Taking Paris 1940. France is at the point of occupation by German troops. Lineya, as if she didn’t steal
Even during the Second World War, when Free France was under occupation by the German armies, the residence of the collaborationist order of Free France was located, I which is what the Vishya regime was called.
Marshal Foch's carriage. Wilhelm Keitel and Charles Hünziger at the hour of the signing of the armistice, 22 June 1940A holidaymaker, a companion to the enemy of my historians – a collaborator – such people are in the skin war. At the rocks of the Other World, soldiers crossed the other side of the gate, the military forces sprang up, and other powers restlessly occupied the side of those who had bombarded and killed them just yesterday. The 22nd of 1940 became the day of the destruction of France and the triumph of Germany.
After a month-long struggle, the French recognized the miserable defeats of the German troops and agreed to a truce. In truth, there was a proper capitulation. Hitler insisted that the armistice be signed in the Kompen Forest, in the same carriage in which Germany signed its humiliating capitulation in the First World War in 1918.
The Nazi leader suffered from overcoming. Vin left the carriage, having heard the preamble to the text of the truce and defiantly left the gathering. The French had a chance to say goodbye to the idea of negotiations, the truce was signed in the mind of Nimechchin. France was divided into two parts, at one time from Paris it was occupied by Germany, and today from the center near the town of Vishi. The Germans allowed the French to formulate their new order.
photo: Philippe Pétain at a meeting with Adolf Hitler, June 24, 1940 Before the speech, at that hour most of the French giants were gathered on the day. The Russian writer and emigrant Roman Gul later guessed the atmosphere of the 1940s in the daylights of France:
“All the villagers, winegrowers, craftsmen, grocers, restaurateurs, café garsons and perukars and soldiers who run like a wade - everyone wanted one thing - something for the future, just so that this fall into the bottomless abyss would end.”
Everyone in the Duma had only one word “truce”, which meant that the Germans would not march to the Day of France, would not cross here, would not quarter their troops here, would not take away their food, bread, grapes, and wine. And so it happened, the day of France was deprived of a free, albeit unreasonable, insecurity and would fall into the hands of the Germans. While the French were still hopeful, they believed that the Third Reich would retain the full sovereignty of France, that it would be too early for the Vishya regime to unite the country, and the hope was that the Germans would now There may be two million French troops.
The head of the collaborationist order of France, Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain (Henri Philippe Pétain, 1856-1951), transports French soldiers discharged from the camp in Niemecchin, at the train station of the French city of Rouen. All this will bring into life the new head of France, who will be endowed with indispensable new things. The hero of the First World War, Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain, became the most important man in the country. At that time, youmu was already 84 years old.
This Pétain fought on the capitulation of France, wanting the French government after the fall of Paris to leave Africa and continue the war with Hitler. Ale Peten zaproponuv pripinit opir. The French decided to try to turn the country into ruins, but such a decision turned out not to be a mess, but a disaster. This is a very important period in the history of France, which was not conquered or rooted.
A group of French military troops walks straight from the street to the assembly point. In the photo: left-handed - French sailors, right-handed - Senegalese riflemen of the French colonial forces. What kind of policy Pétain is pursuing became clear from his speech on the radio. In their brutality before the nation, they called on the French to ally with the Nazis. In this promotion, Pétain was the first to use the word “collaborationism”, which is used in all languages today and means one thing – cooperation with the enemy. This is not just a bias against Germany, but also Pétain, who marked the share of the still free France.
French soldiers with raised hands surrender to German troops Before the Battle of Stalingrad, all Europeans respected that Hitler would rule for a long time and everyone was less likely to conform to the new system. There were only two culprits, namely Great Britain and, of course, the Radian Union, which believed that I would be able to defeat the fascist Germany, and the country was either occupied by the Germans, or was in an alliance.
