Germany's defeat in World War I

 

In November 1918, the armistice declaring Germany's defeat in World War I was signed inside a railway carriage in Compiègne, France. When in June 1940 France had to sign the armistice of its defeat in the Second World War, Hitler decided to do so in Compiègne itself. He ordered a hole to be cut in the wall and the very same 1918 railway carriage, which was inside a museum, to be taken out. The picture shows the carriage being taken out of the museum through the hole in the wall.