How WWII’s Most Famous Victory Was Racially Staged
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In August 1944, Paris was liberated from Nazi occupation.
The photographs became iconic:
French flags
cheering crowds
Allied soldiers marching through the streets
the symbolic rebirth of France
But hidden behind those images was a political decision that remained largely buried for decades.
Declassified Allied correspondence and French military directives reveal that Black colonial troops who helped fight through Europe were systematically removed from the liberation of Paris to preserve the image of a “white” victory.
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