My granny was a Red Cross nurse in ww2 her husband my grandfather escaped Poland when the Germans were coming in the back door him and a. French and English guy made it back to the uk hidden in a truck .my granny said she had see seen many horrors and some super human bravery may we never forget the nurses that helped during the war
@Tyler Wilson Showing yourself to be a medic, IS a defence. So is shooting back, hiding behind a rock or tree, and countless other things to keep from being hurt. As far as respect for the Rules of War, I doubt all soldiers were that. The Nazi's didn't exactly follow the rules. Neither has the American Army in recent years when it comes to POWs, mass annihilation, etc. Didn't Trump pardon some of them? So I stand by what I said: definite bravery there. I've now noticed that Steve&LizDonaldson stated something similar further down.
@@eggbertfarnsworth5787 it was the wehrmatch regular german army, most were conscripts and volunteers only to defend their land(huge morale boost when hitler came and a lot of ww1 veterans and young men enlisted even if they didn't like nazi ideology) so i think yes, most of them DID respect the rules of war but when it comes to the SS tho it's a whole 'nother story.
@@frankie4752 even if that was true, it doesn't excuse the genocidal invasion of my people's country(USSR) that killed over 20 million. Don't think I don't know what you fuckers were planning for slavs. More people need to know Herbert Backe and his Der HungerPlan
My French Grandmother who has just passed away was with the resistance in Rouen and helped allied airmen back to Great Britain. The Germans came to their farm helping themselves to eggs, chickens etc while the airmen were hidden away. They faced instant death if found out.
9:11 Shows the bravest of the brave -- women nurses running to the wounded, under fire, with nothing to stop the bullets but a white flag with a red cross. Now that is courage and commitment to others.
I'd wager both men and women were brave, not just women nurses lmao. Was literally a clip with male medics doing the same thing. (Even tho the gunfire is clearly edited onto the clips.
My grandfather a german submarine soldier was also in France. Everytime when something in TV was about France, we all had to shut-up 😁 France was his favourite country.
I had a Professor in College in 1970, named Dr. Blum, .. I was in the Marine Corps PLC program, ….I stayed in the classroom, one day to ask him why he had three fingers missing on his left hand,……he said,… “we were in an emergency dive on a U-Boat and I didn’t move my hand quick enough, when the topside hatch was slammed down and locked.”
@@bouchacourtthierry8506Mein Opa war dort in Kriegsgefangenschaft, musste Zwangsarbeit leisten. Aber er lernte auch Französisch und verlobte sich dort mit einem Mädchen. Vielleicht verband er deswegen Frankreich auch mit etwas Positiven. Es war schließlich seine Jugend und dann kam noch die erste Liebe.
For a better look inside the french resistance I recommend the book "And there was light" from Jacques Lusseyran. This blind man was one of the founders of french resistance at time, when almost no one was willing to fight against Nazis in France. His story is a true inspiration.
Not to underestimate the horrors of this all , but what a great feeling of purpose, fulfillment and pride these brave people would have felt. Standing up like that after years of patience and suffering.
@@collin.h Considering how much people whined and complained about two years of quarantine, I would say that four years of occupation is plenty to get people good and fired up.
iRommel Hitler was appointed by Paul von Hindenburg as an olive branch gesture to the National Socialists which he considered to be a fringe rival group that was growing in popularity.
Huge portion of the population did surrender too. De Gaulle created whats called in french "mythe de la resistance" (The idea that most people fights against nazi during this period, and thats not true). After some research i found that 2% of people where actively fighting and spreading their ideas, and only 10% supported them.
Half of my family was in the résistance, the other part lived in south of France, but a quarter of them was soldiers during first world war and fall on the battelfield. The few who came back home looses arms, legs, face and mind.
One of my great grandfather died at Dunkirk covering the evacuation of the british soldier, they fought at 1 against 6 After that 2 great great uncle joined the resistance in 1942 and have been captured by the German soldiers they have been send in concentration camp after that and never came back
Pistol against German tanks. That is the power of the Resistance. fine... The south was Nazi territory of Vichy- government. Résistance had suvival / livetime of a maximum of 3 weeks per group
@@Rick356A false, lot of german troops stays before they know for soviet front, normandy and paris, bc the komandantur of paris didn't want to lose all man in a foreign city
@@Rick356A Seems likely, especially considering they were socialists and communists. Just like today, these commies are mostly middle-class, educated people who are utter wimps. Just look at Antifa and other communist groups of today.
@@LaughingMan44 Bruh the commies and socialists were the first and most active recistance figthers in Norway, Yugoslavia, the Soviet Union (duh), Germany (yes some germans actually fought the nazis), Greece, etc.. The socialists were also the most agressive during the paris uprising. Also European ANTIFA, the socialist portions of the Yellow Vests etc. are definitely not "wimps" unlike you Americans(from every side of the political spectrum).
@@ThorSuzuki1 When a foreign power occupies your capital for years and requires you to pay hundreds of millions PER DAY for the privilege? Yes, start shooting.
The truth is the resistance waited until nearly all Wehrmacht forces had left Paris (there was not that much in the first place) and then attacked the last bunch to leave, they were mostly administrators left, not as brave as is made out. Try consider the propaganda
@@thewwiiprofessor5808 most Americans believed in Nazi ideology and only went to war with them because they were an ally of Japan. Just a couple years before joining many Americans would March with the nazis
I lived in France in the early 80ies. EVERY Frenchman would tell you stories about their grandparents and other relatives being in the Resistance. Made me wonder, how the Germans could have controlled an entire country with a couple of thousand occupational forces, if half the population would have been active resistance fighters....It doesn‘t add up 😜. On the other hand, French are very reluctant to speak about the high degree of collaborated with the Germans, which is well documented by historians.
I would like to see you under military occupation. People are already grovelling today for simple health measures. It's always funny to hear the "analyses" of the brave internet users.
@@roideschats8799 dear king of cats. I do not deny the cruelty of the German occupation, it was beyond any doubt. But I doubt that so many French should have actively resisted. it just doesn't correspond to the facts. And have your experienced military occupation first hand?
@@bingobongo9521 Of course most people did not actively resist! It was always a minority who fought actively. But most people rejected the German occupation, and resisted in their hearts, or through passive resistance actions. That is history (which is widely documented by historians, based on police and territorial intelligence reports). In addition, 1.8 million men were military prisoners in Germany, plus 650,000 young forced labourers. There were also 400,000 deaths. This reduced the number of people of fighting age and condition. Many others stayed with their families, to feed them at a time when there was very little to eat. But above all, the occupying troops were far more than "a few thousand", since they were massively stationed along the Atlantic and Mediterranean coast to avoid a landing. Moreover, to face a professional and mechanical army, with a few guns and without training, is an illusion. Moreover, the Vercors and Glières maquis were liquidated in this way.
@@roideschats8799 And I do not deny any of it. My original point was that many French explained to me, that their parents / grandparents would have been active resistance fighters. And that's just unlikely.
The French resistance was fragmented by factions and infighting which made them not as effectual as they could have been. Some resistance cells actually reported on others that may not have followed the same political ideology.
The truth is the resistance waited until nearly all Wehrmacht forces had left Paris (there was not that much in the first place) and then attacked the last bunch to leave, they were mostly administrators left, not as brave as is made out. Try consider the propaganda
About 40,000 Poles were active in the French resistance movement during World War II. So if the French Resistance was around 400,000 people, it turns out 10 percent of them were Poles.
The truth is the resistance waited until nearly all Wehrmacht forces had left Paris (there was not that much in the first place) and then attacked the last bunch to leave, they were mostly administrators left, not as brave as is made out. Try consider the propaganda
@@Rick356A Try to be the resistance under the Nazi occupation. Apolonio de Carvalho, for example: he fought against Franco's fascists in Spain, against Hitler's Nazis in France and against the Military Dictatorship in Brazil financed by Presidents Kenedy and Johnson.
@@LaughingMan44DO YOU PREFER TO LIVE UNDER FEAR, HORROR, SLAVERY AND NAZI REGIME, GESTAPO, SS AND TORTURES? IF YOU PREFER LIVING LIKE THAT, ON A LIVING HELL ON EARTH, THE CHOICE IS YOURS. NO COMMENTS.👎👎👎
There is something so personable about watching footage of resistance.. our fathers, mothers grandfathers... all taking a shot with whatever they have...
This is all fake propaganda though. The real French resistance actually happened in Berlin in 1945 when the Frenchmen of the 33rd Waffen SS Grenadier division, Charlemagne defended Berlin until almost the last man from the Russian horde. The French soldiers were actually some of the best fighters in the German Wehrmacht and SS and served Germany heroically for the entirety of the war.
