The Liberation of Paris (August 1944)
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- The liberation of Paris took place from 19 August 1944 until the German garrison surrendered the French capital on 25 August 1944. Paris had been occupied by the German Wehrmacht since June 1940.
0:00 Crossing a military pontoon bridge
2:44 Simone Segouin (born 3 October 1925), also known by her nom de guerre Nicole Minet (French Resistance fighter who served in the Francs-tireurs et partisans group)
4:26 Director George Stevens, lieutenant colonel, head of the film unit in the US Army Signal Corps
7:18 General Charles de Gaulle and General (Jacques-Philippe) Leclerc de Hauteclocque
9:04 Hotel Scribe
11:54 Sniper attack
12:39 Parade on August 26
13:03 General Charles de Gaulle arriving at the parade
13:07 General Omar N. Bradley
14:40 Behind the generals "Luxor Obelisk" partially visible, with General Raymond Oscar Barton standing left
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The liberation began when the French Forces of the Interior (the military structure of the French Resistance) staged an uprising against the German garrison upon the approach of the US Third Army, led by General George Patton. On the night of 24 August, elements of General Philippe Leclerc's 2nd French Armored Division made their way into Paris and arrived at the Hôtel de Ville shortly before midnight. The next morning, 25 August, the bulk of the 2nd Armored Division and US 4th Infantry Division and other allied units entered the city. Dietrich von Choltitz, commander of the German garrison and the military governor of Paris, surrendered to the French at the Hôtel Le Meurice, the newly established French headquarters. General Charles de Gaulle of the French Army arrived to assume control of the city as head of the Provisional Government of the French Republic.
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2:45 the woman here, Simone Ségouin became a nurse after the war and refused to the Légion d'honneur, which is the highest French civilian and military award. She finally accepted it in 2021 and died on February 21 2023, at the age of 97.
Even today she would be a sexy security lady. 🙂 I have not seen such denim skirts on comparable shots.
Why? Do you know why she refused it for 75 years?
Yes, you're right, it's her! Fantastic! She's 19 here
Wow, she was as beautiful as a movie star!
Sa jupe est incroyable, extrémement courte pour cette époque ! Les mini-jupes de cette sorte ne commencérent à être portée en France que 22 ans plus tard . Toutes les autres femmes dans ce documentaire portent des jupes et robes qui tombent en dessous des genoux. Sacrée femme ! Grand respect !
My grandfather's brother entered Paris on the 2nd day of the liberation and described being overwhelmed by hundreds of Parisian girls, many of whom were teenagers, all trying to kiss him, offer him gifts and many offering to marry him. One particularly young girl my uncle believed to be 13 or 14 thanked him, threw her arms around him and invited him to her house for dinner. He said he was under the impression she intended more than dinner. He declined the offer and handed her a candy bar. He was a married man. He was an officer and had to warn his men not to take advantage of the women of Paris as they were extremely vulnerable emotionally. You can see some of that in these films.
He should of been busting with no rubbers.
He was a honorary man.
A lot of allied soldiers didn’t listen and had sex with these young girls, since 9 months later a lot of babies were born (the Baby boom generation, now all in their 70s)
@@dougmoore5252 I think you meant Honorable :)
He rode the shit out of those girls bro!
This is great stuff. My father was born in Paris in 1923 and taken to America by his parents (my grandparents) when about 6 years old. He would later join the Army Airforce and wound up in Stalag Luft IV then later to Stalag XI-B till liberated by British forces on April 18, 1945. My first of many trips to Paris was in 1970 with my father who brought me around to the relatives. I cherish the memories. I am now 68 having now lived more than half my life in Saigon where I remain by choice. That’s another story. Thank you again.
قصتك رائعة 👍
I was one year old!
Duh ya tinks cigarettes won the war?
Did you mean, Ho Chi Minh City? 🙂
@@jrt818 Saigon
All this footage was taken using George Stevens own colour camera,though he often gave it to his sergeant whin he was busy with the official BW filming. He went right through to Berlin and was responsible for the film of the liberation of Dachau. The colour film he took there was far more graphic than the official version as it was never censored, as it was never intended for public release. Some of his colour film was used in ‘the world at war’
Just imagine if he hadn't been there. This wouldn't be existing. The difference one man can make.
I have reviewed hundreds of hours of Fox Movietone and British Pathe newsreels and have never quiet seen anything as beautiful or authentic as this color film! My grandfather was a communications lineman with the 94th Infantry during the war and he said that going to Europe was the best time in his life.
@james manos it is very old film and was stored for ages after the war. There are two different cuts of the D Day to Berlin footage, 60 minutes by the BBC and 40 minutes for USA. The BBC version is better if you can find it.
It was just a forced labour camp. The Allies also used slave labour.
