WWI · TURNING POINT ·
Armistice at Compiègne (1918)
On the WWI map as “The railway carriage”
11 Nov 1918, 05:00 — In Foch’s dining car in the forest of Compiègne, Germany signs. The guns stop at 11:00. In 1940 Hitler will make France surrender in the same carriage — chosen for exactly that memory.
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- Armistice and the end of WWI (chapter 13 of WWI)
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- The Great War, 1871–1923
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- WW2 · Road to WW2
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