page_title: Armistice with Germany (Compiègne)
hierarchical_section_title: Armistice with Germany (Compiègne)
caption_attribution_description: English: Armistice Day page from the New York Times
context_page_description: The armistice treaty between the Allies, who fought Germany during World War I, and Germany was signed in a railway carriage in Compiègne Forest on 11 November 1918, and marked the end of the First World War on the Western Front. Marshal Ferdinand Foch, the Allied Commander-in-chief, and Matthias Erzberger, Germany's representative were the most important persons who signed it.
  The Armistice was agreed at 5 AM on 11 November, to come into effect at 11 AM Paris time.
  Acting German commander Paul von Hindenburg had requested arrangements for a meeting from Ferdinand Foch via telegram on 7 November. He was under pressure of imminent revolution in Berlin, Munich and elsewhere across Germany.
context_section_description: The armistice treaty between the Allies, who fought Germany during World War I, and Germany was signed in a railway carriage in Compiègne Forest on 11 November 1918, and marked the end of the First World War on the Western Front. Marshal Ferdinand Foch, the Allied Commander-in-chief, and Matthias Erzberger, Germany's representative were the most important persons who signed it.
  The Armistice was agreed at 5 AM on 11 November, to come into effect at 11 AM Paris time. 
  Acting German commander Paul von Hindenburg had requested arrangements for a meeting from Ferdinand Foch via telegram on 7 November. He was under pressure of imminent revolution in Berlin, Munich and elsewhere across Germany.
caption: Front page of the New York Times on Armistice Day, 11 November 1918.
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