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Authors: Charles Glass
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Drue Leyton, the glamorous American actress whose broadcasts on Radio Mondiale made her a target for the Nazis.
Florence Jay Gould, who hosted a weekly salon of German and French writers in her suite at the Hôtel Bristol and at her avenue Malakoff apartment.
Polly Peabody’s author photo from her 1941 book
Occupied Territory
.
Occupied Territory
.
General Otto von Stülpnagel, German military commander of France, 1939.
Karl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel, c.1940. Otto’s cousin and successor in France. He believed that killing hostages both violated the soldier’s code and failed to intimidate the Resistance.
A German military parade passes the Hôtel de Crillon (
left
) and the French Naval Ministry (
right
) on the Place de la Concorde in Paris, 1940. The American Embassy is just beyond the Crillon.
left
) and the French Naval Ministry (
right
) on the Place de la Concorde in Paris, 1940. The American Embassy is just beyond the Crillon.
Paris under occupation outside the Hôtel Meurice, the last German HQ in the city.
Marshal Pétain (
centre in dark suit
), pictured with his cabinet, the day after he succeeded French premier Paul Reynaud, 17 June 1940. Also pictured are Pierre Laval (
with papers to the left of Pétain
) and Defence Minister Maxime Weygand (
in uniform to the right of Pétain
).
centre in dark suit
), pictured with his cabinet, the day after he succeeded French premier Paul Reynaud, 17 June 1940. Also pictured are Pierre Laval (
with papers to the left of Pétain
) and Defence Minister Maxime Weygand (
in uniform to the right of Pétain
).
Marshal Pétain (
left
) with American Ambassador to Vichy, Admiral William D. Leahy, February 1941.
left
) with American Ambassador to Vichy, Admiral William D. Leahy, February 1941.
Robert D. Murphy, US Embassy counsellor in France and President Roosevelt’s special representative in North Africa.
Shakespeare’s
King John
, translated by Clara Longworth de Chambrun, opened at the Théâtre de l’Odéon on 3 May 1943 to good reviews.
King John
, translated by Clara Longworth de Chambrun, opened at the Théâtre de l’Odéon on 3 May 1943 to good reviews.
Parisians welcome an Allied tank during the Liberation of Paris, 26 August, 1944.
American flags on the Champs-Elysées, August 29, 1944.
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