A Wehrmacht soldier in Paris

(London Times) Paris during Nazi occupation was ˜one big romp’

A recent exhibition of pictures from occupied Paris has revealed

a more relaxed image of the city

[Source: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/paris-during-nazi-occupation-was-one-big-romp]

[JdN comments: Yes, more relaxed than the Hebrew-wood version with a Gestapo running around, terrorizing the poor people of “the City of Light.” It seems the Germans behaved themselves very well — considering it was wartime — and were very likable.]

Matthew Campbell in Paris

The Sunday Times (Britain)

[As Goebbels would say, “Times” spelled backward is actually “semiT.” 😉 ]

Yes, yes, we know what monsters the Germans and the Führer were….

May 25, 2008

A new book which suggests that the German occupation of France encouraged the sexual liberation of women has shocked a country still struggling to come to terms with its troubled history of collaboration with the Nazis.

Like a recent photographic exhibition showing Parisians enjoying themselves under the occupation, the book’s depiction of life in Paris as one big party is at odds with the collective memory of hunger, resistance and fear.

[JdN comments: “Collective memories” of the self-Chosen?]

“It is a taboo subject, a story nobody wants to hear,” said Patrick Buisson, author of 1940-1945 Années Erotiques (“erotic years”).

A Parisian girl in 1940 (Yes, some French are blond and have blue eyes in the north. The area was settled by the Germanic Franks –France is named for them, as is the city of Frankfurt — “river ford of the Franks” — in Germany — and there is also a lot of old Keltic blood with fair skin and blue eyes.

“It may hurt our national pride, but the reality is that people adapted to occupation.”

Many might prefer to forget but, with their husbands in prison camps, numerous women slept not only with German soldiers “ the young “blond barbarians” were particularly attractive to French women, says Buisson “ but also conducted affairs with anyone else who could help them through financially difficult times.

This was a tourist guidebook for German soldiers on leave/vacation

[JdN: This and all other photos and captions were added by me, John de Nugent.] Much of France was not occupied by German troops, just the areas facing England and the Royal Navy. The respected WWI general Marshall Pétain administered the entire country, however, which was called “The French State.”

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Marshal Philippe Pétain, at great cost, had stopped the Germans in 1916 at the battle of Verdun, and was respected by all as a national hero.

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This poster says “Abandoned Populations [ = Churchill/the Allies/their French-leftist government] — Have Confidence in the German Soldier.” 

The judaized national government had spread panic in May 1940 that the advancing Germans would massacre civilians — strafing them with bullets and crushing them with tanks. Millions of average French sheeple then fled in total chaos southward, trudging along roads with heavy suitcases, while the rich drove their cars and created stupendous traffic jams.

When there were no massacres at all, the French realized that everything they had been told about the Reich and its supposed barbaric atrocities was one big Jew lie. (The round metal cylinder the soldiers carried, btw (on the right), contained their bread or other food.)

The “Kommandantur” in the Gothic script was the German military headquarters in Paris

There was a daily parade in the standard grayish-green uniform, which kept the troops busy, and showed who was boss (after France, let us recall, had declared war on Germany — and lost in six weeks)

Every day a military band concert

German soldier descends into the Paris Metro (subway)

The Opera House in 1940 (with a famous opera lover in the center) then and now

The famous Moulin Rouge (“Red Windmill”) nightclub

The restaurant and bar Place Blanche (“White Place”) was for Wehrmacht soldiers only 

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The arrow shows this establishment today

“They gave way to the advances of the boss, to the tradesman they owed money to, their neighbour. In times of rationing, the body is the only renewable, inexhaustible currency.”

Cold winters, when coal was in short supply, and a curfew from 11pm to 5am also encouraged sexual activity, says Buisson, with the result that the birth rate shot up in 1942 even though 2m men were locked up in the camps.

[JdN comments: Nonsense. Former French soldiers were demobilized and sent home. Hundreds of thousands more earned good money, with health insurance, working in German factories doing voluntary or obligatory war production; others who were in the Resistance and were captured labored at work camps.]

