Occupied France (50 photos)

During the occupation in France prefer to remember as heroic times. Charles de Gaulle, resistance ... But impartial footage photochronicle show that it was not quite as veterans tell and write the history books. These photos are made correspondent of the German magazine "Signal" in Paris 1942-44 period. Color film, sunny days, smiles French cheering occupiers. After '63 collection after the war was the exhibition "The Parisians during the Occupation." It caused a huge scandal. City Hall of Paris forbade her show in Paris. As a result, resolution has been achieved, but France has seen the footage only once. The second - public opinion afford no longer could. Proved too striking contrast between the heroic legend and truth.







Orchestra of the Republic Square. 1943 or 1944



Changing of the guard. 1941



Kommendatura on a street corner on September 4th Avenue and Opera



The audience at the cafe.

Beach near Pont du Carrousel. Summer 1943



Paris rickshaw. At the photos "Parisians during the Occupation." What is still bigotry on the part of municipal authorities to condemn this exhibition for the "lack of historical context!" Just pictures journalist collaborator wonderful complement other pictures of the same subject, telling mainly about everyday life in Paris during wartime. The price of collaboration this city escaped the fate of London or Dresden, or Leningrad. Carefree Parisians sitting in a cafe or in the park, boys, rollerblading, and fishermen on the Seine - are the same realities of wartime France, as well as underground activities of the Resistance. For which he could condemn the organizers of the exhibition, is unclear. And in what city authorities to assimilate the ideological commission of the Central Committee.



Rue de Rivoli



Cinema for German soldiers



Showcase a photo of Marshal Petain-collaborator

A table in the cafe. On the table is visible magazine «Signal». Journal published by the occupation authorities, is published twice a month and contained, among other things, color and black and white photographs of the journalist André Zucco. This explains why the photographer was provided scarce color films Kodak.



Stand on Avenue Gabrieel



Metro Marbёf-Champs Elysees (now - Franklin D. Roosevelt). 1943



Shoes from fibroids with a wooden block. 1940s.



Poster Exhibition at the corner of rue Tilsit and the Champs Elysees. 1942



View of the Seine with the Quai Saint-Bernard, 1942



Famous milliner Rose Valois, Madame le Monnier and Madame Agnes during the races at Longchamp racecourse, August 1943.



Weighing jockeys on the racetrack Longchamp. August 1943



Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the Arc de Triomphe, 1942



In the Luxembourg Gardens, May 1942.



Nazi propaganda on the Champs Elysees. The text on the poster in the center: they gave their blood is providing work for the salvation of Europe from Bolshevism



Another Nazi propaganda poster, issued after the bombing of Rouen British aircraft in April 1944. In Rouen, as you know, was executed by the British national heroine Joan of Arc in France. The inscription on the poster: the murderer always returns to the crime scene ......



The caption to the picture said that the fuel for this bus is the "town gas».



Two more avtomonstra the occupation. Both photos were taken in April 1942. The upper image - the car is fueled by charcoal. The bottom image - a car that runs on compressed gas.



In the garden of the Palais Royal.



The central market of Paris (Les Halles) in July 1942. The picture shows one of the clearly visible metal structures (as pavilions Baltar, Ourense) Napoleon III, which were demolished in 1969.



One of the few Black and white photographs Zucco. On it - the national funeral of Philip Enrio, Secretary of State for information and propaganda, speaking for the full cooperation with the occupiers. June 28, 1944 Enrio was shot dead by members of the resistance movement.



Playing cards in the Luxembourg Gardens, May 1942



The audience in the Luxembourg Gardens, May 1942



At the Paris Central Market (Les Halles, the very "belly of Paris"), they were called "meat bosses».



Central Market, 1942



Central Market, 1942



Central Market, 1942



Central Market, 1942



Central Market, 1942



Rue de Rivoli, 1942



Rue des Rosiers in the Marais Jewish quarter (the Jews had to wear a yellow star on his chest). 1942



Fair quarter Nacion. 1941



Fair quarter Nacion. Note the funny carousel device.



Baths on the Seine



Anglers on the Seine. 1943



Place de la Concorde, 1942



Bicycle taxi to the restaurant "Maxim" in the streets of the world. 1942



Bicycle taxi. 1942



Parisienne. 1942



Advertising, are invited to work in Germany. It reads: "If you want to earn more ... come to work in Germany." 1943



In the Vincennes zoo.



In the Vincennes zoo.



Changing of the guard. Paris, 1941.