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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@AlshainFR Жыл бұрын

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.

@pauld.9856 11 ай бұрын

Even today she would be a sexy security lady. 🙂 I have not seen such denim skirts on comparable shots.

@imeanithonest5704 10 ай бұрын

Why? Do you know why she refused it for 75 years?

@ddddenn5856 8 ай бұрын

Yes, you're right, it's her! Fantastic! She's 19 here

@timp.6127 3 ай бұрын

Wow, she was as beautiful as a movie star!

@KRISTOFOL1 Ай бұрын

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 !

@nunyabiznez6381 Жыл бұрын

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.

@noway57 Жыл бұрын

He should of been busting with no rubbers.

@dougmoore5252 Жыл бұрын

He was a honorary man.

@MVEProducties Жыл бұрын

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)

@haldarvivek Жыл бұрын

@@dougmoore5252 I think you meant Honorable :)

@gard7662 Жыл бұрын

He rode the shit out of those girls bro!

@paulmasterson386 Жыл бұрын

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’

@abdul-kabiralegbe5660 Жыл бұрын

Just imagine if he hadn't been there. This wouldn't be existing. The difference one man can make.

@jaminova_1969 Жыл бұрын

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.

@paulmasterson386 Жыл бұрын

@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.

@MarkHarrison733 Жыл бұрын

It was just a forced labour camp. The Allies also used slave labour.

@loveaodai100 Жыл бұрын

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.

@user-kh9zy9jt5r Жыл бұрын

قصتك رائعة 👍

@erin19030 Жыл бұрын

I was one year old!

@erin19030 Жыл бұрын

Duh ya tinks cigarettes won the war?

@jrt818 Жыл бұрын

Did you mean, Ho Chi Minh City? 🙂

@LInkinPark4life Жыл бұрын

@@jrt818 Saigon

@dv84sure 11 ай бұрын

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.

@mihal4960 2 ай бұрын

Может надо вспомнить благодаря кому вы освободили свою страну, и где ваша благодарность

@nzfreeski Ай бұрын

many do across the allies and Europe. maybe not many Americans

@nzfreeski Ай бұрын

@@mihal4960 согласен, Россия сыграла огромную роль и заслуживает благодарности.

@dansmith16 Ай бұрын

All to throw it all away to Africans decades later.

@user-zs3gd8fr3p Ай бұрын

I don't think they were so few in the resistance. Our Greek resistance ( all together) had around 1 million men and women

@yt4hd7jbfs-ykjsi Жыл бұрын

Потрясающе качество съёмки для того времени, передаёт всю атмосферу происходящих событий!

@user-dr4nt5fn2u Жыл бұрын

Сожалею ,что Отец ,въезжавший на Катюшах в Берлин .Заслуженный Изобретатель СССР ,фанатично верный своему хобби Фотографии .Не видит этот Бесценный Материал.🌄🌅🌠🌌🔥🌀🌈‼

@723adrenaline Жыл бұрын

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.

@veronicaochneva9464 Жыл бұрын

Вероятно, пленку реставрировали и использовали современные технологии для улучшения качества изображения.

@yourmother2739 Жыл бұрын

@@veronicaochneva9464 I wish I understood your language.

@user-ki9zr1uf8e Жыл бұрын

Ленты восстановлены

@blank557 Жыл бұрын

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.

@christopherwelch136 Жыл бұрын

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.

@blank557 Жыл бұрын

@@christopherwelch136 If he indeed participated the murders of Jewish civilians, I agree.

@robertcottam8824 Жыл бұрын

@@WhiteAnims2 Well stop doing it then

@islandzuk8531 Жыл бұрын

Give credit to America for rescuing the naxzi scientist

@user-gf4wv2rc7z Жыл бұрын

Would be better for you to say thank you to USSR, RUSSIAN!

@MM-vv8mt Жыл бұрын

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!

