They could no longer afford to keep fighting the war, especially now that the US had joined the war against them.
France signed an armistice with Germany because it was overwhelmed by the blitzkrieg, when Germany invaded France.
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.
Hitler thought the armistice was a sign of Germany being weak and traitorous.
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.
The Germans reacted to the armistice by the had to sign it and that was almost like a peace settlement...
Compiegne
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.
France signed an armistice with Germany because it was overwhelmed by the blitzkrieg, when Germany invaded 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
On November 11, 1918, in Compiegne, France, allied and German representatives met in a railroad car to sign the armistice. The document officially went into effect at 11:00A.M., the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month.
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.
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.
Campiegne!
NO South Korea did not sign the armistice in 1953, therefore North and South Korea are still at war.
Hitler thought the armistice was a sign of Germany being weak and traitorous.
On November 11, 1918, the Germans requested an armistice, or a ceasefire, to end World War I.