Hitler Exacts Revenge on France

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Adolf Hitler, on June 21, 1940, forced France to surrender in the same location and railway carriage in the Compiegne forest where the Germans had signed the armistice ending World War I in 1918. The WWI defeat had been humiliating for Germany, and Hitler's swift conquest of France turned German public opinion strongly in his favor.

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