On 19 August 1944, the French Résistance in Paris launched an open uprising against the German occupation garrison — the beginning of the liberation of the city, which lasted until 25 August. In the following days, an increasing number of German soldiers surrendered to FFI fighters and Allied troops. Jack Lieb captured this phase of the liberation of Paris as part of his color film documentation of the advance from Normandy to Germany. The German commander General Dietrich von Choltitz disregarded Hitler’s order to destroy the city and surrendered Paris on 25 August without combat.