25 Aug 1944

Liberation of Paris

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The French capital had been occupied for four years, and most Americans associated German occupation with a romantic picture of Parisians struggling against German oppression. In reality, the Vichy Government helped the Germans to send thousands of Jews to concentration camps, and hundreds of thousands of laborers to Germany to work in war production as slave labor. By 1945 most slave laborers were French; the Poles had died out.

http://www.worldwar2database.com/html/paris.htmQ

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World War II Database

Added Wed, Jan 6 2010 at 9:32PM UTC by

Rob Brent

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