Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - A ranar 14 ga Yuni, 1940, sojojin Jamus sun shiga birnin Paris, wanda aka ayyana a matsayin "birni mai budewa". A ranar 16 zuwa 17 ga Yuli, 1942, bin umarnin Jamus, 'yan sandan Faransa da' yan sanda sun kama Yahudawa 12,884, ciki har da yara 4,115, kuma sun tsare su har kwana biyar a "Vel d'Hiv"
("Vélodrome d'Hiver"), daga inda aka kai su ta jirgin ƙasa zuwa sansanin kisan gilla a Auschwitz. Babu ɗayan yaran da ya dawo. A ranar 25 ga Agusta, 1944, Faransa ta 'yanta birnin ta 2nd Armored Division da 4th Infantry Division na sojojin Amurka. Janar Charles de Gaulle ya jagoranci babban taron jama'a a kan Champs Élysées zuwa Notre Dame de Paris, kuma ya yi jawabi mai ban sha'awa daga Hôtel de Ville.