Most of France was occupied by an invading German force. Vichy France (in the south) was allowed by Hitler to be controlled by a Vichy Government - Marshal Philippe Pétain's regime 1940-44.
Germany didn't try to colonize France, Germany succeeded in colonizing France in 1940 after the French government surrendered to Germany.
They surrendered to the Germans and the French Vichey Government sided with Germany
France surrendered to Nazi Germany in World War II on June 22, 1940, following the German invasion and occupation of the country. The surrender took place in Compiègne, the same location where Germany had surrendered to the Allies in World War I. The French government, under Marshal Philippe Pétain, signed an armistice with Germany, which divided France into occupied and unoccupied zones.
The British attacked much of it before it could be handed over to Germans.
The economic were that the Germans trashed the French economy. Social, I don't know.
France Surrendered because they wanted to save the Eiffel Tower!It really was not France that surrendered it was the leader of the French who surrendered. The French were furious with him and at the end of the war they tried him in a court for doing what he did. The French wanted to drive the Germans out of their country. During the war they had an exceptionally strong Underground Resistance and the Free French in Britain helped to win WWII.
The French hated Germany because Germany invaded France.
The King of France when the French Revolution happened.
Campiegne!
France surrendered all of its empire in what is now Canada
France surrendered all of its empire in what is now canada
Belgium , Germany , France BTW: they speak french there