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Chapter 7 - Hun haunted?

Repatriation, home and afterwards

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 November 2019

Aaron Pegram
Affiliation:
Australian War Memorial
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Throughout September and October 1918, Allied forces made a series of offensives that threatened and destabilised the last of the German Army’s defensive positions on the Western Front. The BEF broke through German lines between the Schelde and the Sambre rivers in early November, leading to the capture of hundreds of German prisoners and scores of field and heavy siege guns. Suffering a series of defeats from which it could never recover, the German Army collapsed. An armistice was signed at Compiègne on 11 November 1918, bringing an end to four years of fighting on the Western Front. German sailors of the High Seas Fleet had by then mutinied at Kiel, Kaiser Wilhelm II had abdicated and moved to Holland, and Germany was in the midst of revolution. The war had ended, and for 2.5 million Allied prisoners in German captivity, the day of being released after years of deprivation and hardship had finally arrived.

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Surviving the Great War
Australian Prisoners of War on the Western Front 1916–18
, pp. 151 - 173
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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  • Hun haunted?
  • Aaron Pegram, Australian War Memorial
  • Book: Surviving the Great War
  • Online publication: 12 November 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108643559.008
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  • Hun haunted?
  • Aaron Pegram, Australian War Memorial
  • Book: Surviving the Great War
  • Online publication: 12 November 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108643559.008
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  • Hun haunted?
  • Aaron Pegram, Australian War Memorial
  • Book: Surviving the Great War
  • Online publication: 12 November 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108643559.008
Available formats
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