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2078:, pretended to be the head of a Resistance network that smuggled Jews from France to Argentina. He collected a large advance from his clients and then instructed them to come to his house, bringing their gold, silver and other valuables with them. After they arrived, he brought them to his consulting room, and, convincing them vaccination was required in order to enter Argentina, gave them a lethal intravenous injection, then watched their slow death in an adjacent room through a spyhole in the door. Afterwards, he cut up their bodies, put the pieces in the well, and dissolved them with quicklime. His activities attracted the attention of the Gestapo, which arrested him in 1943, thus allowing him to claim later that he had been a real member of the Resistance. His crimes were discovered after the Liberation in 1944, and he was charged with the murders of twenty-seven persons, tried in 1946, and sentenced to death. He went to the guillotine on May 25, 1946. The gold, silver and other valuables were not found when he was arrested. In search of the treasure, the house was carefully demolished in 1966, but no trace of it was ever found.
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2276:. The Germans had routinely taken hostages among the French civilian population to deter attacks. They responded to the Barbés-Rochechouart metro attack by executing three hostages in Paris, and another twenty the following month. Hitler was furious at the leniency of the German commander, and demanded that in case of future assassinations, there must be one hundred hostages executed for every German killed. After the next killing of a German, forty-eight hostages were immediately shot by firing squad. From London, General de Gaulle condemned the Communist policy of random assassinations, saying the cost in innocent civilian lives was too high, and it had no impact on the war, but the random shooting of Germans continued. In retaliation, an estimated 1,400 hostages from the Paris region were taken and 981 executed by the German military at Fort Mont Valérien.
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346:, and Paris was governed by the German military and by French officials approved by the Germans. For Parisians, the occupation was a series of frustrations, shortages and humiliations. A curfew was in effect from nine in the evening until five in the morning; at night, the city went dark. Rationing of food, tobacco, coal and clothing was imposed from September 1940. Every year the supplies grew more scarce and the prices higher. A million Parisians left the city for the provinces, where there was more food and fewer Germans. The French press and radio contained only German propaganda.
1135:, eggs, oil; in July 1941: and as the war went on: chocolate, fish, dried vegetables, (like peas and beans), potatoes, fresh vegetables, wine, tobacco... Products could be bought only upon presentation of coupons attributed to specific items and on the specific week in which they could be used. Parisians (and all the population of France) were divided into seven categories depending upon their age, and allotted a certain amount of each product each month. A new bureaucracy, employing more than nine thousand city employees, with offices at all schools and the city hall of each
2244:. The first issue of the newspaper, proclaimed: "We are independent, simply French, chosen for the action we wish to carry out. We have only one ambition, one passion, one desire: to recreate France, pure and free." They collected information and established a network to help escaped French POWs to flee the country. They were not experienced conspirators, and they were discovered and arrested in January 1941. Vildé and the six other leaders were sentenced to death and executed by firing squad at
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France before leaving the country, but others had left their art collections behind. A new law decreed that those who had left France just before the war were no longer French citizens, and their property could be seized. The
Gestapo began visiting bank vaults and empty residences, and collecting the works of art. The pieces left behind in the fifteen largest Jewish-owned art galleries in Paris were also collected, and transported in French police vans. In September, a new organization, the
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1032:(May 12th– May 15th 1940). Once the Occupation had begun, they started to return. By July 7th, the city government estimated the population had risen again to 1.5 million; it climbed to two million by October 22nd, and 2.5 million by January 1st 1941. At the beginning of 1943, it fell again, because of air raids by the Allies, the arrest and deportation of Jews and foreigners, and the forced departure to factories in Germany of many young Frenchmen, as part of the
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2425:. Chaban-Delmas reluctantly agreed to participate. Liberation Committees in each neighborhood occupied the government buildings and headquarters of collaborationist newspapers, and put up barricades in the northern and eastern neighborhoods, where the Resistance was the strongest. To the surprise of Henri Rol-Tanguy, the Paris police also joined in the uprising; a thousand policemen occupied the Prefecture of Police, the police headquarters on the
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1183:. Producers and distributors of food and other scarce products set aside a portion of their goods for the black market, and used middle-men to sell them to customers. The bars of the Champs-Élysées, and other parts of Paris, became common meeting places between the middle-men and clients. Parisians bought cigarettes, meat, coffee, wine and other products which frequently neither the middle-man nor the customer had ever seen.
