Liberation of Paris

Liberation of Paris
	Part of Operation Overlord of World War II
	; Parisians line the Champs Élysées for a parade conducted by the French 2nd Armored Division on 26 August 1944
Date	19–25 August 1944
Location	Paris and outskirts, France; 48°52′25″N 2°17′47″E / 48.8735°N 2.29642°E
Result	Allied victory Capture and liberation of Paris; Paris made capital of the re-established Provisional Government of the French Republic;
Belligerents
GPRF; • French Resistance; United States; United Kingdom	Nazi Germany; France
Commanders and leaders
Charles de Gaulle; Philippe Leclerc; Bernard Montgomery; Raymond O. Barton;	Dietrich von Choltitz ; Joseph Darnand
Units involved
REDIRECT Template:Country data Free France FFI; 2nd Armored Division; • Spanish Exiles; • German Exiles and Resistance ; 21st Army Group; 4th Infantry Division;	325th Security Division; Milice
Casualties and losses
French Resistance: 1,600 dead; ; Free French Forces: 130 dead; 319 wounded; ; United Kingdom: Unknown; United States: Unknown;	3,200 dead; 12,800 prisoners;

The Liberation of Paris (French: Libération de Paris) was a military battle that took place during World War II from 19 August 1944 until the Germans surrendered the French capital on 25 August 1944.

Paris had been ruled by Nazi Germany since the signing of the Second Compiègne Armistice on 22 June 1940, after which the Wehrmacht occupied northern and western France.

Liberation Of Paris Media

A truck painted with the marks of the FFI and the V for Victory
FFI uprising on 19 August. One skirmisher is wearing an Adrian helmet.
Film "La Libération de Paris" shot by the French Resistance
25 August – Armoured vehicles of the 2nd Armored (Leclerc) Division fighting before the Palais Garnier. One German tank is going up in flames.
German soldiers at the Hôtel Majestic,*headquarters for the Militärbefehlshaber in Frankreich, the German High Military Command in France. They requested that to made prisoner only by the military and surrendered to Battalion Chief Jacques Massu of the 2e DB.
General Omar Bradley, Dwight D. Eisenhower, General Marie-Pierre Kœnig and Air Marshal Arthur Tedder
The wall of the 35 martyrs, Bois de Boulogne
Three-cent stamp picturing the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, with marching U.S. Army soldiers and an overflight by U.S. Army Air Force
General de Gaulle and his entourage proudly stroll down the Champs Élysées to Notre Dame Cathedral for a Te Deum ceremony following the city's liberation on 26 August 1944.
A British AFPU photographer kisses a child before cheering crowds in Paris, 26 August 1944.