On 19 August 1944, the French Résistance rose up against German occupation and initiated the liberation of Paris, which would last until 25 August. In this climate of uprising and reckoning, the city witnessed arrests of suspected collaborators by the population and armed resistance fighters. Jack Lieb documented this phase of épuration as part of his color film material on the liberation of Paris—footage that otherwise survives almost exclusively in black and white. The scene appears in the film sequence between the advance over Versailles and the entry of the Free French Forces under General Leclerc into the city.