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2136:) to continue the resistance against the Germans. Very few heard the broadcast at the time, but it was widely printed and circulated afterwards. On 23 June, the German occupation authorities ordered all French persons to turn in any weapons and short-wave receivers they possessed, or face severe measures. Within Paris, opposition was isolated and slow to build. On 2 August, de Gaulle was condemned to death for treason,
1520:'s. German treasurer officials opened Picasso's bank vault, where he stored his private art collection, searching for Jewish-owned art they could seize. Picasso so confused them with his descriptions of ownership of the paintings that they left without taking anything. He also persuaded them that the paintings in the adjoining vault, owned by Braque, were actually his own. Other "degenerate" artists, including
2548:, the headquarters of General Leclerc, where, at about 3:00 in the billiards room of the station staff, he and Leclerc signed a surrender. Chaban-Delmas and Rol-Tanguy, leader of the FFI, were also present, and it was suggested that Rol-Tanguy should also sign the surrender. Leclerc dictated a new version, and put the name of the FFI leader ahead of his own. The occupation of Paris was officially over.
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2718:, who had been living with a German officer, quietly left the country, and did not return for many years. 9,969 persons were arrested. A military tribunal was established for those who had collaborated with the German army and police, and a separate judicial tribunal was set up for economic and political collaborators. Of those arrested, 1,616 were acquitted, and 8,335 were found guilty. In the
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1825:. In July, Jews were banned from all main streets, movie theaters, libraries, parks, gardens, restaurants, cafés and other public places, and were required to ride on the last car of metro trains. On 16–17 July 1942, on Germans' orders, 13,152 Jews (4,115 children, 5.919 women and 3,118 men) were rounded up by the French police. Unmarried persons and couples without children were taken to
1946:(MBF). It stated: "The government of France will immediately invite all the French authorities and administrative services in the occupied territories to conform with the regulations of the German military authorities, and to collaborate with those in a correct manner." The prefect of the police and prefect of the Seine, reported to him, and only secondarily to the government of the
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refused to give the names of his friends to the
Germans. He was held in jail for nineteen days, taken to court, charged with "an act of violence against a member of the German Army", and sentenced to death. Bonsergent was executed by firing squad on 23 December, the first civilian in France executed for resistance against the Occupation. In 1946, the metro station
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1863:. The roundup was considered a failure by the Germans, since they had prepared trains for 32,000 persons. Arrests continued in 1943 and 1944. By the time of the Liberation, it was estimated that 43,000 Jews from the Paris region, or about half the total population of the community, had been sent to the concentration camps, and that 34,000 were murdered there.
2185:, a fascist youth group, and scuffling with police. At 6:00 pm, German soldiers arrived, surrounded the students, and closed the entrance of the metro stations. They charged the students with fixed bayonets, firing shots in the air. The Vichy government announced 123 arrests and one student wounded. The students arrested were taken to the prisons of
1056:, which had been closed down by the French government, asked the Germans for permission to resume publishing, and it was granted. The Party also asked that workers resume work in the armaments factories, which were now producing for the Germans. Many individual communists opposed the Nazis, but the ambivalent official attitude of the Party lasted until
506:, were seized by the police and their publication suspended. On August 31st, anticipating bombardment, the French government began to evacuate 30,000 children out of the city to the countryside. That night, street lights were turned off as a measure against German air raids. On 1 September, news reached Paris that Germany had
1809:, that Jews would have a special status and be barred from liberal professions, such as commerce, industry, thus affecting lawyers, doctors, professors, shop owners, and also be barred from certain restaurants and public places, and that their property was seized. On May 23rd, 1942, the head of the Anti-Jewish section of the
498:(PCF), welcomed the pact, writing: "At the moment when the Soviet Union makes a new and appreciable contribution to safeguard the peace, constantly threatened by the fascist instigators of war, the French Communist Party addresses its warmest greetings to the country of socialism, to its party and to its great leader
1139:, was put into place to administer the program. The system resulted in long lines and frustrated hopes, since promised products often never appeared. Thousands of Parisians regularly made the long journey by bicycle to the countryside, hoping to come back, with vegetables, fruit, eggs and other farm products.