The French read the beast of Charles de Gaulle on the 18th of June 1940 on the wall of a booth near London. As you wait until the new power, you must decide for yourself. If the Army of Chervona was rapidly marching down, industrial enterprises were trying to be sent to the Urals, and if they did not arrive, they were supported so that Hitler would not get the last conveyor line. The French decided differently. A month after the capitulation, French businessmen signed the first agreement with the Nazis for the supply of bauxite (aluminum ore). The success was so great that even before the start of the war with the USSR, then through the river, Germany rose to the first place in the world with the production of aluminum.
It’s not paradoxical, but after the actual capitulation of France, the affairs of the French entrepreneurs went badly, the stinks of German planes began to arrive, aircraft engines before them, practically all the locomotive and workspace industry They worked exclusively for the Third Reich. The three largest French automobile companies, as before, have immediately reoriented themselves to the production of vans. It was recently reported that around 20% of Germany's vintage vehicle fleet was manufactured in France during the war.
German officers are in a cafe on the street of occupied Paris, reading newspapers, and townspeople. German soldiers are passing behind them, officers are waiting to sit. For the sake of justice, it must be noted that sometimes Pétain allowed himself to sabotage the punishments of the fascist regime. So, in 1941, the head of the Vish order ordered the withdrawal of 200 million copper-nickel coins from five francs and at that time, if the nickel was valued by strategic material, only the nickel was used for military purposes Because of his industry, his armor was broken. In other countries, more than one European country did not extract nickel from carved coins. As soon as the German authorities learned about Pétain’s order, all the coins were recovered and taken away for melting.
In other diets, Pétain’s zeal was rich in the inspiration of the Nazis themselves. Thus, the first anti-Jewish laws appeared in modern France even before the Germans began to covet such approaches. It turns out that in ancient France, which was under the rule of the Third Reich, fascist religion has so far made do with anti-Jewish propaganda.
Anti-Semitic caricature during the German occupation of France There was a photo exhibition in Paris, where the guides lucidly explained why Jews are the enemies of Germany and France. The Parisian press, as the French wrote under the dictation of the Germans, fought with hysterical cries until the Jews were depleted. The propaganda quickly bore fruit, and whiskey began to appear outside the café about those that had been fenced off to “dogs and Jews.”
While today the Germans taught the French to hate Jews, today the Vish regime has already given Jews civil rights. Now, under the new laws, Jews had no right to occupy the state's estates, to work as doctors, teachers, they could not practice unruliness, in addition, Jews were prohibited from using telephones and riding bicycles. At the metro, the stench could only travel into the rest of the train car, and in the store the stench had no right to get into the underground room.
In truth, these laws were reflected not by the fear of the Germans, but by the imperious looks of the French. Anti-Semitic sentiments existed in France long before the Second World War, the French respected the Jews of the people as a bygone, non-native people, and they could not become good citizens, so they would not be able to remove them from their marriage. . However, there was no mention of those Jews who had lived in France for a long time and the small French population, only about the refugees who came from Poland and Spain during the hour of the enormous war.
French Jews at the Austerlitz station are about to be deported from occupied Paris. After the end of the First World War, throughout the 20s, many Polish Jews migrated to France through economic crisis and unemployment. In France, stinks began to take over the working place of the indigenous population, which caused a special burial among them.
After Pétain signed the first anti-Jewish decrees, within a few days thousands of Jews found themselves without work and without the means to live. Well, everything was thought out here, such people were immediately assigned to special pens, in which Jews were to work for the benefit of the French marriage, to clean and order places, to follow the roads. Before such pens they were insured with Primus, they were treated with the stench of Viyskov, and the Jews lived in camps.
Arrest of Jews in France, September 1941 For an hour the situation continued to deteriorate during the night, and suddenly it spread to the whole of free France. From the very beginning, the Germans forced the Jews to wear yellow mirrors. Before the speech, one textile company immediately saw 5 thousand meters of fabric for sewing. Then the fascist church voiced the obligatory registration of all Jews. Later, when roundups began, this helped the Swedish authorities find and identify the Jews they needed. And although the French were by no means supporters of the physical poverty of the Jews, just as the Germans ordered the collection of the entire Jewish population from special points, the French ruler again reportedly issued an order.
