Going back - visiting Lahr, Germany, the town where Patrick lived as an Air Force Brat
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- čas přidán 6. 03. 2023
- Dirt Relations - documentary film project. We continue on with our trip to Germany to explore the journey that brought Patrick Lucas and Thomas Schoen, the co-founders of the BC based Indigenous Youth Mountain Bike Program, together working with First Nations on trails and reconciliation. We visit, Lahr, a small city located in the Rhineland of southwestern Germany where Patrick lived with his family in the mid 1980s when his father, an officer in the Royal Canadian Airforce was stationed to the base as part of the NATO forces.
One minor edit, the base in Lahr was actually closed in 1994, not 1992.
A special thanks to our sponsors for supporting this project: 7mesh Apparel, Norco Bicycles & Mountain Biking BC.
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Was there when I was a kid from 1977 to 1981. Lived in a village call Hugsweier near the military base. Thank you for these awesome footages.
From 1970-74 I went to school on the base and me and my familly lived in Friesenheim. I loved it. The german were nice people.
I was born in Lahr and so was my mother, though I live in canada now I always wish to return and see where I am from. I am a canadian but I am also of Lahr.
i am from lahr, and i still miss all the canadians.
Enjoyed your vid. Must correct a statement you made very early in the vid about Canadian military being occupation forces. That is incorrectly held as a truth by many including some Germans. Allied forces acting as occupation troops in W Germany ended on 5 May 1955 although by June 1946 the vast majority of Canadian forces had already left Germany. With the stand-up of NATO, Canada sent troops in 1951 initially to northern Germany. With the formalization of stationing NATO forces as agreed by Germany and NATO known as the Convention on the Presence of Foreign Forces in the Federal Republic of Germany, signed in 1954 by West Germany, Canadian troops effectively became guests of Germany. BTW was stationed at Lahr with RCD 1980-1984. Cheers.
watching this from lahr. much love
Thanks for the video I am a Canadian vet and still live in Germany.
glad you enjoyed!
awesome glad to see you got to see it again
Love your videos thanks for the memories 67-72 kc
Thank you so much for making this! I hope I can see the finished product this fall! Lived in Lahr 86 to closing in 94.
I was there until it closed in ‘94 too. I was a bit confused about the part where it says the Canadians left in 1992. Like, who the heck were all those people at the kazerne and base then? 😂
As mentioned previously, after WWII the French, Americans, British, Belgians, Norwegians and Danes stayed in Germany as occupation forces. The Canadians left after the war, and returned to Germany in 1951 as defenders of the German soil and the German people, not as occupiers. Nice video though.
Just a minor point; Canada was not part of a NATO occupying force. That role ceased in the 1960's when the Brigade was part of the BAOR in northern Germany.