Paris 1940-1944The daily routine
of Parisians
under the Occupation

  • Paris 1940-1944, The Routine under Siege
  • Masters of the Image
  • The German Presence
  • Paris and Collaboration
  • Expositions
  • Anti-Semitism
  • Deliberately "Blurring Daily Life"
  • Paris is hungry, Paris is cold
  • Production
  • Labor Unions in Disarray
  • The War Goes On
  • Multiple Resistances
  • The Resistance Goes Public
  • Cracking Down
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  • The Original Exhibit at the Réfectoire des Cordeliers in Paris
  • Acknowledgements and credits
  • Accessibility
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  • Français / English
  • Indifference, rejection
  • Seducing, forbidding
  • The German Stranglehold
  • Looting
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Letter from the Crédit Lyonnais dated December 16, 1940, addressed to Madame the Widow Santin, informing her that bank safe deposit boxes must be opened in the presence of the Devisenschutzkommando [The Foreign Exchange Protection Commando was a Wehrmacht bureau specialized in looting financial and gold assets.]


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