June 22, 1940 is concluded the armistice between IIIe Reich German and the representatives from the French government of Philippe Pétain.
Eager to wash the humiliation of 1918, Hitler requires to sign it in Rethondes, in forest of Compiegne, in the historical coach where the Foch marshal and plenipotentiary German found themselves for the armistice of November 11, 1918.
The chancellor Adolf Hitler assoit in the place where had been held the Foch marshal.
It is surrounded of the marshal Hermann Goering, of the Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, the marshal Wilhelm Keitel and the General Gustav Jodl (this last will sign in Rheims, five years later, the capitulation of its country).
The Keitel marshal presents a text of 24 articles which excludes any claim on the colonies and the fleet from war, to prevent that French colonists and sailors do not find there reason to join themselves the British, still unconquered.
Plenipotentiary French, the Huntziger General, in a message with the French government, does not see under the conditions of armistice "anything which is, directly contrary with the honor in particular for the point considered [ the fate fleet war ]".
