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(39) X.36021 - Sitting of the Workmen and Soldiers' Committee in the Reichstag
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| First World War 'Official Photographs' > Germans > (39) X.36021 - Sitting of the Workmen and Soldiers' Committee in the Reichstag |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/74549658 |
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| Description | Workers' and Soldiers' Council, Berlin, 1918. Delegates of the Workers' and Soldiers' Council (Arbeiter-Soldaten-Rate), seated in the hall of the Reichstag, listening to a speaker. The Workers' and Soldiers' Councils had been formed on 10 November 1918, the day after Germany had been declared a Republic. This photograph could date from then, or from their first National Congress on 16 December 1918. The Workers' and Soldiers' Councils of Berlin elected an Executive Council and a Council of Peoples' Commissars headed by Friedrich Ebert (1871-1925), leader of the Social Democratic Party. [Original reads: 'No. IA/57575. Sitting of the Workmen and Soldiers' Committee in the Reichstag.'] |
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| Description | Photographs taken in Germany, by Germans or of Germans. |
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| Description | Black-and-white photographs mainly of the Western Front during the First World War. Official British war photographers took many of them for propaganda purposes. Unless otherwise stated, titles are the photographs' original captions. From the papers of Field Marshal (Earl) Haig (1861-1928). The Haig Papers also contain Douglas Haig’s diaries. |
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| Shelfmark | Acc.3155 |
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