Sacrifice in Vain | Defense of Lyon

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  • čas přidán 23. 02. 2024
  • The crimes committed by German forces during the Second World War are a topic which has received a large amount of attention in post-WW2 historiography. However, while much has been written, misconceptions still exist, perhaps most notably about which armed forces committed crimes, meaning the Waffen SS, of course, but often also the Wehrmacht, and when and where. While the largest scale crimes took place in the East from 1941 onward, there were already significant atrocities performed earlier in the war, in 1939 and 1940, not just in Poland, but also in France. Today, we’ll be dealing with the defense of Lyon, while a future video will deal with its bloody aftermath.
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    Sources:
    FARAC (Fédération des amicales régimentaires et d’anciens combattants de Lyon et de la région - ENG: Federation of Regimental and Veterans Associations of Lyon and its region): text of FARAC president Divisional General François Lescel: www.farac.org/index.php/memoi...
    Presentation by Julien Fargettas (Directeur du service départemental de la Loire de l’Office National des Anciens Combattants et victimes de guerre - ENG: Director of the Loire departemental service of the National Office of Veterans and Victims of War) and Baptise Garin (co-author of several works alongside Fargettas) via the CHRD (Centre d’histoire de la résistance et de la déportation - ENG: Center for the History of the Resistance and Deportation): www.chrd.lyon.fr/sites/chrd/f...
    Conference by Julien Fargettas, made available by the CHRD: www.chrd.lyon.fr/musee/confer...
    Visit to the CHRD
    Series of photographs from an unnamed German soldier
    Collection of documents of the Rhone prefecture’s fund, prefect’s office, General department’s archives 1935-1964, made available by the departmental archives of the Rhone and Lyon métropole: archives.rhone.fr/document/le...
    William Robin-Detraz. Le Tata sénégalais de Chasselay : ancrage spatial et appropriations de la mémoire des tirailleurs sénégalais. Géographie. 2019: dumas.ccsd.cnrs.fr/dumas-0289...
    Juin 1940: Combats et Massacres en Lyonnais, Julien Fargettas, Editions du putin, 2020
    Testimony of French Adjutant Rauquier, 1940
    Chemins de Mémoire (French government website), le tata de Chasselay: www.cheminsdememoire.gouv.fr/...
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    An article by Marisa Belhote
    Script by Stan
    Narrated by Stan
    Edited by Stan

Komentáře • 71

  • @rharding8698
    @rharding8698 Před 4 měsíci +23

    Appreciate you bringing this to light. France is the littlest known campaign to me next to Burma.

  • @lawrenceshadai4966
    @lawrenceshadai4966 Před 4 měsíci +10

    The myth of the "clean Wehrmacht" is just that- a myth. Thanks for touching on this topic.

  • @enscroggs
    @enscroggs Před 4 měsíci +4

    Many thanks, The fate of France after Dunkerque is often ignored.

  • @displacedyankee7819
    @displacedyankee7819 Před 4 měsíci +28

    Using some great clips in this video

    • @kampfgruppepeiper501
      @kampfgruppepeiper501 Před 4 měsíci +4

      I second that! A lot of clips that directly go with the script. Well done.

    • @thhseeking
      @thhseeking Před 4 měsíci +1

      @@kampfgruppepeiper501 Except for the bits showing U.S. troops :P

  • @shawnmoore7666
    @shawnmoore7666 Před 4 měsíci +6

    Outstanding, I very much appreciate your work. This story should be known by all that are interested in history.

  • @ptonpc
    @ptonpc Před 4 měsíci +5

    I imagine, considering the conflicting orders and lack of communications from higher up, it makes sense the defending troops would stick to the orders they *knew* came from legitimate authorities.
    Yet another example of war crimes committed by the nazis.

  • @edwemail8508
    @edwemail8508 Před 4 měsíci +4

    Thanks for posting

  • @ilsagutrune2372
    @ilsagutrune2372 Před 4 měsíci +5

    I love your tank videos and your website

  • @harbisonel7243
    @harbisonel7243 Před 4 měsíci +3

    Guys, maybe make a separate "Battle Encyclopedia" site/channel? I think it could really work, especially with how much detail you include.

