On the 23rd of August 1944, Paris stood on the brink of destruction. Hitler had ordered the city to be destroyed, but one German general stood between the Führer's orders and the fate of the French capital. Was Dietrich von Choltitz truly the savior of Paris, or was his reputation built on a carefully crafted myth?

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