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The unfolding crisis was a culmination of years of relentless conflict, strategic failures, and internal unrest. The surrender of Bulgaria, the fall of Damascus, the breakthrough at the Hindenburg Line, and the internal revolution within Germany signaled that the war was reaching its final chapter. Ludendorff’s plea for an immediate ceasefire came too late to prevent the war’s end, but it underscored the complete collapse of German military resistance.