On this eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918, (11:00 a.m. November 11)
is the moment of the end of the great war (World War I) that marked Europe...
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Armistice Day, or Armistice Day as it is still called today in Belgium and France, which has been established as a national holiday.
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also this day is usually celebrated almost all over the world (USA, UK, Canada, Poland) under various names
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So it was today, at 11 o'clock in the morning of 1918 in the forest of Compiègne, 60 km north of Paris,
in a train car,
the general commander of the entire Western Front, French Field Marshal Ferdinand Foss,
signed by the representative of Germany, Matthias Erzsberger,
the «unconditional» capitulation of Germany...
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is the official end of the First World War and the beginning of French intolerance,
leading to the despicable and unjustifiable Treaty of Versailles,
that will be so unjust to the people of Germany that the snake of Nazism will reap the harvest,
that will bite Europe in about 20 years from now...
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It's such a big anniversary that,
as it is today in 1944, before the end of the Second World War,
Winston Churchill will drop everything to go to Paris to meet with General de Gaulle,
where they will walk along the Avenue of the Champs Elysees in front of the Arch of Triumph, to commemorate the day and the dead of the Great War...
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the Arch of Asteros, -because it was built in the square of Asteros-
(plais de l'Etoile)
known as the Arc de Triomphe,
is the symbol of «French greatness».
the largest «triumphal» building ever constructed in the world, built to «house» the monument to the unknown soldier,
but also to recall the campaigns of Napoleon the Great.
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one, something of an internationally accepted tradition,
says that
whichever army marches under this legendary arch in Paris in the heart of Europe,
must be considered the winner beyond question.
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with this move, Churchill, in essence, wanted to give a psychological injection to the people of Paris
and on the other hand
was sending a message to Nazi Germany and the whole world about who wins wars and who writes history....
