Hitler's Invasion of France Created a Humanitarian Crisis
Hitlers Invasion of France Created a Humanitarian Crisis The 1940 exodus from Paris as the German Army approached choked the roads from the city with refugee traffic. Heres What You Need to Know: Many of the refugees had no ultimate destination in mind. During the afternoon of May 16, 1940, flames rose from the block of Foreign Office buildings on the Quai d’Orsay in Paris. Earlier that morning the alarming news that the Germans were approaching Laon, less than 100 miles northeast of the Fre...
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