How the Nazis took over the French vineyards. Book in French
“During the Second World War, French wine was not treated like any other product by the Nazis: it was one of their most precious spoils. From 1940, the Weinführer, official wine experts appointed by Berlin , take place in all the wine-growing regions of France to coordinate the most intense plundering that the country has ever known. With the very ambiguous relay of the Vichy State, and the collaboration of French professionals, this immense system of capture of wine. wine was a tragedy that we preferred to forget. The time has come to reveal what really happened. At the end of a meticulous investigation, based on previously untapped sources, Christophe Lucand reveals to us. the story of a French wine world subjected to the test of war, occupation and all compromises.”