http://www.historynet.com/dietrich-von-choltitz-saved-of-paris-from-destruction-during-world-war-ii.htm From the World's Largest History Magazine Publisher Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:03:12 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.historynet.com/dietrich-von-choltitz-saved-of-paris-from-destruction-during-world-war-ii.htm/comment-page-1#comment-91796 Michael Scott Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:10:25 +0000 #comment-91796 Excellent résumé of the events leading to the liberation of Paris. It would have been nice to add what happened to Choltitz afterwards. Presumably he survived the war. A lot of new information, for me. Some of it surprising. Useful to have some references. A friend of mine was a sergeant in the Leclerc's DDB and present at the surrender in the Hotel Meurice. Apparently one of his men, a private was sneered at by a German officer for participating in the surrender procedure and promptly received a helmet head butt in belly as a reply. He told me lots of minor stories like this. His name was Charles Pomerat. He gave me a copy of a photograph where he is in one of a series a half-tracks lined up for inspection by de Gaulle near the Arc de Triomphe. Excellent résumé of the events leading to the liberation of Paris. It would have been nice to add what happened to Choltitz afterwards. Presumably he survived the war. A lot of new information, for me. Some of it surprising. Useful to have some references. A friend of mine was a sergeant in the Leclerc’s DDB and present at the surrender in the Hotel Meurice. Apparently one of his men, a private was sneered at by a German officer for participating in the surrender procedure and promptly received a helmet head butt in belly as a reply. He told me lots of minor stories like this. His name was Charles Pomerat. He gave me a copy of a photograph where he is in one of a series a half-tracks lined up for inspection by de Gaulle near the Arc de Triomphe.

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