1940 WW II headline display newspaper FRANCE SURRENDER to NAZI GERMANY Compiegne

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1940 WW II headline display newspaper FRANCE SURRENDER to NAZI GERMANY Compiegne:
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1940 WW II headline display newspaper FRANCE SURRENDERs to HITLER \'s NAZI GERMANY in the famous RAILWAY CAR at Compiegne

Please visit our store at the link directly below for HUNDREDS of HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS on sale or at PHOTO-----An ORIGINALNEWSPAPER front page of the Milwaukee Journal (WI) dated June 21, 1940.This has a bold banner headline and a long detailed report of the SURRENDER of FRANCE to Hitler \'s NAZI GERMANY during WW II. There is a large prominent front pagephoto of the famous COMPIEGNE WAGON, the railway car at COMPIEGNE, France where Germany\'s surrender to the Allies at the end of WW I took place and where Hitler used symbolically as the place where France would surrender to him during WW II.

The Armistice of 22 June 1940 was signednear Compiègne, France, by the top military officials of Nazi Germany and more junior representatives from the French Third Republic. They included General Wilhelm Keitel, the commander-in-chief of the Wehrmacht (the German Army), and by General Charles Huntziger for the French side. Following the decisive German victory in the Battle of France (10 May–21 June 1940), 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.

The Compiègne Wagon was the historical wagon in which the First and Second Armistice at Compiègne were signed. After the first armistice was signed in the forest of Compiègne, the wagon was eventually moved to a protective place in a French museum. After the second armistice at Compiègne, the wagon was moved to Berlin to symbolize Germany\'s superiority over France. In the last days of World War II, the SS blew up the wagon with dynamite.

On 11 November 1918, Foch, as Supreme Commander of the Western Front, signed the armistice with Germany in the then-called \"Wagon of Compiègne\". This agreement was the final \"cease-fire\" which ended fighting in the First World War; the other Central Powers having already reached agreements with the Allied Powers to end hostilities.

During the Second World War, Hitler ordered that the wagon be returned to exactly the same location for the signing of the second \"armistice at Compiègne\", on 22 June 1940; this time with Germany victorious. The carriage was moved out of its protective building and returned to the signing-place, which was several metres away and had been marked out as part of the monument. Subsequently, the wagon was taken to Berlin and displayed a week later at the Berlin Cathedral.

This issue is the front page only, NOT the entire newspaper. Great for display purposes !!!

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