Henri Philippe Petain17 June 1940
Asks the Germans for an Armistice
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Asks the Germans for an Armistice
Signs an armistice with the Germans in the Foch railway carriage of 1918
The Vichy Government has to pay reperations & disarm the Navy held in French ports
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