The shameful peace : how French artists and intellectuals survived the Nazi occupation
The Nazis encouraged artistic and intellectual life in occupied France as a tool with which to placate those they had conquered, while French artists and intellectuals often used cultural activity as an overt or covert form of political expression. The Nazi encouragement of culture in occupied France was deeply cynical. German orchestras and opera companies poured into Paris to enrich its musical life, while Parisians were given every opportunity to learn German as a second language; but no German city hosted French companies performing Debussy, nor were the burghers of Berlin offered free French lessons. The fundamental fact was that the Nazi leadership calculated - with good reason - that a thriving French cultural life would help draw the teeth of potential revolt, thus enabling Hitler to turn his firepower away from Western Europe and towards his ultimate objective, the Soviet Union. Met lit. opg., index. 283 p., [16] p. pl. : ill. ; 24 cm
- Spotts, Frederic.
- NIOD Bibliotheek
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- ocn907616954
- World War, 1939-1945--Art and the war.
- World War, 1939-1945--Literature and the war.
- War and civilization--France--History--20th century.
- France--Intellectual life--20th century.
- France--History--German occupation, 1940-1945.
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