Strasbourg honours liberation heroes 80 years after fall of Nazi regime

The faces of General Charles de Gaulle (L) and General Philippe Leclerc (R) projected on to the facade of Strasbourg City Hall, on the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the city. © Wikimedia Creative Commons / User JMRW67

French President Emmanuel Macron will be in Strasbourg on Saturday to mark the 80th anniversary of the city's liberation from Nazi rule. He will also visit Natzweiler-Struthof, the site of the only fully operational concentration camp on French soil.

Strasbourg, the capital of the Alsace region, was freed on 23 November 1944 by General Leclerc and France’s Second Armoured Division, several months after the D-Day landings in June and the liberation of Paris in August.