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Refugees Flee Paris
Taking only what they could carry, civilians flee Paris in 1940 in anticipation of the German invasion. Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain ceded control of northern France to Germany in an armistice signed on June 25, 1940.
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Paris (city, France); World War II
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