Paris museum reopens with stories of frantic wartime exodus

Visitors may find echoes of early 1940s Europe in present-day fears and uncertainties

Eighty years ago, on 13 June 1940, the last of the 2 million Parisians - nearly three-quarters of the city's population - to flee the fast-advancing German army were scrambling frantically to leave the capital.

Amid chaos and confusion, by train, in cars piled high with belongings, by bike and on foot, pushing prams and pulling handcarts, clutching suitcases and small children, they joined a throng of 8 million displaced people heading south.