German victory and occupation in June 1940 “entangled France and the French in a web of cooperation, resistance, accommodation, and, later, of defensiveness, forgetfulness, and guilt from which they are still trying to escape.”

– Ronald Rosbottom, professor of French and European studies at Amherst _________________________________________

Click this link for fascinating photos by André Zucca that were taken for the German magazine Signal to demonstrate a peaceful and pleasant Parisian life under German occupation.