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Photos

British commandos landing on the beach at Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer (Juno), June 6, 1944.

The village of Oradour-sur-Glane: On June 10, 1944, soldiers from the 2nd SS Panzer Division “Das Reich” destroyed the village and massacred its inhabitants (643 people).

Soldiers from the SS Das Reich Division arriving in a village.

In Montluçon, on August 14, 1944, 42 hostages were shot at the Grises quarry.

The Allied fleet during Operation Dragoon (the landing on the Mediterranean coast near Saint-Tropez on August 15, 1944).

A scene from the liberation of Toulouse: a barricade on Rue du Faubourg-Bonnefoy. (August 20, 1944).

Resistance fighters in front of the prefecture during the Liberation of Grenoble in August 1944.

Barricade on Place de Châteaudun (Paris, 9th arrondissement), in front of the PCF headquarters in August 1944.

Liberation of Paris: a barricade at the corner of Boulevard Saint-Germain and Boulevard Saint-Michel, August 23, 1944; photo by Robert Doisneau.

Henri Rol-Tanguy, with the FFI command staff of the Paris Liberation standing behind him, in the Catacombs beneath Place Denfert-Rochereau (14th arrondissement), August 1944.

A scene from the Liberation of Paris: De Gaulle’s arrival at City Hall (August 26, 1944).

A few hours before the surrender, members of the Resistance (including Robert Endewelt, wearing an FFI armband) on the Leclerc tank “Buttes-Chaumont” at Place de la République in Paris.

Place de l’Opéra, Paris: German officers from the Kommandantur der Gross-Paris, taken prisoner (August 25, 1944).

De Gaulle and Bidault (President of the CNR) walk down the Champs-Élysées on August 26. 1944

FTP-M.O.I. women march in Marseille on August 29, 1944

An FTP-M.O.I. unit from the Carmagnole Battalion in front of the Villeurbanne hospital, after the city’s liberation in September 1944.

Arrest of members of the Vichy militia in Lyon on September 3, 1944.

North African riflemen marching in a parade during the Liberation of Lyon on September 3, 1944.

Photo taken by Pierre Provost from the SS during the liberation of the Buchenwald camp, made possible by the uprising of the prisoners and the arrival of the Americans (April 11, 1945).

On November 7, 1944, the Provisional Consultative Assembly held its first meeting at the Palais du Luxembourg.

A view of the “death march” from the Dachau camp in April 1945. German civilians secretly photographed several “death marches.”

Upon entering the Auschwitz camp (January 27, 1945), the Soviets discovered nearly 200 children under the age of 15. Here, children were used for “scientific experiments” by Mengele, the camp’s Nazi doctor.

Buchenwald: American soldiers standing in front of a mass grave of burned bodies (April 12, 1945).

The interior of a train car in Dachau on April 29, 1945, discovered on the day the camp was liberated by the Americans.