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(1) VINTAGE ANTIQUE WORLD-FAMOUS RAILWAY CARRIAGE TRAIN ASHTRAY.FORET DE COMPIENCE, LE WAGON DE L'ARMISTICE. The car of the Armistice is the railway car which were signed the Armistice of November 11, 1918 between Germany, the France and its allies, and that of June 22, 1940 between Germany and France, both in Rethondes clearing in the forest of Compiègne in the Oise. This car was commissioned in 1914 by the Compagnie des Wagons-Lits, assigned to train the Marshal Foch in 1918, exposed to the Invalides and the clearing of Rethondes during the between-war period. Taken in Germany after the signing of the armistice in 1940 and exposed to Berlin, it was destroyed in April 1945 by the SS, on orders from Hitler, one month before the German surrender".
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