tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1254463358376059327.post426637463883931035..comments2023-10-23T14:47:51.369-07:00Comments on Tony's Vision . . . The Blog: The Glade of CompiègneTonysVisionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12004608151032301174noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1254463358376059327.post-77978066017904791232015-08-24T13:44:41.414-07:002015-08-24T13:44:41.414-07:00fascinating entry, thank you very much.fascinating entry, thank you very much.shordzihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04824301365798484902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1254463358376059327.post-68068306612993409512015-01-13T11:56:31.765-08:002015-01-13T11:56:31.765-08:00Fascinating post, and I love all the photos. Than...Fascinating post, and I love all the photos. Thank you so much for sharing.Lindahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12692170857496442623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1254463358376059327.post-49613627813259032442015-01-12T09:25:31.366-08:002015-01-12T09:25:31.366-08:00That's a good point about the symbolism, Migue...That's a good point about the symbolism, Miguel. Foch used it also, by performing the signing on "The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month" of 1918. It would seem that maintaining support to make war takes marketing skills akin to keeping the public in a frenzy over the latest iPhone! Certainly Germany put some effort into supporting foreign correspondents, as long as they told the story the Nazi's desired. After Compiègne Shirer spent the next year in Berlin, where he was initially supported in his efforts to report the war. But censorship became tighter, to the point that he discovered he was on a list to be arrested as a spy, and he needed to leave.<br /><br />The railway carriage was kept as a souvenir by Germany, but was destroyed by the Nazi's (according to the sources I found) by dynamite and fire toward the end of the war, with the Nazi's claiming allied bombing. TonysVisionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16035849049327300498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1254463358376059327.post-68292973760468703502015-01-11T17:28:47.651-08:002015-01-11T17:28:47.651-08:00This is a very interesting entry, Tony! I'm pa...This is a very interesting entry, Tony! I'm particularly impressed by the symbolisms: an armistice signed in the middle of nowhere, inside a converted railroad car, which was then kept as a memory of a proud moment, only to be turned into a new symbol, with the signing in the same car, in the same place, of a new armistice, this time having Germany as the proud victor. <br /><br />For what I've read, Hitler was a man who really understood the value of symbols, so in that sense it might not be as surprising that he had the old carriage pulled from the museum to give closure to the old defeat of his country; what surprises me (and then, not really) is that the car was eventually destroyed. Do we know if it was destroyed during one of the many Allied bombings on Berlin? Or it was destroyed by the Germans? Miguel Chávezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09411154570699775904noreply@blogger.com