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June 22, 1940: Franco-German armistice signed.

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With an invading German force at its door in mid-June 1940, the French government under the leadership of Marshal Philippe Pétain signed an armistice with Germany on this day. The agreement provided for the maintenance of a quasi-sovereign French state and for the division of the country into an occupied zone (northern France plus the western coast) and an unoccupied southeastern zone. Vichy France (the “French State”) was made responsible for the German army's occupation costs. The French army ...