| Caption | French Minister of Defense General Charles Huntzinger signing the Franco-German armistice document, Compiègne, France, 22 Jun 1940 ww2dbase | ||||||||
| Photographer | Carl Weinrother | ||||||||
| Source | ww2dbaseGerman Federal Archive | ||||||||
| Identification Code | B 145 Bild-P50284 | ||||||||
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| Photos on Same Day | 22 Jun 1940 | ||||||||
| Photos at Same Place | Compiègne, Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie, France | ||||||||
| Added By | C. Peter Chen | ||||||||
| Added Date | 5 Aug 2010 | ||||||||
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| Licensing | Creative Commons. According to the German Federal Archive (Bundesarchiv), as of 21 Jul 2010, photographs can be reproduced with if these preconditions are met: - add the signature of the pictures and - of name of the originator, i.e. the photographer. ... You also can use fotos from the Federal Archives for free on Wikimedia Commons http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Bundesarchiv |
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2. Anonymous says:
22 Jun 2013 03:23:33 PM
Shortly after the armistice was signed that rail car was taken to Berlin.It was destroyed in a bombing raid later in the war.It was the same car that the armistice to end WWI was signed in.
22 Jun 2013 03:23:33 PM
Shortly after the armistice was signed that rail car was taken to Berlin.It was destroyed in a bombing raid later in the war.It was the same car that the armistice to end WWI was signed in.
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6 May 2011 07:27:11 AM
As far as I know, he was just an Army group commander at the time this picture was shot. He was leading the French delegation which had to meet the German and sign the armistice.
He became Secretary of war in the Vichy government, arguably after the armistice.