Charles de Gaulle walking through the streets triumphantly. He stayed a short walk away from where my grandfather lived in England, apparently a very rude and arrogant person to those surrounding him. He then scorned Britain despite the government shielding him from harm.
He was very arrogant and rude and a coward. He ran away and left the regular french people on their own. And above all let’s never forget the brave American soldiers who fought and some who gave their lives to free Europe. D’ Gaule wouldn’t make a pimple on their behinds.
@@gabrielcooper1248 That's correct, but most of them were G41(Walther) He is holding a G41 (Mauser). Only 6,673 were produced before production was halted, and of these,1,673 were returned as unusable.
the republicans in spain were a very broad movement from liberals to communists to anarchist leftists , so where they communists? some of them probally , but not all
There were not only Spaniards but they were part of the first group that was sent. The allied commander (USA) didn't want the role of liberators of Paris to be given to blacks and Arabs and De Gaulle was quite in a pickle (about 60% of his mens were Blacks) so he had to send quickly the first "white" soldiers he had. But I think there were also some French special troops and SAS about at the same time
and they really had an oppurtunity to create an independent indo, instead the french chose to spend over a decade getting their asses handed to them by patriotic citizenz. and of course we had to escalate the idiocy by not seeing the error of that philosophy, how many had to be murdered just to lose.
It's a pity France has forgotten how the British army sacrificed so many soldiers to liberate their country, nowadays the French government treat the UK with contempt.
@gregory hatton Nope, although there is one panther, the rest are captured French tanks (Somua S35s I believe but I could be wrong) Edit: might be Hotchkiss H35/39s actually
The truth is the resistance waited until nearly all Wehrmacht forces had left Paris (there was not that much in the first place) and then attacked the last bunch to leave, they were mostly administrators left, not as brave as is made out. Try consider the propaganda
@@dismas8884 i'm just saying that Spielberg maybe saw this footage. Nothing more to say, after that de can argue in another conversation if it's a movie propaganda or not.
Leclerc had many troops in his FFL not just Spanish republicans. French troops from 1940, pieds-noirs French born in African colonies, Asians from Indochina, Morrocan goumiers and Senegalese tirailleurs from African colonies, Vichyst troops from Africa that rejoined him after 1942 etc and of course many Spanish republicans
Yeah like Americans in 1918 and 1944. No actually the French fought early even though they were on the losing side 1914, Verdun 1917, Dunkirk 1940, Bir Hakeim 1942 Ignorant haters are brainwashed and unable to educate themselves
If all nations back then could see what is going on in the world today, everyone would have sided with Germany. They were the last great knights of Europe. It's a shame the history books were already being written long before 1939!!
England was France's enemy from the Middle Ages until Napoleon. Then it became an ally of circumstance, because of the rise of the common German threat (a threat that did not exist before the industrial revolution).
@@ianmills5237 Maybe if the Germans had wanted to write the history books, they should have spent a little less time industrializing the murder of minorities and a little more time fighting the Bolsheviks. 😂 😂 😂 Heydrich prioritized the movement of victims to death camps by rail over the movement of troops and arms to the Eastern Front. The Wannsee Protocols were literally written by the Germans.
Though they did fight the Germans to a certain degree they fought other underground groups more. Highly fractured. British sos men provided direction and organization
@@ramlebelier8225 no hbes talking about intelligence groups not soldiers. anyway he was being dumb, why would anyone try and argue that another nation's contribution to the defeat of the nazis is worth overshadowing. It was a team effort
@@nietzchepreacher9477 because history in school books is not the truth and U.K has a lot of butt casseroles...France fighted Deutschland, Italy, in Syria, Indochina...and U.K because they attacked our Marine in North Africa...so don't say that UK bring us something
@@ramlebelier8225 butt casseroles? Wtf hahahaha!! Of course they did, it was a world War after all, though the claims of fighting the british were extremely minor, and highly misrepresentative. The British navy sunk some ships sure, and some minor stuff happened in Madagascar too. But France didn't fight Germany, Italy and Britain, it fought Germany, Italy (and the other axis nations). Britain and France fought on the same side? Do you honestly not understand that? I feel as though you are putting national pride ahead of the truth, Mon ami. No good reason for it.
@@nietzchepreacher9477 what do you think about Mers el Kébir? why British forces runed away in Dunkerque? Sedan?without saying to the French, of course, it was more funny... I am gentle, I will help you...France had to loose the war, it was the project between your first minister who loved more money than liberty ans his country and the traitor, a certain colonel De Gaulle...this is the reason why he was in England....you want to know other things about "the great Britain", my friend??? for me it is a very good reason
Que sangre tienen los franceses aplaudo de pié su cultura y su historia. No es sorpresa que sean la tercera ascendencia de la Argentina en donde han dejado una huella muy fuerte y notable.
Even though i dont sympathize with the german war machine, i do feel sorry for those poor lads burning to death on that truck. They were young men who, if they had lived to see the end of the war, could have started families and eventually years later meet their french rivals in friendship and shake hands in respect
You believe any BS they tell you. Pretty sure you believe that your country has the highest standards while 80% of your people can be compared with third world
Yeah, how brave of these resistance fighters to rise up as the Wermacht is pulling out of Paris. A real victory. If only they would have been this brave in 1940.
Preaching from the comfort of your armchair... might have been a bit different if you were there. Plenty ended up dead or in camps due to their efforts well before this.
That's a misinformation about the battle of France, a lot of people think French army and people gave up and retreat, some did following orders but a lot disobey, stayed and fought to the death against german, even all the cadets from a military school died holding a bridge, giving time to the Belgium and British to retreat to Dunkerque (they didn't old their lignes as they were supposed). Civilians also fought but were outnumbered and outgunned
Utter drivel from another anglo armchair warrior fed on myths and too lazy to do the research. FYI French resistance began almost from the moment the armistice was signed in 1940. And it came from all sectors and all classes of French society. Armed resistance actively began in 1941 and lasted till October 1944, by which time the resistance numbered some 400,000 active members (the 4th largest standing force combating the Nazis at that time). They were invaluable in the run up to D-Day, conducting intelligence and sabotage operations that were vital to the success of the landings. They suffered terrible reprisals for their actions and any captured member faced extreme torture and certain death at the hands of the Gestapo. Look up the horror of Oradour-Sur-Glane before posting asinine comments.
@@Idcanymore510 All the people all over Europe and the USA wearing their face muzzles and happy to be confined to their homes while their societies are being destroyed illustrate that most people are sheep and only a small minority are "Resistance"
the British were hidden behind the sea, and the Americans behind the ocean. The French did not collaborate, they were occupied by a foreign army. Your words are inconsistent. See how people obey simple "sanitary measures" today... and try to compare it to a military occupation, in proportion. Always funny to read the brave ones on the internet.
@@Idcanymore510 My uncle was at Oradour-Sur-Glane, he and his comrades had nothing but contempt for the Resistance who "would kill indiscriminately and then hide behind the women's skirts leaving the civilian population to take the reprisals."
@@mmamdw De Gaulle fled to England in order to organize a resistance movement. It would have been impossible for him to do it from France as he was sentenced to death by the Vichy Government. De Gaulle was seen as a traitor and a coward by Vichy and I have noticed that many people today still believe Vichy Propaganda.
@@mmamdw Yes and good he did otherwise he wouldn't have been able to do so. He left on the 16th of June because he knew what was going to happen. He was already seen as a traitor from the day he left but it's the Vichy Government that sentenced him to death later and started the propaganda against him.
@@michaelwittmann1973 There are many versions of his story and legend. He was definitely a Third Reich hero and it is hard to tell the part of Nazi propaganda. Here is a quote from Wikipedia: "Historians have mixed opinions as to his tactical performance in battle. Some praised his actions at Villers-Bocage, while others found his abilities lacking, and the praise for his tank kills overstated. "
This is a Propaganda fi,lm of that time. History says that the French resistance was almost non-existant with many MI6 people sacrificing their lives in an effort to organise them mainly to learn Nazi secrets. The quick surrender, the land without mountains to hide, and the mass scale collaboration, did not give the French opportunity to rebel up to the moment that the Germans were leaving. (serbia and greece had the greatest resistance because of the hard mountainous landscape)
@@damnyourpasswords Your assumption is wrong and unfortunately could not ever be true if we look at the facts. 1. France fell in a matter of several weeks, not days, with many those that escaped to Britain through Dunkerque taking ferries back to continue the fight in the south. Many of whom would later leave to join Britain or the colonies. 2. The French resistance neutralized hundreds of rail networks in their OWN country on the day of the Normandy landings alone to prevent the Wehrmacht from reinforcing the shores. 3. The rapid liberation of the entirety of south-western France can be attributed to the work of French resistance movements freeing cities in the countryside surrounding American spearheads. 4. The Free Republic of Vercors is another fact that demolishes your claims; Maquis resistance movements sought to free their region amidst bloody repressions and were massacred for it due to lack of Allied commitment. 5. It is simply untrue to say France did not have resistance movements, the post-V-day French army amounted to 1.2 million men, in majority formed from the French Forces of the Interior (Official name of the resistance), many of whom were former soldiers of the 1940 campaign. I don't think resistanceless countries could have formed armies numbering in the millions half a year after their liberation. Do not let false assumptions and hearsay cloud your words when you have the facts.
