Second Armistice at Compiègne
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The <entity_0> was signed at 18:36 near <entity_3>, <entity_5>, by officials of Nazi Germany and the Third French Republic. Following the decisive German victory in the Battle of <entity_5> (10 May 1940 – 21 <entity_2>) during World War II, this <entity_4> established a German occupation zone in Northern and Western <entity_5> that encompassed all English Channel and Atlantic Ocean ports and left the remainder "free" to be governed by the French. Adolf Hitler deliberately chose <entity_1> as the site to sign the <entity_4> due to its symbolic role as the site of the 1918 Armistice with Germany that signaled the end of World War I with Germany's surrender. When Adolf Hitler received word from the French government that they wished to negotiate an <entity_4>, Hitler selected <entity_1> as the site for the negotiations. As <entity_3> was the site of the 1918 Armistice ending World War I with Germany's surrender, Hitler used this place as a supreme moment of revenge for Germany over <entity_5>. Hitler decided that the signing should take place in the same rail carriage, the <entity_3> Wagon, where the Germans had signed the 1918 <entity_4>. According to William Shirer's book Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, French General Charles Huntziger complained that the <entity_4> terms imposed on <entity_5> were harsher than those imposed on Germany in 1918. Given the military situation that <entity_5> was in, Huntziger had "no choice" but to accede to the <entity_4> terms. The cease-fire went into effect at 00:35 on 25 <entity_2>, more than two days later, only after another <entity_4> was signed between <entity_5> and Italy, the main German ally in Europe.
['armistice', 'treaty']