Alan Riding on Occupied Paris
Alan Riding: And the Show Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris. Were artists “saving” French culture by working under the German occupation? Were they betraying France if they performed before German soldiers or made movies with Nazi approval? Was it the intellectual’s duty to take up arms against the occupier? Then, after Paris was liberated, what was deserving punishment for artists who had committed “intelligence with the enemy”? See Riding’s November 10 talk at the American Library