It's not really acknowledged but by about 1943 the Germans had come very near to neutralising the French Resistance so that a General was heard to say What Resistance when asked about it. If D Day had not happened it is doubtful that the disparate force would have ever prevailed against the Occupation.
@@7macfly2 i have some very patriotic french friends and even they make jokes about the " myth de la resistance " cause so many french claim to have resistance fighters in there families
@@timjuhls if you want to talk about a effective resistance , French is the number one like it or not bruv . The Polish one is a bit more heroic yes cause they all died , but the effectiveness is nothing comparate to French , the D day , Afrika , making weak germans in France and all , you cant compare them
Even so many years after people are still arguing about who was the best in the comments... But none have been in a country under nazi occupation, probably at war either or served their own country. Without intel from the resistance the allies would have a hard time and without the allies France would not have been liberated. Team effort. And sure after liberation everybody was in the resistance, sounds better than collabo
@@james3414 They didn't trust but it doesn't change the fact they were effective. Eisenhower said the resistance operations were equivalent to 10-15 divisions at landing.
@@santiagolobos4535 I know he said that but we don’t know why he said that, because there isn’t record of 10+ divisions existing or being counted, etc. He was probably just helping the French save face, this isn’t my random opinion it’s informed conjecture by historians.
@@james3414 "what cut the ice with us was the fact that when we came to France the Resistance was so effective that it took half a dozen real live German divisions to contend with it, divisions which might otherwise have been on our backs in the Bocage. And it made the most cynical sit up and take notice when we learned from German field officers that the Germans in central France were truly terrified, had to live under arms, could not move freely, had lost all control in sizable sectors even before we came ... It was a military fact that the French were worth at least a score of divisions to us, maybe more" Officer Ralph ingersoll And Eisenhower said the previous quote in his personal memoirs. Why he said that ? Maybe he had an idea about the war since he fought it. More than denials and negationnists from today...
@@shutup2751 alright fair enough, seems like I need to learn more about my country's cowardice. I think the annoyance many french feel stems from the fact it's still spat in our face despite time having moved forward
The truth is the resistance waited until nearly all Wehrmacht forces had left Paris (there was not that much in the first place) and then attacked the last bunch to leave, they were mostly administrators left, not as brave as is made out. Try consider the propaganda
The ugly story of the cooperation of the French police deporting Jews to the gas chamber was forgotten. The children left alone without their parents, no food and water in empty appartements was also quick forgotten by the French. Same story in many countrys like Norway,.
@@Crashed131963 Is it your only objective in life, to mock France in every damn youtube video? Does that make your life any less miserable ? Sad dude...
Fascinating reading the comments when dealing with WW2 clips. Somewhat like watching football being a fan of one of the teams playing. Its about the shortcomings of the enemy, the bravery of your team and so on. History tells you that your fate indeed depend on with side of a border you are born. Sometimes you fight in what you truly believe is right sometimes you don't care as long as you and your family, friends and so on survive. The propaganda movies on all sides shows you macho resistance men with a cigarette and a gun, the other side shows you well equipped elite soldiers on a Panther moving towards the enemy. All are humans individuals staging for us to choose the right side. Not only in the 40s but for now.
What a poor, tasteless comment. This is the worst case you could give to support your arguement. Nazi germany was ,objectively, one of the most deviant, cruel and oppressive regimes in human history. Standing up against it is moral. Collaboration is not. This has nothing to do with the side of border you were born in. Trying to justify axis war crimes as allied propoganda shows very extreme levels of historical ignorance and fascist apologism. I could easily let this slide in the context of ww1, for example, but not this. You are from the future, you can judge history from a moral and objective point of view. Why would you go out of your way to make it seem like ww2 was just "another" conflict that didnt include some of the most horrific and unjustified actions in human history? In what way is parisians standing up for their city seem negative and nazis destroying it positive? Use your brain. Not everying or everyone is biased. Some people can glance over their nationality/heritage and judge things as they were.
@@hankupyours6248 You urgently need to read this following press article : "It's time to give the French Army the credit it deserves, Gervase Phillips, Principal Lecturer in History, explains France's true role in the First and Second World War".
No one should ever forget the bravely of french soldiers. During Battle in Berlin the French Waffen SS Charlemagne Divison consisiting of 7340 Frenchmen bravely fought back the red soviet tide in the name of the Hitler and the Reich. They were one of the last divisions to surender in Berlin. Most of them died, sacrificing their lives in the fight for nazism.
Bravest people … I see society today and think how weak we all are compared to these people. And the way simpletons bash the flag disrespecting everyone who risked everything. It disgusts me.
As much than UK before war who were happy to send country like Czechia for free to nazi without listen the French advise or czech opinion, and yes without French resistance for give info to SOS there will not had D-DAY succed
Then they'd have had the full force of the Wehrmacht and SS on them. It would have been another Warsaw. The Nazis had a good go at wiping Warsaw off the map. Literally.
@@TheFreshSpam No i can just remember my father telling me how my grandad was killed in Belgium after the french ran and left them behind to fight alone, Hes buried in a belgium cemetry which my father never got to visit. But thats ok you can just post a inappropriate reply because you have the freedom to do that.
@@didierpaya9069 You need to check your history, the french had been defeated and moral was in shambles , French Prime Minister Paul Reynaud telephoned the new British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill and said, "We have been defeated. We are beaten; we have lost the battle." Churchill, tried to boast his moral and reminded the Prime Minister of all the times the Germans had broken through the Allied lines in the First World War only to be stopped. Reynaud was, however, inconsolable, plus the commander of the French 1st Army Group Billotte was incapable of taking action that delayed any counterattack or to stop the already routing french troops fleeing, sad fact was the best reserves where held back till it was too late and the rout had already began...
@@roideschats8799 Yes, the Russians steadily rolled the Germans back to Berlin after Stalingrad but France did no such thing in 1914, with the German army advancing to within 50 miles from Paris by November.
@@wattage2007 when France started to advance in 1918 and was able to throw back German to Rhine, we were asked by England and USA to stop, and negociate armistice. We had been deprived of our victory. Because England and USA wanted France to defeat Germany... but not to rebuilt great France. In 1944, they came in Normandy, in order to limitate the new expansion of Russia... There was also the comparison of size of country. In terms of population, France was 1/3 smaller than Germany in 1914, and 1/2 smaller in 1940. Russia was more than 2x bigger than Germany. And the industrial force : Germany was the first industry in 1914, face to an agricultural France. And, by contrary of 40-45, the german factories functioned to the end of war. And the geographical situation. France is immediatly connect with Germany. There is 300 km from German border (Metz at that time !) to Paris, and 1800 km from German border to Moscow. And the width of the front-line is very concentrate between Belgium and Switzerland, while there is 2 000 km from north to south on russian front. And let not speak about England or USA which are protected behind a sea or an ocean ! The confrontation ground is totally different. It permitted to bigger Germany to concentrate on smaller France. While smaller Germany was diluted face to bigger Russia. Just imagine that a double bigger USSR was in Canada face to the USA... or the Germany was in Scotland face to England. It is changing the climate !
And also : Henri Abbadie Yvonne Abbas Abbé Pierre Marcel Abraham Thérèse Adloff Jean-Marie Arhus Jacques Arthuys Emmanuel d'Astier de la Vigerie Lucie and Raymond Aubrac Marie-Thérèse Auffray Edouard Barbe Marcel Baudot Jacque Baudry Pierre Benoît Jean Bernard Etc....................
Spitting on the Canadians as they marched through the city of Dieppe. Sounds great! The Allies refusing the smuggle anymore arms into the city because the French resistance is fighting each other instead of the Germans. Not so great Jokes aside French resistance played an important role in making D-Day a success.
I know you said it's a joke, but can you tell me where the myth of the French resistance fighing each other is coming from ? It didn't happen in France but in Yougoslavia.
@@phlm9038 wish I had the source it's fairly obscure. From what I understood the city fighting was well coordinated with everyone more or less cooperating and working together against the Germans. In Rural France and outside of Paris specifically it was run by extremists that were persuing political objectives.
@@liampett1313 I guess the source is obscure as it could be coming from Vichy Propaganda, as many clichés about the French Army were also started by Vichy. Or maybe people are just confusing with what happened in Yugoslavia. I found the information about the Yugloslav resistance by chance in a book I read about something else.
