Military Commander in France
The Military Commander in France (MBF) was the head of the military administration in the German-occupied zone after the armistice agreement between the German Reich and France of June 22, 1940.
The headquarters of the military commander in France was in the Hotel Majestic on avenue Kléber in Paris .
The military commander was subordinate to five military administrative districts with headquarters in Saint-Germain-en-Laye , Angers , Dijon , Bordeaux and Paris.
Military commander
- October 1940 to February 1942: Otto von Stülpnagel
- February 1942 to July 1944: Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel
- From July 1944 to October 4, 1944 Karl Kitzinger
Walther von Brauchitsch and Otto von Stülpnagel (right) in Paris
See also
literature
- Gaël Eismann: Hôtel Majestic: Ordre et sécurité en France occupée (1940–1944). Tallandier, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2847346602 .
- Walter Bargatzky: Hotel Majestic: A German in occupied France. Foreword by Peter Scholl-Latour , Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau / Basel / Vienna 1987, ISBN 3-451-08388-4 (autobiography).