The Battle of Paris in 1944 (1944.08)

Participants in the uprising against the Nazi occupiers in Paris from August 19 to 25, 1944, push trucks and cars through the streets of the city to impede the advance of German troops.

Repainting a car body.

Faces of collaborators arrested by the rebels.

Arrested collaborators in the prison courtyard.

Entrance to the Fort de Romainville concentration camp on the outskirts of Paris.

Bodies of prisoners killed by the Nazis.

Views of Paris during street fighting.

Evacuation of wounded rebels from the street by ambulance doctors.

Providing medical care to seriously wounded German soldiers.

View of a barricade at one of the intersections (from above); a tank passes by, rebels in ambush behind the barricade.

Paramedics running across the street with a stretcher and a white flag.

A wounded rebel on the sidewalk.

Representatives of the Red Cross and a priest go to the wounded.

Evacuation of seriously wounded German soldiers.

Armed rebels on a Paris street.

A German armored car drives down the street.

Rebels around the corner of a building.

Civilians take cover from the shelling.

Removal of civilians from the shelling zone.

View of a part of the square in front of Notre Dame Cathedral.

Rebels fire small arms towards the cathedral.

A burning Renault tank with a German cross on a Paris street.

Rebels on a city street, a burned-out car.

Rebels near a captured tank.

Rebels lead a detained collaborator.

Rebels on a street during a rest.

Rebels advance through the streets under the cover of a tank.

View of a building.

Rebels behind a barricade of earthbags.

A German heavy tank moves along the Seine embankment, rebels fire from cover.

Street fighting, evacuation of the wounded.

German soldiers captured by rebels.

Cars burning in the street.

A German soldier under fire at an intersection.

Rebels take a position near Notre Dame Cathedral.

A wounded man is evacuated from the shelling.

Captured Germans and arrested collaborators are led out of the building.

Armored vehicles of General Leclerc's 2nd Armored Division advance toward Paris, with rebels on top of them.

People on the side of the road welcome Leclerc's army.

French armored vehicles in the suburbs of Paris.

French tank crews near their combat vehicles.

General Leclerc's tanks enter Paris.

French troops on the streets of Paris.

Parisians dismantle a barricade.

A man knocks a German signpost down.

The coat of arms of Paris is returned.

The building housing the American embassy.

Flags of the Allied powers painted on the wall of the building.

Military personnel discuss a plan of action with rebel unit commanders to clear Paris neighborhoods of remaining Germans.

Tanks and armored personnel carriers carrying infantry on the streets of Paris.

Units of the 2nd Armored Division advance through the streets of Paris.

Troops and rebels on the streets of Paris during the elimination of the remnants of the occupiers and collaborators; soldiers and rebels fire small arms in the square in front of the Opera.

French infantry and armor advance through the streets of Paris.

Military personnel during clashes with the remaining collaborators, clearing houses in one of the city's neighborhoods.