How Did The Nazi German Troops Invasion Vichy France?

1942 was the year that Nazi German troops invaded Vichy France. Vichy France is the common name of the French State headed by Marshal Philippe Pétain during World War II. It represented the unoccupied Free Zone in the southern part of metropolitan France and theoretically, the French colonial empire. On this day in 1942, German troops invaded Vichy France.
Which has been previously freed of an Axis military presence. Since July 1940, upon being invaded and defeated by the Nazi milerty, the autonomous French state had been split into two regions. One was occupied by German troops, and the other was unoccupied, governed by a more or less puppet regime centered in Vichy, a spa region about 200 miles southeast of Paris, and led by General Philippe
When Allied forces arrived in North Africa to team up with the Free French Forces to beat back the Axis occupiers, and French naval crews, emboldened by the Allied initiative, scuttled the French fleet at Toulon, in southeastern France, to keep it from being used by those same Axis powers, Hitler retaliated. In violation of the 1940 armistice agreement, German troops moved into southeastern-Vichy, France. From that point forward, Petain became virtually useless, and France merely a future gateway for the Allied counteroffensive in Western Europe, namely, D-Day. After more than four years of Nazi occupation, Paris is liberated by the French’s 2nd Armored Division and the U.S. 4th Infantry Division. German resistance was light, and General Dietrich von Choltitz, commander of the German garrison, defied an order by Adolf Hitler to blow up Paris’s landmarks and burn the city to the ground before its liberation. Choltitz signed a formal surrender that afternoon, and on August 26 Free French General Charles de Gaulle led a joyous liberation march down the Champs
The next day, the 2nd Armored Division advanced on the city from the north and the 4th Infantry Division from the south. Meanwhile, in Paris, the forces of German General Dietrich von Choltitz were fighting the resistance and completing their defenses around the city. Hitler had demanded that the city not fall into Allied hands except as “a field of ruins.” Choltitz dutifully began laying explosives under Paris’ bridges and many of its landmarks, but disobeyed an order to commence the destruction. He did not want to go down in history as the man who had destroyed the “City of Light”–Europe’s most celebrated city. The 2nd Armored Division ran into heavy German artillery, taking heavy casualties, but on August 24 managed to cross the Seine and reach the Paris suburbs. There, they were greeted by enthusiastic civilians who besieged them with flowers, kisses, and wine. Later that day, Leclerc learned that the 4th Infantry Division was poised to beat him into Paris proper, and he ordered his exhausted men forward in a final burst of energy. Just before midnight on August 24, the 2nd Armored Division reached the Hótel de Ville in the heart of