It was the World War II , the Vietnam War, the Afghanistan War that taught us, the Asians, that how weak and vulnerable European , American and Russian Colonial powers were actually...
There are some who look at this and curse bitterly that the democratic forces won. But im ok with that. They have a right to believe what they believe in a democratic country
Podías comentar qué pasó con la Resistencia Francesa desde el 1 de septiembre de 1939 hasta el 22 de Junio de 1941..entre esas fechas comvatieron a los alemanes o colaboraron con ellos????
My granny was a Red Cross nurse in ww2 her husband my grandfather escaped Poland when the Germans were coming in the back door him and a. French and English guy made it back to the uk hidden in a truck .my granny said she had see seen many horrors and some super human bravery may we never forget the nurses that helped during the war
He do not fight ?
The nurses were probably a comfort to wounded soldiers who had experienced the horrors of war.
@English Slniečko Productions moagus
Bless them hero’s
Those Red Cross women, holding flags as their only defence: definite bravery there.
@Tyler Wilson Showing yourself to be a medic, IS a defence. So is shooting back, hiding behind a rock or tree, and countless other things to keep from being hurt. As far as respect for the Rules of War, I doubt all soldiers were that. The Nazi's didn't exactly follow the rules. Neither has the American Army in recent years when it comes to POWs, mass annihilation, etc. Didn't Trump pardon some of them? So I stand by what I said: definite bravery there. I've now noticed that Steve&LizDonaldson stated something similar further down.
@@eggbertfarnsworth5787 it was the wehrmatch regular german army, most were conscripts and volunteers only to defend their land(huge morale boost when hitler came and a lot of ww1 veterans and young men enlisted even if they didn't like nazi ideology) so i think yes, most of them DID respect the rules of war but when it comes to the SS tho it's a whole 'nother story.
ya know, the red cross examined the camps and came to a 271,301 death toll for the holocaust
@@frankie4752 even if that was true, it doesn't excuse the genocidal invasion of my people's country(USSR) that killed over 20 million. Don't think I don't know what you fuckers were planning for slavs. More people need to know Herbert Backe and his Der HungerPlan
Knowing that the Germans targeted them too..
My French Grandmother who has just passed away was with the resistance in Rouen and helped allied airmen back to Great Britain. The Germans came to their farm helping themselves to eggs, chickens etc while the airmen were hidden away. They faced instant death if found out.
German monsters
Amazing. My great uncle flew in a Mosquito Bomber at night communicating by radio with the Resistance at night.
9:11 Shows the bravest of the brave -- women nurses running to the wounded, under fire, with nothing to stop the bullets but a white flag with a red cross. Now that is courage and commitment to others.
Agreed, i see nurses at 8:45 waving the flag while standing up, everyone else is terrified hugging the ground. Very brave!
Den Bien Phu.
4:10 :(
I'd wager both men and women were brave, not just women nurses lmao. Was literally a clip with male medics doing the same thing. (Even tho the gunfire is clearly edited onto the clips.
@@degtyarev6208 I could only wonder what happened to that poor guy
My grandfather a german submarine soldier was also in France. Everytime when something in TV was about France, we all had to shut-up 😁 France was his favourite country.
I had a Professor in College in 1970, named Dr. Blum, .. I was in the Marine Corps PLC program, ….I stayed in the classroom, one day to ask him why he had three fingers missing on his left hand,……he said,… “we were in an emergency dive on a U-Boat and I didn’t move my hand quick enough, when the topside hatch was slammed down and locked.”
Ça fait vraiment plaisir de savoir que les Allemands faisaient déjà du tourisme à cette époque !
@@bouchacourtthierry8506Mein Opa war dort in Kriegsgefangenschaft, musste Zwangsarbeit leisten. Aber er lernte auch Französisch und verlobte sich dort mit einem Mädchen. Vielleicht verband er deswegen Frankreich auch mit etwas Positiven. Es war schließlich seine Jugend und dann kam noch die erste Liebe.
France seemed to be many German's favorite country.
For a better look inside the french resistance I recommend the book "And there was light" from Jacques Lusseyran. This blind man was one of the founders of french resistance at time, when almost no one was willing to fight against Nazis in France. His story is a true inspiration.
Thank you, I've made a note of it. Best regards, Pat
Mustn't have been so bad then
Gonna google this guy
@@LaughingMan44 what wasn’t so bad? Are you romanticising Nazi occupation? lol
A book that dont talk about spanish people on resistance and the economy thanx to spanish gold isnt a good book.
My Father had all these Movies and we watched them as children on Friday nights. Amazing
Chad family
movies? what movies? title?
Not to underestimate the horrors of this all , but what a great feeling of purpose, fulfillment and pride these brave people would have felt. Standing up like that after years of patience and suffering.
It was only 4 years not that long
@@collin.h Considering how much people whined and complained about two years of quarantine, I would say that four years of occupation is plenty to get people good and fired up.
I like the way the inhabitants of countries that cannot be occupied (thank you sea) have a clear opinion on the occupation.
Ever heard of the Norman conquest?
@@newforestobservatory9322 And Sapiens one ?
This.
And the people of France are lucky that the little sea is there because it was from across that sea that liberation came.
@@jackkruese4258 lol nice joke
Such incredible footage
War is the shame of politicians that bring against each other ordinary people that could have been friends in other circumstances.
Pete B Hitler was literally a politician, voted into power
Patrick LastName - This is 100% correct.
iRommel Hitler was appointed by Paul von Hindenburg as an olive branch gesture to the National Socialists which he considered to be a fringe rival group that was growing in popularity.
the bankers not the politicians
@@MottaFilms - You are right too. I would say politicians AND bankers, as politics and money are twins.
The French government surrendered the French people didn’t
Huge portion of the population did surrender too. De Gaulle created whats called in french "mythe de la resistance" (The idea that most people fights against nazi during this period, and thats not true).
After some research i found that 2% of people where actively fighting and spreading their ideas, and only 10% supported them.
@@julesvaletas6647
2%?
more like 0,01%
@@julesvaletas6647 by 1944-1945 the free french force had more than 400k soldiers, one of the biggest allied army
@@7macfly2 so thats 1% of the population at this time
@@74thartillery__ yeah those are random numbers i found, might be false.
These numbers probably changes a lot depending if you look at 1940 or 1944
Half of my family was in the résistance, the other part lived in south of France, but a quarter of them was soldiers during first world war and fall on the battelfield. The few who came back home looses arms, legs, face and mind.
Den Bien Phu.
What a heroic family you're from ! Something to be proud of.
One of my great grandfather died at Dunkirk covering the evacuation of the british soldier, they fought at 1 against 6
After that 2 great great uncle joined the resistance in 1942 and have been captured by the German soldiers they have been send in concentration camp after that and never came back
You must sit down and write a book about it all. You can do it. For your family, for you, for others to know what your people did.
@@jesuschrist872 ok
3 Guys : Tank comes , Pull out the maschine guns
That 1 Lads : Bet *Proceeded to fire a pistol point blank*
Thats french Power…
@@lutzmeissner3128 Hmmm yes , the sneipe
Pistol against German tanks. That is the power of the Resistance. fine... The south was Nazi territory of Vichy- government. Résistance had suvival / livetime of a maximum of 3 weeks per group
man huge respect to these resistance fighters.
Yes,a very humble thank you.
@@Rick356A false, lot of german troops stays before they know for soviet front, normandy and paris, bc the komandantur of paris didn't want to lose all man in a foreign city
@@Rick356A Seems likely, especially considering they were socialists and communists. Just like today, these commies are mostly middle-class, educated people who are utter wimps. Just look at Antifa and other communist groups of today.
@@LaughingMan44 but they actually were brave not like the germans
@@LaughingMan44 Bruh the commies and socialists were the first and most active recistance figthers in Norway, Yugoslavia, the Soviet Union (duh), Germany (yes some germans actually fought the nazis), Greece, etc.. The socialists were also the most agressive during the paris uprising. Also European ANTIFA, the socialist portions of the Yellow Vests etc. are definitely not "wimps" unlike you Americans(from every side of the political spectrum).
This is what real resistance against oppression looks like.
Today its disgruntled posts on FB and Twitter.
So you mean that as soon we demonstrate or are unhappy we should start shooting at our governments or the people we are unhappy with?
Den Bien Phu.
@@ThorSuzuki1 When a foreign power occupies your capital for years and requires you to pay hundreds of millions PER DAY for the privilege? Yes, start shooting.
The truth is the resistance waited until nearly all Wehrmacht forces had left Paris (there was not that much in the first place) and then attacked the last bunch to leave, they were mostly administrators left, not as brave as is made out. Try consider the propaganda
@@Rick356A So all the weapon and explosives accumulations, assassinations, sabotage, intelligence gathering, etc. for 4 long years wasn't brave?
