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"...when my wife and daughter and I planned a short visit to Paris recently, there was no time for an excursion to Normandy. A few days before leaving, however, we caught on television the 1966 movie 'Is Paris Burning?' recounting the dramatic story of the city's liberation from the Germans in 1944 and its unlikely hero, German Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz. He successfully stalled carrying out Hitler's mad command to destroy the city rather than let it fall intact into Allied hands. Intrigued, I immediately began seeking out someone who might be able to give us a tour of the sights relating to the dramatic events of August 1944.

"Several enquiries led to dead ends. When not even historian David Pryce-Jones—whose excellent Paris in the Third Reich is now sadly out of print—could give me a contact, I began wondering if my particular interest was perhaps a bit too esoteric to be satisfied."

—John A. Barnes, "A Tour of War and Remembrance," The Wall Street Journal, August 24, 2005, p. D10.

"Mr. Edsel, who came late to an appreciation of art history, said in a recent interview that he became aware of the vast art-rescue story when he was living in Florence in the late 1990s and read The Rape of Europa, an award-winning book by Lynn H. Nicholas that chronicles the Third Reich’s pillaging of museums, churches and private collections."

—Randy Kennedy, "G.I. Joes to the Rescue of Rembrandts and Raphaels," The New York Times, December 19, 2006.

“Suffice it to say that Tarantino brings about the end of World War II in a way that would please Jews, and most everyone else, including devotees of David Bowie, who sings 'Cat People (Putting Out Fire)' as the Third Reich collapses. Along the way, the Basterds terrorize German soldiers and even Hitler himself."

—Jeffrey Goldberg, "Hollywood’s Jewish Avenger," The Atlantic, September, 2009.

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World War II
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Wikipedia article on the Third Reich
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"The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany" by William L. Shirer