Haunting "then and now" WWII photos from the southern France Invasion - Time travel back to 1944
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- "Before and after" comparisons of World War II photos with the same locations today, depicting German soldiers and Allied paratroopers on the French Riviera in 1944, at the period of Operation Dragoon, the Allied invasion of southern France.
The area of Nice was occupied by German troops of Reserve Division 148. On August 15th 1944, the Allies, spearheded by paratroopers of the First Airborne Task Force, landed in southern France and liberated the region of Nice over the next weeks.
The body of the killed German soldier under the tree only was found in 2006, a video on the exhumation can be seen here: • WWII German Mass Grave...
If you are the relative of a soldier who fought in south eastern France and have any photos or documentation about the area during WWII, please contact me at jean-loup@gassend.com
Allied units involved in the invasion were:
-First Special Service Force / FSSF / 1st SSF
-517th Parachute Infantry Regiment
-509th Parachute Infantry Battalion
-551st Parachute Infantry Battalion
Crocodile Tear Productions, with the participation of Sébastien Cano and Julien Fanet.
Based on the book "Autopsy of a Battle, the Liberation of the French Riviera". Jean-Loup Gassend. Schiffer publications.
Music: "Night Vigil" and "Lost Time", Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Nizza - Krieg - Südfrankreich - Frankreich
German units involved were: Reserve Division 148 - Reserve Grenadier Regiment 239 - Reserve Grenadier Regiment 8 - Reserve Grenadier Bataillon 372 - Reserve Grenadier Bataillon 164 - Reserve Jäger Bataillon 28 - Reserve Grenadier Bataillon 327 - Reserve Grenadier Bataillon 444 - Reserve Grenadier Bataillon 7 - Ost Bataillon 661 - Reserve Artillerie Regiment 8 - Division Füsillier Bataillon 148 - Kurt Hahn - Festungs-Pionier-Bataillon 14 - Krieg in Südfrankreich - Friedhof Dagneux - Volksbund - Then and now - Before and After - World war II - time travel - back to the future - after the battle - killed in action - ambush - drop zone - missing in action - KIA - MIA - casualties of war - photography - timelapse - Nice - Grasse - Cannes - Sospel - La Napoule - Villeneuve-Loubet - Levens - Col de Braus - Pont de la Manda - St Cézaire sur Siagne - Monaco - Monte Carlo - Menton - Pont du Loup - Cimetière de Caucade - Dagneux German cemetery - Draguignan US cemetery - Antibes - Cote d'Azur - Peira Cava - Wehrmacht - Fascism - chateau de la Napoule - Marvin Moles helmet - comparison - French Resistance - débarquement de Provence - Operation Dragoon - Autopsy of a Battle - The Champagne Campaign - Rhone American Cemetery - ABMC - 1944 - 1939 - 1945 - General Otto Fretter-Pico - General Robert T Frederick - Ange Grassi - Seraphin Torrin - execution - hanging - death penalty - Gestapo - FFI - FTP - FABTF - First Airborne Task Force - paratroopers - Operation Dragoon - Southern France Invasion - August 15th 1944 - Liberation - Occupation - animation - 517th PRCT - Wehrmacht - Nazi - vermist - verschollen - gefallen - Deutsche Soldatenfriedhof Dagneux - Volksbund - parents at gravesite - nostalgia - Dr. Med. Fritz Lauermann Fritz - Dr Lauermann Fritz - Dr Fritz Lauermann - Hauptmann Harald von Klewitz Lorenzberg - Zábava
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How ephemeral are the things we have wrought in the face of the geology of our planet.
Paradoxically, these give me an appreciation of deep time. How we flash into the sunlight & are gone whilst the hills & rocks watch us flicker across the landscape.
You moved me to tears this afternoon & I thank you for it.
That is very well said.
@@rd9793 Thank you, it was the best I could do to explain how I was feeling about what I was seeing.
In my mind I still have the image of us flickering across the landscape as seen, if it could see, by the rocks & hills that exist on an incredibly long temporal frame of reference compared to our own.
@@Aengus42You write so beautifully. I’ve heard this before from geologists. They seem quite unconcerned by events concerning the human race viewing them as a species that will go extinct against the backdrop of a planet that still has billions of years to go.
@@nansmith8703 Thank you, you've quite made my morning. 💜☮️
@@Aengus42 😊
Words can't begin to describe this masterpiece, from the music to the photos, I've never been so enthralled by a video. I know as humans it's normal to become disconnected from the photos we see, but you've managed to bridge the gap. The transitions are phenomenal, that alone is memorizing, but the cherry on top is when you added names and the day they died. That's the human element that we forget, we forget that men, women, and children of all ages died in this conflict. It's hard to do history justice, but you've succeeded, well done simply amazing.
