The Franco-German Armistice formally ending hostilities between France and Germany during World War II is signed. The armistice resulted in the division of France into occupied and unoccupied zones, with the French State, becoming a collaborationist government under the leadership of Marshal Philippe Pétain.
The French government that replaced the Third Republic was often referred to as the Vichy regime. The signing took place in the same railway carriage at Compiègne where the 1918 Armistice ending World War I had been signed, a deliberate act by Hitler to humiliate France. The armistice came into effect on June 25, 1940, six hours after the Italian government notified Germany of their own armistice with France.
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