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The '''Armistice of 22 June 1940''' was signed at 18:36<ref name = "conv">{{Cite web |url=http://mjp.univ-perp.fr/france/1940armistice.htm |title="Convention d'armistice" – Text of the armistice signed in Rethondes on 22 June 1940 |last=Maury |first=Jean-Pierre |publisher=[[University of Perpignan]] |website=mjp.univ-perp.fr |access-date=11 June 2015}}</ref> near [[Compiègne]], [[France]], by officials of [[Nazi Germany]] and the [[Third French Republic]]. It did not come into effect until after midnight on 25 June.
Signatories for Germany included [[Wilhelm Keitel]], a senior military officer of the [[Wehrmacht]] (the German armed forces), while those on the French side held lower ranks including General [[Charles Huntziger]].<ref name = "conv"/> Following the decisive German victory in the [[Battle of France]] (10 May – 21 June 1940) during [[World War II]], this [[armistice]] established [[Military Administration in France (Nazi Germany)|a German occupation zone in Northern and Western France]] that encompassed about three fifths of [[Metropolitan France|France's European territory]], including all [[English Channel]] and [[Atlantic Ocean]] ports. The remainder of the country was to be left unoccupied, although [[Vichy France|the new regime]] which replaced the Third Republic was mutually recognized as the legitimate government of all of Metropolitan France except [[Alsace-Lorraine]]. The French were also permitted to retain control of all of their non-European territories. Adolf Hitler deliberately chose [[Compiègne Forest]] as the site to sign the armistice due to its symbolic role as the site of the 1918 [[Armistice of 11 November 1918|Armistice with Germany]] that signaled the end of [[World War I]] with [[German Empire|Germany]]'s surrender.
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