Liberation of Paris

Short description: Military battle during World War II on 19 August 1944

Not to be confused with the Parisian newspaper Libération.

Liberation of Paris

Part of Operation Overlord of World War II

Parisians line the Champs Élysées for a parade conducted by the French 2nd Armored Division on 26 August 1944.
| Date| 19–25 August 1944
(6 days)

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Location|

Paris and outskirts, France

[ ⚑ ] : 48°52′25″N 2°17′47″E﻿ / ﻿48.8735°N 2.29642°E﻿ / 48.8735; 2.29642
Result|  Free French and allied victory
Territorial
changes|  Paris annexed into the Provisional Government of the French Republic
Belligerents
Template:Country data Provisional Government of the French Republic

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* 11 Background
* 11.1 Preceding events (15–19 August 1944)
* 12 Battle and liberation
* 12.1 FFI uprising (19–23 August)
* 12.2 Allies enter Paris (24–25 August)
* 12.3 German surrender (25 August)
* 12.4 De Gaulle's speech (25 August)
* 12.5 Victory parades (26 and 29 August)
* 12.6 Food crisis
* 13 Aftermath
* 13.1 Legal purge
* 14 Legacy
* 14.1 Anniversaries of the liberation
* 14.2 Homage to the liberation martyrs
* 15 In popular culture
* 15.1 La Libération de Paris
* 15.2 Postal material
* 15.3 Filmography
* 16 See also
* 17 References
* 18 Further reading
* 19 External links

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The Liberation of Paris (French: Libération de Paris) was a battle that took place during World War II from 19 August 1944 until the German garrison surrendered the French capital on 25 August 1944. Paris had been occupied by Nazi Germany since the signing of the Armistice of 22 June 1940, after which the Wehrmacht occupied northern and western France.

The liberation began when the French Forces of the Interior—the military structure of the French Resistance—staged an uprising against the German garrison upon the approach of the US Third Army, led by General George S. Patton. On the night of 24 August, elements of General Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque's 2nd French Armored Division made their way into Paris and arrived at the Hôtel de Ville shortly before midnight. The next morning, 25 August, the bulk of the 2nd Armored Division and US 4th Infantry Division and other allied units entered the city. Dietrich von Choltitz, commander of the German garrison and the military governor of Paris, surrendered to the French at the Hôtel Le Meurice, the newly established French headquarters. General Charles de Gaulle of the French Army arrived to assume control of the city as head of the Provisional Government of the French Republic.

## Background

The Allied strategy emphasised destroying the German forces retreating toward the Rhine, and the French Forces of the Interior (the armed force of the French Resistance), led by Henri Rol-Tanguy, staged an uprising in Paris.

The Battle of the Falaise Pocket (12–21 August), the final phase of Operation Overlord, was still ongoing, and General Dwight Eisenhower, the Supreme Commander of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force, did not consider the liberation of Paris a primary objective. The goal of the US and of British Armed Forces was to destroy the German forces and therefore to end World War II in Europe, which would allow the Allies to concentrate all of their efforts on the Pacific Front.[3]

The French Resistance began to rise up against the Germans in Paris on 15 August, but the Allies were still pushing the Germans toward the Rhine and did not want to get embroiled in a battle for the liberation of Paris. The Allies thought that it was too early to take Paris.[4] They were aware that Adolf Hitler had ordered the German military to completely destroy the city in the event of an Allied attack. Paris was considered to have too great a value, culturally and historically, to risk its destruction. They were also keen to avoid a drawn-out battle of attrition like during the Battle of Stalingrad.[5] It was also estimated that in the event of a siege, 4,000 short tons (3,600 t) of food per day, as well as significant amounts of building materials, manpower and engineering skill, would be required to feed the population after the liberation of Paris. Basic utilities would have to be restored and transportation systems rebuilt. All of those supplies were needed in other areas of the war effort. De Gaulle was concerned that military rule by Allied forces would be implemented in France with the implementation of the Allied Military Government for Occupied Territories. That administration which had been planned by the American Chiefs of Staff had been approved by US President Franklin Roosevelt but had been opposed by Eisenhower.[6] Nevertheless, De Gaulle, upon learning the French Resistance had risen up against the German occupiers and unwilling to allow his countrymen to be slaughtered as was happening to the Polish Resistance during the Warsaw uprising, petitioned for an immediate frontal assault. He threatened to detach the French 2nd Armored Division (2e DB) and to order it to single-handedly attack the German forces in Paris, bypassing the SHAEF chain of command in doing so, if Eisenhower delayed approval unduly.[4]

### Preceding events (15–19 August 1944)

A truck painted with the marks of the FFI and the V for Victory

On 15 August, in the northeastern suburb of Pantin, 1,654 men (among them 168 captured Allied airmen), and 546 women, all political prisoners, were sent to the concentration camps of Buchenwald (men) and Ravensbrück (women), on what was to be the last convoy to Germany. Pantin had been the area of Paris from which the Germans had entered the capital in June 1940.[7][8]

The same day, employees of the Paris Métro, the Gendarmerie and Police went on strike; postal workers followed the next day. They were soon joined by workers across the city, which caused a general strike to break out on 18 August.