Perhaps my most cherished photograph is one taken that very day of my mother's U.S. Women's Army Corps company marching in formation down the Champs Elysees under the Arc de Triomphe with her looking fierce in her Class A uniform in the front row (she was tall and looked just like Maureen O'Hara). She told me there were still Nazi and collaborationist snipers shooting at people, and that Army snipers were atop the Arc to provide security. Paris was still not completely secured when this parade happened and there were still running gun battles going on in Paris away from the Champs. A month later, she would meet my father, an Army ordinance officer attached to the same headquarters company as she, and 15 months later they were married and then went on to raise 8 kids together. Three of their sons would serve in the U.S. Army and Navy during the Vietnam War and all three eventually were rated 100% disabled due to their wounds and injuries suffered during the war. Proud of them? Damn straight I am! Viva Liberation! Viva la France! Viva la America!
Well in Vietnam you killed 3 to 5 million are you proud of that as well? Just curious!
Your mom sounds wonderful. Would have loved to have met her.
Great family history !
👍👍👍 🇨🇦💕🇺🇸
There was a book about army deserters in black market In france and criminal violence it took years to clean up
My father was a medic in Europe in 44 and 45. I can't watch this without missing him. A brave, gentle man who saved lives and who himself was wounded twice. We will never see their like again.
Чем больше времени проходит после этой ужасной войны, тем ценнее становится подобная хроника событий.
Ты прав, слава великой Америке, что она победила Гитлера!!! И надеюсь победит нового Гитлера в России!
@@user-st4so6df9t это когда это Америка победила? Что то я не одной росписи США не видел на Рейхстаги, токо Русскии там расписовались, ты бы хоть не позорился!
@@user-pz1dc1sn5r а тебе бы не помешало нормально по-русски писать научиться и не позориться
@@user-st4so6df9t господи, не позорьтесь своими "познаниями". Сказала б, что это смешно, но не к месту.
Yes. Never again. As a Cold War veteran and one whom deployed for the United States during Operation Iraqi Freedom, that's what the people of America are.
We are a people and a civilization that's truly never existed on this planet. I get that it's very complicated. Freedom while each part of the world retains it's sovereignty, it's history, it's customs and traditions.
Never would a true American want to force feed anything on any civilization that doesn't want it. Never should the human race go without food, clothing and shelter in any part of the world.
It's just different how we want to achieve these goals. Yet not that different. ❤️
Excellent footage. Lots of people worldwide didn’t or don’t know how large and important the French resistance was to its liberation. More than 100,000. Most surprising to me is to see this rare color footage of Simone. No doubt there were thousands of very brave French women that have not gotten the recognition they very much deserved.
Может надо вспомнить благодаря кому вы освободили свою страну, и где ваша благодарность
many do across the allies and Europe. maybe not many Americans
@@mihal4960 согласен, Россия сыграла огромную роль и заслуживает благодарности.
All to throw it all away to Africans decades later.
I don't think they were so few in the resistance. Our Greek resistance ( all together) had around 1 million men and women
Great scenes. Though the occupying enemy, German General von Choltitz deserves credit from ignoring Hitler's order to blow up Paris into rubble when the Allies advanced.
No he doesn’t. He deserved to be tried as a war criminal. Unfortunately he lived until 1966. At least he’s gone somewhere very dark.
@@christopherwelch136 If he indeed participated the murders of Jewish civilians, I agree.
@@WhiteAnims2
Well stop doing it then
Give credit to America for rescuing the naxzi scientist
Would be better for you to say thank you to USSR, RUSSIAN!
When you think of the millions who lost their lives against an Evil Empire, and now we are facing the same horrors, but much more subtle. The Evil has not gone, it has expanded.
That is sadly mathematic...
Потрясающе качество съёмки для того времени, передаёт всю атмосферу происходящих событий!
Сожалею ,что Отец ,въезжавший на Катюшах в Берлин .Заслуженный Изобретатель СССР ,фанатично верный своему хобби Фотографии .Не видит этот Бесценный Материал.🌄🌅🌠🌌🔥🌀🌈‼
как же классно смотреть эти уникальные кадры, на то время которого мы никогда не увидим. всегда смотря такие старые видео вглядываясь в лица этих молодых и не очень людей голове крутится мысль, что они уже все по крайней мере 95% кроме детей давно мертвы и становится немного грустно.
Вероятно, пленку реставрировали и использовали современные технологии для улучшения качества изображения.
@@veronicaochneva9464 I wish I understood your language.
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My great grandfather was there in this war he was in Sikh regiment of British India army, his regiment was in France unfortunately only few men survived and reached Paris he was one of them
Great ... serve for liberty ... while india under brits occcupation... 😆
@@mulkanmulkan5620 😁
@@mulkanmulkan5620 then good job the British was there or might had the Japanese army with you
@@mulkanmulkan5620 just three years later they had their independence or would you preferred Japanese occupation.
Absolutely wonderful. Quite original, showing scenes never filmed before and in colour. Excellent and thanku for this.
My grandmother was in Paris for the liberation. She, her brother, and sister survived. The rest of her family was gone forever. She was a teenager at the time. I’m sure it was one of the greatest days of her life. ❤
she survived. from what? and here family is gone? wy?
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@@heinzfissimatent4294 what did you say ? ..
