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Paris in World War II

  • Liberation of ParisThe Allied strategy emphasized destroying German forces retreating toward the Rhine, not liberating Paris. General Dwight Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of…
  • Paris in World War IIThe city of Paris started mobilizing for war in September 1939, when Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union attacked Poland. The first defense exercise took place…
  • Polish government-in-exileOn the 17th of September 1939, President Ignacy Mościcki issued a proclamation from the small town of Kuty near the southern Polish border.