Hitler Signs Armistice in Defeat Carriage: Revenge on France
Hitler forced France to sign their surrender in the exact same rail carriage where Germany capitulated in 1918, sitting in Marshal Foch's chair before storming out to let General Keitel finish the deal. This calculated humiliation reversed the roles of 1918, yet French negotiators secretly inserted clauses preventing harsh occupation of North-West France and forbidding the use of the armistice as a tool for further degradation.
June 22, 1940
86 years ago
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