He ignored the cease-fire request, but gave the Germans permission to come. At p. The German envoys switched to a French car and then boarded a train, and traveled through the night. That was where the meeting would take place. The German delegation, at left, as they arrive to sign the Armistice provisionally ending World War I in a train dining car on November 11, The task that awaited the German diplomats weighed heavily upon them.
But they had little leverage. In the early morning hours of November 11, Erzberger and Foch met for the final negotiations. According to Lowry, the German emissary tried his best to persuade Foch to make the agreement less severe. Foch made a few small changes, including letting the Germans keep a few of their weapons. Finally, just before dawn, the agreement was signed. It was sure a happy day here because we thought you were happy.
I suspect you will not come right home but whenever you come back to the States come to see Ida Clara and myself. Now I want you to be sure to do that for we will just have a great time rejoicing together.
Never in my life have I ever seen such happy people, for the eleventh of November meant the biggest thing possible to them all. Fighting stopped; at last the German people have awakened from their horrible dream.
It's taken a long time, four years and half of the sort of thing that France has been through is tremendous, and now that it is all over, why it is almost too much for them to believe. In the Shadow of the Great War Buy.
Soldiering On Buy. Scapa Flow Buy. Pearls Before Poppies Buy. Cinderella Soldiers Buy. Till the Boys Come Home Buy. Freedom Trails Buy. The Leeds Pals Buy. Oceanic Buy. The Sunken Gold Buy. The Treaty of Versailles. Peace declared. The last soldier killed during the war. The Armistice clauses. Harsh conditions. The aftermath of World War I.
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