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‘Is Paris burning?’ asked Hitler. In 1944, it wasn’t; in 2026, it is.
American Thinker ^ | 1 Nov. 2026 | Andrea Widburg

Posted on 11/01/2026 6:56:43 AM PST by MtnClimber

The Islamo-Leftist alliance is picking up where the Nazis left off, not just in Paris, but across large swaths of Europe—and our choices in this election matter.

June 6, 1944, marked the beginning of the end for the Nazi’s dominance across Europe. By August 1944, the Allies were heading to Paris, one of the crown jewels in Hitler’s European conquest. Hitler planned to hold Paris but, failing that, he wanted the Allies to suffer a Pyrrhic victory. To that end, he ordered General Dietrich von Choltitz to leave behind “nothing but a field of ruins.” The Nazis would completely destroy Paris, leaving nothing but scorched earth.

What Hitler hadn’t counted on was that von Choltitz (according to his own reminiscences) couldn’t make himself follow that final order. As it became clear that an Allied victory was imminent, he reportedly said to his military operations chief, General Alfred Jodl, “Jodl! I demand to know! Yes or no? Is Paris burning now?”

Well, Paris was not burning then. Whether von Choltitz was the hero he claimed himself to be or the Nazis just didn’t have the time, the men, and the supplies to destroy the historical city is unclear. What’s clear is that the city survived.

It’s less clear whether the city will survive the current iteration of the Nazis: A fanatical alliance of socialism and antisemitism that is assiduously destroying Paris from the inside out. The barbarians are inside the gates, and the French willingly invited them...and now seem unable to stop them.

Nor have the fires been limited to Paris. As a general matter, the same modern Nazi forces (the true “Neo-Nazis,” if you will) are systematically using the weekends to destroy Europe’s ancient cities, one by one—and in each case, they do so with relative ease

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: france; leftism
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1 posted on 11/01/2026 6:56:43 AM PST by MtnClimber
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It is what happens when leftists are allowed to run things.


2 posted on 11/01/2026 6:57:26 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Is Paris burning?

No, what is burning are the barricades set up in the middle of the streets. several are actually plastic trash cans (bins)

I’ve seen none of the usual car burnings typical of previous rioting. I’ve seen what seem to be bottle rockets and fire works but no video of store burnings.


3 posted on 11/01/2026 7:12:49 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Quid Quid Nominatur Fabricatur)
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To: MtnClimber

It’s Islam now. They didn’t leave much 1200 years ago


4 posted on 11/01/2026 7:17:30 AM PST by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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To: MtnClimber

Deployment of the military with machine guns could solve all of this quickly.

But that won’t happen as molotov cocktails are thrown at cops and the rioters burn down the city weekend after weekend. I suspect those arrested have been already released - to continue violent rioting and burning - and all charges dropped.

Not unlike the violent George Floyd rioters in 2020:

“The vast majority of citations and charges against George Floyd protesters were ultimately dropped, dismissed or otherwise not filed, according to a Guardian analysis of law enforcement records and media reports in a dozen jurisdictions around the nation.”


5 posted on 11/01/2026 7:28:43 AM PST by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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To: MtnClimber

Imagine inviting people into your country who are willing to do what nazis refused to do.


6 posted on 11/01/2026 7:37:49 AM PST by ArcadeQuarters (You can't remove RINOs by voting for them!)
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To: MtnClimber

The grandsons of Hitler’s Muslim admirers are doing what his generals would not do. The native French, then as is now, mostly just oberve and do little or nothing.


7 posted on 11/01/2026 7:40:58 AM PST by allendale
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To: MtnClimber

Hitler personally counseled the MiddleEast Iman on Jew hating. When things went bad in Africa the little bastid fled to Germany for protection.

His hatred inspired all Moslem hatred of all Jews and all of the West. Not all Moslems hate the West, rather all Moslems who do hate the West are following the teachings of these two little turds.


8 posted on 11/01/2026 7:41:25 AM PST by bobbo666
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To: MtnClimber

It is what happens when leftists are allowed to run things.


Not just leftists but the spirt of the times. We are used to letting people get away with things. I bring this up, because my wife just read me an article to me from the local newspaper.

One hundred years ago today (October 31, 1926) “residents called out the constable to use his bloodhounds to track down Halloween vandals. The hounds quickly found them. What had the vandals done? Stolen a wagon wheel from a barn and taken a horse and tied it up to a distant tree.

Property damage, theft, vandalism are quietly accepted as ‘normal’ in too many places. The kind of thing to be expected in our ‘vibrant, diverse, environment’.


9 posted on 11/01/2026 7:45:03 AM PST by hanamizu
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To: allendale

“The native French, then as is now, mostly just observe and do little or nothing.”


Same can be said of the Republicans in Congress. Just as worthless as the French.


10 posted on 11/01/2026 7:50:05 AM PST by AFret. (.)
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To: MtnClimber
The French could stop them if they really wanted to....or rather, I should say the French leadership-

Start mowing them down in the streets; they'll leave...

11 posted on 11/01/2026 9:09:56 AM PST by Victor (If an expert says it can't be done, get another expert." -David Ben-Gurion, the first Prime Minister)
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To: Victor

Mow them down in the streets and you don’t have the expense of deporting the ones that are illegal immigrants.


12 posted on 11/01/2026 9:27:03 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: bert

What vids have you been watching? There were hundreds of car arsons across France during the Oct. 17-18 riots alone. Check a few more sources of your own choosing, or just do a search.

Granted, this number is considerably lower than the typical New Year’s Eve festivities (around 1k the last couple years.)

I wasn’t even looking for car burnings when I checked Fox News on YT this morning, just to see what’s been going on here and there.

https://youtu.be/30qyNY7_AKs?t=12

I do think the reporting and commentary gets overblown somewhat (I again cite the New Year’s Eve numbers.) OTOH, 1k car burnings on a typical New Year’s Eve IS pretty crazy!


13 posted on 11/01/2026 9:32:13 AM PST by Paul R.
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To: bert

So, it must be “mostly peaceful” then... yes?
I think not.


14 posted on 11/01/2026 9:54:43 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: MtnClimber

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15 posted on 11/01/2026 10:12:57 AM PST by sauropod ("Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati." Ne supra crepidam)
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To: AFret.

<>Same can be said of the Republicans in Congress.<>

Quite right.

The virus of islam in the US grows exponentially. Congress will do nothing. Today’s Paris is our future.


16 posted on 11/01/2026 10:42:54 AM PST by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: AFret.

You admire democrats who want to have a commie revolution here because ‘something is being done’? LOL - you’re falling for democrat insanity.


17 posted on 11/01/2026 12:34:50 PM PST by GOPJ (Liberals control 100+ news outlets. Conservatives get half of FOXNews. Is that fair or balanced?)
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To: MtnClimber

I have been posting all week that the people rioting in Paris are just doing what SHitler ordered done in 1944 but the Nazi commander said was when it wasn’t.
“IS PARIS BURNING?” Well, now it is.


18 posted on 11/01/2026 2:31:11 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (REOREOPEN THE CLOSED MENTAL HOSPITALS! When closed in the 1970s, murders by crazies sky rocketed!)
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