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At 1100 hours on the 11th of November 1918, World War One - the Great War - came to an end, as the German delegates signed the Armistice with the representatives of the Western Allies. Since then the 11th of November has been remembered as Armistice Day.
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Since the spring of 1918 the Western Allies had been advancing, as they repulsed the final German offensive. They still had not, however, reached the German border before the German high command decided to seek armistice terms
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The same facility was used by the Germans to receive the French surrender in 1940. It could not, however, be used for a similar purpose again in 1945, as it had been destroyed in an RAF bombing raid
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Technically, Germany had not been defeated. Both sides cherished their own interpretations of what an "armistice" signified
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It seemed reasonable that this command should be conferred on the leader, whose country's forces had contributed the greatest manpower to the war effort in the West
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The British regarded the German navy as a major threat, and they were determined to destroy that threat following the Armistice
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The Kaiser presented a difficulty: both to the new German regime and to the Allies
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German civilians continued to suffer until several years after the signing of the Treaty of Versailles
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The German elite were anxious that a communist revolution would erupt in Germany, following the Bolsheviks' success in Russia. Thus some of them felt that a ceasefire could avoid this situation
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These terms seemed, to many in the German elite, to represent a reasonable basis for an honorable settlement
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Very few Germans continued to support the Armistice, especially after the signing of the eventual treaty (at Versailles in June 1919)
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