On 16 August, 35 young FFI members were betrayed by an agent of the Gestapo. They had gone to a secret meeting near the Grande Cascade in the Bois de Boulogne and were gunned down there.[9]

On 17 August, concerned that the Germans were placing explosives at strategic points around the city, Pierre Taittinger, the chairman of the municipal council, met Dietrich von Choltitz, the military governor of Paris.[10] When Choltitz told them that he intended to slow the Allied advance as much as possible, Taittinger and Swedish Consul Raoul Nordling attempted to persuade Choltitz not to destroy Paris.[11]

## Battle and liberation

### FFI uprising (19–23 August)

FFI uprising on 19 August. One skirmisher is wearing an Adrian helmet.

All over France, since the end of the battle of Normandy, the population had been hearing news of the Allies' advance toward Paris from the BBC and French public broadcaster Radiodiffusion nationale (RN). From 1943, RN had been operating in Paris under the direction of the Vichy propaganda minister Philippe Henriot. On 4 April 1944, four months before the liberation of Paris, the Provisional Government of the French Republic had begun operating its own RN from Algeria. The Provisional Government took over the Paris RN during the liberation on 22 August 1944.[12]

On 19 August, continuing their retreat eastwards, columns of German vehicles moved down the Avenue des Champs Élysées. Posters calling citizens to arm had previously been pasted on walls by FFI members. The posters called for a general mobilisation of the Parisians; argued that "the war continues"; and called on the Parisian police, the Republican Guard, the gendarmerie, the Garde Mobile, the Groupe mobile de réserve (the police units replacing the army), and patriotic Frenchmen ("all men from 18 to 50 able to carry a weapon") to join "the struggle against the invader". Other posters assured that "victory is near" and promised "chastisement for the traitors", Vichy loyalists and collaborators. The posters were signed by the "Parisian Committee of the Liberation", in agreement with the Provisional Government of the French Republic, and under the orders of "Regional Chief Colonel Rol" (Henri Rol-Tanguy), the commander of the French Forces of the Interior in Île de France.

The first skirmishes between the French and the German occupiers then began and the Resistance began to take over buildings in the city, including the Préfecture de Police and the Louvre. Small mobile units of the Red Cross moved into the city to assist French and the German wounded. The same day, the Germans detonated a barge filled with mines in the northeastern suburb of Pantin, setting fire to mills that supplied Paris with flour.[8]

Skirmishes reached their peak on 22 August, when some German units tried to leave their fortifications. At 9:00 a.m. on 23 August, under Choltitz's orders, the Germans opened fire on the Grand Palais, an FFI stronghold, and German tanks fired at the barricades in the streets. Hitler gave the order to inflict maximum damage on the city.[13]

### Allies enter Paris (24–25 August)

File:La Libération de Paris, 1944.ogv

On 24 August, after combat and poor roads had delayed his 2nd Armored Division, Free French general Leclerc disobeyed his direct superior, American V Corps commander Major General Leonard T. Gerow, and sent a vanguard to Paris with the message that the entire division would be there the following day. The 2nd Armored Division was equipped with American M4 Sherman tanks, halftracks and trucks, and the vanguard that Leclerc chose was the 9th Company of the Régiment de marche du Tchad, nicknamed La Nueve (Spanish for "the nine") because of its 160 men under French command, 146 of them were Spanish Republicans.[14] 9th Company commander Captain Raymond Dronne became the second uniformed Allied officer to enter Paris after Amado Granell and the first French officer to reenter the capital.[15]

The 9th Company broke into the centre of Paris by the Porte d'Italie and reached the Hôtel de Ville at 9:22 pm.[16] Upon entering the town hall square, the half-track "Ebro" fired the first rounds at a large group of German fusiliers and machine guns. Civilians went out to the street and sang "La Marseillaise", including as Pierre Schaeffer broadcast the news of the 2nd Armored Division's arrival on a Radiodiffusion Nationale broadcast and then played it. Schaeffer then asked any priests who were listening to ring their churches' bells, and the churches who participated included Notre-Dame de Paris and Sacré-Cœur in Montmartre – whose bells include the Savoyarde, a bourdon that is France's biggest bell.[17] Dronne later went to von Choltitz's command post to request the German surrender.

