And the Show Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris (34 page)

Air Marshal Hermann Göring, with a walking stick and trilby, would frequently visit the gallery to pick art for Hitler and for himself. (
Archives des Musées Nationaux
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An exhibition called The Jew and France, which opened at the Palais Berlitz in Paris in the fall of 1941, included a section claiming that Jews were “masters of French cinema.” (
LAPI/Roger-Viollet
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Among the most virulently anti-Semitic French writers was Louis-Ferdinand Céline, shown at the opening of the Institut d’Études des Questions Juives in Paris. (
Roger-Viollet
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Among the most virulently anti-Semitic French writers was Lucien Rebatet, shown signing copies of his memoir,
Les Décombres. (Albert Harlingue/Roger-Viollet
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Goebbels frequently invited French artists to Germany to underline cultural cooperation between the two countries. Among French movie stars leaving the Gare de l’Est for Berlin in March 1942 were, left to right, Viviane Romance, Danielle Darrieux, Suzy Delair and Junie Astor. (
LAPI/Roger-Viollet
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In October 1941, a high-level delegation of French artists leaving the Gare de l’Est for Germany included the leading Fauvist painters Maurice de Vlaminck, Kees van Dongen and André Derain. (
LAPI/Roger-Viollet
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In November 1941, a group of French writers returned to Paris by train after attending a European writers’ congress in Weimar. In uniform on the left is Gerhard Heller, the German official in charge of literary censorship; beside him in a trilby is Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, a leading collaborationist writer; next to him in a white raincoat is Robert Brasillach, the editor of the pro-Nazi weekly
Je suis partout;
and on the far right, wearing glasses, is Karl-Heinz Bremer, the deputy director of the German Institute in Paris. (
LAPI/Roger-Viollet
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Many popular French singers, including Maurice Chevalier, left, and Édith Piaf, right, traveled to Germany to perform in camps holding some of the 1.6 million French prisoners of war. (
left: Roger-Viollet; right: Ulstein Bild/Roger-Viollet
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The opening of Arno Breker’s sculpture exhibition at the Orangerie in May 1942 drew senior Vichy officials as well as many French artists and intellectuals who would later be accused of collaboration. (
LAPI/Roger-Viollet
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Among those in attendance were the dancer Serge Lifar, seen here, at left, in costume for the ballet
Joan de Zarissa
by the German composer Werner Egk, and, at right, the artist and poet Jean Cocteau. (
left: AndrÉ Zucca/BHVP/Roger-Viollet; right: Ulstein Bild/Roger-Viollet
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Jean Paulhan, a literary critic and book editor, seen at left in a dark suit with the artist Georges Braque, was a pivotal figure in the intellectual resistance and a cofounder of
Les Lettres Françaises
, a clandestine newspaper published by writers. (
Roger-Viollet
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