Allies: « Don’t worry we are coming to liberate Paris. »
French resistance: « Already done. »
@@thewwiiprofessor5808 most Americans believed in Nazi ideology and only went to war with them because they were an ally of Japan. Just a couple years before joining many Americans would March with the nazis
True
So why they didn’t do it before d day oh that’s right. Because the resistance needed allied help
@@space4166 Hater moment lol
@@charakiga yeah cause look what they did after ww2 🙃
I lived in France in the early 80ies. EVERY Frenchman would tell you stories about their grandparents and other relatives being in the Resistance. Made me wonder, how the Germans could have controlled an entire country with a couple of thousand occupational forces, if half the population would have been active resistance fighters....It doesn‘t add up 😜. On the other hand, French are very reluctant to speak about the high degree of collaborated with the Germans, which is well documented by historians.
I would like to see you under military occupation. People are already grovelling today for simple health measures. It's always funny to hear the "analyses" of the brave internet users.
@@roideschats8799 dear king of cats. I do not deny the cruelty of the German occupation, it was beyond any doubt. But I doubt that so many French should have actively resisted. it just doesn't correspond to the facts. And have your experienced military occupation first hand?
@@bingobongo9521 Of course most people did not actively resist! It was always a minority who fought actively. But most people rejected the German occupation, and resisted in their hearts, or through passive resistance actions. That is history (which is widely documented by historians, based on police and territorial intelligence reports). In addition, 1.8 million men were military prisoners in Germany, plus 650,000 young forced labourers. There were also 400,000 deaths. This reduced the number of people of fighting age and condition. Many others stayed with their families, to feed them at a time when there was very little to eat.
But above all, the occupying troops were far more than "a few thousand", since they were massively stationed along the Atlantic and Mediterranean coast to avoid a landing. Moreover, to face a professional and mechanical army, with a few guns and without training, is an illusion. Moreover, the Vercors and Glières maquis were liquidated in this way.
@@roideschats8799 And I do not deny any of it. My original point was that many French explained to me, that their parents / grandparents would have been active resistance fighters. And that's just unlikely.
The French resistance was fragmented by factions and infighting which made them not as effectual as they could have been. Some resistance cells actually reported on others that may not have followed the same political ideology.
"Here upon these stones
We will build our barricade
In the heart of the city
We claim as our own!"
lets not deny the fact that France needed Soviet, britain and USA to declare war on Germany to get independence.
@@TatarProductions It’s just a quote but I see what u mean
Freedom !
@@jacobusvanhaarlem3735 *charges* 😂
The truth is the resistance waited until nearly all Wehrmacht forces had left Paris (there was not that much in the first place) and then attacked the last bunch to leave, they were mostly administrators left, not as brave as is made out. Try consider the propaganda
About 40,000 Poles were active in the French resistance movement during World War II. So if the French Resistance was around 400,000 people, it turns out 10 percent of them were Poles.
400 000 people ? Definitely not lol. Maybe you had 400 000 Free French Forces but outside of France
Long live the French resistance fighters. Long live the Brazilian colonel, Apolonio de Carvalho, who freed Carmaux, Albi and Toulouse.
The truth is the resistance waited until nearly all Wehrmacht forces had left Paris (there was not that much in the first place) and then attacked the last bunch to leave, they were mostly administrators left, not as brave as is made out. Try consider the propaganda
@@Rick356A Try to be the resistance under the Nazi occupation. Apolonio de Carvalho, for example: he fought against Franco's fascists in Spain, against Hitler's Nazis in France and against the Military Dictatorship in Brazil financed by Presidents Kenedy and Johnson.
@@valdivinonunes7172 Look at Europe today, was it worth it?
@@LaughingMan44DO YOU PREFER TO LIVE UNDER FEAR, HORROR, SLAVERY AND NAZI REGIME, GESTAPO, SS AND TORTURES? IF YOU PREFER LIVING LIKE THAT, ON A LIVING HELL ON EARTH, THE CHOICE IS YOURS. NO COMMENTS.👎👎👎
DeGaulle taking the credit...for doing absolutely nothing.
If organize and leading the French resistance, making it at efficient at possible is nothing, good for you.
@@mrsupremegascon It was nothing, DeGaulle was political no provisional!
Battle of Bir Hakeim was fought by itself, I guess
There is something so personable about watching footage of resistance.. our fathers, mothers grandfathers... all taking a shot with whatever they have...
This is all fake propaganda though. The real French resistance actually happened in Berlin in 1945 when the Frenchmen of the 33rd Waffen SS Grenadier division, Charlemagne defended Berlin until almost the last man from the Russian horde. The French soldiers were actually some of the best fighters in the German Wehrmacht and SS and served Germany heroically for the entirety of the war.
@@jerrygoldsmith2022 The French soldiers revolted
Charles de Gaulle walking through the streets triumphantly. He stayed a short walk away from where my grandfather lived in England, apparently a very rude and arrogant person to those surrounding him. He then scorned Britain despite the government shielding him from harm.
He was very arrogant and rude and a coward. He ran away and left the regular french people on their own. And above all let’s never forget the brave American soldiers who fought and some who gave their lives to free Europe. D’ Gaule wouldn’t make a pimple on their behinds.
french has the most victory in battle, but 1 surrender and the people were quick to judge
Some incredible footage here. Remarkable slice of history.
3:30 bro seems tired at the fact he’s had to fight Germans in two wars
He is holding a Mauser g41, quite a rare experimental rifle. That's quite the war prize
@@ONTHEPASSWITHMAX it's not common but 145k g41s from both manufacturers were built
@@gabrielcooper1248 That's correct, but most of them were G41(Walther) He is holding a G41 (Mauser). Only 6,673 were produced before production was halted, and of these,1,673 were returned as unusable.
The resistance volunteers definitely were brave soles
Those who liberated Paris from Nazism, was the 9th company of Spaniard republicans, not to forget the French.
Damned Republicans getting in the way of taking over the world
@@jarberwoks8399 you mean commies, republicanism in spain was practically communism
@@JesseLatourrette It was a joke.
the republicans in spain were a very broad movement from liberals to communists to anarchist leftists , so where they communists? some of them probally , but not all
There were not only Spaniards but they were part of the first group that was sent. The allied commander (USA) didn't want the role of liberators of Paris to be given to blacks and Arabs and De Gaulle was quite in a pickle (about 60% of his mens were Blacks) so he had to send quickly the first "white" soldiers he had. But I think there were also some French special troops and SAS about at the same time
France : We win now , what now?
Gaulle : Bully Indochina
France : *oui*
and they really had an oppurtunity to create an independent indo, instead the french chose to spend over a decade getting their asses handed to them by patriotic citizenz. and of course we had to escalate the idiocy by not seeing the error of that philosophy, how many had to be murdered just to lose.
While the British empire decided to free their colonies after WWII, of course. And so did the American Empire, and the soviets as well. Oh, wait...
@@denniscashell2407 How about you give back Texas to Mexico ?
@@santiagolobos4535 yo nazi en Nuevo Mexico, y crezi en Miami. And I can tell u straight, give Texas to the CIA funded cartels,no.
@@denniscashell2407 Ok give it to native americanos entonces
Now most of Western European is Muslim. Grass ain’t greener sometimes.
It's a pity France has forgotten how the British army sacrificed so many soldiers to liberate their country, nowadays the French government treat the UK with contempt.
the french saved the british army in Dunkirk
The German tanks are actually French tanks captured in 1940.
@gregory hatton Nope, although there is one panther, the rest are captured French tanks (Somua S35s I believe but I could be wrong) Edit: might be Hotchkiss H35/39s actually
@JOSEPH PRINCE thanks for clearing it up!
3:42 Jeff Goldblum who has a Google made time machine, and regularly goes back to Paris 1944 to fight the Nazis
that was some pretty serious hand to hand combat in paris.
No. These are just some pictures for the after war stories.
Ask Warsaw uprising how it really is.
@@neinnein9306 bruh, imagine think there was no fighting in Paris, typical 3 IQ..
@@inhocsignovinces1327 hä?
The truth is the resistance waited until nearly all Wehrmacht forces had left Paris (there was not that much in the first place) and then attacked the last bunch to leave, they were mostly administrators left, not as brave as is made out. Try consider the propaganda
@@Rick356A Germans lost at Paris 3200 deads and 12800 prisoners. Bruh.
Spielberg saw this for sure. 4:39, one of the final scene at the siege in the movie.
I'm talking about Saving Private Ryan.
@@jakunamatata99 Not to be confused with Shaving Ryan's Privates.
saving private ryan is historically inaccurate propoganda movie.
