French Liberation August 1944 Paris Public Ceremony Following Nazi Surrender Documenting Allied and Free French Leadership
Paris Liberation parade photographs, 1944, document the public reassertion of French sovereignty and Allied military authority immediately following the collapse of Nazi control in the capital. The images center on the ceremonial procession along the Champs-Élysées on 26 August 1944, one day after German forces formally surrendered in Paris. They.....