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Another incident took place on 10 November; a 28-year-old French engineer named
Jacques Bonsergent and his friends, coming home from a wedding, ran into a group of German soldiers in the blackout and got into a brawl. A German soldier was punched. Bonsergent's friends escaped, but he was arrested and
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factory went directly to
Germany. (Later many of these trucks were cleverly sabotaged by the French workers, who recalibrated the dip sticks so that the trucks would run out of oil without warning). Most shipments of meat, wheat, milk produce and other agricultural products also went to Germany. What
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on August 26th, and organized a new government. In the following months, ten thousand
Parisians who had collaborated with the Germans were arrested and tried, eight thousand convicted, and 116 executed. On April 29th and May 13th 1945, the first post-war municipal elections were held, in which French
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making getting food into Paris a problem, especially since the
Germans had stripped Paris of its resources for themselves. Many Parisians were desperate, and Allied soldiers even used their own meagre rations to help. The Allies realised the necessity to get Paris back on its feet, and pushed a plan
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The metro ran, but service was frequently interrupted and the cars were overcrowded. Three thousand five hundred buses had run on the Paris streets in 1939, but only five hundred were still running in the autumn of 1940. Bicycle-taxis became popular, and their drivers charged a high tariff. Bicycles
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British General Staff urged the French to defend Paris street-by-street, but PĂ©tain dismissed the idea: "To make Paris into a city of ruins will not affect the issue." On June 12th, the French government, in Tours, declared Paris to be an open city, that there would be no resistance. At 5:30 in
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At the time of the uprising, most of elite German units had left the city, but twenty-thousand German soldiers remained, armed with about eighty tanks and sixty artillery pieces. While the
Resistance had about twenty-thousand fighters, they had only sixty hand guns, a few machine guns, and no heavy
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Parisians, the Occupation was a series of frustrations, shortages and humiliations. A curfew was in effect from nine in the evening until five in the morning; at night, the city went dark. Rationing of food, tobacco, coal and clothing was initiated in September 1940. Every year the supplies
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Germany already seemed inevitable. In Paris, the first defense exercise took place on February 2nd 1939 and city workers began digging twenty kilometers of trenches in city squares and parks to be used for bomb shelters. On 10th of March, the city began to distribute
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and refused to transfer the works in French museums out of the country, but the Nazi leaders were not so scrupulous. On 30 June 1940, Hitler ordered that all art works in France, public and private, should be "safeguarded". Many of the French wealthy Jewish families had sent their art works out of
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Finding food soon became the first preoccupation of the Parisians. The authorities of the German occupation transformed French industry and agriculture into a machine for serving Germany. Shipments to Germany had first priority; what was left went to Paris and the rest of France. All of the trucks
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The beginning of the STO, the program that required large number of young Frenchmen to work in factories for the German war industry, in exchange for the return of older and sick French prisoners of war in Germany, greatly increased the resentment of the French population against the Germans. Most
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The attitude of the Parisians toward the occupiers varied greatly. Some saw the Germans as an easy source of money; others, as the Prefect of the Seine, Roger Langeron (arrested on June 23rd 1940), commented, "looked at them as if they were invisible or transparent." The attitude of members of the
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Immediately following the liberation of the city, Parisians who had collaborated with the Germans were punished. Women who had been accused of allegedly sleeping with German soldiers had their heads shaved and were humiliated. Most of the accusers were men, and many of these women were targets of
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to support them. The 2nd Armored Division set out early in the morning of 23 August with 16,000 men, 4,200 vehicles and 200 tanks. By the afternoon of the 24th, they were in the western and southern Paris suburbs. On 23 August, Leclerc had sent a small column of three tanks and eleven halftracks,
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Finding coal for heat in winter was another preoccupation. The Germans had transferred the authority over the coal mines of northern France from Paris to their military headquarters in Brussels. The priority for the coal that did arrive in Paris was for use in factories. Even with ration cards,
2414:. Only twenty-seven returned. On the same day, the Paris police learned that policemen in the suburbs were being disarmed by the Germans; they immediately went on strike. In Paris, most of the electricity and gas were cut off, there was little food available, and the metro had stopped running.
