Video: 'Documentary World War 2 II in Colour The Second World War color' (Paris liberated at 1:50:59)
(Friday, August 25, 1944, 6:00 p.m. CEST; during the Liberation of Paris, part of Operation Overlord, World War II) — Paris was liberated tonight by Allied forces after four years of Nazi occupation as the final unconditional surrender was signed in a bare, dingy baggage master’s office in Montparnasse railroad station.
On the Eastern Front today, Romania declared war on former ally Germany.
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