146: The Armistice of November 11, 1918

History That Doesn't Suck

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🗓️ 6 November 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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“The German delegation has come to receive the proposals of the Allied Powers looking to an armistice.” This is the story of guns falling silent across war-ravaged fronts–the story of the Great War’s armistice between Germany and the Allied Powers. Sailors are mutinying. Soldiers are breaking. A revolution–possibly a Bolshevist revolution–is knocking on the Second Reich’s door. German leaders are coming to accept a painful reality: they can’t carry on this war. They look to the merciful words of Woodrow Wilson’s 14 points as they seek an armistice. But as the German delegation sits down with Allied Supreme Commander Ferdinand Foch in his ornate train carriage at a secluded location within the Compiègne Forest, they find the hardened General is not there to negotiate. He presents a difficult pill to swallow. With little alternative, the German delegation moves forward. The fighting will come to a stop when the clock strikes 11 on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918. ___ 3 Ways to dive deeper into History That Doesn’t Suck Join our growing Facebook community Get our weekly newsletter, The Revolution Become part of the HTDS Patreon family Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:44.0	It's a cool autumn morning, November 3rd, 1918.
0:55.0	We're aboard one of the Imperial German Navy's pre-dreadnought battleships,
0:59.0	the SMS Lothringen, currently lying at anchor and the harbor of Kiel, Germany.
1:05.1	And Seaman First Class, Richard Stumpf, is heading to his quarters to put on his parade uniform.
1:11.2	Once dressed appropriately, he intends to go ashore and into town to join his fellow frustrated sailors.
1:17.0	They will parade. They will march. They will demand better.
1:21.0	And Richard is here for it.
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1:28.0	For years now, the German Navy has underfed and overworked its average sailors.
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