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The Tricolor Flag Back Where It Belongs

Paris would become the indignant host to the Nazis for four years. Finally, on 25 August 1944, the Americans virtually waltzed through the destroyed Nazi forces in France, with the Germans fleeing from the French 2nd Armored Division and the U.S. 4th Infantry Division. Hitler supposedly informed General Dietrich von Choltitz that Paris was to be razed completely and that the Eiffel Tower should be flattened. Rather than go through with this obliteration, the general simply surrendered. Two days later, a glorious liberation parade ran throughout the Champs-Elysees in triumph.

The Tricolor Flag Back Where It Belongs