Rare Color Photos of German-Occupied Paris During World War II, 1940s
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Rare Color Photos of German-Occupied Paris During World War II, 1940s These images were taken in German-occupied Paris by André Zucca for the German propaganda magazine Signal using rare Agfacolor film supplied by the Wehrmacht. The shots depict fashionable young women and commuters mixed with German soldiers on the bustling Paris streets. The famous roads of the French capital are adorned with symbols of the German regime but Parisians appear jubilant. André Zucca was born in 1897 in Paris, the son of an Italian dressmaker. Zucca spent part of his youth in the United States before returning to France in 1915. A crowd surrounds a traveling band as they play music in a Paris street. Following the outbreak of World War I, he joined the French Army where he was wounded and decorated with the Croix de Guerre. After the war, he began a career as a photographer. In 1941, he was contracted by the occupying Germans to work as a photographer and correspondent for the magazine ...