Basing his extensive research into hitherto unexploited archival
documentation on both sides of the Rhine, Allan Mitchell has
uncovered the inner workings of the German military regime from the
Wehrmacht's triumphal entry into Paris in June 1940 to its
ignominious withdrawal in August 1944. Although mindful of the
French experience and the fundamental issue of collaboration, the
author concentrates on the complex problems of occupying a foreign
territory after a surprisingly swift conquest. By exploring in
detail such topics as the regulation of public comportment,
economic policy, forced labor, culture and propaganda, police
activity, persecution and deportation of Jews, assassinations,
executions, and torture, this study supersedes earlier attempts to
investigate the German domination and exploitation of wartime
France. In doing so, these findings provide an invaluable
complement to the work of scholars who have viewed those dark years
exclusively or mainly from the French perspective.
Allan Mitchell received his PhD from Harvard in 1961 and then
taught at Smith College (1961-1972) and the University of
California (1973-1993). He has recently published three books: a
paperback edition of The Great Train Race: Railways and the
Franco-German Rivalry, 1815-1914 (Berghahn Books, 2006); Reves
Parisiens. L'echec de projets de transport public en France aux
XIXe siecle (Ponts et Chaussees, Paris, 2005); and A Stranger in
Paris: Germany's Role in Republican France, 1870-1940 (Berghahn
Books, 2006)."
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