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The Armistice of 22 June 1940 was signed at 18:36〔.〕 near Compiègne, France, by the top military officials of Nazi Germany and more junior representatives from the French Third Republic. They included General Wilhelm Keitel,〔 the commander-in-chief of the Wehrmacht (the German Army), and General Charles Huntziger for the French side. Following the decisive German victory in the Battle of France (10 May–21 June 1940), this armistice established a German occupation zone in Northern and Western 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. ==Battle of France== (詳細はParis. The French government was forced to relocate to Bordeaux on 10 June to avoid capture and declared Paris to be an open city the same day. By 22 June, the German Armed Forces (''Wehrmacht'') had losses of 27,000 dead, more than 111,000 wounded and 18,000 missing. French losses were 92,000 dead and more than 200,000 wounded. The British Expeditionary Force apparently lost about 10,000 men: the often seen casualty figure of over 68,000 British men seems to include those killed, those wounded as well as those captured. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Armistice of 22 June 1940」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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