GERMANS REVEL IN FRANCE’S DEFEAT
Berlin, Germany • July 19, 1940 Military operations between France and the Axis powers—that is, Germany and Italy—ended on June June 25, 1940. A week and a half earlier, on June 14, the German Wehrmacht (armed forces) marched unchallenged into the nearly deserted French capital of Paris under skies heavy with soot from the oil reserves the…