<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alençon" id="mwow" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Alençon">Alençon</a> is liberated by General <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Leclerc_de_Hauteclocque" id="mwpA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque">Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque</a>, the first city in France to be liberated from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism" id="mwpQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Nazism">Nazis</a> by French forces.