“As I flipped through the pages I realized, my God, it’s all scenes of [Nazi] occupied Paris. And I knew I’d found a treasure,” she says. “And then I read the little note in the front. ‘If you find this album,’ it said, ‘take care of it and have the courage to look at it.’ I thought, someone sent a message in a bottle and I just found it.”
“It’s obvious that they were taken by someone who was an amateur, not a professional,” says Broussard, speaking at Le Monde’s headquarters in Paris. “It was someone who I would describe as a kind of shadow behind the back of the Germans. And you have to imagine the risk he was taking.”
Source: https://www.npr.org/2024/10/28/nx-s1-5157701/france-wwii-war-photos-mystery