Parisians Draws Fire For Photo Exhibits of Gay Paris

I see London, I see France, I see Nazi’s in your pants. A new exhibit featuring photos of carefree Parisians lazing in cafes, flocking to cinemas and enjoying a day at the races during the Nazi occupation have sparked outrage in Paris.

The 270 unpublished photographs by Andre Zucca, a French photographer who worked for the Nazi propaganda magazine Signal, are billed as the only major collection of colour pictures taken during the four years of the Paris occupation.

The photos that depicts women in polka-dot dresses strolling down Paris boulevards and children playing at the Luxembourg gardens is under fire for failing to mention that thousands of Jews were deported and countless other Parisians endured hardship during the 1940-1944 occupation.

A picture of an elderly woman dressed in a black coat emblazoned with the yellow star and a second one of a man also wearing the badge of shame in Paris’ Jewish quarter offer the only hint of Nazi persecution.

The head of cultural affairs at Paris city hall, Christophe Girard, called at the weekend for the exhibit called “Parisians under the Occupation” at the Paris City History Library to be shut down, saying he was “upset” by the photographs.

“These photographs are very powerful,” said Derens, who shot back at calls for more detailed descriptions of each photograph to give context. “We need to give information on who took it and when, and then let the viewer take in the photograph.”

Give us a break. Photographs can mean 1 million different things. You can’t create a description for each idiot. I wonder what these guys will complain about when they come to America and tour our ‘history’ museums. Why are people so whiny? It’s like crying about every Pulitzer winning photograph.