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The Battle of Sedan or Second Battle of Sedan (12–15 May 1940) [10] [13] [14] took place in World War II during the Battle of France in 1940. It was part of the German Wehrmacht ' s operational plan codenamed Fall Gelb (Case Yellow) for an offensive through the hilly and forested Ardennes, to encircle the Allied armies in Belgium and north-eastern France.
Sedan (French pronunciation: ⓘ) is a commune in the Ardennes department and Grand Est region of north-eastern France. It is also the chef-lieu (administrative centre) of the arrondissement of the same name. Sedan is notable as the site of two major battles between the armed forces of France and Germany, both of which were won by Germany.
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 ...
The defeat at Sedan and the capture of Napoleon III and France's second line army, and with the first line French Army shut up in Metz, sealed the doom of France, thus decided the outcome of the war in Prussia's favor. [26] By 19 September, the Prussian Third and Fourth Armies went on to besiege Paris. [27]
The Sedan subsector comprises two distinct lines, with fortified houses close to the border and a line of blockhouses along the line of the Meuse. The houses were built in 1938 by the Military Works organisation ( Main d'Oeuvre Militaire (MOM) ), while the blockhouses were built primarily by the Army Engineer Service ( Service Technique du ...
The Meuse and its crossings were a key objective of the Battle of France, the Battle of Sedan and also for the last major German WWII counter-offensive on the Western Front, the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944 and January 1945.
Michelin Maps published a map after the war with the exact route of the line. The plotting of the demarcation line led to some aberrations. For example, in Indre-et-Loire it ran along the course of the Cher and thus bisected the Château de Chenonceau , which was built on the bed of the river: the main entrance was in the occupied zone, while ...
World War II memorials in France (48 P) World War II museums in France (1 C, 62 P) Pages in category "World War II sites in France" The following 34 pages are in this ...