Varto respect that Vishya’s order helped the German side and worked for all the brute work. Zokrem, Jews were registered by the French administration, and the French gendarmerie helped deport them. To be more precise, the French police did not kill the Jews, but rather arrested and deported them to the Auschwitz concentration camp. Of course, this does not mean that your order was responsible for the Holocaust, but rather was an accomplice of Germany in these processes.
The Germans quickly moved on to deporting the Jewish population, and the French simply stopped talking. Before their eyes, entire Jewish families, neighbors, acquaintances, friends and everyone knew that there was no turning point for these people. There were weak attempts to stop such actions, but if people realized that the German machine could not be overcome, they themselves would shout at their friends and acquaintances. The so-called quiet mobilization has begun to rise in the country. The French helped the Jews escape from the convoy, rally, and receive communion.
Summer of a Jewish woman on the streets of occupied Paris. Until now, Pétain’s authority, both among ordinary Frenchmen and among German potters, had been seriously stolen, people stopped trusting him. And if on the 42nd Hitler decided to occupy all of France, and the Vish regime turned into a puppet power, the French realized that Pétain could not protect them from the Germans, the Third Reich still came to the day of France . Later, on the 43rd, when it became clear to everyone that Germany was losing the war, Pétain tried to contact allies in the anti-Hitler coalition. The German reaction was even harsher, the Vesha regime was immediately strengthened by Hitler’s proxies. In Pétain’s order, the Germans introduced true fascists and ideological collaborators from among the French.
One of them was the Frenchman Joseph Darnand, a true follower of Nazism. The price is due for the establishment of a new order, for strengthening the regime. In his time, he was involved in the prison system, the police and the police for punitive operations against Jews, support and simply opponents of the German regime.
The Wehrmacht patrol is preparing to listen to the fighters. The support is near the sewers of Paris. Now Jewish raids took place everywhere, the biggest operation began in Paris around 1942, the Nazis cynically called it the “spring wind.” Vaughn was assigned on the 13th to the 14th, but the plan had to be adjusted, the 14th is celebrated in France as “Bastille Day”. It is important to know what day it is, if you want one tough Frenchman, and the operation was carried out by the French police, the date had to be adjusted. The operation took place according to the familiar scenario - all Jews were rounded up in one place, and then taken to death camps, and the fascists delivered ambiguous instructions to every Vikonite, all townspeople were to blame think about what this French wine is all about.
On the fourth morning of the 16th summer, a raid began, a patrol arrived at the Jews' home and took their families to the winter velodrome "Vel-d" IV. By noon, nearly seven thousand people had gathered there, including thousands of children. Among them were one Jewish boy Walter Spitzer, who later guessed... We spent five days in this place, it was scorching hot, the children were taken away from their mothers, there were no hedgehogs, there was only one water tap for everyone, and even the necessary toilets.. Together with dozens of other little ones, Walter’s daughter was crowned by the Russian blueberry “Mother Mary,” and when the boy grew up he became a sculptor and created a memorial to the victims of “Vel-d”Iv.
Laval (left-handed) and Karl Oberg (chief of the German police and SS in France) near Paris When in 1942 there was a great result of Jews from Paris, children and children were brought from the place, without any German side, this was the proposal of the French, more precisely Pierre Laval, another protege of Berlin. After weaning all children until the age of 16, they will be sent to concentration camps.
At the same time, the French government actively supported the Nazi regime. In the 42nd generation of the Third Reich from the labor reserves, Fritz Sauckel returned to the French order from the labor force. Germany urgently required costless labor force. The French immediately signed the treaty and gave the Third Reich 350 workers, and the last regime of the Great Patriotic War continued, Pétain’s government ended compulsory labor service, and all the French of conscript age were little inclined to work until Germany. From France, salubrious wagons with live goods pulled in, but few of the young mountains were deprived of fatherly goods, many of them leaked, hovered or walked at the opera houses.
