Spring 1942,
The French have the panache to forget the Nazi occupation.
Simone de Beauvoir writes:From the desperation grabbed gems luck ...
and enjoyed their luster despite the sobering days thereafter.
To put these spirits, wrote journalist and historian Patrick Buisson ...
his book The Adult Years ...
over a still unspeakable occupation.
If there's death, Iaat 's survival instinct asserts itself ...
and confirmation that is to when the bombs fall.
Because life is threatened and danger and fear prevail.
ln wartime sex the ultimate flight for mortality.
Which punctuated behavior.
We show you this maverick behavior through exclusive interviews ...
and rare recordings, filmed mainly by Germans.
The disturbing story of an occupation.
The war touched every human being in the most intimate way.
Like these women, who were punished ...
because she met the enemy, the Germans, had slept.
LOVE AND SEX DURING THE OCCUPATION
Everything begins one day in June 1940,
An unforgettable day for the young Gisèle Guillemot ...
who later would join the resistance.
The breath caught in my throat when I saw them coming.
Handsome soldiers in nice uniforms on brand motorcycles.
That was impressive and paralyzing the same time.
I thought:how will we survive? That is impossible.
We will never. I saw such a force majeure.
On June 14, Paris is to 'open city' proclaimed.
The German army marches for days through the capital.
Bitter behold Parisians the victorious Third Reich.
Gossip Reporter Ristelhueber writes:
"It was a Wagnerian entry with their gleaming steel helmets ...
and their well-equipped tanks"
Housewives on the Avenue Kleber ...
saw fresh men who just seemed to come from the hairdresser.
Wehrmacht Veteran Max Bayer recalls the splendor yet.
We were actually proud of our uniform. We felt good.
We had to be more blameless than in Germany and present ourselves well.
The appearance was more important. Unlike during previous conflicts.
That was largely because National Socialism ...
and the totalitarian fascist regime, the young man's body ...
a symbol of virility, energy and vitality of the nation had raised.
This young, victorious men undoubtedly had something erotic.
Their appearance was charismatic and seductive ...
and had a thrilling effect on the sensitivity ...
and sensuality of many.
Young Benoite Groult, future writer, saw the effect ...
it had this look in some women.
Yes, they were personable and fed. And well dressed. And triumphant.
amazing what victory can radiate.
It was beautiful and terrible, because The girls walked behind their tanks.
But we were patriotic and raised Catholic ...
and consequently were not participate in things like that.
We remembered our own soldiers ...
which were driven back from the Maginot Line to the south.
The defeat, the horror of people in agony.
The French army was defeated in 1940,
Even though it had fought hard and there were 100,000 man killed ...
it was not the image file to be against the German army.
A handful of German soldiers held captured hundreds of thousands of Frenchmen.
So did their male image no good.
The men had failed and their country and their women are not protected.
For centuries they personified the victor and the vanquished.
The victor is male and the vanquished female.
This metaphor is the decor During the collaboration.
Collaboration. The path that Petain was imposed ...
before it was a political choice.
Optimists believe that its dual policy opposition would have supported.
But the sad truth is the inability to file ...
that France violated and humiliated.
The Wehrmacht occupied more than half of the land is divided into zones along ...
by a demarcation line.
French may not cross this border without permission.
The precious card.
Against all expectations, the occupier will help the French ...
the country back to help in the leg.
But it is self-interest to forget the destruction ...
and to help the French which got lost during the exodus.
The Germans made himself so useful, Simone de Beauvoir ...
in its War Diary writes: "In fact, they were very friendly ...
attentive and discreet and they were always ready for you."
Their mission is the population help and respect.
Especially women and children.
Abandoned population trust the German soldier.
On hold this famous poster a German soldier, a child on the arm ...
and watching a child on the ground confidently at him.
He assumes the role of protector on the weak French soldier ...
which was captured during the Battle of France.
During the exodus believed my parents Germans, once in Paris ...
all women were raped. That reputation they had since World War l.
So they put us as it bundles on the train.
We were 14 and 18 and went to my grandparents in Concarneau.
After three months, it was found that the Germans were very correct.
ln my early years, I really believed that the occupation ...
on a fairly decent way done was. As far as I could see.
We really thought we were good for the day in France.
It was a complete surprise, after the experience in 1870 and 1914,
When the Prussian army used very much violence against the civilian population.
Rape of women heard in traditional warfare.
It was easy to compare the previous times.
This was the third time in 70 years that the Germans unbidden came to visit.
The Wehrmacht had strict orders.
Soldiers raped got very heavy prison sentences.
There were far fewer rapes during the Battle of France in 1940 ...
then in 1914 and 1870,
The Germans settle as oppressors.
They dominate Paris, the unfulfilled dream of World War l.
All over the occupied territory his military barracks.
A soldier writes in the guestbook of a guest:We feel at home.
