November 11th, 2006

11 am, 11/11/18. The guns fell silent.

A happy Armistice Day to you all.

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4 Responses to “Waffenstillstand”

  1. Valuethinker says:

    I keep remembering that French general who, at the Peace Treaty at Versailles, said:
    ‘this is not a peace. It is a 20 year cease fire’.

  2. Valuethinker says:

    I keep thinking of that French general, who at 1919 at the Peace Treaty of Versailles, said:
    ‘this is not a peace. It is a 20 year cease fire’

  3. Grumpy says:

    “Guns fell silent” is a bit of an exaggeration.
    On November 11, 1918, Allied forces continued to fight in Northern Russia. On that very day, a desperate battle raged at Toulgas. Fighting continued until the next spring, and Allied troops didn’t leave Russia until September 1919.

  4. Anonymous says:

    Grumpy -
    The War on the Eastern Front ended many months before November 1918, when the Germans and the new Soviet government signed a peace agreement
    The episode you are describing was actually an anti-Soviet invasion by the Americans – and might more properly be considered a forerunner of the Russian Civil War – or even of the Cold War. In what way can one consider it to be part of the war against Germany?