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To: RandFan

The armistice that ended World War I was signed in a railway carriage in the Forest of Compiègne, France. The agreement was negotiated and signed by Allied and German representatives in Marshal Ferdinand Foch’s private train carriage at the Rethondes Clearing within the forest.

In 1940, the main armistice ending the war in France was also signed in Compiègne on June 22 on the same railway carriage that had also been used for the 1918 armistice. The location was deliberately chosen by Hitler to humiliate France. The Germans later destroyed the original carriage.


9 posted on 11/11/2025 5:05:01 AM PST by DFG
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To: DFG

. The location was deliberately chosen by Hitler to humiliate France.


Revenge is a dish best served cold. Clemenceau and Hitler should be chained together forever in Hell.


17 posted on 11/11/2025 8:03:05 AM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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