Glade of the Armistice, Compiegne, Picardy, France
The Glade of the Armistice is a French national and war memorial in the Forest of Compiègne. It was built at the location where in 1918 the Germans signed the armistice that ended World War I. During World War II, Adolf Hitler deliberately chose the same spot for the French and Germans to sign the Second Armistice at Compiègne after Germany won the Battle of France. The site was destroyed by the Germans, and rebuilt after the war.
Today, the Glade of the Armistice contains a statue of First World War French military leader and allied supreme commander Marshal Ferdinand Foch, and the reconstructed Alsace-Lorraine Memorial, depicting a German Eagle impaled by a sword.
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