Was this the first time and the last time for Him in Paris?

[zj_apl]

Had he been there before he seize power?and second question is
why he stayed there for only two hours,having a lot of homework to do?

[valadezaj]

The only time Hitler was in Paris was on June 23, 1940 the day after France signed the armistice. He was there for 3 hours and toured different places, there is also a picture of him standing in front of the eiffel tower(my favorite).

[Eva]

Know why he never went to the TOP of la Tour Eiffel???
Silly trivia, but funny:
The French resistance broke the elevator just as the Germans were marching in. They didn't want the enemy to use the structure as a radio tower for their military aims, so they broke it. A silly side affect being that AH never got to the top. heehee

EB

[Dan]

Eva, nice trivia, and don't be such a stranger.

zj_apl, please don't capitalize Him when speaking of Hitler!

[Nagelfar]

there is also a picture of him standing in front of the eiffel tower(my favorite).

Speer is to his right, who is that to his left I wonder...?

[Phaethon]

Speer is to his right, who is that to his left I wonder...?

That's the sculptor Arno Breker.

Cheers

K.
--
Ken Cocker, Honolulu

[Nagelfar]

ahh.. thanks.

yeah, I know of him.

[sylvieK4]

Arno Breker:

From: http://residence.aec.at/rax/KUN_POL/ UND/BIOS/breker.html


From: http://arno.breker.free.fr/bio2.htm

[Guderian]

I think that AH always hated the French for what they did when Germany stopped to pay war reparations. The French dismantling German factories at the Ruhr and the killing of the students that opposed those acts, maybe made a great impression at his mind.

This is the reason that you can see in his face expression, when he is looking at the Eiffel Tower and the rest of Paris, you can see that in the films not in the pictures. Is a defiant expression, almost a burlesque face?

When France was defeated in 1940 he thought that Germany won the war.

He always misunderstood who was his real enemy. France he thought was the real enemy. What a mistake. UK was the real one.

Never finishing with England cost him the reopening of the western front in June 6,1944.

And the history repeated again. Germany fighting at two fronts. Germany losing the war for the second time in less than one generation.

Guderian

[Phaethon]

Yes there's that film of the little jig Hitler danced when he was told France had fallen.

K.
--
Ken Cocker, Honolulu

[Guderian]

I am not so sure that the film that shows Hitler with white uniform, tap-dancing at Bertchesgaden, is joy for the defeat of France. I think that it was filmed during the preparation of Operation Barbarossa.

When Hitler knew about the willing of the French to surrender, he was with Keitel, Ribentrop and Brauchitsch at Munstereifel near the war front.

He slapped the floor with joy with his wright leg, when he left the wagon, after the French signed the armistice at Compiegne.

After the Paris occupation, every day a Wermach battalion with a music band, marched at the Arch of Triumph to remember the French their defeat.

Guderian