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1918 was the armistice ending of world war 1 .
It is in a railway carriage in the Forest of Compengnie. Hitler placed much store in history of warfare. For the French this is a great humiliation.
On November 11, 1918, the Germans requested an armistice, or a ceasefire, to end World War I.
In a wagon settled in the Rethondes station, in the Oise departement (100 kms north from Paris), on 11th November 1918. In this wagon, Adolf Hitler and French Marechal Pétain signed the armistice in June 1940.
At 5 am, in a railroad-car outside Compiegne, France the Germans signed an Armistice Agreement with the allied forces that led to the ending of hostilities a cease fire, so ending the War. This took place at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. The Peace Treaty that officially ended World War 1 was called the Treaty of Versailles. It was signed at the Palace of Versailles on 28th June 1919.
In World War I, the Germans agreed to a cease fire when they realized that the war was lost. The Armistice was signed on November 11, 1918.
The Armistice was signed in a railroad car on a siding in the Compiegne Forest. The train car was put in a museum, but Hitler had it hauled out when the Germans conquered France and made the French sign their WWII surrender to Germany in the same train car. In order to avoid possibly being forced to sign another humiliating document in this car, the Germans dynamited the car near the end of WWII. There are several memorials in the Forest, including a replica train car, where the Armistice was signed.
We celebrate Armistice Day, or Veteran's Day in the USA, on November 11, to commemorate the ending of the fighting in World War One.
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Germany on November 11, 1918.