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2008-05-27 -Short Attention Span Theater-

New Book About WWII Occupation Shocks Paris

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Posted by Anonymoose 2008-05-27 08:58|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Like a recent photographic exhibition showing Parisians enjoying themselves under the occupation, the book's depiction of life in Paris as one big party is at odds with the collective memory of hunger, resistance and fear.

I guess it depends upon who is doing the remembering and what kind of an ax they have to grind--such as selling books.

Posted by JohnQC 2008-05-27 10:41|| 2008-05-27 10:41|| Front Page Top

#2 Women usually paid for their survival collaboration with the public humiliation of having their heads shaved. The men were usually summarily executed. I doubt if HRW or AI existed at the time they would have objected, since Americans weren't involved, but they would have held America responsible for 'allowing it to happen' even in areas where Americans had no control.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-05-27 10:53|| 2008-05-27 10:53|| Front Page Top

#3 Geez, I thought they were in the Resistance and blowing up railroad tracks and shit...

Posted by tu3031 2008-05-27 10:57|| 2008-05-27 10:57|| Front Page Top

#4 A few reamarks: some of the more vocal collaborators had affairs with German soldiers. Male german soldiers.

"Le Point" (but that mag hardcore pro-europeist mag seems to have an axe to head against both teh Reistsnace and the Americans) tells that a number of women who has intimated with Germans were raped.

General Bigeard (who at that time was member of the SAS) was parachuted over France and tells of a communist resistance group who was of no help for fighting Germans but was first in line for shaving women. Apparently that was common.

After Liberation, the communists requisred municipal councils memebers having to be real resistants (read communists). That is rich when you remember how in 1940 the communists hlped their Nazi friends by sabotaging French tanks or had wagons loaded with supplies for the plane factories taking weeks for reaching their destinations while the Luftwaffe was cutting to pieces the French Army.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2008-05-27 11:16|| 2008-05-27 11:16|| Front Page Top

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