Dietrich von Choltitz joined the 8.

The only real problem was the commander of the very professional enemy garrison. More than 500 French had died so far, and the metropolitan area was slowly beginning to resemble a charred battlefield. This time, however, it was not some dour industrial or farming town on the Russian steppes — it was Paris, the most beautiful city in the world. Choltitz, Dietrich Hugo Hermann von, born 09-11-1894 in his family’s castle in Gräflich Wiese He became a German Army officer who was the last commander of Nazi-occupied Paris In World War I, von Choltitz served at the Western frontier, eventually as a Leutnant. He is chiefly remembered for his role as the last commander of Nazi-occupied Paris in 1944, when he disobeyed Adolf Hitler's orders to level the city, but instead surrendered it to Free French forces. The truce was also the greatest thing imaginable for General Charles de Gaulle.General Eisenhower experienced a mix of emotions as he awaited de Gaulle’s arrival at his Granville headquarters, but anger prevailed. Reciting the reasons previously outlined by Eisenhower, Patton refused, but after a furious jeep ride, Gallois reached U.S. Twelfth Army headquarters at 6 a.m. on August 22, where his emotional appeal did convince intelligence officer Brig.

If only the Americans would hurry.Meanwhile, a Gaullist agent named Roger Gallois had managed to make it to the American lines and was frantically imploring General George Patton (who was roused in the middle of the night) to send his forces directly to Paris. The sound was getting louder, and the Germans began to burn incriminating documents. Suddenly, Choltitz was seized by one of his periodic attacks of asthma and went into a fit of uncontrollable coughing. He had two brothers named Hans and Job. Er diente im Ersten Weltkrieg an der Westfront, zuletzt als Leutnant und verblieb in der Weimarer Republik in der Reichswehr, wo er seit 1929 Rittmeister und Chef einer Kavallerie-Schwadron war. While the Resistance leaders of Paris bickered, 122 miles to the west the 16,000 men of the 2nd French Armored Division were mobilizing. The 2nd French Armored and the U.S. 4th Infantry Division were already poised to strike. 107 He remained in the Reichswehr during the Weimar Republic.

On the drizzling morning of August 23, four SS engineers were inspecting the supports of the Eiffel Tower, looking for the best spots to place charges.Choltitz risked his life and his family by lying to the chief of staff of Army Group B, Generalleutnant Hans Speidel, telling him the destruction of the city had already begun. As the Germans began to strike back with their panzers, the destruction began to mount.The heart of the rebellion was the police prefecture, so Choltitz decided to attack it with dive bombers and armor at daybreak on August 20. It seemed to confirm that Choltitz was not intended to preside over the defense of the capital anyway. As the tired soldiers were pulled from their tanks by the throngs of delighted Parisians, the deafening strains of the ‘Marseillaise’ drowned out all other sounds — even the growing rattle of gunfire.The Germans would fight for Paris, but despite the occasional violent flare-up, opposition was futile and quickly overcome. Fuel demands alone for the required armor would be a crippling drain because gasoline had to be trucked over steadily increasing distances from the Normandy beaches in convoys that burned almost as much as they delivered. The mayor was alarmed at all the explosives being deployed throughout the city and asked the German for an explanation. In the first of a series of costly clashes, the 2nd French Armored cleared the field and advanced to the next bottleneck. Two million of them had died in the bloody mud of the Western Front. All it had done was clarify his new posting for what it was, another scorched-earth assignment. He came from a Moravian-Silesian noble family of Sedlnitzky von Choltitz (Odrowąż coat of arms). With only 10,000 men available, the line was stretched impossibly thin, but Choltitz had been promised reinforcements. When he arrived at the Fuhrer’s headquarters in Rastenburg, East Prussia, a year later, however, he was in for a shocking disappointment. He had been raised to do as he was told. Issuing orders to his men to attack Germans at every opportunity, he denounced the cease-fire as a ruse to ‘exterminate the working classes of Paris,’ and permit ‘those stirred by hatred and fear of the people to work their dirty deals.’ Rol was uninterested in sparing the city from destruction; he wanted only to establish his faction as the ruling government.

On the document, which he had had no chance to sign himself, was the signature of his Communist rival, Colonel Rol. The guns would not be needed at their former posting. This missive, similar in content to Gallois’ appeal, finally tipped the scales.Back in the city, Parodi had assembled his Gaullist government in the prime minister’s office and announced its existence to reporters.

Whoever expelled the Germans and freed Paris would likely build for himself in the process a power base with which to dominate the entire country in years to come. For every minister in de Gaulle’s government-in-exile, there was a carefully screened, Paris-based stand-in. A German six-truck convoy headed for the Chamber of Deputies was stuffed with high-explosive torpedoes. The Allies would never bomb Paris.A tunnel beneath the city was filled with U-boat torpedoes that, if ignited, would produce a titanic explosion and tremendous devastation. Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com: accessed ), memorial page for Dietrich von Choltitz (9 Nov 1894–5 Nov 1966), Find a Grave Memorial no.

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