German–Soviet relations date to the aftermath of the First World War. The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, dictated by Germany ended hostilities between Russia and Germany; it was signed on March 3, 1918. A f
German and Bolshevik troops fraternizing in the area of the Yaselda River, February 1918
Treaty of Rapallo, Joseph Wirth with Leonid Krasin, Georgy Chicherin and Adolf Joffe, 1922
Cheka Trial in Leipzig, 1925
Georgy Chicherin and Nikolai Krestinsky in Berlin, 1925
Treaty of Rapallo (1922)
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The Treaty of Rapallo was an agreement signed on 16 April 1922 between Germany and Russia under which both renounced all territorial and financial claims against each other and opened friendly diploma
Germany–Soviet Union relations (1918–1941)
…of inspectors from the League of Nations patrolled many German factories and workshops to ensure that these weapons were not being manufactured. The Treaty of Rapallo between Weimar Germany and Soviet Russia was signed by German Foreign Minister Walther Rathenau and his Soviet colleague Georgy Chicherin on April 16…
German delegation to the Genoa Conference, At the front is Walter Rathenau (second from the left) and Joseph Wirth (third from the right)