@@andrewgarai4000 except jewish people sent to extermination camps, civillian casualties in France, especially in Paris, during occupation were minimal in comparison to other countries like poland, ussr or germany itself (according to my wikipedia level interest and sources about wwii). So I was also curious how were so many seemingly civilian and some female members lost from the same family during the war? Under what circumstances? If had the chance to talk to @andrewgarai, I would like to learn more about the tragedy. I don't know and am not sure about the intentions of @heinzfissmatent.., I am writing on my behalf having the same questions.
The Parisians also welcomed the Germans enthusiastically in 1940.
This is a marvelous film!! Watching it for them third time, after having first discovered it today. Each time I find new things I can identify, like the Hotel Scribe. The Scribe was the haunt of the war correspondents, one of whom was my aunt (Detroit Free Press). It's a thrill to see the Liberation of Paris, in color, so real. The film has many little things that she mentioned, before her death in 1990, like the MANY bottles of wine and champagne the jeeps collected, the bouquets of flowers, all the French girls kissing every GI available. I have a great old press photo of her, in uniform, somewhere in downtown Paris being kissed enthusiastically by a fellow US war correspondent. A second US photographer buddy took the photo, reportedly after she complained that she wasn't getting any hugs from grateful Frenchmen. She was one of only 113 American women journalists who succeeded in getting accredidation from SHAEF as war correspondents. All told, the story of these women pioneers is a fascinating tale of determination, skill, and bravery, and until lately, totally ignored.
французские девушки точно также целовали германских офицеров в 1939 году...
I'm proud to say my late father Benedict Tusa in the Army's Timberwolf 104th Infantry Division was there 🇺🇸
Thanx so much for the magnificent footage. When one watches this, the liberation is relived in a way no other medium quite conveys!
According to my aunt, who was there as a war correspondent (Detroit Free Press), it was exactly as you've described, liberation and one heck of a party.
Tremendous footage. Fascinating to watch.
I got goosebumps watching this, the music matches perfectly. Thank you for making time travel possible!
Thanks for posting!
Thank you for this footage. My grandfather was in the 82nd Airborne 1943-1947. He was injured twice but came home with a German pistol. I was so young when he passed away that I never got to talk to him about his experiences over there. I have multiple family members that have fought in every war back to the Norman conquest (I’ve been doing my ancestry) anyway this is a huge insight into what he saw overseas. Thank you again
Had you been able to speak to him about the war, you may have found like a lot of us did, dad’s didn’t like to take about it. In a lot of cases their experiences were to raw to talk about….
I personally know one Mr Alfred Burgreen who served in the 82nd Airborne Division during the WWII taking part in the liberation of Europe. At 103, he is the oldest surviving member of the 82nd Airborne Division, and lives in New York
My Late Dad fought in Italy, and was a Translator at the Nuremberg Trials. (his family emigrated from Germany, here to the States, in the nick of Time, back in '39.)
As Jews, we lost a LOT of people in the Camps. Some from Germany-and, they had Time to get out, but Most from my Mother's side, in then-Eastern Hungary.
The Nazis overran the latter country in 1944, and the Jews were deported to the Death Camps in Poland..
My great-grandfather fought with the British Army in the liberation of Paris in August 1944. He was also one of the first Allied soldiers to enter the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in northern Germany in April 1945 as well.
И долго сражался,немцы сдавались союзникам без боя
ОЧЕНЬ КАЧЕСТВЕННЫЕ СЪЁМКИ. СПАСИБО. МОЙ ДЯДЯ ПРОШЁЛ БОЕВОЙ ПУТЬ ОТ СТАЛИНГРАДА , ДО БЕРЛИНА.ФРАНЦИЮ ОСВОБОДТЛИ СОЮЗНИКИ, НО В ЭТОМ ЕСТЬ ОГРОМНЕЙШЫЙ ВКЛАД СОВЕТСКОГО СОЛДАТА.ВЕЧНАЯ ПАМЯТЬ ПОГИБШИМ КРАСНОАРМЕЙЦАМ И СОЛДАТАМ СОЮЗНИКОВ.
Thanks for the upload........truly a stunning video.
We had a story in literature book of high school in Iran about this period of time in France.
It was ' The last lesson ' by Alphonse Daudet, I literally cried at the end of it. It was so touching.
We all had sadness in that time :((
We had that story in India too
The kicker is Iran had a dictator just as bad as Hitler. Komeni
@@pritamlaskar yeah the teacher writes on the blackboard " vive la France" in the end... which translates to" long live France"...
Sorry but "The last lesson" is not the same period, he was talking about 1871. A war again France and Prussia.
However very gad to read your comment as a french guy.
I was in french airborne and we sing a song about this periode : " La strasbourgeoise ". Very sad and proud song.
I miss Iran in the 70th, before Khomeini. It was so progressive and promising.
This is fascinating and so well done. Used to seeing this type of film in B&W.
These are true color images, not colorized films.
@@muzeoli2868 Ok, that's nice. Thanks for telling me that. In my comment, I was saying it's usually B&W that I've seen.
Fun fact: all of the D Day invasion was shot on color film for archival purposes. But they were PRINTED on B&W for news reels (cheaper) and the documentary footage we have seen has all been copies of copies of copies of the B&W news reel footage. The Normandy landings were all shot in color but now those original films are lost in an archive somewhere, possibly destroyed.
