Well, this will make people talk.... Paris during Nazi occupation was ‘one big romp’ - Times Online 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. “It is a taboo subject, a story nobody wants to hear,” said Patrick Buisson, author of 1940-1945 Années Erotiques (“erotic years”). “It may hurt our national pride, but the reality is that people adapted to occupation.”
We had a threat about this exibition lately . http://www.ww2f.com/wwii-today/23573-new-photos-occupied-paris.html We discussed this earlier but I will just add this. Sad how this becomes fashionable and that people are now trying to make money with Signal propaganda pictures. They should do the same in North Korea, people seem very "happy" there too when some of their friends and relatives are being, arrested, tortured or killed.
What Skipper said. There seems to be this new trend to cherry-pick certain aspects of life at the very beginning of the Occupation and to pass it off as a happy-go-lucky time. Utter nonsense....
Selective memory and mass media sound-bites that contribute to ignorance. We see it here when some come on the Forum who truly seem to believe that Germany was picked on by everyone else... It is frightening to think what whitewashing and propoganda will do by the time my kids have kids. So important to keep the real facts and history alive so that there are always those who know the truth.
I suppose it has everything to do with making money by trying to create a scandal of some kind...unfortunately so.
Well not entirely, the pictures are actually very artistic and rare and deserve a display as such. What's sad is the interpretation some make of this and the opportunity others take to make money on the back of those who suffered under the Nazi Jug. For instance why don't we ever get to see the 1945 march from deported Parisian concentration camps survivors who carried a giant Jesus cross on the steps of Sacré coeur, all marching in their deportee uniforms so that the world would know how they were arrested, tortured and deported?