The French were greatly respected for living better, being consistent, not standing and fighting the occupation. On the 44th, they were already disgraceful for such a position. After the liberation of the country, no one from the French wanted to remember the ruinous loss of the war and the conflict with the occupiers. And then General Charles de Gaulle came to the rescue, having created a lot of fates, all the while promoting the myth that the French people at the hands of the occupation, as one whole taking their share in the operation. In France, trials began on those who, having served as Germans, appeared before the court and Pétain, were spared throughout the century and in lieu of death from their previous misfortunes.
Tunisia. General de Gaulle (left hand) and General Mast. Cherven 1943 The trials of the collaborators did not last long, and they completed their work in the summer of 1949. After President de Gaulle pardoned a thousand prisoners, the 53rd generation was granted amnesty. Just as in Russia there are so many collaborationists who served with the Germans, in France such people already in the 50s turned to extreme living.
As the Second World War passed into history, the French appeared more heroic in this past Viysk, without anyone knowing about the advance of Germany with power and technology, not about the race at the Paris velodrome . From Charles de Gaulle and all his successes, the presidents of France, right up to François Mitterrand, did not respect that the French Republic was responsible for the atrocities committed by the Vesha regime. Just before 1995, the new President of France, Jacques Chirac, at a rally at the memorial to the victims of “Veille d'Év”, first called for the deportation of Jews and called on the French to repent.
In this wartime state, there is little determination as to who they will fight for and who they will serve. The neutral edges could not lose their sides. Signing millions of contracts from Germany, they made their choice. However, the most provocative position of the United States was likely to be on June 24, 1941, when the incoming President Harry Truman declared: “As long as we are confident that Germany is winning the war, we must help Russia, since we are winning Russia, we must to help Germany, and stop the stink, how can you drive one more one thing, all for the good of America!
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On the day of change of order in Great Britain May 10, 1940 The German offensive began on the Western Front. Bypassing the French defensive Maginot Line, German divisions invaded the territory of Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg and went on the offensive to France. With a strong jealousy of forces, the Germans were successful in ensuring a tactically competent division of the division, massaging tank formations in the direct line of the head attack and preventing the enemy from breaking through the front.
At the end of the 1914 campaign, the German offensive flared up not so much to Paris, but to the sea. On May 20, the German troops reached the shores of the Pas de Calais and turned to the Anglo-French troops, having lost 28 divisions. allies. The unstoppable advance of the German offensive led to the evacuation of the Allied forces from the port of Dunkirk to the British. islands(“The Miracle of Dunkirk”). Bulo vryatovano 338 thousand. people, Ale wasted in greatness.
Nezabar the Hitlerites sent their forces to Paris. Today, the French troops had the opportunity to repel the attacks of the Italian army (on 10 June 1940, Italy declared war on France), and at night and daytime they supported the Wehrmacht units.
On the 14th of June, the German troops advanced to Paris without a fight, the order of the ducks at Bordeaux, Prime Minister Paul Reynaud changed the hero First Light War Marshal Pétain, Having immediately started negotiations about a truce. 22 chervenya 1940 R. At the famous headquarters carriage in Compénée, a truce between Germany and France was signed.
The new French order benefited from the German occupation of most of the country, the demobilization of perhaps the entire army and the transfer of Germany and Italy to the French naval fleet and military aircraft. ї. The place where Pétain’s regime came into being was the small French-French town of Vichy, and its regime, which took a course towards cooperation with the occupiers (collaboration), dropping the name “Vichy regime”.
The French general Charles de Gaulle, who settled in England, condemned the regime of Pétain and called on the French to continue supporting Hitler's Germany.
