I seem to recall a history textbook I read during my US public gradeschool education giving a bunch of headlines written in Paris during the week before the Nazis arrived during WWII. The sentiment changed smoothly from something like "The evil German dogs are approaching Paris" a week before they arrived to something like "Paris eagerly awaits its liberation by the glorious Nazis" the day before they arrived. Can anyone give me the real headlines?
Other examples of capitulating to an invading force before they arrived would be interesting too.
It's also possible that it didn't happen. It is common knowledge that textbooks given to students in US government schools have embedded pro-US propaganda, and maybe my memories from decades ago are no longer accurate. If people can document that it didn't happen, that would be good too.
Google searches, requests to a reference librarian, and flipping through a few history books did not turn up the answer.
Edit: Thanks for all the answers. The consensus was that the actual story was about Napoleon entering Paris, and the evidence for it is weak because the sources disagree about what the headlines actually were and they do not provide reference to original data beyond a letter from Napoleon (which it still second hand). People reported actual headlines from Paris as the German army was entering during World War II and they did not look much like propaganda written for the invaders before they arrived.
Here's a copy of the front page of Le Figaro from 11 June 1940 - the latest one available online before the fall of Paris on 14 June.
My French is a little rusty, but the main headline is the declaration of war by Italy, with subheadings telling us that in the Mediterranean and elsewhere the "Allies are strong", a quote attributed to French Prime Minister Renaud. The box-off contains some quotes from the "president of the council" encouraging Frenchmen to continue fighting "against German Hegemony" and "For the independence of all other peoples as well as their own". Pretty fiery stuff and not at all obsequious.
On 1 July, with Petain now in charge and the armistice a week old, this front page is still really not that pro-German. It's somewhat matter-of-fact, reporting on the practicalities of the demobilisation of French forces, publishing communiques from the British, French and Italian governments under the heading "The Anglo-German-Italian War", reporting on Chamberlain's defiant speech, the Soviet takeover of the Bukovina and a couple of local-interest articles about Marshal Petain having moved into a house near Clermont-Ferrand. The editorial over on the right ("Dans le sens de la France") is the closest to overt propaganda, but again, it's talking exclusively about France and French matters - as far as my dodgy French can manage, it seems to be a generic right-wing screed about the traditional French values of hard work and family, comparing the honest, virtuous "peuple" with the leftist, corrupt "Plebe" who have dragged France to defeat.
I've no idea what the political leanings of Le Figaro were at the time (or are now), so this might just be a continuation of what they'd been saying all along, or it might be a concession to the New Boss.
This story is about Napoleon after his escape from Elba, not the Nazis. I'm unsure as to its authenticity, but I've heard it before as well.
http://napoleononline.ca/2011/03/napoleon-leaves-elba/
This site contains the alleged headlines.