Nazi German invasion of France in 1940
Documented facts
- Date
- 10 May 1940 (Gregorian) — 25 June 1940 (Gregorian)
- Precision
- Day
- Referenced location
- Luxembourg
- Source coordinates
- 49.7700°, 6.1300°
- Part of
- World War II
Referenced participants
- French Third Republic ↗
- Nazi Germany ↗
- Kingdom of Italy ↗
- French colonial empire ↗
- Belgium ↗
- United Kingdom ↗
- Canada ↗
- Kingdom of the Netherlands ↗
- Luxembourg ↗
- Czechoslovak government-in-exile ↗
- Poland ↗
Documented participation does not establish opposing sides. Alliances absent from the sources are not reconstructed.
People and command
- Maurice Gamelin — documented command · Source ↗
- Alphonse Georges — documented command · Source ↗
- Maxime Weygand — documented command · Source ↗
- Gerd von Rundstedt — documented command · Source ↗
- Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb — documented command · Source ↗
- Albert Kesselring — documented command · Source ↗
- Fedor von Bock — documented command · Source ↗
- Walther von Brauchitsch — documented command · Source ↗
- Heinz Guderian — documented command · Source ↗
- Hugo Sperrle — documented command · Source ↗
- Umberto II of Italy — documented command · Source ↗
- Leopold III of Belgium — documented command · Source ↗
- John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort — documented command · Source ↗
- Henri Winkelman — documented command · Source ↗
- Władysław Sikorski — documented command · Source ↗
- Maurice Gamelin — documented participation · Source ↗
- Wolfram von Richthofen — documented participation · Source ↗
- Maxime Weygand — documented participation · Source ↗
- Walther von Brauchitsch — documented participation · Source ↗
- Heinz Guderian — documented participation · Source ↗
- Erwin Rommel — documented participation · Source ↗
- Hermann Hoth — documented participation · Source ↗
- Erich von Manstein — documented participation · Source ↗
- Adolf Opálka — documented participation · Source ↗
- Josef Valčík — documented participation · Source ↗
- Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist — documented participation · Source ↗
- Otto Deßloch — documented participation · Source ↗
- Charles de Gaulle — documented participation · Source ↗
- Lothar Rendulic — documented participation · Source ↗
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