@xanbex8324 Жыл бұрын

Well in Vietnam you killed 3 to 5 million are you proud of that as well? Just curious!

@lilliansteele7165 Жыл бұрын

Your mom sounds wonderful. Would have loved to have met her.

@thierrymilan2039 Жыл бұрын

Great family history !

@briangraham1024 3 ай бұрын

👍👍👍 🇨🇦💕🇺🇸

@francescahamilton6856 Жыл бұрын

Absolutely wonderful. Quite original, showing scenes never filmed before and in colour. Excellent and thanku for this.

@user-nk4hs3wd3c Жыл бұрын

Чем больше времени проходит после этой ужасной войны, тем ценнее становится подобная хроника событий.

@user-st4so6df9t Жыл бұрын

Ты прав, слава великой Америке, что она победила Гитлера!!! И надеюсь победит нового Гитлера в России!

@user-pz1dc1sn5r Жыл бұрын

@@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!

@m1szt Жыл бұрын

@@user-pz1dc1sn5r а тебе бы не помешало нормально по-русски писать научиться и не позориться

@user-yn9zb2yf5y Жыл бұрын

@@user-st4so6df9t господи, не позорьтесь своими "познаниями". Сказала б, что это смешно, но не к месту.

@charlesmurphy3222 Жыл бұрын

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. ❤️

@BPMcrea Жыл бұрын

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.

@gintnerserg Жыл бұрын

французские девушки точно также целовали германских офицеров в 1939 году...

@Sunmoon-gj9gy Жыл бұрын

I'm proud to say my late father Benedict Tusa in the Army's Timberwolf 104th Infantry Division was there 🇺🇸

@Exotic3000 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for posting!

@r.k3261 Жыл бұрын

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

@mulkanmulkan5620 Жыл бұрын

Great ... serve for liberty ... while india under brits occcupation... 😆

@taxsi Жыл бұрын

@@mulkanmulkan5620 😁

@user-ei3dq2dw6i Жыл бұрын

@@mulkanmulkan5620 then good job the British was there or might had the Japanese army with you

@lloydnaylor6113 Жыл бұрын

@@mulkanmulkan5620 just three years later they had their independence or would you preferred Japanese occupation.

@andrewgarai4000 Жыл бұрын

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. ❤

@heinzfissimatent4294 Жыл бұрын

she survived. from what? and here family is gone? wy?

@andrewgarai4000 Жыл бұрын

@@heinzfissimatent4294 reported for harassment

@haricot929 Жыл бұрын

@@heinzfissimatent4294 what did you say ? ..

@taxsi Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@user-rh5mf8ds8k Жыл бұрын

The Parisians also welcomed the Germans enthusiastically in 1940.

@steinrich56 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the upload........truly a stunning video.

@amys2650 Жыл бұрын

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

@paulchsney5994 Жыл бұрын

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….

@amitavapal8888 Жыл бұрын

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

@drpoundsign 8 ай бұрын

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..

@jacquelinedesanctis7082 Жыл бұрын

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.

@thierrymilan2039 Жыл бұрын

That is sadly mathematic...

@Boomhauersdad 9 ай бұрын

Thank you for this footage

@josephstabile9154 Жыл бұрын

Thanx so much for the magnificent footage. When one watches this, the liberation is relived in a way no other medium quite conveys!

@BPMcrea Жыл бұрын

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.

@rjjcms1 Жыл бұрын

Tremendous footage. Fascinating to watch.

@MegaPpjj Жыл бұрын

I got goosebumps watching this, the music matches perfectly. Thank you for making time travel possible!

@viggo1115 Жыл бұрын

Merci beaucoup pour cette super vidéo! 👍

@jeffbriggs4268 Жыл бұрын

This video has more appropriate music than some others. Great content! Thanks!

@DarkFalconAnimations Жыл бұрын

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.

@user-rw3tt5lm6y Жыл бұрын

И долго сражался,немцы сдавались союзникам без боя

@perignampua 2 жыл бұрын

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."

