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The new constitution was agreed in August 1919 and the first elections in what became known as the Weimar Republic took place in June 1920, electing Ebert as Germany’s new President.

It therefore had to pay the Allies for this damage Reparations This was the name given to the money Germany had to pay for the war damage it had caused. In 1922 the amount to be paid was set at £ ...

These unembellished memorials mark the graves of unfortunate souls who died one week during the fall of 1918 from the flu ... when the nightmare of World War I was finally ending, and it killed ...

BBC drama programming to mark the centenary of World War One. BBC One Sarah Phelps’ gripping ... spanning the years of the war from 1914 – 1918. As the conflict unfolds, so do the boys ...

By the end of the War in 1918 a million American troops were in ... not only for the United States but across the world. To that end he sent a leading aide, Colonel House, to Europe in the autumn ...