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Author: Jayne Costelloe

Posted on July 4, 1994March 28, 2017

The Liberation of Paris Revisited

“Turn Paris into a pile of ruins.  Defend it to the last man,” were Hilter’s orders to the German Commander of Greater Paris in mid-August 1944.  Adolf Hitler was smelling imminent defeat, and he intended taking the city of Paris and its people down with him. Continue reading “The Liberation of Paris Revisited”

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