I bought the game on Steam. I think it's not the German version. The game doesn't freeze if I play a country which is not involved in the events aroung the french capitulation. For example, if I load my save game, playing with Hungary, the game goes on without problems... However, I would like to play with germany...
Edit:
As I bought game on the Steam, I installed the patch as you mentioned on the patch's thread:
1. I've copied all the game files from the steam directory, to a new one.
2.First, I've applied patch 1.02b2, because the time I downloaded the game from Steam, the final release of 1.02 patch was not available.
3.Then, I installed the final release of the 1.02.
Sorry, but I told that it doesn't freeze if I play with Hungary. I've tested the game again, and it still freezes at the french or at the belgian capitulation. It doesn't matter which country I choose. I've tried it with Brazil, Hungary, and Romania but it froze every time I tried it...