Centenary Of The Armistice.

[jamesnan]

I was just wondering, since it has not been mentioned anywhere that I have read, whether there are various services and commemoration events taking place in Germany this weekend as in UK.

[Buenchico]

A relevant link:
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/11/09/europe/world-war-one-centenary-germany-intl/index.html

[TonyV]

Maybe this one aswell

https://www.timesofisrael.com/100-years-later-merkel-to-visit-french-site-where-wwi-armistice-was-signed/

[tonyav]

there are no national commemorations planned for the centenary of the armistice that brought an end to the four-year war that killed more than two million German troops and left four million more wounded.

https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/as-the-world-marks-the-end-of-world-war-i-life-goes-on-as-usual-in-germany-20181105-p50dyq.html

[Peter Pedant]

The French and Belgians dont really have the pre occupation with the Great War that we have
despite two million French dead....

Dunkirk isnt celebrated as much as the Normandy landings ( sort of same place but four years later )

The invite list for the germans is more problematic - Fatty Kohl deffo oversaw the fall or the berlin wall and reunification of germany BUT isnt invited because ..... he got screwed for corruption a few years later.

the japanese pray at the yakusumi shrine ( shrine for the war dead)
Someone turned up the other day in full 1940 uniform - yikes !

[vetuste_ennemi]

//The French and Belgians dont really have the pre occupation with the Great War that we have//

Surprenant.

I didn't do English Lit explicitly as a kid, but we were all aware of the war poetry. Have the F

[vetuste_ennemi]

//The French and Belgians dont really have the pre occupation with the Great War that we have//

Surprenant.

Didn't do EngLit specifically as a kid, but we were all aware of WWI poetry. Have the French and Germans not produced their own Sassoons and Owens?

[vetuste_ennemi]

Sorry, I'll say that again. (Or maybe not).

[Peter Pedant]

Siegfried Sassoon used come and watch us play rugby
yeah I am that old

you went to secondary skool and didnt do Eng Lit - what happened - we all had to ( inc Chaucer and Shakespeare)

Blimey - Beeb busy re writing history this pm
Merkel and Macron visiting the replica of the carriage where the Armistice was signed 5 am Nov 11th

the old one was used by Hitler for the Fall of France 1940 and then he had it destroyed....

Also the monument of the fallen eagle ( looks like a seagull that has been shot by an arrow) has gone as well.