Liberation of Paris after four years of Nazi occupation (June to August 1944)

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  • Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
  • This is an excerpt from the film "The Spirit of Liberation": • Spirit of Liberation -...
    Between the 19th and 25th August 1944 during the Second World War and in the course of Operation Overlord, the liberation of Paris took place. The capital of France had been occupied by German troops since June 1940. In mid-August 1944, a general strike set in motion the events of the eventual liberation, and an open revolt by French resistance fighters followed from 19th August. Allied formations advanced towards Paris in support, and soon the German city commander Dietrich von Choltitz capitulated in defiance of explicit orders from Adolf Hitler.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 162

  • @lgarcia67
    @lgarcia67 9 місяців тому +74

    Now imagine Easter European countries. They were liberated of 5 years of Germans only to spend 50 under the Soviets

    • @user-ih5hp
      @user-ih5hp 7 місяців тому +2

      А теперь они под властью США. Хороший комментарий 👍. Странно что я не увидел ваш хваленный комментарий, как ваши 300 тысяч спартанцев победили фашизм!

    • @marcinnoga2019
      @marcinnoga2019 6 місяців тому

      @@user-ih5hp lepiej byc 500 lat pod rzadami usa niz 1 rok pod rzadami ruskich

    • @ОлегМилославский-й7ь
      @ОлегМилославский-й7ь 2 місяці тому

      @@user-ih5hp Лучше под властью США чем под восточными варварами

    • @jeffangielorivera2446
      @jeffangielorivera2446 Місяць тому +3

      ​​@@user-ih5hp bruh, them under US rule? This gotta be ragebait.

    • @Winterwolf-fs3wh
      @Winterwolf-fs3wh 29 днів тому +3

      And the Western Europe under 80 years of US, to the point where they are becoming minorities in their own cities.

  • @TomSmith-ls5rn
    @TomSmith-ls5rn 10 місяців тому +16

    My Father was there. Thank you, so well done. Bravo.

  • @oddity7263
    @oddity7263 Рік тому +15

    keep up the great work. best restored and colorized footage on the internet unlike many other attempts where the color is constantly glitching back to mono or that the only colors in it are glitching blue and orange. this channel's got the best i've seen so far.

    • @kevinindublin
      @kevinindublin 11 місяців тому +2

      It's not 'colourised' footage. It's actual colour footage, shot on colour film of the time.

    • @oddity7263
      @oddity7263 11 місяців тому

      @@kevinindublin now is it? wow, from what I know, coloured footage at the time was quite rare and expensive, hard to come by, like they were only saved for super or delicately significant or important events, political or religious
      though I suppose footage of the final days of ww2 in Europe counts as quite significant...

  • @phillipoos
    @phillipoos 2 місяці тому +1

    Thank you for these incredibly moving scenes ...wow !

  • @KaoretheHalfDemon
    @KaoretheHalfDemon 9 місяців тому +21

    The invasion and advance into France might have been much harder without the French Resistance I think.

    • @nellycoupez7204
      @nellycoupez7204 7 місяців тому +3

      Ah oui. Entièrement raison. Les resistants l ont payé cher.

    • @ВиталийКрайнов-х2ш
      @ВиталийКрайнов-х2ш 10 днів тому

      Find out about HOW resistance fighters in Poland, Greece and Yugoslavia fought the Nazis. Compared to the heroic struggle of the citizens of these countries, in France there was virtually no resistance to the occupiers.

  • @barbarasmith3899
    @barbarasmith3899 11 місяців тому +30

    Please don’t block anything with a blurry box. It is important for people to see the actual carnage of war.

    • @Steveross2851
      @Steveross2851 9 місяців тому +4

      @barbarasmith3899 that's UA-cam censorship, probably, not the author of this video. UA-cam increasingly frequently does this.

    • @Zeus2024-pn2ht
      @Zeus2024-pn2ht 9 місяців тому +1

      @@Steveross2851 Yes, extremely annoying, and disgusting really. Liberal approach.

    • @dvhughesdesign
      @dvhughesdesign 7 місяців тому

      @@Zeus2024-pn2ht Uhhh...no. It is actually a Capitalism approach.
      This is a free platform. Content producers make up their costs with third party advertising.
      The content producers self-censor their videos with blurry boxes because they do not want their work to be demonetized by potential advertisers electing to not have videos of corpses associated with their Doritos commercial. So... "Liberal" has nothing to do with it. It is called Capitalism.

    • @dvhughesdesign
      @dvhughesdesign 7 місяців тому +1

      @@Steveross2851 The content producers self-censor their videos with blurry boxes because they do not want their work to be demonetized.

    • @Steveross2851
      @Steveross2851 7 місяців тому

      @@dvhughesdesignsometimes it's UA-cam and sometimes it's the author. Depending on the video and the circumstances it could be either UA-cam or the author.

  • @tombystander
    @tombystander Рік тому +49

    I wish channels like these were on trending vs useless couples breaking up or random ppl recieving painted phone cases

    • @SpickyGonzalez
      @SpickyGonzalez 8 місяців тому +3

      Unfortunately you fought for the modern consumerist world that we live in

  • @Ansophie_France
    @Ansophie_France 7 місяців тому +5

    Merci beaucoup pour votre documentaire !
    Je peux y voir les images de la Libération de ma région Bretagne et Saint- Malo ville de ma naissance!
    Merci beaucoup !

