Prelude to Victory. . . Paris is freed! Members of the French underground patriots who fought the Germans during the long occupation - come out into the open to clean out snipers - German stragglers and Frenchmen who had collaborated with the Nazis. It's the prelude to the entrance of victorious Allied forces into the City of Light that spent four long years under Nazi rule. There is literally dancing in the streets of the freed city as Allies push onto the North. The Nazis were doomed. Germany's surrender was but 9 months away.