by Joseph P. Farrell, Giza Death Star:

There was a movie about World War Two I saw when I was growing up titled Is Paris Burning? It dealt with the period of the war between the Allied amphibious landings in Normandy in June of 1944, and their liberation of Paris some weeks later in August of 1944. The Nazi Fuehrer (or we might as well Anglicize that and call him the Nazi Furor) had decreed in one of his typical fits of megalomaniacal nuttery that, if he couldn’t have Paris, no one could have it, and had ordered the entire city to be rigged for demolition… never mind the civilians. The Nazi Furor had already done a similar “treatment” to Warsaw in the path of the advancing Soviet armies, bringing up his still considerable artillery park of heavy (and super-heavy) guns and proceeding to level the city with them. Thus there was no doubt that Der Furor was in deadly earnest when he ordered the same fate for Paris.