Case Anton

Case Anton
	Part of World War II
	; Panzertruppen watching a burning French warship, probably Colbert
Date	10–27 November 1942; (2 weeks and 3 days)
Location	France
Result	Axis victory Military occupation of the Zone libre; Division of the Zone libre between Germany and Italy; Failure to capture the French fleet;
Belligerents
Germany; Italy	Vichy France
Commanders and leaders
Johannes Blaskowitz; Mario Vercellino	Philippe Pétain; Pierre Laval; Jean de Laborde

Case Anton (German: Fall Anton) was the military occupation of France carried out by Germany and Italy in November 1942. It marked the end of the Vichy regime as a nominally-independent state and the disbanding of its army (the severely-limited Armistice Army), but it continued its existence as a puppet government in Occupied France. One of the last actions of the Vichy armed forces before their dissolution was the scuttling of the French fleet in Toulon to prevent it from falling into Axis hands.