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France surrenders at Compiegne...
France surrenders at Compiegne...
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June 21, 1940
FITCHBURG SENTINEL, Fitchburg, Massachusetts, June 21, 1940
* Adolph Hitler
* Surrender of France
* Compiegne Armistice
This 20 page newspaper has a banner headline on the front page: "Hitler's Terms Read To French As Fuehrer Listens In Triumph" with subheads. Other news, sports and advertisements of the day. A few tiny binding holes along spine, otherwise nice.
wikipedia notes: The Second Armistice at Compiègne was signed at 18:50 on 22 June 1940 near Compiègne, in the department of Oise, between Nazi Germany and France. Following the decisive German victory in the Battle of France (10 May–21 June 1940), it established a German occupation zone in Northern France that encompassed all English Channel and Atlantic Ocean ports and left the remainder "free" to be governed by the French. Adolf Hitler deliberately chose Compiègne Forest as the site to sign the armistice due to its symbolic role as the site of the 1918 Armistice with Germany that signaled the end of World War I with Germany's surrender.
Category: The 20th Century
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