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10th July 1940: The Vichy government established in France

10th July 2025
Tagged as: France, Germany, Hitler, Occupation, Petain, Second World War, Vichy

The Vichy government was established in France after the National Assembly approved a new French Constitutional Law that granted full powers to Marshal Pétain.

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22nd June 1940: France signs the Second Armistice of Compiègne with Nazi Germany which signals the Fall of France

22nd June 2024
Tagged as: Armistice, Compiegne, France, Germany, Nazi, Nazi Germany, Petain, Second World War, Vichy

Adolf Hitler seized the opportunity to inflict a symbolic humiliation on the French by signing the armistice in the same location, and in the same railway carriage, as the armistice of the First World War.

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10th July 1940: The Vichy government established in France

22nd June 1940: France signs the Second Armistice of Compiègne with Nazi Germany which signals the Fall of France

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