Title

Barricade on the Rue de Chateaudun, liberation of Paris, August 1944. Artist: Unknown

Caption

Barricade on the Rue de Chateaudun, liberation of Paris, August 1944. As Allied forces neared Paris, the city's citizens mobilised to help bring the Nazi occupation to a close. A general strike was called on 18 August, barricades were erected and skirmishes with German troops broke out. By the time the Germans surrendered after Free French troops entered the city on 25 August an estimated 1500 civilians and members of the Resistance had been killed in the fighting.

Date

Aug 1944

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM19B96_387

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,0Mb (1,4Mb) / 18,2in x 10,7in / 5463 x 3197 (300dpi)

Keywords

road street country French France Paris occupation lane avenue war location century liberation occupied rebellion wartime concept B&W 1940s MONOCHROME barricade resistance 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 uprising Art Media decade Second World War TGN WW2 Rue de Chateaudun photograph 2nd World War Unknown photograph