The 4th US Infantry Division commanded by Raymond Barton also entered through the Porte d'Italie in the early hours of the next day. The leading American regiments covered the right flank of the French 2nd Armoured, turned east at the Place de la Bastille, and made their way along Avenue Daumesnil, heading towards the Bois de Vincennes.[18] In the afternoon the British 30 Assault Unit had entered the Porte d'Orléans and then searched buildings for vital intelligence, later capturing the former Headquarters of Admiral Karl Dönitz, the Château de la Muette.[19]

While awaiting the final capitulation, the 9th Company assaulted the Chamber of Deputies, the Hôtel Majestic and the Place de la Concorde.

With the battle nearing its end, resistance groups brought Allied airmen and other troops hidden in suburban towns, such as Montlhéry, into central Paris.

### German surrender (25 August)

25 August – Armoured vehicles of the 2nd Armored (Leclerc) Division fighting before the Palais Garnier. One German tank is going up in flames.

Despite repeated orders from Hitler that the French capital "must not fall into the enemy's hand except lying in complete debris", which was to be accomplished by bombing it and blowing up its bridges,[20] Choltitz, as commander of the German garrison and military governor of Paris, surrendered at 3:30 p.m. at the Hôtel Meurice. He was then driven to the Caserne de la Cité, seat of the Paris Police Prefecture, where he signed the official surrender, and then to the Gare Montparnasse, where General Leclerc had established his command post, to sign the surrender of the German troops in Paris.[21]

### De Gaulle's speech (25 August)

German soldiers at the Hôtel Majestic, headquarters for the Militärbefehlshaber in Frankreich, the German High Military Command in France. They requested to be made prisoners only by the military, and surrendered to Battalion Chief Jacques Massu of the 2e DB.

The same day that the Germans surrendered, de Gaulle, President of the Provisional Government of the French Republic, moved back into the War Ministry on the Rue Saint-Dominique and then made a speech at the Hôtel de Ville that was also broadcast. His speech proclaimed that Paris had liberated itself with help from French forces, notably downplaying the part that Barton's 4th Infantry played in the battle, and also dismissed Vichy as a false France.[22][23]

> Why do you wish us to hide the emotion which seizes us all, men and women, who are here, at home, in Paris that stood up to liberate itself and that succeeded in doing this with its own hands?

> No! We will not hide this deep and sacred emotion. These are minutes which go beyond each of our poor lives. Paris! Paris outraged! Paris broken! Paris martyred! But Paris liberated! Liberated by itself, liberated by its people with the help of the French armies, with the support and the help of all France, of the France that fights, of the only France, of the real France, of the eternal France!

> Since the enemy which held Paris has capitulated into our hands, France returns to Paris, to her home. She returns bloody, but quite resolute. She returns there enlightened by the immense lesson, but more certain than ever of her duties and of her rights.

> I speak of her duties first, and I will sum them all up by saying that for now, it is a matter of the duties of war. The enemy is staggering, but he is not beaten yet. He remains on our soil.

> It will not even be enough that we have, with the help of our dear and admirable Allies, chased him from our home for us to consider ourselves satisfied after what has happened. We want to enter his territory as is fitting, as victors.

> This is why the French vanguard has entered Paris with guns blazing. This is why the great French army from Italy has landed in the south and is advancing rapidly up the Rhône valley. This is why our brave and dear Forces of the interior will arm themselves with modern weapons. It is for this revenge, this vengeance and justice, that we will keep fighting until the final day, until the day of total and complete victory.

> This duty of war, all the men who are here and all those who hear us in France know that it demands national unity. We, who have lived the greatest hours of our History, we have nothing else to wish than to show ourselves, up to the end, worthy of France. Long live France!

### Victory parades (26 and 29 August)

The day after de Gaulle's speech, he marched down the Champs-Élysées as Leclerc's French 2nd Armored Division paraded behind.

De Gaulle had requested that a French unit be allowed to lead the liberation of Paris, which Allied High Command agreed to on the condition that the chosen unit not contain any black or non-white soldiers,[citation needed] as two thirds of the French liberation army were black or north-African colonial soldiers. The 2nd Armored Division was chosen for the parade because it was the only French formation which was majority white. Non-white soldiers in the division, predominantly Moroccans and Algerians, who made up around one quarter of its strength, were replaced by white soldiers from other units, supplemented by lighter-skinned soldiers from North Africa and Syria.[24]

The parade began at the Arc de Triomphe at the western end, where de Gaulle also rekindled the Eternal Flame at France's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. It is estimated that up to two million people viewed this parade and reported that such a crowd and the scenes it created on the Champs-Élysées were not seen there again until France won the FIFA World Cup for the first time as hosts in 1998.[25][26]

A few German snipers were still active, and ones from rooftops in the Hôtel de Crillon area shot at the crowd while de Gaulle entered the Place de la Concorde.[27]

* General de Gaulle and his entourage proudly stroll down the Champs Élysées to Notre Dame Cathedral for a Te Deum ceremony following the city's liberation on 26 August 1944.

