The Truth About Paris Under Occupation!

[G-Fox]

Source: http://laconics.forumotion.com/t602-fra ... the-horror
Take your blood pressure medicine before viewing these, JG..



Because France had a very rich and productive primary sector it is estimated the country contributed up to 1/3 of the german war effort, in fact it was a time when french economy flourished, the industrials, farmers and traders were well happy, business was going extremely well, the germans bought (paid for) all the production.


Some very interesting pics about the german occupation in France:
The Cafés, bistrôts and Restaurants in Paris were always full of germans and french couples, life was not much different from normal times












German troops with band playing, marching in Paris, 1941





Place de la Concorde



Music, army band playing for the people at the Place de la Republique, 1943



The famous cabaret Moulin Rouge and Brasserie Dupont-Cyrano, 1942



Some normal french girls during the occupation



Busy streets of Paris



Famous show-house/theatre Le Chapiteau




Only after June 1942 it was mandatory for all the jews (older than 6 yr) in occupied France to be identified with the yellow star of David, this pic was taken in Rue du Rivoli - Paris, after June 1942



Zoo of Vincennes full of people



Velo(bicicle)-taxi, very common at that time





Les Halles (central market of Paris), July 1942






Quartier du Marais, rue des rosiers, a jewish man (behind the lady) with the yellow david star walking calmly, like he was doing his regular morning walk



Cinema Lux, Bastille, the film "Haut le vent" by J. de Baroncelli



Trocadero on any given sunday, in front of the Eiffel Tower, like today a favourite place for youngs to play...is that a skate board ?!



Marbeuf-Champs Elysées subway station in 1943 (today the same station is called Franklin Roosevelt)



The Hippodrome (horse racing track) of Longchamp in 1943



Young girl participant of the "Vincennes cours" (race) in 1941



Kommandantur (center of german military command), Place de l'Opéra, almost no guards



Crowd in front of the Jeune Front office at Av.des Champs Elysées (office to promote cooperation and recruitment of french willing to actively support the Axis) in 1940



French civilians and German soldiers coming out of the Mass in the Church de la Madeleine



Civilians bathing, getting tanned at the Seine, 1943



Translation: "Visit the International Exhibition: Bolshevism against Europe at Wagram Avenue"



Translation: "They give their blood...give thy work to save Europe from Bolshevism"



Translation: "If you want to earn much more, come to work in Germany" ...many did



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French children of Wehrmacht soldiers seek German nationality

Their mothers were French, their fathers were German soldiers in Nazi-occupied France. Some 200,000 children endured scorn and often hid their father's identity. Now some have begun applying for German citizenship.

More than 200,000 children fathered by German soldiers were raised by their French mothers after the Nazi occupation of France during World War II, according to Paris historian Fabrice Vergili. The author of the book [i]Naitre ennemi (Born an Enemy) also estimates that 20,000 French women were hounded through streets and brutally given short haircuts by their French compatriots, who accused them of "horizontal collaboration" with the Nazis.

Many of these war children grew up not knowing their full identities and ashamed of their German roots, until recently. Since 2009 dozens have sought and obtained German nationality without having to relinquish their French citizenship, as is generally required of resident foreigners under German law.

G-Fox: Sorry if I already posted this!

[hermod]

Beautiful photos showing the real face of German occupation during WW2.

More than 200,000 children fathered by German soldiers were raised by their French mothers after the Nazi occupation of France during World War II, according to Paris historian Fabrice Vergili. The author of the book Naitre ennemi (Born an Enemy) also estimates that 20,000 French women were hounded through streets and brutally given short haircuts by their French compatriots, who accused them of "horizontal collaboration" with the Nazis.

That made me think about [i]Lebensborn centers. The picture of what Lebensborn centers were has recently been totally distorted. It's now said that Lebensborn centers were some kind of Evil Nazi breeding centers used to create an Aryan super-race. That's totally untrue. There was a Lebensborn not very far from my home and I visited that place before all the lies about Lebensborn centers were told. So I know what those places were used for. There were not breeding centers at all. They were some kind of orphanages for babies fathered by German soldiers who had a non-German mother not wanting to raise them. They were in fact anti-abortion centers. In the 1940's unmarried women having babies were often rejected by their own families and they had to live in shame and poverty. In order to avoid that, many pregnant unmarried women chose to abort. So the Nazi authorities decided to create homes where those women could come and discreetly give birth to their babies. The women who gave birth in those places could chose to leave their babies there or to raise their children themselves. The women who chose to raise their babies could even get money from the German government if they agreed to raise those children according to the National Socialist principles. Of course those mothers had to be Aryans in accordance with the Nuremberg racial laws. So all the babies raised in German Lebensborns were Aryan children. But those places were not breeding centers for an Aryan super-race as claimed by today's mainstream media. They were just orphanages for unwanted Aryan babies. As soon as possible those babies were adopted by SS families and could live a normal life.

Now the people born in German Lebensborn centers are totally traumatized because they were said after WW2 that they were the product of racism and hatred (http://www.spiegel.de/international/naz ... 46978.html) while they were in fact the product of love.

[Barrington James]

According to F.j. P. Veale, the real horror of France began when the French communists began to kill German soldiers, blow up railways and bridges and other such terrorist activities. All these activities were against the Geneva convention which had tried to prevent such a thing from happening, for , as the Americans have found out in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Vietnam, when civilians kill soldiers all Hell breaks out. And that is exactly what happened all through occupied Europe. In France, for example, the murder of German soldiers also included the murder of “collaborators” by the tens of thousands , and then the murder within the French community by the French for the sake of robbery, revenge , and domestic quarrels. This terror really got bad when the Germans were finally driven out of France for the Germans had maintained some form of civility in France while they were there. But when they were driven out , the French murdered as many as 100, 000 of their own for all of the above reasons and more. On top of all this horror, the British, while fighting the Germans, had bombed France and killed three times as many French as the Germans had killed in England during the Blitz…about 125, 000, which, of course, did not made the atmosphere nor the conditions in France any better. All this from a country, England, that did not help the French in their hour of need against the famous “end run” the Germans had done to defeat the French in the war, the exit of the British troops at Dunkirk, and the follow-up bombing of the French fleet which killed several thousand French sailors because the Brits were afraid that the Nazis would use the French fleet in the war despite the fact the French surrender terms had stated that this would not be done. The British , unlike the Germans, had a four hundred year history of wars and how to win them , and this, of course, included methods of starting and conducting wars that most of us prefer not to learn.