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World War II: France's zone libre is occupied by German forces in Case Anton.
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Zone libre
Territory administered by Vichy France during World War II
The zone libre was a partition of the French metropolitan territory during World War II, established at the Second Armistice at Compiègne on 22 June 1940. It lay to the south of the demarcation line and was administered by the French government of Philippe Pétain based in Vichy,…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Case Anton
Military occupation of France in WWII
Case Anton was the military occupation of Vichy France carried out by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy in November 1942. It marked the end of the Vichy regime as a nominally independent state and the disbanding of its army, but it continued its existence as a puppet government in…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)