The spellbinding and revealing chronicle of Nazi-occupied Paris. On June 14, 1940, German tanks entered a silent and nearly deserted Paris. Eight days later, France accepted a humiliating defeat and foreign occupation. Subsequently, an eerie sense of normalcy settled over the City of Light. Many Parisians keenly adapted themselves to the situation-even allied themselves with their Nazi overlords. At the same time, amidst this darkening gloom of German ruthlessness, shortages, and curfews, a resistance arose. Parisians of all stripes -- Jews, immigrants, adolescents, communists, rightists, cultural icons such as Colette, de Beauvoir, Camus and Sartre, as well as police officers, teachers, students, and store owners -- rallied around a little known French military officer, Charles de Gaulle. When Paris Went Dark evokes with stunning precision the detail of daily life in a city under occupation, and the brave people who fought against the darkness. Relying on a range of resources -- memoirs, diaries, letters, archives, interviews, personal histories, flyers and posters, fiction, photographs, film and historical studies -- Rosbottom has forged a groundbreaking book that will forever influence how we understand those dark years in the City of Light.

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Ronald C. Rosbottom

Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Sports Illustrated For Kids

Little, Brown and Company

New York, USA, Boston, USA, London, UK, 2014

United States, United States of America

2, 2014

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Faux Paris Sequestering Medusa Paris Was Different
A Nation Disintegrates Preludes Three Traumas
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
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
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
Narrowed Lives Narrowing and Boredom The Apartment A Crowded Métro The Informer The Queue
The Dilemmas of Resistance Quoi faire? Resistant Paris Bébés Terroristes The Red Poster A Female Resistance Who Got the Credit?
The Most Narrowed Lives—The Hunt for Jews Being Jewish in Paris Three Girls on the Move A Gold Star The Big Roundup
How Much Longer? (1942–1944) “You Can Come Over Now!” The Plague Observers from the Palace Signs of Defeat
Liberation—A Whodunit Is Paris Worth a Detour? The Beast of Sevastopol Arrives “Tous aux barricades!” Why Do Americans Smile So Much? Whodunit?
Angry Aftermath—Back on Paris Time Rediscovering Purity “Kill All the Bastards!” The Return of Lost Souls
Is Paris Still Occupied? De Gaulle Creates a Script Stumbling Through Memory Should We Blame Paris? “The Landscape of Our Confusions”
De Gaulle’s Speech on the Liberation of Paris
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A Conversation with Ronald Rosbottom A Luxurious Hotel and Its Sad Past Questions and Topics for Discussion
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From the Preface...
I do not claim the mantle of historian but rather of storyteller and guide; I have perused with care what others have written and have teased out stories that have always been there but had settled under the dust of memory and history. I have plumbed the extraordinary archival work done by others and done some of my own, always looking for fissures in texts that allow for a richer reading of a traumatic period in European history. Here are the famous and unknown voices of adolescents and adults, Germans and French, men and women, Jews and non-Jews, visitors and residents, collaborators and patriots, novelists and historians, journalists and diarists, the still living and the gone. Some appear repeatedly, some occasionally, and some only once. I have interviewed men and women who lived in Paris at the time. They offered anecdotes that became bright tiles in a vibrant mosaic that reveals more clearly how a familiar and beloved city became, even temporarily, threatening and uncanny. As one person raised in Paris during this period answered when I asked if her parents ever discussed the Occupation: “It [the memory of the Occupation] was like a secret garden whose gates were always closed to us.” When Paris Went Dark makes an effort to look over that garden’s walls.

2021-08-06