The dance on the volcano ended on Friday noon.
At around 12.20 p.m. on August 25, 1944, the tricolor was blowing again for the first time in almost exactly 50 months at the Eiffel Tower, the symbol of Paris.
A few minutes later a large blue-white-red cloth also unrolled on the flagpole on the Arc de Triomphe.
The German occupation of the French capital was over.
But how did the former occupation soldiers of the Wehrmacht experience the end in Paris?
And like the last few weeks before?
There is new knowledge from a military historian.