The Germans are everywhere, even in the smallest villages.
Officers settle in advanced houses and inspect their property.
They almost forgot that war.
The occupation army will order and A problem-free relationship with the population.
Future playwright Pierre Barillet, then 17, still know.
We had 35 Germans at home.
They behaved very correctly.
There was a sergeant, a sergeant, which was quite severe.
He led his men perfectly.
ln the garden or the house Nothing was destroyed.
A charm offensive is launched.
The German army gives concerts on the main squares of Paris.
According to the information service thousands of people watching.
But Benoite Groults family remembers WO l itself and can not pack.
My father had us Never forgive a German concerts.
It was our way of resistance, though it was feminine and timid.
My father did not release WW l. He called them even LeS Boches.
My sister and I were not allowed to Germans look. Whether they were good or not.
We decided our full quit for their temptations.
As Benoite Groult, development many Frenchwomen indifference.
But some melt the ice and makes Fear place for curiosity.
And sometimes makes curiosity place for sympathy.
I thought France great. I lived well.
I saw almost no violence and it did not feel like I was in danger.
I had good contact with the people and if it is not talked about it ...
generally we were accepted Germans.
Makes the favorable exchange rate the simplest soldier rich.
The good life can begin.
They are so happy, "like God in France.
An old German proverb the title of a book from 1920:
Is God a Frenchman?
Living like God in France.
I've always said France is unbeatable.
It is practical, geographically and culturally ...
the richest country in the world. In terms of quality of life.
It is the land of the living. In all feminine ways, you could say.
The table, the scenery, good wine.
For the German soldiers appeared the summer of 1940 one long holiday.
They fantasize mainly about Frenchwomen.
Especially the cute Parisiennes.
"They are the absolute top. The best product of the West ...
writes soldier Hartlaub enthusiastically to his family.
The soldiers play tourist in Pigalle.
An infantryman with the 30th Division says wonderingly:
"We see things we do not us had imagined.
Not yet in our wildest dreams"
For some, lasted fantasies the whole night.
This SS put in the flush of victory ...
with this film even their image as an elite of the Third Reich is at stake.
The leadership accepts this behavior off and fears for the excesses of the troops.
Brothels be annexed and get German business hours.
Soldiers get a list with licensed brothels.
They create personal memories and film their relations with prostitutes.
They can also French movies See, like this ...
by a German soldier in 1940 taken as a souvenir ...
his campaign in France.
To avoid contamination ...
be soldiers by the Wehrmacht medical examination.
Like here in 1 12 the most famous brothel in Paris.
The lady said:"Brothels were during the German occupation cleaner than ever.
One day were all girls undressing, but the doctor ...
examined only their earlobes. That would be more in Jewish women.
Their husbands were not allowed sex with Israeli women"
ln 1940 they change from racial hatred a Jewish ritual bathhouse in Brest ...
in a brothel.
The Germans wanted their soldiers offer sexual services.
ln Germany are no brothels, but in France it.
Approximately 2000, It there were fewer, but during the occupation ...
came in brothels.
They also wanted to offer women which they could have safe sex.
Because hygiene is important for Germans and because sexual acts ...
with wanted to control prostitutes, they made their own condoms.
Sex diseases had to occur, because they could not fight.
There are even cards for prostitutes, bearing the name of the girl ...
her room number and a list of soldiers with whom she had sex.
This allows the transmission of diseases be traced.
The German army wants to ascertain in which brothel which girl ...
the venereal disease in a soldier transferred and thus detect the source.
Sick girls sex with a German soldier ...
can by the German military court to be punished.
This explains prostitute from Tours condoms will use ...
at German soldiers.
IF I AM A SOLDIER INFECTED WITH A VENEREAL DISEASE ...
I MAKE ME GUILTY TO ABUSE ...
AND SABOTAGE THE GERMAN ARMY.
The Vichy government, the voice of the moral order ...
officially recognizes these brothels and creates a kind of sexual his conversion control.
Like the Germans wil't government excesses channeling and inspections.
Petain start a revolution to France to rescue the decadence.
His priority is youth. They have to invincible radiate power ...
and again the pride of the nation.
There are youth camps.
There, the new moral order taught:
Work, family and country.
The motto of the Vichy government.
The outdoors and training to cleanse the body and mind ...
After the shameful defeat.
Despite leading Petain an unconventional exist.
He is married to a divorcee and enjoys his young secretaries.
But the new moral order testifies a society full of misogyny.
Women have no rights.
Their man needs to sign if they want a checkbook.
They are subordinate. As a citizen, legal and sexual.
At the age of 25 you were St. Catherine. A spinster.
Everyone said, "Go get married" That was your duty.
Customers asked my mother ... She made capes for nurses.
Her fashion house still existed, but that was reduced to nothing.
When she was asked to me, she said that I studied in the interim.
