Railway carriage in which the Armistice ending World War I was signed Finish:Float frame Plate 3 from the book

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Railway carriage in which the Armistice ending World War I was signed Finish:Float frame Plate 3 from the bookRailway carriage in which the Armistice ending World War I was signed, c1918. The Armistice was signed in the carriage, which was the personal carriage of Allied Commander Marshal Ferdinand Foch, at Compiegne, France, on 11 November 1918. In 1940 Hitler humiliated the French by using the same carriage as the location for the signing of their surrender to Nazi Germany.