: Many producers built fake walls to conceal their most precious bottles or buried them underground. The owners of Paris's famed La Tour d'Argent restaurant, for instance, rushed to build a wall to hide 20,000 bottles before the Germans arrived.
: Some figures, like Bordeaux merchant Louis Eschenauer, were convicted and imprisoned after the war for doing extensive business with the enemy. Wine and War: The French, the Nazis, and the Ba...
The book also addresses the sensitive reality of collaboration during the occupation. : Many producers built fake walls to conceal