History & Warfare Now
Date: 25/04/25
History & Warfare Now

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Battlefields

Battlefields

The Liberation of Paris - 1946/7/2023

August 1944. For four years, the Swastika flag flew over Paris in a time of deprivation, humiliation, and repression. Despite Hitler's vow to destroy Paris rather than surrender it, Parisians rose up to play a crucial role in driving the Nazis out. General Charles de Gaulle now returned to Paris to address the people in a moment of national reconciliation, "the greatest hours of our History."