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Paris restaurants were open but had to deal with strict regulations and shortages. Meat could only be served on certain days, and certain products, such as cream, coffee and fresh produce were extremely rare. Nonetheless, the restaurants found ways to serve their regular clients. The historian
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toward the center. They were followed by several German columns, which, following an established plan, moved to the principal intersections. German military vehicles with loudspeakers circulated, instructing Parisians not to leave their buildings. At eight in the morning, delegations of German
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2268:, the German attack on the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941, they became among the most active and best-organized forces against the Germans. They remained hostile to de Gaulle, whom they denounced as a reactionary British puppet. On 21st of August 1941, a 21-year-old veteran communist named
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decided to protest the arrest of one of their teachers. About one hundred students took part, chanting the teacher's name and throwing leaflets. The demonstrators escaped, but the police tracked down and arrested the five student leaders, who were tried and executed on February 8, 1943.
2560:"Paris! Paris humiliated! Paris broken! Paris martyred! But now Paris liberated! Liberated by herself, by her own people with the help of the armies of France, with the support and aid of France as a whole, of fighting France, of the only France, of the true France, of eternal France."
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2518:). Then he went to the Prefecture of Police for a meeting with de Gaulle's representative, Chaban-Delmas. The main force of Leclerc's 2nd Armored Division and the U.S. 4th Infantry Division entered the city on the morning of the 25th. There was fierce resistance near the
674:. Thousands of Parisians followed their example, filling the roads out of the city with automobiles, tourist buses, trucks, wagons, carts, bicycles, and on foot. The slow-moving river of refugees took ten hours to cover thirty kilometers. Within a few days, the wealthier
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General von Choltitz was an unrepentant Nazi, and had been ordered by Hitler to leave the city a "heap of burning ruins", but he also realized the battle was lost, and he did not want to be captured by the Resistance. Through the offices of the Swedish Consul-General,
338:, but the war seemed far away until May 10th 1940, when the Germans attacked France and quickly defeated the French army. The French government departed Paris on June 10th, and the Germans occupied the city on June 14th. During the occupation, the French government
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2402:. German soldiers fired into the air, but the French police did nothing. On 10 August, half of the eighty thousand railroad workers in the Paris region went on strike, stopping all railroad traffic. On 15 August, the new German commander of Paris, General
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Airport before being convoyed in. At least 500 tons were delivered a day by the British and another 500 tons by the Americans. Along with French civilians outside Paris bringing in indigenous resources, within ten days the food crisis was overcome.
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708:, and at the Prefecture of Police, where the Prefect, Roger Langeron, was waiting. The Germans politely invited the French officials to put themselves at the disposition of the German occupiers. By the end of the afternoon, the Germans had hung a
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De Gaulle arrived in Paris two hours later. He met first with Leclerc, complaining to him that Rol-Tanguy had signed the surrender. He then went to the Ministry of War, and insisted that the FFI leaders come to him, but in the end he went to the
1622:, next to the gardens of the Palais-Royal. Her husband, Maurice Goudeket, a Jew, was arrested by the Gestapo in December 1941, and although he was released after a few months through the intervention of the French wife of the German ambassador
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in August 1939, until June 1941, the Communists played no active part in the Resistance. The Vichy government and Germans allowed their newspapers to publish, and they made no mention of the patriotic demonstrations on November 11. But after
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in Paris launched an uprising on 19 August, seizing the police headquarters and other government buildings. The city was liberated by French and American troops on August 25th; the next day, General de Gaulle led a triumphant parade down the
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2177:, the symbol of de Gaulle's Free France. They were chased away by the police. At nightfall, the event became more provocative; some three thousand students gathered, chanting "Vive La France" and "Vive l'Angleterre", and invading
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2010:. Its particular function was to help the Germans in their battle against the Resistance, which they qualified as being a "terrorist" organization. It established its headquarters in the former Communist Party building at 44
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on walls, blackboards, tables, and on the side of cars. The Germans tried to co-opt the 'V' campaign, placing huge Vs. symbolizing their own victories, on the Eiffel Tower and the National Assembly, but with little effect.
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2302:(CNR)), the different factions began to coordinate their actions. In early 1944, as the Normandy invasion approached, the Communists and their allies controlled the largest and best-armed resistance groups in Paris: the
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2439:, walked into the City Hall of Paris and demanded a transfer of operations. The building was then occupied by the resistance. Rol-Tanguy commanded the uprising from a bunker twenty-six meters beneath the statue of the
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Parisians, however, only expressed their anger and frustrations in private, while the police of Paris, under German control, received every day hundreds of anonymous denunciations by Parisians against other Parisians.
