Sorry, that's the way life was then. Normal for the most part. Truth hurts eh? Anyone who did not like things, could just move to unoccupied France. (most of the south half of France.)
by Marilyn Z. Tomlins (not verified) - 27/04/2008 - 08:36
Allow me, a 'foreigner' (English but born in South Africa and living in Kremlin-Bicetre) to say that this exhibition, far from being closed down, should be prolonged so that those from the provinces and also people from other countries who will be visiting Paris this summer, would be able to view Zucca's pictures also. I am a writer and researcher and having spent the past four years researching and writing a book on the WW2 murderer, Dr. Marcel Petiot ('A Life In Quicklime' currently with London and New York publishers while my agents, Fiona Lindsay and Mary Bekhait of 'Limelight Management' is also trying to attract French publishers), I know not all Parisians behaved like those on Zucca's photos: there were very many extremely brave people here in Paris and I'm not talking of the Resistants now, but the ordinary man-in-the-street. But a nation that cannot live with its past has a dire future. Therefore, Zucca's vile pictures must be exhibited so that there will never be another foreign occupation of France. What the organizers of this exhibition did wrong was not to make it clear right from the exhibition's opening day that Zucca was a 'collabo'. I would suggest to President Sarkozy that portfolios of Zucca's photos are handed out to schools because his work is the very best example of treachery.
Marilyn Z. Tomlins, Kremlin-Bicetre
_On parle beaucoup de l'Occupation d'il y a 60 ans, mais pas de celle d'aujourd'hui, qui est celle de l'UMP et de ses milices omniprésentes dans les rues de nos villes et dans nos campagnes, de leur violences racistes, ils valent bien la police de Vichy, de ses centres de rétention tenus par sa police fasciste; et que ce sont nous tous les non-juifsqui sommes les victimes de ces violences et de cette occupation de notre pays, on ne parle pas assez de la censure et de l'absence totale de Liberté de Presse, de l'absence totale de parole d'opposition politique réelle, à part une fausse-Gauche, et de la présence arrogante & exclusive des sionistes de Sarkozy sur nos télévisions. Cette fois pour changer, il nous faudra bien libérer Paris, la France et l'Europe...des juifs !
As a 59 year old who was born just a few years after the end of the war, I am constantly surprised and shocked at what you all had to endure during that awful time and after. In the United States as in France there are people who do not believe the horrors ever happened or they choose to belief that those horrors represented the correct way to live. Thank you to the writer who put my thoughts on paper. I agree with you. It would have been so simple to change the title of the exhibition and recognize the propaganda aspect. (I am saying this without benefit of having seen the photographs and I am trusting that the writer's description and the photo above are truly representative of the content). Thank you for letting me share this emotional reaction to the story. Sincerely, A Woman from Connecticut USA
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that's how it was
Sorry, that's the way life was then. Normal for the most part. Truth hurts eh? Anyone who did not like things, could just move to unoccupied France. (most of the south half of France.)
Zucca's view of Occupied Paris
Allow me, a 'foreigner' (English but born in South Africa and living in Kremlin-Bicetre) to say that this exhibition, far from being closed down, should be prolonged so that those from the provinces and also people from other countries who will be visiting Paris this summer, would be able to view Zucca's pictures also. I am a writer and researcher and having spent the past four years researching and writing a book on the WW2 murderer, Dr. Marcel Petiot ('A Life In Quicklime' currently with London and New York publishers while my agents, Fiona Lindsay and Mary Bekhait of 'Limelight Management' is also trying to attract French publishers), I know not all Parisians behaved like those on Zucca's photos: there were very many extremely brave people here in Paris and I'm not talking of the Resistants now, but the ordinary man-in-the-street. But a nation that cannot live with its past has a dire future. Therefore, Zucca's vile pictures must be exhibited so that there will never be another foreign occupation of France. What the organizers of this exhibition did wrong was not to make it clear right from the exhibition's opening day that Zucca was a 'collabo'. I would suggest to President Sarkozy that portfolios of Zucca's photos are handed out to schools because his work is the very best example of treachery.
Marilyn Z. Tomlins, Kremlin-Bicetre
L' Occupation de Paris par les Sarkozystes.
_On parle beaucoup de l'Occupation d'il y a 60 ans, mais pas de celle d'aujourd'hui, qui est celle de l'UMP et de ses milices omniprésentes dans les rues de nos villes et dans nos campagnes, de leur violences racistes, ils valent bien la police de Vichy, de ses centres de rétention tenus par sa police fasciste; et que ce sont nous tous les non-juifsqui sommes les victimes de ces violences et de cette occupation de notre pays, on ne parle pas assez de la censure et de l'absence totale de Liberté de Presse, de l'absence totale de parole d'opposition politique réelle, à part une fausse-Gauche, et de la présence arrogante & exclusive des sionistes de Sarkozy sur nos télévisions. Cette fois pour changer, il nous faudra bien libérer Paris, la France et l'Europe...des juifs !
I Agree Wholeheartedly
As a 59 year old who was born just a few years after the end of the war, I am constantly surprised and shocked at what you all had to endure during that awful time and after. In the United States as in France there are people who do not believe the horrors ever happened or they choose to belief that those horrors represented the correct way to live. Thank you to the writer who put my thoughts on paper. I agree with you. It would have been so simple to change the title of the exhibition and recognize the propaganda aspect. (I am saying this without benefit of having seen the photographs and I am trusting that the writer's description and the photo above are truly representative of the content). Thank you for letting me share this emotional reaction to the story. Sincerely, A Woman from Connecticut USA