* A British AFPU photographer kisses a child before cheering crowds in Paris, 26 August 1944.

* As allied troops enter Paris on 26 August, celebrating crowds on place De La Concorde scatter for cover from small bands of remaining German snipers.

* The U.S. 28th Infantry Division on the Champs Élysées in the "Victory Day" parade on 29 August 1944.

* American soldiers look at the French tricolour flying from the Eiffel Tower.

On 29 August, the US Army's 28th Infantry Division, which had assembled in the Bois de Boulogne the previous night, paraded 24-abreast up the Avenue Hoche to the Arc de Triomphe, then down the Champs Élysées. Joyous crowds greeted the Americans as the entire division, men and vehicles, marched through Paris "on its way to assigned attack positions northeast of the French capital."[28]

### Food crisis

The liberation was ongoing, but it became apparent that food in Paris was getting scarcer by the day. The French rail network had largely been destroyed by Allied bombing and so getting food in had become a problem, especially since the Germans had stripped Paris of its resources for themselves. The Allies realised the necessity to get Paris back on its feet and pushed a plan for food convoys to get through to the capital as soon as possible. In addition, surrounding towns and villages were requested to supply as much to Paris as possible. The Civil Affairs of SHAEF authorised the import of up to 2,400 tons of food per day at the expense of the military effort. A British food convoy labelled 'Vivres Pour Paris' entered on 29 August, US supplies were flown in via Orléans Airport before they were sent in. Also, 500 tons were delivered a day by the British and another 500 tons by the Americans. Along with French civilians outside Paris bringing in indigenous resources, the food crisis had been overcome within ten days.[29]

## Aftermath

General Omar Bradley, Dwight D. Eisenhower, General Marie-Pierre Kœnig and Air Marshal Arthur Tedder in Paris, 1944

An estimated 800 to 1,000 Resistance fighters were killed during the Battle for Paris, and another 1,500 were wounded.[30]

The 2nd Armored Division suffered 71 killed and 225 wounded. Material losses included 35 tanks, 6 self-propelled guns, and 111 vehicles, "a rather high ratio of losses for an armored division", according to historian Jacques Mordal.[31]

Choltitz was held for the remainder of the war at Trent Park near London along with other senior German officers. In his memoir Brennt Paris? ("Is Paris Burning?"), first published in 1950,[32] Choltitz (1894–1966) described himself as the saviour of Paris. In fact it was more the case that he had lost control of the city and had no means to carry out Hitler's orders.[33] No specific charges were ever filed against him, and he was released from captivity in 1947.

De Gaulle emphasised the role of the French in the liberation.[34] He drove the necessity for the French people to do their "duty of war" by advancing into the Benelux countries and Germany. He wanted France to be among "the victors", a belief that it had escaped the fate of being administered and having a new constitution imposed by the AMGOT threat like those that would be established in Germany and Japan in 1945.

Although Paris was liberated, there was still heavy fighting elsewhere in France. Large portions of the country were still occupied after the successful Operation Dragoon in southern France, which extended into the south-western region of the Vosges Mountains from 15 August to 14 September. Fighting went on in Alsace (Colmar Pocket) and Lorraine (Operation Northwind) in eastern France during the last months of 1944 until February 1945.

### Legal purge

Several alleged Vichy loyalists involved in the Milice, a paramilitary militia established by Sturmbannführer Joseph Darnand that, along with the Gestapo, hunted the Resistance were made prisoners in a post-liberation purge known as the Épuration légale (legal purge). Some were executed without trial. Women accused of "horizontal collaboration" because of alleged sexual relationships with Germans were arrested and had their heads shaved, were publicly exhibited and were sometimes allowed to be mauled by mobs.

On 17 August, the Germans took Pierre Laval to Belfort. On 20 August, under German military escort, Marshal Pétain was forcibly moved to Belfort and then to the Sigmaringen enclave in Germany on 7 September; there, 1,000 of his followers (including Louis-Ferdinand Céline) joined him. They established the government of Sigmaringen and challenged the legitimacy of de Gaulle's Provisional Government of the French Republic. As a sign of protest over his forced move, Pétain refused to take office, and was eventually replaced by Fernand de Brinon. The Vichy government-in-exile ended in April 1945.

