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Read newspaper front pages published in Berlin (Germany), with excerpts, translations and context.
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How Military Men Want to Disarm
The Vossische Zeitung of 20 October 1926 reported from Geneva that French, Little Entente, Polish and Finnish officers on the disarmament commission's military committee had proposed punishing any illegal gas attack with a collective chemical counterattack.
Read this newspaper →Horthy to Become Palatine
The Vossische Zeitung’s front page of 19 October 1926 led with a Budapest report: Bethlen told the reconvened Hungarian National Assembly that his government’s course was unchanged and that the upper house bill came first, while the paper’s correspondent learned of a plan to make Regent Horthy a “Palatine”, a Habsburg-era office the paper itself called constitutionally impossible after the dethronement law; it added talk of a Christmas amnesty for the franc forgers.
Read this newspaper →World Appeal for Economic Peace
The Vossische Zeitung's front page of 18 October 1926 carried three reports on economics and politics.
Read this newspaper →The Secret of Romsey
The Vossische Zeitung of 17 October 1926 relayed a Manchester Guardian report from London: talks at Colonel Ashley's house in Romsey, meant to lay the foundations of an "economic Locarno" between British and German industrialists, had stirred French and Belgian suspicion, and both governments told their London ambassadors to find out what had been agreed.
Read this newspaper →War Guilt, Thoiry, Dawes Plan
The Vossische Zeitung's front page of 15 October 1926 led with foreign reports.
Read this newspaper →Spain's Constitutional Crisis
This Vossische Zeitung front page paired a political crisis abroad with two disputes at home.
Read this newspaper →Unprecedented Tumult in the Landtag
The Vossische Zeitung's front page of 13 October 1926 was dominated by a nine-hour sitting of the Prussian Landtag in which the settlement with the House of Hohenzollern passed its second reading amid Communist obstruction: objects thrown at the presidium, cheers for the International on the floor and for world revolution from the gallery, seven KPD deputies expelled and police called into the chamber.
Read this newspaper →French Statement on Thoiry
The Vossische Zeitung of 12 October 1926 carried a Paris report that, according to an official French statement, experts on both sides were still working on the Franco-German understanding begun at Thoiry, with the two governments for now working separately on drawing up an overall plan.
Read this newspaper →The Chancellor Against Westarp
This front page of the Vossische Zeitung for 11 October 1926 set foreign-policy optimism beside sharp party conflict at home.
Read this newspaper →General Heye, Seeckt's Successor
The front page of 10 October 1926 was dominated by the change at the top of the army.
Read this newspaper →Resignation Granted
The Berlin Vossische Zeitung printed in full President Hindenburg's warm letter accepting Colonel General Hans von Seeckt's resignation, praising his wartime record and his postwar rebuilding of the Reichswehr.
Read this newspaper →Decision on Seeckt Today
The Vossische Zeitung of 8 October 1926 led with the crisis over Colonel General Hans von Seeckt, chief of the Army Command.
Read this newspaper →Seeckt's Resignation
The Vossische Zeitung of 7 October 1926 gave prominent space to the fall of Colonel General Hans von Seeckt, head of the army command.
Read this newspaper →Grzesinski Appointed
The Vossische Zeitung of 6 October 1926 led with a change at the head of Prussia's Interior Ministry: the official notice that Interior Minister Carl Severing had resigned for health reasons and that Berlin police chief Albert Grzesinski had replaced him, along with Minister-President Braun's warm letter of thanks and a call for a Reichsbanner torchlight farewell on the Gendarmenmarkt that evening.
Read this newspaper →Arrests in the Spirits Scandal
The Vossische Zeitung of 5 October 1926 led with arrests in a Berlin spirits-smuggling case.
Read this newspaper →First Paneuropa Congress
The Vossische Zeitung's front page of 4 October 1926 led with a Vienna report on the first Paneuropa Congress.
Read this newspaper →The Continuation of Thoiry
This Berlin liberal daily's page followed up on the Briand–Stresemann meeting at Thoiry.
Read this newspaper →German Arrested by the French
The Vossische Zeitung of 2 October 1926 took up the aftermath of the Germersheim shooting.
Read this newspaper →The Steel Cartel Is Complete
The Vossische Zeitung of 1 October 1926 reported that German, French, Belgian and Luxembourg industrialists had concluded the international steel cartel once German and French concessions overcame Belgium's demands.
Read this newspaper →To the World
This Berlin page led with an emergency telegram from the mayor of Germersheim in the French-occupied Palatinate, who told the League of Nations that a French officer had struck down three young townsmen on the night of 26–27 September, blamed the League for all victims, and demanded an impartial tribunal and the withdrawal of French troops.
Read this newspaper →The Report on Germersheim
The Germersheim reports presented sharply conflicting explanations of a fatal shooting: the Palatinate investigation described unarmed, sober young men facing unprovoked violence, while the French account alleged repeated attacks on an officer acting in self-defence.
Read this newspaper →Poincaré’s Second Speech
The Vossische Zeitung of September 28, 1926 reported Poincaré’s willingness to cooperate with Germany while insisting on treaty rights, disarmament and reparations, and linking French debt payments to reconstruction burdens.
Read this newspaper →Roles Reversed at the League of Nations
The Vossische Zeitung examines the opportunities and strains surrounding Franco-German reconciliation.
Read this newspaper →The Wild West on Tauentzienstraße
Armed robbers carry jewels from a Tauentzienstraße shop and escape through the Kaufhaus des Westens while guests visit Berlin’s police exhibition.
Read this newspaper →A reshaping of the Prussian coalition?
The lead asks whether the Prussian coalition will be reshaped and announces Monday negotiations.
Read this newspaper →Stresemann in Berlin
The readable selection puts Stresemann in Berlin alongside a workers’ peace offer and a warning that Shanghai is threatened.
Read this newspaper →Poincaré’s assent; ahead of months of negotiations
The selected headings pair Poincaré’s assent with the prospect of months of negotiations.
Read this newspaper →Berlin cabinet to meet after Stresemann returns
The leading headline makes the timing of a Berlin cabinet meeting dependent on Stresemann’s return.
Read this newspaper →Britain friendly; a London communiqué; bound to Europe’s fate
The leading headline band presents England as friendly and connects a London communiqué to Europe’s fate.
Read this newspaper →Miami seaside resort destroyed
Miami’s destruction leads the page, alongside a conditional forecast of renewed Franco-German talks.
Read this newspaper →The Franco-German pact: approval in France
French papers welcome the Briand–Stresemann discussion while warning that negotiations will take time.
Read this newspaper →Schröder sentenced to death
A death sentence against Schröder leads the page, accompanied by an acquittal on a separate charge and criticism of the earlier investigation.
Read this newspaper →Serious tension between Rome and Paris
Two dispatches approach the Franco-Italian tension from Paris and Rome: alleged military precautions on one side, pressure over emigrant politics on the other.
Read this newspaper →Stresemann at the Labour Office — Germany’s stained-glass windows
A major speech connects international labour cooperation to the risks of mass industry and autarky.
Read this newspaper →Fascist riots in Trieste
The page juxtaposes uncertain reports of violence in Trieste and border incidents with an argument for negotiating inside the League.
Read this newspaper →The liberation of the Rhineland — Negotiations in Geneva
The Geneva correspondent disputes rumours about foreign-minister talks and argues that Rhineland occupation policy should move from military hands to political responsibility.
Read this newspaper →Council elections on Wednesday
The paper makes the League Council election conditional on agreement over procedure, rather than announcing an unconditional timetable.
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