Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A watan Satumbar 1939 gwamnatin Faransa ta mayar da martani ga mamayewar Jamus ta Poland ta hanyar bayyana yaƙi da Jamus. Makonni biyu bayan haka sojojin Soviet suka mamaye Poland daga wancan gefen. Yayin da kowa ke jiran abin da gwamnatoci za su yi a nan gaba, yanayin da mazauna birnin Paris suke ciki bai canja ba. Amma, a watan Mayu na shekara ta 1940, sojojin Jamus suka mamaye ƙasar Faransa. Hukuncin tsagaita wuta
wanda aka kammala a ranar 22 ga Yuni, 1940 ya sanya aikin soja a arewacin rabin da kuma yammacin bakin tekun kasar, yayin da ya kirkiro a kudancin kudancin Faransa da ake kira "yanci kyauta", wanda aka gudanar daga Vichy ta hanyar gwamnatin marigayi a karkashin wani jarumi na yaki na Faransa mai shekaru 80. Selma Steinmetz da Oskar Grossmann suna daga cikin daruruwan 'yan gudun hijirar siyasa wadanda suka shiga daruruwan dubban' yan Paris da suka tsere zuwa kudu yayin da sojojin Jamus suka kusanci babban birnin Faransa daga arewa. Sun ƙare a yankin Toulouse. Selma Steinmetz ta shiga kungiyar adawa ta Faransa.