Posted on 11/10/2018 5:13:23 AM PST by C19fan
As they awaken on the morning of November 11 1918, along the 400-mile Western Front from Switzerland in the south to the Belgian coast in the north, nearly 10 million men on both sides know from developments over recent days that an armistice is imminent. They are praying for a swift end to the war. What they are not aware of yet is that at 5.20am in the Compiegne Forest just north of Paris, on the private train of Marshal Foch, commander-in-chief of the Allied armies, the Armistice agreement was signed after three days of negotiation. The war is entering its final hours.
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Twenty years, ten months, and twenty days of “peace”.
And the German people, in particular the soldiers that fought the war, had that screwed feeling which had a great deal with Hitler being so popular. For the life of me, I just cannot see how those idiots (on the winning side) thought WWI would be the war to end all wars, when in fact it just set the stage for the next one. They were arrogant (above all), blind and stupid.
In my later years I’ve come to have compassion for any common soldier of any war, regardless of which side they were on.
There is an article in the Oct/Nov 2018 issue of Canada’s History called “The Last Man”, which discusses the story of a Canadian soldier who died at approximately 10:58AM on November 11 1918. It is an interesting story, as there were conflicting accounts of at what moment precisely he was killed and how (he tried approaching a Belgian nurse who was standing in the doorway of a house when he was shot by a German soldier).
Kind of like today don't you think..?? I mean, with their dealings with Islam...
Not all fighting ended on 11-11-1918. The 337th fought into and until 1919 in Russia against the Bolsheviks at the behest of the Allies. Read about the US “Polar Bear” Division, Detroit’s Own.
I’m sure there were men killed shortly after the armistice
I feel the same way. With the exception of the Islamic wackos 99% of soldiers are simply patriots fighting for their country. Right or wrong.
What would Europe look like today if we had not? What would the world look like today if we had not?
Please explain what the reason was for slaughtering tens of millions
Well, you see, it all started with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by a Serbian anarchist in Sarajevo ...
The war was won already, Canadians broke the German back. The world powers that be wanted USA involved so they could kick off their world government. League of nations was born. When it failed, after WW2 obviously came the UN with the same agenda. It’s all orchestrated.
There is a large are in France that has so many unexploded ordnance from WWI that the French government bought the land and fenced it off from the public except for a narrow hiking path. Hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of rounds of buried UEX.
I saw an article were Harry and the Markle creature “celebrated” at the spot where a Tommie had fired the first British shot of the Great War. I find the whole dreary history of the “Great” War not at all great. More a moment and a place to grieve. The aftermath, disastrous.
Whatever was accomplished? At least the Civil War expedited the end of slavery, and World War II saved Western Europe, and rescued, at least temporarily, a great culture. The impact on Asia was probably not too awful. India under Japan would have been a charnel house, China under the Chinese (Mao) was worst off. Ditto North Korea. Sanguinary Japanese imperialism was stanched at least for a century.
What did WWI accomplish?
It created the conditions for WWII.
“What did WWI accomplish?
It created the conditions for WWII.”
It also went a long toward creating a pacifist and socialist Europe. Much of the social and philosophical weakness we see in Europe to defending Western Civilization from the Islamic invasion had its beginning in the experiences of WWI.
Literally, nothing good came out of WW1.
Agree!
I have a set of books printed in 1919 that outlines the history of the Great War. There is a picture of men getting ready to fire an artillery piece. Guy with his watch out so they can make sure they get to fire it right on time. Keep thinking about the poor guys where the shell will land.
And in keeping with your post, saw on TV a year or two ago that the first and last British soldiers killed in the war died within a 1/4 mile or so from each other. I believe it was in Belgium. What a waste.
Pertaining to the slaughter of millions: After the end of World War II there were perhaps millions of German ethnic civilians killed in Europe partly out of revenge due to their forced removal back to Germany. Plus about four million were sent to Russia.
A little bit of forgotten history. In fact, it is entirely possible that more Germans civilians died after WWII than Jews killed by Hitler.
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