At the hour of the burying of France, the Versailles decisions hated by Hitler were annulled, and the Fuhrer rested at the zenith of his glory. Material from the site
The success of the Germans in France was based not on the transport of troops in number and formed, but on the small division of German divisions, if they appeared in numerical majority in a weak point and the Allied front. The massacre and the quick stagnation of German tank formations ensured a breakthrough at the front, and this success then gradually developed. The failure of the Allies at first turned out to be strategic - the French armies were in complete danger, their generals lost control over communications and transfers of entire armies. Every soldier in such a situation cannot fight successfully.
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BATTLE OF FRANCE 1940 rock.
After the defeat of Poland at Veresna 1939. The German commands were faced with the task of conducting an offensive campaign against France and Great Britain on the Western Front. The initial plan for the invasion of France (“Gelb”), which would transfer the knowledge of the head attack through Belgium in the Liege area, to the proposal of General von Manstein, having recognized the fundamental changes. This was due to the fact that the plan became known to the Anglo-French command after a German plane with an officer, who was in possession of secret documents, had landed on the territory of Belgium. A new version of the campaign plan was handed over to the head of the attack through Luxembourg - Ardennes directly to Saint-Quentin, Abbeville and saving the English Channel. The closest thing was to dismember the Anglo-French front, and then, in cooperation with the forces that were advancing through Holland and Belgium, to defeat the further grouping of the allied armies. Next, it was planned to bypass the main forces of the enemy with a frontal approach, defeat them, take Paris and disrupt the French line until capitulation. At the Franco-German cordon, covered by the prominent French defensive Maginot Line, demonstrative actions were about to take place.
For the invasion of Holland, Belgium and France, 116 German divisions (including 10 tank, 6 motorized and 1 cavalry) and over 2,600 tanks were deployed. The Luftwaffe force, which supported the ground forces, numbered over 3,000 airmen.
The Anglo-French war plan (“Plan Dille”) was expanded so that the Germans, as in 1914, would deliver their head strike through Belgium. Coming from this, the Allied command decided to immediately remove the fortifications on the Maginot Line and immediately carry out a maneuver with the forces of two French and one British armies to Belgium. Under the cover of the Belgian army, which was defending on the Albert Canal and in the Liège fortified area, the French would push out on the Meuse River, and the British on the Diele River, covering Brussels and creating a strong front from Wavre to Louvain. The plans of the Belgian and Dutch commands included conducting defensive operations along the lines of cordons and in fortified areas until the approach of the allied forces.
France, Great Britain, Belgium and Holland flared up against Germany with 115 divisions (including 6 tank and mechanized and 5 cavalry), over 3,000 tanks and 1,300 infantry. Thus, for approximately the same number of divisions, the German armored forces had little superiority over the allies in men and aircraft and sacrificed them for a number of tanks. However, since the Allies had most of their tanks distributed between armies and corps at the depot of separate battalions and companies, all German tanks were stationed at the depot of tank divisions, which were formed simultaneously with motorized infantry divisions in a special case that gave a great impact force. Before that, the Germans had significantly outmaneuvered their opponents with technical advancement, at the same time as combat training and military strength.
Invasion to Belgium and the Netherlands
May 10, 1940 On Svitanka, the German armies launched a general offensive on the Western Front. Luftwaffe planes bombed the main Allied airfields near Holland, Belgium and Southern France. At the same time, the Dutch and Belgian armies launched airborne landings to bury airfields, cross over and nearby ports. About the 5th year of the 30th century, on the front from the Pivnichny Sea to the Maginot Line, the Wehrmacht's ground forces went on the offensive. Army Group B of Field Marshal von Bock launched an offensive in Holland and the southern part of Belgium. VIISKA 18-ARMIA General von Kühler, ShO DIYALIA on the right flanz, on the first day they closed the Pivnik-Skhіdni Provinziy, the Ukripili Positions on the RICHTSIL NEISEL. At the same time, the left-flank united armies, which were attacking directly Arnhem and Rotterdam, broke through the Dutch border fortifications and the defensive line of Pel and began to quickly move in.