@kerman_gard Жыл бұрын

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 :((

@pritamlaskar Жыл бұрын

We had that story in India too

@marka.graffakasnakebitenat3736 Жыл бұрын

The kicker is Iran had a dictator just as bad as Hitler. Komeni

@gauravkumaryadav1802 Жыл бұрын

@@pritamlaskar yeah the teacher writes on the blackboard " vive la France" in the end... which translates to" long live France"...

@Sanchesantho Жыл бұрын

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.

@vitalino1981 Жыл бұрын

I miss Iran in the 70th, before Khomeini. It was so progressive and promising.

@jayduke8554 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for this

@motherdear3733 9 күн бұрын

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.

@klausrain111 2 жыл бұрын

This is fascinating and so well done. Used to seeing this type of film in B&W.

@muzeoli2868 2 жыл бұрын

These are true color images, not colorized films.

@klausrain111 Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@elescritorsecreto Жыл бұрын

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.

@alkante2962 Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@Maxsilver123 Жыл бұрын

@@alkante2962 😡

@greensmoothie3456 Жыл бұрын

I congratulate you on all your great work with these videos, they are priceless pieces of history, well done!!

@maverickngaihte5629 Жыл бұрын

Such a lovely and everlasting footage 👏

@romanempire7170 2 жыл бұрын

Nice footage!

@Senaleb Жыл бұрын

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

@bonjourtoi3894 Жыл бұрын

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.

@Anton-kp3mi Жыл бұрын

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.

@bonjourtoi3894 Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@Anton-kp3mi Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@matthewhall1540 Жыл бұрын

Yes it's terrific 👍

@J2onton Жыл бұрын

Thank you for uploading this video. My father was a British D Day veteran who helped to liberate France.

@francoiscassez8723 Жыл бұрын

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.

@J2onton Жыл бұрын

@@francoiscassez8723 Thank you for your kind comment. I have provided more information, which I have just uploaded to this video.

@Sanchesantho Жыл бұрын

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.

@J2onton Жыл бұрын

@@Sanchesantho Thanks for your kind and amusing words.

@yourmother2739 Жыл бұрын

@@francoiscassez8723 We are glad that our people helped you to be free.

@fireabend_1226 Жыл бұрын

Very good video with a great cut. Great colors and authenticity.

@timothysdog6130 2 жыл бұрын

This is excellent footage

@jean-marienormand5441 Жыл бұрын

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.

@Dontwlookatthis Жыл бұрын

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!

@vuemusicale 2 жыл бұрын

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".

@mido5939ify 2 жыл бұрын

osef

@benitosevillanomacho8339 2 жыл бұрын

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.. que?

@benyaminekalerman9692 Жыл бұрын

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.

@zia4550 Жыл бұрын

Video has so many white white French. How French from white blonde turned black hair dark skin

@Rick-cg5rj Жыл бұрын

@@zia4550 Los franceses morenos son inmigrantes arabes de Argelia y africanos negros

@moma8223 2 жыл бұрын

Vielen Dank. ⚘

@gijsvanharen781 11 ай бұрын

Love this footage!

@JLIB1969 Жыл бұрын

"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

@paigetomkinson1137 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@earthenjadis8199 Жыл бұрын

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.

@paigetomkinson1137 Жыл бұрын

@@earthenjadis8199 Many, many thanks!

@MM-vv8mt Жыл бұрын

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.

@robertmchugh4639 Жыл бұрын

Your comments are right on. Very well put.

@paigetomkinson1137 Жыл бұрын

@@MM-vv8mt Awesome info! Thanks.

@danstoye3902 2 жыл бұрын

Extraordinary footage! Bravo!

@angeld6359 Жыл бұрын

Que gozada de reportaje , es como viajar en el tiempo que buen trabajo, gracias por crear semejante obra.