@@elescritorsecreto Who are you calling it the d day invasion ? In France as in many countries under german boots for so many awful years, in French, It is considered as the d day Liberation, where some french soldiers plus the Résistance mouvement took a part in.
@@alkante2962 😡
Merci beaucoup pour cette super vidéo! 👍
This video has more appropriate music than some others. Great content! Thanks!
Thank you for this footage
It was a fantastic idea to have the French battalions enter Paris first. That must have been a very emotional moment for the parisians. Oh and omg seeing the US army marching @14:30 gives me goosebumps. This whole video is amazing
Mise au point. Les Américains ne voulaient rien savoir de De Gaulle. Ce fut une négociation afin de faire entrer les Français en premier. Tout simplement parce que les Américains voulaient prendre le contrôle de la France qui se voyait incapable de se gérer et surtout de former un gouvernement stable. Faut-il également préciser que jusqu'au début des années 1970, ce fut très pénible pour la France. La période de l'après-guerre a été très difficile.
Actually the Allies had planned to bypass Paris because they wanted to save their strength and avoid to provide food for the Parisian population. It was De Gaulle who took the decision to send the 2nd french armored division to liberate the city, and he did so against the will of the Allied High Command. Leclerc even had to steal some fuel in the allies stocks because they would not have consent to give him sufficient resources to undertake his breakthrough to Paris.
@@Anton-kp3mi Faux. C'est suite aux pressions des anglais à la demande des Français que De Gaulle entra en premier. Les Français favorable à De Gaulle plus qu'aux Américains.
@@bonjourtoi3894 Je peux convenir qu'Eseinhower, pour donner son accord, était probablement plus convaincu par les Britanniques que par les Français qui avaient tendance à être peu considérés, mais les Français n'ont pas attendu Eisenhower pour se lancer sur la capitale. De Gaulle était déterminés à libérer Paris avec ou sans l'accord des alliés, et il avait ordonner à Leclerc de marcher sur Paris dès que possible. C'est pourquoi Leclerc avait commencé à se préparer à l'avance, notamment, comme je l'ai dit, en récupérant du carburant dans les stocks alliés. Quand Eisenhower donna enfin son consentement, Leclerc avait en fait déjà lancé sa percée sur 200 km à travers les lignes ennemies et sans soutien aérien allié.
Yes it's terrific 👍
For those who still underestimate De Gaulle. Sir Winston Churchill about him: "I have never forgotten, and can never forget, that he [de Gaulle] stood forth as the first eminent Frenchman to face the common foe in what seemed to be the hour of ruin of his country and possibly, of ours."
Very good video with a great cut. Great colors and authenticity.
Thank you for this
I congratulate you on all your great work with these videos, they are priceless pieces of history, well done!!
Images exceptionnelles. Bravo pour cette vidéo👏🏼
Mon père suisse, qui était organiste suppléant à Ste-Clotilde pendant l’occupation, me disait que ces jours de libération furent parmi les plus beaux moments de sa vie. Il y avait tellement une ambiance de liesse détendue, comme on le voit par exemple depuis 10’01".
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Franceses: ver Lacombe Lucien, de Louis Malle. Mientras media Francia colaboraba con los nazis, De Gaulle, el maquis y los republicanos españoles les combatían. Petain..
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Ça prouve que les Allemands étaient cléments envers les Français, et que la résistance française souvent de dernière heure n'était pas si intense, si vous voulez vérifier si l'ambiance il faut aller voir les vraies libérations du côté de la Russie , Pologne , Vietnam , Algérie qui n'ont compté que que eux même , sans attendre que les Anglais et Américains pour ensuite faire semblant de resister.
Video has so many white white French. How French from white blonde turned black hair dark skin
@@zia4550 Los franceses morenos son inmigrantes arabes de Argelia y africanos negros
It is really interesting to see this in color, there is a current day feel to it rather than the black and white film that shows everything as though it is not real, but only because we are used to seeing everything in color, forgetting or never learning that black and white used to have a shock and or art to it. Also, the impact of the color is interesting because of how well your channel, at least on this, my first exposure to your channel, is organized. Reaching out to viewers to help identify areas and people, makes me feel invited to participate. Great work, Y'all!
Such a lovely and everlasting footage 👏
This is excellent footage
I could never imagine the feeling of the Parisians seeing the allied troops entering the city knowing that their terror was over.
yeah, there was humiliation for sure, but not much terror in Paris to be fair.
@@timp.6127 What about the Jews of Paris or the resistance fighters, plus the hostages taken in retaliation to resistance activities ?
What about the Jews who were liberated they lived a real nightmare.
Paris was chill.
@@phlm9038 so the jews were liberated then, not so much the French it seems. They were OK. So really , France was not liberated just the jews living in France, same with the rest of Europe
Super documents sur cette page d'histoire de la libération de Paris...bravo et merci aux caméramen de l'armée qui ont fixé pour toujours cette page de l'histoire de France.
Thank you for uploading this video. My father was a British D Day veteran who helped to liberate France.