May 12, 1940 The German troops managed to break through the fortified Grabbe line, and the Russian troops wanted to capture Harlingen.
May 13, 1940 The troops of the 7th French Army of General Giraud, who had entered Pivdennaya Holland until now, were no longer able to support the Dutch and began to move into the Antwerp area. On the same day, the German troops reached Rotterdam and met with the parachutists stationed in that area. After the fall of Rotterdam, the Dutch line fled to London, and the army capitulated, giving the Germans the Hague and the Territory of the Territory without a fight.
The troops of the 6th German Army of General von Reichenau launched an offensive in Belgium in two directions: towards Antwerp and Brussels. Underneath the strongholds of the Belgian troops, the stench broke through the border lines and until the end of the first day, on a wide front, they forced the Meuse and the Albert Canal into their lower reaches.
May 11, 1940 From the wound, the Germans began fighting for the Volodin with the Liege fortified area and positions along the Albert Canal. The paratroopers were of great help to the ground troops as they managed to paralyze the main fort of Liege Eben-Emael and destroy the bridge across the Albert Canal near Maastricht. As a result of the double fighting, the Germans broke through the Belgian positions and, leaving Liege at night, began advancing towards Brussels. At that time, the advanced units of the British Expeditionary Forces under the command of General Gort began to approach the river Dille, and between the Valar, Gembloux - the troops of the 1st French Army, which on the 13th of May broke up with the Rukhoms. yami 6th Army of the Germans.
May 14, 1940 The French were pushed as far as the Dille River, where they immediately went on the defensive with the British.
Break in the Ardennes
May 10, 1940 The attack of Army Group A of General von Rundstedt also began, which led the head attack through the Belgian Ardennes and Luxembourg. The 4th Army of General von Kluge and the tank corps of General Hoth, which was advancing on the right flank of Army Group A, the weakest support of the Belgian troops, broke through the border lines and positions on the River Urth in two days of fighting.
May 13, 1940 Developing an attack on the way in, the German army's forces reached the Meuse River on the left side of Denan. Having imagined a counterattack by the French troops, they crossed the river and established a bridgehead at the entrance to the birch. On the same day, on the front from Sedan to Namur, intense battles broke out between units of 5 infantry and 2 cavalry divisions of the French and 7 tank and motorized units of the Kleist group. Poorly protected by anti-tank and anti-aircraft forces, the French armies were unable to withstand the enemy's onslaught.
May 14, 1940 The troops of the Goth tank corps and Kleist's group were able to cross the Meuse on the Dilant dilant, Zhiveta at Sedan and push the left flank of the 2nd French Army to Monmedy, Rethel, and the right flank of the 9th Army - to Rocroi. As a result, a 40-kilometer gap was created between the two armies.
May 15, 1940 The French tank and motorized forces of the Germans entered the gap and began to develop an offensive in the direction of Saint-Quentin.
In order to slow down the penetration of the enemy grouping that had broken through, the French command decided to launch attacks on the flanks of this grouping: from the day by the forces of the 2nd Army and from the night - by the motorized units of the 1st Army. Immediately, an order was given to withdraw the 7th Army from Belgium to cover Paris. Prote, the French didn’t get around to coming in again. Being captured on the Dil River by the German 6th and 18th armies, the 1st Army could not viconate the orders of its command. The 2nd French Army tried unsuccessfully to break through from today to Sedan.
On May 17, 1940, the Germans broke through the defenses of the Anglo-French troops on the Dil River and occupied Brussels.
May 18, 1940 Kleist's loosely united group, developing an attack in the opposite direction, reached the Sambre.
