World War I Images

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Allied officers standing on chairs and tables to see into the Hall of Mirrors where the Treaty of Versailles is being signed.

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Prince Leopold of Bavaria, Commander of the troops on the eastern frontier signing an armistice with the Russians at Brest-Litovsk in World War I.

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View of the site on the railroad tracks where the armistice treaty was signed between the German and Allied forces during WWI, Forest of Compiegne, France, Nov. 11, 1918.

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Exterior view of the dining car, no. 2419D, in which the German and Allied forces signed the armistice treaty ending World War I, in the forest of Compiegne, France, on Nov. 11, 1918.

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The German delegates at Versailles for the signing of the peace treaty.

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Diplomats and delegates watching the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in the Hall of Mirrors.

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German women and children demonstrating against the peace treaty.

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Jan. 9, 1915: "Christmas Truce in the Trenches : Friend and Foe Join in a Hare Hunt."