![]() ![]() In late August of 1943, the French 2 nd Armored Division was created in London to tackle the specifics of leading the liberation of Paris by the Allies. As the Allies began making their way through France, they soon set their eyes to Paris, to finally give the capital back to those fighting with them. In order to rid France of the Germans, de Gaulle and the Free French became a part of the Allies and fought alongside them. Led by Charles de Gaulle, a French army General, the Free French sought to fight back against German and Vichy rule. Not all French were content to accept the German occupation, however, and thus created resistance groups such as the Free French. Paris, in the meantime, came under the control of the German military. ![]() The Vichy government, in turn, still worked with the Germans and mostly acted as a puppet state for them. The French leaders left in charge abandoned Paris for the city of Vichy in central France, where they established a government in the non-occupied southern region of France, led by Philippe Pétain. ![]() The French army was easily defeated, and soon France signed an armistice with Germany. Paris had been under German occupation since June 14, 1940, when the German army made their way through France. The Liberation of Paris, also known as the Battle for Paris and Belgium, took place between August 19 to the 25, 1944. ![]()
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