In a railway carriage near which city in Northern France did the allies and the Germans sign the Armistice which ended WWI?
Glade of the Armistice Glade of the Armistice The Glade of the Armistice () is a French national and war memorial in the Forest of Compiègne in Picardy, France, near the city of Compiègne and approximately north of Paris. It was built at the location where the Germans signed the Armistice of 11 November 1918 that ended World War I. During World War II, Adolf Hitler chose the same spot for the French and Germans to sign the Armistice of 22 June 1940 after Germany won the Battle of France. The site was destroyed by the Germans but rebuilt after the war. Today, the
The Holocaust in France France was confident in the ability of France to defend them against the occupiers, but some, particularly from Alsace and the Moselle regions fled westwards into the unoccupied zone from July 1940. The armistice of 22 June 1940, signed between the Third Reich and the government of Marshal Philippe Pétain, did not contain any overtly anti-Jewish clauses, but did indicate that the Germans intended the racial order existent in Germany since 1933 to spread to Metropolitan France and its overseas territories: Under the terms of the armistice, only part of Metropolitan France was occupied by Germany. From the city of