The Champs-Élysées is home to the Time Travel Kiosk, a virtual reality installation created by Timescope, where you can ...
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The Liberation of Paris: A French Victory Written in Blood and Betrayal
On August 25, 1944, French tanks rolled down the Champs-Élysées, and Paris was finally free. But beneath the celebrations lay deep divisions—between communists and Gaullists, collaborators and ...
Paris on Sunday celebrated the 80th anniversary of its liberation from German troops in World War II with tributes, military marches and the hoisting of a flag at the Eiffel Tower. On August 25, 1944, ...
MOSCOW, August 26. /TASS/. Pierre de Gaulle, the grandson of General Charles de Gaulle, the founder of the Fifth French Republic, says France's refusal to invite Russian representatives to events ...
As the Germans descended on Paris in June 1940, Jean Texcier, who worked for France’s Ministry of Trade, printed some advice for Parisians on how to behave toward the occupiers. He put the handbills ...
PARIS (AP) -- Paris turned back the clock Wednesday for a grandiose fete to remember the tears, the joy and the euphoria that heralded the liberation of the French capital 60 years ago as it threw off ...
“Paris must not fall into the hands of the enemy,” Adolf Hitler told his top general in Paris, “or if it does, he must find there nothing but a field of ruins.” Public domain via Wikimedia Commons The ...
Events will be held all day Tuesday to mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz from Nazi Germany. The latest entry in our series on women you should know: Toto Koopman, a Vogue cover ...
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