Liberation of Paris after four years of Nazi occupation (June to August 1944)

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  • čas přidán 25. 05. 2023
  • This is an excerpt from the film "The Spirit of Liberation": • Spirit of Liberation -...
    Between the 19th and 25th August 1944 during the Second World War and in the course of Operation Overlord, the liberation of Paris took place. The capital of France had been occupied by German troops since June 1940. In mid-August 1944, a general strike set in motion the events of the eventual liberation, and an open revolt by French resistance fighters followed from 19th August. Allied formations advanced towards Paris in support, and soon the German city commander Dietrich von Choltitz capitulated in defiance of explicit orders from Adolf Hitler.
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Komentáře • 122

  • @harryhanz1690
    @harryhanz1690 Před rokem +27

    My great grandfather, who was wounded twice, said WWII was the best thing to ever happen to him. He met my great grandmother in Germany after the war.

    • @stubi1103
      @stubi1103 Před 2 měsíci +1

      Was your great Grandmother a German woman?

  • @TomSmith-ls5rn
    @TomSmith-ls5rn Před měsícem +9

    My Father was there. Thank you, so well done. Bravo.

  • @robfalter2522
    @robfalter2522 Před 5 měsíci +9

    those german POW were smiling because they knew they would eventually go home. the ones captured in the east by the soviets would either be slaves or dead

  • @barbarasmith3899
    @barbarasmith3899 Před 3 měsíci +14

    Please don’t block anything with a blurry box. It is important for people to see the actual carnage of war.

    • @Steveross2851
      @Steveross2851 Před měsícem +2

      @barbarasmith3899 that's CZcams censorship, probably, not the author of this video. CZcams increasingly frequently does this.

    • @Zeus2024-pn2ht
      @Zeus2024-pn2ht Před 23 dny +1

      @@Steveross2851 Yes, extremely annoying, and disgusting really. Liberal approach.

  • @oddity7263
    @oddity7263 Před 7 měsíci +10

    keep up the great work. best restored and colorized footage on the internet unlike many other attempts where the color is constantly glitching back to mono or that the only colors in it are glitching blue and orange. this channel's got the best i've seen so far.

    • @kevinindublin
      @kevinindublin Před 3 měsíci +1

      It's not 'colourised' footage. It's actual colour footage, shot on colour film of the time.

    • @oddity7263
      @oddity7263 Před 3 měsíci

      @@kevinindublin now is it? wow, from what I know, coloured footage at the time was quite rare and expensive, hard to come by, like they were only saved for super or delicately significant or important events, political or religious
      though I suppose footage of the final days of ww2 in Europe counts as quite significant...

  • @stephenchudds9392
    @stephenchudds9392 Před 17 dny +2

    My father in law piloted barges into Toulon harbor still mined. This video gives no hint of those mines. He said the French were starved. I'd like to know about those mines.

  • @lgarcia67
    @lgarcia67 Před měsícem +6

    Now imagine Easter European countries. They were liberated of 5 years of Germans only to spend 50 under the Soviets

  • @tombystander
    @tombystander Před rokem +40

    I wish channels like these were on trending vs useless couples breaking up or random ppl recieving painted phone cases

    • @SpickyGonzalez
      @SpickyGonzalez Před 17 dny +2

      Unfortunately you fought for the modern consumerist world that we live in

  • @carmelbrain7399
    @carmelbrain7399 Před rokem +8

    clear, concise, colourful

  • @benoithelie6236
    @benoithelie6236 Před 11 měsíci +8

    Je suis d'origine normande (manchoise), les images des destructions des villes normandes (Cherbourg, Caen surtout) sont vraiment terribles par rapport à celles des autres villes françaises libérées. Autrement, une des meilleurs vidéos sur cette période que j'ai pu voir.

  • @shanasapp6212
    @shanasapp6212 Před 20 dny +1

    I wish they wouldn't blur the wounded, I know it sounds barbaric, but it is important to see the realities of war and the destruction it causes.

  • @woodrowpreacely7521
    @woodrowpreacely7521 Před 11 měsíci +10

    George Stephen's films were already very good but imagine these have been enhanced to HD as well. So fascinating! Makes 80 years ago look like yesterday! We all need to remember though Nazis are back in 2023 within America itself this time - trying to take over. Hitler Tojo and Mussolini would be proud.

  • @marquinho999
    @marquinho999 Před rokem +7

    "Cherbourg streets are a shambles" - Chelsea Football Club's season, mate!

  • @vdo3000
    @vdo3000 Před 11 měsíci +4

    15:48 Ernest Hemingway!

  • @DylansPen
    @DylansPen Před 27 dny +2

    I'm guessing most German soldiers were greatful they had been captured and were in camps behind barbed wire, it meant the war was over for them, they'd live through it.