2147:, a day that usually featured patriotic ceremonies of remembrance. Anticipating trouble, the German authorities banned any commemoration and made it a regular school and work day. Nonetheless, the students of Paris
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of SHAEF authorised the import of up to 2,400 tons of food per day at the expense of the military effort. A British food convoy labelled 'Vivres Pour Paris' entered on August 29, and US supplies were flown in via
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and the Resistance; prisoners were executed on both sides. The Resistance took weapons from fallen Germans, and even captured trucks and even tanks, but neither side had enough military power to defeat the other.
2203:, where they were beaten, slapped, stripped, and made to stand all night in the pouring rain. Some students were threatened by soldiers pretending to be a firing squad. As a consequence of the demonstration, the
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cataloged 218 major collections. Between April 1941 and July 1944, 4,174 cases of art works filling 138 boxcars, were shipped from Paris to Germany. Much of the art, but not all, was recovered after the war.
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The rationing system also applied to clothing: leather was reserved exclusively for German army boots, and vanished completely from the market. Leather shoes were replaced by shoes made of rubber or canvas
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2406:, ordered that three thousand resistance members held in Paris jails be transferred out of the city. They were loaded into trains, 170 persons in each cattle car, and sent to the concentration camps of
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About 2,000 Parisians were killed in the liberation of their capital, along with about 800 Resistance fighters from the FFI and policemen, and over 100 soldiers from the Free France and U.S. forces.
581:, while in Paris ration cards for gasoline were issued, restrictions were put on the sale of meat and, in February 1940, ration cards for food were issued; however, cafés and theatres remained open.
361:. The first demonstration against the occupation, by Paris students, took place on November 11 1940. As the war continued, anti-German clandestine groups and networks were created, some loyal to the
2421:, the National Council of the Resistance and the Parisian Committee on Liberation jointly called for an immediate uprising. It was commanded by the regional leader of the Communist-led FFI, Colonel
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came back into service. Trucks and automobiles that did circulate often used gazogene, a poor-quality fuel carried in a tank on the roof, or coal gas or methane, extracted from the Paris sewers.
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The Allies had originally planned to bypass Paris, to avoid street fighting and the necessity of feeding a huge population. However, when news of the uprising in Paris reached them, Generals
927:("everyone once in Paris"), each German soldier was promised one visit to Paris. One month after the beginning of the Occupation, a bi-monthly magazine and guide for visiting German soldiers
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The French film industry, based in suburbs of Paris, had a very difficult existence due to shortages of personnel, film and food, but it produced several genuine masterpieces, among which:
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and began to advance toward and around Paris. German control over Paris was already breaking down. One hundred thousand Parisians had turned out on 14 July for a prohibited celebration of
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From the very beginning of the Occupation, Jews in Paris were treated with particular harshness. On October 18th, 1940, the German occupation authorities decreed, in what is known as the
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Due to the shortage of fuel, the number of automobiles on the Paris streets dropped from 350,000 before the war to just under 4,500. One customer, sitting on the terrace of a café on the
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gas masks to civilians, and on March 19th, signs were posted guiding Parisians to the nearest shelters. On August 23rd, Parisians were surprised to read that the German foreign minister,
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One of the greatest art thefts in history took place in Paris during the Occupation, as the Nazis looted the art of Jewish collectors on a grand scale. Great masterpieces in the Louvre
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and other exclusive restaurants, as the exchange rate was fixed to favor the German occupiers. Many houses of prostitution existed in Paris and they began to cater to German clients.
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2526:, in which some French soldiers were killed and tanks destroyed. By the end of the morning, the Germans had been overcome and a large French tricolor flag was hoisted on the
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for food convoys to get through to the capital as soon as possible. In addition, surrounding towns and villages were requested to supply as much of Paris as possible. The
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on November 3 and returned on the 5th, spending the entire day there, picking out works for his private collection. He selected twenty-seven paintings, including works by
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The political life of the city was gradually renewed, under the close watch of General de Gaulle. On August 27, the Council of Ministers held its first meeting at the
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since 1940. In October, a provisional municipal council was established, but it did not formally meet until March and April 1945. The first issue of a new newspaper,
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flew over all the French government buildings. Signs in German were placed on the main boulevards, and the clocks of all France were reset to the German time. The
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department stores, began cataloging and packing the major works of art, which were put into crates and labeled only with numbers to disguise their contents. The
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in London. They wrote slogans on walls, organized an underground press, and sometimes attacked German officers. Reprisals by the Germans were swift and harsh.
