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Events on Sunday 23 June 1940 1
1940Hitler tours ParisHitler makes his only visit to the French capitalIn the early morning of 23 June Adolf Hitler toured Paris with Albert Speer and Arno Breker. He visited the Opéra, the Eiffel Tower and Napoleon's tomb. The photographs of the brief visit became some of the best-known images of the war.