Ww 1 Interesting Facts

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With their demands left out of the Treaty of Versailles process, which country remained in a state of war with Germany until the start of World War II?

 

One of the earliest casualties of WWI was the German language in America. In 1914, German was the second most widely spoken language in the US, and was taught in schools and used by some newspapers. At the height of the war, German street names were changed and German books burnt.

 

• POWs in Germany were sent to neutral Switzerland or Holland during the latter years of the war if they were ill or had problems with their nerves after prolonged imprisonment. By the end of the war, 40,000 British and Commonwealth troops were interned in Holland alone. Once there, they could pay to stay in hotels and officers were allowed to have their wives join them. (Lucky girls!)

 

• The Free State of Bottleneck, or Freistaat Flaschenhals, was a quasi-state that existed briefly after WWI due to a measurement error. When French and American forces were drawing up their zones of control in occupied Rhineland, the two zones didn’t quite touch, and thus Bottleneck was born. Home to some 17,000 people, it had its own passports, stamps and currency. There was no land or sea access to the state and though a train network ran through the capital, Lorch, trains weren’t permitted to stop, so most of the state’s income was derived from smuggling.

 

• French aviatrix Marie Marvingt, also known as the ‘La fiancée du danger’, was the first woman in the world to fly combat missions. A world-class athlete who won multiple prizes in skiing, cycling, fencing, shooting and luge, she initially disguised herself as a man and joined the infantry. Once outed as woman, she was removed from the front and volunteered with the air force, flying bombing routes over Germany. When she died in 1963 she was the most decorated woman in the history of France.

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Russia?

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Andorra

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When France reclaimed Alsace after WWI, over 150,000 people were expelled as "undesirables". These included former German civil servants and anyone whose family had not lived in Alsace before 1870. Another 100,000 were expelled from Lorraine. The French government then closed all German-language newspapers and ordered the schools and universities to teach only in French, even though few Alsatians then could even speak it with any fluency.

 

Belgium annexed 3 German cities (only one of them French speaking) after a dubious plebiscite which required everyone to write their name and address of their "secret" ballot, sort of suggesting what would happen if they didn't vote to become Belgian.

 

Poland also expelled about 150,000 ethnic Germans from the Polish Corridor (West Prussia), in order to ensure that it had a Polish majority.

 

Wilson's proposed self-determination applied only to the victors. Millions of ethnic Germans, Hungarians and others thus found themselves now living in countries that did not want them and treated them accordingly.

 

"President Wilson became physically ill at the beginning of the Paris Peace Conference, giving way to French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau to advance demands substantially different from Wilson's Fourteen Points." Wiki

 

Clemenceau thus set the stage for another war.