Now THAT's revenge!
8.27.2009 - 3:57 PM - Tim - 1 comments
8.27.2009 - 3:57 PM - Tim - 1 comments
You know I love 20th Century history. Wikipedia is a great tool for high-level, non-academic understanding of historical events. I found this little nugget while reading about the French Resistance in World War II:
That's some serious vengeance right there!
When Adolf Hitler received word from the French Government that they wished to negotiate an armistice, Hitler selected Compiègne Forest near Compiègne as the site for the negotiations. As Compiègne was the site of the 1918 Armistice ending the Great War with a humiliating defeat for Germany, Hitler saw using this location as a supreme moment of revenge for Germany over France. Hitler decided to sign the armistice in the same rail carriage where the Germans had signed the first armistice in 1918...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armistice_with_France_(Second_Compi...
In the very same railway carriage in which the 1918 Armistice was signed (removed from a museum building and placed on the precise spot where it was located in 1918), Hitler sat in the same chair in which Marshal Ferdinand Foch had sat when he faced the defeated German representatives.
That's some serious vengeance right there!
1 Comments:
Interesting.
(I thought I'd post my one word comment as I check in on your blog from time to time...some would call me an e-lurker I suppose...I don't like that title so I'm making it a habit to leave comments more often. Carry on, Tim.)
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