Occupied Paris, a paradoxical city of banality and brutality, of resistance and collaboration. Join Anna as she takes you on a tour of the city from occupation, the establishment of the Pétain regime and collaboration, the growth of resistance, and finally liberation. But the story doesn’t end there and into the 21st century, the city of lights is haunted by its occupation.

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    22 Comments

    1. This question of how to define collaboration versus resistance will plague the postwar world. Into the 21st century, fierce debates continue across Europe. They cut through domestic and international politics and are even used as justifications for war.

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    2. The occupation may have ended, but the tyranny continues. The National Socialists became the World Econimic Forum and NATO. Eight decades later they are still at war with Russia. Just as much "resistance" in the U.S. in the 2020's as there was in France in the 1940's — not much.

      The more things change the more they stay the same.

    3. I grew up being taught by my teachers that it was 'the city of light', not the city of 'lights'. I had never heard 'lights' in the phrase until today. Which is it?

    4. France was a fractured nation at the time of the invasion. It's government was divided among itself, the army led by elderly generals fighting WW2 Blitzkrieg with WWI tactics. Many in the French army were poorly trained, poorly disciplined, and indifferent soldiers. There were heroic exceptions, but not enough to stem the tide.

    5. My grandfather was a forger for the Resistance. He was an accountant and had superb penmanship. I can not know if he was an exceptional patriot, but I do know that he blamed the Germans for the death of his younger brother, because the occupying army had pressganged our local doctor during WWI.

    6. My father was a member of the Resistance, an active one: a courier (crossing the border of General Gubernia and III Reich) but there were many just members awaiting (eventually) the global uprising (Operacja Burza) before the advancing Soviets that had never been realized; Allies planes had supplied weapons for it@Ressistance gathered it). A personal friendship between him and German soldiers in the village decided an unexpected Unexpected: e.g., a resistance man from Warsaw came (with a gun) to meet a Resistance officer there and suddenly by accident the Germans wanted to check his ID (who is he): the resolution would be an exchange of fire@killing German's soldiers (and the German's revenge on the village) or…my father told them: "don't check him or you would be dead"! They listened and moved out: "We did not see anything". Bribery and vodka had decided about life and death in many situations – forget about a (state) Rule there!

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