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The Travails Of Life And War In Occupied Paris And The City's Glorious Liberation During World War II, As Seen Through The Lens Of Five VHS-Era Classic Documentaries From The Golden Age Of Cable Television, One Army Signal Corps Wartime Intelligence Briefing, And Heard Through The Airwaves Of Five Radio Wartime Broadcasts! Another Restored Collection Of VHS-Era Classics From The Golden Age Of Cable Television, Presented In Our Highest DVD Quality MPEG Video Format Of 9.1 MBPS In A 2 Volume Video Download MP4 Set Or A 2 Disc Archival Quality All Regions Format DVD Set! (2 Hours 45 Minutes Total.) #ParisTheOutragedCity #Paris #ParisInWorldWarII #ParisInWWII #FallOfParis #BattleOfFrance #VictoryInTheWest #SiegImWesten #FallRot #GermanOccupationOfParisDuringWorldWarII #GermanOccupationOfParisDuringWWII #GermanOccupationOfFranceDuringWorldWarII #GermanOccupationOfFranceDuringWWII #MilitaryAdministrationInFrance #MilitarverwaltungInFrankreich #OccupationDeLaFranceParLAllemagne #FranceWWII #FranceDuringWorldWarII #FranceDuringWWII #EuropeanTheaterOfWWII #EuropeanTheatreOfWWII #SecondEuropeanWar #EuropeanCivilWar #WesternFrontWWII #ParisHistory #HistoryOfParis #France #FrenchHistory #HistoryOfFrance #MP4 #VideoDownload #DVD

* July 22, 2026: Updated And Expanded: Updated With Everything Except This Title's Original CITIES AT WAR Documentary, And Expanded From A Single Volume To A Two Volume Set MP4 Video Set, And An Upgraded And Expanded DVD Version From A Standard Format Disc To A 2 Disc Archival Quality Dual Layer Format Disc Set!


Contents:


VOLUME ONE:

Cities At War: Paris: The Outraged City -- An episode of the CITIES AT WAR British TV documentary series (Color, 1989, 45 Minutes).

NBC News 39-09-02 - Robert Thompson From Paris (5 Minutes) | Germans Announce Fall Of Paris 400614 (20 Aeconds) | Eric Sevareid On The Fall Of Paris 40-06-21 (15 Aeconds) -- All from The Old Time Radio World War II MP3 MegaSet.

Words At War: Paris Underground 43-10-12 -- An adaption of Etta Shiber's "war book" (30 Minutes) -- From The Old Time Radio World War II MP3 MegaSet.


VOLUME TWO:

GI Diary: Epi. #14 - 44-08-25 Paris: An American In Paris -- An episode of "America's World War II Combat Diary Preserved In Stunning Color Film And Narrated By Lloyd Bridges" (Color, 1978, 23 Minutes).

Eisenhower Awards Allied Shield To People Of Paris 44-08-25 (47 Seconds) -- From The Old Time Radio World War II MP3 MegaSet.

Battleline: Epi. 30: Battle Of Paris -- An episode of "The Complete 38 Episode 1963 TV Documentary Series Narrated By Jim Bishop Featuring An Account From A Soldier From Each Side Of Every Battle" (Black/White, 1963, 22 Minutes).

The Twentieth Century With Walter Cronkite: The Liberation Of Paris -- An episode of "This Landmark 1950s-1960s Golden Age Of Television Documentary Series Documenting The Great Events Of The Millennial Century!" (Black/White, 1959, 23 Minutes).

Crusade In Europe: 16: The Liberation Of Paris -- An episode of "The World's First TV Documentary Series As First Broadcast In 1948 On ABC TV Based On General Eisenhower’s Book About Being Supreme Headquarters Commander, Allied Expeditionary Force" (19 Minutes).

Combat Bulletin No. 37: Factories In Paris Subway: - The dismantling of German Aircraft plants built over Parisian subway tracks. A film of "Official Secret War Department Films And Public Propaganda Releases" (1945, 1 Minute 10 Seconds).


Paris In World War II: Paris started mobilizing for war in September 1939, when Nazi Germany attacked Poland, but the war seemed far away until May 10, 1940, when the Germans attacked France and quickly defeated the French army. The French government departed Paris on June 10, and the Germans occupied the city on June 14, which had been declared an "open city". During the Occupation, the French Government moved to Vichy, and Paris was governed by the German military and by French officials approved by the Germans. For Parisians, the Occupation was a series of frustrations, shortages and humiliations. A curfew was in effect from nine in the evening until five in the morning; at night, the city went dark. Rationing of food, tobacco, coal and clothing was imposed from September 1940. Every year the supplies grew more scarce and the prices higher. A million Parisians left the city for the provinces, where there was more food and fewer Germans. The French press and radio contained only German propaganda. Jews in Paris were forced to wear the yellow Star of David badge, and were barred from certain professions and public places. On July 16-17, 1942, 13,152 Jews, including 4,115 children, were rounded up by the French police, on orders of the Germans, and were sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp. The first demonstration against the Occupation, by Paris students, took place on November 11, 1940. As the war continued, anti-German clandestine groups and networks were created, some loyal to the French Communist Party, others to General Charles de Gaulle in London. They wrote slogans on walls, organized an underground press, and sometimes attacked German officers. Reprisals by the Germans were swift and harsh. Following the Allied invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944, the French Resistance in Paris launched an uprising on August 19, seizing the police headquarters and other government buildings. The city was liberated by French and American troops on August 25; the next day, General de Gaulle led a triumphant parade down the Champs-Elysees on August 26, made a rousing speech from the Hotel de Ville, and organized a new government. In the following months, ten thousand Parisians who had collaborated with the Germans were arrested and tried, eight thousand convicted, and 116 executed. On April 29 and May 13, 1945, the first post-war municipal elections were held, in which French women voted for the first time.

The Military Administration in France (German: Militarverwaltung in Frankreich; French: Occupation de la France par l'Allemagne) was an interim occupation authority established by Nazi Germany during World War II to administer the occupied zone in areas of northern and western France. This so-called zone occupee was renamed zone nord ("north zone") in November 1942, when the previously unoccupied zone in the south known as zone libre ("free zone") was also occupied and renamed zone sud ("south zone"). Its role in France was partly governed by the conditions set by the Second Armistice at Compiegne after the blitzkrieg success of the Wehrmacht leading to the Fall of France; at the time both French and Germans thought the occupation would be temporary and last only until Britain came to terms, which was believed to be imminent. For instance, France agreed that its soldiers would remain prisoners of war until the cessation of all hostilities. The "French State" (Etat Francais), with its sovereignty and authority limited to the free zone, replaced the French Third Republic that had dissolved in defeat. As Paris was located in the occupied zone, its government was seated in the spa town of Vichy in Auvergne, and therefore it was more commonly known as Vichy France. While the Vichy government was nominally in charge of all of France, the military administration in the occupied zone was a de facto Nazi dictatorship. Nazi rule was extended to the free zone when it was invaded by Germany and Italy during Case Anton on 11 November 1942 in response to Operation Torch, the Allied landings in French North Africa on 8 November 1942. The Vichy government remained in existence, even though its authority was now severely curtailed. The German military administration in France ended with the Liberation of France after the Normandy and Provence landings. It formally existed from May 1940 to December 1944, though most of its territory had been liberated by the Allies by the end of summer 1944.