November 18, 1918. Allies March on the Rhine and the Impact of the Loss of the War Stars More Fully In Germany
Photograph taken on November 18, 1918.
Particularly if you hang out in areas of the net where the things are somewhat pedantic, you'll see the claim that World War One "didn't end" on November 11, 1918, because the Versailles Treaty was signed in May, 1919.
Cheyenne newspaper noting the American and Allied march into Germany and the surrender of the German fleet. This paper also notes the horrible death toll of the Spanish Flu Epidemic.
Well, dear reader, armies don't march into the "heart" of a nation that isn't defeated. Nor does a non defeated nation, in a time of war, turn its ships over to the enemy.
Laramie newspaper noting much the same, but also noting one of the ways in which wars change things. . . air mail was expanding following the close of the war. . . and of course the war had changed airplanes much.
No, while you'll occasionally see that, it's clear German was not only on its knees in November 1918, it was a defeated nation in Revolution.
The Casper paper ran as its headline the reunification of Alsace with France. . .something that a defeated nation does is give up territory.
And Germany was getting smaller, as this headline noted.
