Evening star., 1944-08-27
Surrender
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Crillon next door, which had been
German headquarters, was pocked
by bullets and shells.
The famous MaXim'S restaurant
nearby, long shuttered, was readied
for reopening.
The beautiful -columned
Church of Madeleine stood in the
brilliant morning sun unscathed,
with throngs of worshippers passing
through its massive doors to offer
prayers and thanksgiving.
Flags on Eiffel Tower.
Atop the Eiffel Tower the Tri-
color was embraced today by the
Stars and Stripes and Union Jack
Rowing bands of French resist
ance fighters hunted down German
snipers still holding out in scat
tered sections of the city today.
The last major battle in Paris
ended yesterday afternoon when
some 400 Germans, barricaded in
the French Chamber of Deputies
surrendered after an hour long
fight with the FIJI and French End
Armored Division, which used tanks
to quell them.
AS late as 11:15 last night three
German noncoms with rifles were
caught hiding in rooms of the Hotel
Meurice.
The sincerity and enthusiasm of
the hysterical welcome by the
French populace overwhelmed the
awed American troops. This atti-
tude was summarized by Corpl.
Michael Tkacsik, Maseth, N. Y, who
said.
I've never been kissed by so
many women before in my life. To-
day made up for 2la years 1 have
spent overseas in Iceland, England,
and France. 1t showed me what we
are fighting for, and what liberty
means to these people"
Surrender Scene Drab.
The German surrender came in a
bare and dingy railway station Office.
Seated in this cubbyhole at an
unpainted wooden table was Gen.
Dietrich Won Choltitz, German COM
mander of the Paris garrison. He
first faced Brig. Gen. Jacques lie
Clerc and then United States
corps commander and signed the
order to his troops, which read:
Resistance in the military district
and defense points is Immediately
to be stopped. Signed, Won Choltitz,
general of infantry"
Copies of the surrender order i'm
mediately were given to German
officers, who were escorted by
American, British and French
officers in jeeps to parts of the city
where German units were fighting.
Gen. Charles de Gaulle, who was
in the city at the time of the sur
render, visited the station but did
not meet Won Choltitz.
Gen. Charles de Gaulle. who
was in the city at the time of
the surrender, visited the station
but did not meet Won Choltitz.
Line Cut to Hotel.
In midmorning lie Clerc's office
had contacted Won Choltitz at the
Maurice Hotel, but the lines were
cut. Then courier was sent with
the unconditional surrender de-
mand.
Signed copies were exchanged be-
tween Won Choltitz and lie Clerc and
French guard went to the Maurice
to escort the German commander to
Montparnasse station. After going
through the formality of accepting
the surrender. the cold, unbending
LIE Clerc posed outside the station
with Won Choltitz.
Won Choltitz first surrendered per-
sonally to Gen. lie Clerc and then to
the United States corps commander
OF which LIE Clerc's I'd French Arm
ored Division is q part.
The corps commander talked with
Won Choltitz in the presence of 1t.
Col. Robert Low of New York City,
who Is a member of the corps COM
mander's staff.
Detected Lot Of Nazis.
> pouiASIly, UldCA -UdlTeO Ger
man general wearing horn-rimmed
glasses sat impassively with his legs
crossed. He wore khaki tunic
and gray-green riding breeches with
broad leg stripes down the sides
tucked neatly in his black boots.
In the adjoining office one of Vor
Choltitz' staff officers, colonel OF
the Signal Corps, talked with 8
high-ranking officer and Capt. Pau
Howard Of Now York City, the latte,
two members of the corps comman.
der's staff.
Outside on the floor of the station
platform dozen members of Va
Choltitz'S staff from full coloneE
down, sat with their legs danglins
over the tracks. They were a de.
jected lot with cloSe-cropped bar,
heads bowed. Stray bullets crashed
through the massive glass-panee
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