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...Hitler's occupation was an ordeal with many levels of suffering. In the broadest sense, the German dictator subjugated the city and the nation it represents to demonstrate the superiority of German culture. The French had many pretty paintings to amuse vacationing Wehrmacht officers, but in the end, Paris would have become little more than a war trophy, gutted of its treasures and transformed into a provincial Nazi capital. Denied his wishes by Allied strength, Hitler wanted the city destroyed before his troops retreated...
Living with the German presence, the people of Paris faced problems more immediate than Hitler's plans for the 1000-year Reich. As a civic entity and as individuals, they had to make choices--between collaboration and resistance, between survival and honor. These choices, along with the grander cultural confrontation between German and Frenchman, are the subjects of Paris in the Third Reich, by David Pryce-Jones. The book combines a selective narrative history of the years 1940-1944, a section of interviews with characters who saw the occupation from widely differing perspectives, and a collection of photographs of everyday...
...felt throughout the crippled capital. "It is with honor and in order to maintain French unity, a unity that has lasted ten centuries, and in the framework of the constructive activity of the new European order, that today I am embarking on the path of collaboration," Marshal Petain told Hitler in October 1940. Not only did the nation's most honored military leader sanction cooperation, but common sense seemed to dictate it--instead of provoking the Germans into demolishing France, why not muddle through and hope for the best under the seemingly inevitable Nazi domination...
DIED. Albert Speer, 76, Adolf Hitler's master builder, a brilliant architect who, as Minister of Armaments and War Production, was one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in London. Starting in 1934, Speer built Nazi Party headquarters in Munich and the chancellery in Berlin and orchestrated Hitler's spectacular mass rallies at the stadium in Nuremberg. For his use of slave labor as head of war production from 1942 to 1945, he was sentenced in 1946 to 20 years in prison at the Nuremberg war-crimes trials...
...only Protestantism's preeminent theologian, but a public figure. In 1934 he drafted the creed of the anti-Nazi "Confessing Church," which organized German Protestantism against Hitler's puppet church. That same year he was fired from his professorship at the University of Bonn for refusing to take the ritual faculty pledge of allegiance to Hitler. Returning to his native Switzerland, the archfoe of Nazism often perplexed Westerners-including America's Reinhold Niebuhr-with his live-and-let-live attitude toward Communism...