The book has stirred painful memories. One French reviewer called it “impertinent” and another accused Buisson of telling only part of the story by focusing on the “beneath the belt” history of the occupation. Le Monde, the bible of the French intellectual elite, chided the author, who is the director of French television’s History Channel, for painting life under the occupation as a “gigantic orgy”.

People who lived through the occupation found it insulting to suggest that they spent it in bed. “It makes me really angry,” said Liliane Schroeder, 88, who risked her life as a member of the resistance and has published her own journal of the occupation. “It’s shocking and ridiculous to say life was just a big party,” she told The Sunday Times. “We had much better things to
do.”

Schroeder nevertheless described her life as a messenger in the resistance as a “marvellous time” in which “people got on with life even if they weren’t laughing”. Young women were useful to the resistance, she said, because “when a young woman and a man sat in a café it did not look as if they were plotting. They looked like lovers.”

[JdN comments: Honest historians estimate that ONE PERCENT of the French were involved in the Resistance. Most French approved of Germany’s anti-Jewish policies and hoped Germany would defeat the USSR of the psychopath Stalin.]

French sensitivities about the country’s wartime record were demonstrated last month when an exhibition of photographs depicting Parisians enjoying life under the Nazis included a notice explaining that the pictures avoided the “reality of occupation and its tragic aspects”. The photographs showed well-dressed citizens shopping on the boulevards or strolling in the parks. People crowded into nightclubs.

Women in bikinis swam in a pool.

Germans did excellent color photography in the 1930s, and even more after they occupied France, whose goverment had foolishly declared war on the German Reich in September 1939 over Poland. The Wehrmacht blitzkrieg, conceived by Hitler, was a “lightning war” that quickly conquered Poland, Norway, Denmark, Holland, Luxembourg, Belgium and France. The British Expeditionary Corps was also defeated soundly and surrounded, but Hitler graciously allowed it to escape at Dunkirk, hoping Churchill would negotiate for peace.

Buisson dedicates a chapter in his book to cinemas, which he describes as hotbeds of erotic activity, particularly when it was cold outside. “At a few francs they were cheaper than a hotel room,” he writes, “and, offering the double cover of darkness and anonymity, propitious for all sorts of outpourings.”

The French even had sex in the catacombs, the underground ossuary and warren of subterranean tunnels in Paris: war, Buisson argues, acted as an aphrodisiac, stimulating “the survival instinct”. He said in an interview:

“People needed to prove that they were alive. They did so by making love.”

It has been claimed that prostitutes staged the first rebellion against the Nazis by refusing to service the invaders but Buisson called this a myth.

The Germans, he claimed, were welcomed into the city’s best brothels, a third of which were reserved for officers. Another 100,000 women in Paris became “occasional prostitutes”, he said.

Elsewhere, members of the artistic elite drowned their sorrows in debauchery. Simone de Beauvoir, the writer, and Jean-Paul Sartre, the philosopher, were devotees of all-night parties fuelled by alcohol and lust.

“It was only in the course of those nights that I discovered the true meaning of the word party,” was how de Beauvoir put it. Sartre was no less enthusiastic: “Never were we as free as under the German occupation.”

De Beauvoir wrote about the “quite spontaneous friendliness” of the conquerors: she was as fascinated as any by the German “cult of the body” and their penchant for exercising in nothing but gym shorts.

Hitler promoted relentless physical exercise for all Germans and an innocent eroticism in art. He had grumbled in Mein Kampf (1925) before he came to power (1933) that if one saw modern passersby on a city street who suddenly had no clothes on, one would be horrified! 😉

“In the summer of 1940,” wrote Buisson, “France was transformed into one big naturist camp. The Germans seemed to have gathered on French territory only to celebrate an impressive festival of gymnastics.” The author said he did not want to make light of a tragic part of French history, but there was a need to correct the “mythical” image of the occupation. “In this horrible period, life continued,” he said.

“It is disturbing to know that while the Jews were being deported, the French were making love. But that is the truth.”

