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On June 14, 1940, German tanks entered a silent and nearly deserted Paris. Eight days later, France accepted a humiliating defeat and foreign occupation. Subsequently, an eerie sense of normalcy settled over the City of Light. Many Parisians keenly adapted themselves to the situation-even allied themselves with their Nazi overlords. At the same time, amidst this darkening gloom of German ruthlessness, shortages, and curfews, a resistance arose. Parisians of all stripes-Jews, immigrants, adolescents, communists, rightists, cultural icons such as Colette, de Beauvoir, Camus and Sartre, as well as police officers, teachers, students, and store owners-rallied around a little known French military officer, Charles de Gaulle.
WHEN PARIS WENT DARK evokes with stunning precision the detail of daily life in a city under occupation, and the brave people who fought against the darkness. Relying on a range of resources---memoirs, diaries, letters, archives, interviews, personal histories, flyers and posters, fiction, photographs, film and historical studies---Rosbottom has forged a groundbreaking book that will forever influence how we understand those dark years in the City of Light.
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Copyright 2014 by Ronald C. Rosbottom
Maps by Lu Yi
Cover design by Keith Hayes
Cover photograph: Neige, rue du clotre Notre-Dame, by Albert Monier. Muse dart et darchologie Aurillac.
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For my wife, Betty, whose love and wisdom have sheltered and nurtured me since we first met at Mont Saint-Michel many years ago;
and
For my dear son, Michael, and his loving wife, Heidi, who gave us Edith and Griffin, truly grand children, with gratitude for their love and laughter;
and
For my brother Tim, and in memory of our brother Steedy
September 3: France and Great Britain declare war on Germany
September 5: United States announces its neutrality
Winter 193940: Phony war (drle de guerre); Russo-Finnish War
April: Germany invades Norway; Anglo-French expedition to Norway
April 3: Prison sentences for former French Communist deputies
May 10: Beginning of German western offensive; Winston Churchill named prime minister of Great Britain
May 15: French prime minister Paul Reynaud informs Churchill by phone: Weve lost the battle
May 18: Reynaud announces appointment of Marchal Philippe Ptain as vice president of Council of Ministers
May 25: Charles de Gaulle given battlefield promotion to brigadier general
May 28: Belgium capitulates, to surprise of Allies
June 4: End of evacuation of Allied troops begun on May 24 from Dunkirk
June 5: Retreating French soldiers begin to appear in Paris; Reynaud names de Gaulle undersecretary for war and national defense
June 10: French government leaves Paris; Italy declares war on France and Great Britain
June 12: Paris officially declared open; US ambassador William Bullitt essentially mayor of Paris with prefect of police Roger Langeron
June 14: First German troops enter Paris
June 16: Reynaud resigns as prime minister
June 17: Ptain named president of Council of Ministers; requests an armistice
June 18: First radio speech to France by de Gaulle from London
June 22: Armistice signed at Compigne
June 25: Armistice officially begins
June 28: Hitlers only visit to Paris; British government recognizes de Gaulle as head of the Free French
June 1940November 1942: Gring will visit Paris and the Jeu de Paume museum twenty-five times during this period
July 3: Great Britain attacks and devastates French fleet at Mers-el-Kbir in Algeria
July 1112: Third Republic votes itself out of existence; a new tat franais is established, with Ptain as its chief executive and Pierre Laval as vice president of the Council of Ministers and his designated successor
July 17: Vichy passes law that forbids employment for those not born of French parents
July 22: Vichy examines post-1927 naturalizations of five hundred thousand French citizens
August 7: Alsace-Lorraine officially annexed to Germany
August 8: Beginning of Battle of Britain
August 13: Vichy abolishes anti-Semitism laws, dissolves secret societies, aimed principally at Freemasonry; Germans forbid Jews to reenter Occupied Zone
September 12: First German announcement of hostage policy (hostages will be imprisoned or executed if violent actions are taken against German personnel)
September 17: First rationing of essential food products in Paris announced; appearance of cartes de rationnement
September 27: Jewish-owned shops must carry yellow signs bearing the words ENTREPRISE JUIVE (eleven thousand complied by late November); census of Jews by French police (under German orders) begins
October 3: First German edict against Jews in occupied France; first Gaullist tags discovered on Parisian walls
October 5: First roundup of French Communists in Paris, by Vichy police
October 12: Hitler postpones indefinitely the invasion of England
October 18: Publication of Vichy edict of October 34 forbidding Jewish ownership and management of enterprises and excluding Jews from the army and professions
October 22: Hitler and Pierre Laval meet for first time at Montoire, in France
October 24: Ptain and Hitler meet at Montoire, their only meeting
October 30: Ptains path of collaboration speech
November 5: Roosevelt reelected for a third term
November 11Lycensdemonstrate in Paris
December 13: Ptain fires Pierre Laval; Admiral Franois Darlan will be his successor
December 15: Ashes of Duke of Reichstadt (the King of Rome, a.k.a. Napoleon II) brought to Paris from Vienna
February: Arrest of members of first important resistance group, known as the Muse de lHomme network because most members worked at that institution; six would be executed in early 1942
February 14: Veit Harlans strongly anti-Semitic film,
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