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Germany and France have fought a number of different wars.

In the Franco-Prussian War of 1871, the Prussians (later the Germans) defeated France and forced the French to cede the provinces of Alsace and Lorraine to Germany.

In World War I, the French spent the entire war (1914-1918) unsuccesfully trying to expel the Germans from French soil. Although the Germans still occupied some French territory by the time they surrendered (11 November 1918), they were militarily defeated. After the war, France recovered Alsace and Lorraine, as well as militarily occupying the Ruhr Valley region near the border.

In World War II, the French were rapidly defeated by the Germans and surrendered on 22 June 1940. Germany occupied the northern 2/3 of France then, and then occupied all of the country in November 1942.

The Allies launched an invasion of France on D-Day, 6 June 1944. They were ultimately successful in forcing the Germans out of France, although it took some months. Paris was liberated on 25 August and all French soil had been freed by December 1944.

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Was it good when the french troops left the Ruhr or bad?

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