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Episode 51 - Two Frances
This episode of History Date Night covers June 22nd through the 28th. For France this is the week the armistice with Germany is signed, and a second, smaller armistice with Italy follows. Hitler tours a conquered Paris and orders all memory of the German defeat in WW1 destroyed. Charles de Gaulle makes another broadcast from London and receives formal British recognition. The Soviet Union reaches deeper into Eastern Europe. And across an ocean, the Americans begin to realize that this war may not remain an entirely European affair.
Between the 22nd and the 28th of June, 1940, the map of…
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