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user-inactivated · 2937 days ago · link · · parent · post: Hello other things exist besides politics
Not recently eitherOn 11 November 1918 Foch accepted the German request for an armistice. Foch advocated peace terms that would make Germany unable to pose a threat to France ever again, but was overruled by the British and Americans for being too in favor of French interests. When the Treaty of Versailles was signed on 28 June 1919, Foch declared, due to France not being allowed to annex the Rhineland or occupy the area for a period of thirty years, "This is not a peace. It is an armistice for twenty years". His words proved prophetic: the Second World War started twenty years and 64 days later.