Until the end of the first period of fighting, the situation at the front for the Allies was catastrophic. Military control was destroyed, communications were severed. The Rukha army was respected by the majestic numbers of refugees and soldiers of the defeated units. German pilots bombed and strafed military colonies and refugees, as well as Allied aircraft, which in the early days of the campaign had suffered great losses as a result of attacks on airfields, as well as the blameworthy Luftwaffe. However, the effective military PPO of the Germans did not show activity.
May 19, 1940 The commander-in-chief of the French army, General Gamelin, was removed from prison and replaced by General Weygand, this reshuffle did not affect the disruption of military operations, and the formation of the allied armies continued to collapse.
Dunkirk. Evacuation of the Allies.
May 20, 1940 The Germans occupied Abbeville, after which their tank formations turned to the front and began to attack the Anglo-French troops that were in Belgium.
May 21, 1940 German heavy troops reached the English Channel, dismembered the Allied front and destroyed 40 French, British and Belgian divisions in Flanders. The Allied counterattacks to re-establish links with the fragmented groups were not successful, while the Germans continued to feel the pain of death. After the capture of Calais and Boulogne, the ordered allies lost only two ports - Dunkirk and Ostend. In this situation, London ordered General Gort to order the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force to the islands.
May 23, 1940 Trying to stop the German advance, the Allies, with three British and one French brigades, launched a counterattack on the right flank of Kleist's Panzer Group in the Arras area. Doctors, that after two long forced marches and heated battles, the German tank divisions spent up to half of their tanks, Rundstedt increased the number of units until the 25th of May, when the tank formations were eased Kleist and Gotha demanded regrouping and replenishment. Hitler, having arrived at Rundstedt's headquarters on the 24th of May, had this idea in mind, and the tank divisions were standing in front of Dunkirk. Further, to the depletion of the sharpened enemy, it was punished to conduct infantry, and the aviation was punished to mislead the evacuation.
May 25, 1940 The 6th and 18th armies of Army Group B, as well as two army corps of the 4th Army, launched an offensive by reducing the exhaustion of the allied troops. The situation was particularly important on the front of the Belgian army, which was about to capitulate three days later. The German offensive developed even more rapidly.
May 26, 1940 Hitler issued a “stop order” for tank divisions. The defense against the enemy in the tank operation lasted only two days, but the command of the allied forces began to fade away.
May 27, 1940 The German tank forces renewed their offensive, but gained strong support. The German command had a great breakthrough, having lost the ability to push through to Dunkirk on the move, before the enemy could reach their destination.
The evacuation of the Allied forces (Operation Dynamo) took place from the port of Dunkirk, and often from unprotected safety under the protection of the Royal Navy and UPS.
In the hour from 26 May to 4 May, nearly 338 thousand were imported to the British Isles. especially, the number is 139 thousand. There are as many British soldiers as there are French and Belgians. However, all the material parts have been prepared, including 2400 tanks, 700 tanks and 130 thousand. cars were lost to the French coast as trophies of the German army. The district lost nearly 40 thousand. French soldiers and officers captured by the Germans.
In the battles for the Dunkirk bridgehead, the British spent 68 thousand. osib ta 302 letaki. Significant losses were incurred by the fleet: out of 693 ships and vessels that took part in the defeat of the army, 226 English and 17 French were sunk. The Germans spent 130 letakis near Dunkirk.
Battle of Paris.
Immediately after breaking through to the English Channel, the German command began preparing for another stage of the campaign - moving deeper into France (Plan "Rite"), but allowing the French troops to consolidate between the rivers Somme, Oise and En. Even before the hour had sunk to Abbeville and far away from the shores of the English Channel, part of the German forces gradually flared up in front for the day. In the distance, the stench was heard as a result of the transfer of contaminants from the Dunkirk area.
5 rubles 1940 rub. The French right-flank group of Army B attacked the French positions on a wide front. On the first day they decided to force the Somme and the Oise-Ena canal. At the end of the fourth day of the offensive, Kleist’s tank group broke through the French defenses and reached the direction of Rouen.
