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The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.

— Edward Grey, July 1914
The Mona Lisa during World War II She was packed up and moved out of the Louvre before the Germans arrived and was subsequently moved five times to avoid being looted.
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.
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. 
The Louvre Museum. The Grande Galerie was abandoned during World War II. In 1937-38, the museum removed and hid most of the art works, including the Mona Lisa. They were returned in early 1945.
France, 1918   American troops advancing through a forest shattered by artillery fire during World War I.
Soldiers standing guard outside of the Hôtel Meurice, one of many German HQ’s in Paris.
German soldiers sit outside a Paris cafe on the Champs Elysees on Bastille Day in 1940
A Frenchman cries as the Nazis occupy Paris in May 1940. 
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.