She referred me to do anything else had until I found the one.
As a working woman married, she lost her job.
The marriage was seen as a full-time job.
It is unbelievable and laughable, but that code influenced us.
Me in any case.
Vichy want women back at home and glorified motherhood.
A twin delivered 2 kilos of sugared almonds on ...
at a time when sugar was not given.
Babies were needed in order to recover the country.
And abortion was a crime against the state.
The last woman who got the guillotine France was a aborteuse.
A washerwoman who occasionally helped women.
Abortions were illegal, but we did it anyway. It happened very often.
I had friends, I actually, which is 4, 5, 10 had had abortions.
Rich, poor, from all walks of life. What were they different?
The first time I had a doctor from Faubourg Saint-Germain.
He said no sound. Do not scream, here are even more patients.
"I'll do it. You're half months pregnant, it is ready in 20 minutes.
Drink a glass of cognac against the pain"
So I kept silent, because I wanted it.
Vichy propagates:Childless women do not belong in the community.
They are useless.
The state produces future mothers in this kind of girl schools.
Here they learn to be the ideal woman. Vichy model.
Through a regular life be these girls are the women of tomorrow.
Honest, educated, prepared and strong.
They will love their work, once they realize the value.
At that time, said boys hesitate: An intelligent girl? Please no.
That was normal. That misogyny was horrendous.
I had to rumbales, to learn to move smoothly.
I found it humiliating. I thought about becoming a nun.
Then I had rest and did my gait not matter.
Naive propaganda reigns supreme. Prudery elevated to virtue ...
and the short is forbidden on the Cote d'Azur.
But Vichy may be squeamish, the French are not.
The following joke going around: A policeman to fine a girl.
"Did not you think shorts are forbidden?" She replied: You want me to blot him?
Despite shortages and rations, women want to stay feminine.
Because the Germans seize, not to get his wool, leather and silk.
Frenchwomen invented all kinds of tricks to keep from looking good.
The latest Parisian invention is the silk stocking without side.
Ladies, just let your legs colors.
It is simple and practical.
Their bare legs reveal a new sensuality that men did look back.
Coquettish stay was crucial, remembers former starlet Yvette Lebon themselves.
I was always flirty.
Maybe we needed ... It was not revenge.
Need ... How shall I say.
Need to you fussing and appearances to stop. I do not know.
Fashionably dressed you can get the occupier with his head face.
I remember Madame Passeur in the subway.
She wore a hat of a material with a newspaper print.
As if she wore a huge cauliflower. German soldiers laughed at her.
She pointed to her and stared. She always had her word ready ...
and said:Idiots. Here they sweep not least their ass off it.
Women are becoming clear.
Some wear the pants of their husband who is imprisoned in Germany.
From now on they must fend for themselves.
The war in the east escalating the pillage of France.
Goering warns:
"Tell the French factories that do not deliver ...
they will have nothing to digest. I give them or to eat Cossack saddles.
The Russians still have it their belly full of"
Some women, such as Gisèle Guillemot, go to the opposition.
I should note choices:either I was one frivolous woman, who worked for the Germans ...
because where else could you work? What kind of work you did ...
eventually worked your right for the Germans.
I could do so, if I could do my own thing and go at 't resistance.
Then I did something that made one difference.
I opted for the resistance.
On the way to Paris we stopped here. There was a beautiful cherry tree ...
some distance from the road and we decided to eat some cherries.
When we got back to the car, there were along tires leak cut.
We had to stick with tires before we could continue.
The Germans no longer live like God in France.
There will be more attacks occurred.
They are afraid of falling prey a female resistance fighter.
The resistance of women to be trained to seduce German officers ...
to spy as a classical way and get information.
The supreme command of the Wehrmacht found in Paris ...
that in the first ten resistance attacks soldiers and officers were involved ..
all relationships which had a Frenchwoman.
ln such a relationship you form habits. You speak always off in the same cafes.
They met their girls usually in the same places.
Do not Mata Hari?
It was a different time, but the same method.
There were girls with Germans slept in order to extract information.
Of course.
And that was good.
I think so at times disasters occur.
It was the best a relationship to nodes with high officier.
If you're an important army officer talking could get ...
It was not my job, but there were women who did.
The charm offensive is over.
The relationship between occupier and citizen deteriorates and women pay the price.
The soldiers need to the east, have nothing to lose.
Some people photograph their crimes with a disgusting complacency.
ln Malan, the 27-year-old teacher Denise Barbier raped and strangled ...
in her school by a soldier of the 8th Armored Division.
It's April 1, 1941,
The population is scared and hungry. An individual can pay someone ...
to him or her for hours in line stand in front of an almost empty shop.
During the occupation was our life.
We were at least one or two hours per day in a row.
I had a folding chair in my bag.
If there was at the window 'today We take notes in, "I sat down.