  • @vladdrakul7851
    @vladdrakul7851 Před 4 měsíci

    Good luck and thanks for the good work!

  • @konst80hum
    @konst80hum Před 4 měsíci

    Very informative. Thank you.

  • @kctv8977
    @kctv8977 Před 4 měsíci +2

    Good vid very informative

  • @rodrigogoncalves6165
    @rodrigogoncalves6165 Před 4 měsíci +29

    CZcams sucks!

  • @paulkelk5142
    @paulkelk5142 Před 4 měsíci +2

    The videos you make are really interesting i really like them but i hate how CZcams demonitize these types of videos its like there trying to sanitize history so nobody hear about things like this that really happened in real life and there stories need to be told for people to learn about them

  • @robertsolomielke5134
    @robertsolomielke5134 Před 4 měsíci

    TY for the great research, and archival footage of important events in human history.
    As a minor historian myself, I see too many modern movements that wish to 'sugar coat' the facts, and hide the truth, and horror of human events.
    Some research took many years to come to light, and now it gets buried for the whims of ...?

  • @ottovonbismarck2443
    @ottovonbismarck2443 Před 4 měsíci +6

    3rd SS was a (fully) motorized INFANTRY division. It had NO TANKS at all in 1940. The (in-)famous SS divisions (1st, 2nd, 3rd and 5th) didn't become Panzer divisions until late 1943.
    So there was exactly ONE armored unit: 10th Panzerdivision. I know you can do better.
    Besides some EXCELLENT 1940 footage, why did you include 1944 stuff at 14:52 ? These are Jeeps and GIs.
    Also some nice footage of ex-French armored cars in German service in Russia. Although it doesn't fit either, I now know that Panhards were frequently fitted with frame antennas as radio cars, so you're forgiven.

    • @nhienleminhhue6605
      @nhienleminhhue6605 Před 4 měsíci

      He can do better I guess

    • @ptonpc
      @ptonpc Před 4 měsíci +1

      It happens, there will be a lack of footage of that time and area the channel can afford to use.

    • @ottovonbismarck2443
      @ottovonbismarck2443 Před 4 měsíci

      @@ptonpcIt's no big deal; but they could have cut it out as well.

  • @tedhardiman5438
    @tedhardiman5438 Před 4 měsíci

    These Videos fill in the GAPS😄

  • @LivingUnderRock
    @LivingUnderRock Před 4 měsíci

    Like your videos

  • @ivan5595
    @ivan5595 Před 4 měsíci +1

    The unit in the video 💀

  • @therealuncleowen2588
    @therealuncleowen2588 Před 4 měsíci +1

    9:57 The establishment of the defensive line north of Lyon took place in "peculiar" circumstances, even by the standards of France in collapse. I would say peculiar is the word you mean, rather than particular. As a native English speaker, that conveys your likely meaning far better.
    Hopefully my comment helps you with the algorithm, whether or not you choose to be concerned with my suggestions.

  • @Legoswclone
    @Legoswclone Před 4 měsíci +5

    ❤❤❤❤

  • @bwilliams463
    @bwilliams463 Před 4 měsíci +1

    I don't really know how CZcams works; what about this video would they punish it for?

    • @therealuncleowen2588
      @therealuncleowen2588 Před 4 měsíci +5

      Discussions of violence, execution of prisoners. It's ridiculous, of course, these are historical events from 80 years ago, but YT makes the rules.

  • @therealuncleowen2588
    @therealuncleowen2588 Před 4 měsíci

    I like your videos. The clips you find are impressive.
    Your English is good although you do misuse a few English words in understandable ways. For example, 19:27 it was a "commanding" position, not a commandeering position.
    There's one other that I heard, I'll post it if I can find it again.

  • @kitchenersown
    @kitchenersown Před 4 měsíci

    3rd SS wasnt even a division yet let alone a panzer one. They equired that status in 1943 i believe.

  • @hardcoremedic
    @hardcoremedic Před 4 měsíci +1

    panhards in german use after fall of french army, not during.

  • @dominickgarciavandongen
    @dominickgarciavandongen Před 4 měsíci +1

    I like tanks

  • @ivan5595
    @ivan5595 Před 4 měsíci

    Lyon has fallen. Its over.

