When Paris went dark: the city of light under German occupation, 1940-1944

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 F

er'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 ̌Mtro

The informer

The queue

Chapter six: The dilemmas of resistance. Quoi faire?

Resistant Paris

̌B̌bs terroristes

The red poster

The 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 barricases!"

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

Shouuld we blame Paris?

"The landscape of our confusions.".