Thanks to your father and your family. Lot of soldiers had helped to liberate France, my country. We are very thankful for what they had done for us to be free again. German occupation had been so horrible for us during 4 years. No more wars.
@@francoiscassez8723 Thank you for your kind comment. I have provided more information, which I have just uploaded to this video.
Thank to your father, from France. But your grand grand.... grandfather did not do anothing for helping Joan of Arc...😂 I'm jocking of course.
Even if Napoleon would flip inside his tomb with what i will say, but i'm very happy and proud to call UK an ally.
@@Sanchesantho Thanks for your kind and amusing words.
@@francoiscassez8723 We are glad that our people helped you to be free.
Nice footage!
Que gozada de reportaje , es como viajar en el tiempo que buen trabajo, gracias por crear semejante obra.
"La Nine" group of Spanish Republicans (Spain) belonging to the Leclerc Division were the first to enter Paris. At 9:22 p.m. on the night of August 24, 1944, the 9th Company broke into the center of Paris through the Porte d'Italie. Upon entering the Plaza del Ayuntamiento, the Spanish half-track "Ebro" fired the first shots against a large group of German riflemen and machine gunners
14:40 Behind the generals "Luxor Obelisk" partially visible.
Good catch 👍
Superb! I literally could not stop watching this once it started. It's the closest I've ever really felt to being there! Not that I've been trying for that, but this footage, taken mostly at eye-level, on the streets with the throngs of soldiers and civilians pulls you in, and holds you there.
I wish I knew who some of the people were, besides Bradley and De Gaulle. For instance, the German they lead into the building, out again, then back in. Or the others on the reviewing stand.
In any case, this is fascinating. You can almost feel their emotions, and the ambience in the city. Relief, anxiety, a bit of confusion, joy, all mixed together. I'll be watching it again.
The German general being led in is von Choltitz, the commander of the Paris garrison. The French general with the walking stick that escorted him is Leclerc, commander of the 2nd French Armored Division. Some soldiers there had hats with red pom-poms on the top - they are French sailors that were assigned to tank destroyer duty in M10 Wolverines. The one on De Gaulle's right in the review looks like General Koenig. He fought in Norway and North Africa and De Gaulle appointed him military governor of Paris.
@@earthenjadis8199 Many, many thanks!
The American General with the red patch on his shoulder is Maj. Gen. Norman "Dutch" Cota, Commander of the U.S. 28th Infantry Division ("The Bloody Bucket"), which would later be mauled by the Germans in the Hurtgen Forest in November 1944, subsequently sent to the Ardennes in early December 1944 to rest and refit, and which was then mauled again on Dec. 16, 1944 and almost overrun by Kampfgroupe Peipper during the Battle of the Bulge. The 28th was truly one of the "hard luck" divisions of the U.S.Army during the war. The red patch represents a masonry keystone, symbolic of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, whose national guard became the 28th Division when it was federalized in 1940. And the officer in the black beret is Field Marshall Bernard Law Montgomery.
Your comments are right on. Very well put.
@@MM-vv8mt Awesome info! Thanks.
c' est la 1ere fois que je visionne ces images en principe ce sont toujours les mêmes videos qui sont ressassées non stop merci
This is amazing to watch,the true appreciation from the French people.These films need to be a required watch for all students in this country.I am a baby boomer and the younger generations don't know the true history of our great country. I can truly appreciate the sacrifices that these men/women made.
Go cry somewhere else, boomer
I'm a 'baby-boomer' from the States, and I just returned from Paris this past Sunday evening, after being there a week, including Bastille Day. You're absolutely correct, the interest in Paris, as a world landmark, among the young, is to say that they've been there, while enjoying the luxuries (of fantasizing about it), and superimposing their little egos in 'selfies', amid the aesthetics. I'm thankful that I know about the sacrifices of the French peoples during such an arduous period in not only their history, but that of Europe's. These were indeed trying times for too many!
By the way, it was hot as hell!
@@jjns5600 You're overstating the case . . .
Imagine being in one of those Jeeps that day! It must have been thrilling! Great to watch!
Vielen Dank. ⚘
Extraordinary footage! Bravo!
Nadie va a darle las gracias a los republicanos españoles que fueron los primeros en entrar en el París ocupado con la nueve? Las imágenes de los blindados quichi, Guadalajara, España cañi...... Dan testimonio del heroísmo de estos hombres.
Спасибо испанским республиканцам.
Historic film, truly amazing to see Paris seemingly untouched by warfare. I was born in1946 in Mile End, in London's East End. My playgrounds were bombed houses and factories.
That's because the French made it an open city for the Germans to enter. Thus they didn't destroy it.
But believe me, all the towns of northern France have been bombed to the ground during the German invasion.
@@Enquiringmind777 London, on the other hand, fought the aggressor . . .
@@EllieMaes-Grandad Да, сэр Черчилль не желал быть с Гитлером в одной лодке. А вот члены королевской семьи были готовы.
@@user-xy6db3mh5w On an English-language website, that's simply offensive. Try again?
Que gran registro....General Leclerc, General De Gaulle, General Bradley. Histórico. Espectacular!!
De Gaule, le dėgonflė... Il ėtait plus connu pour être animateur radio dans son bunker qu un soldat..
