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To: Jim Noble; tbw2
What is this an image of?

The famous wagon wherein Germany signed the armistice in 1918, and where Hitler received the surrender of France in 1940.

Thanks I have never seen that picture before.

61 posted on 05/06/2012 8:26:25 PM PDT by Irish Eyes
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To: Irish Eyes

The site of the signing of the Armistice had been made a national monument after WW1. Hitler made the French sign their Armistice with Germany at the same site, inside the same railroad car (”only the positions at the table were changed”), in 1940. He then moved the car to Berlin and ordered the site destroyed.

The railroad car was destroyed in a bombing raid on Berlin in 1945, and the site was restored (with a reproduction of the railroad car) in the early 1950s. I was there years ago.


62 posted on 05/06/2012 8:36:28 PM PDT by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy... and call it progress")
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