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The Armistice of 22 June 1940, sometimes referred to as the Second Armistice at Compiègne, was an agreement signed at 18:36 on 22 June 1940 [1] near Compiègne, France by officials of Nazi Germany and the French Third Republic. It became effective at midnight on 25 June.
The Glade of the Armistice (French: Clairière de l'Armistice) is a French war memorial in the Forest of Compiègne in Picardy, France, near the city of Compiègne approximately 60 kilometres (37 mi) north of Paris. [1] It was built at the location where the Germans signed the Armistice of 11 November 1918 that ended World War I.
22 June – Armistice of 22 June 1940: The French Third Republic and Nazi Germany sign an armistice ending the Battle of France, in the Forest of Compiègne, in the same Wagons-Lits railroad car used by Marshal Ferdinand Foch to conclude the Armistice of 11 November 1918 with Germany. This divides France into a Zone occupée in the north and ...
German control post on the demarcation line. Initially, the armistice of 22 June 1940 provided for the "occupation of territory without giving the French government a free space". [3] The total and rapid defeat of France followed by its partition had not been studied by the German General Staff. Finally this partition, which handicapped the ...
The Armistice of 11 November 1918 was the armistice signed in a railroad car, in the Compiègne Forest near the town of Compiègne, that ended fighting on land, at sea, and in the air in World War I between the Entente and their last remaining opponent, Germany.
On 8 November 1918, Foch and representatives from the Allied Powers met representatives from the German Empire to discuss the terms of armistice in the then-called "Wagon of Compiègne". The agreement was signed in the carriage on 11 November, and was the final ceasefire which ended fighting in the First World War; the other Central Powers had ...
A two-minute silence has been observed across the nation to mark Armistice Day. The country fell silent at 11am on the anniversary of the end of the First World War to remember those who have died ...
Armistice Day celebrations in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on 11 November 1918. Armistice Day, later known as Remembrance Day in the Commonwealth and Veterans Day in the United States, is commemorated every year on 11 November to mark the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne, France, at 5:45 am [1] for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front of ...