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.
On November 11, 1918, the Germans requested an armistice, or a ceasefire, to end World War I.
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.
Because it forced the Germans to pay large war reparations
The Allied powers requested an armistice from Germany to end World War I.
From the armistice which ended the First World War on 11 November 1918.
Compiegne
A railway carriage in the forest of Compegnie The Second Armistice at Compiègne was signed on 22 June 1940 near Compiègne, in the department of Oise, between Nazi Germany and France.
Campiegne!
On November 11, 1918, the Germans requested an armistice, or a ceasefire, to end World War I.
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.
The Armistice between the Allies and Germany, ended World War 1. It was signed on November 11, 1918 in Compiegne, France.
At the bottom. No, seriously, it wasn't strictly an armistice, it was an unconditional surrender, and the job was done at SHAEF*, a schoolhouse in reims, France. * Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force
Because it forced the Germans to pay large war reparations
They were forced into signing the Treaty of Locarno, which stated that Germans pay the costs from the war among other things.
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.
The Germans initially bombed France to conquer the country. The Allied Forces were forced to bomb France to get rid of the Germans.