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The 1937 International Exposition — The exposition of the totalitarian face-off, May–November 1937
Below the brand-new Palais de Chaillot, Speer’s German pavilion and the Soviet pavilion defied each other face to face — the interwar in miniature. In the palace of light, Dufy’s Electricity Fairy. (Editorial synthesis)
The 1937 International Exposition began on 25 May 1937. (source: Archives nationales)
The 1937 International Exposition ended on 25 November 1937. (source: Archives nationales)
The 1937 International Exposition took place in Paris. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
The 1937 International Exposition ended in Guernica in the Spanish pavilion. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
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