The German Armistice Commission (german: Waffenstillstandskommission, WAKO) was a military body charged with supervising the implementation of the Franco-German Armistice, signed on 22 June 1940, in

German-occupied France The Military Administration in France (german: Militärverwaltung in Frankreich; french: Occupation de la France par l'Allemagne) was an interim occupation authority established by Nazi Germany during World War II to administer the occupied zo ...

during World War II.United States Department of State, Publication No. 6312 The armistice came into effect at the same time as the Franco-Italian Armistice on 25 June monitored by a comparable Italian Armistice Commission. The commission's seat was at Wiesbaden in Germany, in the building that is now the

Hessian State Chancellery Hessische Staatskanzlei (Hessian State Chancellery) is located in Mitte, Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany. The former Grand Hotel Rose is the seat of the government of the State of Hesse. The Acting Head of the Hessian State Chancellery has been Axel ...

. The German Armistice Commission was created under Article 22 of the Armistice which stated that the "Armistice Commission, acting in accordance with the direction of the German High Command, will regulate and supervise the carrying out of the armistice agreement. It is the task of the Armistice Commission further to insure the necessary conformity of this agreement with the Italian-French armistice." In addition, the "French Government will send a delegation to the seat of the German Armistice Commission to represent the French wishes and to receive regulations from the German Armistice Commission for executing

he agreement He or HE may refer to: Language * He (pronoun), an English pronoun * He (kana), the romanization of the Japanese kana へ * He (letter), the fifth letter of many Semitic alphabets * He (Cyrillic), a letter of the Cyrillic script called ''He'' in ...

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* United States Department of State, Publication No. 6312, Documents on German Foreign Policy 1918-1945, Series D, IX, 671-676. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1956. * {{Authority control Vichy France French collaboration during World War II Military history of France during World War II Military history of Germany during World War II 1940 establishments in Europe 1942 disestablishments in Europe Organizations established in 1940 Organizations disestablished in 1942 Government agencies established in 1940 Government agencies disestablished in 1942 1940 establishments in France 1942 disestablishments in France 1940 establishments in Germany 1942 disestablishments in Germany

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