What was the name of the French railway carriage where Germany signed the 1918 armistice?

The 1918 armistice ending World War I’s fighting on the Western Front was signed in the Compiègne Wagon.

The railway carriage stood in the Forest of Compiègne in northern France. German and Allied representatives signed the armistice there in the early hours of November 11, 1918, and the ceasefire took effect at 11 a.m. The carriage later became a powerful French symbol of victory.

Adolf Hitler’s Germany forced France to sign the 1940 armistice in the same carriage, using the location as a deliberate act of revenge. Nazi Germany then removed the carriage and eventually destroyed it near Crawinkel in 1945.

The Compiègne Wagon is often confused with the Treaty of Versailles. The armistice stopped the fighting; the Treaty of Versailles, signed in 1919, formally set peace terms between Germany and the Allied powers.