## Legacy

### Anniversaries of the liberation

On 25 August 2004, two military parades reminiscent of the parades of 26 and 29 August 1944, one in commemoration of the 2nd Armored Division, the other of the US 4th Infantry Division, and featuring armoured vehicles from the era, were held on the 60th anniversary of the Liberation of Paris. Under the auspices of the Senate, a jazz concert and popular dancing took place in the Jardin du Luxembourg.[35] In the same event, homage was paid to the Spanish contribution – the first time in 60 years. Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoë laid a plaque on a wall along the River Seine at the Quai Henri IV in the presence of surviving Spanish veterans, Javier Rojo the President of the Senate of Spain and a delegation of Spanish politicians.

On 25 August 2014, plaques were placed on the Boulevard Saint-Michel and neighbouring streets, in the vicinity of the Luxembourg Palace, seat of the French Senate, where combatants had been killed in August 1944.[36] There was dancing in the street in every neighbourhood of the French capital and Place de la Bastille, as well as a son et lumière spectacle and dancing on the Place de l'Hôtel de Ville in the evening.[37]

On 25 August 2019 many acts in commemoration of the liberation of Paris focused on the role of the Spanish soldiers of "La Nueve". The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, herself descendant of Spanish Republican veterans, emphasised during the inauguration of a fresco that it has taken too long to recognise this chapter of the French history.[38]

### Homage to the liberation martyrs

The wall of the 35 martyrs, Bois de Boulogne

On 16 May 2007, following his election as President of the Fifth French Republic, Nicolas Sarkozy organised an homage to the 35 French Resistance martyrs executed by the Germans on 16 August 1944. French historian Max Gallo narrated the events that took place in the woods of Bois de Boulogne, and a Parisian schoolgirl read 17-year-old French resistant Guy Môquet's final letter. During his speech, Sarkozy announced that this letter would be read in all French schools to remember the resistance spirit.[39][40] After the speech, the chorale of the French Republican Guard closed the homage ceremony by singing the French Resistance's anthem "Le Chant des Partisans" ("The Partisans' song"). Following this occasion, the new president travelled to Berlin to meet German chancellor Angela Merkel, as a symbol of the Franco-German reconciliation.

## In popular culture

### La Libération de Paris

La Libération de Paris ("The Liberation of Paris"), whose original title was L'Insurrection Nationale inséparable de la Libération Nationale ("The National Insurrection inseparable from the National Liberation"), was a short 30-minute documentary film secretly shot between 16 and 27 August by the French Resistance. It was released in French theatres on 1 September.

### Postal material

Three-cent stamp picturing the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, with marching US Army soldiers and an overflight by US Army Air Force

On 8 September 1945, the US Post Office issued a three-cent stamp commemorating the liberation of Paris from the Germans. The stamp depicted the Victory Day parade that took place on 29 August, and the covers were illustrated with images of the Ludendorff Bridge after its capture.[41]

### Filmography

* La Libération de Paris, black-and-white film (1944)
* The Liberation of Paris, colour film (1944) by George Stevens showing the final city shootouts, de Gaulle's triumphal arrival, arrested Germans in the streets of the city and victory parade.[42]
* Is Paris Burning? (1966)
* Diplomacy (2014)

## See also

* Anthony Faramus
* Camp Gurs
* Camp de Rivesaltes
* Concentration camps in France
* Drancy internment camp
* Fort de Romainville
* Liberation of France
* Mémorial du maréchal Leclerc de Hauteclocque et de la Libération de Paris
* Military history of France during World War II
* Paris in World War II
* Prague uprising
* Warsaw uprising

