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22. Aug. 2014 · Hugh Schofield reports on the memorials to those killed in the final week of fighting, as Paris marks 70 years since it was liberated from the Nazis.
The four-year Nazi occupation of Paris finally ended in August 1944 when the Allies, competing for the honor, entered Paris amid cheers.
According to the Allied plans, Paris was not a military objective and the city should be bypassed. But General de Gaulle, the head of the Provisional Government of the French Republic, saw the liberation of the capital as symbolic and hence considered it a political objective: Paris must be liberated by French soldiers. De Gaulle wanted to be seen as the leader of a country that liberated ...
18. Aug. 2019 · On August 19, 1944, French Resistance forces and Allied troops began their liberation of Paris, driving out the last significant Nazi opposition who had been occupying the city since June 22, 1940. Photographers Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bressonand George Rodger – who would come to be three of the four founders of Magnum Photos alongside ...
Immediately after liberation, France was swept by a wave of executions, assaults, and degradation of suspected collaborators, including shaming of women suspected of relationships with Germans. Courts set up in June 1944 carried out an épuration légale (official purge) of officials tainted by association with Vichy or the military ...
12. Juni 2006 · Rumors of civil unrest in Paris and talk of a liberation initiated by the inhabitants prompted Koenig to try to stop activities that might cause social and political upheaval. A revolt in Paris might provoke bloody repression by the Germans. A bloody insurrection could place de Gaulle’s opponents in power.
This historical museum covers Paris during World War II and the Liberation in August 1944. A dramatic time for the City of Light, this museum takes you deep into the era.
