Eiffel Tower

From Turtledove

The Eiffel Tower is an iron tower built on the Champ de Mars beside the Seine River in Paris. The tower has become a global icon of France and is one of the most recognizable structures in the world.

[edit] Eiffel Tower in The Man With the Iron Heart

The Eiffel Tower was toppled by a German Freedom Front Werewolf named Jürgen Voss in 1946. Voss parked a truck loaded with high-explosives at the base of the Tower, and then blew the truck (and himself) up. The resulting explosion knocked the Tower over into the Seine River. A weatherman trying to set up a barometer at the top of the tower went into the river, and survived with a broken wrist.

In the aftermath of the attack, Frence President Charles de Gaulle promised that the Tower would rise again, but that Nazi Germany would not. US President Harry Truman declared "We are all Frenchmen" to show unity with America's ally.

[edit] Eiffel Tower in Southern Victory

The Eiffel Tower was destroyed by the German superbomb that devastated Paris and forced the French out of the Second Great War.