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191811 November 1918 · Compiègne

Armistice of 11 November 1918

The replica armistice railway carriage on display at the memorial in the Compiègne forest
Photo: Nicklaarakkers. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

In a railway carriage parked in the forest near Compiègne, the Allied commander Marshal Foch received German envoys, and early on 11 November they signed an armistice that stopped the fighting on the Western Front at 11 a.m. In June 1940 Hitler made defeated France sign its own armistice in the same carriage, which was then taken to Germany and destroyed.

Sites

  1. Site 1: Glade of the ArmisticeThe forest clearing with the rail tracks, a stone slab and memorials.Map ↗
  2. Site 2: Armistice Memorial museumA carriage of the same series fitted out as Foch's, with original objects.Map ↗

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