1. The Washington Post: "A History of Paris during Nazi occupation"
This website is credible because (1) it has an author (Jonathan Yardley) and a way to contact him, (2) recently updated as of 2014, (3) it has more than three active hyperlinks among the website.
2. The Guardian: "Life in occupied France during the second world war"
The website is credible (1) it has an author (Michael Lafon) and a way to contact, (2) recently updated as of 2015, (3) it contains more than three active hyperlinks among the website.
3. OUPblog (Oxford University's Press Academic Insights for the Thinking World): "Life in occupied Paris during World War II"
It is a credible website because (1) it contains an author (David Ball) and a way of contact, (2) article was written in 2014 and website updated as of 2015, (3) the website contains more than three active hyperlinks.
My Findings!
#1
The credible website focuses more on the city of Paris and it's conditions of the Nazi Party. In the article, Yardley explains how "the Nazi occupation in Paris was something entirely more complex and ambiguous than has generally understood" (The Washington Post 1). France in history had a quiet status on conditions during German occupation, though one would think how these Germans really treated France, especially the knows of the Holocaust. One can least expect that France was in deep strive for relief, because of the country being known as one of the powerful countries of that time. One action was that "Germans for the most part spared Parisians sticks and stones (except, of course, Parisians who were Jewish), but the 'names' they inflicted in the form of truncated freedoms greatly reduced food and supplies" (The Washington Post). German limitation on necessities was common in France, as would for all other German occupied countries. Although France was not a major spotlight in history for the cruel control of Germany, the laws declared amongst the citizens were familiarly unacceptable. The conclusion of the article ends on how, "'The myth of universal resistance was important to France's idea of itself as a beacon for human liberty and as an example of the courage one needed in the face of hideous political ideologies" (The Washington Post 1). The faith that France had during Nazi occupation help come to the resistance of them. However, it established how France had suffered the ugly and forced upon laws of Hitler's ideas.
#2
The website, being credible, shows two articles by French reporters during the German occupation on the specific political conflicts and country actions. The writer, from The Observer, writes on September 7, 1941, that the interesting part of the policy of the Pariser Zeitung ("anti-British, anti-communist and antisemitic") is that "the immense care is taken to please the French people and to show that German and French culture are not only essentially harmonious, but are complementary to each other" (The Guardian 1). From this report of a Paris citizen, it contrasts what the French should be really fearing: That they are occupied or that they are complementary to each other. It is of question that form the point of view of this French reporter, that France already help traits of what the Germans had. In another article from the same website, a French soldier remembers, "I was responsible for finding them provisions and getting them their papers. At that time, everything was bough with supply coupons, from paris of socks to household stocks" (The Guardian 1). This French soldier is an example of what life was was like when treated by the Germans, which was to do whatever they say. They were servants that had to obey the German request, common in any German-occupied country. Another experience from the same writer was "A suspicious noise on the staircase and I would think I was about to be arrested, taken to the Gestapo and tortured" (The Guardian 1). This type of emotion and feeling shows the horrific fear that the French citizens would go through everyday of that time. This feeling also sounds familiar with other activity like in Poland and other German-occupation, stating that Germans demanded that they are in control and defense against them is unnecessary.
#3
In the credible website, the article discusses how life was in France during German occupation with the use and analyzation of photographs. The reporter writes how Jean Guéhenno's photograph shows that "He had resolved to remain silent, not to write a word for a publishing industry under Nazi control, not to 'play our jailor's game,' as he later put it, 'to appear as if we were still living and enjoying ourselves as we used to, in the time when we were free'" (OUPblog 1). This analyzation shows how limits were put upon the citizens, to obey, and that any action of resistance was to result in such torture. The act to "remain silent" is significantly used to show how careful the French had to be and how their life that thrived to fight against, was on the line. Further on, David Ball, the writer, reports how "He kept his diary, where he noted details of ordinary Paris life under occupation (some extraordinary ones, such as the first round-up of Jews in Paris), his thoughts on French literature, and above all his anger at the stupidity, cowardice, and vanity of those his fellow countrymen who plated along the Nazis" (OUPblog 1). This is a great example on the record of actions, which a common historic action during World War II proceeds, the round up of Jews. Unsaid of what has happen in France, the written witnessing of rounding up of Jews is a great fact because of the questionable population of Jews at that time. Further on the report of Guéhenno's experience, Ball writes how "Guéhenno was too well known as an anti-fascist intellectual ever to join one of the Resistance networks which soon sprang up in occupied France. It would have meant his arrest and that of his comrades. He was under surveillance, and he knew it" (OUPblog 1). Although there is unknown numbers of how many anti-fascists were among France, it showed how Germans could suspect them. Also, reports on how such knowledge of an anti-fascists greatly poured potential fear of seize towards the Germans.