“Biographer and historian Jean Edward Smith . . . tells the fascinating story of Paris' liberation and credits three soldiers—French General de Gaulle, American General Dwight Eisenhower, and German General Dietrich von Choltitz—with saving the ‘city of light.'”
On August 25, 1944, the city of Paris was liberated after more than four years of Nazi occupation and rule. Parisians, except for those who collaborated with the Nazis, celebrated wildly as French troops under General Jacques Leclerc entered the city largely without opposition, and General Charles de Gaulle assumed political control of the city.
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