Roger Guerin

Roger Guérin: Paris Meeting

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
February 7, 2018

Paris in the 1950s was a special place. Unlike most urban areas in Europe, the city had endured little physical damage during World War II. Miraculously, it was spared German and Allied bombings during its capture, occupation and liberation. The toll on its population was a different story. City residents lived in harsh conditions under Nazi control, enduring cruelty, deportations and deaths at the hands of the Gestapo and German occupiers. When Allied forces liberated Paris in August 1944, residents ...
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