And you have expressed so well what I could not! Thank you!
Ghosts of the past.🙏🏽
Served from ‘73…2011….Vietnam through Afghanistan/Iraq wars.
I hurt and pray daily for all my brothers lost too early.
War Sucks.🤬
RIP to ALL🙏🏽🕊️
These are incredible. I can't imagine how much work it took to locate and set up each shot.
I served 20 years in the U.S. Marine Corps and 2 combat tours in Vietnam as a Infantry machine gunner. I often wonder about some of the places we fought like the jungles and rice paddies. I wonder if they have changed in the 50 plus years it's been since that time.
Tom Boyte
GySgt. USMC, retired
Vietnam 1965-66/1970-71
Bronze Star, Purple Heart
You should go over there and visit. Many VN veterans have been doing so.
Thank you for what you did for us...US!
Go back if you can if you feel that pull to go. If you have unanswered questions, being there might quicken your soul enough to find some answers.
Thank you for your service🇺🇸
Что ты там делал? Или такие мысли тебе в голову не приходили? Твоей стране кто-то угрожал?
All those young lives never reaching their potential because of a bunch of poxy politicians. I'm ex British army so as one old sweat to another keep your head down and your powder dry🤜🤛.
Hopes and dreams ..lost to ravages of war...what could have been will never be known of these people..touching and makes one pensive and sad...because of madmen and greed...
And more war is still coming....its inevitable....human nature...more will be lost
Это говорит о том чьто люди должны быть внимательнее и осмотрительнее....ну и плюс наверно причина ещё в ослаблении христианства в начяле 20века. Тоесть моральные устои сходили на нет...хотя христианская религия мало чьто смогла зделать и в россии и сша,оказалась слаба...
Вспомнить туже обсолютно безчеловечьную вьетнамскую войну и многие другие..
Там где массы не имеют своей власти ими управляют,хотя это тоже не панацея....впринцыпе и сша можно при большом желании превратить в четвертый рейх главное чьтоб идеи хорошо продвигались и были заразительны , почьти как религия - то чего нет ,но то во чьто многие верят.
Уровень образования,тоже не панацея,немцы многие весьма образованы были...
When I used to look a old black and white photos, they never felt real. But in this video, these photos feel more real then the a the pictures I take my self. It’s almost like you get transported back in time!
These are just photos from a book,😂
I agree.
The ones that didn't come home still walk those streets, they just can't be seen by the living.
Shut up
Why the fuk would you say some stupid shit like tha5
As a United States Navy veteran, how could I not subscribe to this amazing channel ? Thanks so much for your efforts.....beautifully done with taste without the bias.
Thank you very much for your service.
Американцы тоже оккупанты
WW2 veterans must be turning in their graves from what is happening now, and by that I don't mean the Special Military Operation in Ukraine.
Just…. Amazing. Thank you so much. The parents standing over the graves.. just heart breaking 😢❤
My dad was in the Merchant Marine throughout the war. His ship was in the invasion convoy that supplied and carried troops that day, August 15, 1944. He survived the war but PTSD took him 40 years later. War is hell.
I absolutely love these before and after. Those who were there in 1944 had no idea of what would become of those places all those years later. Its great to see how in some cases very little has changed. Thank you
Incredible insight of WWII. Heartbreaking images. Thank you for sharing.
It's very moving to me to see that some of the buildings from that era, survived. What they must have witnessed. God rest those poor departed souls.
You have a one-of-a-kind Channel, Croc. You cover and create videos about topics many of us history nerds think about but either cant make ourselves or can't find online. This channel is truly a gem.
Really touching.
Not sure how I found your channel but damn glad I did. You are doing great work for the veterans, men who died and their families but also the general public.
The "General public" have no clue unfortunately!
It often amazes me how many little details remain the same. The photo of the German officers in a room with windows behind them was intriguing, the open wooden shutters around the windows hadn't changed one tiny bit since then, it looked like they hadn't even been moved a mm in all those years. Little details like that make it easier to transport yourself back to that time, it's a peculiar feeling to consider that some things are just still exactly as they were. I often think about that when I'm in a historical location, what hasn't changed at all, the bricks that someone else touched so long ago, the woodwork that's been polished for a century by people who have no idea how many people have done that before them.
true
I could watch that a thousand times and then watch it a thousand more.. Awesome concept. Intriguing.. Thought provoking.. Sad..
Спасибо за работу, смотрели и восхищались. Мира нам всем! Всему миру мир!
чем блять тут восхищаться? нацистско-путинской оккупцией? убийствами?
Einfach nur traurig!😢. Danke für das ergreifende Video! Friede auf Erden für alle Menschen!