@@dismas8884 i'm just saying that Spielberg maybe saw this footage. Nothing more to say, after that de can argue in another conversation if it's a movie propaganda or not.
@@dismas8884 It also can't hold a candle to Shaving Ryan's Privates.
4:10 wounded german soldier with rounds landing near him. Amazing footage
Bad day
It's not a german, it's a FFI fighter.
@@matydrum it looks like he was wearing a German field cap.
@@Mr_Fancypants nope. It's civilian clothes and he has a sten or a short carbine which the German would not have. He was a resistance fighter.
It's a French Resistance guy not a German Solider..He stole that uniform
it´s funny, because the first troops to arrive in Paris were Spanish exiles from their country, integrated into the Leclrec division.
indeed, but few people will tell you that today
Leclerc had many troops in his FFL not just Spanish republicans. French troops from 1940, pieds-noirs French born in African colonies, Asians from Indochina, Morrocan goumiers and Senegalese tirailleurs from African colonies, Vichyst troops from Africa that rejoined him after 1942 etc and of course many Spanish republicans
Leclerc literally had everyone in his ranks. Nit just Spanish.
Amado Granell from Valencia, Dronne column (Leclerc 2nd division) was the 1st one at the town hall announcing Paris was liberated.
The French are so brave once they know what the winning side is.
Yeah like Americans in 1918 and 1944.
No actually the French fought early even though they were on the losing side 1914, Verdun 1917, Dunkirk 1940, Bir Hakeim 1942
Ignorant haters are brainwashed and unable to educate themselves
@@niksarass Lmaooooo you roasted him
True😂 still beter than the Italians though, who just switch teams when their opponent gets the upper hand
i salute to the camera man
Fantastic to see the brave people of Paris rising up and destroying their oppressors.
that rich seeing as france has colonized and kept lesser developed countries down for centuries
ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
If only the France army never gave up, many countries stayed to help the world and they pull back one of the most helpful armies? Tough.
@@ovo_daedae6678 They didn't give up though. Thousands of French went to fight for Germany in the Army and SS
yeah sure it only took them years...The Resistance was a joke.
And here I thought that France's "traditional enemy" was England... lol
If all nations back then could see what is going on in the world today, everyone would have sided with Germany. They were the last great knights of Europe. It's a shame the history books were already being written long before 1939!!
England was France's enemy from the Middle Ages until Napoleon. Then it became an ally of circumstance, because of the rise of the common German threat (a threat that did not exist before the industrial revolution).
@@ianmills5237 Kindly stick that Nazi apology right up your arse Ian.
@@georgemorley1029 Aha another dumb onion to add to the masses. Well done you!!
@@ianmills5237 Maybe if the Germans had wanted to write the history books, they should have spent a little less time industrializing the murder of minorities and a little more time fighting the Bolsheviks. 😂 😂 😂
Heydrich prioritized the movement of victims to death camps by rail over the movement of troops and arms to the Eastern Front. The Wannsee Protocols were literally written by the Germans.
bruh the resistance set the red cross pickup truck full of wounded and dead on fire
It was a nazi truck, full of nazis.
@@ML-xx9kc doesnt matter they where already wounded and wouldnt be coming back to war
@@michaeliscool3007 How do you know that? Seems like you're making a lot of assumptions for the sake of being a nazi sympathiser.
@Sanctus Paulusexactly, some people are so ignorant!
4:46 kind of a bad day when your head is on fire
Well done the French people for standing up to the Germans….but don’t think you’re getting our fish🇬🇧
Though they did fight the Germans to a certain degree they fought other underground groups more. Highly fractured. British sos men provided direction and organization
British soldiers? the same who fled in Dunkerque?? it is so funny...thanks for this
@@ramlebelier8225 no hbes talking about intelligence groups not soldiers. anyway he was being dumb, why would anyone try and argue that another nation's contribution to the defeat of the nazis is worth overshadowing. It was a team effort
@@nietzchepreacher9477 because history in school books is not the truth and U.K has a lot of butt casseroles...France fighted Deutschland, Italy, in Syria, Indochina...and U.K because they attacked our Marine in North Africa...so don't say that UK bring us something
@@ramlebelier8225 butt casseroles? Wtf hahahaha!! Of course they did, it was a world War after all, though the claims of fighting the british were extremely minor, and highly misrepresentative. The British navy sunk some ships sure, and some minor stuff happened in Madagascar too. But France didn't fight Germany, Italy and Britain, it fought Germany, Italy (and the other axis nations). Britain and France fought on the same side? Do you honestly not understand that? I feel as though you are putting national pride ahead of the truth, Mon ami. No good reason for it.
@@nietzchepreacher9477 what do you think about Mers el Kébir? why British forces runed away in Dunkerque? Sedan?without saying to the French, of course, it was more funny... I am gentle, I will help you...France had to loose the war, it was the project between your first minister who loved more money than liberty ans his country and the traitor, a certain colonel De Gaulle...this is the reason why he was in England....you want to know other things about "the great Britain", my friend??? for me it is a very good reason
les enfants de la patrie le jour de gloire est arrivé !!!!
Que sangre tienen los franceses aplaudo de pié su cultura y su historia. No es sorpresa que sean la tercera ascendencia de la Argentina en donde han dejado una huella muy fuerte y notable.
One has to imagine that during that time, the Krauts occupying Paris were sorry they ever marched into their neighboring country.
Are you forgetting France declared war on the ‘Krauts’ first? What on earth would you expect Germany to do?
@@lenka2042 France declared war on Germany after they invaded Poland
@@ozymandias1192 He's a boomerwaffen dont bother.
@@ozymandias1192 does'nt change the fact that FRA declared war on GER
btw... RUS also invaded Poland ;)
@@ozymandias1192 Ah yes Poland, that heartland of the West...
Rise up you can do it again now Viva la France! Sending love from America and strength! 🙏🏻❤️
From France with love 🇺🇸❤️🇫🇷
Yes, with love American brother ! 🇨🇵❤🇺🇲
@@UnChienRandom love to you too French sister ❤️🇺🇲
Most French cooperated with the Germans.
Most people didn't do anything and just tried to survive those hard times, but i'm sure you would have been a hero in the same situation...
@@claudegatineau9145 think that you are America?
@@matiasreyna8032 What America? America traded with the nazis
Even though i dont sympathize with the german war machine, i do feel sorry for those poor lads burning to death on that truck. They were young men who, if they had lived to see the end of the war, could have started families and eventually years later meet their french rivals in friendship and shake hands in respect
true. No matter what side, bad or good, the horror and unfortunate things of war applies to both.
It's also a war crime to attack a combatant who has been wounded and has ceased to pose a threat to other forces.
07:23 De Gaulle showing his Karate moves !!
Watch the movie is Paris burning that will tell you all u need to know
French resistance 5th June 1944 - 23 people. French resistance 7th June 1944 - everyone who lived there.
Annoying B'stard - Ah...ah...ah...right !
You believe any BS they tell you. Pretty sure you believe that your country has the highest standards while 80% of your people can be compared with third world
@@niksarass My people?
@@annoyingbstard9407 Yes your people. Prove me I am wrong
@@niksarass Prove you, you’re wrong? No, you’ve lost me there. Stick to a language you can cope with - whatever that is.
Back then you could render aid with carry a red-cross flag.... today in middle east they target those that carry those flags... no honor at all
Today, there's no honor at all. they put IED or landmine everywhere, target civils, attack school or hospital...
It’s the religion they believe that’s to blame.
@@NotThatGuyPal.Wtf?
@@Armemers was referring to the comment above me. They’re radicals that believe anyone who doesn’t follow their ways need to die.
@@Armemerstriggered communist. He’s right
Yeah, how brave of these resistance fighters to rise up as the Wermacht is pulling out of Paris. A real victory. If only they would have been this brave in 1940.
Preaching from the comfort of your armchair... might have been a bit different if you were there. Plenty ended up dead or in camps due to their efforts well before this.
That's a misinformation about the battle of France, a lot of people think French army and people gave up and retreat, some did following orders but a lot disobey, stayed and fought to the death against german, even all the cadets from a military school died holding a bridge, giving time to the Belgium and British to retreat to Dunkerque (they didn't old their lignes as they were supposed). Civilians also fought but were outnumbered and outgunned
>60k of death soldiers in 40 days
>"NoT bRaVe"
@@pujo6532 There's a large line between bravery, and stupidity
@@catgamingftw8239 Because you judge that they all died by stupidity
They were all collaborators until the Allies were at the gates of Paris. Only then did these cowards become resistence.
