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German soldiers parade on the Champs Élysées on 14 June 1940 (Bundesarchiv) The city of Paris started mobilizing for war in September 1939, when Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union attacked Poland, but the war seemed far away until May 10th 1940, when the Germans attacked France and quickly defeated the French army. The French government ...
1919 Paris Victory Parade, celebrating the victory in the First World War. 1940 German Victory Parade in Paris. After the Fall of France, the German army marched down the Avenue Foch in triumph on 14 June 1940, following the route of the French victory over Germany parade after WWI. 1944 Paris Victory Parade, held on 26 August 1944.
Hitler addressed the German nation, praising the Wehrmacht for its victory and ordering that all flags be displayed for 10 days and that church bells be rung for a week. [55] Operation Aerial ended, although it would go on unofficially until August 14. Operation Collar ended in minor British success.
30th Infantry units march through Paris before Kurt von Briesen (on horse), 1940. Offensive of the Red Army south of Lake Ilmen , 7 January–21 February 1942 On 16 June 1940, the unit conducted a victory parade in Paris.
On 14 June 1940, the day Paris was declared an open city by the French and occupied by German troops, Riefenstahl wrote to Hitler in a telegram, "With indescribable joy, deeply moved and filled with burning gratitude, we share with you, my Führer, your and Germany's greatest victory, the entry of German troops into Paris. You exceed anything ...
German soldiers march by the Arc de Triomphe on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées in Paris, June 1940. Alsace-Lorraine had been annexed after the Franco-Prussian war in 1871 by the German Empire and returned to France after the First World War. It was re-annexed by the Third Reich (thus subjecting their male population to German military ...
After a stopover in Paris to take part in the German victory parade, the regiment was then sent north to Celsace in preparation for Operation Sea Lion, the projected invasion of Britain. After Sea Lion was called off, the regiment was moved to the south of France in preparation for Operation Felix , the planned invasion of Gibraltar .
At the end of the War of the Sixth Coalition, after the first major defeat of Napoleon, the allied forces of Austria, Prussia, and Russia, marched into Paris on 31 March 1814 to the tune of the "Pariser Einzugsmarsch". The music was also used triumphally at the climax of the 1940 German victory parade through occupied Paris.