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Capture of Paris

Germany · Warfare / World War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

2Records
1940–1944Date range
1Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1940

Adolf Hitler14 June 1940

Paris · Warfare / World War, 2nd

The Germans capture Paris

1944

Adolf Hitler23 August 1944

Paris · Warfare / World War, 2nd

Paris "should not fall into the hands of the enemy except as a field of ruins"

Names involved

Adolf Hitler

Provenance

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