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  2. Armistice of 22 June 1940 - Wikipedia

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    As one of Hitler's few concessions, the French Navy was to be disarmed but not surrendered, for Hitler realised that pushing France too far could result in France fighting on from the French colonial empire. An unoccupied region in the south, the Zone libre, was left relatively free to be governed by a rump French administration based in Vichy.

  3. Compiègne Wagon - Wikipedia

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    However, after the successful invasion of France, Adolf Hitler had the wagon moved back to the exact site of the 1918 signing for the 1940 signing due to its symbolic role. The wagon was later destroyed near the end of World War II, most likely by the SS .

  4. Paris Peace Treaties, 1947 - Wikipedia

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    A Finnish postage stamp from 1947 commemorating the Paris Peace Treaty Finland was restored to its borders of 1 January 1941 (thus confirming its territorial losses after the Winter War of 1939–1940), except for the former province of Petsamo , which was ceded to the Soviet Union .

  5. Paris in World War II - Wikipedia

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    Through the offices of the Swedish Consul-General, Raoul Nordling, he ignored Hitler's orders and arranged a truce. In the afternoon of the 25th he traveled from his headquarters in the Hôtel Meurice to the Montparnasse train station , the headquarters of General Leclerc, where, at about 3:00 in the billiards room of the station staff, he and ...

  6. Events preceding World War II in Europe - Wikipedia

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    On 16 March 1935, Hitler ignored the Versailles Treaty and ordered Germany to re-arm, reintroducing military conscription. The treaty had limited the German Reichswehr to 100,000 men with few arms. These steps produced nothing more than official protests from the United Kingdom and France; they were more serious about enforcing the economic ...

  7. List of treaties - Wikipedia

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    Secret treaty between France and the Duke of Savoy for military alliance prior to War of the Polish Succession. Treaty of the Escorial: First of the Bourbon Family Compacts between France and Spain, agreeing to mutual defense and military alliance in the conquest of Italian territories held by the Habsburgs. 1736 Treaty of Constantinople (1736)

  8. 6 October 1939 Reichstag speech - Wikipedia

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    Hitler then made vague threats of Germany (with the Soviets) projecting its power into southeastern Europe. [2] Shifting tone, Hitler then offered the olive branch of peace to France and Britain. He condemned war as an enterprise where all participants were losers after enduring millions of deaths and billions of lost wealth.

  9. Category:Treaties of Nazi Germany - Wikipedia

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    German–Romanian Treaty for the Development of Economic Relations between the Two Countries; German–Soviet Border and Commercial Agreement; German–Soviet Commercial Agreement (1940) German–Soviet Credit Agreement (1939) German–Soviet Boundary and Friendship Treaty; German–Turkish Treaty of Friendship