@@alainschmid3951 tu connais bien mal l'histoire ...
En la " liberación de Paris" se ven más soldados alemanes que franceses. El general De Gaulle con impecable uniforme, ningún rastro de haber combatido. Quién liberó Paris realmente , los rangers americanos y De Gaulle se quedó esperando afuera ?
@@rafaelibanez991 No te olvides de los republicanos españoles de la Nueve
@@juancarlosperez5045osea grandes olvidados, los maltratados por Francia fueron los que liberaron París, los gloriosos Reublicanos español es
It must have been exhilarating, to say the least for Parisians and all of France to be liberated after years of brutal occupation. Today Paris is a whole different city swamped by Algerians, Arabs, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, and hordes of Middle Easterners. The spirit of DeGaule is dead, once proud Parisians are a shadow of those who lined the streets of that city to welcome the liberators.
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Los primeros que liberaron Paris no fueron los estadounidenses fueron la novena compañía de la segunda división de carros blindados de la Francia libre o conocida también por la división Leclerc compuesta mayormente por republicanos españoles lo que pasa que alguna gente no le interesa la verdad en realidad sucedió así
It's a historical approximation. It's difficult to say precisely who arrived in any given city at any given time. What this video shows is the liberation of France by the arrival of American troops. For years the European armies were unable to force the Nazis from France. Obviously the arrival of the American military enabled this or it would have happened before. That is what this video shows. No sensible person would claim the American army was solely responsible for any success in WWII Europe, but its arrival created an unmistakable shift in the trajectory of the war.
@@nonconsensualopinion He means the first unit to enter and fight in Paris was a Free French Unit mostly made of Spanish. Big careful reading non born english speakers with their translation.
Fue la Brigada n⁰ 9 española la primera en pisar Paris. Estaba formada por antiguos combatientes republicanos de nuestra guerra civil. Estudien un poco que los libros no muerden.
Exactement!
La Nueve. Muchas Gracias a la NUEVE !
Es verdad que viva la neuve y su commandante Dronne.
Love this footage!
I don't care much for the music sounds as they feel like doomsday is around the corner, but these video's are absolutely awesome! Color does help a lot to bring these times over to current times. Makes it more relatable, asif you can almost touch 1945. Anyways, thanks for making and uploading this.
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@@darthslackus499 It could be fitting in a way - keep in mind I am a proud and patriotic American - but it was in many ways the beginning of the massive war machine that is the US.
The reminds me that almost all of these people, even children, have now past away and death comes for us all.
That’s not true, there are people much older still alive now.
Thank you very much American and British soldiers who sacrificed for France 🇫🇷 may your soul Rest In Peace
Well yes, france was liberated . They were at war with Germany and Germans were in France so they fought germans in France. There were Germans in africa too and in Greece...... Germany was a threat if not defeated. If Germans had been in Ireland then there would have been fighting in Ireland.
@Peter Pan No thanks to Stalin and the scum who led Russia.
Liberation is produced for the republicans spanish...
Sbaglio no fu la francia e l,inghilterra a dicharare guerra alla germania
Well said
Особенно музыка... Подобрана со вкусом к ситуациям на кадрах....
Благодарю за информацию и работу.
This footage is incredible, better quality than my phone camera lmao. Could have been recorded yesterday
A fantastic time document!
Bradley Leclerc de Gaulle, le peuple de Paris...fabulous footage, what historic moment ! What emotion !
Thank you
I'm imagining the tank drivers that just the day before would've been involved in battle, and on Aug. 26 their biggest challenge was to make sure their Shermans were properly lined up and being careful not to jut out ahead in parade formation -- then on Aug. 27 back into combat :P
The Germans had a strong butthurt from the fact that the Allies included France among the signatories of the act of unconditional surrender of Germany, which is why Keitel then pathetically exclaimed:
"How?! Did these guys defeat us too?"
Yes because France did nothing. While watching this all i see is that De Gaulle and Leclerc were more interested in appearances than substance. France never resisted to any occupation only in their dreams. If the Iraqis and afghans did the the same they would still have foreign troops on their country while waiting for the "allies" to save them.
Germany did so many fuck ups that you have to wonder if they were not trying to lose, it´s one after the other: opening multiple fronts, doing landings on remote places for questionable reasons and losing thousands on the process, letting all the British and french army escape from dunkik in the hope they be nice to Germany and sign a peace deal, fighting in north africa for god knows what, invading Rússia in the winter, sending bombers over England with no endgame in sight, picking screw ups like italy and wackos like japan as allies and because of them declaring war on the US, refusing to correct course when was obvious they were headed in the wrong direction, arresting the best generals for stupid reasons, and on and on.
It's called hard work and prayer. As the late heavy-weight boxer Sgt. Joe Louis said "We will because we are on God's Side" and we did.
Finally, Keitel signed the German surrender. French had, like others allies, French territories in Germany and obtained a permanent membership at the Security Council of the United Nations. Some Germans militaries were oblivious and still arrogant at that time.
great video
Great footage....
