And the Show Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris

In the weeks after the Germans captured Paris, theaters, opera houses, and nightclubs reopened to occupiers and French citizens alike, and they remained open for the duration of the war. Alan Riding introduces a pageant of twentieth-century artists who lived and worked under the Nazis and explores the decisions each made about whether to stay or flee, collaborate or resist.



We see Maurice Chevalier and Edith Piaf singing before French and German audiences; Picasso painting and occasionally s...