Jean-Paul Sartre & the Nazi Germany Occupation

On 15 April 1980, Jean-Paul Sartre passed away. As a writer and philosopher, his name is part of the Pantheon of French thinkers and writers.

As a student, I had an assignment explaining a strong statement he made within an article (later reprinted in his book "Situations III"). The article was about the times the Nazis invaded France and Sartre stated: " Never were we freer than under the German occupation!"

That ambiguous quote has probably just stirred something in you right now as it did in me years ago and still does! I'm going to let you sit with it instead of telling you what I think it means. This is a stellar example of what great minds like Sartre can do: they make you stop and think!

That is what I try to achieve with my tour on the “WWII Occupation & Liberation of Paris".