In a crushingly swift campaign, Germany humiliated France in just six weeks during World War 2, exposing the utter inadequacy ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: The eventual course of World War II put an especially bad light on the decision of the French military and political hierarchy to cease resistance against Germany ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: France had an opportunity to throw a serious wrench in Hitler’s plans. France surrendered to the Nazis in 1940 for complex reasons. The proximate cause, of course ...

The Allied forces of World War II were more than ready to accept a Nazi surrender, but when they realized they might have left a potential loophole for Germany to continue fighting the Soviet ...

The Allies landed more than 2 million troops in northern France from June 6, 1944, to Aug. 21, 1944, according to Navy.mil.

Germany tried twice in the 20th century to conquer Europe and very nearly achieved that goal in World War II. In fact, not since Napoleon did any one country control so much of the continent. Here ...