What was an important condition for the armistice that ended world war 1?

Answer 1

It was Germany that sought the Armistice, to avoid complete defeat and total surrender. The Allies refused to discuss it until the German Emperor, Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated. The Kaiser was finally persuaded to do so, thinking the throne would go to his son, but in the confusion instead a republic was proclaimed, and the Hohenzollern Dynasty came to an end. The Kaiser and his family fled to neutral Holland, allowing the Armistice talks to become serious. A few people at the time, and almost everybody within twenty years, understood it would have been far better to ignore Germany's request for an Armistice, and instead keep on battering Germany until they were totally, completely defeated, forced to surrender, and to see the victorious troops of their enemies parade down the streets of Berlin. If this had been done Hitler and the Nazis could never have made any headway with their claims that the civilian German government had "stabbed the army in the back", which was a complete lie. It was the Army itself which hysterically demanded that the civilian government seek an armistice, right now, yesterday if possible.