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The Armistice of 22 June 1940 — The armistice signed in the Rethondes carriage
Hitler demanded the Rethondes clearing and had the 1918 carriage taken from its museum: France signed in the very place Germany had signed — the calculated humiliation, twenty-two years on. The country was cut in two zones, three fifths occupied. (Editorial synthesis)
The Armistice of 22 June 1940 took place in Compiègne. (source: Base Mérimée and Encyclopædia Britannica)
The Armistice of 22 June 1940 ended in the French delegation received by Hitler in the very carriage of the 1918 armistice. (source: Larousse)
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