The Liberation of Paris freed the city from German occupation in the summer of 1944, a few weeks after the Allied landings in Normandy. It began with an uprising by the French Resistance and the police, and as street fighting spread, the Free French 2nd Armoured Division under General Leclerc, along with American troops, was sent into the city. The German commander, General Dietrich von Choltitz, surrendered on 25 August, and did not carry out Hitler's order to destroy the city, so that Paris was largely spared. General Charles de Gaulle arrived and led a march down the Champs-Elysees the next day, and he installed his provisional government.
Before and after
- 5 August 1944Cowra breakout
- from 7 August 1944 to 19 September 1944Battle for Brest
- from 12 August 1944 to 21 August 1944Falaise Pocket
- from 15 August 1944 to 14 September 1944Operation Dragoon
- from 19 August 1944 to 25 August 1944Liberation of Paris
- 20 August 1944Birth of Rajiv Gandhi
- from 29 August 1944 to 28 October 1944Slovak National Uprising
- from 30 August 1944 to 7 September 1959Grande Noirceur
- 5 September 1944Founding of Benelux
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