Preparations for the signing ceremony of France's capitulation (1940)

The Compiègne carriage being removed through a breach in the museum wall at the "Glade of the Armistice" in the Compiègne Forest, for use in the signing ceremony of the French surrender in June 1940. German soldiers manually push the Compiègne carriage onto the platform; a panorama of the carriage.

Representatives of the Wehrmacht and the French army and navy approach the carriage for inspection in June 1940. German and French soldiers climb onto the carriage's step and enter.

German and French soldiers exit the carriage after inspecting it.

French soldiers enter the gazebo; a German officer closes the curtain behind them.

German soldiers widen the opening in the blown-up wall of the Compiègne carriage museum to remove the carriage.

Drilling into concrete structures with a drill.

The Compiègne carriage before its removal from the museum.

Preparatory work for the removal of the Compiègne carriage from the premises.

German soldiers at the museum building on the "Glade of the Armistice" after the Compiegne carriage was removed from it.