Love & Sex under Nazi Occupation explores the hidden world of intimacy – both heterosexual and homosexual – during wartime. It reveals how facing death intensifies the desire for passion, pleasure, transgression, and longing – a final embrace of life. An estimated two hundred thousand children were born from French women and German soldiers. Beyond women, occupied Paris was filled with homosexual men, including figures like Genet and Cocteau, who collaborated with the occupiers. The story examines the consequences faced by French women punished after the war for having relationships with German soldiers – a reflection of a nation grappling with complicity during occupation.