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2. ↑ "The Lost Evidence – Liberation of Paris". History.
3. ↑ "Les Cahiers Multimédias: Il y a 60 ans : la Libération de Paris" (in French). Gérard Conreur/Mémorial du Maréchal Leclerc et de la Libération de Paris. Radio France. 6 July 2004.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "1944: August 25: Paris is liberated after four years of Nazi occupation". History.com. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/paris-liberated.
5. ↑ Collins, Larry; Lapierre, Dominique (1965). Is Paris Burning?. Simon and Schuster. pp. 19–20.
6. ↑ Robertson, Charles L. (2011). When Roosevelt Planned to Govern France. University of Massachusetts Press. ISBN 978-1-55849-881-5. https://books.google.com/books?id=QN9k6DW5uN0C&q=henri+giraud+roosevelt&pg=PA68.
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10. ↑ Taittinger, Pierre (1946). ... et Paris ne fut pas détruit (... And Paris Was Not Destroyed) (in French). L'Élan.
11. ↑ Wird Paris vernichtet? (Will Paris Be Destroyed?) (in German), a documentary by Michael Busse and Maria-Rosa Bobbi, Arte/WDR/France 3/TSR. August 2004.
12. ↑ Journal Officiel des établissements français de l'Océanie, Titre V, Dispositions générales, p. 43, [2] p. 3.
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14. ↑ Celaya, Diego Gaspar (15 December 2011). "Portrait d'oubliés. L'engagement des Espagnols dans les Forces françaises libres, 1940–1945" (in fr). Revue historique des armées (265): 46–55. doi:10.3917/rha.265.0046. ISSN 0035-3299. http://journals.openedition.org/rha/7345.
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17. ↑ Collins, Larry; Lapierre, Dominique (1991). Is Paris Burning?. Grand Central Publishing. pp. 271–274. ISBN 978-0-446-39225-9. https://books.google.com/books?id=k4a8zQEACAAJ. (Available at Internet Archive)
18. ↑ Argyle, Ray (2014). The Paris Game: Charles de Gaulle, the Liberation of Paris, and the Gamble that Won France. Dundurn. p. 223. ISBN 978-1-4597-2288-0. https://books.google.com/books?id=PdDYAQAAQBAJ.
19. ↑ Rankin, Nicholas (2011). Ian Fleming's Commandos: The Story of the Legendary 30 Assault Unit. Oxford University Press. pp. 259–263. ISBN 978-0-19-978290-1. https://books.google.com/books?id=zbFoAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA339.
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22. ↑ "La Libération de Paris, victoire militaire et politique des Français" (in fr). French Republic. https://www.gouvernement.fr/partage/9406-Llibération-de-Paris.
23. ↑ "25 août 1944, "Paris outragé! Paris brisé!...Mais Paris libéré!"" (in fr). 23 August 2019. https://www.ina.fr/ina-eclaire-actu/25-aout-1944-paris-outrage-paris-brise-mais-paris-libere.
24. ↑ Thomson, Mike (6 April 2009). "Paris liberation made 'whites only'". BBC News. https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7984436.stm.
25. ↑ Riding, Alan (26 August 1994). "Paris Journal; 50 Years After the Liberation, France Toasts Itself". The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/1994/08/26/world/paris-journal-50-years-after-the-liberation-france-toasts-itself.html.
26. ↑ France 98: Nuit de fête sur les Champs-Elysées après la victoire (Archive INA) [France 98: Night of celebration on the Champs-Elysées after the victory (INA Archive)] (YouTube video) (in français). Institut National de l'Audiovisuel. 13 July 1998. Retrieved 20 July 2023.
27. ↑ "75th Anniversary of the Liberation of Paris" (in en-US). 22 August 2019. https://apimagesblog.com/blog/2019/7/26/75th-anniversary-of-the-liberation-of-paris-cprkp.
28. ↑ Stanton, Shelby L. (Captain U.S. Army, Retired), World War II Order of Battle, The encyclopedic reference to all U.S. Army ground force units from battalion through division, 1939–1945, Galahad Books, New York, 1991, p. 105. ISBN 0-88365-775-9.
29. ↑ Coles, Harry Lewis; Weinberg, Albert Katz (1964). Civil Affairs: Soldiers Become Governors. United States Army in World War II: Special Studies. Office of the Chief of Military History, Department of the Army. pp. 774–775. https://history.army.mil/html/books/011/11-3/CMH_Pub_11-3.pdf. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
30. ↑ Thorton, Willis (1962). The Liberation of Paris – Google Books. https://books.google.com/books?id=Wld0AAAAIAAJ. Retrieved 30 August 2011.
31. ↑ Mordal, Jacques (1964). La Bataille de France 1944–1945 , Arthaud.
32. ↑ Choltitz, von, Dietrich (1950) (in de). Brennt Paris? Adolf Hitler ... Tatsachenbericht d. letzten deutschen Befehlshabers in Paris. Mannheim: UNA Weltbücherei. OCLC 1183798630.
33. ↑ Patrick Bishop (2024) Paris 1944: The Shame and the Glory Penguin Books p.264 ISBN 978-0241991541
34. ↑ "1944–1946: La Libération" (in fr). Charles de Gaulle foundation official website. 15 June 2007. http://www.charles-de-gaulle.org/article.php3?id_article=23&var_recherche=lib�ration.
35. ↑ "60ème Anniversaire de la Libération – La Libération de Paris – Sénat". http://www.senat.fr/evenement/60eme_liberation/liberation_paris.html.
36. ↑ "La prise du Sénat – La Libération de Paris". http://liberation-de-paris.gilles-primout.fr/la-prise-du-senat.
37. ↑ "Bal de célébration des 70 ans de la libération de Paris sur le Parvis de l'Hôtel de Ville". http://www.sortiraparis.com/scenes/concert-musique/articles/75053-bal-de-celebration-des-70-ans-de-la-liberation-de-paris-sur-le-parvis-de-lhotel-.
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39. ↑ President Nicolas Sarkozy's speech (English). French Presidency official website, 16 May 2007.
40. ↑ Max Gallo's ceremony (video),{{dead link|date=August 2011} ebsite, 16 May 2007.
41. ↑ "Ponts et batailles de la seconde guerre mondiale" (in fr). http://www.timbresponts.fr/ponts_et_hommes/conf_et_ev_dossiers/episodes_2e_guerre_mond.htm.
42. ↑ "George Stevens' World War II Footage". https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1841612/?ref_=nm_flmg_t_4_cin.

