Liberation of Paris (1944)

View of the Champs-Elysees on August 26, 1944, during the entry of General Leclerc's troops into Paris.

Residents of Paris on the Champs-Elysees greet the French troops entering the city (panorama).

Representatives of Parisian districts drive along the Champs-Elysees in the back of trucks with flags of the countries of the anti-Hitler coalition.

A ceremonial procession of Parisians along the Champs-Elysees.

Parisians greet the passing troops from the balconies of a building.

Parisians greet the troops entering the city, waving their hands.

Panorama of a forest edge with a broken German military column.

Broken German military equipment and weapons (panorama).

Wehrmacht soldiers surrender to the Allies, carrying and leading wounded comrades on stretchers.

Views of the camp for German prisoners of war.

Faces of German prisoners of war.

An underage member of the Hitler Youth among prisoners of war and Allied soldiers.

German prisoners of war eat canned stew.

A British army unit advances through the streets of a commune in France, a sign with the name of the town.

Ruins on the street of a French town.

British soldiers clear the ruins of surviving fascists.

Fighting on the streets of the city.

French resistance fighters on the Champs Elysees.

De Gaulle is met in Paris.

De Gaulle accompanied by soldiers at the Chenonceau Castle.

Views of the castle's environs.

De Gaulle's face.

American units cross a water obstacle in the Chenonceau area.

Tanks cross a pontoon bridge.

An armored car drives off the bridge onto the shore.

Local residents greet the passing American troops.

American troops fight on the street of a French town.

American tanks pass under the Eiffel Tower.

Participants in the Paris Uprising wage their last battles against the Nazi occupiers with the support of Allied units that have entered the city.

Fighting in the streets of Paris.

Captured collaborators are escorted.

Fighting in the streets of Paris.

A shop owner lowers the protective curtain of his shop window.

Resistance fighters lead a German envoy with a white flag.

View of a street in Paris.

A German envoy on the street during the capitulation negotiations.

Soldiers of the German garrison who surrendered after the capitulation, on one of the squares (panorama).

The face of one of the prisoners of war.

Automobile and bicycle traffic on the Champs-Elysees after the liberation of Paris.

People on one of the streets.

Raising the French national flag.

French troops on the streets of Paris.

Parisians greet General De Gaulle on his way to the scene of the speech.

Parisians applaud and shout, prisoners of war are led under escort.

Parisian women kiss French and American soldiers, crowds of jubilant people on the streets of the city.

Parisians treat soldiers to wine.

The movement of General De Gaulle's motorcade.

The soldiers hold their rifles in the "on guard" position.

De Gaulle comes out onto the square, greets the troops lined up there.

De Gaulle and his entourage walk along the column of armored vehicles.

View of the Arc de Triomphe.

De Gaulle and his entourage walk to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

De Gaulle lays a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

View of the Arc de Triomphe and the rally at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

De Gaulle salutes during the performance of the anthem.

Faces of the orchestra.

De Gaulle's car in front of the tank column moves along the Champs Elysees.

De Gaulle walks along the Champs Elysees surrounded by Parisians, De Gaulle's face.

Views of the procession of Parisians led by De Gaulle along the Champs Elysees, people greet De Gaulle.

De Gaulle's face.

Parisians greet De Gaulle.

De Gaulle gets into a limousine.

View (from above) and panorama of a square in the center of Paris during De Gaulle's speech on August 29, 1944. People are hiding from a sniper who opened fire from the roof of one of the houses.

De Gaulle smokes a cigarette.

A tank is firing a machine gun at a house where a German sniper is holed up.

People are hiding behind tanks and armored cars, machine gun fire is being fired at the facade of the building.

People are running across the square.

The wounded are carried out on stretchers.

View of the square during the shelling.

People lying on the asphalt.

People are hiding near the walls of Notre Dame Cathedral.

People lying on the asphalt.

Policemen are leading the detained snipers, Parisians are trying to reach them.

De Gaulle gets into a limousine.

View of the square during a ceremonial rally.

Faces of jubilant Parisians.

The French national flag hangs from the Arc de Triomphe.

Faces of applauding women and children.