What was the Nazis long term goal for France?

According to Wikipedia:

Under the auspices of State Secretary Wilhelm Stuckart the Reich Interior Ministry produced an initial memo for the planned annexation of a strip of eastern France in June 1940, stretching from the mouth of the Somme to Lake Geneva, and on July 10, 1940, Himmler toured the region to inspect its Germanization potential. According to documents produced in December 1940, the annexed territory would consist of nine French departments, and the Germanization action would require the settlement of a million Germans from "peasant families". Himmler decided that South Tyrolean emigrants (see South Tyrol Option Agreement) would be used as settlers, and the towns of the region would receive South Tyrolean place-names such as Bozen, Brixen, Meran, and so on. By 1942 Hitler had, however, decided that the South Tyroleans would be instead used to settle the Crimea, and Himmler regretfully noted "For Burgundy, we will just have to find another [Germanic] ethnic group."

Wikipedia is decently sourced as regards Nazi postwar plans, but I wouldn't use it as a source. For whatever reason each of their articles about crackpot Nazi schemes presents the plan in a total vacuum without the political context of by whom and how it was introduced or how it relates to other crackpot Nazi schemes.
 
Which translates to no coherent plan at all. We can look at Hitler & Ribbentrops foreign policy remarks or memos before France fell. After that its more like a school yard bully & his toads shouting after he has knocked someone down. What might have happened had Britain followed Hitlers expectations in July 1940 is difficult to say. After 1941 its near impossible.

But of course the general chaos of German governance makes it much harder to guess what their actual plans and schemes were. If you read about things like the Morgenthau Plan you can get how it relates to U.S. policy and how likely it or some comparable plan would have been, but there is no way to tell what the Germans might actually have done even if you see the entire plan as it was laid out.
 
From what I've read of the poorly thought out German plans for France they would: re-annex Alsace-Lorraine, merge north-east France and Belgium into a buffer state known as Burgundy that would be jointly ruled by the Belgian Nazi Party and the SS, make Brittany independent, allow Italy to annex south-east France, and allow the rest of France to be ruled by the Vichy Regime.
 
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