Key Personnel
For the Allies, the personnel involved were entirely military:
- Marshal of France Ferdinand Foch, the Allied supreme commander
- General Weygand, Foch's chief of staff (later French commander-in-chief in 1940)
- First Sea Lord Admiral Rosslyn Wemyss, the British representative
- Rear-Admiral George Hope, British naval officer
- Captain John Marriott, British naval officer
For Germany:
- Matthias Erzberger, a civilian politician.
- Count Alfred von Oberndorff, from the Foreign Ministry
- Major General Detlof von Winterfeldt, army
- Captain Ernst Vanselow, navy
General Weygand and General von Gruennel are not mentioned in the French copy of the armistice document.
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