Editing Fall Rot (section)

==Aftermath==
===Casualties===
''[[Wehrmacht]]'' casualties from 10 May to 31 August 1940 were 31,747 killed, 121,507 wounded and 22,753 missing.{{sfn|Umbreit|2015|p=304}} The ''Wehrmacht'' admitted 156,492 casualties from 10 May to 30 June, including 45,458 men killed or missing, 7,000 from the ''Luftwaffe'', 800 being aircrew who were killed. The Germans suffered 57 per cent of their casualties during Fall Rot.{{sfn|Forczyk|2019|p=409}}

===Second BEF evacuation===
{{Further|Operation Cycle|Operation Aerial}}
The evacuation of the second BEF took place during [[Operation Aerial]] between 15 and 25 June. The ''Luftwaffe'', with complete domination of the French skies, was determined to prevent more Allied evacuations after the Dunkirk debacle. {{lang|de|[[1st Air Corps (Germany)|Fliegerkorps I]]}} was assigned to the Normandy and [[Brittany]] sectors.  On 9 and 10 June, the port of Cherbourg was subject to 15 [[tonnes]] of German bombs, while [[Le Havre]] received 10 [[Bombing of France during World War II|bombing attacks]] that sank 2,949 [[Gross register tonnage|GRT]] of escaping Allied shipping. On 17 June, [[Junkers Ju 88]]s (mainly from {{lang|de|Kampfgeschwader}} 30) sank a "10,000&nbsp;tonne ship" which was the 16,243 GRT liner {{RMS|Lancastria||6}} off St Nazaire, killing some 4,000 Allied personnel (nearly doubling the British killed in the Battle of France), yet the {{lang|de|Luftwaffe}} failed to prevent the evacuation of some 190,000–200,000 Allied personnel.{{sfn|Hooton|2008|p=88}}

===Armistice===
{{Main|Armistice of 22 June 1940}}
[[File:Hitler and german-nazi officers staring at french marechal foch statue 21 June 1940.png|thumb|Hitler (hand on hip) staring at [[Marshal of France|Marshal]] [[Ferdinand Foch|Foch]]'s statue. The [[Glade of the Armistice]] was later destroyed (except Foch's statue) by the Germans.]]
Discouraged by the hostile reaction in the cabinet to a [[United Kingdom|British]] proposal for a [[Franco-British union#World War II (1940)|Franco-British Union]] and believing his ministers no longer supported him, Prime Minister [[Paul Reynaud]] resigned on 16 June. He was succeeded by [[Marshal of France|Marshal]] [[Philippe Pétain]], who delivered a radio address to the French people, announcing his intention to ask for an [[armistice]] with Germany. When Hitler received word from the French government that they wished to negotiate an armistice, he selected the [[Forest of Compiègne]], the site of the [[Armistice with Germany (Compiègne)|1918 Armistice]], as the venue.{{sfn|Evans|2000|p=156}}

On 21 June 1940, Hitler visited the site to start the negotiations, which took place in the railway carriage in which the 1918 Armistice was signed.{{sfn|Dear|Foot|2001|p=326}} After listening to the preamble, Hitler left the carriage in a calculated gesture of disdain for the French delegates and negotiations were turned over to [[Wilhelm Keitel]], the [[Chief of Staff]] of [[Oberkommando der Wehrmacht]] (OKW). The armistice was signed on the next day at 6:36&nbsp;p.m. (French time), by General Keitel for Germany and General [[Charles Huntziger]] for France and came into effect at 12:35&nbsp;a.m. on 25 June, once the Franco-Italian Armistice had been signed, at 6:35&nbsp;p.m. on 24 June, near Rome.{{sfn|Frieser|2005|p=317}}

====Italy====
[[Kingdom of Italy|Italy]] declared war on France and Britain on the evening of 10 June, to take effect just after midnight. The two sides exchanged air raids on the first day of war but little transpired on the [[Alps|Alpine]] front, since both France and Italy had adopted a defensive strategy. There was some skirmishing between patrols and the French forts of the {{lang|fr|[[Ligne Alpine]]}} exchanged fire with their Italian counterparts of the {{lang|it|[[Vallo Alpino]]}}. On 17 June, France announced that it would seek an armistice with Germany and on 21 June, with a Franco-German armistice about to be signed, the Italians launched a general offensive all along the Alpine front, with the main attack in the northern sector and a secondary advance along the coast.{{sfn|Frieser|2005|p=317}} The offensive was conducted by 32 Italian divisions and penetrated a few kilometres into French territory, against the [[Army of the Alps#20th Century|Army of the Alps]] (General [[René Olry]]) which held the frontier with three divisions. The coastal town of [[Menton]] was captured but on the Côte d'Azur the invasion was held up by a French NCO and seven men.{{sfn|Horne|1982|p=631}} On the evening of 24 June, a [[Franco-Italian Armistice]] was signed at [[Rome]] and came into effect at the same time as the [[Armistice of 22 June 1940|Second Armistice at Compiègne]] with Germany (22 June),  just after midnight on 25 June.{{sfn|Frieser|2005|p=317}}