Between 1940 and 1945, France's wine trade became one of the occupation's quietest profit centers. This History Hit documentary examines how leading merchant houses in Bordeaux and Champagne dealt with the German army, some acquiring vineyards and estates seized from Jewish owners, and built fortunes while much of the country went hungry. The film traces the figures historians have called the Weinführers, German officers sent to requisition French wine who instead brokered lucrative arrangements with the châteaux and champagne houses they were meant to control. It follows the postwar reckoning that mostly didn't happen: prosecutions stalled, records were sealed or destroyed, and many of the same family names continued running the same estates for decades afterward. Interviews with historians and researchers who have dug through auction records, occupation-era contracts, and estate archives lay out the paper trail, while the narration presses on why the luxury wine industry has been so reluctant to revisit this period even eighty years on.