I always had a book with me and waited for 40 grams of cheese.
I chose boyfriends reasons that now seem completely inappropriate.
He was a farmer's son.
We both studied Latin and his father was a farmer in Poitou.
I thought:I'm going with him on vacation visiting farms and eat butter.
A lack of butter and eggs is hard to imagine.
Later I got married with a man who has had TB.
I gave him every week an egg. That was worth gold.
Of course, we suffered less hungry then the prisoners ...
but it gnawed at us every day. We ate horrible things.
So we opted for raisins, because even though we had ... haymaking
at least there was meat and bacon on our plates.
After it, three years we dreamed thereof. It became a kind of obsession.
Vichy contradicts itself. The occupation is costing us a fortune.
Vichy has no money Social services ...
which the state needs in order to protect the women.
Especially women of prisoner of war, who get a miserable allowance.
The equivalent of about 300 euros per month.
Many women end up on the streets.
For those who just can not make it ...
is the clandestine prostitution a tempting source of revenue.
If you do not rest to survive than you body, then that you commodity.
When prostitution is your body swap
And this swap never runs out. You can use it again and again.
The wife of a prisoner which goes into prostitution ...
deserves as much in an hour as her daily benefit of the French State.
They were often poor girls. Rarely girls from a good family.
Girls without money who thought that way to find someone ...
she gave money to something to buy on the black market.
Every month something. Not much.
Some women get married a relationship with another man.
Sometimes with a Frenchman, sometimes even with a German soldier.
This was dramatically for a number of prisoner of war ...
who received letters in the camp which was clicked on these affairs.
It then stood which his wife was living with ...
or was pregnant by a German.
Even German women suspected of having a relationship ...
with a French prisoner of war. Especially with farm workers.
These women are alone. Germany is for three years without men.
Those couples risking much. Prisoners may be slain.
German women are shaved, put in prison, or worse ...
deported to Ravensbrück because they had spotted the German race.
This forbidden love leading to thousands of children.
Most prisoners live with many together.
Every day is the same.
They only find intimacy in letters. Long awaited and sometimes feared.
Four Years longevity married prisoners in agony.
Such 800,000 married prisoners have forced ...
should leave their wives at home. Which live lonely and abandoned in France.
Their obsession is: they will remain faithful to me?
Writer Francis Ambrière recalls:
I saw men going bust because they read between the lines ...
which ended their relationship or their families that fell apart.
But usually the letter was about the immeasurable grief of distance.
A woman writes her husband imprisoned in Stalag 9C:
I feel at night not longer your soft hair ...
which caressed when you went to sleep retainer head on my chest.
Your body was so hot and today I'm so cold.
Against boredom improvising the men's performances.
They even dress up as a woman to their comrades ...
to give a surrogate female.
And to keep morale high, French artists visit them.
Danielle Darrieux, Albert Préjean, Junie Astor, Viviane Romance ...
and Suzy Delair come along During a promotional tour through Germany.
Goebbels used the artists to seek a rapprochement with France.
He spoils the superstars and invites them off at the Propaganda Staffel ...
at 52 Avenue des Champs-Elysées.
Later Viviane Romance warrants her journey as follows:
"We helped Danielle Darrieux, her friend Porfirio Rubirosa wanted to see.
He was imprisoned in Germany"
Six months later Porfirio released and marries Danielle in Vichy.
Only after the war they start filming again. Yvette Lebon adapts ...
and just keeps filming.
I worked three times with Sacha Guitry, among other things to Désirée Clay.
I did La Romance de Paris by Charles Trenet.
So you see ...
the whole occupation was occupied the theater and the cinema.
The apolitical Yvette Lebon The mistress is ...
the boss of the collaborationist press, Jean Luchaire.
He makes her the Venus _ES Nouveax Temps. From the article:
1 meter 62 tall, hips 80 centimeters, waist 63 centimeters.
Stars were fascinating than ever.
The French went in 't dark theater in search of dreams and warmth.
It is a golden time for the French cinema. The stars live in luxury.
Yvette Lebon on the racetrack with Préjean and actress Corine Luchaire.
I do not want to be mean, but all actors and actresses who played, went off.
There was a certain carelessness.
I do not know whether we realized how bad it was.
We were quite privileged.
In terms of foods, and the like.
Trenet did bring food the black market.
He always had ham and chicken at home.
There were cakes and all types of cheese.
He always invited his club out. His admirers.
Once you were famous, you got everything you wanted.
I remember that For most people had nothing.
I knew of a small grocery on the Avenue de la Grande Armée.
In a room behind the shop, you could buy eggs and some vegetables.
They even had croissants.
There were more treats. Sacha Guitry falls for the charming star ...
and may refuse her anything.
I slept in an apartment the Elisee Reclus 15,
When morning I woke up, I called.
I called Sacha and said: Sacha, I'm awake.
