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...visitors since it opened on March 20. But in recent days the exhibit's 250 photographs have become the subject of a heated debate over how history ought to be presented. Detractors claim the curators neglected to inform spectators that the pictures were outright Nazi propaganda, commissioned and shot to show a German public just how happily the French lived under Occupation. That contextual omission, critics contend, not only allows the photos to broadcast a deceptive view of Nazi rule more than 60 years after they were shot; it also insults the memory of Holocaust victims from the traditionally Jewish...
...time Delanoë made that call, the curators had moved to provide that context. Visitors to the Historic Library are now informed in several languages that the pictures were shot by André Zucca, a Frenchman hired by the German magazine Signal to capture scenes of Paris flourishing under Nazi rule. Zucca's bosses' gave him extremely rare and valuable rolls of Agfacolor film to shoot his busy shoppers, café-lounging lovers, parks filled with parents and playing children, and ultra-chic Parisiennes sporting the last word in fashionably enormous eyewear...
...always wanted to come back," he says, sitting in the open courtyard of his restaurant beneath the stars. "What brought me back was my age - I don't care if I get shot - and it was just after the signing of the peace treaty. That was encouraging. At last there was no more war. There was a kind of political stability...
Harvard men’s golf finished fourth at the Ivy League Championships yesterday. Columbia emerged with the win after toppling Yale, the leader on days one and two, who settled for second place. Harvard finished 16 shots off the mark behind third-place Penn. The Galloway Golf Club played host to the Ancient Eight. “The greens were really fast and pretty undulating, and the rough was longer than anything we’ve played this year,” sophomore Danny Mayer said. “It was right...
...Fronk, and junior Evan Favermann highlighted the Crimson effort, by sweeping the javelin throw event with respective 46.66, 45.54, and 37.96 meter throws.Co-captain Molly Boyle won the hammer throw with a 46.37 meter toss, while Flahive and freshman Jade Randle earned points at second and third in the shot put with 10.81 and 10.46 meter hurls, respectively. Junior Becky Christensen returned to action after having sat out the last three competitions to claim the top spot in the high jump with a clearance at 1.80 meters.“The biggest thing with Becky is that she?...