2034:. At the time of the Liberation of Paris in August 1944, most of its members chose to fight alongside the Germans and many of them made their way to Germany (
1494:. He frequently received visitors at his studio, including Germans, some admiring and some suspicious. He had postcards made of his famous anti-fascist work,
1920:, a French fascist paramilitary organization created on 28 February 1943 to fight the French Resistance. Its active collaborationist police was known as the
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chose, for political or personal reasons, to leave Paris, but many others remained, avoided politics and focused on their art. These included the actor
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beginning on September 3; food rationing and other restrictions remained in force through the end of the war, but the climate of fear had disappeared.
2240:, a four-page newspaper which gave its name to the movement that followed. The group was led by the Russian-born (French naturalized) anthropologist
1626:, Colette lived through the rest of the war years with the anxiety of a possible second arrest. In 1944, she published one of her most famous works,
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Transportation problems did not end with the liberation of Paris; the shortage of gasoline and lack of transport continued until well after the war.
1245:, counted the number of cars which passed between noon and twelve-thirty: only three came by. Older means of transportation, such as the horse-drawn
1843:, where they were crowded together in the heat of summer, with hardly any food, water and no hygienic facilities for five days before being sent to
2453:. Parisians cut down trees and tore up paving stones to build barricades. Scattered sniping and street fighting broke out between the Germans, the
1452:, was reserved for Hitler himself. Fifteen railroad boxcars full of artworks were sent to Germany with Göring's personal train. Göring visited the
1942:, governed by Marshal PĂ©tain and his ministers, the document of surrender placed Paris in the occupied zone, directly under German authority, the
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The uprising against the Germans in Paris began on 19 August 1944, with the takeover of the police headquarters and other government buildings (
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was arrested and deported, most likely because of his relationship with a German officer whom he did not want to name. He was murdered at the
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Poster announcing that the Germans will take hostages in retaliation for attacks on German soldiers, 21 August 1941 (Gallica Digital Library)
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The Germans made a continual effort to seduce the Parisians through culture: in 1941, they organized a festival of German music by the
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that we must cease hostilities. The fighting must stop." Though no armistice had yet been signed, the French army stopped fighting.
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The Rape of Europa - the fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War
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interrogating her after the Liberation: "My heart is French, but my a-- is international." '
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The Paris Opera decorated with swastikas for a festival of German music, 1941 (Bundesarchiv)
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or substitute products appeared, which were not exactly what they were called:
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twelve more times in 1941, and five times in 1942, adding to his collection.
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the morning of June 14th, the first German advance guard entered the city at
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made a tour to Berlin, in exchange for the liberation of her husband,
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automobile factory. 254 persons were killed, including 195 civilians.
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became a storehouse for art stolen from Jewish families (TCY, 2007)
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3188:"mon cœur est français mais mon cul est international !"
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2882:"Deutsche Wehrmacht - Parade ĂĽber die avenue foch"
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3779:Héron de Villefosse, René (1959).
3180:The Oxford History of World Cinema
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2296:National Council of the Resistance
1944:Militärbefehlshabers in Frankreich
1859:internment camps, preludes to the
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1339:Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume
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3808:Dictionnaire Historique de Paris
3656:. University of Nebraska Press.
3211:Dictionnaire historique de Paris
2923:Hetch, Emmanuel (October 2013).
2911:Dictionnaire historique de Paris
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3810:. Le Livre de Poche. 2013.
2888:(in German). Archived from
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2153:Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
2121:La Libération de Paris 1944
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3638:Paris at War: 1939–1944
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2774:Liberation of Paris
2328:Liberation of Paris
2072:16th arrondissement
1841:15th arrondissement
1706:Berlin Philharmonic
1593:La Chanson du maçon
1017:Civilian population
982:Geheime Feldpolizei
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680:14th arrondissement
544:Château de Valençay
488:of non-aggression.
3783:. Bernard Grasset.
3764:. Robert Laffont.
