Dietrich von Choltitz's claims to have saved Paris form ruin are untrue, a French historian says. Photo: Screengrab/France TV The last Nazi commander in charge of Paris famously claimed he saved ...

Hitler sent Gen Dietrich von Choltitz to Paris on August 7th with orders to defend the city or destroy it. As Allied and Free French forces advanced from Normandy and Provence towards Paris ...

Anyone who read the 1966 nonfiction book “Is Paris Burning?” knows that Dietrich Von Choltitz, the German military governor of Paris, made the final decision not to blow up the city in August ...

The night of August 24, 1944. The fate of Paris is in the hands of General von Choltitz, governor of Grand Paris, who is preparing to blow up the French capital, on Hitler's orders. The descendant ...

Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it becomes clear the Allies are going to invade, or if he cannot maintain control of the city.