Then he asked where I was hungry in and left his servants ...
cross Avenue Elisee Reclus to bring up my breakfast.
These meals are 't epitome of luxury, France temijl voice of hunger.
After a dinner at the Tour d'Argent writes German officier Ernst Jünger:
"In these times indicates eating a solid meal a sense of power"
Benefit restaurants Special deliveries ...
and the clientele is growing rapidly.
Yes. Maxime was jam-packed. Now I am ashamed before me.
We did not realize how privileged we were. We had champagne.
Lacked us nothing.
The Germans have an interest in Paris's reputation as a party city.
The City of Light is the ultimate reward After the horrors of the Eastern Front.
Officers have the whole night life at their disposal.
Revues and night clubs attendees.
Here the German officiers can dealing with the Parisian high society.
Some stars, like Arletty, let themselves even see the arm of the occupier.
Arletty lives as a modern woman. She likes men and women.
During this period of occupation she goes to a German officier ...
Hans Jürgen Soehring.
He is a moderate Nazi, and he acts is very German and very Prussian.
She is captivated by its charms and falls in love with him ...
and the mistake a couple of nights seen to be with him.
Film actress Arletty as the example the sober folk girl.
She is the brutal Parisian maid and state for insolence and freedom.
The public can not accept that they tarnishing its image on the screen ...
by outraging the occupier.
She did arrogant to her audience.
When she was booed she said: People understand nothing of collaboration.
What people thought made her nothing. José Laval took her to his car.
She let herself sink into her chair to avoid the crowd.
It was a very sad experience for her.
Some stars may have slept with the occupier to make faster career.
ln hoping to be seen. Arletty not.
Alfred Greven, head of Continental Movies, doing her a generous offer.
They may select the script, but refuses.
She wants to stay in charge about her work as an actress.
She was not out of self-interest. Regarding Soehring, she follows her heart.
This is not the only case of "sentimental collaboration".
Is the biggest scandal caused by film star Mireille Balin.
Mireille Balin is rollen door in movies als Maw Love oq Pepe le Moko ...
with Jean Gabin, become a femme fatale.
She plays the seductive woman Jean Gabin collapses in ruin.
A slut, so to speak.
She gets something with one Austrian officier and behaves not very tasteful.
Especially not for that time.
She appears in extreme luxury clothing ...
and spends capitals restaurants and nightclubs.
The image of the actress flirting with a German officier ...
combined with that of the slut in her film roles ...
form a new image of a corrupt individual.
Ginette Leclerc is not sleeping with Germans but will of Alfred Greven ...
a license for a nightclub, run by her French lover ...
Rue de Ponthieu.
This kind of unusual favors suggests that she collaborates.
The problem is that its case soon becomes a meeting place ...
Members of the Gestapo and black marketeers.
The nightlife is nothing short. Especially chic brothels do not ...
such as the Sphinx and Le Chabanet.
They are under protection the black marketeers of the Wehrmacht.
As Joseph Joanovici, former ragman and now a millionaire.
With the approval of the Gestapo ...
is "Monsieur Joseph ' also the supplier of the first 12,
Enjoyed the owners preferential treatment.
They got points for textile sheets, coal for heat ...
and gasoline for transport.
Champagne, cigarettes and fine wine were plentiful.
According went madam of 12 1 one evening through 100 bottles.
This luxury brothels were the centers be extreme excesses.
The madam of the first 12 writes: The nights were fantastic.
No one knew which would bring the next day.
They wanted to whatever it takes to entertain.
Many French people partied to forget they lived in occupied territory.
The reality is the occupation, the fear ...
and soon the intense pressure German troops.
The attacks of the resistance to German officers harden the repression.
Along with the anti-Semitism creates a climate of fear ...
everyone naturally wants to escape.
If the whole area full of threat, danger, death and fear ...
instinct takes over. Especially the survival instinct ...
that you initiate life and take advantage of the moment.
You're going to find a flight the hard reality ...
which surrounds you and impinge them.
Sartre wrote the special words:
We were never so free and during the German occupation.
Especially the young miss like the last metro ...
every night to spend with friends.
The curfew is a foolproof excuse in front of the parents.
These are difficult times and authority is not obvious.
I was adrift. A little. I was 22:00, 23:00, We were free.
My parents were not there. Curfew 20:30 or 22:30 does not bother us.
My parents lived in agony.
Of course they were panicking as I at 23:45 was not yet home.
It was clearly an expression of recklessness which belonged to the youth.
I was 16 and got a kind of freedom I had never known before.
I had a lot of freedom and spent time with my friends.
At that time I made me loose of family life.
It was not always easy, but fun.
It was different. A new life.
The Zazous are very emancipated, with their love of swing ...
and their unconcern. This frustration of collaborator Jacques Doriot.
On your 20th live in the grandest period in human history ...
and your physical and mental misconduct as a Zazou.
