<P> The armistice was signed in a carriage of Foch's private train, CIWL #2419 (Compiègne Wagon). It was later put back into regular service with the Compagnie des Wagons - Lits, but after a short period it was withdrawn to be attached to the French presidential train . </P> <P> From April 1921 to April 1927, it was on exhibition in the Cour des Invalides in Paris . </P> <P> In November 1927, it was ceremonially returned to the forest in the exact spot where the Armistice was signed . Marshal Foch, General Weygand and many others watched it being placed in a specially constructed building: the Clairière de l'Armistice . </P> <P> There it remained, a monument to the defeat of the Kaiser's Germany, until 22 June 1940, when swastika - bedecked German staff cars bearing Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring, Wilhelm Keitel, Joachim von Ribbentrop and others swept into the Clairière and, in that same carriage, demanded and received the surrender armistice from France . </P>

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