  • @johnbulger8044
    @johnbulger8044 Před 17 dny +1

    the color film brings all these events alive

  • @KaoretheHalfDemon
    @KaoretheHalfDemon Před měsícem +1

    The invasion and advance into France might have been much harder without the French Resistance I think.

  • @stephenchudds9392
    @stephenchudds9392 Před 17 dny

    The veterans on our side said the enemy uniforms were grey. But these seem to be quite green.

  • @Jerseyboondocks
    @Jerseyboondocks Před měsícem

    But how is Paris and France doing now -all these years after the liberation?

  • @rolandgerard6064
    @rolandgerard6064 Před rokem

    Thanks

  • @betsyduane3461
    @betsyduane3461 Před 2 měsíci +2

    Not a fan of the added sound

    • @rudolfkraffzick642
      @rudolfkraffzick642 Před měsícem

      Only the Russians are blamed for the death "missing" of over more than 1 Mio. German POWs. Not to mention of the Mio. killed civilians (starvation) after the unconditional surrender. This is denied history of the winners who "take it all", as the American song states.

  • @princeedmunddukeofedinburg

    Time is a flat circle....

    • @terryreynolds4346
      @terryreynolds4346 Před rokem +1

      Nah a donut

    • @woodrowpreacely7521
      @woodrowpreacely7521 Před 11 měsíci +1

      Color is so good here really could have been made yesterday. Does make one think - and there's scientists who confirm it now - that we can go backward and forward in time - as time is circular and not linear as we thought. Government knows it's true.

  • @Zarina1634
    @Zarina1634 Před 7 dny

    What a time in history.

  • @ibnenkigalileo9256
    @ibnenkigalileo9256 Před rokem +5

    The occupation was obviously carried out by the Nazis but back then and until quite recently the French used to call it “the German Occupation”.

    • @chrisl211
      @chrisl211 Před rokem +3

      No, we call it "l'occupation"

  • @MTC008
    @MTC008 Před 4 dny

    these people relatively looked exactly the same as the people today, there is no difference.

  • @redskyatnight123
    @redskyatnight123 Před rokem

    Quality footage

  • @user-fn7go9db1o
    @user-fn7go9db1o Před 9 měsíci +5

    Salutes to a great generation. Proud to be n American!

  • @wwbdwwbd
    @wwbdwwbd Před rokem +2

    Horizontal collaborators.

  • @matycath1502
    @matycath1502 Před 4 dny

    Oradour-sur-Glane 10:00 village martyr

  • @user-vc2od1wg9o
    @user-vc2od1wg9o Před 2 měsíci +1

    Этим пленным канкретно повезло...

  • @marceloal777
    @marceloal777 Před měsícem

    Arde Paris?

  • @Toph.Beifong.
    @Toph.Beifong. Před 3 měsíci

    The GI uniform is cooler back then. Now they wear very large baggy clothing

  • @MrBricameron
    @MrBricameron Před měsícem +1

    Now we have Russia. Same as then.

  • @artek-8115
    @artek-8115 Před rokem +3

    Not Nazi, not Martian, but German occupation

  • @mysticmarble94
    @mysticmarble94 Před rokem +5

    the smell of freedom is in the air

  • @edbudzynski729
    @edbudzynski729 Před 27 dny

    When I see all the young soldiers fall on the Normandy beaches and can’t believe our US Supreme Court won’t defend democracy. They are pathetic.

  • @loki7641
    @loki7641 Před 10 měsíci +1

    BEFREIER ???

  • @thegamingchef3304
    @thegamingchef3304 Před měsícem

    Why do people feel the need to come to these videos and talk about what their family tree did in WW2? Lol.

    • @sassycat6487
      @sassycat6487 Před 22 dny

      Because it's why we feel such a connection to the war almost 80 years after it ended. Most people who didn't have family in it don't ever think about it or care.

  • @rufiorufioo
    @rufiorufioo Před 9 měsíci

    Gotta love the Americans in the Hotchkiss 105mm German gun shooting at Germans. The commentator said 155mm it's gotta be a 105mm Hotchkiss..

  • @coxer829
    @coxer829 Před rokem +15

    Den Franzosen gings ziemlich gut unter uns. Im Gegensatz zu den deutschen in Deutschland anschließend.

    • @rangerminun7381
      @rangerminun7381 Před rokem

      "Uns" --- Euch

    • @taunusjunge3383
      @taunusjunge3383 Před rokem +6

      Die Franzosen hassten die deutschen Besatzer, welche minderjährige Résistance-Mitglieder ohne Prozess erschießen ließen. Das Massaker von Oradour durch die Verbrecher der Waffen-SS war nur ein weiterer Tiefpunkt der Barbarei des widerwärtigen Nazi-Regimes in Frankreich und Europa. Nach dem Krieg übrigens machten Nazis in der jungen Bundesrepublik mühelos Karriere (siehe Filbinger-Affäre und Konsorten).

