How many tanks Von Choltitz had?

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How many tanks Von Choltitz had?

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Hello.

In August, 15 after his meeting with Von Kluge, Von Choltitz found that he had 17 armoured cars (tanks, half-tracks, etc….). Prof. Muller, from Hambourg University, stated during the debate for the 50th anniversary of the Liberation of Paris, that the division Panzer Lehr lent 17 tanks until the 23 of August, when they come back to the division.

Von Choltitz is very firm, and in his memoirs he said that he had only four tanks but in the pictures about the Liberation is possible to see, at least, five Panthers: one at the Concorde Place, just outside the Tuileries, other outside the Luxembourg Palace and three else inside the Luxembourg Park, besides several French tanks. I suppose that some of the tanks inside the Luxembourg could be out of order, but I would like to know how many tanks had Von Choltitz during the Liberation of Paris.

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