Eleven Days in August
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10. General Dietrich von Choltitz, 1944.
11. The ‘Rochambelles’ medical group about to embark for France, August 1944.
12. Jedburgh Team AUBREY about to leave for France, August 1944. L to R: US airman, WAAF, Hooker, Chaigneau, Marchant (hidden), US airman.
13. The liberation of the Mairie of the 17th arrondissement, Batignolles, Paris; 19 August.
14. Resistance fighters inside the Préfecture de Police.
15. FFI fighters. The car contains at least one captured German soldier.
16. FFI fighters inside the Hôtel de Ville; the figure in the background appears to be Léo Hamon.
17. Building a barricade.
18. FFI fighters at the Hôtel de Ville. The man second from the right is wearing a policeman’s badge.
19. Resistance fighters in Batignolles with a captured German tank.
20. The crowd at Batignolles swamps a small German tank destroyer, 20 August. Inset: Georges Dukson atop the vehicle.
21. The courtyard of the Préfecture de Police. The lorry is towing the German anti-tank gun that was captured on 21 August.
22. The front page of Franc-Tireur, 23 August.
23. General Leclerc (second from left) orders Captain Dronne (left) to head for Paris, 24 August. On the far right is Lieutenant-Colonel de la Horie.
24. The tanks of the Dronne column arrive at the Hôtel de Ville and are lit up by flares, 24 August.
25. On the morning of 25 August, Captain Dronne consults a map of Paris with a Resistance fighter, on the place de l’Hôtel de Ville.
26. FFI fighters in Paris, 25 August. The woman is Simone Segouin; she had come from Chartres to help liberate the capital.
27. A soldier of the 2e DB greets a child in Paris, 25 August.
28. General Leclerc (centre) in his command car, avenue de Maine, 25 August. Slightly hidden behind Leclerc is Chaban.
29. German prisoners shot dead at the Arc de Triomphe, 25 August. The soldier on the left is Jacques Desbordes.
30. German prisoners stream out of the Hôtel Meurice, 25 August.
31. Gare Montparnasse, 25 August. L to R: de Chevigné, de Gaulle, Leclerc, Juin, Chaban, Rol.
32. Arc de Triomphe, 26 August. L to R: Bidault, de Gaulle, Parodi, Dukson.
33. Crowds at the place de la Concorde, 26 August.
34. Parisians shelter from the firing at the place de la Concorde, 26 August.
35. Picasso and Lee Miller in Picasso’s studio, August 1944.
36. Parisians on the Champs-Elysées, 26 August.
1. Marshal Pétain addresses the crowd at the Hôtel de Ville, April 1944.
2. The Champs-Elysées, June 1944.
3. Micheline Bood, 1944.
4. Odette Lainville.
5. Private Walter Dreizner, 1944.
6. Jean-Claude Touche, 1944.
7. ‘Chaban’ – General Jacques Delmas, 1945.
8. Colonel ‘Rol’, 1944.
9. Raoul Nordling, consul of Sweden, 1944.
10. General Dietrich von Choltitz, 1944.
11. The ‘Rochambelles’ medical group about to embark for France, August 1944.
12. Jedburgh Team AUBREY about to leave for France, August 1944. L to R: US airman, WAAF, Hooker, Chaigneau, Marchant (hidden), US airman.
13. The liberation of the Mairie of the 17th arrondissement, Batignolles, Paris; 19 August.
14. Resistance fighters inside the Préfecture de Police.
15. FFI fighters. The car contains at least one captured German soldier.
16. FFI fighters inside the Hôtel de Ville; the figure in the background appears to be Léo Hamon.
17. Building a barricade.
18. FFI fighters at the Hôtel de Ville. The man second from the right is wearing a policeman’s badge.
19. Resistance fighters in Batignolles with a captured German tank.
20. The crowd at Batignolles swamps a small German tank destroyer, 20 August. Inset: Georges Dukson atop the vehicle.
21. The courtyard of the Préfecture de Police. The lorry is towing the German anti-tank gun that was captured on 21 August.
22. The front page of Franc-Tireur, 23 August.
23. General Leclerc (second from left) orders Captain Dronne (left) to head for Paris, 24 August. On the far right is Lieutenant-Colonel de la Horie.
24. The tanks of the Dronne column arrive at the Hôtel de Ville and are lit up by flares, 24 August.
25. On the morning of 25 August, Captain Dronne consults a map of Paris with a Resistance fighter, on the place de l’Hôtel de Ville.
26. FFI fighters in Paris, 25 August. The woman is Simone Segouin; she had come from Chartres to help liberate the capital.
