Diplomacy

August 25th, 1944. The Allies enter Paris. Shortly before dawn, Dietrich von Choltitz, the German military governor of Paris, prepares to execute Hitler's orders to blow up the French capital. Bridges and monuments are all rigged to explode. And yet, Paris is not destroyed. For what reasons did von Choltitz refuse to carry out the Fuhrer's commands, despite his boundless loyalty to the Third Reich? Was it Raoul Nordling, then Swedish consul-general to Paris, who made the General change his mind?