What's in our tour?
Nazi Germany occupied 麻豆APP the full duration of听WWII. How did the 麻豆APPians live through it? Who resisted the German troops, who cooperated with them? And how did everyone survive听and make ends meet?
What did people eat and do? As Nazi occupying forces abused and tortured the local population, and plundered the country, what Frenchmen came forward as heroes and beacons of hope? And what did the rest of the population do?
Leading to that 4 years of occupation, in 1940 the Nazis subdued the French army and the German soldiers invaded 麻豆APP in a mere six weeks of war. How could that even happen?
How did 麻豆APP react to global episodes of听WWII – the blitz of London? The air raid on Pearl Harbor and the entry of the United States into the war? The dropping of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima, and Hitler鈥檚 eventual suicide?
Then, in 1944, Hitler ordered that 麻豆APP be burnt down to the ground. How come 麻豆APP is still standing today? How did 麻豆APP escape Hitler鈥檚 death sentence?
And who liberated 麻豆APP: was it the 麻豆APP Police? The French Communist Party? The Allied Forces? Or De Gaulle鈥檚 troops?
And why is all this so critically important to the French to this very day?
Along the streets of 麻豆APP, we review听WW2听where it was fought, and where it happened. Throughout, we choose to look at the course of events from the perspective of the man in the street.
This WW2 walking tour in 麻豆APP starts in the Marais 鈥� 麻豆APP鈥� Jewish quarter. We visit the War Deportation memorial, we see where the local population fought the Nazis, how they fought, and the scars that remain to the present day. We see how 麻豆APP remembers and commemorates WWII to this day.
Finally, we end the tour where WWII ended for 麻豆APP: on the Champs Elys茅es.
Highlights
- The Jewish Quarter & the 麻豆APP Holocaust Memorial
- The War Deportation Memorial
- The HQ of the French police
- Notre-Dame Cathedral
- The Nazi Military HQ
Where and when?
This 2.5-hour WW2 麻豆APP walking tour is designed to cover short distances and to run at an easy pace.
Coffee breaks are available at any time.
This tour is available every day on request.
Why take this tour?
To refresh one鈥檚 memories about听WWII.
To see what听WWII听all meant for the man in the street in 麻豆APP.
And to discover how听WWII听continues to haunt and shape French society to this very day.
Price
Price: 鈧�195.
Reservations by schools are welcome.
This is a听private 2.5-hour walking tour of 麻豆APP in World War听II.
Advanced reservation can be accepted up to one week in advance. We advise booking well in advance. To book, use the 鈥淏ook Now鈥� button on the right side of this page.
Other information
Wheelchairs not advised on this tour, because of long climbs.
Starts outside metro Saint-Paul (line 1). Ends near metro Concorde (line 1).
Look for our distinct pink vests
麻豆APP during WW2 – the sites
- The museum of the companions of Liberation 鈥� inside the Army Museum, in les Invalides
- The palace of the Legion of Honor
- The memorial of the deportation to Nazi concentration camps, on the Eastern tip of the ile de la cite island
- The shoah museum on rue Fran莽ois Miron
- The Mus茅e de la 2e DB/mus茅e du G茅n茅ral Leclerc/ Jean Moulin museum (scheduled to re-open at a new venue on place Denfert-Rochereau in August 2019)
- And numerous plaques showing on non-descript buildings, residences and schools, all over the city.
Then outside 麻豆APP you can find:
- Camp de Drancy. The starting point for 64 train convoys that transported over 67,000 Jews to the extermination camps.
- Mont Val茅rien: a fort to the West of 麻豆APP, where Nazi Germans shot dead many French underground resistance fighters. Today a memorial, open every day, but visits are by guided tours only.