What town in northern France was where the French leaders surrendered to Germany on June 221940?

Answer 1

== == Compiegne. But it is important to understand that the French did not surrender. They accepted an armistice, which is a fancy word for cease fire. The legal difference between surrender and cease fire had important consequences in how the allies conducted the rest of the war.

Answer 2

In June 1940. In the three first weeks of June, the French army suffered a death toll of 60,000, including an infantry division completely crushed while protecting the reimbarkment of the British Expeditionary Force in the pocket of Dunkirk. The Belgian forces suffered at the same time around 12,000 casualties.

The French signed the armistice on 22 June 1940 at Compiegne.

Answer 3

The French Government did not surrender. They to negotiated an armistice, Hitler selected Compiègne Forest near Compiègne as the site for the negotiations. As Compiègne was the site of the 1918 Armistice ending the Great War with a humiliating defeat for Germany.

Answer 4

The French surrender of WW2 was signed on June 22, 1940, in the very same location and in the same railcar the Germans had to surrender at the end of WW1, at Compiègne, France

Answer 5

The French Government did not surrender. They to negotiated an armistice, Hitler selected Compi

Answer 6

Compiègne.

The Nazis insisted on Compiègne because at the end of the first World War, the German capitulation was received there.