I'm not trying to hog the recommended reading section, honestly, but I think we all notice that a number of our Forum mainstays are keenly interested in war history, and especially in Germany and France.
I was lucky enough to sit in on several working group meetings with Prof. Bertram, author of this 2018 book on war tourism in France during the German occupation, and it occurs to me that his writing might be especially interesting to some corners of our community here.
https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501715877/war-tourism/#bookTabs=1
https://academic.oup.com/cornell-scholarship-online/book/18233
"Contrary to what is often assumed, tourism in France did not stop with the war. Thousands of German military personnel were given tours in occupied France and French civilians continued to take vacations as well. Many turned out with tourist gazes to watch General de Gaulle march down the Champs-Élysées at the time of the Liberation and sites frequently acquired new significance as in Normandy where Arromanches changed from a spa village to a war tourist destination. Based on French and German archival materials, memoirs, films, the press, and personal interviews, this book addresses the conflicts and competition between the 19th and early 20th century French tourism narratives and the German-dominated tourism version of the Second World War that replaced it, followed by the Gaullist/Resistance accounts after 1944."
"Postwar memory tourists brought home memories of Normandy and other sites that informed their own understandings of war. Narratives changed but war tourism remains a significant contributor to the French economy."