    • @seattlewa8500
      @seattlewa8500 Před měsícem

      Doing ‘pretty well’? Is that supposed to be a joke?

  • @MOHAMMEDCOBRA101
    @MOHAMMEDCOBRA101 Před rokem +1

    انزال النورماندي المعركة الاخيرة لجيش هتلر

  • @kahfilopez4853
    @kahfilopez4853 Před rokem

    First

  • @joergmueller7972
    @joergmueller7972 Před rokem +3

    so ein Schwachsinn wenn ich immer lese Befreiung von Paris ,weil es den nie geben hat.

  • @MYKOLA_SS
    @MYKOLA_SS Před 6 měsíci +3

    Eh bien, les Français sont-ils satisfaits de la libération ? Aimez-vous vivre dans un pays musulman?

  • @user-mb1gh8jn3r
    @user-mb1gh8jn3r Před 3 měsíci

    Советские нацисты расстреляли триста героев РОА за поддержку восставших жителей города Прага , прямо на больничных койках . Убили героев РОА тяжело раненных в боях с гитлеровцами , май 1945 .

    • @Olga-Che35
      @Olga-Che35 Před 2 měsíci

      Ты и тут гадишь?
      Лучше вспомни, как вы уничтожали евреев в Львове, Киеве....

    • @user-mb1gh8jn3r
      @user-mb1gh8jn3r Před 2 měsíci

      @@Olga-Che35 не мы , а вы . Вы напали на Чехословаки . И создали западную украину. Для Степана Бандеры .

    • @Olga-Che35
      @Olga-Che35 Před 2 měsíci

      @@user-mb1gh8jn3r да ты шо? Польша и Германия дербанила Чехословакии в 1938 г. А евреев убивали по всей бывшей Усср. И теперь батька ваш бандера, а шухевич мать

    • @user-mb1gh8jn3r
      @user-mb1gh8jn3r Před 2 měsíci

      @@Olga-Che35 какая Польша . Где республика Подкарпатская Русь .

    • @Jerseyboondocks
      @Jerseyboondocks Před měsícem

      The Soviets weren't Nazis. What's wrong with you. Aunt, the Soviet Union lost the most people in World war II fighting Nazi Germany. They helped turn the tide of the war.

  • @richardsimms251
    @richardsimms251 Před 4 měsíci +3

    Yes
    Germany was a terrible and criminal country in WW2, but it is a model country for exemplary behaviour today.

    • @user-nx5ks3tl6w
      @user-nx5ks3tl6w Před 2 měsíci +1

      Не хотят больше потеряться!

    • @Jerseyboondocks
      @Jerseyboondocks Před měsícem

      Good behavior for being scared to death to be called racist and letting millions of third world fighting age men into their country?
      Are they really better off now...hey as long as they don't seem racist right? That's all that matters?

  • @richardyoung871
    @richardyoung871 Před 11 měsíci

    In this video he fails to mention NORMANDY where a combined troops from the UNITED STATES, AUSTRALIA AND CANADA went to ENGLAND to launch there attack against GERMANY, but don't forget the PACIFIC where AMERICAN FORCES were fighting JAPANESE forces. Then came the ATOMIC BOMB and the war was over then KOREA AND VIETNAM then 911 the WORLD TRADE CENTER the PENTAGON and PENNSYLVANIA and I was in NYC

    • @metalgearray6832
      @metalgearray6832 Před 9 měsíci

      Why don’t YOU make your OWN video about THOSE battles TOO instead of complaining like a BOOMER. World war 2 was HUGE, this video is all but a small GLIMPSE.

    • @seattlewa8500
      @seattlewa8500 Před měsícem +1

      What is your point?

  • @joshualarson505
    @joshualarson505 Před 4 měsíci +3

    France was liberated in 1940

  • @gerdrichter9242
    @gerdrichter9242 Před rokem +4

    Amerikanische Nazis lösen die deutschen Nazis in Frankreich ab.

  • @Kalmar_Gumboldta
    @Kalmar_Gumboldta Před rokem +8

    Today, Russian soldiers are fighting fascism again.
    Forward Russia!
    Bravo!

    • @PrinceChaloner
      @PrinceChaloner Před rokem +20

      Putin and Hitler are the same...

    • @user-Sashka_Pyoureshko
      @user-Sashka_Pyoureshko Před rokem

      Are you one of Hitler's unfinished Nazis, Vanka Kalmar?

    • @davidclark3588
      @davidclark3588 Před rokem

      Imagine actually believing something this stupid

    • @lifted.5916
      @lifted.5916 Před 11 měsíci

      wut ? Russia are the invaders and are gonna invade moldova after ukraine and ur saying ukraine is fascist.

    • @metalgearray6832
      @metalgearray6832 Před 9 měsíci

      @@PrinceChaloner you mispelt Zelenskyy