs-Elysees and the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.

A mounted escort enters the gates of the Palace of Versailles.

View of the square in front of the palace on the day the treaty was signed on June 28, 1919. People stand by one of the fountains of Versailles, cars of state representatives drive past.

Marshal Foch's car drives up to the palace.

Marshal Foch climbs the steps of the porch.

Cars drive up to the palace.

French President Poincaré R., Prime Minister Clemenceau J. and their entourage walk across the square to the entrance to the palace.

Marshal Joffre J. walks by.

People walk through the park past the fountain to the Palace of Versailles.

US President Wilson W. and his wife get out of the car and walk up the steps of the entrance to the palace.

Panorama of the hall, participants in the signing of the treaty during a meeting.

Representatives of the states sign the treaty.

The text of the Treaty of Versailles, sealed with seals.

Carnival procession in Paris on the occasion of the signing of the peace treaty.

Girls dance the cancan on a wooden platform.

People dressed as clowns and knights on the streets of the city.

People rejoice and congratulate each other on the street.

A carnival procession moves along one of the city streets.

Participants in the procession, dressed as clowns, dance.

Participants in the procession walk by in giant masks of various historical figures, carrying a figure of a knight.

Participants in the procession dance on the street.