Nazi Paris The History of an Occupation, 1940-1944 [Hardcover]

Basing his extensive research into hitherto unexploited archival documentation on both sides of the Rhine, Allan Mitchell has uncovered the inner workings of the German military regime from the Wehrmachts triumphal entry into Paris in June 1940 to its ignominious withdrawal in August 1944. Although mindful of the French experience and the fundamental issue of collaboration, the author concentrates on the complex problems of occupying a foreign territory after a surprisingly swift conquest. By exploring in detail such topics as the regulation of public comportment, economic policy, forced labor, culture and propaganda, police activity, persecution and deportation of Jews, assassinations, executions, and torture, this study supersedes earlier attempts to investigate the German domination and exploitation of wartime France. In doing so, these findings provide an invaluable complement to the work of scholars who have viewed those dark years exclusively or mainly from the French perspective.

Allan Mitchell received his PhD from Harvard in 1961 and then taught at Smith College (1961-1972) and the University of California (1973-1993). He recently published three books: a paperback edition ofThe Great Train Race: Railways and the Franco-German Rivalry, 1815-1914(Berghahn Books, 2006);R?ves Parisiens. L?chec de projets de transport public en France aux XIXe si?cle(Ponts et Chauss?es, Paris, 2005); andA Stranger in Paris: Germanys Role in Republican France, 1870-1940(Berghahn Books, 2006).

Preface
List of Tables

Introduction

PART I: TAKING OVER (JUNE 1940 - JUNE 1941)

Chapter 1.Law and Order
Chapter 2.Rules and Regulations
Chapter 3.Economy and Armament
Chapter 4.Culture and Propaganda
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