  • @Beastslayer185
    @Beastslayer185 Před 4 měsíci

    Hello

  • @aleksazunjic9672
    @aleksazunjic9672 Před 4 měsíci +1

    Wehrmacht means armed forces. Waffen SS was part of Wehrmacht. When people say Wehrmacht , they usually mean Heer - i.e. army. This was most numerous part of Wehrmacht and committed most crimes against civilians, surrendered combatants etc ... especially in the East. Blaming SS and madman Hitler came only after the war, as they were convenient scapegoats.

    • @theholyinquisition389
      @theholyinquisition389 Před 2 měsíci

      That is wrong. The Wehrmacht had a separate command structure from the SS. The Waffen SS was the armed force of the SS, which was a parallel structure to the regular German state apparatus.
      This doesn't absolve the Wehrmacht of it's own crimes.

    • @aleksazunjic9672
      @aleksazunjic9672 Před 2 měsíci

      @@theholyinquisition389 Nope. One example : 6th Panzer Army, March 1945. Regular Heer formation, yet commanded by Oberst-Gruppenführer Sepp Dietrich. Included both Waffen SS and Heer divisions.

  • @genek8630
    @genek8630 Před 3 měsíci

    I had a friend of mine who was in the 9th US infantry division. He told me about a couple atrocities he witnessed that were committed by US troops.

  • @kitchenersown
    @kitchenersown Před 4 měsíci

    E

  • @w0lfgm
    @w0lfgm Před 4 měsíci

    Just one fix - SS Totenkopf was an infantry unit in 1940.

  • @MrFnfal
    @MrFnfal Před 4 měsíci

    CZcams is rediculas

  • @TallDude73
    @TallDude73 Před 4 měsíci +1

    The video is just random WW2 footage. At 15:00, it's an American soldier... Do better with the videos. I just listen to the voiceover, and ignore the video. Maybe do an audio podcast.

    • @kobeh6185
      @kobeh6185 Před 4 měsíci

      It was included because that's a French Renault tank that's flipped over.
      Also, you're a miserable c unt :)

  • @KamikazeMedias
    @KamikazeMedias Před 4 měsíci +1

    Correction - idigenous term - is incorectly used.also inherently ideologically leftist and racist as well
    Correct terms: African Natives, French Natives -
    Dont fall into this error pls - far too common

    • @TanksEncyclopediaYT
      @TanksEncyclopediaYT  Před 4 měsíci +9

      That's what the French called them at the time.

    • @KamikazeMedias
      @KamikazeMedias Před 4 měsíci

      @@TanksEncyclopediaYT still - mind current social climate - worth to be neutral. Or add some context info. Cuz i watched twice for some... None was seen

    • @talpark8796
      @talpark8796 Před 4 měsíci +2

      d.e.i. nonsense/BS

    • @KamikazeMedias
      @KamikazeMedias Před 4 měsíci

      @@talpark8796 yep. That's why im pointing this one out. The term indigenous is just wrong - and sounds too woke so better use alternatives. And i hate die bullshit

    • @flarvin8945
      @flarvin8945 Před 4 měsíci +4

      Somebody get their feelings hurt with a word that was used? Not even a so called "woke" term, as it has been used well before "woke." But it sounds too "woke" for you. lol

  • @cropathfinder
    @cropathfinder Před 4 měsíci +1

    TE should stick politics and this sort of thing out of their channel. Its a vehicle and technical channel and should stay that

    • @Alex-dz9jg
      @Alex-dz9jg Před 4 měsíci +4

      Can't talk about WW2 battles without including the Nazi warcrimes.

    • @therealuncleowen2588
      @therealuncleowen2588 Před 4 měsíci +4

      This video was excellent. I'll watch more if he makes more like this. War crimes were a part of WW2 and discussing them is hardly political. If it bothers you to learn that the Nazis executed Senegalese soldiers rather than take them prisoner, that says more about you than it does about the quality of the video.

    • @Alex-dz9jg
      @Alex-dz9jg Před 4 měsíci

      @@therealuncleowen2588I mean arguably it should bother anyone, it is monstrous to just up and execute soldiers and really shows just how bad the Nazis were even early on.

  • @Oberschutzee
    @Oberschutzee Před 4 měsíci

    what crap is this