The German military occupation authority (Militärverwaltung in Frankreich, headquartered at the Hôtel Majestic in Paris) that governed the zone occupée — northern France and the whole Atlantic coast — from the 1940 armistice, extending over the former zone libre after November 1942.
Effectively dissolved in the liberation of France, August-September 1944; Paris freed 25 August 1944 and authority passed to the GPRF (france_free_france_provisional).
The atlas holds 3 border frames for German Military Administration in France (zone occupée) — the shape you scrub through changes in 1940 · 1942 · 1943.
The standard English-language history of occupied France — covers the occupation zones, the demarcation line and the military administration directly.
Broad but genuine survey of German occupation regimes across Europe; situates the French military administration among the Reichskommissariats and annexed zones.