3646:Jouve, Nicole Ward
3466:. Cour des Comptes
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3741:Histoire de Paris
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1882:Pierre Laval
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1689:. The actor
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1587:. The songs
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1561:Yves Montand
1545:Sacha Guitry
1530:
1510:HĂ´tel Drouot
1506:"degenerate"
1502:Ernst JĂĽnger
1495:
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255:Demographics
219:World War II
218:
203:Belle Époque
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172:18th century
167:17th century
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41:Please help
36:verification
33:
4176:Grand Paris
4021:Archdiocese
3597:Fierro 1996
3585:Fierro 1996
3464:ccomptes.fr
3423:Fierro 1996
3387:Fierro 1996
3236:Fierro 1996
3084:Fierro 1996
3057:Fierro 1996
3045:Fierro 1996
2963:Fierro 1996
2931:(in French)
2855:Fierro 1996
2798:Fierro 1996
2725:in absentia
2716:Coco Chanel
2587:Food crisis
2568:, down the
2481:of General
2412:RavensbrĂĽck
2361:of General
2357:The French
2292:Jean Moulin
2242:Boris Vildé
2183:Jeune Front
2138:in absentia
2036:Sigmaringen
1936:Paul Didier
1837:rue Nelaton
1720:Arno Breker
1691:Jean Marais
1610:The writer
1605:Radio Paris
1537:Jean Renoir
1516:, formerly
1170: [
1133:charcuterie
752:Opera House
744:Arno Breker
723:Avenue Foch
706:Henri Dentz
443:Arno Breker
209:World War I
182:Restoration
162:Renaissance
157:Middle Ages
136:History of
4206:Categories
4139:Transilien
4124:Topography
3663:0803292244
3571:2021-03-11
3332:Belot 2006
3027:5 November
3021:LĂ©gifrance
2935:23 October
2896:5 November
2780:References
2752:end of war
2471:Eisenhower
2408:Buchenwald
2322:Liberation
2238:RĂ©sistance
2014:and at 61
1989:under the
1975:Resistance
1950:in Vichy.
1886:Carl Oberg
1853:Pithiviers
1624:Otto Abetz
1553:Tino Rossi
1549:Édith Piaf
1533:Jean Gabin
1367:See also:
1077:Marxologie
1053:L'Humanité
764:Montmartre
656:Evacuation
591:Phoney War
491:L'Humanité
197:Renovation
69:newspapers
4129:Transport
4097:Libraries
4092:Landmarks
4077:Education
3650:"Colette"
3509:Cobb 2009
3497:Cobb 2009
3485:Cobb 2009
3447:Cobb 2009
3435:Cobb 2009
3411:Cobb 2009
3399:Cobb 2009
3375:Cobb 2009
3363:Cobb 2009
3344:Cobb 2009
3199:Cobb 2009
2986:5 October
2929:L'Express
2913:, p. 536.
2840:Cobb 2009
2624:June 2024
2572:, to the
2520:Invalides
2451:catacombs
2169:, by the
2040:Ă©puration
2032:VĂ©l d'Hiv
1971:Carlingue
1914:Vel d'Hiv
1849:Compiègne
1819:Auschwitz
1673:Luftwaffe
1541:Fernandel
1522:Kandinsky
1436:Carinhall
1430:owned by
1424:Rembrandt
1416:Luftwaffe
1407:Luftwaffe
1187:Transport
994:Carlingue
899:Carlingue
873:Luftwaffe
686:Open city
619:Dunkerque
597:) on the
558:Gericault
4161:Syndrome
4144:Tramways
4086:timeline
4004:Airports
3648:(1994).
2953:, pg. 64
2758:See also
2747:Le Monde
2522:and the
2205:Sorbonne
2188:La Santé
2179:Le Tyrol
1965:and the
1926:Le Matin
1616:mémoires
1497:Guernica
1428:Van Dyck
710:swastika
672:Bordeaux
607:Ardennes
568:châteaux
240:Timeline
232:See also
127:a series
125:Part of
4156:Tourism
4119:Squares
4107:Museums
4082:History
4072:Economy
4060:Cycling
4048:Culture
4043:Bridges
3612:English
3184:Arletty
2886:YouTube
2658:Orléans
2578:Te Deum
2544:to the
2510:), and
2483:Leclerc
2475:Bradley
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