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Hitler in Paris

Hitler pictured alongside Speer, Breker and Giesler. The Eiffel Tower can be seen in the background.

On Sunday 23 June 1940 Adolf Hitler returned to France for his infamous visit to Paris. He was accompanied by his favoured architects Albert Speer and Hermann Giesler. The artistic aspect of the party was completed by the addition of Arno Breker, Hitler’s most favoured sculptor. Both Giesler writing in ‘Ein Anderer Hitler’ and Breker in his memoirs state that the trip took place on Sunday 23 June. However, writing in his book ‘Inside the Third Reich’ Speer erroneously cites the date as 28 June 1940, but as he describes the moment when the armistice came into effect as part of the trip the date of 28 June is clearly an error on his part. Giesler later recalled how surprised he was to be stopped by the Viennese police and escorted to Vienna airport where he was placed on a courier aircraft bound for France. However there was a purpose behind Hitler’s decision to include the artists. At a personal level Hitler cared nothing for the legendary city and was only i

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Helene Bechstein

Helene Bechstein, née Capito le et morte le , est une femme d'affaires et mondaine allemande. Elle enseigne l'étiquette à Adolf Hitler et est l'épouse d'Edwin Bechstein, le propriétaire et plus tard l'actionnaire majoritaire de C. Bechstein, l'un des principaux fabricants de pianos allemands.

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Helene Capito est née à Düsseldorf en 1876^{[réf. nécessaire]}. Elle épouse Edwin Bechstein, le fils de Carl Bechstein, propriétaire de la fabrique de pianos C. Bechstein. En 1923, quand C. Bechstein devient une société à responsabilité limitée, le couple commence à acheter la majorité des actions, cette dernière agissant par ailleurs comme porte parole publique de la société^[1]. Lors de nombreux événements, elle prononce des commentaires antisémites, ce qui conduit un certain nombre de musiciens de haut vol à boycotter les pianos C. Bechstein. En 1934, la société est restructurée pour qu'Helene devienne l'actionnaire majoritaire. Pour faciliter la levée de capitaux, elle vend des

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HITLER IN PARIS: JUNE 1940

WHEN CITY WENT DARK: THE FALL OF PARIS 1940

The intimate letter dated June 5, 1940, and sent from a husband (in his late forties) in Paris to his wife, included a passage on the imminence of the situation that was now in evidence. His name was Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle and even before the day ended, he had been appointed as Under Secretary of State for Defence for France. The position was no more than an entry-level ministry office even without access to all military committee sessions. It was not until the day before, June 4, to witness the last efforts of the Gargantua evacuation from the besieged French port city of Dunkirk: England was now to welcome 100,000 French soldiers apart from 230,000 of the British Expeditionary Force. On the same June 5, de Gaulle wrote a letter to his wife, the suburbs of Paris were exposed to an air raid by the German Luftwaffe.

On the night of June 10, de Gaulle was sleepless after the news that the Germans had successfully crossed the Seine River and turned on Paris in the never-ending pursuit to the