Short answers, pulled from the story.
The German military administration began on the 22nd of June 1940 following the Fall of France and formally ended in December 1944. The occupation officially concluded after Allied forces liberated most territory by summer 1944, though some zones remained under control until May 1945.
Colonel General Wilhelm Keitel represented the Third Reich while General Charles Huntzinger spoke for Marshal Philippe Pétain's French government at the Rethondes clearing in Compiègne Forest. This agreement divided the country into an occupied zone and a southern free zone under Vichy sovereignty until November 1942.
Slightly below seventy-seven thousand five hundred Jews died during the war after deportation to death camps according to counts drawn under Serge Klarsfeld. Out of three hundred fifty thousand Jewish residents in 1940, somewhat less than a quarter perished during the occupation period.
Conditions required paying costs for a 300,000-strong occupying army amounting to twenty million Reichsmark daily. An artificial exchange rate established one Reichsmark equaling twenty francs facilitated organized plunder of French resources.
By November 1942, Operation Torch prompted Germany to occupy the previously unoccupied south, renaming it the south zone. This event ended the existence of the free zone that had been under Vichy sovereignty since June 1940.