Ten Days in July

 

A ten-page illustrated calendar covers the ten days of the conference, held July 6-15, 1938 in Évian-les-Bains. Each conference day is presented opposite a contemporary event from international politics and society.

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 Archives Nationales, Paris, 11 AR/800

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

Archives Nationales, Paris, 11 AR/800

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. Bettmann Archive / Getty Images

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.

Bettmann Archive / Getty Images

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 Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, Independence, MO

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

Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, Independence, MO

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. Topical Press Agency / Getty Images

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.

Topical Press Agency / Getty Images

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 Jüdische Presszentrale Zürich, No. 999/1000, July 15, 1938 / Archiv für Zeitgeschichte / ETH Zürich

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

Jüdische Presszentrale Zürich, No. 999/1000, July 15, 1938 / Archiv für Zeitgeschichte / ETH Zürich

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. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-M33-9711

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.

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-M33-9711

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 Archives Nationales, Paris, 11 AR/800

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

Archives Nationales, Paris, 11 AR/800

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. Archivum Instytutu Pamięci Narodowej, Warszawa / Gedenkstätte Buchenwald, Weimar

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.

Archivum Instytutu Pamięci Narodowej, Warszawa / Gedenkstätte Buchenwald, Weimar

Postcard of Évian-les-Bains on the shores of Lake Geneva, ca. 1910 — Conference Rest Day — Archives départementales de la Haute-Savoie, Annecy, 8Fi EVIAN_159

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

— Conference Rest Day —

Archives départementales de la Haute-Savoie, Annecy, 8Fi EVIAN_159

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. Imprimerie du Nord-Est, Reims

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.

Imprimerie du Nord-Est, Reims

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 Jüdische Presszentrale Zürich, No. 999/1000, July 15, 1938 / Archiv für Zeitgeschichte / ETH Zürich

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

Jüdische Presszentrale Zürich, No. 999/1000, July 15, 1938 / Archiv für Zeitgeschichte / ETH Zürich

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. Photo: Photo-Evers, Dangast / Archiv Udo Klüm, Varel

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.

Photo: Photo-Evers, Dangast / Archiv Udo Klüm, Varel

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 Zürcher Illustrierte, July 15, 1938 / Zentralbibliothek Zürich

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

Zürcher Illustrierte, July 15, 1938 / Zentralbibliothek Zürich

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. Photo: Victor Antonovich Temin / Rossiiskii Gosudarstvenni Arkhiv Kinofotodokumentov, Moskwa, No. 0-360567

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.

Photo: Victor Antonovich Temin / Rossiiskii Gosudarstvenni Arkhiv Kinofotodokumentov, Moskwa, No. 0-360567

French police in front of the Hotel Royal Private meeting of the technical subcommittee Archives Nationales, Paris, 11 AR/800

French police in front of the Hotel Royal

Private meeting of the technical subcommittee

Archives Nationales, Paris, 11 AR/800

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.” Photo: Luis Vidal Corella / Biblioteca Nacional de España, Madrid GC-CAJA/111/18

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.”

Photo: Luis Vidal Corella / Biblioteca Nacional de España, Madrid GC-CAJA/111/18

Michael Hansson, Norwegian representative and chair of the technical subcommittee Report by the technical subcommittee and discussion of the final resolution of the conference Zürcher Illustrierte, July 15, 1938 / Zentralbibliothek Zürich

Michael Hansson, Norwegian representative and chair of the technical subcommittee

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

Zürcher Illustrierte, July 15, 1938 / Zentralbibliothek Zürich

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. picture alliance / AP Images

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.

picture alliance / AP Images

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 Archives Nationales, France, 11 AR/800

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

Archives Nationales, France, 11 AR/800

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. Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand, Berlin

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.

Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand, Berlin

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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 Archives Nationales, Paris, 11 AR/800

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

Archives Nationales, Paris, 11 AR/800

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

Archives Nationales, Paris, 11 AR/800

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. Bettmann Archive / Getty Images

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.

Bettmann Archive / Getty Images

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.

Bettmann Archive / Getty Images

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 Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, Independence, MO

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

Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, Independence, MO

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

Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, Independence, MO

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. Topical Press Agency / Getty Images

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.

Topical Press Agency / Getty Images

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.

Topical Press Agency / Getty Images

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 Jüdische Presszentrale Zürich, No. 999/1000, July 15, 1938 / Archiv für Zeitgeschichte / ETH Zürich

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

Jüdische Presszentrale Zürich, No. 999/1000, July 15, 1938 / Archiv für Zeitgeschichte / ETH Zürich

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

Jüdische Presszentrale Zürich, No. 999/1000, July 15, 1938 / Archiv für Zeitgeschichte / ETH Zürich

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. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-M33-9711

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.

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-M33-9711

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.

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-M33-9711

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 Archives Nationales, Paris, 11 AR/800

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

Archives Nationales, Paris, 11 AR/800

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

Archives Nationales, Paris, 11 AR/800

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. Archivum Instytutu Pamięci Narodowej, Warszawa / Gedenkstätte Buchenwald, Weimar

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.

Archivum Instytutu Pamięci Narodowej, Warszawa / Gedenkstätte Buchenwald, Weimar

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.

