Field Marshal Ferdinand Foch stands with his staff outside the rail carriage where the armistice ending World War I was signed.Painting depicting the signing of the armistice. Behind the table, from right to left, General Chief of Staff Maxime Weygand, Field Marshal Ferdinand Foch (standing) and Royal Navy Admiral Rosslyn Wemyss and fourth from the left, Royal Navy Captain Jack Marriott. In the foreground, Matthias Erzberger, representing the new German government, Major-General Detlof von Winterfeldt (with helmet) of the Imperial German Army, Alfred von Oberndorff, a diplomat at the Foreign Ministry,[1] and Captain Ernst Vanselow of the Imperial German Navy.Wilhelm II, German Emperor, abdicates his throne and flees to the Netherlands.
^Dirk Hecht, "Diplomatie, Krieg und Waffenstillstand. Das Leben des Diplomaten Alfred Graf von Oberndorff" in Jahrbuch der Hambach-Gesellschaft 26 (2019), pp. 175–192
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