Memorial Railway Employees and Capitulation Gare Montparnasse
This memorial within the Gare Montparnasse commemorates the railway employees of the SNCF in this region who were killed in World War II. It also commemorates the capitulation of the Germans in Paris, on this location on 25 August 1944.
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Source
- Text: Fedor de Vries
- Photos: Celette
Nearby
Museum
- National Museum of the French Army - Paris, 7e
- Mémorial de la Shoah - Paris, 4e
- National French Navy Museum - Paris, 16e
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- Gare de Paris-Montparnasse - Paris, 15e
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Monument
- Memorial Raymond Cousin - Paris, 15e
- Memorial Georges Paulin - Paris, 6e
- Memorial Robert Marchand - Paris, 14e
Cemetery
- Cimetière de Montparnasse - Paris, 14e
- Tombs Église Saint-Louis-des-Invalides - Paris, 7e
- Panthéon Paris - Paris, 5e
Fortification
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