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June 22nd - The Day of Compiègne.
The monument of Gallic arrogance is covered by the Reich War flag.
The Honor Guard marches on.
In the middle of the square, the railcar of Marshal Foch, in which the negotiations of 11 November 1918 were held.
This will also hold the Armistice Negotiations of June 1940.
The Führer walks with his Generals in front of the Honor Guard.
Before the Foch Memoral.
The stone that perpetuate the memory of the humiliation of Germany of November 1918.
The Führer goes to the Negotiation wagon.
Everything here remains the same, as it was in 1918
The French delegation appears!.
At its front, General Huntziger.
Behind General Huntziger, Ambassador Nöel, rear Admiral Le Luc and General Bergeret.
On behalf of the Führer reads General Keitel the preamble to the cesare-fire conditions.
The purpose of the German demands is such, so it stated:
1. to prevent a resumotion of fighting,
2. Germany to offer any collateral, forced upon him for the continuation of the War against England,
and 3. to create conditions for the design of a new peace
Its essential content,
the restitution of what the German Reich was wrongly forced upon.
In the former saloon car of Marshal Foch, the Negotiations continue on.
After the French delegation has taken note of the Armistice terms
it goes in the tent to share with its Government in Bordeaux
to make contact and obtain their consent.
On June 22, 18:50 [O'Clock] German summer time,
in the forest of Compiègne the Franco-German Armistice was signed.
The signing was set forth:
On the German side as the representative of the Führer and Supreme Commander of the German Wehrmacht,
the Chief of the Higth Commander of OKW, General Keitel.
On the Franch side as a representative of the French Government, General Huntziger.
Six hours after the adption
of the Italian Armistice terms, effective at 01:35 on the Morning of June 25,
commenced the Armistice in France.
The War ended in the West
with he most brillant Victory in German History.