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Pétain became prime minister. While French resistance continued with the Free French Forces led by Charles de Gaulle, the surrender of Metropolitan France ended any further attempts by the British to unite the two countries. By 22 June, the German Armed Forces had losses of 27,000 dead, more than 111,000 wounded and 18,000 missing. French ...
France was one of the largest military powers to come under occupation as part of the Western Front in World War II.The Western Front was a military theatre of World War II encompassing Denmark, Norway, Luxembourg, Belgium, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, and Germany.
The Battle of France (French: bataille de France; 10 May – 25 June 1940), also known as the Western Campaign (German: Westfeldzug), the French Campaign (Frankreichfeldzug, campagne de France) and the Fall of France, during the Second World War was the German invasion of the Low Countries (Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands) and France.
General de Gaulle told the people of France on a broadcast from London on the BBC to resist the Germans. 22 June: France signed an armistice with Germany. 23 June: Adolf Hitler toured captured Paris. 24 June: The French officially surrendered at Compiegne, the site of the German World War I surrender.
May 2 May 2 Latvia Components of the 15th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS, south of Schwerin, Germany c. 4,500 Karl Burk May 2 May 2 Germany/ France/ Other All forces in Berlin, Germany 480,000 (470,970 Germans, 30 French and 9,000 other foreigners) General der Artillerie Helmuth Weidling: May 2 May 2, at 6:00 PM Germany
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A post on X claims that Secretary General of the North American Treaty Organization (NATO) Mark Rutte said he will expel the U.S. from the organization if President-Elect Trump “surrenders ...
1: The Germans begin a surprise offensive (Operation Nordwind) in northern Alsace.: Unternehmen Bodenplatte (Operation Baseplate) is launched by the Luftwaffe against western Allied air bases in Belgium and Holland by elements of ten different Jagdgeschwadern (fighter wings), as its last major air offensive of the war in the West.