Sartre wrote the feldgrau ("field grey") uniforms of the Wehrmacht and the green uniforms of the Order Police which had seemed so alien in 1940 had become accepted, as people were numbed into accepting what Sartre called "a pale, dull green, unobtrusive strain, which the eye almost expected to find among the dark clothes of the civilians". Under the occupation, the French often called the Germans les autres ("the others"), which inspired Sartre's aphorism in his play Huis clos ("No Exit") of "l'enfer, c'est les Autres" ("Hell is other people"). Sartre intended the line "l'enfer, c'est les Autres" at least in part to be a dig at the German occupiers.
Sartre wrote the feldgrau ("field grey") uniforms of the Wehrmacht and the green uniforms of the Order Police which had seemed so alien in 1940 had become accepted as people were numbed into accepting what Sartre called "a pale dull green unobtrusive strain which the eye almost expected to find among the dark clothes of the civilians" Under the occupation the French often called the Germans les autres ("the others") which inspired Sartre's aphorism in his play Huis clos ("No Exit") of "l'enfer c'est les Autres" ("Hell is other people") Sartre intended the line "l'enfer c'est les Autres" at least in part to be a dig at the German occupiers