In 2020, an album with 377 photos of Paris under Nazi occupation, taken secretly by an unknown photographer when such images were banned, was discovered at a flea market.
Who was this mysterious photographer? Read Part 1 of Le Monde's four-year investigation.
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https://www.lemonde.fr/en/summer-reads/article/2024/09/09/looking-for-the-unknown-photographer-who-snapped-occupied-paris-and-mocked-the-nazis_6725386_183.html

Looking for the mysterious photographer who snapped occupied Paris and mocked the Nazis
'Photographer Unknown. Paris, 1940-1942' (Part 1/5). In 2020, Le Monde learned about the discovery of an album containing 377 photos of Paris during the Occupation by Nazi Germany. Who braved the occupiers' ban on outdoor photography to take these unapproved pictures? For four years, we investigated.
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