    
Title: German Army engineers Description: German Army engineers crossing the River Meuse, France, 1940: Nazi Germany invaded the River Meuse area in France in 1940; France surrendered to Germany on June 15, 1940, and a pro-Nazi collaborationist government was set up in the town of Vichy in central France under Philippe Petain (Henri Philippe Benoni Omer Joseph Petain; April 15, 1856-July 23, 1951) from 1940 to 1944; at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials, Petain was convicted of treason and sentenced to death but it was commuted to life imprisonment by Charles de Gaulle (Charles Andre Joseph Marie de Gaulle; November 22, 1890-November 9, 1970), a French general who led the Free French Forces during World War II and after the war became the first president of the French Fifth Republic; Category: World War II Topic: Germany Keywords: attacks, capitulations, defeats, engineers, fascism, fascists, France, German engineers, invasions, Meuse, military offenses, Nazi Germany, Nazis, Nazism, Nuremberg War Crimes Trials, River Meuse, Second World War, surrenders, Third Reich, treason, Vichy government, wars of aggression, World War II, WWII, 1940s. Orientation: Portrait Dimensions: 1350 x 1919 (2.59 MPixels) (1.42) Print Size: 11.4 x 16.2 cm; 4.5 x 6.4 inches File Size: 7.45 MB (7,808,452 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000011250c Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection |
