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How Hitler Invaded France In Just 6 Weeks | WW2 Story

This narrative chronicles the stunning German conquest of France in just six weeks during May-June 1940—a campaign so rapid and complete that it reshaped World War II's strategic balance and convinced Hitler that his military judgment was superior to his generals. The campaign began May 10th with simultaneous invasions of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg, and ended June 25th with France signing armistice in the same railway car where Germany had surrendered in 1918, a humiliation carefully orchestrated by Hitler to symbolize the reversal of Germany's World War I defeat. General Heinz Guderian's XIX Panzer Corps executed the decisive Meuse River crossing at Sedan on May 13th, the critical action that shattered French defenses. The German plan, developed by General Erich von Manstein and reluctantly accepted by the High Command after Hitler's intervention, called for the main armored thrust through the Ardennes Forest, crossing the Meuse near Sedan, then driving westward toward the English Channel to cut off Allied armies advancing into Belgium from their supply lines. The plan was operationally brilliant but extremely risky, requiring precise execution and speed giving French forces no time to organize effective response. Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt's Army Group A concentrated the majority of Germany's panzer divisions in a force designed for breakthrough and rapid exploitation, violating traditional doctrine that would have distributed tanks across the entire front. The invasion began with airborne assaults on Fort Eben-Emael in Belgium, partially deceptive attacks designed to draw Allied forces northward into Belgium where French Commander-in-Chief General Maurice Gamelin expected the main German attack. Plan D moved the best French and British forces away from the sector where the actual German main effort would strike.