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Operation Gelb (invasion of the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. Carried out 10 May 1940) Operation Rot (invasion of France and principal western attack. Carried out 5 June 1940) Case Brown (projected German-Italian invasion of Southern France through the Rhône and possibly Switzerland to avoid Maginot Line. Modiffied in lesser extensions ...
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.
Markings to alert aircraft to neutral Republic of Ireland ("Éire") during World War II on Malin Head, County Donegal. Plan W, during World War II, was a plan of joint military operations between the governments of Ireland and the United Kingdom devised between 1940 and 1942, to be executed in the event of an invasion of Ireland by Nazi Germany.
Axis occupation of France: German occupation of France during World War II - 1940–1944 in the northern zones, and 1942–1944 in the southern zone. The Holocaust in France. Italian occupation of France during World War II - limited to border areas 1940–1942, almost all Rhône left-bank territory 1942-1943.
Photograph of Kilkee, County Clare, Ireland, in the planning documents for Operation Sea Lion. Operation Green (German: Unternehmen Grün) often also referred to as Case Green (Fall Grün) or Plan Green (Plan Grün), was a full-scale operations plan for a Nazi German invasion of Ireland planned by an unknown German officer known by the alias "Hadel" in support of Operation Sea Lion ...
2 September: Tensions began to flare with Germany as Britain and France put Germany on notice for the invasion of Poland. 3 September: France declared war on Nazi Germany . 7 September: French forces engage in light skirmishes with German forces near Saarbrücken .
The World War II invasions: [2] May 1940 Battle of France, started by Nazi Germany's invasion of the Ardennes and the Low countries; June 1940 Italian invasion of France; June 1944 Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy; August 1944 Operation Dragoon, the Allied invasion of the south of France
Keitel, Brauchitsch, Hitler and Halder (from l. to r.) studying a map of France during the 1940 campaign After the war, Halder claimed he was the main instigator of the German plan, supporting this with the fact that he had begun to consider changing the main axis to Sedan as early as September 1939 and that Manstein's original proposal was too ...