73,000 killed 240,000 wounded 15,000 missing[g] 1,756,000 captured 2,233 aircraft lost[23] 1,749 French tanks lost[h] 689 British tanks lost[i]
Total: 2,084,000
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1941–1943
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Strategic campaigns
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France
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Montcornet
Maginot Line
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Dunkirk
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Afsluitdijk
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Belgium
Fort Eben-Emael
K-W Line
Dyle Plan
David
Hannut
Gembloux
Lys
Ypres–Comines Canal
Luxembourg
Schuster Line
The Battle of France (French: bataille de France; 10 May – 25 June 1940), also known as the Western Campaign (German: Westfeldzug), the French Campaign (Frankreichfeldzug, campagne de France) and the Fall of France, during the Second World War, was the German invasion of France, that notably introduced tactics that are still used. France and the Low Countries were conquered, ending land operations on the Western Front until the Normandy landings on 6 June 1944.
On 3 September 1939, France declared war on Germany following the German invasion of Poland. In early September 1939, France began the limited Saar Offensive but by mid-October had withdrawn to their start lines. German armies invaded Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and France on 10 May 1940.
In Fall Gelb ("Case Yellow"), German armoured units made a surprise push through the Ardennes and then along the Somme valley, cutting off and surrounding the Allied units that had advanced into Belgium to meet the German armies there. British, Belgian and French forces were pushed back to the sea by the Germans; the British and French navies evacuated the encircled elements of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) and the French and Belgian armies from Dunkirk in Operation Dynamo.
German forces began Fall Rot ("Case Red") on 5 June 1940. The sixty remaining French divisions and the two British divisions in France made a determined stand on the Somme and Aisne rivers but were defeated by the German combination of air superiority and armoured mobility. German armies outflanked the Maginot Line and pushed deep into France, occupying Paris unopposed on 14 June. After the flight of the French government and the collapse of the French Army, German commanders met with French officials on 18 June to negotiate an end to hostilities. Italy entered the war on the German side on 10 June 1940 and attempted an invasion of France.
On 22 June 1940, the Second Armistice at Compiègne was signed by France and Germany. The neutral Vichy government led by Marshal Philippe Pétain replaced the Third Republic and German military occupation began along the French North Sea and Atlantic coasts and their hinterlands. The Italian invasion of France over the Alps took a small amount of ground and after the armistice, Italy occupied a small area in the south-east. The Vichy regime retained the zone libre (free zone) in the south. Following the Allied invasion of French North Africa in November 1942, in Case Anton, the Germans and Italians took control of the zone until France was liberated by the Allies in 1944.
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^ abcUmbreit 2015, p. 279.
^ abcdHooton 2007, pp. 47–48.
^ abZaloga 2011, p. 73.
^ abcFrieser 1995, p. 400.
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^Sheppard 1990, p. 88.
^Hooton 2010, p. 73.
^Murray 1983, p. 40.
^Healy 2007, p. 85.
^Zaloga 2011, p. 76.
^Sica 2012, p. 374.
^Porch 2004, p. 43.
^Rochat 2008, para. 19.
^Gorce 1988, p. 496.
^Quellien 2010, pp. 262–263.
^French 2001, p. 156.
^Archives, The National. "The National Archives | World War II | Western Europe 1939-1945: Invasion | How worried was Britain about invasion 1940-41?". archive.wikiwix.com.
^Dear & Foot 2005, p. 96.
^Ellis 1993, p. 255.
^Jacobson, 2015, nopp
^"Inauguration du Monument érigé à la Mémoire des Morts de la Force Armée de la guerre de 1940–1945" (PDF). Grand Duché de Luxembourg Ministére D'État Bulletin D'Information (in French). Vol. 4, no. 10. Luxembourg: Service information et presse. 31 October 1948. p. 147. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 January 2017. Retrieved 22 May 2020.
^Hooton 2007, p. 90.
^Fennell 2019, p. 115.
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