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On August 27th, in anticipation of air raids, workmen had begun taking down the stained glass windows of the Sainte-Chapelle.The same day, curators at the Louvre, summoned back from summer vacation, and aided by packers from the nearby La Samaritaine and Bazar de l'Hôtel de Ville department stores, began cataloging and packing the major works of art, which were put into crates and labeled ...
The liberation of Paris (French: libération de Paris) was a battle that took place during World War II from 19 August 1944 until the German garrison surrendered the French capital on 25 August 1944. Paris had been occupied by Nazi Germany since the signing of the Armistice of 22 June 1940, after which the Wehrmacht occupied northern and ...
Soviet Storm: World War II in the East: Anna Grazhdan 2012 United States Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States: Oliver Stone: 2013 United States The Ghost Army: Rick Beyer 2014 United States Second War Diary: The War Day by Day: José Delgado 2015 Germany Hostages of the SS Christian Frey 2016 Australia A Long Way Back: Samm Blake ...
The Lost Evidence is a television program on the History Channel which uses three-dimensional landscapes, reconnaissance photos, eyewitness testimony and documents to reevaluate and recreate key battles of World War II.
General George Patton's Third Army's Seine River Crossing at Mantes-Gassicourt was the first allied bridgehead across the Seine River in the aftermath of Operation Overlord, which allowed the Allies to engage in the Liberation of Paris. During the two days of the bridge crossing, American anti-aircraft artillery shot down almost fifty German ...
D-Day landings (Allied invasion of Europe as part of Operation Overlord) 1944-06-06: Normandy coast: 14: Normandy: 21st Army Group: Normandy Landings (start of Operation Overlord) 1944-06-06: Ranville: 14: Normandy 6th Airlanding Brigade: Capture of the Caen canal and Orne river bridges: 1944-06-07: Bayeux: 14: Normandy: Guéret: 23: Nouvelle ...
The 80 year-old Basch was a French Jew, a former president of the League for the Rights of Men and had been a prominent dreyfusard during the Dreyfus affair, marking him out as an enemy of the "New Order in Europe" by his very existence, though the elderly pacifist Basch was not actually involved in the resistance. [144]
The film or miniseries must be concerned with World War II (or the War of Ethiopia and the Sino-Japanese War) and include events which feature as a part of the war effort. For short films, see the List of World War II short films. For documentaries, see the List of World War II documentary films and the List of Allied propaganda films of World ...