ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book considers the many and varied ways in which the transition from war to peace was planned and carried out in two European cities over the course of four years. It presents the manifold ways in which the tensions of mobilization persisted for years after 1918. In some cases, the problems were not resolved by the early 1920s and continued to fester long thereafter. The struggles over how to commemorate the conflict were most heated during the interwar period, but have continued to be a subject of debate as the meaning of the war has shifted over the intervening decades. Audoin-Rouzeau and Annette Becker, Still, in the period from 1918-21 saw sharp political and social conflict over the best ways to establish a new postwar order and can meaningfully be defined as a discrete period of demobilization.
