OT, kinda

[Kyrie]

Hi Folks!


Please forgive me if this is off topic, but we frequently mention the Treaty of Versailles and I doubt many folks have had the opportunity to actually read it So here is a link to the complete text of the treaty, and some other links I think folks might find of interest. If nothing else, these all set the historical milieu in which the Parabellum pistol was used. The following are all Great War links, with the exception of the last one. The last is, in some waysmore horrifying than any of the others as it brings war down to the individual level. These are excerpts from letters from the German troops abandoned in Stalingrad. Think of it as last words of a forlorn hope...


Best,


Kyrie


Complete contents of the Versailles Treaty, along with WWI maps, charts, photos, cartoons, and links to related resources.

http://history.acusd.edu/gen/text/versaillestreaty/vercontents.html


The Austro-Hungarian Ultimatum to Serbia

http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/1914/austro-hungarian-ultimatum.html


The Serbian Response to the Austro-Hungarian Ultimatum

http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/1914/serbresponse.html


â??Willy/Nickyâ?� telegrams

http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/1914/willynilly.html


Zimmerman note to Mexico

http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/1917/zimmerman.html


Great War document archive

http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/191?.html

replace the ? with 4 - 8 to complete the year


Detailed chronology of the Great War's main events

http://www.rockingham.k12.va.us/EMS/WWI/WWI.html


last letters from Stalingrad

http://www.icon-stl.net/~jdesloge/warlttrs.html