Month in 1918
The following events occurred in November 1918 :
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