(25 Aug 2019) Paris celebrated on Sunday the American soldiers, French Resistance fighters and others who liberated the City of Light from Nazi occupation exactly 75 years ago.
Firefighters unfurled a huge French flag from the Eiffel Tower, recreating the moment when a French tricolour stitched together from sheets was hoisted atop the monument 75 years ago to replace the Swastika flag which had flown for four years.
People dressed in World War II-era military uniforms and dresses paraded in southern Paris, retracing the entry of French and US tanks into the city on August 25, 1944.
Long the jewel of European cities, Paris suffered relatively little damage during World War II, but its citizens were humiliated, hungry and mistrustful after 50 months under the Nazis.
The liberation of Paris was both joyous and chaotic.
It was faster and easier for the Allies than their protracted battle through Normandy and its gun-filled hedgerows.
But the fight for the French capital killed nearly 5,000 people, including Parisian civilians, German troops and members of the French Resistance whose sabotage and attacks and prepared the city for the liberation.

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