9 rubles 1940 r. The military groups of Army “A” moved from the front and, regardless of the inveterate support of the French, managed to break through the front on the River Ena before the 11th and reached the Marne in the area of Château-Thiers.
Military activities in the French Alps(Les Alpes). (“Alpine Front”)
On June 10, 1940, when it became clear that the defeat of France was imminent, Italy entered the war against Germany, intending to take Savoy, Nice, Corsica and other territories for its fate. The Italian Zahid Army Group (22 divisions) under the command of Prince Umberto of Savoy began military operations in the Alps on the front, stretching from the Swiss cordon to the Mediterranean Sea. It was resisted by the French Army of the Alps under General Auldry (7 divisions). Surrendering to the Italians for numbers, the French occupied prominent positions, thereby attempting to defeat all enemy attacks. Today, the Italian troops were only able to poke their heads around the border zone.
Access to the Loire.
10 rubles 1940 rub. When fighting began in the Alps, the French army of Reynaud left Paris and moved to Tours (Loire Valley), and then to Bordeaux.
At this hour, the Germans, developing an offensive on all fronts, sent the French armies on a daily march. Army Group B, which crossed the Seine between Rouen and Paris, divided the French left flank into two parts and completed a bypass of the French capital from the approach. At that hour, the troops of the right wing of Army Group “A”, developing an offensive for the day, created a threat to Paris immediately.
Having decided to surrender Paris, the French command sent directives to its three army groups, so that, as far as possible, the stench would not dissipate the forces, they were to go beyond the line of Caen, Tours, the Middle Loire, Dijon, and the natural cordon of the river Lou. Ari decided to create a new defense front . . During the advance, several French units and formations (such as, for example, the 4th Reserve Armored Division) were still rebuilding their support, trying to overwhelm the enemy in rearguard battles.
12 chervenya 1940 r. Paris was abuzz with “the secret place”
14 rubles 1940 r. France Paris without battle occupation by German troops.
Remaining operations of the German army in France during the 1940 campaign.
Taking Verdun(Verdun)
13 chervenya 1940 r. Continuing to develop the offensive in a similar direction, the military group of Army “A” occupied Montmedy and advanced to Verdun.
14 rubles 1940 r. Verdun was captured and the German armies withdrew from the Maginot Line.
At the same time, on the 14th-15th, the division of Army Group C of General von Leeb went on the offensive, which managed to break through the Maginot Line, completing the withdrawal of the French 2nd Army Group.
16 rubles 1940 r. Notifying that the war is completely lost, the French order of Reynaud is sent to the post. Marshal Pétain, having welcomed the new cabinet, urgently asked the German Empire for a truce.
3 17 rubles 1940 r. The French troops began to organize operations and calmly began to return to the day.
18 rubles 1940 r. The remaining parts of the British Expeditionary Force, as well as over 20 thousand, were evacuated from Cherbourg. Polish soldiers.
Until 21 June 1940, the Germans occupied Brest, Nantes, Metz, Strasbourg, Colmar, Belfort and reached the lower reaches of the Loire from Nantes to Troyes.
22 chervenya 1940 r. At the Komp'ensky forest, there, in 1918, at the headquarters carriage of Marshal Foch, delivered to the museum on Hitler's orders, a truce was signed.
Campaign 1940 France was finished.
Expenses of the German army: 27 thousand. killed, 111 thousand. wounded 18.3 thousand. fallen into obscurity.
The allies' expenses amounted to 112 thousand. killed, 245 thousand. wounded and 1.5 million half.
This was the third great victory of the Germans during the Second World War after the defeat of Poland and the occupation of Denmark and Norway. This was achieved entirely by the competent German command of tanks and aircraft, the passive defense strategy of the Allies and the capitulatory position of the political leadership of France.
S.I. Drob'sharply,
Candidate of Historical Sciences
