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Armistice at Compiègne (1918)
On the WWI map as “The railway carriage”
11 Nov 1918, 05:00 — Germany signs the armistice in Foch’s dining car in the forest of Compiègne. The guns will stop at 11:00. In 1940 Hitler chooses the same carriage for France’s surrender, precisely because of what happened there.
When 11 Nov 1918, 05:00 Type Turning point Chapter Armistice and the end of WWI (chapter 13 of WWI)Atlas The Great War, 1871–1923 Also in WW2 · Road to WW2 TURNING POINT · THE GREAT WAR, 1871–1923 These maps are reconstructed from published sources · Cliopatria v 0.2.1 · Natural Earth physical geography · Treaty of Versailles: Rhineland occupation
Source details Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. Source polygons retained with original identities; geographic selections and corrections by Maps of History.. CC BY 4.0 Made with Natural Earth; geographic reference and physical land only. No modern political boundary is used as a historical boundary.. Public domain Versailles articles 428–432; Rhineland occupation and bridgeheads.. Historical treaty facts; original geographic reconstruction Annual source features can describe claims, legal territory or military control. Occupied extensions are separated from the prewar Central Power homelands, while the original source names and shapes remain available.
The nearest published outlines after the event, from 1919, replace the preceding wartime control shown by the 1918 source. This is an explicit date proxy, not an exact monthly partition.
The displayed state is iss 18 nov. Geographic reference dates and reconstruction methods are recorded for each feature.
reconstruction: 1918.87 · vector: 1815–1937 · vector: 1848–1935 · vector: 1864–1921 · vector: 1905–1921 · vector: 1908–1935 · vector: 1912–1919 · vector: 1912–1921 · vector: 1912–1955 · vector: 1916–1919 · vector: 1917–1919 · vector: 1917–1921 · vector: 1918–1919 · vector: 1918–1926 · vector: 1918–1938 · vector: 1919–1919 · vector: 1919–1921 · vector: 1919–1923 · vector: 1919–1937
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