Utter drivel from another anglo armchair warrior fed on myths and too lazy to do the research. FYI French resistance began almost from the moment the armistice was signed in 1940. And it came from all sectors and all classes of French society. Armed resistance actively began in 1941 and lasted till October 1944, by which time the resistance numbered some 400,000 active members (the 4th largest standing force combating the Nazis at that time). They were invaluable in the run up to D-Day, conducting intelligence and sabotage operations that were vital to the success of the landings. They suffered terrible reprisals for their actions and any captured member faced extreme torture and certain death at the hands of the Gestapo. Look up the horror of Oradour-Sur-Glane before posting asinine comments.
@@Idcanymore510 All the people all over Europe and the USA wearing their face muzzles and happy to be confined to their homes while their societies are being destroyed illustrate that most people are sheep and only a small minority are "Resistance"
the British were hidden behind the sea, and the Americans behind the ocean. The French did not collaborate, they were occupied by a foreign army. Your words are inconsistent. See how people obey simple "sanitary measures" today... and try to compare it to a military occupation, in proportion. Always funny to read the brave ones on the internet.
@@Idcanymore510 My uncle was at Oradour-Sur-Glane, he and his comrades had nothing but contempt for the Resistance who "would kill indiscriminately and then hide behind the women's skirts leaving the civilian population to take the reprisals."
@@roideschats8799 hidden behind the sea and ocean. What do you mean by this statement?
Thank you to all the families of the resistance,
Yeah France is looking great now. LMAO
I am proud of my French heritage 🇹🇫🇼🇫🇫🇷
Wow! The real thing...
Very well presented!!!
Being with german 4 years
Becoming a resistant 2 days before the german retreat
De Gaulle was a resistant since 1940
@@Wallace-oh6qy He fled to England, hardly resisting is it
@@mmamdw De Gaulle fled to England in order to organize a resistance movement. It would have been impossible for him to do it from France as he was sentenced to death by the Vichy Government. De Gaulle was seen as a traitor and a coward by Vichy and I have noticed that many people today still believe Vichy Propaganda.
@@phlm9038 He fled to England long before Vichy france was established
@@mmamdw Yes and good he did otherwise he wouldn't have been able to do so. He left on the 16th of June because he knew what was going to happen. He was already seen as a traitor from the day he left but it's the Vichy Government that sentenced him to death later and started the propaganda against him.
feels strange to see this type of close up battle footage from 1944, i only usually see this type in modern day
This was not shown in France
French women got my grandad back to England ,he said they were some of the bravest people who never really got a mention in wartime heroics.
Later everyone was in the resistance ;)
You chose a great alias; why not Heinrich Müller, while you were at it?
@@Ingremance Gestapo Müller?
@@michaelwittmann1973 The very same.
I was thus questioning the choice of your alias...
@@Ingremance Nothing against Wittmann here. Great soldier.
@@michaelwittmann1973 There are many versions of his story and legend. He was definitely a Third Reich hero and it is hard to tell the part of Nazi propaganda.
Here is a quote from Wikipedia: "Historians have mixed opinions as to his tactical performance in battle. Some praised his actions at Villers-Bocage, while others found his abilities lacking, and the praise for his tank kills overstated. "
I pity anyone who isn't French when I hear the Marseillaise.
This is a Propaganda fi,lm of that time. History says that the French resistance was almost non-existant with many MI6 people sacrificing their lives in an effort to organise them mainly to learn Nazi secrets. The quick surrender, the land without mountains to hide, and the mass scale collaboration, did not give the French opportunity to rebel up to the moment that the Germans were leaving. (serbia and greece had the greatest resistance because of the hard mountainous landscape)
So the rebel is fake ?
@@Banggeek Please clarify the question
@@damnyourpasswords sorry. So tiny amount of resistance. And collaboration with nazi is normal? Like dutch people
@@Banggeek I agree, I dont know why they collaborated so massively, and why they surrendered in only a few days after the Germans entered France
@@damnyourpasswords Your assumption is wrong and unfortunately could not ever be true if we look at the facts.
1. France fell in a matter of several weeks, not days, with many those that escaped to Britain through Dunkerque taking ferries back to continue the fight in the south. Many of whom would later leave to join Britain or the colonies.
2. The French resistance neutralized hundreds of rail networks in their OWN country on the day of the Normandy landings alone to prevent the Wehrmacht from reinforcing the shores.
3. The rapid liberation of the entirety of south-western France can be attributed to the work of French resistance movements freeing cities in the countryside surrounding American spearheads.
4. The Free Republic of Vercors is another fact that demolishes your claims; Maquis resistance movements sought to free their region amidst bloody repressions and were massacred for it due to lack of Allied commitment.
5. It is simply untrue to say France did not have resistance movements, the post-V-day French army amounted to 1.2 million men, in majority formed from the French Forces of the Interior (Official name of the resistance), many of whom were former soldiers of the 1940 campaign. I don't think resistanceless countries could have formed armies numbering in the millions half a year after their liberation.
Do not let false assumptions and hearsay cloud your words when you have the facts.
It's not really acknowledged but by about 1943 the Germans had come very near to neutralising the French Resistance so that a General was heard to say What Resistance when asked about it. If D Day had not happened it is doubtful that the disparate force would have ever prevailed against the Occupation.
The French resistance was exaggerate quite a bit. Many other countries like Poland had much more effective resistances.
no the french resistance was much more effective and decisive in normandy, in paris, in Africa and on all front of the war
@@7macfly2 yeah sure ... keep telling that to yourself
@@timjuhls i will, you keep crying
@@7macfly2 i have some very patriotic french friends and even they make jokes about the " myth de la resistance " cause so many french claim to have resistance fighters in there families
@@timjuhls if you want to talk about a effective resistance , French is the number one like it or not bruv . The Polish one is a bit more heroic yes cause they all died , but the effectiveness is nothing comparate to French , the D day , Afrika , making weak germans in France and all , you cant compare them
Many that fought the Germans were Spanish republicans that had fled to France after Franco's victory.
200000 o mas , la mayoria vascos y catalanes
@@franar6338
Yep, you are right.
Even so many years after people are still arguing about who was the best in the comments... But none have been in a country under nazi occupation, probably at war either or served their own country.
Without intel from the resistance the allies would have a hard time and without the allies France would not have been liberated. Team effort. And sure after liberation everybody was in the resistance, sounds better than collabo
Not really, the allies didnt trust the intel the resistance gave them and they didnt even tell degualle the real invasion date
@@james3414 They didn't trust but it doesn't change the fact they were effective. Eisenhower said the resistance operations were equivalent to 10-15 divisions at landing.
@@santiagolobos4535 I know he said that but we don’t know why he said that, because there isn’t record of 10+ divisions existing or being counted, etc. He was probably just helping the French save face, this isn’t my random opinion it’s informed conjecture by historians.
@@james3414 "what cut the ice with us was the fact that when we came to France the Resistance was so effective that it took half a dozen real live German divisions to contend with it, divisions which might otherwise have been on our backs in the Bocage. And it made the most cynical sit up and take notice when we learned from German field officers that the Germans in central France were truly terrified, had to live under arms, could not move freely, had lost all control in sizable sectors even before we came ... It was a military fact that the French were worth at least a score of divisions to us, maybe more"
Officer Ralph ingersoll
And Eisenhower said the previous quote in his personal memoirs. Why he said that ? Maybe he had an idea about the war since he fought it. More than denials and negationnists from today...
of course the french waited until the americans were right outside paris
I'm not able to tell if you're trolling, but I do wonder your knowledge of the resistance movement in occupied France
@@LucaHulot nothing compared to what the poles did, when germany invaded vichy france in 42, once again the french army did nothing
@@shutup2751 alright fair enough, seems like I need to learn more about my country's cowardice. I think the annoyance many french feel stems from the fact it's still spat in our face despite time having moved forward
What else were they supposed to go? Go off half-cocked and get slaughtered by the nazis without support?
the saboteur ALARAM 5 music plays...
NICE TO SEE NOT ONE PERSON ON THEIR PHONE BUT INSTEAD LIVING THE MOMENT.
Great people!💪
The truth is the resistance waited until nearly all Wehrmacht forces had left Paris (there was not that much in the first place) and then attacked the last bunch to leave, they were mostly administrators left, not as brave as is made out. Try consider the propaganda
@@Rick356A Stop your propaganda man, I know you hate Frenchies but slow down on the lies.
@@Alhmaleonn i see a lot of his comment and i think it's a neon*zi or something like that
The ugly story of the cooperation of the French police deporting Jews to the gas chamber was forgotten. The children left alone without their parents, no food and water in empty appartements was also quick forgotten by the French. Same story in many countrys like Norway,.
Where were these fighters in 1941?
Dunkirk, Bir Hakeim, etc. They surely were not in your country though
read a book of history, you will know
@@didierpaya9069 So France unsurrendered after D-Day?
