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When Germany Was Defeated Captain Cyril Falls, the military correspondent of The Times, has performed an important service in preparing his excellent pamphlet, Was Germany Defeated in 1918 ? says the Spectator. None of Hitler’s lies has been more persistent or more congenial in Germany than the fiction that the Allies did not inflict upon her a military defeat; but it can be shown to be a lie only by a careful historical account of the hundred days’ fighting in 1918 in which the German armies were so thoroughly hammered that they could neither continue their resistance nor retreat without breaking up in disorder. The Allied offensive at length deprived the German armies of the use of one great lateral railway running through Mezieres, Hirson and Aulnoyc, and the capture of these functions restricted them to lines of retreat wholly incapable of bearing their full weight. Such was the strategy. By November 6 the Allies were near Aulnoye and Mezieres and the Germans were compelled to accept Marshal Foch’s terms for an armistice.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21222, 19 September 1940, Page 6
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176TOPICS OF THE DAY Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21222, 19 September 1940, Page 6
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