Occupation and Liberation, A Self Guided Audio Tour in Paris

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1. As you walk through the Latin Quarter, Samuél will shed light on the complex and difficult history behind the Nazi occupation and share tales of the city’s resilience as Parisians fought to reclaim their beloved city from German control.

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2. Our walk starts in front of Hôtel Lutetia, a luxury hotel that was a hotspot for young expat artists including James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, and Josephine Baker before it became the home of Nazi counter-intelligence forces.

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3. As you walk and pass by Place Juilette Greco, you'll hear about the key figures in the French Resistance, from Charles de Gaulle, Charles Leclerc and Julia Gréco, to Sylvia Beach and James Reese Europe

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4. You‘ll wind through the Left Bank to Rue de Buci, where a Nazi officer nicknamed Dr Jazz transformed the street into a hotbed of musical activity.

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5. Paris may be the City of Lights but its history is sometimes shrouded in darkness. On this walking tour with novelist and Context Travel Expert, Samuél Lopez-Barrantes, you‘ll embark on a 90-minute journey to explore the brutal collaboration between the French police and the Nazis who occupied Paris.

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6. The tour crosses over Petit Pont from the Left Bank to the Right Bank. As you walk, you'll hear about the occupation and resistance that tour place during WWII.

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7. On this tour, you'll hear about the role of the French police during Paris' occupation as you take in the Prefecture de Police.

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8. This audio tour passes by the Memorial des Martyrs de la Deportation, where you'll learn about the Jews and other groups of people deported from France during WWII.

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9. On this self-guided audio tour, you'll have a chance to visit the Shoah and Deportation memorials that honor the Jewish French victims and the 6 million who tragically perished during the Holocaust

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10. As you make your way to the Right Bank where the tour ends, you‘ll hear about Charles de Gaulle, Sylvia Beach, and various resistance groups. You‘ll learn how the city banded together to take their beloved Paris back from the Germans and why there are almost no plaques commemorating the death of a resistance fighter before the last week of the occupation.

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How it compares in Parijs

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• It is shorter than most of them.

About Parijs

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