On June 14, 1940, German tanks rolled into a silent and deserted Paris.
Eight days later, a humbled France accepted defeat along with foreign
occupation. While the swastika now flew over Paris, the City of Light
was undamaged, and soon a peculiar kind of normalcy returned as
theaters, opera houses, movie theaters, and nightclubs reopened for
business. Shedding light on this critical moment of twentieth-century
European cultural history, And the Show Went On focuses anew on
whether artists and writers have a special duty to show moral leadership
in moments of national trauma.