Documentary - 49 mins
Audience - General
Classification - Exempt
Region - 0
Format - PAL
Language - English

Product weight 120g

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After England and France had declared war on German Empire, a front line formed in the west. Germans and Frenchmen stood facing each other on the Siegefried line or on the Maginot line until the end of the "Sit Down" War. In May 1940, a German Major Offensive, involving 3 army divisions and 10 tank regiments began against the Netherlands, Belgium and France. After separating the allied armies, they succeeded in encircling the British expeditionary force in Dunkirk.

This was followed by the battle for France. With their victorious end to the Western campaign, the German army succeeded in a great military victory over a stronger defendant.

The armistice between Germany, Italy and France was signed on the 22nd of June, 1940 in the forest of Compiegne in the former railway carriage of Marshall Foch.

The "Sit Down" War on the Western front from September 1939 to May 1940
Campaign against Belgium and Holland lland
The battle of Dunkirk
The Armistice Agreement in the Forest of Compiegne
Operation Sea Lion
The deployment of German U-boats out of the French Atlantic harbours

(Narrated by Brian Matthews)

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