What a degradation. What a shame.
For some led protest to resistance.
On her 19th is Gisèle Guillemot enlisted in the resistance of Calvados.
She writes: No one knows my secret work.
My mother thinks I sit behind the boys.
I bike a lot. They must think I've loved in every corner.
I was enjoying myself immensely.
From an early age I had problems with my mother.
If I could make things difficult for her, I would not let it.
I knew she would not be happy with my role in the resistance.
Maybe I'm exaggerating, but it was important for me ...
to go against my mother.
I could think of no better way proposals.
Parental authority was dented because many families were separated.
The father is gone and the mother must sole parent families best glands.
Youth use this to claim independence ...
as a consequence of the war and the occupation.
They had a freedom which would not have arisen in peacetime.
This freedom did foreign relations in hand, noted Pierre Barillet.
We were at a famous interior designer on the Rue de Rivoli.
The guests had stayed up late because of the curfew.
They were musicians, composers and literate men.
It was an artistic, intellectual evening with old friends.
The doorbell rang and a young man came in.
He was well dressed, apparently from the upper middle class.
He was accompanied by a charming, young German soldier.
They knew the householder obviously very good.
Who knew why she had rung.
They walked through the room, waved and smiled.
They did not sit, but disappeared immediately.
They walked alone across the room.
When they came there were some glances exchanged.
We saw them an hour later appear, then departed.
I do not know whether the young man one could pass, because he left with the German soldier.
The interior designer had apparently his hospitality offered ..
these young people to have sex at his house.
France was considered as a paradise for homosexuals.
It was considered legally tolerated, but not seen socially.
They were torn. Homosexuals were not accepted ...
except in literary circles and high middle class.
And the law saw homosexuality adults between the fingers.
The Nazis had a battalion of shock troops ...
led by Captain Röhm, who had homosexual relationships.
At that time, part of the left, especially the Soviet Union ...
and / an that there is a connection between fascism and homosexuality.
This idea develops in the period just before the war in some environments
If the Germans come, is in France generally believed ...
they tolerate homosexuality. Nothing is less true.
ln the confusion is author Maurice Sachs, and homosexual jew .
not afraid of anti-Semitism.
He even says:For me it's different. I'm a pederast.
The reality is that the Nazis homosexuality is perverse.
During the filming of Mermoz Robert Hugues-Lambert arrested.
Probably because of his relationship with a Wehrmacht officier.
He was deported and voice on March 7, 1945 in Gross-Rosen camp.
A few weeks before the end the recordings he was arrested.
Henri Vidal was hired as stand-in. Lambert was stuck in Drancy.
We have arranged it so a film crew ...
a soundman, through the barbed wire and the fence ...
recordings could make dialogues which Lambert had to do.
Then he was deported and died in a camp.
Unbelievable that we have the film finished with a prisoner.
Despite everything there is in France not hunted homosexuals.
Some intellectual collaborators, as minister of Ondemijs Bonnard ...
Prices openly 'the new guy of the Third Reich. "
He is in love with the uniform and the militia.
The guys from the militia perfect bodies. That way he talks.
He gives himself as a teenage girl on to young men in uniform.
Whether they be French or German.
The revolt begins homosexuality to associate with collaboration.
Chansonniers which support resistance call him La Belle Bonnard.
He embodies the lack to so-called manhood ...
French statesmen collaborators with Germany.
Collaboration requires a submissive character.
According to the opposition is Abel Bonnard the prototype of an intellectual ...
whose sexual orientation causes for his submission.
His homosexuality is blamed, but his ideologies are the cause.
Summer 1943, Young recruits of the Organisation Todt ...
came the build Atlantic, who had to stop the Allies.
Hundreds of thousands of Germans be stationed in France.
This creates a paradoxical situation.
There was an imbalance between the male and female population.
Between '40 and '44 there were 5 mature women in every 3 men.
The men were trapped, worked voluntarily or were employed.
The women were considerably in the majority.
There were more women than men. So the sex and marriage markets ...
is supply and demand are not in balance.
There were not enough men to satisfy women.
Our personal development was at a low ebb.
And it took endless.
As if we were wearing blinders, house arrest or had been imprisoned.
Not everyone can escape the Germans.
They are the principal employer in France.
The army and the OT recruited tens of thousands of women.
The German army was their employer. That led to "sentimental collaboration".
Because they worked for Germans and they saw each other every day.
ln the province's women saw Germans every day.
After a while they looked to each other, said something to each other and hop ...
There was nothing. There were few French men and they wanted companionship.
What the Germans feared most relationships were ...
other than those which were originated by corruption or prostitution.
Relations between German soldiers and French women.
Those relationships they could not hold in hand.
And it was losing face. Montherlant saw that too.
"We admired the Germans as tough victors in June 1940.
