Title

Clearing of sandbag protection from the facade of Notre Dame, German-occupied Paris, 1940. Artist: Unknown

Caption

Clearing of sandbag protection from the facade of Notre Dame, German-occupied Paris, 1940. Paris survived the Nazi invasion relatively unscathed after the government declared it an open city and abandoned it to the Germans.

Date

1940

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM19B96_251

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,0Mb (1,8Mb) / 16,6in x 11,7in / 4982 x 3507 (300dpi)

Keywords

exterior Germany people male working work man men clearing religious German protection country France religion Paris guy occupation cathedral protected Christianity Notre Dame war location century protect protective removal occupied removing soldiers soldier wartime concept outside B&W 1940s MONOCHROME Army warfare Forties sandbag sandbags World War II World War two WWII black & white black and white B W Ile-de-France world war 2 20th century Art Media decade Notre Dame de Paris Second World War TGN WW2 photograph 2nd World War Unknown photograph