1918 Armistice Coach
The 1918 Armistice with Germany was signed in CIWL #2419 ("Le Wagon de l'Armistice"). The same wagon was also used for the 1940 Armistice with France between France and Nazi Germany. The carriage itself was taken to Berlin as a trophy of war, along with pieces of a large stone tablet which bore the inscription (in French):
- Here on the Eleventh of November 1918 Succumbed the Criminal Pride of the German Reich. Vanquished by the Free Peoples Which it Tried to Enslave..
The railway carriage itself was taken to Crawinkel in Thuringia, Germany in 1945, where it was destroyed by SS troops and the remains buried.
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