Description

In preparation for the peace conference that was expected to follow World War I, in the spring of 1917 the British Foreign Office established a special section responsible for preparing background information for use by British delegates to the conference. Schleswig-Holstein is Number 35 in a series of more than 160 studies produced by the section, most of which were published after the conclusion of the 1919 Paris Peace Conference. The duchies of Schleswig and Holstein were ruled by the king of Denmark until 1864 when, as a consequence of ...