They are much less admirable if she flirting in the park with Frenchwomen.
The appearance of the victors disappeared"
The balance of power can turn into a romantic relationship.
That's interesting.
Especially for young women their new power find exhilarating.
A kind of emancipation.
Many adolescent girls go the advances of German soldiers.
ln many villages in the province his scandals because German soldiers ...
going out with girls of 14, 15, or at most 16 years old.
One of those girls is Francine. She sees her love on the way to school.
His name is Willy Huntzig and he is 43 years old.
His battalion has subordinate tasks ...
such as repairing and washing of vehicles.
I was not yet sixteen. I went to high school ...
and came every day morning and evening along the garage.
Every evening he was in the garage and said, "Hello. Want some coffee?"
"No, my parents expect me." One Sunday I went to the beach..
He was also there with some girls and young Frenchmen.
Everyone swam, but I sat on the stairs who walked to the water.
When he heard that I could not swim, He said he would teach me.
There were three Sundays past and that summer I would learn how to swim.
But I am now 84 and I still can not swim.
He was immediately kind. He walked with me along the water.
Many people walked along the canal if the weather was nice.
ln the winter I drank tea at his home and we talked about everything.
When he came home with me, we drank coffee.
We walked through the garden and talked. It was nice to be together.
My father thought it was good when he came.
I never thought I would become involved in such a thing.
One day I was at home almost fainted.
Francine is pregnant.
With help from her parents she is going to give birth to Paris.
It is not the only hiding her pregnancy.
There 200,000 children will be born be in Franco-German relations.
By legalizing anonymous births Vichy helps women unintentionally.
Birth rate is more important than the moral order.
Three of us were very young.
Many women were alone.
Older, unmarried women, but also young.
There were also women whose husband was imprisoned.
Those women had to give up their babies.
Francine refused to give up her child.
Unfortunately for others' n sleeves child so the origin has to remain secret.
For months no one saw the child.
Our house stood in the length of the door where the customers entered ...
and the shop was obliquely across the garden.
The garage was converted and we sold milk, butter and cheese.
The back door was closed.
Nobody could see what was in the kitchen or was in the garden.
One day there were three customers. One of them asked who was the child.
My mother said from me. "So. And at your age? "
My mother said nothing and nobody has ever asked for.
Silence is full of reproach.
The Nazis and the militia terrorize the citizens.
The Allied bombs fall and the atmosphere is stifling.
A Frenchwoman who is in love with a German within this time a traitor.
Romantic love was denied.
They did not believe that Nazis ...
Not all German soldiers were Nazis, but they were German.
French women could not yet fall in love with these monsters?
They were just men. Not all was bad or a Nazi.
Even though Germany had at a given Currently chose Hitler.
They denied the oldest motivation in the history, and in the literature.
The power of Romeo and Juliet.
Can love exist despite limits and warring clans and families?
Could not. Love between one Frenchwoman and a German was not possible.
A girl who slept with a German was greedy, corrupt or selfish.
Some women committed suicide when the Germans left.
These women were not selfish or greedy.
They were not to appoint an ambassador or something.
They were real love stories. Well, it was regrettable.
But I have never them can blame them.
It is so easy for someone to pillory.
This proves that these arose loves apart from politics.
leather reasonable man would come to that conclusion.
What does a child for future a German and a Frenchwoman in '44?
Not a single one. -When The Germans left ...
Willy wrote me a letter: We have to go.
I do not know where I end. I write to you as soon as I can.
At the end of the letter he writes:
"I could kiss you but eternal, my little hellion "
But stopping the letters in one day. Forever.
The memory remains. I still can not think ...
I can not think without crying.
He was my first love.
The war drew all these German-French set apart.
For many women love and grief go hand in hand.
Gisèle Guillemot also loses first love. A fellow resistance fighter.
I had a childhood love.
When we moved the factory to house ...
I saw a boy playing on the street. He wore huge glasses.
I saw it out the window and knew he was the love of my life.
I went downstairs to the garden and we greeted each other.
He said:"We are friends" And we were.
He was my first love.
Unfortunately, he was seriously injured at a meet ...
during a rendezvous with the Resistance.
He was betrayed and hunted him.
He was not caught, but he was tough wounded and died of his injuries.
That was my first great sorrow.
She writes:We made love in the most unlikely places.
"But we promised each other better times.
The world collapses. My friend, Marcel. My confidant.
My first love. I can not even pay your funeral"
Benoite Groult losing their first husband the devastating TB.
He wanted in Spain join Leclerc.
Two days before he left he spat blood.
A symptom of advanced TB. His father would not let him.
He had to go to the sanatorium. Later He came back to marry me.
He went backwards. There was nothing to eat, even in the sanatorium.
I sent him powdered milk. My girlfriend had a baby. And one egg per week.
I thought that was a magnificent gift. We ate badly.