@jamisdelsol5761 Жыл бұрын

c' est la 1ere fois que je visionne ces images en principe ce sont toujours les mêmes videos qui sont ressassées non stop merci

@eamonnclabby7067 2 жыл бұрын

Great footage....

@Inamorata.367 Жыл бұрын

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.

@rastafarilion441 Жыл бұрын

Go cry somewhere else, boomer

@jjns5600 Жыл бұрын

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!

@jjns5600 Жыл бұрын

By the way, it was hot as hell!

@QED_ Жыл бұрын

@@jjns5600 You're overstating the case . . .

@QueenBee-gx4rp Жыл бұрын

Imagine being in one of those Jeeps that day! It must have been thrilling! Great to watch!

@mukhtarovsergey Жыл бұрын

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?"

@kitnascimento0 Жыл бұрын

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.

@lilliansteele7165 Жыл бұрын

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.

@thierrymilan2039 Жыл бұрын

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.

@jourwalis-8875 Жыл бұрын

A fantastic time document!

@JCL1970 2 жыл бұрын

I could never imagine the feeling of the Parisians seeing the allied troops entering the city knowing that their terror was over.

@timp.6127 2 жыл бұрын

yeah, there was humiliation for sure, but not much terror in Paris to be fair.

@phlm9038 2 жыл бұрын

@@timp.6127 What about the Jews of Paris or the resistance fighters, plus the hostages taken in retaliation to resistance activities ?

@Trajan2401 2 жыл бұрын

What about the Jews who were liberated they lived a real nightmare.

@tellodoroteo2543 2 жыл бұрын

Paris was chill.

@robertbradbury7921 Жыл бұрын

@@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

@remerodelvolga6598 Жыл бұрын

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.

@Fredericamonserrat Жыл бұрын

Exactement!

@Fredericamonserrat Жыл бұрын

La Nueve. Muchas Gracias a la NUEVE !

@gillescapot7185 Ай бұрын

Es verdad que viva la neuve y su commandante Dronne.

@gregoryadair3223 Жыл бұрын

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.

@phyo1716 Жыл бұрын

I wonder how Verdun looked like in 1944. Was it still a mud field like it was in ww1?

@bobbobson6292 Жыл бұрын

Американские и английские парни погибшие и выжившие на войне были братьями по оружию с нашими предками Советскими солдатами. Помним, чтим, гордимся.

@lobo1363 Жыл бұрын

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

@nonconsensualopinion Жыл бұрын

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.

@thierrymilan2039 Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@benjamindemornay1444 2 жыл бұрын

Bradley Leclerc de Gaulle, le peuple de Paris...fabulous footage, what historic moment ! What emotion ! Thank you

@RaulRodriguezasteroides 2 жыл бұрын

Que gran registro....General Leclerc, General De Gaulle, General Bradley. Histórico. Espectacular!!

@alainschmid3951 2 жыл бұрын

De Gaule, le dėgonflė... Il ėtait plus connu pour être animateur radio dans son bunker qu un soldat..

@lo_qc Жыл бұрын

@@alainschmid3951 tu connais bien mal l'histoire ...

@rafaelibanez991 Жыл бұрын

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 ?

@juancarlosperez5045 Жыл бұрын

@@rafaelibanez991 No te olvides de los republicanos españoles de la Nueve

@rafaelcasadoinfante4324 Жыл бұрын

@@juancarlosperez5045osea grandes olvidados, los maltratados por Francia fueron los que liberaron París, los gloriosos Reublicanos español es

@OutcastVagabond Жыл бұрын

great video

@RootlessNZ Жыл бұрын

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.

@Enquiringmind777 Жыл бұрын

That's because the French made it an open city for the Germans to enter. Thus they didn't destroy it.

@phlm9038 Жыл бұрын

But believe me, all the towns of northern France have been bombed to the ground during the German invasion.

@EllieMaes-Grandad Жыл бұрын

@@Enquiringmind777 London, on the other hand, fought the aggressor . . .

