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The first item is the album is a snapshot of Sergeant Wooldridge (right), and a facsimile of the German demolition order (below), which is dated July 15, 1940.
	A unique photo album The final humiliation: the Germans destroy the site at Compiègne where the French forced them to surrender in 1918 11 x 14 inches (27 x 37 cm) US $ 500 plus shipping
These photographs were found by Sapper F T Wooldridge 14346704 Royal Engineers, near the end of World War Two in a house belonging to the German officer shown (Image 22), at Lüneburg, Germany. The photographs show the 1940 destruction by engineers of the 140. Infanterie Division of the site of the 1918 Signing of the Franco-German Armistice at Compiègne, France; Adolf Hitler humiliated the French by obliging them to surrender to the Germans on the same site. No other record of these events is known to exist. [ ENTER GALLERY ] The album contains around 30 prints from original negatives depicting the entire sequence - the arrival of the German demolition engineers, the historic railroad carriage in which the 1918 armistice was signed, the Marshal Foch statue (which was preserved), and the demolition of the museum and other exhibits. The railroad car was shipped to Berlin and put on display.

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