Eighty years on, a military historian asks: were the French responsible for the liberation of Paris, or was it the Americans? And was the French state complicit in Nazi crimes?
08 August 2024, The Tablet
City of Light
Soldiers of the 4th US Infantry Division at the Eiffel Tower in Paris in August 1944
photo: alamy/alpha stock
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