Terms
The terms contained the following major points:
- Termination of military hostilities within six hours of signature.
- Immediate removal of all German troops from France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Alsace-Lorraine.
- Subsequent removal of all German troops from territory on the west side of the Rhine plus 30 km radius bridgeheads of the right side of the Rhine at the cities of Mainz, Koblenz, and Cologne with ensuing occupation by Allied and US troops.
- Removal of all German troops at the eastern front to German territory as it was on 1 August 1914.
- Renunciation of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Russia and of the Treaty of Bucharest with Romania.
- Internment of the German fleet.
- Surrender of material: 5,000 cannons, 25,000 machine guns, 3,000 minenwerfers, 1,700 airplanes, 5,000 locomotive engines, and 150,000 railcars.
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