Liberation of paris

Beautifully restored color photos from England and France made before and after D-Day feel somehow familiar and utterly, vividly new.

Allied troops in front of the Notre-Dame de Paris, 1944.

BU 1. General Charles de Gaulle walking through the streets of Paris following the city's liberation 24 August 1944.

General Charles DeGaulle, on the day of the Liberation of Paris, August 25th, 1944

World War II. Liberation of Paris. The armoured cars of Leclerc's division arriving rue Guynemer, August 25, 1944. Colourized picture.

FRANCE. Paris. August 25th, 1944. Members of the French resistance combat German troops during the liberation of the city.

blueblackdream: Lee Miller, Paris 1944

Charles de Gaulle in the victory march on the Champs-Élysées, August 1944.

There are thousands joyful pictures of the liberation of France in 1944. But among the cheering images there are also shocking ones. These show the fate of women accused of "collaboration horizontale". It is impossible to forget Robert Capa's fallen-Madonna image of a shaven-headed young woman, cradling her baby, implicitly the result of a relationship with a German soldier. In 1942, Germany dominated most of Europe. Greater Germany had been enlarged at the expense of its neighbors. They…