Well said. Thank you.
Incredible! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!
Mate well done. I have stood in 3 of these spots not knowing the history of those who stood there before me.
I am literally blown away by this . Well done on having this effect on a total stranger
What were the three spots? Colline du Chateau, Negresco and Promenade des Anglais
It's true we are shadows passing through this world, it makes you think of our own lives that are passing also.
Nous ne sommes que de passage.
Feels like I am seeing ghosts. Maybe people who have the gift see images like this in reality.
Beautifully done video.
The vibe i get from this video is that their ghosts are still there.
May we know true peace in our lifetime.
i absolutely love the idea of combining old and new photos of recognisable places. I live in the Falklands and I've been tinkering with the idea of comparing scenes from the conflict to now.
Thank you. The most mesmorising 8 minutes of my life.
Seriously underrated channel.
Einfach nur traurig 😥! Danke für das ergreifende Video! Frieden auf der Welt für alle Menschen!
What a moving display and excellent job of merging past and present images. Brings it all home. Musical accompaniment is perfect. Thanks for an outstanding reminder of whence we have come.
Thanks for this wonderful work❤
Wonderful. An emotional roller coaster ride. Thank you for a wonderful video.
Evocative,haunting and quite brilliant. Well done Uncle John.
Взгляд сквозь время. Смотрел на одном дыхании. Браво за труд.
Браво за то, что французы и весь западный мир следит за домами которым под 200 лет. А в рф пускай гниет. По этому туризма в рф нет. З.Ы. Видел фото 18 века из США, вроде из Чикаго. Так деревянному дому будет 250 лет, деревянному дому(!!!). А в рф многим деревяшкам нет и 60-и лет. Но на них без плача нельзя смотреть. Руки так и тянутся к спичкам.
туризм в рашке, опасен для жизни
A video that shows pointless wars and killing. Life goes on, one way or another. So much pain and sorrow, and yet we can see some smiles as well.
Wonderful. Thank you for all the hard work that went into this video.
THANK YOU for this vid; these scenes; it’s made history come to life: the haunting music that’s somber/sad/respectful; the interplay of past photos superimposed upon current photos make the horror of war/deaths realistic; those graves…AGAIN, THANK YOU for sharing….
Amazing video,im addicted to world war 2 stuff at the minute ,both my grandparents served in the war and told me many stories when i was a kid but can barely remember them now ,i wish i was more interested back then
Strange feeling ! A mixture between pain and sadness... We will all be just pictures... Places will remain... and souls will travel.
Thank you for all the memoriam pic love the way you centered them in the exact location .to have a better view of the happening
The greatness of the photos is really great. Keep storing 80 + years WWii memories, that too in very good condition is really great. I am going through all the albums and traveled back to WWii period. Thanks for sharing.
War is such a sad event. So many lives lost. They never had a chance to savour the joys of life, so many unfulfilled dreams, so many unspoken words, not even a chance to say goodbye to their loved ones …… and still wars continue over the landscape of history, even to this day! Thank you to the producers of this video …… thank you! 🙏
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Excellent job overlaying the photos. Very well done! Thanks.
Just awesome. Could watch over and over. Thank you
Beautifully matched and rendered photographs. A sombre and sorrowful reminder of what war takes away from families. So many young lives wasted. And the brutality of public executions speaks volumes about what war does to humanity. Bringing out the worst in people.
Yes such a waste because of one man in Germany.
@@itsonlyme9938 To think it was just about "one man in Germany" is ignorant. Many different things brought about World War 2. Even if Hitler and the Nazis didn't come to power (someone else would have) the "Treaty of Versailles" all but guaranteed WW2 would happen. You cant impose that kind of punishment on a country while calling it "reparations" and expect people to put up with it.
@@moappleseider1699 Yes but, wouldn't you have to agree, if you are even a little sentient, that hitler brought his own unique and disgusting contributions? Where another person might have opted for any one of the zillion other options?
@@mollkatless lol Buddy you can get upset all you want but everything I said was accurate. I never excused anything Hitler did. I simply stated the fact that another world war, with Germany at the heart of it, was almost impossible to avoid after what was done to them. Questioning me on whether or not I am "even a little sentient" only shows your own insecurity and lack of intelligence.
Thank you for your wonderful work, it is only in death do people realise that we are all one nation, joined by the same grief.. the same pain........
Thank you for giving dignity back to the dead
I wish all peaceful skies ahead........
🤔🇬🇧
Wow , the overlays mirror exactly, very atmospheric ,the best presented ive seen. Well done.
Utterly amazing. Save for any young kids that might have been in any of the pictures, all have passed on by now. Almost 80 years ago. Many things seem to be the same with the buildings and I admire the ''then and now'' comparison. The research and location scouting alone is a massive effort. Thank you for presenting this.
