The first Armistice Day, 1918 — faujibratsden (Reblog)

On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, an armistice, or temporary cessation of hostilities, was declared between the Allied nations and Germany in the First World War, then known as “the Great War.” Though the Treaty of Versailles, signed on June 28, 1919, marked the official end of […]

The first Armistice Day, 1918 — faujibratsden

Veterans For Peace UK — Opher’s World (Reblog)

Veterans For Peace UK 1 h  · BREAKING THE SILENCEThe two minutes’ silence on Armistice Day was first interrupted in 1920 by none other than 10,000 veterans, impoverished, starving & betrayed by a government & a capitalist system that erased their sacrifice for profit. They’d gathered in Victoria Street, parallel with Whitehall. When the new Cenotaph was […]

Veterans For Peace UK — Opher’s World

*Here is another aspect of the end of WW1 — the ‘German Revolution‘.