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07/21/2024 (Sun) 08:08
No.877142
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07/21/2024 (Sun) 08:08
No.877142
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>>877136
It was less than a year before the war ended
>On August 22 (1944)
>... Hitler had ordered Paris defended to the last man, and demanded that the city not fall into Allied hands except as “a field of ruins.” Choltitz dutifully began laying explosives under Paris’ bridges and many of its landmarks, but disobeyed an order to commence the destruction. He did not want to go down in history as the man who had destroyed the “City of Light”—Europe’s most celebrated city.
http://history.com/this-day-in-history/paris-liberated
>Dwight D. Eisenhower's headquarters in Reims by Gen. Alfred Jodl, Chief of Staff of the German Army. The unconditional surrender of the German Third Reich was signed in the early morning hours of Monday, May 7, 1945
http://archives.gov/milestone-documents/surrender-of-germany
It was less than a year before the war ended
>On August 22 (1944)
>... Hitler had ordered Paris defended to the last man, and demanded that the city not fall into Allied hands except as “a field of ruins.” Choltitz dutifully began laying explosives under Paris’ bridges and many of its landmarks, but disobeyed an order to commence the destruction. He did not want to go down in history as the man who had destroyed the “City of Light”—Europe’s most celebrated city.
http://history.com/this-day-in-history/paris-liberated
>Dwight D. Eisenhower's headquarters in Reims by Gen. Alfred Jodl, Chief of Staff of the German Army. The unconditional surrender of the German Third Reich was signed in the early morning hours of Monday, May 7, 1945
http://archives.gov/milestone-documents/surrender-of-germany