27. A soldier of the 2e DB greets a child in Paris, 25 August.
28. General Leclerc (centre) in his command car, avenue de Maine, 25 August. Slightly hidden behind Leclerc is Chaban.
29. German prisoners shot dead at the Arc de Triomphe, 25 August. The soldier on the left is Jacques Desbordes.
30. German prisoners stream out of the Hôtel Meurice, 25 August.
31. Gare Montparnasse, 25 August. L to R: de Chevigné, de Gaulle, Leclerc, Juin, Chaban, Rol.
32. Arc de Triomphe, 26 August. L to R: Bidault, de Gaulle, Parodi, Dukson.
33. Crowds at the place de la Concorde, 26 August.
34. Parisians shelter from the firing at the place de la Concorde, 26 August.
35. Picasso and Lee Miller in Picasso’s studio, August 1944.
36. Parisians on the Champs-Elysées, 26 August.
Index
Abetz, Otto ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7, ref 8, ref 9, ref 10
‘aborted revolution’ thesis ref 1
Action ref 1
air raids
Allied ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7
casualties ref 1, ref 2
German ref 1
Albert-Lake, Virginia d’ ref 1, ref 2
Albertini, Georges ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
Albertini, Madame ref 1, ref 2
Algiers, Free French headquarters in ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7, ref 8, ref 9, ref 10, ref 11, ref 12, ref 13
Allen, Roy ref 1
ALLIANCE circuit ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6
Allied Military Government of Occupied Territories (AMGOT) ref 1, ref 2
Allies
advance on Paris ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5
air supremacy ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
clandestine missions to Paris ref 1
plan to bypass Paris ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5
post-war vision for France ref 1, ref 2
south of France offensive ref 1, ref 2
supply lines ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4
Alviset, Pierre ref 1
Amar, André ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7
AMGOT see Allied Military Government of Occupied Territories
Amidieu du Clos, Jean ref 1
André, Max ref 1
Anne-Marie (‘Intelligence Service agent’) ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4
anti-Semitism ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4
Arc de Triomphe ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
Archives Nationales ref 1, ref 2
Ardennes ref 1
Aribaud, Paul ref 1
Armand, Major (‘Spiritualist’) ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5
Arnim, Lieutenant Dankwart Graf von ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6
Arnould, Claude (‘Ollivier’) ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7, ref 8
Arpajon ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4
Astier, Emmanuel d’ ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5
Astorg, Bertrand d’ ref 1, ref 2
AUBREY, Jedburgh mission ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5
Aubry, Michel ref 1
Aujourd’hui ref 1
Aulock, General von ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6
Auphan, Admiral Gabriel ref 1, r
ef 2, ref 3
Auroy, Berthe ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7, ref 8, ref 9, ref 10, ref 11, ref 12, ref 13, ref 14, ref 15, ref 16
Auscher, Janine ref 1, ref 2
Auschwitz ref 1
Austerlitz ref 1, ref 2
Avranches ref 1, ref 2
Bachy, Lieutenant ref 1
Badinsky, General von ref 1
banking ref 1, ref 2
Barat, Philippe ref 1, ref 2
Barbie, Klaus ref 1
Barcia, Robert (‘Hardy’) ref 1
Bardoux, Jacques ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4
Bargatzky, Walter ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
Barrat, Michel ref 1
barricades ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7, ref 8, ref 9, ref 10, ref 11, ref 12
Barthélemy, Georges ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4
Barton, General ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4
Bastille ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
Bastille Day ref 1, ref 2
Bastille Day protests ref 1
Batignolles ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
Battle of the Bulge ref 1
Bayerlein, General Fritz ref 1, ref 2
Bayet, Yves ref 1, ref 2
Bayeux ref 1
Bayeux tapestry ref 1
BBC ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7, ref 8, ref 9
announces liberation of Paris ref 1, ref 2
Beaufort, Alain de ref 1, ref 2
Beauvoir, Simone de ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5
Beck, General Ludwig ref 1
Bedell Smith, General Walter ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
Belfort ref 1
Bender, Emil ‘Bobby’ ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7, ref 8, ref 9, ref 10, ref 11
Benoît-Guyod, Georges ref 1, ref 2
Bercy ref 1
Bergen-Belsen ref 1
Berger, Friedrich ref 1, ref 2
Bernard, Claude ref 1
Bertel, René ref 1
Betz, Captain ref 1
Bezet, Pierre ref 1
Bidault, Georges ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7, ref 8, ref 9, ref 10, ref 11, ref 12, ref 13, ref 14, ref 15, ref 16, ref 17, ref 18, ref 19
Bilke, Raphaël ref 1
Billotte, Colonel Pierre ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4
Billoux, François ref 1
Billy, Bernard de ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
Birkenau ref 1
black market ref 1, ref 2
Blanchet, Dr Henri ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4
Bleustein-Blanchet, Marcel ref 1
Bliss, Lieutenant Heinz ref 1
Blumberg, Alain ref 1
Blumentritt, General Günther ref 1, ref 2
Bobkowski, Andrzej ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6
Boegner, Pasteur Marc ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7, ref 8, ref 9, ref 10, ref 11, ref 12, ref 13, ref 14, ref 15
Boineburg, Lieutenant-General Wilhelm von ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6
Bois de Boulogne massacre ref 1, ref 2
Boisdon, Daniel ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7, ref 8, ref 9, ref 10, ref 11, ref 12, ref 13
Boisgelin, Gilles de ref 1
Boissieu, Colonel Alain de ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
Boitel, Jeanne ref 1
