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Events on Saturday 22 June 1940 2
1940Armistice of CompiègneFrance signs an armistice with GermanyOn 22 June France signed an armistice with Germany in the railway carriage at Compiègne where Germany had signed the 1918 armistice. Germany occupied northern and western France, and a nominally sovereign French state kept the south. A separate armistice with Italy followed on 24 June.
1940France surrendersArmistice signed in Compiègne forestFrance signed an armistice with Germany on June 22, 1940, in the same railway carriage where Germany had surrendered in 1918. Northern France was occupied; a collaborationist government ruled the south from Vichy.