Occupied France

In the Northern zone, the Germans act as they hear it. Alsace-Lorraine is attached to " Large Germany ". The area of Lille is also detached from France and depends on the military governor of Brussels. An area closed with the return of the refugees of the exodus is finally installation: it facilitates German colonization.

Identity check to the passage of the line of demarcation (southern zone)

In May 1940, the striking down offensive of the German armoured tanks causes soon the rout of the French Army and the exodus of civil on the roads. The government Paul Reynaud succeeds a Pétain government, which asks for the armistice as of June 17, 1940: France is shared in several zones. A " line of demarcation " separates the " occupied " zone from the " free " zone where seat the Pétain government, in Vichy.
In the north of this line, occupied France itself is divided into three zones: the occupied zone itself, the zone under direct German administration, attached to Belgium, and the annexed zone (Haut-Rhin, the Low-Rhine and the Moselle, already detached of France, at the end of the war of 1870 and until 1918). These three departments, subjected to a strong pressure assimilationnist, are integrated into IIIe Reich; a border separates them from France.
North and Pas-de-Calais depend on the German administration in Brussels; from the point of view of " new Europe ", Hitler thought of integrating them into Belgium to constitute an industrial province, while it assigned in France a very rural vocation.