War Tourism: Second World War France from Defeat and Occupation to the Creation of Heritage

by Bertram M. Gordon

As German troops entered Paris following their victory in June 1940, the American journalist William L. Shirer observed that they carried cameras and behaved as "na ve tourists." One of the first things Hitler did after his victory was to tour occupied Paris, where he was famously photographed in front of the Eiffel Tower.

Focusing on tourism by German personnel, military and civil, and French civilians during the war, as well as war-related...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501715879
• ISBN13: 9781501715877
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher