Photo Gallery Paris Under the Occupation
Swastikas in Paris: An exibition about the city during World War II at the Historical Library of the City of Paris has caused a storm of controversy.
The exibition by French photographer Andre Zucca is called "Parisians Under the Occupation" and includes 270 color photos.
The fact that Zucca worked for Nazi propaganda magazine "Signal" was not originally mentioned in the exhibition.
Three women sitting in the Luxembourg Gardens. The images have been slammed as superficial. Zucca was only able to get his hands on color film because of his position at the magazine.
A street scene at the Palace de la Concorde. There is no indication of the darker side of the occupation.
Of the 270 images, only two, such as this one, show someone wearing the yellow star. This photograph was taken in the Marais district, where many Jews lived before the majority were rounded up and transported to concentration camps.
Most of the photographs show Parisians enjoying leisure pursuits, such as fishing in the Seine. The city authorities almost cancelled the exibition, but then decided that the publicity campaign should be changed instead.
The Les Halles market in central Paris: Mayor Betrand Delanoe asked the historian Jean-Pierre Azema to write new captions for the photographs to put them in their historical context.