## Further reading

* Argyle, Ray (2014). The Paris Game: Charles de Gaulle, the Liberation of Paris, and the Gamble that Won France. Dundurn. https://scholars.wlu.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://scholar.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=1856&context=cmh.
* Bishop, Cécile (2018). "Photography, Race and Invisibility: The Liberation of Paris, in Black and White". Photographies 11 (2–3): 193–213. doi:10.1080/17540763.2018.1457560. https://mla.hcommons.org/?get_group_doc=1000750/1512325949-BishopLiberationdeParisWGMLA20171203.pdf.
* Blumenson, Martin (1998). "Politics and the Military in the Liberation of Paris". Parameters 28 (2): 4+. https://press.armywarcollege.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1873&context=parameters.
* Blumenson, Martin (1963). Breakout and Pursuit. United States Army in World War II: The European Theater of Operations. Washington: US Army, Office of the Chief of Military History. https://archive.org/details/CMHPub751BreakoutAndPursuit-nsia.
* Cobb, Matthew (2014). Eleven days in August: the liberation of Paris in 1944. https://archive.org/details/elevendaysinaugu0000cobb.
* Clark, Catherine E. (2016). "Capturing the moment, picturing history: photographs of the liberation of Paris". American Historical Review 121 (3): 824–860. doi:10.1093/ahr/121.3.824.
* Keegan, John (2011). Six Armies in Normandy: From D-Day to the Liberation of Paris, June 6 - Aug. 5, 1944. Random House. https://archive.org/details/sixarmiesinnorma00keeg.
* Keith, Susan (2010). "Collective memory and the end of occupation: Remembering (and forgetting) the liberation of Paris in images". Visual Communication Quarterly 17 (3): 134–146. doi:10.1080/15551393.2010.502472.
* Smith, Jean Edward (2020). The Liberation of Paris: How Eisenhower, De Gaulle, and Von Choltitz Saved the City of Light. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1501164927.
* Thornton, Willis (December 1959). "The Liberation of Paris". History Today 9 (12): 800–811.
* Thornton, Willis (1962). The Liberation of Paris. Harcourt, Brace and World.
* Tucker-Jones, Anthony (2010). Operation Dragoon: The Liberation of Southern France, 1944. Casemate Publishers.
* Zaloga, Steven J. (2011). Liberation of Paris 1944: Patton's race for the Seine. Bloomsbury.

## External links

* online films – primary sources
* Liberation of Paris – Official French website (in English)
* Battle for Paris: August 16–26, Documentary shot by the French Resistance, 1 September 1944
* Video about the helmet of German soldier Kurt Günther, of Flak Regiment 59, who was shot through the head and killed by the French Resistance during the Liberation of Paris
* De Gaulle's speech from the Hôtel de Ville – Charles de Gaulle foundation
* De Gaulle's speech in retrospect – BBC News
* Paris Liberated: Rare, Unpublished – slideshow by Life
* Primout, Gilles. "19–25 août 1944... La Libération de Paris " (in French)  – provides archival documents and a detailed timeline

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* Mediterranean and Middle East
* North Africa
* East Africa
* Italy
* West Africa
* Atlantic
* North America
* South America

Aftermath|

* Greek Civil War
* Expulsion of Germans
* Paperclip
* Osoaviakhim
* Keelhaul
* Occupation of Germany
* Territorial changes of Germany
* Soviet occupations
* Romania
* Poland
* Hungary
* Baltic
* Occupation of Japan
* First Indochina War
* Indonesian National Revolution
* Chinese Civil War
* Division of Korea
* Cold War
* Decolonization
* Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany

War crimes|

* Allied war crimes
* Soviet war crimes
* British war crimes
* United States war crimes
* German war crimes
* forced labour
* Wehrmacht war crimes
* The Holocaust
* Aftermath
* Response
* Nuremberg trials
* Italian war crimes
* Japanese war crimes
* Unit 731
* Prosecution
* Croatian war crimes
* Genocide of Serbs
* Persecution of Jews
* Romanian war crimes
* Sexual violence
* German military brothels
* Camp brothels
* Rape during the occupation of Japan
* Sook Ching
* Comfort women
* Ianjo
* Rape of Nanking
* Rape of Manila
* Rape during the occupation of Germany
* Rape during the liberation of France
* Rape during the Soviet occupation of Poland

