The Third Reich was invaded in 1945 from West and East by the Anglo-American and Soviet troops respectively. In order to be victorious over it, they had to effectively destroy the National-Socialist regime. However, the Entente was not in the same situation at the end of 1918: the Allied troops, but especially the British Expeditionary Force (BEF), caused Imperial Germany major losses on French soil, however, they did not advance towards Berlin. Thus, from here stemmed the paradox of WW1, a paradox unsolved by the Versailles Treaty: Germany’s national territory was never conquered during the WW1 and thus, Berlin had never felt defeated. The German request to Washington for an armistice On November 11th, 1918, the Allies accepted the German request for an armistice. It was an actual surrender of Berlin, although it was not perceived as such at the time. Because of the American president Woodrow Wilson’s public discourse on a peace without annexations, the German leadership thought it could manage to make the war end on this note. Basically, Germany wanted a status-quo-ante 1914, which was practically impossible in 1918. The Mittelmächte (Central Powers) were almost victorious in 1917, owing it also to the Russian exit from the war which was brought about by the radical regime change caused by the October Revolution at St Petersburg. However, Berlin was not able to fully enjoy this moment, because it made mistakes that determined the US decision to enter the war. Besides the fact that Germany attacked the neutral American cargo ships, the Kaiserreich asked Mexico to become its ally through the so-called Zimmerman telegram. This way, Washington entered the war as an Associated Power, however, initially, all it could do was to finance the Entente, in order to ensure its further combat capacity. Germany’s fate was sealed. Even if it could have resisted the exhausted