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treaty of surrender

English translation: treaty of surrender

18:52 Feb 17, 2016
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English term or phrase: treaty of surrender
Hello everyone,

In a documentary on the Mexican football team Atlante the narrator talks about how the team's name changed over the years.

Made up mainly of textile factory workers, in 1917 they decided to change the name to Lusitania in honour of the ship sunk by a German submarine during the First World War. Later it was changed again to U-53, the name of the submarine that carried the ***treaty of surrender*** of the German armies, which marked the end of the war. Refugio Martínez, nicknamed "The Cowboy", one of the club’s captains, renamed it in 1920 “Atlante”, taking his inspiration from the Atlantic Ocean.

When he mentions the treaty, the following newspaper article is shown:

https://online.det.nsw.edu.au/blog/142135-hscmodernhistorybl...

Armistice is signed Germany surrenders

Am I right in thinking that it is an inacurate colloquial speech and the treaty of surrender here means the same as the Armistice?

I've to admit I've never heard of the treaty of surrender of the German armies in the context of the First World War and I've never heard of the treaty/Armistice being carried by a submarine.

Thank you.
Mikhail Korolev
Local time: 09:22
Selected answer:treaty of surrender
Explanation:
There is a difference between a treaty of surrender and an armistice:
treaty of surrender: one of the parties surrenders, it loses and it has to accept the other parties' conditions
armistice: "An armistice is a formal agreement of warring parties to stop fighting (taken from wikipedia).
I hope this helps.
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Carla Morra
United Kingdom
Local time: 07:22
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treaty of surrender


Explanation:
There is a difference between a treaty of surrender and an armistice:
treaty of surrender: one of the parties surrenders, it loses and it has to accept the other parties' conditions
armistice: "An armistice is a formal agreement of warring parties to stop fighting (taken from wikipedia).
I hope this helps.

Carla Morra
United Kingdom
Local time: 07:22
Native speaker of: Italian
PRO pts in category: 4
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Thank you, Carla.
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Asker: Thank you, Carla.


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