Sunday, March 4, 2012

Vets mark 65 years since Paris freed from Nazis

Veterans of the French Resistance have joined President Nicolas Sarkozy in a ceremony marking the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Paris from the Nazi occupation.

On Aug. 25, 1944, Resistance leader Charles de Gaulle moved back into the War Ministry in central Paris and made a famous speech from City Hall. Thousands of Parisians attended a victory parade down the Champs-Elysees …

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