The Armistice of 22 June 1940 was signed at 18:36[1] near Compiègne, France, by officials of Nazi Germany and the Third French Republic. It did not come into effect until after midnight on 25 June. Armistice of 22 June 1940 - Wikipedia
There has been quite a few podcasts about the Fall of France and etc. over the last few weeks... Including for example... https://podbay.fm/p/dan-snows-history-hit/e/1590681559 SHOW NOTES 80 years ago this week, one of the most extraordinary evacuations in military history was under way: 'The Miracle of Dunkirk'. But how, and why, did the Allies find themselves in such a dire position? On this podcast, I was joined by one of the great historians of the Second World War, Peter Caddick-Adams, who took me through The Fall of France and the Low Countries - one of the most catastrophic defeats in military history. In just a couple of weeks, the German army achieved what it had failed to achieve in four years of brutal fighting in The Great War. They had bypassed the Maginot Line and crossed the the River Meuse to encircle much of the Allied forces at the port of Dunkirk. Was it technology, doctrine, or careless mistakes which allowed this to happen? How did each side utilise these events in the propaganda war? We also discussed the remarkable circumstances troops found themselves in - many of whom were fighting and commanding in exactly the same positions as they had in the First Word War, two and a half decades previously. Edit: and... BBC World Service - Witness History, The Fall of Paris The Fall of Paris Witness History In June 1940, German forces, having swept across Belgium and Holland, and into France, were closing in on Paris. In the face of the German army, millions of French, Dutch and Belgians had taken to the roads in one of the biggest exoduses of people the world had ever seen. Witness talks to Daphne Wall, who lived in Paris in 1940 as a young English girl and whose family joined the exodus south as Paris fell. Also... On the armistice... Episode 33-Premier Petain seeks peace. Episode 33-Premier Petain seeks peace. Petain rushes to find peace, giving little thought of the price.
And 24th June 1940... Franco-Italian Armistice - Wikipedia The French-Italian Armistice is also covered a bit here... Episode 35-The question of the French Fleet. | The History of WWII Podcast - by Ray Harris Jr Alternatively... https://podbay.fm/p/the-history-of-wwii-podcast-by-ray-harris-jr/e/1325631600
