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June 22, 1940:

Hitler’s Wermacht has overrun France, vanquishing Germany’s historic rival. The British Army has barely escaped at Dunkirk, but it is weakened and now stands alone against the Nazi juggernaut.

The Fuerher comes to Paris to personally preside over France’s humiliating surrender and to tour his newest possession, the ancient city of lights.

Hitler enters the rail carriage in Compiegne, site of the German military's humiliation in 1918, showing open disdain for the French delegation. As the German Fuerher settles into the same chair from which in November 1918 Marshall Foch dictated the terms of armistice to representatives of the German Imperial Army, a powerful bomb goes off, killing Hitler, his entourage, and the gathered French leaders who were about to sign the instrument of capitulation. With Hitler go Rudolph Hess, Herman Goering, Joachim Von Ribbentrop, Walther von Brauchitsch and Wilhelm Keitel.

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