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Battle for Paris

Liberation of Paris
Part of Operation Overlord of World War II
Crowds of French patriots line the Champs Elysees-edit2.jpg
Parisians line the Champs Élysées as French 2e DB armor rolls down the avenue from the Arc de Triomphe toward Place de la Concorde on 26 August
Date 19–25 August 1944
Location Paris and outskirts, France
Result

Allied victory

  • Capture and liberation of Paris
  • Paris made capital of the re-established Provisional Government of the French Republic
Belligerents
Free France Free France
United States United States
Croix de Lorraine2.svg French Resistance

 Germany
France Vichy France

Commanders and leaders
Free France Philippe Leclerc
Free France Georges Bidault
Free France Henri Rol-Tanguy
Free France J. Chaban-Delmas
Free France Charles de Gaulle
United States Raymond O. Barton
Free FranceSpain Amado Granell
Nazi Germany Dietrich von Choltitz Surrendered
Units involved

Free France 2nd French Armored Division

Free France French Forces of the Interior
United States 4th U.S. Infantry Division
Nazi Germany 325th Security Division
Casualties and losses
French Resistance:
1,600 dead
Free French Forces:
130 dead
319 wounded
United States: Unknown
3,200 dead
12,800 prisoners

Allied victory

 Germany
France Vichy France

Free France 2nd French Armored Division

The Liberation of Paris (also known as the Battle for Paris) was a military action 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 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.


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