My father was an American pilot of a B-17 stationed in Kimbolton, England in 1944. The bomber was disabled by anti-aircraft fire over France and belly landed directly on the old battlefield of Verdun. The allied/nazi line of contact was right at that location. Allied gunners set up covering fire in order to rescue the airmen. One of the crew (ball turret gunner) died. My father was evacuated to hospital in Rheims, and after some treatment was re-united with the rest of the crew in Paris for a few days before shipping back to England. He was in Paris 10 days after the liberation. The hotel where they stayed still had stationary in German, with little swastikas on it. After time in hospital in England, the Army Air Force put him back in a bomber and he had to fly all the missions to the quota. There are pictures of the air crew in Paris, they had all bought berets... He managed to re-cross the English Channel with souvenirs; a tiny bottle of perfume, an ashtray with the Eiffel Tower on it, earrings, and a bottle of champagne for my mom which he brought back to California... And a "dud" German antiaircraft shell from a roadside crater near Reims, which he brought to the base in England to make into a lighter. The shell was live, as it turned out. Thanks Paris and England for being decent to the Americans who passed through there during the war. They never forgot your courtesy, especially you, English people. French people, please consider being a little nicer to more recent American tourists. Thanks everyone.
I wonder how Verdun looked like in 1944. Was it still a mud field like it was in ww1?
Американские и английские парни погибшие и выжившие на войне были братьями по оружию с нашими предками Советскими солдатами. Помним, чтим, гордимся.
The parade music is beyond epic.
"...you are about to embark on the great crusade..." Ike. It really was great and will not be forgotten.
Fué la novena quien libero París,integrada mayoritariamente por españoles, la rendicion de la ciudad se hizo oficial al tomar el ayuntamiento y fué ante un oficial español.
Mon grand père était espagnol il s est battu contre franco et après avec la France fait prisonniers 5 ans et perdu une jambe je suis fier de lui et de tout les autres qu ils rip ils l ont bien mérité malheureusement je ne parle pas l espagnol
Отличный канал! Столько интересных кадров, которых я раньше не видел и все в цвете. Спасибо!
Француз из правительство был приглашён первому параде Победы 1945 год 24 июня
Вашу Русскую язык иbaл, где было написано по Русский что вы сразу на свой Фашистских языке начали говорить?
I appreciate Russia for helping us win world War 2
@@georgesullivan4473 Russia didn't helped anyone it was USSR and they helped themselves, secondly Stalin Was NOT Russian and he was the one who pushed everyone in USSR to fight otherwise they would be shoot , so if you want to Thank anyone about WW2 it's Georgian dude named Joseph Jugashvili ( იოსებ ბესარიონის ძე ჯუღაშვილი ) Stalin s Name and it has nothing to do with Russian language as you see
@@georgesullivan4473 "helping us" ?
Music is incredible....very appropriate.
La guerre valait bien un détour vers la capitale, au même moment se déroulait le débarquement de Provence. Allait suivre les autres guerres celles d'indépendances puis les guerres froides çà ne finiront jamais. Merci à vous pour les images.
What an excellent video !! Seems to be happening in front of me.. too good ! On a different note, Paris folks looked merry, didn't look like experienced a war, occupation by enemies, hunger etc unlike the pictures of a post war Berlin or a Moscow or even a UK.. seems Paris was always different from other cities 😀
That's because Paris was never bombed. And German commanders ignored Hitler's orders to destroy it.
@@Pete-rs4yz معلوماتك صحيحة 👍
@@Pete-rs4yz wrong, Paris was bombed, but not in the touristic usual parts every foreigner knows.
The people look so joyful. great video.
Un document absolument extraordinaire.
Just finished the book "Is Paris Burning?" tonight. This video is absolutely stunning to me!!! So real seeing these people that lived it.
Great book if you haven't read it.
Gloria a Le Clerc, s Drome y a los Republicanos Españoles de la Novena. Granell y compañía llevaban los tanques...Guadajara, Teruel, etc
Отличное видео. У меня дедушка по линии мамы дошел до Берлина и вернулся с наградами, а дедушка по линии папы погиб в эшелоне на который сбросил бомбы юнкерс и из 600 человек в живых осталось два десятка. А все погибших в этом эшелоне, чтобы не платить деньги родственникам, посчитали как пропашие без вести, бабушка никаких денег не получала и после войны умерла от голода и мой папа с сестрой попали в детский дом, где постоянно голодали. Папа рассказал, что пераый раз в жизни он наелся еды когда призвали в армию, в 18 лет. Голодное детство сказалось на здоровье и папа с сестрой прожили недолго. А дядя моей мамы стал героем советского союза, но пропал без вести в феврале-марте 1945 года на Одере.
имея такой опыт, когда в 1939 году вы и нацисты вторглись в часть европы - почему вы делаете то же самое сейчас? Почему Россия снова вторгается в другие страны? Украина? Веками русские не приносили миру ничего, кроме разрушения, пепла, голода и смерти. Ты не несешь ничего хорошего в этот мир.
@@Nuuuova Просто кретин, в бан.
"А все погибших в этом эшелоне, чтобы не платить деньги родственникам, посчитали как пропашие без вести, бабушка никаких денег не получала".
