World War I and the Revolution in Germany (1915-1919)

Officers on the bridge of a German submarine on the surface.

A sailor aims a deck gun at a target.

A German submarine and a sailing vessel.

Firing the submarine's deck gun.

A sinking sailing vessel.

The liner Lusitania leaves port waters in May 1915. A German submarine submerges.

A photograph of a submarine officer at the periscope.

A cargo ship en route.

A torpedo heads for its target.

The ship explodes from the torpedo's impact.

Surviving crew members in lifeboats.

The sinking ship.

Ships sinking as a result of attacks by German submarines.

US President Woodrow Wilson at his desk in his office.

An American poster. "Dripping" photo portraits of General Hindenburg and Kaiser Wilhelm (animated).

The Statue of Liberty.

The arrival of a transport carrying American troops in France in June 1917. American soldiers on the deck before disembarking, a military brass band playing.

American military units march through the streets of the city, the French salute the Americans.

American units advance to the front in October 1917. American military trucks unloaded from transport ships (panorama).

American artillerymen in a trench transfer ammunition.

An American artillery crew opens fire.

A hit on a bell tower.

Allied heavy long-range guns open fire on German positions.

British and French tanks attack.

Combat operations between Allied and German troops on the Western Front in 1917-1918. Allied infantry and tanks attack the enemy.

A German machine gun crew opens fire.

British soldiers advance inside an enemy trench.

A group of German soldiers is captured.

British soldiers evacuate their wounded to the rear, on foot and on stretchers.

A column of German prisoners of war under escort of French cavalry.

Photograph of the site of a mass gathering of German prisoners of war.

Fighting on the Western Front.

Infantry attacks German trenches.

Hindenburg and Ludendorff over a map of military operations.

German warships in Kiel Bay in 1918 (panorama).

Photographs of sailors' rallies in Kiel in the autumn of 1918. Panorama of a mass rally in Berlin in November 1918. The first Chancellor of the Weimar Republic, Scheidemann, proclaims Germany a republic on November 9, 1918, standing at the window of the Reichstag.

Views of mass rallies in Berlin on November 9, 1918. Funeral of the victims of the December battles in Berlin.

Scheidemann and the chairman of the Council of People's Commissioners, Ebert, during the funeral.

Berliners greet the revolutionary troops.

A rally of Spartacus League members.

Karl Liebknecht speaks at the rally.

Armed patrols of Red Guards on the streets of Berlin, interspersed with photographs.

Street fighting in Berlin during the Spartacist uprising in January 1919. Police disperse protesters.

Photographs of participants in the January 1919 events in Berlin.

Soldiers at a position on a street.

A wounded worker is evacuated.

The body of a dead worker.

A truck drives down the street; soldiers in the truck wave Red Cross flags.

Damage to Berlin buildings as a result of street fighting in January 1919. A view of one of Berlin's canals.

Passersby undergoing document checks on the streets of Berlin.

Rallies and demonstrations in Berlin.

The destruction of the symbols of the monarchy.

The Kaiser's eagle thrown to the ground.