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When and where was the Franco-German Armistice signed in 1940?
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Adolf Hitler (center) in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris shortly after signing an armistice with France, June 1940.
The Franco-German Armistice was signed on June 22, 1940. The signing took place at Rethondes, near Compiègne, in the same railway carriage where the armistice of November 11, 1918, had been concluded.123