Destoyed vehicle, Rue de Castiglione, liberation of Paris, August 1944. After just over four years of occupation, the Germans surrendered the city to the French 2nd Armoured Division on 25 August 1944. The previous week the French Resistance and elements of the general population rose up in revolt against their occupiers. The photographer is unknown.

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