🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇩🇪 French Uprising and the End of German Occupation of Paris, August 1944

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In August 1944, French resistance fighters of the Forces Françaises de l’Intérieur (FFI) launched an uprising against German occupation forces in Paris. On August 24, General Philippe Leclerc’s French 2nd Armored Division entered the city with M4 Sherman tanks and other armored vehicles. German garrison commander Dietrich von Choltitz surrendered on August 25, ending four years of occupation.