Locarno Treaties
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The Locarno Treaties, known collectively as the Locarno Pact, were seven post–World War I agreements negotiated amongst Germany, France, Great Britain, Belgium, Italy, Poland and Czechoslovakia in lat
From left to right, Gustav Stresemann, Austen Chamberlain and Aristide Briand during the Locarno negotiations
The German delegation at Locarno. Gustav Stresemann is fifth from the left; Hans Luther is standing slightly behind him, to his left.
The Locarno conference attendees. One will recognize Mussolini, Stresemann, Chamberlain and Briand.
Autochrome of the Belgian delegation. Left to right: Henri Rolin, Joseph de Ruelle, Emile Vandervelde, Pierre van Zuylen and Ferdinand du Chastel
Occupation of the Rhineland
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The Occupation of the Rhineland placed the region of Germany west of the Rhine river and four bridgeheads to its east under the control of the victorious Allies of World War I from 1 December 1918 unt
French soldiers at Ehrenbreitstein Fortress watching over the Deutsches Eck, 1929
Paul Tirard, the French chairman of the Inter-Allied Rhineland High Commission
Henry T. Allen, commander-in-chief of the American occupation army in the Rhineland
French troops entering Essen during the occupation of the Ruhr