Addendum: I just read your ''bibliography'' after locating it. Wow, you really did your homework on this!!
What bibliography?
Appreciate the amount of work that went into this, thanks for sharing.
a superb posting, excellent content.
Very moving video! Thank you!
Amazing. So very well done. Haunting indeed. Thank you. Beautiful work.
However you matched old and new pictures in every dimension, it is outstanding!
One of the best videos I ever saw. Thanks.
Thank you..
Absolutely amazing work.
Far better than those released by Reuters.
Hats off to the artist and many thanks for sharing this incredible journey.
Amazing piece of editing and production. Music was well chosen to. Superb posting showing terrible times….. Much gratitude to the brave allies who liberated Europe and may the dead Rest in Peace.
Thank you!!
im 19 now and its just so so so sad and scary to think that i would have been in pictures like these- possibly a distant body sprawled out in the background. really opens my eyes to the life i have today :(
This vid was unbelievably good, the last 40 seconds or so very sad. Thank You for your efforts.
Truly fascinating. Thanks for posting.
The absolute best video of this type on you tube! Incredible!
I've never seen any of these "Then and Now" images. Superbly done.!
Those are great images. Really brings history alive.
Love this channel! Seeing the old photos line up is amazing! Great job!
Fascinating insight into the past … one small request. Could you fade from the modern photo, to the historic one AND then back the modern one, in your next video please.
Very cool! Thanks for putting this together!
So well done. Very touching, and so beautiful.
Hauntingly inspiring video. Excellent work. We walk by these locations and wonder no more. Your artistic style for this material is moving. Simply moving. It brings me to tears, which I guess, is woven into your channel name.
Wonderful video and sound put together …
The "now and then" WW2 video's are fascinating to me. And this is likely the best one I've seen . Extremely well done. Thank you
Thanks, and help spread the good word.
Very well done !! Thank you
So well done and incredibly moving. I love your channel and all the research you're doing and sharing!
What a fantastic video, the work and editing is superior, many thanks to you--
My goodness, what an amazing piece of art this is! You’ve done an incredible thing here! 🙏😔🌹❤️
Brilliant video 👏👏👏
When you sit back and think about it, on a huge scale, every country you can think of is its own museum, each with history and relics from a former era.
great job! thank you
Great video!
thank you so much for this.
Amazing work & deeply moving. We pass places all of the time & never think of the history they have seen.
This is just amazing!! What work👏
Estupendo trabalho! Magnífico! Incrível! As 2 últimas fotos é de fazer chorar. Você faz um trabalho fantástico. Obrigado ❤
Excellent work
Excellent work.
Very well done (as we have come to expect)!
Superbe travail, merci beaucoup !
Great job!! Always enjoy seeing how much or little things change
fascinating. Thanks for sharing!
Another fantastic job on such an important time
Powerful.... Awesome Video ✌
What a great channel ... thank you for this
Even colorized pictures and videos do not do justice to seeing a modern-taken photograph, it's incredible the contrast of seeing the exact same spot in color and in the blink of an eye to know that it was still there in the past. I can only imagine those titanic photos we have and if we were able to grasp in reality how it really was, literally it's like like traveling through time. Incredible work here.. Kudos!
Very well done !
Beautiful work you do these
This is really brilliant, thank you.
You just let us speechless with your beautiful channel.
This is the best before/after photo matchup video I've seen. I wish, though, that the sequence of photos was now-then-now rather than just now-then. But that's a minor quibble.
This was beautifully done. Thank you to those folks who researched the pictures and where they were taken. I'm sure that was hard figuring out where all these were taken and seeing if those locations are still able to be seen today.
That was very touching toward the last half especially when the parents were shown at their son's grave and being elderly I estimate he'd been gone for at least 20-30 years and still in mourning. This was my first time seeing actual personal info about the ongoing war within those left behind.
What a tragedy as I think of my Dad's Mom who had nervous breakdown's over her two sons that served in the ETO and my mom's brother who fought against the Russians counter offensive in Latvia who never returned home. Sometimes tragedies become cause and effect when my mom and dad married in Augsburg, Germany during the time my Dad and many others got transferred out and into POW duty.
In the film the Narrator mentioned German women getting married and shipping overseas wow that could be a good thing for the husband who's wife stays home because the Americans took issue with it in Germany and America, but the husband had lots of fun with a wife who feels safer at home.
I suppose many British women who’s husbands were serving overseas were never short of stockings and bubble gum when the Yanks arrived.
excellent video, i am always facinated by what things looked like during the war and how they are now, for some strange reason I seem to have a connection to that time period.