CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE 2009
..".an essential book. It provides precise facts and figures for
many issues that have heretofore been presented in impressionistic
terms." . The International History Review
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.
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