Participants|

| Allies|

* Allied leaders
* Australia
* Belgium
* Brazil
* Canada
* China
* Cuba
* Czechoslovakia
* Denmark
* Ethiopia
* France
* Free France
* Greece
* India
* Italy (from September 1943)
* Luxembourg
* Mexico
* Netherlands
* Newfoundland
* New Zealand
* Norway
* Philippines
* Poland
* South Africa
* Southern Rhodesia
* Soviet Union
* Tuva
* United Kingdom
* United States
* Puerto Rico
* Yugoslavia

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Axis|

* Axis leaders
* Albania protectorate
* Bulgaria
* Wang Jingwei regime
* Croatia
* Finland
* Germany
* Hungary
* Free India
* Iraq
* Italy (until September 1943)
* Italian Social Republic
* Japan
* Manchukuo
* Philippines
* Romania
* Slovakia
* Thailand
* Vichy France

Resistance|

* Albania
* Austria
* Belgium
* Bulgaria
* Czech lands
* Denmark
* Estonia
* Ethiopia
* France
* Germany
* Greece
* Hong Kong
* Italy
* Japan
* Jews
* Korea
* Latvia
* Lithuania
* Luxembourg
* Malaya
* Netherlands
* Northeast China
* Norway
* Philippines
* Poland
* Romania
* Thailand
* Soviet Union
* Slovakia
* Western Ukraine
* Vietnam
* Yugoslavia

POWs|

* Finnish prisoners in the Soviet Union
* German prisoners in the Soviet Union
* German prisoners in the United States
* Italian prisoners in the Soviet Union
* Japanese prisoners
* In the Soviet Union
* Soviet prisoner mistreatment by Germans
* Polish prisoners in the Soviet Union
* Romanian prisoners in the Soviet Union
* Soviet prisoners in Finland

Timeline|

| Prelude|

* Africa
* Asia
* Europe

|

1939|

* Poland
* Phoney War
* Winter War
* Atlantic
* Changsha
* China

1940|

* Weserübung
* Netherlands
* Belgium
* France
* Armistice of 22 June 1940
* Britain
* North Africa
* West Africa
* British Somaliland
* North China
* Baltic States
* Moldova
* Indochina
* Greece
* Compass

1941|

* East Africa
* Yugoslavia
* Shanggao
* Greece
* Crete
* Iraq
* Soviet Union
* Finland
* Lithuania
* Syria and Lebanon
* Kiev
* Iran
* Leningrad
* Gorky
* Moscow
* Sevastopol
* Pearl Harbor
* Hong Kong
* Philippines
* Changsha
* Malaya
* Borneo (1941–1942)
* Greek famine of 1941–1944

1942|

* Burma
* Changsha
* Java Sea
* Coral Sea
* Gazala
* Dutch Harbor
* Attu (occupation)
* Kiska
* Zhejiang-Jiangxi
* Midway
* Rzhev
* Blue
* Stalingrad
* Singapore
* St Nazaire
* Dieppe
* El Alamein
* Guadalcanal
* Torch
* Chinese famine of 1942–1943

1943|

* Tunisia
* Kursk
* Smolensk
* Gorky
* Solomon Islands
* Attu
* Sicily
* Cottage
* Lower Dnieper
* Italy
* Armistice of Cassibile
* Gilbert and Marshall Islands
* Burma
* Northern Burma and Western Yunnan
* Changde
* Bengal famine of 1943
* Ruzagayura famine of 1943–1944

1944|

* Monte Cassino / Shingle
* Narva
* Korsun–Cherkassy
* Tempest
* Ichi-Go
* Overlord
* Neptune
* Normandy
* Mariana and Palau
* Bagration
* Western Ukraine
* Tannenberg Line
* Warsaw
* Eastern Romania
* Belgrade
* Paris
* Dragoon
* Gothic Line
* Market Garden
* Estonia
* Crossbow
* Pointblank
* Lapland
* Hungary
* Leyte
* Ardennes
* Bodenplatte
* Philippines (1944–1945)
* Burma (1944–1945)
* Dutch famine of 1944–1945

1945|

* Vistula–Oder
* Iwo Jima
* Western invasion of Germany
* Okinawa
* Italy (Spring 1945)
* Borneo
* Syrmian Front
* Berlin
* Czechoslovakia
* Budapest
* West Hunan
* Guangxi
* Surrender of Germany
* document
* Project Hula
* Manchuria
* Manila
* Borneo
* Taipei
* Atomic bombings
* Debate
* Kuril Islands
* Shumshu
* Vietnamese famine of 1945
* Surrender of Japan
* document
* End of World War II in Asia

* Bibliography
* Category
* Index
* Portal

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