City of Light

Soldiers of the 4th US Infantry Division at the Eiffel Tower in Paris in August 1944
photo: alamy/alpha stock

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?

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