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The Battle of France (French: bataille de France; 10 May – 25 June 1940), also known as the Western Campaign (German: Westfeldzug), the French Campaign (Frankreichfeldzug, campagne de France) and the Fall of France, during the Second World War was the German invasion of the Low Countries (Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands) and France.
5th Panzer Division – Generalleutnant Max von Hartlieb-> 22.5.1940 Generalleutnant Joachim Lemelsen-> 6.6.1940 Generalmajor Ludwig Cruwell; 7th Panzer Division – Generalmajor Erwin Rommel; 62nd Infantry Division – Generalmajor Walter Keiner; Twelfth Army – Generaloberst Wilhelm List (Chief of Staff: Generalleutnant Eberhard von Mackensen)
Over the period of six weeks, from May 10 to June 25, 1940, Nazi Germany had also conquered Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg. Nazi Germany's overall plan was to invade the Low Countries which would make the French and British troops leave their current position and position their forces in Belgium.
This divides France into a Zone occupée in the north and west, under the Military Administration in France (Nazi Germany), and a southern Zone libre, Vichy France. 23 June – Adolf Hitler surveys newly defeated Paris. [1] 24 June – Vichy France signs armistice terms with Italy.
The German invasion of France through the Low Countries began on 10 May 1940. Army Group A fought its way through southern Belgium and north-eastern France. German forces pushed the French Army and the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) to the Meuse on 12 May, crossing it that evening.
The Chasselay massacre was the mass killing of French prisoners of war by German Army and Waffen-SS soldiers during the Battle of France in World War II.After capturing non-white French POWs during the capture of Lyon on 19 June 1940, German troops took approximately 50 black soldiers to a field near Chasselay, and used two tanks to murder them.
[a] Many people in 1940 found the fall of France unexpected and earth shaking. Alexander notes that Belgium and the Netherlands fell to the German army in a matter of days and the British were soon driven back to the British Isles ,
Operation Aerial was the evacuation of Allied military forces and civilians from ports in western France.The operation took place from 15 to 25 June 1940 during the Second World War.