@user-xy6db3mh5w Жыл бұрын

@@EllieMaes-Grandad Да, сэр Черчилль не желал быть с Гитлером в одной лодке. А вот члены королевской семьи были готовы.

@EllieMaes-Grandad Жыл бұрын

@@user-xy6db3mh5w On an English-language website, that's simply offensive. Try again?

@heidiwilks5316 2 жыл бұрын

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

@user-zz5pu4jl9x 2 жыл бұрын

Дякую, було цікаво.

@geriiacobelli963 8 ай бұрын

Well done. Made me cry

@kathy.7475 Ай бұрын

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.

@ustoopia Жыл бұрын

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.

@eduardoprincipal393 Жыл бұрын

@tripperdelaluna1 Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@jrt818 Жыл бұрын

The reminds me that almost all of these people, even children, have now past away and death comes for us all.

@rexrabbiteer Жыл бұрын

That’s not true, there are people much older still alive now.

@sougatamukherjee5298 Жыл бұрын

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 😀

@Pete-rs4yz Жыл бұрын

That's because Paris was never bombed. And German commanders ignored Hitler's orders to destroy it.

@user-kh9zy9jt5r Жыл бұрын

@@Pete-rs4yz معلوماتك صحيحة 👍

@thierrymilan2039 Жыл бұрын

@@Pete-rs4yz wrong, Paris was bombed, but not in the touristic usual parts every foreigner knows.

@1911Earthling Жыл бұрын

A beautiful sight!

@danielt2738 Жыл бұрын

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.

@intentotomarmeloenserio2010 Жыл бұрын

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.

@alainderien5156 Жыл бұрын

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

@lapplandsjagare Жыл бұрын

🙋🏻‍♂️ hello from Sweden 🇸🇪

@ricardodearriba1558 Жыл бұрын

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

@jeffaddis5715 20 күн бұрын

Music for this was awesome and appropriate

@jscottupton Жыл бұрын

"...you are about to embark on the great crusade..." Ike. It really was great and will not be forgotten.

@user-ib6iw9yr2g Жыл бұрын

Особенно музыка... Подобрана со вкусом к ситуациям на кадрах.... Благодарю за информацию и работу.

@roisanglier34 2 жыл бұрын

Un grand merci pour cette vidéo et pour ces braves

@rafaelcasadoinfante4324 Жыл бұрын

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.

@bobbobson6292 Жыл бұрын

Спасибо испанским республиканцам.

@voiceofreason6515 10 ай бұрын

The parade music is beyond epic.

@samkhani2147 Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much American and British soldiers who sacrificed for France 🇫🇷 may your soul Rest In Peace

@michaelcorbidge7914 Жыл бұрын

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.

@deanpd3402 Жыл бұрын

@Peter Pan No thanks to Stalin and the scum who led Russia.

@25nucleo Жыл бұрын

Liberation is produced for the republicans spanish...

@angelocarone8905 Жыл бұрын

Sbaglio no fu la francia e l,inghilterra a dicharare guerra alla germania

@ashleyhawkins8232 Жыл бұрын

Well said

@raksha238 2 жыл бұрын

Los primeros en entrar en París fueros los españoles de "La Nueve".

@juansalvadorcarrillovidal2169 2 жыл бұрын

Igualmente, fueron los españoles exilados en Francia quienes junto a exilados de otros paises ofrecieron resistencia desde el primer momento contra la ocupación alemana, Se organizaron y crearon el "Maquis", grupos resistentes armados que operaron sobre todo en la zona sur y sureste, así como en las zonas montañosas. Los cementerios franceses estan repletos de tumbas de españoles caidos luchando contra los alemanes. Los franceses en general no empezaron a engrosar la "Resistencia" de forma efectiva y visible hasta 1944. Los aliados cuando desembarcaron en Africa tuvieron que enfrentarse a la importante armada francesa (bajo el mando de Vichy), que estaba intacta y ofreció eso si, poca resistencia por la cobardía de sus jefes. Luego, cuando los demás les liberaron de su "forzada" ocupación, comenzaron a salir resistentes por todos lados y buscar colaboracionistas bajo las piedras (sobre todo si eran mujeres). Y así, pasaron de ser liberados a figurar como libertadores.. Y TAN PANCHOS!..."VIVE LA FRANCE!!!"