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Some comments by readers on the Times website:

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–Tom Welsh seems to be the only one of the commentors so-far to know that France declared war on Germany. Knowing this makes all the comments on the German invasion or attack onFrance childish. The French wanted war and were beaten by the Wehrmacht in a brilliant campaign.

Rolf, Portland,

–My mother who now is 92 lived trough the occupationof Belgium.She always says that these years where the most fantastic years she had .She always said the German soldiers behaved very courtuously. It was unthinkable that a German soldier would harass a Belgian girl.

Pat, Ghent, Belgium

–Collaboration happens in all wars.

Fred, Los Angeles,

–As it is clear from this intriguing post, the French were not all that eager to be liberated. Life under the Germans was a sight better than under the dreary pre-war Popular Front, and only the communists and their supporters really wanted to see an Allied victory.

John Ries, Northridge, USA

–Ask the French how many served in the Waffen-SS, the answer is in the many thousands.

Without the French Police help, rounding up the Jews would have been a nearly impossible task for the Germans. Rather the Germans than the French Communist party was what some prefered or stated.

Evans, Notts, UK

–Jean-Marie Le Pen described the Nazi occupation of France as “not especially inhumane” , He was fined 10,000 Euro and given a 3 month suspended prison sentence. Monsieur Le Pen was born in 1928 and lived throughout the occupation. Liberté et Egalite, Je crois pas.

Paul Gibbons, M.Keynes, UK

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I’m glad that people are awakening about the massive propaganda we have been subjected about WWII.

The French have just to compare those pictures and stories with what they experienced under the Allied occupation and its army of black monsters.

Or compare those pictures with France today under jewish domination and muslim/negro occupation:

Bataclan nightclub massacre in November 2015 — 130 murdered by muslims 

Horrifying details of the Bataclan Theatre massacre revealed

July 15, 2016 | 2:22pm

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Original transcript in French (http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/14/rap-enq/r3922-t2.asp) of the statement of Georges Fenech [photo left], chairman of the investigatory commission

of the French Parliament (photo center)

with regard to the Bataclan Massacre (English translation follows): 

M. le président Georges Fenech. En effet, la commission est troublée par ces informations, qui n’ont filtré nulle part. Ainsi, le père de l’une des victimes m’a adressé la copie d’une lettre qu’il a transmise au juge d’instruction, que je cite en résumant :

« Sur les causes de la mort de mon fils A., à  l’institut médico-légal de Paris, on m’a dit, et ce avec des réserves compte tenu du choc que cela représentait pour moi à  cet instant-là , qu’on lui avait coupé les testicules, qu’on les lui avait mis dans la bouche, et qu’il avait été éventré.

Lorsque je l’ai vu derrière une vitre, allongé sur une table, un linceul blanc le recouvrant jusqu’au cou, une psychologue m’accompagnait. Cette dernière m’a dit : ŸLa seule partie montrable de votre fils est son profil gauche.”

J’ai constaté qu’il n’avait plus d’Å“il droit. J’en ai fait la remarque ; il m’a été répondu qu’ils lui avaient crevé l’Å“il et enfoncé la face droite de son visage, d’où des hématomes très importants que nous avons pu tous constater lors de sa mise en bière. »

In English:

President Georges Fenech. Indeed, the commission is troubled by this information, which has not been filtered [evaluated] anywhere. Thus, the father of one of the victims sent me a copy of a letter which he transmitted to the examining magistrate, which I quote and summarize as follows:

“On the causes of the death of my son A., the Forensic Institute of Paris told me, with certain reservations in view of the shock that it represented for me at that time, that his testicles had been cut off, put in his mouth, and he had been disemboweled.

When I saw him lying there behind a window, on a table, with a white shroud covering his neck, a female psychologist accompanied me.

She told me: “The only part of your son that we can show you is his left profile.”

I noticed that he no longer had a right eye. I made a remark about this; I was told that they had punctured his eye and kicked in the right side of his face, resulting in very large hematomes that we all could see when he was lying on the bier. “

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