What date did the Armistice of 22 June 1940 take place?
The negotiations lasted one day until the evening of the 22nd of June 1940. The cease-fire went into effect at 00:35 on the 25th of June 1940.
Questions about Armistice of 22 June 1940
Short answers, pulled from the story.
Who signed the Armistice of 22 June 1940 for France and Germany?
General Charles Huntziger led the French delegation during the signing process while General Wilhelm Keitel represented Germany. Adolf Hitler selected Compiègne Forest as the negotiation site and sat in the same chair Marshal Ferdinand Foch had occupied in 1918.
How many casualties occurred during the fighting before the Armistice of 22 June 1940?
Military losses for France reached 92,000 dead and over 200,000 wounded during this period. The British Expeditionary Force suffered 68,000 casualties with around 10,000 killed and Germany reported 27,000 dead plus more than 111,000 wounded personnel.
What zones did German occupation create after the Armistice of 22 June 1940?
German occupation covered three-fifths of metropolitan France north and west of a line through Geneva and Tours. The remaining two-fifths of southern and eastern France became an unoccupied region called Zone libre administered by a collaborationist government based in Vichy.
Where was the rail carriage from the Armistice of 22 June 1940 destroyed?
The railway carriage went to Berlin as a trophy of war along with pieces of a large stone tablet before SS troops destroyed its remains there and buried them in Crawinkel in Thuringia in 1945.