@raksha238 2 жыл бұрын

@@juansalvadorcarrillovidal2169 así es...

@Davelopper Жыл бұрын

Un document absolument extraordinaire.

@appytight8468 2 ай бұрын

Amazing footage. Is that Hemingway at 6:39?

@benitosevillanomacho8339 2 жыл бұрын

Gloria a Le Clerc, s Drome y a los Republicanos Españoles de la Novena. Granell y compañía llevaban los tanques...Guadajara, Teruel, etc

@hairback 2 жыл бұрын

Отличный канал! Столько интересных кадров, которых я раньше не видел и все в цвете. Спасибо!

@user-js9ln1wq8n Жыл бұрын

Француз из правительство был приглашён первому параде Победы 1945 год 24 июня

@blackjack8838 Жыл бұрын

Вашу Русскую язык иbaл, где было написано по Русский что вы сразу на свой Фашистских языке начали говорить?

@georgesullivan4473 Жыл бұрын

I appreciate Russia for helping us win world War 2

@blackjack8838 Жыл бұрын

@@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

@xanbex8324 Жыл бұрын

@@georgesullivan4473 "helping us" ?

@marianlynch4829 Жыл бұрын

Music is incredible....very appropriate.

@danielleeproductions3756 Ай бұрын

First time I seeing this footage excellent video 👍

@tigex77140 Жыл бұрын

merci pour cette vidéo, merci aux héros.

@ruteando5365 Жыл бұрын

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.

@thierrymilan2039 Жыл бұрын

A certain credit but not ALL the credit... Thanks to the Spanish though.

@jossbeaumont2164 Жыл бұрын

those were the glory days of french american friendship

@ninirema4532 Жыл бұрын

धेरै धेरै राम्रो छ शुभकामना छ

@alvashoemaker8536 Жыл бұрын

Imagine the EMOTIONS….THIS film’s FANTASTIC…!! (I’m a HISTORY NERD…this type of “information” is…untouchably PERFECT!! AGAIN, THANK YOU…). 👍🏼👍🏼👣

@Frantxis Жыл бұрын

Que buenas imágenes, de aquella época

@eugenegilleno9344 Жыл бұрын

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.

@terryhughes7349 Жыл бұрын

The people look so joyful. great video.

@thomasfreeman4397 Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@antoniodelrio1292 10 ай бұрын

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.

@yabrgon 2 жыл бұрын

Hats off to the cameramen.... ♥

@benjaminmoogk3531 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@patricelecoz6341 Жыл бұрын

Does anyone knows which village street corner this is w/ Allied forces waiting on to go on Paris?

@oposumxd Жыл бұрын

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.

@thierrymilan2039 Жыл бұрын

Normandie-Niemen exactly 🙂

@bobbobson6292 Жыл бұрын

Помним, чтим, гордимся!

@robelmehari8781 Жыл бұрын

3:11 an elderly French man was very welcoming.

@Brynson87 Жыл бұрын

It is possible that he is doing the "v for victory" sign (Churchill did it that way too despite the obvious alternative meaning). However, given the man's body language, I think your sarcasm may be on point.

@Falkriim 4 ай бұрын

This footage is incredible, better quality than my phone camera lmao. Could have been recorded yesterday

@marie-andredesmurs5293 Жыл бұрын

Merci pour ces images sur la libération bravo je pense à mon père qui était dans le maquis avec ces compagnons qui ce sont battus pour notre liberté 🌹♥️🌈🇨🇵😔💫