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04/28/2008: "Photos show milder side of the Nazi occupation of France"
Visitors to "The Parisians Under the Occupation" exhibit by photographer
Andre Zucca said the captured images offer a rare take on the brutal
forced occupation, one that is without the misery typically associated
with the war, the International Herald Tribune reported Friday.
"You can't really feel that it's the occupation," tourist Serge Thilloux said of the exhibit. "You have the impression that people can walk about freely, while today there are plaques around Paris indicating where this or that person was shot."
"It shows how frighteningly normal life was," exhibit visitor Robert Schenker told the Tribune. "With the exception of the Germans in uniform, you can hardly see any difference from daily life now."
Zucca took the photographs while working for the Nazi propaganda magazine Signal and are being presented at a Paris Historical Library annex without any historical information, the newspaper said.
[ Surely daily life now has a frightening level of crime in comparison to those days. ]
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Entertainment/2008/04/26/photos_show_lighter_side_of_world_war_ii/9087/