German armies outflanked the intact Maginot Line and pushed deep into France, occupying Paris unopposed on 14 June. The sixty remaining French divisions and the two British divisions in France made a determined stand on the Somme and Aisne rivers but were defeated by the German combination of air superiority and armoured mobility. German forces began Fall Rot ("Case Red") on 5 June 1940. British, Belgian and French forces were pushed back to the sea by the Germans the British and French navies evacuated the encircled elements of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) and the French and Belgian armies from Dunkirk in Operation Dynamo. In Fall Gelb ("Case Yellow"), German armoured units made a surprise push through the Ardennes and then along the Somme valley, cutting off and surrounding the Allied units that had advanced into Belgium to meet the German armies there. German armies invaded Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and France on. In early September 1939, France began the limited Saar Offensive but by mid-October had withdrawn to their start lines. On 3 September 1939, France declared war on Germany following the German invasion of Poland. France and the Low Countries were conquered, ending land operations on the Western Front until the Normandy landings on 6 June 1944. The Battle of France ( French: bataille de France 10 May – 25 June 1940), also known as the Western Campaign ( German: Westfeldzug), the French Campaign ( German: Frankreichfeldzug, French: campagne de France) and the Fall of France, was the German invasion of France during the Second World War.
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