The First World War and the Revolution in Germany (1918)

Arrested people being led down a street in Berlin (top).

German naval personnel during a demonstration in October 1918. Photograph of naval personnel on board a warship in Kiel in 1918. Photograph of workers from a German munitions factory during a demonstration in November 1918. People gathering for a rally on a street in Berlin.

View of part of a street in Berlin during a rally (top), with a truck with speakers in the back driving down the street.

A speaker delivers a speech at one of the rallies, waving an umbrella.

Unrest on the streets of Berlin.

Photograph of participants in revolutionary events on a street in Berlin.

A demonstration moves down a street in Berlin in the rain (top).

Demonstrators walk under open umbrellas (top).

Columns of demonstrators on the streets of Berlin in November 1918. Panorama and views of rallies in Berlin on November 8, 1918. View of the Brandenburg Gate, soldiers with a red banner near the sculpture of a horse quadriga on the gate.

Member of the Council of People's Representatives Scheidemann F. delivers a speech on the proclamation of the republic on November 9, 1918, standing in the window opening, rally participants greet the speaker.

View of part of the rally (top).

Photograph of members of the Council of People's Representatives.

View of part of the demonstration in Berlin (top).

Panorama of the rally, Liebknecht K. speaks.

Faces of participants in the revolutionary events in Berlin.

Photograph of members of the Council of People's Representatives.

Photograph of a single-track railway.

People on a street in Berlin, fenced with barbed wire, in a queue for free soup.

Distribution of soup from a field kitchen on the street.

People eating soup, standing near a field kitchen.

Children eating bread.

Distribution of boiling water to residents of Berlin.

Panorama of the rally.

Rally participants greet the next speaker.

A German army horse convoy moves across a bridge.

The convoy crosses a wooden pontoon bridge built by sappers.

The convoy moves along the streets of Berlin, people at the crossroads.

The movement of Allied military units across the square of one of the occupied cities in Germany (above).

A French general, sitting on horseback, greets the passing troops.

Representatives of the Entente armies at the building, the faces of the generals.