Battle o Fraunce

In the Seicond Warld War, the Battle o Fraunce, kent as the Faw o Fraunce an aw, wis the successfu German invasion o Fraunce an the Law Kintras, beginnin on 10 Mey 1940, defeatin primarily French forces. The battle consistit o twa main operations. In the first, Fall Gelb (Case Yellae), German airmoured units pushed throu the Ardennes tae cut aff an surroond the Allied units that haed advanced intae Belgium. When Breetish an adjacent French forces wur pushed back tae the sea bi the heichly mobile an well organised German operation, the Breetish govrenment decidit tae evacuate the Breetish Expeditionary Force (BEF) as well as several French diveesions at Dunkirk in Operation Dynamo.

Battle o Fraunce
Pairt o the Wastren Front o the Seicont Warld War
Date 10 Mey – 22 Juin 1940 (1-month, an 12 days) Location Fraunce, Law Kintras Result Decisive Axis victory Replacement o French Third Republic bi Vichy Fraunce
Belligerents
Allies: France  Belgium  Unitit Kinrick  Netherlands  Canadae Poland Czechoslovakie  Luxembourg	Axis:  Germany  Italy (frae 10 Juin)
Commanders an leaders
Maurice Gamelin (till 17 Mey) Alphonse Georges (till 17 Mey) Maxime Weygand (frae 17 Mey) Leopold III  (POW) Lord Gort Henri Winkelman  (POW)	Gerd von Rundstedt Heinz Guderian Fedor von Bock Wilhelm von Leeb Erich von Manstein Erwin Rommel Hermann Hoth H.R.H. Umberto di Savoia
Units involved
Allied armies 1st Airmy Group Seventh Airmy BEF Belgian Airmy Nint Airmy Seicont Airmy 2nt Airmy Group Third Airmy Fowert Airmy Fift Airmy 3rd Airmy Group Aicht Airmy Dutch Army Frae 10 Juin in Alpes: Saxt Airmy	Axis armies (1935–1945) Airmy Group B Aichteent Army Saxt Army Airmy Group A Third Airmy Twelft Airmy Saxteent Airmy Airmy Group C First Airmy Sevent Airmy Frae 10 Juin in Alpes: Airmy Group Wast First Airmy Fowert Airmy
Strenth
Allies: 144 diveesions[1] 13,974 guns[1] 3,383 tanks[1] 2,935 aircraft[2] 3,300,000 truips Alps on 20 Juin ~150,000 French	Germany: 141 diveesions[1] 7,378 guns[1] 2,445 tanks[1] 5,638 aircraft[3][4] 3,350,000 truips Alps on 20 June 300,000 Italians
Casualties an losses
360,000 deid or woondit, 1,900,000 captured 2,233 aircraft[5] Tot: 2,260,000 casualties	Germany: 157,621 casualties[nb 1] 1,236[6]-1,345[10] aircraft destroyed 323[6]-488 aircraft damaged[10] 795 tanks destroyed[11] Italy: 6,029[nb 2] Tot: 163,650 casualties

Efter the widrawal o the BEF, Germany launched a seicont operation, Fall Rot (Case Reid), which wis commenced on 5 Juin. While the depletit French forces put up stiff initial resistance, German air superiority an airmoured mobility owerwhelmed the remainin French forces. German airmour ootflanked the Maginot Line an pushed deep intae Fraunce wi German forces arrivin in an undefendit Paris on 14 Juin. This caused a chaotic period o flicht for the French govrenment an effectively endit organized French militar resistance. German commanders finally met wi French offeecials on Juin 18 wi the goal o the new French govrenment bein an airmistice wi Germany. Chief amang the new govrenment leaders wis Marshal Philippe Pétain recently made Premiere o Fraunce an ane o the supporters o seekin an airmistice wi Germany.

On 22 Juin, an airmistice wis signed atween Fraunce an Germany, which resulted in a diveesion o Fraunce whaurbi Germany wad occupy the north an wast (an keep nearly twa million French soldiers as prisoners in Germany an aw), Italy wad control a smaa Italian occupation zone in the sootheast, an an unoccupied zone, the zone libre, wad be govrened bi the newly fairmed Vichy govrenment led bi Marshal Pétain. Fraunce remained unner Axis occupation till the liberation o the kintra efter the Allied landins in 1944.

Notes

1. 27,074 dead (The final count of the German dead is possibly as high as 49,000 men when including the losses suffered by the Kriegsmarine, because of additional non-combat causes, the wounded who died of their injuries, and the missing who were confirmed as dead.^[6] However this higher figure has not been used in the overall casualty figure), 111,034 wounded, 18,384 missing,^[6][7][8] as well as 1,129 aircrew killed^[9]
2. 1,247 dead or missing, 2,631 wounded, and 2,151 hospitalised due to frostbite^{[citation needit]}; Italian forces were involved in fighting in the French Alps, where severe sub-zero temperatures are common even during the summer.