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Armistice of June 22, 1940
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Armistice of 22 June 1940
The
Armistice of 22 June 1940
was signed at 18:36 near
Compiègne
,
France
, by the top military officials of
Nazi Germany
and more junior representatives from the
French Third Republic
. They included General
Wilhelm Keitel
, the commander-in-chief of the
Wehrmacht
(the German Army), and General
Charles Huntziger
for the French side. Following the decisive German victory in the
Battle of France
(10 May–21 June 1940), this
armistice
established
a German occupation zone in Northern and Western France
that encompassed all
English Channel
and
Atlantic Ocean
ports and left
the remainder
"free" to be governed by the French. Adolf Hitler deliberately chose
Compiègne Forest
as the site to sign the armistice due to its symbolic role as the site of the 1918
Armistice with Germany
that signaled the end of
World War I
with Germany's surrender.
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