Evening star., 1940-06-21
Armistice
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Marshal Foch stands in commem-
Grafton of the 1918 armistice.
With arms folded, Hitler looked
at the inscriptions, then quickly en-
tered the car.
Technical Details Discussed.
DR.. Paul Schmidt, the Fuehrer's
famous interpreter, read a French
translation of the preamble after
the German version was read by
Keitel.
Following Hitler's departure Kei-
tel and the general staff officers re-
manned in the railway coach to dis
cuss technical details of the capitu-
lation.
At 4:24 pm. the French left the
car for the nearby tent, where tele-
phone and other facilities were pro-
vided them.
The French ENJOYS passed ad-
vanced German lines near Tours
yesterday. There 1t. Gen. Won Tip
pelskirch, chief army quartermaster,
received them and accompanied
them to Compiegne
They stayed overnight in Paris
hotel, then continued the journey to
nearby Compiegne.
1t. Gen. Thomas, commander of
the Fuehrer's headquarters, received
them and took them to the actual
scene.
German sentries stood at all paths
leading into the forest. and the
entire zone was blocked off.
Wrongs Wiped Out.
DNB, official German news agency,
announced in Berlin:
''Today's action in the forest of
Compiegne has wiped out the
wrongs done to German military
honor. The dignity of the action
toward an enemy honorably defeated
stands in contrast to the eternal
hate-sowing monuments at this
place where Gallo baseness once
shamed the undefeated German
Army"
The text of the preamble:
by the order of the Fuehrer and
supreme commander In chief I have
the following communication to
make:
In reliance on assurances given
the German Reich by the American
President Wilson and confirmed by
the Allied powers. German armed
forces laid down their arms in No
vember, 1918.
''Therewith was ended war
which the German people and its
government had not wanted and in
which the enemy, despite tremen-
dous superiority, did not success
fully in any way conquer the Ger
man Army, Navy or German Air
Force"
However, at the moment of the
arrival of the German Armistice
Commission, violation of the cere-
moniously- given promise began. On
November II, 1918, in this car then
began the time of suffering of the
German people.
What dishonor and humiliation,
what human and material suffering
could be caused had its outlet here.
Broken promises and perjury con-
spired against people which after
more than four years of heroic re-
sistance had only one weakness-be-
lief in the promises of democratic
statesmen.
"On September 3, 1885 years
after the outbreak of the World
War-England and France again
declared war on Germany without
any basis.
Now the decision by arms has
been reached. France has been
conquered. The French government
has requested the Reichs govern
merit to make known to them the
German conditions for an armistice.
Purposes Of Demands.
I'm the historic Compiegne Forest
designated for the reception of these
conditions this is done in order
once and for all to wipe out by
this act of redeeming justice the
memory which for France was no
glorious page in its history, but
which the German nation has
always felt as the deepest humilia-
ton of all times.
After heroic resistance France
has been defeated and broken down
IN a sequence of bloody battles.
Germany therefore does not in
tend to give the armistice condi-
tions or armistice negotiations char
acteristics of aspersions against an
enemy so brave.
mands are:
a. To prevent a resumption of
the fight,
%. To offer to Germany all guar
antees necessary for continuance of
the war against Great Britain,
which Britain forces upon Ger
many, as well as,
"3. To create pre-conditions for
formation of a new peace whose
essential contents will be reparation
of the wrong done to the German
Reich by force"
Today's date Is as bitter to Ger
mans as was the armistice of Mo-
vember II, 1918. On June 81, 1919,
Germany, after weeks of humiliat-
ing consideration, firally accepted
the dictated terms of the hated
Versailles treaty. The pact was
signed on the 28th.
Also, it was exactly 81 years ago
today that German naval ohicers
scuttled the German fleet In Scapa
J.