German long-range guns shelled Paris in 1918, and in June 1940 the Wehrmacht entered an undefended city that stayed occupied for four years. In July 1942 French police rounded up more than 13,000 Jews in the Vel' d'Hiv raid. The Resistance rose on 19 August 1944; General von Choltitz did not carry out Hitler's order to destroy the city, and Leclerc's 2nd Armoured Division liberated it on 25 August.
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In flashback, Rick and Ilsa fall in love in Paris as the German army approaches, and she fails to meet him at the station.
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Shosanna, hiding under a false name, runs a cinema that is chosen for the premiere of a Nazi propaganda film, and prepares a reel of her own.
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On leave in a Paris nightclub, the ace Jack is too drunk to recognise Mary, the girl next door now driving ambulances in France.
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Colonel von Waldheim strips the museum of its modern masterpieces, and the curator begs the Resistance to save them.
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An airman lands on the roof of the Opéra, where the irascible conductor Lefort reluctantly agrees to help him.
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The fugitives' rendezvous at the mosque's Turkish baths turns into a comedy of passwords sung to the wrong people.
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From his headquarters on the Rue de Rivoli, Choltitz weighs Hitler's orders against the Swedish consul's pleas as the uprising spreads.
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A handful of Free French tanks slips through the suburbs and reaches the city hall as church bells ring across Paris.
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Transferred from a Vichy internment camp, Gerbier waits to be interrogated in Paris and makes a desperate run for it.
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At the Théâtre Montmartre, Marion rehearses a new play by day and by night visits the husband hidden beneath the stage.
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With a private detective and a stack of letters, Mathilde tracks down survivors, widows and a vengeful lover of one of the condemned men.
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Manouchian's fighters ambush German soldiers on Paris streets while French police detectives patiently shadow every one of them.
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Jo and his friends play on the steps of the Butte while neighbors split between those who help Jews and those who insult them.
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Helped by a farming couple, Sarah finally returns to her building and runs upstairs to the door she left behind.
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In liberated Paris, Granger tries to win the trust of Claire Simone, the curator who watched the Nazis carry off France's art.
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Through the night Nordling argues, flatters and bargains with Choltitz as charges wait under the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre and the bridges.
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An American doctor and his jazz musician lover try to survive as German troops march into the city.
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As the Germans approach, Marie-Laure's father leaves the museum with her and a precious secret, joining the flood of refugees.
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French and British troops halted the German advance just east of Paris and pushed it back to the Aisne. Germany's plan for a quick victory in the west failed, and both sides dug the trenches that would define the Western Front for four years.
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The victorious Allies imposed peace terms on Germany: loss of territory and colonies, disarmament, reparations and acceptance of responsibility for the war. Resentment of the treaty became a powerful tool for German nationalists, including Hitler.
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The French Resistance rose in Paris, and French and American troops entered the city six days later. The German commander surrendered on 25 August, and Charles de Gaulle returned to lead France.
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