‘Fraternisation. They need to be shot to set an example. Jawohl.’ On 19 September 1984, French cartoonist Roland Moisan takes an ironic look at the meeting set to take place on 22 September at the Douaumont ossuary (near Verdun) between German Chancellor Helmut Kohl (on the right) and French President François Mitterrand (on the left). This occasion would see the two leaders pay tribute to the soldiers from the two countries who died fighting in the First World War. On the cloud in the background, we see the former enemies of the time, the German and French generals of the Great War, who deplore an act of treason and hope that these fraternising traitors will be shot. The image of François Mitterrand and Helmut Kohl setting the seal on Franco-German friendship in Douaumont on the site where their two nations had once been in battle has gone down in history as a strong symbol of reconciliation.