Adolf Hitler23 August 1944
Paris "should not fall into the hands of the enemy except as a field of ruins"
Germany · Warfare / World War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Paris "should not fall into the hands of the enemy except as a field of ruins"
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