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During World War II, French wine was not an ordinary item. In the eyes of Nazi leaders, with France's defeat, French wine became the most precious prize. Beginning in 1940, the Berlin government appointed German wine experts as official representatives, known as "wine overseers," to travel to major French wine regions to coordinate the largest plunder of wine resources ever discovered. The Vichy government played an ambiguous intermediary role, and many French wine professionals also collaborated with the occupiers. This massive plunder became an unbearable tragedy. Today, more than seventy years after the end of the war, it is time to reopen this dusty and bitter archive to let readers understand what really happened. This book completes this detailed investigation based on never-before-published documents and information, truly recreating the Nazis' crazy activities of plundering wine resources in France during World War II. It discloses for the first time many historical materials about the war and trade, and opens the darkest page in the French wine world against the background of German occupation and traitor collaboration.