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searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC sounds. Hello, you're listening to the Witness History Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Ashley Byrne and today I'm taking you back to August

1944 and the romantic days which saw the liberation of Paris

from Nazi occupation.

Paris has been liberated.

The communique just received from General Kurnig announces that it has been

liberated by French forces of the interior.

On the 25th of August, 1944, General Charles de Gaulle, who had been in exile in London for the

majority of World War II, finally entered Paris as the head of the free French forces.

It's been one of the most marvelous sites I've ever seen coming down the boulevard into the heart of Paris.

Everywhere we went to keep the king running out of their house and out of the shop shaking hands with us.

Children were held up to us to be kissed and they clung around our necks.

But the French capital was far from secure,

and a goal would face sniper fire and chaos outside Notre Dame

Cathedral before Paris could finally be declared liberated.

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