Bonnet, Gabrielle ref 1
Bonnet, Michèle ref 1
Bonny, Pierre ref 1, ref 2
Bood, Micheline ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7, ref 8, ref 9, ref 10, ref 11, ref 12, ref 13, ref 14, ref 15, ref 16, ref 17, ref 18, ref 19, ref 20, ref 21, ref 22, ref 23, ref 24
Borchert, Jeanne ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
Boris, Georges ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4
Borme, Abbé ref 1, ref 2
Bouchetou, Edmond ref 1
Bouffet, René ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4
Bourdan, Pierre ref 1, ref 2
Bourgès-Maunoury, Maurice ref 1
Boursier, Michelle ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
Bradley, General Omar ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6
Brahms, Eugène ref 1
Brasillach, Robert ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6
bread supplies ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6
Brécard, Georges ref 1, ref 2
Brelivet, Louis ref 1
Bremer, Major General ref 1
bridges, planned destruction of ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6
Brigades Spéciales ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5
Brinet, Madeleine ref 1, ref 2
British intelligence ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5
see also MI6 and specific intelligence circuits
Brittany, liberation of ref 1
Bruce, Colonel David ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7, ref 8, ref 9, ref 10, ref 11, ref 12, ref 13, ref 14, ref 15, ref 16
Brulé, Guy ref 1
Brünner, Alois ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4
Buchenwald ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7
Bucholz, Mathieu ref 1
Buckmaster, Maurice ref 1
Buenzle, Captain William ref 1
Bureau, Lieutenant Jean ref 1
Bussière, Amédée ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5
Cabirol, Robert ref 1
Caen prisoner murders ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
Callet, Jean ref 1
Calvès, André ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4
Captain Jack sting ref 1, ref 2
Carrel, André ref 1
Catholic Church ref 1
Cayen, Maurice ref 1
Cazaux, Yves ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7, ref 8, ref 9, ref 10, ref 11, ref 12, ref 13, ref 14, ref 15, ref 16, ref 17, ref 18, ref 19, ref 20, ref 21, ref 22, ref 23
cease-fire
declaration ref 1, ref 2
fatalities during ref 1
fighting renewed ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4
poorly respected ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7, ref 8, ref 9
post-liberation scrutiny of ref 1
Resistance deliberations over ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5
Ceux de la Résistance ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4
CGT see Conféderation Générale du Travail (CGT)
Chaban see Delmas, Jacques
Chaigneau, Captain Adrien ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7
Champs-Elysées ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7
Chartres ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
Chevallerie, General Kurt von der ref 1, ref 2
Chevrier, Philippe ref 1
Chevrillon, Claire ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4
Chocarne, Suzanne ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4
Choisy-le-Roi ref 1, ref 2
Choltitz, General Dietrich von ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6
and 24 July plot ref 1
Allied interrogation of ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4
assumes command in Paris ref 1, ref 2
and cease-fire ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6
character and qualities ref 1, ref 2
court martial ref 1
and defence of Paris ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7, ref 8, ref 9, ref 10, ref 11, ref 12, ref 13, ref 14, ref 15
and deportation of political prisoners ref 1
facilitates Nordling’s contact with de Gaulle ref 1
and food supplies situation ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
and Hitler ref 1, ref 2
and the insurrection ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
and liberation ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
pessimistic about outcome ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5
and the Resistance ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
role, own explanation of ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
surrender ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7
Churchill, Winston ref 1, ref 2
Clarke, Herbert ref 1
Clausewitz, Carl von ref 1
Clément, Georges ref 1
Clichy
ref 1, ref 2
Clignancourt ref 1
Closon, Francis-Louis ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4
CNR see Conseil National de la Résistance
Cocteau, Roger (‘Gallois’) ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7, ref 8, ref 9, ref 10, ref 11, ref 12, ref 13, ref 14, ref 15, ref 16
collaborators
anti-communist ref 1, ref 2
crime of indignité nationale ref 1
economic ref 1, ref 2
fear of reprisals ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5
head-shaving ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5
Jewish ref 1
leave Paris ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6
l’épuration ref 1
passive collaborators ref 1, ref 2
police ref 1
reprisals against ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4
unofficial ‘prisons’ ref 1
see also Vichy government
colonial troops ref 1
COMAC see Comité d’Action Militaire
Combat ref 1, ref 2
Comité d’Action Militaire (COMAC) ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7, ref 8, ref 9
and the cease-fire ref 1, ref 2
Comité medical de la Résistance ref 1
Comité Parisien de la Libération (CPL) ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7, ref 8, ref 9, ref 10
Bastille Day protests ref 1
and the cease-fire ref 1, ref 2
communist sympathies ref 1
de Gaulle and ref 1
and insurrection ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7
and liberation ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
Commission pour l’Histoire de l’Occupation et de la Libération de la France ref 1