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With the defeat in Normandy, the remnants of the German forces rapidly headed east, for they had no prepared defensive line in France. The Allies followed them speedily to the Seine. Believing the Germans to be beaten, Eisenhower decided to forgo a planned halt, and ordered his armies to press forward. They linked up in the south with Allied forces coming up from the Dragoon landings that had taken place on the French Riviera on 15 August. Free French forces under Leclerc were given the honour of liberating Paris on 25 August, after the resistance had thwarted a German plan to burn the city. A few days later de Gaulle made his triumphal entrance.
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© 2004 Martin Folly
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Folly, M.H. (2004). The Drive to the Rhine. In: The Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of the Second World War. Palgrave Concise Historical Atlases. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230502390_39
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