Paris During German Occupation
Armed fighters take part in the liberation of paris.
Paris during german occupation. The military administration in france german. Neben kurzen farbaufnahmen von den champs elysé. A history of paris during nazi occupation. Most of the imagery we see from this time consists of german tanks symbolically rolling down the champs elysées nazi dignitaries inspecting the major landmarks and soldiers on duty ceremoniously marching up the boulevards.
9 november 1894 5 november 1966 was a german general popularly known as the saviour of paris he served in the wehrmacht armed forces of nazi germany during world war ii as well as serving in the reichswehr of the weimar republic and the royal saxon army during world war i. The file was a source used by the authorities for the infamous rafle du vélodrome d hiver vel d hiv roundup on july 16 17 1942 which ultimately resulted in the extermination of more than 13 000 people. Under the nazi occupation many parisians not only cooperated with the germans but felt humiliated. The fichier juif is a registration file of jews living in occupied france registered by nazi authorities in 1940 and 1941.
On june 28 1914 the news reached paris of the assassination of the archduke franz ferdinand of austria by serbian nationalists in sarajevo. These images represent some of the research that went into the writing. The french government departed paris on june 10 and the germans occupied the city on june 14. Paris started mobilizing for war in september 1939 when nazi germany attacked poland but the war seemed far away until may 10 1940 when the germans attacked france and quickly defeated the french army.
During the occupation the french government moved to vichy and paris was governed by the. Occupation de la france par l allemagne was an interim occupation authority established by nazi germany during world war ii to administer the occupied zone in areas of northern and western france this so called zone occupée was renamed zone nord north zone in november 1942 when the previously. Dietrich hugo hermann von choltitz german pronunciation. A nazi occupied restaurant on the grands boulevards the nazi occupation of paris is a period in history that fascinates me endlessly.
In den strassen von paris im herbst 1940 gefilmt von gerd brügelmann damals soldat der deutschen wehrmacht.