On June 18, General de Gaulle's call to continue fighting against Hitler's Germany will be celebrated.
On the same day, Molotov, on behalf of Stalin, expressed to the German ambassador in Moscow the
"warmest congratulations of the Soviet government for the splendid successes of the German armed forces"
(
Nazi-Soviet relations 1939-1941
, German archives published by the US State Department in 1948).
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A widely known date, June 18 relegated to the shadows that of June 14, the day Paris was invaded by the Wehrmacht.
France had just suffered an
"incredible defeat",
an
"unprecedented disaster"
(Marc Bloch,
L'Étrange Défaite
).
The news caused
intense emotion as it symbolized the omnipotence of the German armies on the continent.
By learning or attending this entry, some preferred to kill themselves.
A bewilderment effect spread throughout the world.
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