World War II in Photographs
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Abandoned anti-aircraft guns - the
BEF lost all its heavy equipment -
and shrouded dead at Dunkirk.
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Jetsam of defeat: a dead
Allied soldier on the beach.
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German troops securing Dunkirk.
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THE FALL OF FRANCE
The French garrison of Lille fought on while the Dunkirk
evacuation proceeded, but with the collapse in the north the
Germans regrouped and struck southwards. There was more heavy
fighting in the often-neglected part of the campaign. The 51 st
Highland Division, a fine Scots Territorial formation which had
been fighting under French command, was forced to surrender at
St Valery-en-Caux on June 12. The Germans entered Paris on
June 14, and on June 22, an armistice was signed at Rethondes, in
the Forest of Compiègne - scene of the 1918 armistice negotiations.
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German air power was dominant
throughout the campaign. The Junkers Ju 87
Stuka dive-bomber with its characteristic
gull-winged silhouette, acted as "flying
artillery" for advancing German tanks.
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A Fiesler Storch flies over tanks of the 7th
Panzer Division, halted briefly in a valley
just south of the Somme, June 1940.
BELOW
Major General Erwin Rommel, Commander
of 7th Panzer Division, in satisfied mood
at St-Valéry, 12 June. A grim-faced
Major General Fortune of the 51st
Highland Division stands behind him.
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French colonial units fought, some with
great distinction, in the 1940 campaign:
these African troops have become prisoners.
RIGHT
CBS correspondent William Shirer (centre)
types his account of the armistice.
In the background is the hall which
had housed the railway carriage in
which the 1918 ceremony was concluded.
The carriage was taken to Germany
where it was destroyed in an air raid.
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Discarded French helmets and gas
masks, both dating from an earlier war.
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In one of the campaign's most
durable images (note the film
truck in the background) German
troops parade through Paris.
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A German officer discussing
arrangements with a Spanish policeman
on the Franco-Spanish border.
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Hitler triumphant on his only
visit to Paris, June 23, 1940.
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