Fall Rot

Fall Rot (Case Red)
Part of the Battle of France

German Army parade on the Champs-Élysées
Date5−25 June, 1940 (3 weeks)
Location
France
Result German victory
Territorial
changes
Completion of German conquest of France and division of France into free and occupied zones
Belligerents
 Germany  France
United Kingdom
Casualties and losses
10,000–20,000 1,500,000+

Fall Rot (Case Red) was the plan for a German military operation after the success of Fall Gelb (Case Yellow), the Battle of France, an invasion of the Benelux countries and northern France. The Allied armies had been defeated and pushed back in the north to the Channel coast, which culminated in the Dunkirk evacuation. The operation to complete the conquest of France by the German Army began on 5 June 1940.[1] Fall Rot began with a preliminary attack over the river Somme on the Channel Coast to the Seine, beginning on 5 June and the main offensive by Army Group A on 9 June further east over the river Aisne.[1]

  1. ^ a b Frieser 2005, p. 315.

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