the armistice

• On 11th november 1918, just two days after the kaiser had abdicated, matthias erzberger, representing the government of the new republic, signed the armistice an agreement to stop fighting
• In truth, there was little alternative. By November 1918, Germany was torn apart by social and political unrest and its money and troops were running out.
• On the battlefield, the entry of two million US troops into the war in 1917 had made the allies much stronger.
• From august 1918, the German army was in retreat and it's defensive fortification, the Hindenburg line, had been breached.
• Beginning the new republic with a surrender was not a strong start