A few weeks after the liberation of Paris, Allied troops surrounded 20,000 Germans. We went down to photograph the proceedings. Unfortunately, the Germans refused to surrender. But when we said we were leaving, they said, “Well, wouldn’t you care to be our guests?” So we were guests of the German Army for about a week. They cleaned up the chateau they gave us, and they brought in food—chickens and so forth—which they cooked for us. I told them that Jewish Law requires a certain way of killing the chicken. I wanted the Germans to know I was Jewish.
©Phil Drell