World War I ended 97 years ago today |
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November 11, 2015: After over four years of bloody, internecine conflict, World War I, the Great War, ended on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of eleventh month. Despite mutinies in the French Army and, essentially, the capitulation of Russia to the Germans, the axis powers collapsed quickly in late 1918. Bulgaria signed an armistice in late September; the Austro-Hungarian Army was neutralized a month later. The monarchy was overthrown in Germany two days before Armistice Day; the Kaiser fled to the Kingdom of the Netherlands. On November 11th, the armistice was signed with Germany in a railroad carriage in the French town of Compiègne. Guns fell silent at 11 a.m. on November 18, 1918, ending the bloodiest conflict on European soil.Twenty-two years later, the rail car in which the armistice for the Great War was signed was used by Adolf Hitler to accept the surrender of France in World War II.
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