Tommy Doesn't Know What Day It Is

[Louis VI the Fat]

Why does no-one take time to note the nefarious scam the Entente pulled off when they proclaimed the Armistice, which is, IIRC, legally defined as a bilateral, voluntary cessation of war in which no side declares victory or any sort of superiority? Germans agreed to much of the Fourteen points, yet in no way was it an unconditionally surrender. In fact, it was not even a surrender in many ways. Yet that is not what the Armistice was in the end, and the Treaty of Versailles did not help either, as it was a blatant example of victor's justice.

Nobody takes note because all of the above is untrue.

Rather than crush the routed German army, and push deep into Germany, the allies accepted Germany's plea for peace. The allies thus spared Germany from having to undergo what Germany itself had done to Europe.

Yet from the very beginning, Germany undermined this most magnanimous armistice, for which it itself had asked and to which it had agreed.

After the armistice, the retreating German army plundered and destructed on an enormous scale, wantonly destroying property. It returned home with victory parades, under improvised triumphal arches.
Then rather than aiming for peace, Germany abused the good will of its victors by spending the next twenty years undermining the peace and preparing for another war, starting it all over again. Sixty million deaths later, it had finally sunk into the German nationalists that the combined forces of the civilised nations are stronger. (<- The real tragedy of the armistice. A million more German deaths in 1918 would've spared the world WWII)

Of course, contrary to what is constantly spouted on the internet, the German command already in the armistice agreed to occupation of the Rhineland and the payment of reparations. What's more, to ensure keeping the peace in Europe, the final peace treaty of Versailles was even more magnanimous than the armistice was.

Terms of the armistice here:
http://www.firstworldwar.com/source/armisticeterms.htm