American soldiers and supplies poured into Europe's battleground and halted the fierce German offensives of 1918. The Allied counterattacks dealt a severe blow to the German resistance and morale. As their German partners were being pushed steadily back, Bulgaria and Turkey saw no hope for victory and asked for peace. Austria-Hungary split into two separate countries when a peaceful revolution ended that empire. Its allies retreating from the war, Germany foresaw the inevitable invasion of its homeland. Germany signed an armistice on November 11, 1918, following several days of negotiations.
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German Armistice Commission ended in 1942.
The "November Crime" was the signing of the Armistice. To Hitler, and so many others, the German politicians who signed the Armistice on November 11th, 1918, would become known as the "November Criminals".
Basically because they had to.
The Germans didn't like the idea of an armistice, but knew it was needed. The allies were likely to take a more conciliatory approach when compared to the likes of Georges Clemenceau and Lloyd George.
The German home front did not collapse in 1918. In fact the German home front did not know or understand how or why Germany lost the war and signing a peace armistice. The German population thought that they were winning the war. They did not know that their two allies: Austria-Hungary & Turkey were on the verge of defeat. They did not know that the German army had just recently been defeated and was retreating in France.