During the Battle of Dunkirk in World War II, once glorious French troops were driven into a corner and defeated, falling and being killed in an attack by the Germans. Others were taken prisoner or evacuated from Dunkirk and fled to England.

　　During the Battle of Dunkirk in World War II, once glorious French troops were driven into a corner and defeated, falling and being killed in an attack by the Germans. Others were taken prisoner or evacuated from Dunkirk and fled to England. Marshal Pétain, head of the new French cabinet, through the mediation of the Spanish government, asked the Germans for an armistice, and at 6:50 p.m. on June 22, 1940, General Hunziger signed the armistice for France in the Forest of Compiègne, in the same railroad car in which the 1918 armistice of the First World War was signed.

　The Battle of Dunkirk broke out on May 20, 1940, and Operation Dynamo led to the evacuation of British troops (including Canadian troops) from Dunkirk from May 27 to June 4, 1940, with the support of French troops against German forces. Approximately 338,226 French and Belgian soldiers, including about 120,000 French and Belgian soldiers, were evacuated to England. While some 30,000 more Allied soldiers were rescued, British and French troops suffered heavy losses and abandoned nearly all their equipment.

　As the British troops withdrew from French territory, the British and many French units were surrounded by German troops at Dunkirk. The French forces bought the necessary time to evacuate most of the British troops and some French and Belgian units to England. The French Army, especially the French 12th Motorized Infantry Division at Fort Dune, put up a desperate resistance to the Germans.

　 Dunkirk, a small town on the French coast, was the scene of major military operations during World War II: During the Battle of Dunkirk from May 26 to June 4, 1940, some 338,000 British Expeditionary Force (BEF) and other Allied troops, with German troops closing in evacuated from Dunkirk to England.

　　On June 4, 1940, after the last British rescue boats left the port of Dunkirk, the Germans captured some 40,000 French troops and at least 40,000 British soldiers stranded around Dunkirk. Over the next five years, until the war ended, these numerous prisoners of war were mistreated and slaughtered, abused and mistreated in violation of the Geneva Convention guidelines governing the sick, wounded, prisoners of war, and civilians.On June 28, the SS Totenkopf Division surrendered about 100 men of the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Norfolk Regiment, On June 28, a similar massacre was carried out by the 2nd Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, which had been taken prisoner near Wormhout. They were forced into a barn and slaughtered with grenades.