WWII 1940 Armistice between France and Nazi Germany

On 11 November 1918, the armistice ending the first World War was signed. Within four years, over 18 million people (soldiers and civilians) died, and as many had been injured.

Up to that moment in history, this was the deadliest conflict to date, and people believed it was the war to end all wars, as they said in French "la der des der", short for "la dernière des dernières"...

The cease-fire was signed in the train car that served as the headquarter of Maréchal Foch. This train car now had historic value and was preserved in a museum.

Fast forward to WWII. In 1940, when France was about to surrender, Hitler demanded the new armistice should be signed in the same train car and the exact same location in the forest of Compiègne... Revenge! German soldiers demolished a museum wall to get the train car out. After the signing it was taken to Germany... (Sources vary as for its destruction later).