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===French fleet at Toulon (1942)===
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In November 1942, in an operation codenamed ''[[Case Anton]]'', Nazi German forces occupied the so-called "[[Vichy France|Free Zone]]" in response to the Allied landing in North Africa. On 27 November they reached [[Toulon]], where the majority of the [[French Navy]] was anchored. To avoid capture by the Nazis (Operation Lila), the French admirals-in-command ([[Jean de Laborde|Laborde]] and [[André Marquis|Marquis]]) decided to [[Scuttling of the French fleet at Toulon|scuttle the 230,000 tonne fleet]], most notably, the battleships ''[[French battleship Dunkerque|Dunkerque]]'' and ''[[French battleship Strasbourg|Strasbourg]]''. Eighty percent of the fleet was utterly destroyed, all of the [[capital ship]]s proving impossible to repair.  Legally, the scuttling of the fleet was allowed under the terms of the [[Armistice with France (Second Compiègne)|1940 Armistice with Germany]].