When Paris went dark : the City of Light under German occupation, 1940-1944 / Ronald C. Rosbottom.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-429) and index.

Chronology of the Occupation of Paris -- Major personalities -- Introduction. Faux Paris ; Sequestering Medusa ; Paris was different -- A nation disintegrates. Preludes ; Three traumas -- Waiting for Hitler. "They" arrive, and are surprised ; One who stayed, one who left ; "They" settle in ; Hitler's own tour ; The Führer's urbanophobia -- Minuet (1940-1941). How do you occupy a city? ; For some, Paris was a bubble ; Dancing the minuet ; Correct, but still Nazis ; "To bed, to bed!" ; An execution in Paris -- City without a face : the occupier's lament. Paris had already welcomed the Nazis-- before the occupation ; The occupiers are surprised, too ; A dreamer in exile ; Sexually occupied ; A "better" German ; Recollected solitude -- Narrowed lives. Narrowing and boredom ; The apartment ; A crowded Métro ; The informer ; The queue -- Dilemmas of resistance. Quoi faire? ; Resistant Paris ; Bébés terroristes ; The red poster ; A female resistance ; Who got the credit? -- Most narrowed lives : the hunt for Jews. Being Jewish in Paris ; Three girls on the move ; A gold star ; The big roundup -- How much longer? (1942-1944). "You can come over now!" ; The plague ; Observers from the palace ; Signs of defeat -- Liberation : a whodunit. Is Paris worth a detour? ; The beast of Sevastopol arrives ; "Tous aux barricades!" ; Why do Americans smile so much? ; Whodunit? -- Angry aftermath : back on Paris time. Rediscovering purity ; "Kill all the bastards!" ; The return of lost souls -- Is Paris still occupied? De Gaulle creates a script ; Stumbling through memory ; Should we blame Paris? ; "The landscape of our confusions" -- Appendix. De Gaulle's speech on the Liberation of Paris.