Friday, January 4, 2008

Compiegne Forest

April 2007
June 25 1940
Inscription reads "HERE ON THE ELEVENTH OF NOVEMBER 1918 SUCCUMBED THE CRIMINAL PRIDE OF THE GERMAN REICH. VANQUISHED BY THE FREE PEOPLES WHICH IT TRIED TO ENSLAVE" (This tablet was dismantled and taken to Germany in 1940. It was returned after World War 2)

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