page_title: Armistice of 22 June 1940
hierarchical_section_title: Armistice of 22 June 1940
caption_attribution_description: English: Hitler (hand on side) and German high-ranked nazis and officers staring at WWI French marshall Maréchal Foch's memorial statue before entering the railway carriage in order to start the negotiations for the 1940 armistice at Rethondes in the Compiègne forest, France. The armistice will only be signed the next day (June 22), Hitler being absent, by General Keitel on the German side and by General Huntziger on the French side. Screenshot taken from the 1943 United States Army propaganda film Divide and Conquer (Why We Fight #3) directed by Frank Capra and partially based on news archives, animations, restaged scenes and captured propaganda material from both sides. Français&#160;: Hitler (la main au côté), entouré de hauts dignitaires nazis et de généraux, regardant la statue du maréchal Foch, chef des forces alliées de la Première Guerre mondiale, avant d'entrer dans le wagon pour le début des négociations de l'armistice de 1940, dans la clairière de l'Armistice de la forêt de Compiègne à Rethondes (Oise, France). Étaient présents ce jour là coté allemand&#160;: Hitler, Rudolf Hess, le Generalfeldmarschall Göring, le ministre des Affaires étrangères du Reich von Ribbentrop, le Großadmiral Raeder, chef de la Kriegsmarine, le général Keitel, commandant en chef de l'Armée allemande, le général von Brauchitsch, commandant en chef de l'Armée de terre. L'armistice ne sera signé que le lendemain (le 22 juin) en l'absence de Hitler&#160;: par le général Keitel, côté allemand, et par le général Huntziger, côté français. Capture d'écran du film de propagande de l'armée américaine de 1943 Divide and Conquer (Why We Fight #3) réalisé par Frank Capra et basé en partie sur des archives des actualités de l'époque, des animations, des reconstitutions de scènes, et du matériel de propagande capturé provenant des deux bords.
context_page_description: The Armistice of 22 June 1940 was signed at 18:36 near Compiègne, France, by officials of Nazi Germany and the Third French Republic. It did not come into effect until after midnight on 25 June.
  Signatories for Germany included Wilhelm Keitel, a senior military officer, the commander-in-chief of the Wehrmacht, while those on the French side held lower ranks including General Charles Huntziger. Following the decisive German victory in the Battle of France during World War II, this armistice established a German occupation zone in Northern and Western France that encompassed all English Channel and Atlantic Ocean ports and left the remainder "free" to be governed by the French. Adolf Hitler deliberately chose Compiègne Forest as the site to sign the armistice due to its symbolic role as the site of the 1918 Armistice with Germany that signaled the end of World War I with Germany's surrender.
context_section_description: The Armistice of 22 June 1940 was signed at 18:36 near Compiègne, France, by officials of Nazi Germany and the Third French Republic. It did not come into effect until after midnight on 25 June.
  Signatories for Germany included Wilhelm Keitel, a senior military officer, the commander-in-chief of the Wehrmacht (the German armed forces), while those on the French side held lower ranks including General Charles Huntziger. Following the decisive German victory in the Battle of France (10 May – 21 June 1940) during World War II, this armistice established a German occupation zone in Northern and Western France that encompassed all English Channel and Atlantic Ocean ports and left the remainder "free" to be governed by the French.  Adolf Hitler deliberately chose Compiègne Forest as the site to sign the armistice due to its symbolic role as the site of the 1918 Armistice with Germany that signaled the end of World War I with Germany's surrender.
caption: Adolf Hitler (hand on hip) looking at the statue of Ferdinand Foch before starting the negotiations for the armistice at Compiègne, France (21 June 1940)
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