Editing Tristan Tzara (section)

===World War II and Resistance===
During [[World War II]], Tzara took refuge from the [[German occupation of France during World War II|German occupation forces]], moving to the southern areas, controlled by the [[Vichy France|Vichy regime]].<ref name="jycmelusine"/><ref name="enotestt"/> On one occasion, the [[Antisemitism|antisemitic]] and [[Collaboration with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy|collaborationist]] publication ''[[Je Suis Partout]]'' made his whereabouts known to the [[Gestapo]].<ref name="mrnnradi">{{in lang|fr}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20080607172341/http://www.marianne2.fr/Tristan-Tzara,-radical,-mondain-et-anticonformiste_a41229.html "Tristan Tzara, radical, mondain et anticonformiste"], in ''[[Marianne (magazine)|Marianne]]'', 13 January 2003</ref>

After having secured his book collection and african art collection, Tzara fled in 1940 towards south of France, and hide first in a village called Sanary, then after being expelled by the police, in Saint-Tropez. In 1941, he is arrested but he managed to escape thanks to the complancency of a policeman.<ref>François Buot, ''Tristan Tzara'', Paris, Grasset, 2002, p.350</ref> Tzara joined the [[French Resistance]], rallying with the [[Maquis (World War II)|Maquis]]. A contributor to magazines published by the Resistance, Tzara also took charge of the cultural broadcast for the [[Free French Forces]] clandestine radio station.<ref name="jycmelusine"/><ref name="enotestt"/> He lived in [[Aix-en-Provence]], then in [[Souillac, Lot|Souillac]], and ultimately in [[Toulouse]].<ref name="jycmelusine"/> His son Cristophe was at the time a Resistant in northern France, having joined the ''[[Francs-Tireurs et Partisans]]''.<ref name="mrnnradi"/> In [[Axis Powers|Axis]]-allied and antisemitic Romania (''see [[Romania during World War II]]''), the regime of [[Ion Antonescu]] ordered bookstores not to sell works by Tzara and 44 other Jewish-Romanian authors.<ref>Radu Ioanid, "The Romanian Press: Preparing the Ground for the Holocaust and Reporting on Its Implementation", in Robert Moses Shapiro, ''Why Didn't the Press Shout?: American and International Journalism during the Holocaust'', Ktav, Hoboken, 2003, p.404. {{ISBN|0-88125-775-3}}; {{in lang|ro}} Liviu Rotman (ed.), ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20110818231335/http://jewishfed.ro/fcer/public_html/downloads/carti/Demnitate.pdf Demnitate în vremuri de restriște]'', Editura Hasefer, [[Federation of Jewish Communities of Romania]] & [[Elie Wiesel National Institute for Studying the Holocaust in Romania]], Bucharest, 2008, p.174-175. {{ISBN|978-973-630-189-6}}</ref> In 1942, with the generalization of antisemitic measures, Tzara was also stripped of his Romanian citizenship rights.<ref>{{in lang|ro}} Adrian Niculescu, [http://www.observatorcultural.ro/index.html/articles|details?articleID=23639 "Destinul excepțional al lui Alexandru Șafran"] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20120906134321/http://www.observatorcultural.ro/index.html/articles |date=6 September 2012 }}, in ''[[Observator Cultural]]'', Nr. 523, May 2010</ref>

In December 1944, five months after the [[Liberation of Paris]], he was contributing to ''[[L'Éternelle Revue]]'', a pro-communist newspaper edited by philosopher [[Jean-Paul Sartre]], through which Sartre was publicizing the heroic image of a France united in resistance, as opposed to the perception that it had passively accepted German control.<ref name="srsmemor">[[Susan Rubin Suleiman]], ''Crises of Memory and the Second World War'', [[Harvard University Press]], Cambridge, 2006, p.30-31. {{ISBN|0-674-02206-8}}</ref> Other contributors included writers Aragon, Char, Éluard, [[Elsa Triolet]], [[Eugène Guillevic]], [[Raymond Queneau]], [[Francis Ponge]], [[Jacques Prévert]] and painter [[Pablo Picasso]].<ref name="srsmemor"/>

Upon the end of the war and the restoration of French independence, Tzara was [[Naturalization|naturalized]] a French citizen.<ref name="enotestt"/> During 1945, under the [[Provisional Government of the French Republic]], he was a representative of the Sud-Ouest region to the [[National Assembly of France|National Assembly]].<ref name="iliv246"/> According to Livezeanu, he "helped reclaim the [[Southern France|South]] from the cultural figures who had associated themselves to Vichy [France]."<ref name="iliv251"/> In April 1946, his early poems, alongside similar pieces by Breton, Éluard, Aragon and Dalí, were the subject of a midnight broadcast on [[Radio in Paris|Parisian Radio]].<ref>"Drop Everything, Drop Dado", in ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'', 8 April 1946</ref> In 1947, he became a full member of the PCF<ref name="rcard530"/> (according to some sources, he had been one since 1934).<ref name="enotestt"/>