Archivum Instytutu Pamięci Narodowej, Warszawa / Gedenkstätte Buchenwald, Weimar

Postcard of Évian-les-Bains on the shores of Lake Geneva, ca. 1910 — Conference Rest Day — Archives départementales de la Haute-Savoie, Annecy, 8Fi EVIAN_159

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

— Conference Rest Day —

Archives départementales de la Haute-Savoie, Annecy, 8Fi EVIAN_159

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

— Conference Rest Day —

Archives départementales de la Haute-Savoie, Annecy, 8Fi EVIAN_159

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. Imprimerie du Nord-Est, Reims

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.

Imprimerie du Nord-Est, Reims

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.

Imprimerie du Nord-Est, Reims

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 Jüdische Presszentrale Zürich, No. 999/1000, July 15, 1938 / Archiv für Zeitgeschichte / ETH Zürich

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

Jüdische Presszentrale Zürich, No. 999/1000, July 15, 1938 / Archiv für Zeitgeschichte / ETH Zürich

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

Jüdische Presszentrale Zürich, No. 999/1000, July 15, 1938 / Archiv für Zeitgeschichte / ETH Zürich

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. Photo: Photo-Evers, Dangast / Archiv Udo Klüm, Varel

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.

Photo: Photo-Evers, Dangast / Archiv Udo Klüm, Varel

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.

Photo: Photo-Evers, Dangast / Archiv Udo Klüm, Varel

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 Zürcher Illustrierte, July 15, 1938 / Zentralbibliothek Zürich

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

Zürcher Illustrierte, July 15, 1938 / Zentralbibliothek Zürich

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

Zürcher Illustrierte, July 15, 1938 / Zentralbibliothek Zürich

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. Photo: Victor Antonovich Temin / Rossiiskii Gosudarstvenni Arkhiv Kinofotodokumentov, Moskwa, No. 0-360567

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.

Photo: Victor Antonovich Temin / Rossiiskii Gosudarstvenni Arkhiv Kinofotodokumentov, Moskwa, No. 0-360567

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.

Photo: Victor Antonovich Temin / Rossiiskii Gosudarstvenni Arkhiv Kinofotodokumentov, Moskwa, No. 0-360567

French police in front of the Hotel Royal Private meeting of the technical subcommittee Archives Nationales, Paris, 11 AR/800

French police in front of the Hotel Royal

Private meeting of the technical subcommittee

Archives Nationales, Paris, 11 AR/800

French police in front of the Hotel Royal

Private meeting of the technical subcommittee

Archives Nationales, Paris, 11 AR/800

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.” Photo: Luis Vidal Corella / Biblioteca Nacional de España, Madrid GC-CAJA/111/18

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.”

Photo: Luis Vidal Corella / Biblioteca Nacional de España, Madrid GC-CAJA/111/18

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.”

Photo: Luis Vidal Corella / Biblioteca Nacional de España, Madrid GC-CAJA/111/18

Michael Hansson, Norwegian representative and chair of the technical subcommittee Report by the technical subcommittee and discussion of the final resolution of the conference Zürcher Illustrierte, July 15, 1938 / Zentralbibliothek Zürich

Michael Hansson, Norwegian representative and chair of the technical subcommittee

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

Zürcher Illustrierte, July 15, 1938 / Zentralbibliothek Zürich

Michael Hansson, Norwegian representative and chair of the technical subcommittee

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

Zürcher Illustrierte, July 15, 1938 / Zentralbibliothek Zürich

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. picture alliance / AP Images

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.

picture alliance / AP Images

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.

picture alliance / AP Images

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 Archives Nationales, France, 11 AR/800

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

Archives Nationales, France, 11 AR/800

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

Archives Nationales, France, 11 AR/800

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. Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand, Berlin

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.

Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand, Berlin

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.

Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand, Berlin

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 Archives Nationales, Paris, 11 AR/800
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. Bettmann Archive / Getty Images
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 Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, Independence, MO
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. Topical Press Agency / Getty Images
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 Jüdische Presszentrale Zürich, No. 999/1000, July 15, 1938 / Archiv für Zeitgeschichte / ETH Zürich
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. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-M33-9711
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 Archives Nationales, Paris, 11 AR/800
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. Archivum Instytutu Pamięci Narodowej, Warszawa / Gedenkstätte Buchenwald, Weimar
Postcard of Évian-les-Bains on the shores of Lake Geneva, ca. 1910 — Conference Rest Day — Archives départementales de la Haute-Savoie, Annecy, 8Fi EVIAN_159
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. Imprimerie du Nord-Est, Reims
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 Jüdische Presszentrale Zürich, No. 999/1000, July 15, 1938 / Archiv für Zeitgeschichte / ETH Zürich
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. Photo: Photo-Evers, Dangast / Archiv Udo Klüm, Varel
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 Zürcher Illustrierte, July 15, 1938 / Zentralbibliothek Zürich
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. Photo: Victor Antonovich Temin / Rossiiskii Gosudarstvenni Arkhiv Kinofotodokumentov, Moskwa, No. 0-360567
French police in front of the Hotel Royal Private meeting of the technical subcommittee Archives Nationales, Paris, 11 AR/800
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.” Photo: Luis Vidal Corella / Biblioteca Nacional de España, Madrid GC-CAJA/111/18
Michael Hansson, Norwegian representative and chair of the technical subcommittee Report by the technical subcommittee and discussion of the final resolution of the conference Zürcher Illustrierte, July 15, 1938 / Zentralbibliothek Zürich
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. picture alliance / AP Images
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 Archives Nationales, France, 11 AR/800
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. Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand, Berlin