There was no heating. Also in the sanatorium not.
He received surgery, but they failed and that was that.
He died on his 24th.
The Americans brought with penicillin.
France was not released yet, but my father went to them.
He was a doctor and she asked to penicillin for his dying son.
He brought the penicillin to the sanatorium, but it was too late.
It did not matter anymore.
Summer 1944, The Germans lose the war.
The future lies with the Allies that bring freedom.
The French feel the euphoria of liberation.
But the craziness also gave room for revenge.
Anyone who had benefited from the occupation had to be punished.
Those who ate well when France went hungry.
Those who made love when the moisture resistance.
They had that warmth when France suffered cold.
They smoked cigarettes and wore silk stockings ...
when the average Frenchman who had to do without.
The French those hardships had known ...
retaliated during the liberation.
ln fact, the national identity based on suffering.
French have meant that you had suffered and had not benefited from the war.
Those who had not suffered, were immediately suspicious.
From prostitutes to scalpers and they enjoyed the privileges.
Mannequins, film actors and actresses and the Parisian high society ...
living as if nothing had happened.
Yvette Lebon, which its affiliates had alternated escaped.
Unlike her exes Sacha Guitry and Jean Luchaire.
Luchaire will be executed on February 22, 1946,
Arletty trapped.
She will not be at the premiere her film Les Enfants du Paradis.
Provocative as always, she says: "My heart is French ...
but my body is international."
Mireille Balin is in September '44 arrested and raped by the FFL.
They voice poor and forgotten by everyone.
They symbolize a France it swerve.
A France which capitulated the poisonous charms ...
and the perverse temptations of the occupier.
Those who slept with the enemy, should pay.
Their crime called "horizontal collaboration".
The "soft beheadings" ritually executed ...
and organized by the resistance of the Eleventh Hour.
More than 20,000 women will be shaved.
It reacts on these women off and make them a scapegoat ...
For all the bad behavior during the war.
They call themselves, their misconduct, their cowardice and hesitations free ...
by revenge against women by their sexual behavior ...
sleeping with Germans wrong side of the selected history.
Bald Shaving happened especially in villages where "horizontal collaboration" struck ...
and the girls openly Germans dealt with.
Many less fortunate then Francine. They escaped ...
because her mother said the baby was hers.
Five or six girls in my street shaved were ...
on the sidewalk outside the Co-op. Opposite the house of my parents.
I was watching and thinking: so right away it's my turn.
But they left me alone.
When a village is freed by the Maquis ...
is their first official act the shaving of women.
They affirm the right of the nation and strangely enough of the men ...
the sexuality of women.
They claim the bodies of the women for the state and the men.
They can not do what they want. A posthumous victory for Vichy.
Vichy was obsessed with deviant sexual behavior and the stain on the nation.
So what do the men the liberation? They want clean.
They perform ritual ablutions out and throw shaven women ...
in the fountain and spray them clean ...
because they think their bodies defiled.
As the nation is tarnished by the occupier.
Bald Shaving was only one of the penalties.
2000 sweethearts Germans be executed.
Other offenses were collaborating, wearing a uniform ...
are seen by German soldiers and betraying its own citizens.
For the women on the right side history ...
this is the beginning a love affair with their rescuers.
When the Americans came, everything changed drastically.
We were immediately forgotten war. They were handsome, well-fed and clean.
They found the Parisiennes beautiful.
For them, all the women of Paris, even I, temptresses.
The Americans remained at the most 15 days.
There was no danger of complicated affaires. We had sex only.
Since then was not discussed.
My sister and I spoke English. My mother worked ...
and we were brought up by an English nanny.
We seated ourselves, as many girls good families, as hostess.
We showed the Americans the Louvre, see the Eiffel Tower and so on.
We could dancing one night a week.
We discovered whiskey, cigarettes and jazz.
It was suddenly one big party.
I had an amazing time and met interesting men.
One of them knew nothing of culture but he was great.
Very handsome. A sort of Gary Cooper.
Frenchman I did not dare look, but when Americans could.
We had a love affair.
I dressed pretty good, because I had my mother's dresses.
She became suspicious, because I often took whiskey to take home.
She asked me how I was coming. She suspected something solid ...
but it was fine, so she said nothing.
He asked me to marry him.
The idea of ​​moving to America a man who did not know Voltaire ...
neither Louis XIV and knew nothing about France.
I said:I can not marry retainer. I can love you, but do not marry.
We said goodbye with many tears.
I took lessons in sex.
Not in eroticism. Erotic they were not.
Our meetings were quite straightforward.
I went to Hotel Crillon, which was danced on the ground floor.
As an American you like, you went at 20.00 to the first floor.
They played Chapel in the Moonlight. Romantic music.
I let it go completely.
Three, four months I experienced a youth I had never known.
I thought:now I know what to French men must. I'll be fine.
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