MAPS OF HISTORY · ON THIS DAY · June 22
THE DAY IN HISTORY · JUNE 22
June 22 in history
1940 — Armistice at Compiègne
22 Jun 1940 — France signs in the same railway carriage used for Germany’s 1918 surrender.
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1941
Barbarossa: 3.6 million men invade the USSR on a 2,900 km front — the largest invasion ever mounted, on the exact anniversary of France’s 1940 armistice.
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