On 19 August 1944, the French Resistance began open revolt against the German garrison in Paris – the start of a multi-day liberation operation that ended on 25 August with the capitulation of General Dietrich von Choltitz. In the opening hours of the uprising, street fighting, disarming, and arrests of collaborators and German soldiers took place throughout the city. Jack Lieb captured this scene in color as one of the few cameramen to do so; the shot belongs to the section of his film that documents the entry of the Allies and the Free French forces into Paris.