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"My Luftwaffe is invincible.... And so now we turn to England. How much time will that one previous - two, three weeks?" (Hermann Goering, June 1940) One of the most famous people on the planet came to head to the location of Paris for the very first time on June 28, 1940. Over the next three time, he rode through the city's roads, stopping to head to L'Opéra Paris. He rode down the Champs-Elysésera toward the Trocadero and the Eiffel Tower, where he had his picture considered. After passing through the Arc de Triomphe, he toured the Pantheon and old medieval churches, though he didn't manage to see the Louvre or the Palace of Justice. Heading back again to the air-port, he told his staff, "It was the imagine my entire life to be permitted to see Paris. I cannot say how happy I am to own that dream fulfilled today." Four years after his head to, Adolf Hitler would order the city's garrison commander, Standard Dietrich von Choltitz, to destroy Paris, warning his subordinate that the location "must not fall into the enemy's side except resting in complete debris." Of course Paris had not been destroyed before the Allies liberated it, but it would take more than four years to allow them to wrest control of France from Nazi Germany once they took the country by storm in in regards to a month in 1940. That said, it's widely forgotten today given how history played out out that as the power of Nazi Germany grew alarmingly during the 1930s, the French sought methods to defend their territory against the growing menace of the Thousand-Year Reich.
