France And The German Occupation Period
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- čas přidán 16. 05. 2024
- The German military administration in France ended with the Liberation of France after the Normandy and Provence landings. It formally existed from May 1940 to December 1944, though most of its territory had been liberated by the Allies by the end of summer 1944.
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German soldiers LOVED France, one because it was a pretty safe place to be posted and second because there was a vast amount of food and luxury items there the troops could send back home to their families. Of all the occupied countries in Europe that a soldier could be sent to, France was undeniably the best.
Stunning. Profound. I have watched hours of WWII footage, read scores of books and articles about the war. Nothing has compared to this very personal documentary. Bravo!
I'm a Portuguese living in Germany for a year know. In Dresden.
Einmalig diese Aufnahmen aus dieser Zeit, bisher noch nie gesehen. Hervorragend der Bericht. Danke dafür.
Of the many hundreds of films about the War which i have seen, this is among my favorites. Very open, humane, yet incisive. The narration is fantastic.
I have never seen anything close to how well this is done!
For the most part, the Germans in Normandy got along very well with the French. Most of the Germans in radar and gun installations were old WW1 vets, unfit to fight in Russia. They traded their rations - and gasoline - for milk and fresh food. They went to church and to shops. There was virtually no resistance there.
Quel documentaire magnifique !
Always feel fortunate when I discover new, and authentic historical footage from WW 2 ,thanks for posting this.
En tant que jeune français de 19 ans, par comparaison aujourd'hui, je ne peux qu'observer le charme, la beauté et la classe des femmes françaises d'antan.
Mon grand père est Allemand est revenu dès 46 en France retrouver ses amis français . Il n'a jamais vécu aucune animosité pendant et après la guerre .Selon lui seuls les derniers jours avant la libération ont été difficiles avant les résistants de la dernière heure . Il ne sait jamais senti en danger dans les villes françaises ou il a vécu , se promenant seul dans les rues quelques jours avant la libération ce qu'il aurait impossible en Pologne ou en Yougoslavie. Il est revenu s'installer en France en 1950 se mariant avec celle qui fut l'une des ses nombreuses petites amies de la période d'occupation.
I also was a soldier of the Bundeswehr, member of 1st Mountain-Division and we were sent to France in 1978 to care for Germany war graves. We have been living at French families home during this time at Châlons-en-Champagne. The French families treated us as if we were their sons. I cannot believe what other people are writing here. Meanwhile we stay at least one time every year in France and we have French friends also an ex soldier of the French army who has married a German girl. We just came back from a fortnight stay at the French Atlantic coast and I must say the French always have been very nice to us. We stayed at a camping site on Victory day two weeks ago and some of the French people even tried to speak German to us when they realized our campers number plate.
Mes parents ont vécu la guerre près de Paris , ils n'ont pas vraiment vu l'arrivée des allemands comme des gentils soldats .
We often get biased, slanted, skewed or propagandized documentaries that cover WW2 because as they say, the victors write history. Most WW2 stuff is just a rinse & repeat of what we already know - it’s mostly regurgitated & repeated stuff without any new details or facts. We often forget the human side of the history & the personal stories. Also, we get the reductive trope of Axis = bad & Allies = good. Not all the Germans were bad & not all of the US troops were saints.
J'ai adoré ce reportage , il y en a d'autres dans le même thème ? svp
To be even more specific about this video, what many people ignore is that the French police and gendarmes who helped the Nazis arrest and deport 85,000 Jews to France between 1940 and 1944 still exist today. One was created in 1791 and the other in 1941 by the same Vichy government. And also the police minister of Vichy René Bousquet was a very good friend of the former French president François Mitterrand who protected Bousquet from the death penalty after the war despite his many crimes against women and children. In short, after WWII, Germany cleaned up its past but France not really.
How much does everyone love this narrator? I don't care which documentary he's on, whether it's the deadliest roads series, or any of the many others he's done, his voiceovers are the most entertaining, by far....
I notice the bourgeoise French talk about the American bombing , the American army coming - no mention of the British who equal the Americans in size. The french still have a great chip of how Britain didn't surrender like they did !
It is just a different perspective of German occupation in Paris . A very different scene in the east.
Excellente enquête sur un sujet méconnu qui nous fait nous interroger. Documents vidéos passionnants