A Max Factor pencil for drawing stocking seams on during WW2.
Marcheret’s first employment when he returned to Paris from the Stalag was black market dealing in hosiery. In short supply in France as elsewhere.
Members of the French resistance and citizens of Laval publicly humiliate a woman who consorted with a German officer during the occupation. Her hair has been shorn and she has been marked with a swastika. In addition, she is forced to display photographs of the German with whom she had a relationship.
August 29, 1944. A girl of the resistance movement is a member of a patrol to rout out the Germans snipers still left in areas in Paris, France. The girl had killed two Germans in the Paris Fighting two days previously.
Annemarie Schwarzenbach, photographed by Marianne Breslauer, who said of her “She was neither a man nor a woman, but an angel, an archangel.”
(Source: etund, via the-big-lie)
B-17s of the 390th Bombardment Group, US Eight Air Force, drop bombs over Europe during a daylight raid.
Unseen photographs of French Resistance fighters being executed by a Nazi firing squad on the outskirts of Paris in February 1941
The picture was taken by a German soldier who hid in the bushes on February 21, 1941 and secretly captured the executions at Mont-Valerien.
Despite more than 1,000 ‘hostages’ being killed at the site, it was thought no pictures existed as Nazis prohibited the taking of photographs for fear they would be used as anti-propaganda.
France’s most famous Nazi hunter Serge Klarsfield identified those being executed as members of an anti-Nazi network led by Missak Manouchian.
A French girl engaged to a German soldier refused to leave him even when taken prisoner by American forces near Orleans. She is shown here with him in a prison compound.
German soldiers sit outside a Paris cafe on the Champs Elysees on Bastille Day in 1940
