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Liberation of Paris
Part of Operation Overlord of World War II
Crowds of French patriots line the Champs Elysees-edit2.jpg
Parisians line the Champs Élysées for a parade conducted by the French 2nd Armored Division on 26 August 1944
Date 19–25 August 1944
Location
Paris and outskirts, France
48°52′25″N 2°17′47″E / 48.8735°N 2.29642°E / 48.8735; 2.29642
Result

Allied victory
Belligerents
France GPRF
 • Free France French Resistance
 United States
 United Kingdom		  Germany
France France
Commanders and leaders
Nazi Germany Dietrich von Choltitz Surrendered
France Joseph Darnand Surrendered
Units involved
Free France FFI
France 2nd Armored Division
 • Spanish Exiles
 • German Exiles and Resistance
United Kingdom 21st Army Group
United States 4th Infantry Division		 Nazi Germany 325th Security Division
Milice
Casualties and losses
  • French Resistance:
    • 1,600 dead
  • Free French Forces:
    • 130 dead
    • 319 wounded
  • United Kingdom: Unknown
  • United States: Unknown
  • 3,200 dead
  • 12,800 prisoners

The Liberation of Paris (French: Libération de Paris) was a military battle that took place during World War II from 19 August 1944 until the Germans surrendered the French capital on 25 August 1944.

Paris had been ruled by Nazi Germany since the signing of the Second Compiègne Armistice on 22 June 1940, after which the Wehrmacht occupied northern and western France.

Images for kids

  • FFI voiture

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

  • Battle for paris FFI1

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

  • Battle for paris warfare scene

    A captured tank fires against a sniper's position

  • Lot 4568-2 (19583145252)

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

  • Eisenhower and Koenig in Paris, 1944

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

  • Battle for paris homagewall

    The wall of the 35 martyrs, Bois de Boulogne

  • Army issue 1945 U.S. stamp.1

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

  • The Liberation of Paris, 25 - 26 August 1944 HU66477

    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 25 August 1944.

  • An AFPU photographer kisses a small child before cheering crowds in Paris, 26 August 1944. BU18

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

  • Parisians celebrating liberation on place de la Concorde HD-SN-99-02716

    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.

  • American troops march down the Champs Elysees crop

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

  • American soldiers watch as the Tricolor flies from the Eiffel Tower again

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

See also

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