On this trip to Paris, I visited the Musee de l'Armee or the Army Museum. With more than 500,000 artifacts in 12,000 square meters (3 acres) of space, I walked a couple of miles seeing nearly a millennium of French military history. The museum is located in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower on the south bank of the Seine River in the Invalides area of Paris.
The featured exhibit currently is about the the French Resistance and about the Deportation of Jews to death camps. More than 250,000 Jews were sent east, mostly to die under Nazi occupation.
The collection also includes suits of armor from Medieval France.
Weapons and uniforms from the Napoleonic era up through World War II
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