relations franco-allemandes 1945-1963
Cartoon by Abu on de Gaulle and the European ideal (20 January 1963)
ImageOn 20 January 1963, the British Sunday newspaper The Observer portrays the European ideal inspired by the vision of the French President, Charles de Gaulle.
Cartoon by Woop on the Communists’ position regarding the Schuman Plan (12 May 1950)
Image‘Yes, but there are... sappers.’ On 12 May 1950, cartoonist Woop illustrates the opposition from Moscow and the French Communists to French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman’s plan to revive the European integration process.
Signing of the ECSC Treaty (Paris, 18 April 1951)
ImageGroup photograph taken at the signing of the Treaty of Paris establishing the European Coal and Steel Community. From left to right: Paul van Zeeland (B), Joseph Bech (L), Joseph Meurice (B), Carlo Sforza (I), Robert Schuman (F), Konrad Adenauer (BRD), Dirk Stikker (NL) and Johannes van den Brink (NL).
Cartoon by Leo on the Franco-German Treaty of Friendship (20 June 1963)
Image'Under the protection of the ally - the Paris-Bonn Axis'. In June 1963, the Soviet weekly publication Krokodil strongly condems Franco-German cooperation, seen by the USSR as being the first step towards German rearmament.
Germany in ruins (Wesel, 1945)
ImageIn 1945, the German town of Wesel, located on the banks of the River Rhine, is partly destroyed by Allied bombings, giving the impression of a lunar landscape.
The industrial triangle
ImageNordhausen concentration camp (Germany, 12 April 1945)
ImagePhotograph taken on 12 April 1945 showing the last victims of the Nordhausen Nazi concentration camp, a sub-camp of the Mittelbau Dora concentration camp complex (Germany).
Destruction in France (Coutances, 1944)
ImageIn 1944, the small Normandy town of Coutances is severely damaged by the Allied bombings.
Destruction in Berlin: the Brandenburg Gate (1945)
ImageIn May 1945, the Brandenburg Gate, located to the west of Berlin city centre, is surrounded by ruins and bears the scars of the final combats between the German army and the Soviet troops.
Food shortages in Germany (1945)
ImageThe economic situation in conquered Germany is precarious. In 1945, 70 % of the towns have been destroyed, and shortages are widespread.
‘CARE’ US aid programme in post-war Germany (June 1946)
ImageOn 1 June 1946, Germany receives emergency aid parcels from the United States as part of the CARE programme (Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe). The photo shows children observing the parcels being unloaded.
Germany at the end of the Second World War: the destruction in Dresden (1946)
ImageView of the destruction caused in the City of Dresden following the Allied bombings at the end of the Second World War.