@@Crashed131963 Is it your only objective in life, to mock France in every damn youtube video? Does that make your life any less miserable ? Sad dude...
Heroes, all of 'em!
We don't have strong men like this anymore. Hence the world we live in.
a world of internet commmunication and no war?
at least for paris, and europe
Viva le Gens de la france🇫🇷 respect from mexico 🇲🇽
Fascinating reading the comments when dealing with WW2 clips. Somewhat like watching football being a fan of one of the teams playing. Its about the shortcomings of the enemy, the bravery of your team and so on. History tells you that your fate indeed depend on with side of a border you are born. Sometimes you fight in what you truly believe is right sometimes you don't care as long as you and your family, friends and so on survive. The propaganda movies on all sides shows you macho resistance men with a cigarette and a gun, the other side shows you well equipped elite soldiers on a Panther moving towards the enemy. All are humans individuals staging for us to choose the right side. Not only in the 40s but for now.
What a poor, tasteless comment. This is the worst case you could give to support your arguement. Nazi germany was ,objectively, one of the most deviant, cruel and oppressive regimes in human history. Standing up against it is moral. Collaboration is not. This has nothing to do with the side of border you were born in. Trying to justify axis war crimes as allied propoganda shows very extreme levels of historical ignorance and fascist apologism.
I could easily let this slide in the context of ww1, for example, but not this. You are from the future, you can judge history from a moral and objective point of view. Why would you go out of your way to make it seem like ww2 was just "another" conflict that didnt include some of the most horrific and unjustified actions in human history? In what way is parisians standing up for their city seem negative and nazis destroying it positive? Use your brain. Not everying or everyone is biased. Some people can glance over their nationality/heritage and judge things as they were.
What a channel!
Yet u disrespect the French. These people fought back with their lives.
Very "few" french were brave...most wars the french gave up too easily.
@@hankupyours6248 You urgently need to read this following press article :
"It's time to give the French Army the credit it deserves, Gervase Phillips, Principal Lecturer in History, explains France's true role in the First and Second World War".
@@hankupyours6248 France has the highest account of victories in history, you ignorant. Crazy how easily people can believe utter bs
No one should ever forget the bravely of french soldiers. During Battle in Berlin the French Waffen SS Charlemagne Divison consisiting of 7340 Frenchmen bravely fought back the red soviet tide in the name of the Hitler and the Reich. They were one of the last divisions to surender in Berlin. Most of them died, sacrificing their lives in the fight for nazism.
Bravest people … I see society today and think how weak we all are compared to these people. And the way simpletons bash the flag disrespecting everyone who risked everything. It disgusts me.
Did you see the SJWs on the US Women's Soccer team disrespecting a WWII veteran who played the S.S.B.
on a harmonica?
The French resistance was a PR campaign for audiences in allied countries. France collaborated with the Nazis.
As much than UK before war who were happy to send country like Czechia for free to nazi without listen the French advise or czech opinion, and yes without French resistance for give info to SOS there will not had D-DAY succed
God Bless La France et ses citoyens. Take your country back.
Shame they didnt fight before the germans was retreating....
Then they'd have had the full force of the Wehrmacht and SS on them. It would have been another Warsaw. The Nazis had a good go at wiping Warsaw off the map. Literally.
Someone touched Barry in the naughty areas when he was young
@@TheFreshSpam No i can just remember my father telling me how my grandad was killed in Belgium after the french ran and left them behind to fight alone, Hes buried in a belgium cemetry which my father never got to visit. But thats ok you can just post a inappropriate reply because you have the freedom to do that.
@@barryhenshaw3462 frenchs and belgians ran after Bitishes
@@didierpaya9069 You need to check your history, the french had been defeated and moral was in shambles , French Prime Minister Paul Reynaud telephoned the new British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill and said, "We have been defeated. We are beaten; we have lost the battle." Churchill, tried to boast his moral and reminded the Prime Minister of all the times the Germans had broken through the Allied lines in the First World War only to be stopped. Reynaud was, however, inconsolable, plus the commander of the French 1st Army Group Billotte was incapable of taking action that delayed any counterattack or to stop the already routing french troops fleeing, sad fact was the best reserves where held back till it was too late and the rout had already began...
There should be a movie about this.
There is. "Is Paris burning?" (Paris brûle-t-il ?)
“Battling German soldiers” once the real fighting had been done for them.
the real fight was done by the Russians... just as the French had done the real fight in 1914.
@@roideschats8799 Yes, the Russians steadily rolled the Germans back to Berlin after Stalingrad but France did no such thing in 1914, with the German army advancing to within 50 miles from Paris by November.
@@wattage2007 when France started to advance in 1918 and was able to throw back German to Rhine, we were asked by England and USA to stop, and negociate armistice. We had been deprived of our victory.
Because England and USA wanted France to defeat Germany... but not to rebuilt great France.
In 1944, they came in Normandy, in order to limitate the new expansion of Russia...
There was also the comparison of size of country. In terms of population, France was 1/3 smaller than Germany in 1914, and 1/2 smaller in 1940. Russia was more than 2x bigger than Germany.
And the industrial force : Germany was the first industry in 1914, face to an agricultural France. And, by contrary of 40-45, the german factories functioned to the end of war.
And the geographical situation. France is immediatly connect with Germany. There is 300 km from German border (Metz at that time !) to Paris, and 1800 km from German border to Moscow. And the width of the front-line is very concentrate between Belgium and Switzerland, while there is 2 000 km from north to south on russian front.
And let not speak about England or USA which are protected behind a sea or an ocean !
The confrontation ground is totally different. It permitted to bigger Germany to concentrate on smaller France. While smaller Germany was diluted face to bigger Russia.
Just imagine that a double bigger USSR was in Canada face to the USA... or the Germany was in Scotland face to England. It is changing the climate !
@@wattage2007 Russians had to retreat a distance that is several times the size of France, in 1941
@@niksarass Indeed and the Germans lost more men taking one house in Stalingrad than they lost taking Paris.
French Resistances Casualties:
8-23 (Men & Woman)
French Resistance's Death Names:
Mârtin Marguet
Amiêt Botznovatuey
Masziel Kyùbblefuerkeng
Ranzy Schichter
Lukas Wyn Gozspelnamkê
Solainge Lâbuitzen
Amias Koopelja
Fergia Lenguaangsen
And also :
Henri Abbadie
Yvonne Abbas
Abbé Pierre
Marcel Abraham
Thérèse Adloff
Jean-Marie Arhus
Jacques Arthuys
Emmanuel d'Astier de la Vigerie
Lucie and Raymond Aubrac
Marie-Thérèse Auffray
Edouard Barbe
Marcel Baudot
Jacque Baudry
Pierre Benoît
Jean Bernard
Etc....................
France surrendered to the Nazis on the grounds that Paris would be devastated ... 😂
The only event that will never just be just history.
Don’t show the french surrendering and the Germans walking through France 🤣
@@FulhamboyH and how about the video of soviet soldiers walking through Berlin?
Spitting on the Canadians as they marched through the city of Dieppe. Sounds great!
The Allies refusing the smuggle anymore arms into the city because the French resistance is fighting each other instead of the Germans. Not so great
Jokes aside French resistance played an important role in making D-Day a success.
I know you said it's a joke, but can you tell me where the myth of the French resistance fighing each other is coming from ? It didn't happen in France but in Yougoslavia.
@@phlm9038 wish I had the source it's fairly obscure. From what I understood the city fighting was well coordinated with everyone more or less cooperating and working together against the Germans. In Rural France and outside of Paris specifically it was run by extremists that were persuing political objectives.
@@liampett1313 I guess the source is obscure as it could be coming from Vichy Propaganda, as many clichés about the French Army were also started by Vichy. Or maybe people are just confusing with what happened in Yugoslavia. I found the information about the Yugloslav resistance by chance in a book I read about something else.
@@liampett1313 The source is obscure? Sounds like its your ass mate.
It was the World War II , the Vietnam War, the Afghanistan War that taught us, the Asians, that how weak and vulnerable European , American and Russian Colonial powers were actually...
Viva lá France I love the French people
French got betrayed by the gouvernement , but the people never stopped to fight
There are some who look at this and curse bitterly that the democratic forces won. But im ok with that. They have a right to believe what they believe in a democratic country
I hear ya. Those Germans were the last great knights of Europe
Those who like the Nazis are too stupid to know that they would not have had the freedom to write stupid drivel if the Nazis had won.
@@stevehay964 Wouldn't have needed to...
Many many bitter nostalgic neo n. in the comments of this types of video
Cope.
Podías comentar qué pasó con la Resistencia Francesa desde el 1 de septiembre de 1939 hasta el 22 de Junio de 1941..entre esas fechas comvatieron a los alemanes o colaboraron con ellos????