2ND ARMORED DIVISION

Paris, France • August 25, 1944 On this date Nazi Germany’s Paris garri­son surren­dered the French capi­tal to ele­ments of French Maj. Gen. Jacques Philippe Leclerc’s 2nd Armored Divi­sion. A little more than 4 years before, the German Wehr­macht (armed forces) goose-stepped into Paris on June 14, 1940, a month after mounting simul­ta­neous attacks on neigh­boring Nether­lands, Bel­gium,…