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| | Military history of France during World War II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | France formally surrendered to Germany on June 25, 1940, and a collaborationist government, led by Philippe Pétain and centered in Vichy, France, was established. |
 | | France wanted to punish Germany for four years of horrible fighting, but, while she retrieved Alsace-Lorraine and earned promises of a demilitarized region west of the Rhine, she was not allowed to keep her troops in Germany. |
 | | France was divided into a German occupation zone in the north and west and a puppet collaborationist government in the south, to be based in the spa town of Vichy, dubbed Vichy France, and led by Petain. |
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