Field Marshal von Bock (first from right) Fedor von Bock (1880-1945) was born into a military family; he studied at the Hitfield and Potsdam Military Academies. During World War I, Bock was awarded the Medal of Merit and promoted to major. After World War I, he served in the General Staff and other places, and his promotion was smooth; he became a major general in the late twenties.
[German troops occupying Paris] Bock never joined the Nazis, but supported his military policies. After Bock commanded the Germans to occupy France, he was promoted to field marshal. During the second phase of the Soviet-German war, Bock was ordered to retire. On May 5, 1945, Bock's open-top car was attacked by the British Air Force at a low altitude on the Kiel Highway in northern Germany; Bock was killed.
In 1755, Jacques-Ange Gabriel (Royal Architect) was responsible for the design and construction of the Place des Des Congres (Concorde) and twenty years later, the square was inaugurated. After the German occupation of Paris, a military parade was held. During The First World War, the Germans attacked the outskirts of Paris, but the French held Paris.
Paris Le Bourget Airport is located in the northeast of Paris, France, belonging to the junction of the two provinces of Seine-Saint-Denis and the Watts Valley. In 1919, the Bourget civil airport began operations; before the orly airport (1932) was opened, it was the only civilian airport in Paris (region).
Lieutenant General Hans von Samus (right) in Paris Hans von Salmuth (1888–1962) was von Bock's chief of staff. Later, he went to the Eastern Front to participate in the war, and successively served as the commander of the Fourth Army and the Second Army. After the war, he was sentenced to twelve years in prison by the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg and released in 1953.
In order to commemorate the defeat of the Russian-Austrian army (1805), Napoleon ordered the construction of a sculpture. In August 1806, construction began on the design of Egent (a famous French architect). Later, due to the overthrow of the Napoleonic regime, the work was stopped. Beginning in 1830, works were carried out intermittently. The building was officially inaugurated in July 1836.
On September 1, 1939, von Bock commanded Army Group North to raid Poland, and World War II broke out. After the occupation of Warsaw, Bork was commander of Army Group B on the Western Front. In May 1940, Bock's forces captured Rotterdam and the Netherlands surrendered. In June, Bock's 18th Army captured Dunkirk, capturing 40,000 French troops.
[Suburbs of Paris under German occupation] The French troops were gradually defeated, and the German army had entered the outskirts of Paris, building fortifications and preparing to march. At this time, Maxime Weigang and Henri Philippe Pétain declared that Paris would surrender unconditionally and conditionally. On 14 June, German (Army Group B) units under Bock's command entered Paris.
The photographer of this group of pictures was the German photographer Hugo Jaeger (1900-1970), who used color film to promote the Nazis. In 1965, he sold film to American magazines. Old photographs of the German occupation of Paris, 1940. Photograph: Hugo Yerg