German institute

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The German Institute was established in occupied Paris between 1940 and 1944 .

The Hôtel de Monaco in Paris (now and in the past the Polish Embassy)

history

In 1940, under Karl Epting's leadership, the German Institute took over the former building of the Polish embassy, ​​the Hôtel de Sagan (now the Hôtel de Monaco) at 57, rue Saint-Dominique in the 7th arrondissement of Paris , the owners of which had fled to England. It was "de facto the cultural policy department of the German Embassy in Paris , de jure a branch of the German Academy in Munich ".

The German embassy considered the institute to be “the most important cultural and political propaganda instrument that we have in France”.

literature

  • Eckard Michels : The German Institute in Paris 1940–1944. A contribution to the Franco-German cultural relations and the foreign cultural policy of the Third Reich, Stuttgart 1993.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Frank-Rutger Hausmann quoted from Barbare Berzel: French literature under the sign of collaboration and fascism. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2012, p. 103.
  2. Eckard Michels, The German Institute in Paris 1940-1944: a contribution to Franco-German cultural relations and to the foreign cultural policy of the Third Reich , Franz Steiner Verlag 1993, p. 5