France shocked the world by signing an armistice with Nazi Germany just six weeks after the invasion began despite having Europe’s largest army on paper. This video explores the rapid collapse, ...

REIMS, France (AP) — When Allied forces brought World War II in Europe and the Holocaust to an end 80 years ago this week, AP reporters and photographers were there, chronicling the Nazis ...

France surrenders to Germany. Germany annexes the French provinces of Alsace and Lorraine and installs a puppet government in southern France based in the town of Vichy, from which the new ...

The path to victory By the time France fell to the Nazi “Blitzkrieg” on June 25, 1940, Hitler’s forces controlled most of Europe and were threatening to invade Britain. But the war in Europe ...