Postwar reality: borders, humans, administration and policy in motion
Journal: Historyka Studia Metodologiczne
Year: 2023

The Armistice of Compigne signed on 11 November 1918 between the Allied states and the German Empire officially ended the First World War. While the symbolic meaning of that act was extremely significant not only for posterity but also for contemporary people, reality was far from stable in almost every place that had seen hostilities during the Great War. On the western front, where peace appeared to have settled, the terms of the armistice were repeatedly protracted, which compounded the inhab