Новое зачастую хорошо забытое старое. Оказывается, на России это давно придумали.
@@igorvkalinin Да, это было жестокое военное время, что на Украине, в Беларуси или России, это было при Сталине, а кто он был такой, можете узнать в Википедии. Я не знаю, любите ли вы читать, но про это время есть много книг, если хотите, я вам подскажу какие прочитать.
@@andreysalienko8762 Кто такой Сталин, в Украине прекрасно знают и без Википедий... Как не знать палача, который целенаправленно и сознательно уничтожил миллионы украинцев. С кем ни поговоришь, обязательно есть бабушки или дедушки, пережившие Голодомор, но сколько людей его не пережили....
A beautiful sight!
Music for this was awesome and appropriate
Que buenas imágenes, de aquella época
No, the French blamed the Allies for the bombing that was required to liberate the country. I think that some would have preferred to have stayed under the Nazi thumb.
A great piece of historic footage that shows very clearly that thin line between liberation and conquest. It looks much more like a 4th of July parade, with British representation basically unseen. Yet as Black Jack had foretold and Churchill rightly confirmed; Pax America had indeed arrived.
It's look like 4th July but it's not. This is the honor of France to thanks his Allies for help French nation to get free from Germans. If you see something else, just go out of your home and travel to learn about others cultures than yours.
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What a glorious day that must have been. I was born eight years later. My uncle stayed in Paris after the war ended, instead of coming home, to help them rebuild.
those were the glory days of french american friendship
A historical fact that is not valued or commented on is that the first to enter Paris was a Spanish brigade commanded by the French general Leclerc.
There are photos of the first allied tanks in the triumphal arch, they are the Spanish tanks, with names of Spanish cities.
These Spaniards were Republicans, who had fought in the Spanish civil war and were exiled when the war ended.
the column was named "LA NUEVE".
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Nueve
Здорово что кто-то снимал, лучше один раз увидеть чем 100раз услышать.
The first company to enter París was "La Nueve" under General's LeClerc comand and composed by Republican spaniards who decided to fight for France after losing the Spanish Civil War. Many halftracks were named after that war's battles, such as Belchite and Teruel. They were recognized by a París Major who was grand daughter of one of those soldiers almost 60 years after this. They expected the allies to support them in overthrow General Francisco Franco's fascist regime. It never happened.
Stalin, yes, Stalin lost the Spanish civil war.
La "Nueve" risked their miserable lives because they were in concentration camps of Southern France.
General Franco did not really win our civil war. It was the army of the Popular Front, killing each other, the ones who lost it.
Eisenhower visited Franco in 1956, after the death of Stalin, the genocidal ruler.
@@AlfonsoPosada Indeed. Like Unamuno said: "Los hunos y los hotros". Two hordes of insane fanatics take Spain to ruin. That's for sure, guided by Hitler and that homicidal russian guy.
@@AlfonsoPosada Pedro Sánchez 2023, ve haciendo el cuerpo 😁
I bet some of them were special Spaniards those who are at home everywhere and nowhere you know the ones.
es bonito lo de la grand daughter pero no es cierto. su familia vive aquí al lado y los conoce todo el mundo : fueron a Paris a trabajar , no de exiliados.
Amazing footage. Is that Hemingway at 6:39?
Loved the bikes on the Champs at the end ..
I didn’t know that there had been a sniper attack at the Hotel Scribe which is clearly shown here. Also the parade at the end took place the day after on 26 August.
Todo el mérito de la liberación de París fue gracias a la 9, soldados españoles republicanos que con la experiencia de la guerra civil española y los 00 bien puestos, sacaron a los alemanes de la ciudad.
A certain credit but not ALL the credit... Thanks to the Spanish though.
Does anyone knows which village street corner this is w/ Allied forces waiting on to go on Paris?
Well done. Made me cry
How sad to think, all these wonderful people are no more
Some Children are still there ...
Хоть мельком, но увидела наш Советский флаг! Я горжусь нашим народом и солдатами, которые освобождали территории от фашизма!
Да, друг мой, ты можешь гордиться своей страной. Да здравствует Россия.
Я тоже горжусь победой СССР, но восхищаюсь тем, как хитлер уделал французов - отыскать старый вагон, в котором немцы сдавались, и в нем же заставить сдаться
сейчас в Россия фашизм победил
Je suis 👌 avec vous. Les russes ont fait beaucoup, autant que les américains. En France 🇫🇷, vous avez notre respect. Les français n'ont pas tous la mémoire courte. Grand respect aux gens courageux de votre pays. La guerre est toujours une sale chose.
А надо было не "освобождать" кого-то от мифического фашизма, а брать территории и страны под контроль, чтоб они, очухавшись, не пошли новой войной на Россию. Сизифов труд "освобождать" кого-то.
merci pour cette vidéo, merci aux héros.
Thanks!
Eternal memory to the heroes of Normandy - Neman is the French fighter aviation regiment (1 IAP "Normandy - Neman"), which fought during the Second World War against the Axis forces on the Soviet-German front in 1943-1945.
Normandie-Niemen exactly 🙂
Помним, чтим, гордимся!