When Paris Went Dark · the City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940-1944 by Rosbottom, Ronald C. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Welcome Dedication Chronology of the Occupation of Paris Major Personalities Preface Introduction

Faux Paris Sequestering Medusa Paris Was Different

Chapter One: A Nation Disintegrates

Preludes Three Traumas

Chapter Two: Waiting for Hitler

“They” Arrive, and Are Surprised One Who Stayed, One Who Left “They” Settle In Hitler’s Own Tour The Führer’s Urbanophobia

Chapter Three: Minuet (1940–1941)

How Do You Occupy a City? For Some, Paris Was a Bubble Dancing the Minuet Correct, but Still Nazis “To Bed, to Bed!” An Execution in Paris

Chapter Four: City Without a Face—The Occupier’s Lament

Paris Had Already Welcomed the Nazis—Before the Occupation The Occupiers Are Surprised, Too A Dreamer in Exile Sexually Occupied A “Better” German Recollected Solitude

Chapter Five: Narrowed Lives

Narrowing and Boredom The Apartment A Crowded Métro The Informer The Queue

Chapter Six: The Dilemmas of Resistance

Quoi faire? Resistant Paris Bébés Terroristes The Red Poster A Female Resistance Who Got the Credit?

Chapter Seven: The Most Narrowed Lives—The Hunt for Jews

Being Jewish in Paris Three Girls on the Move A Gold Star The Big Roundup

Chapter Eight: How Much Longer? (1942–1944)

“You Can Come Over Now!” The Plague Observers from the Palace Signs of Defeat

Chapter Nine: Liberation—A Whodunit

Is Paris Worth a Detour? The Beast of Sevastopol Arrives “Tous aux barricades!” Why Do Americans Smile So Much? Whodunit?

Chapter Ten: Angry Aftermath—Back on Paris Time

Rediscovering Purity “Kill All the Bastards!” The Return of Lost Souls

Chapter Eleven: Is Paris Still Occupied?

De Gaulle Creates a Script Stumbling Through Memory Should We Blame Paris? “The Landscape of Our Confusions”

Acknowledgments About the Author Appendix: De Gaulle’s Speech on the Liberation of Paris Notes Selected Bibliography Newsletters Copyright