Ten Days in July

Henry Bérenger, who, as head of the French dele­­­gation, acts as the representative of the host country, speaks at the opening of the conference

Statements by the delegates of the USA, Great Britain, France and Norway

Fritz Kuhn (second from left), the “Führer” of the National Socialist “German-American Bund,” and other Bund functionaries before the district court

With the summer camp “Camp Siegfried,” the Bund violates a New York State provision holding that “secret organizations” should inform the authorities about their membership.

The Frenchmen Henry Bérenger (front left) and Jean-Louis Paul-Boncour (outer right) as well as the Americans (seated, l.-r.) Robert T. Pell, George L. Brandt, James G. McDonald and George L. Warren

Election of Myron C. Taylor as president of the con­ference and statements by Brazil, Belgium, Australia, Canada, Argentina and the Netherlands

Mounting of Max Beckmann’s triptych “Temptation”

As a protest against the Nazis’ “Degenerate Art” exhibition of 1937, the New Burlington Galleries open the “20th Century German Art” show, which exhibits 270 works by modern German artists.

Harold Guinzburg (American Jewish Committee) and Rabbi Jonah B. Wise (vice president of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee)

Meetings of the technical subcommittee, whose purpose is to take stock of immigration regulations, and of the subcommittee that hears representatives of the nongovernmental organizations

Road checks by British soldiers at the Jaffa Gate

After a bomb attack by a radical underground Zionist organization that resulted in many Arab and Jewish casualties, clashes erupt between Jews and Arabs. The British send two war ships with marines to Haifa.

Myron C. Taylor (USA), Jean-Louis Paul-Boncour (director of the conference) and Michael Hansson (Norway)

Statements by New Zealand, Columbia, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, Uruguay, Venezuela, Peru and the Dominican Republic and report on the hea­ring involving the nongovernmental organizations

Prisoners doing track work in the early summer of 1938

Julius Jakob Lichtenstein, a Jewish worker from Berlin who was arrested in June 1938 by the criminal police for being a “social misfit,” is “shot while trying to escape.” The term “social misfit” is applied to job switchers, Sinti and Roma as well as Jews with a criminal record, as a pretext for persecution.

Postcard of Évian-les-Bains on the shores of Lake Geneva, ca. 1910

— Conference Rest Day —

Program for the dedication of the cathedral

The gothic cathedral Notre-Dame was heavily dama­ged by German artillery fire during the First World War. After almost 20 years of restoration work, it is rededicated in the presence of numerous celebrated clergy and politicians.

The delegates of Costa Rica (Louis Dobles Segre­­da), Nicaragua (Constantin Herdocia), Guatemala (José G. Diaz) and Honduras (Mauricio Rosal)

Report by the technical subcommittee and statements by the delegates of Sweden, Central America (Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Honduras and Panama), Ireland, Switzer­land and Haiti

Postcard showing an anti-Jewish sign in the North Sea resort of Dangast, ca. 1935

A decree by the Reich Minister of the Interior forbids Jews to enter health resorts. Already during the days of the German Empire, many seaside resorts had declared them­selves “free of Jews.” In Dangast, this “spa anti-Semitism” only asserted itself after 1933.

Conference participants on the terrace of the Hotel Royal

Private meeting of the delegates from the USA, Great Britain and France with the directors of other delegations to prepare the final resolution

Red Army soldiers on the attack at Lake Khasan, July 1938

Soviet troops cross the border to the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo southwest of Vladivostok. At the beginning of August 1938, a Japa­nese counteroffensive fails in the battle of Lake Kha­san, which results in heavy casualties on both sides.

French police in front of the Hotel Royal

Private meeting of the technical subcommittee

Military training of workers in Valencia, July 1938

The National Spanish troops open a major offensive on Sagunto, with the aim of conquering Valencia. A counteroffensive by the Republicans on the Ebro fails against Franco’s troops, who are supported from the air by the German “Legion Condor.”

Michael Hansson, Norwegian representative and chair of the technical subcommittee

Report by the technical subcommittee and discussion of the final resolution of the conference

Howard Hughes lands at the Floyd Bennett Airfield

When the entrepreneur and eccentric Howard Hughes returns to his point of departure after a 91-hour, 14,824-mile trip circumnavigating the earth in his Lockheed 14 Super Elektra, he is greeted by 25,000 enthusiastic spectators.

Myron C. Taylor delivering a speech

Adoption of the final resolution, speeches by representatives from the USA, Great Britain and France as well as a passionate appeal to humanity by the Bolivian Adolfo Costa du Rels

General Ludwig Beck (1938)

In a memorandum, the German Army’s chief of staff warns against a planned “Case Green” attack on Czechoslovakia. When his warnings are not heeded, he resigns from his post in protest on August 18, 1938.