    • @shakey3306
      @shakey3306 3 місяці тому

      They would have raped you if you were there. But don't worry, you still have a chance with all those migrants coming into your country, as a consequence of this very "liberation"

  • @shanasapp6212
    @shanasapp6212 8 місяців тому +14

    I wish they wouldn't blur the wounded, I know it sounds barbaric, but it is important to see the realities of war and the destruction it causes.

  • @carmelbrain7399
    @carmelbrain7399 Рік тому +10

    clear, concise, colourful

  • @benoithelie6236
    @benoithelie6236 Рік тому +15

    Je suis d'origine normande (manchoise), les images des destructions des villes normandes (Cherbourg, Caen surtout) sont vraiment terribles par rapport à celles des autres villes françaises libérées. Autrement, une des meilleurs vidéos sur cette période que j'ai pu voir.

    • @belindaprezzi2647
      @belindaprezzi2647 7 місяців тому +1

      Fico muito emocionada vendo os vídeos....este é muito especial.......viva os ALIADOS......DEUS NOS PROTEJA DO MAL......🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷

  • @harryhanz1690
    @harryhanz1690 Рік тому +33

    My great grandfather, who was wounded twice, said WWII was the best thing to ever happen to him. He met my great grandmother in Germany after the war.

    • @stubi1103
      @stubi1103 10 місяців тому +1

      Was your great Grandmother a German woman?

    • @ГеоргийПетухов-ф8э
      @ГеоргийПетухов-ф8э 22 дні тому

      Я думаю,🙂было бы не плохо,чтобы он встретил вашу бабушку без этой войны

  • @robfalter2522
    @robfalter2522 Рік тому +33

    those german POW were smiling because they knew they would eventually go home. the ones captured in the east by the soviets would either be slaves or dead

    • @ВиталийКрайнов-х2ш
      @ВиталийКрайнов-х2ш 10 днів тому

      Of the four million Soviet prisoners of war, two million died in German captivity. Another million CIVILIANS of the USSR died in Germany out of five million forcibly abducted Ostarbeiters. Of the four million German prisoners of war, 600 thousand died in Soviet captivity.

  • @marquinho999
    @marquinho999 Рік тому +8

    "Cherbourg streets are a shambles" - Chelsea Football Club's season, mate!

  • @edsmith3461-z7m
    @edsmith3461-z7m 11 місяців тому +3

    Not a fan of the added sound

    • @rudolfkraffzick642
      @rudolfkraffzick642 9 місяців тому

      Only the Russians are blamed for the death "missing" of over more than 1 Mio. German POWs. Not to mention of the Mio. killed civilians (starvation) after the unconditional surrender. This is denied history of the winners who "take it all", as the American song states.

  • @ctwentysevenj6531
    @ctwentysevenj6531 7 місяців тому

    Very clear footage.

  • @stephenchudds9392
    @stephenchudds9392 8 місяців тому +3

    My father in law piloted barges into Toulon harbor still mined. This video gives no hint of those mines. He said the French were starved. I'd like to know about those mines.

  • @vdo3000
    @vdo3000 Рік тому +6

    15:48 Ernest Hemingway!

  • @Paskudnak
    @Paskudnak Місяць тому +1

    War İs a crime and continues today … we have learned nothing

  • @johnbulger8044
    @johnbulger8044 8 місяців тому +1

    the color film brings all these events alive

  • @woodrowpreacely7521
    @woodrowpreacely7521 Рік тому +10

    George Stephen's films were already very good but imagine these have been enhanced to HD as well. So fascinating! Makes 80 years ago look like yesterday! We all need to remember though Nazis are back in 2023 within America itself this time - trying to take over. Hitler Tojo and Mussolini would be proud.

  • @DylansPen
    @DylansPen 9 місяців тому +7

    I'm guessing most German soldiers were greatful they had been captured and were in camps behind barbed wire, it meant the war was over for them, they'd live through it.

  • @matthewprice2626
    @matthewprice2626 3 місяці тому

    A German I knew got caught as a prisoner of war (probably on purpose )and decided to live the rest of his life in the UK. He saw it as a blessing.

  • @stephenchudds9392
    @stephenchudds9392 8 місяців тому

    The veterans on our side said the enemy uniforms were grey. But these seem to be quite green.

  • @theforgottenbrawlers
    @theforgottenbrawlers Рік тому +1

    Time is a flat circle....

    • @terryreynolds4346
      @terryreynolds4346 Рік тому +1

      Nah a donut

    • @woodrowpreacely7521
      @woodrowpreacely7521 Рік тому +1

      Color is so good here really could have been made yesterday. Does make one think - and there's scientists who confirm it now - that we can go backward and forward in time - as time is circular and not linear as we thought. Government knows it's true.

  • @MTC008
    @MTC008 8 місяців тому +1

    these people relatively looked exactly the same as the people today, there is no difference.

  • @Tomschueller-j7q
    @Tomschueller-j7q Рік тому +7

    Salutes to a great generation. Proud to be n American!

  • @Zarina1634
    @Zarina1634 8 місяців тому

    What a time in history.

  • @matycath1502
    @matycath1502 8 місяців тому

    Oradour-sur-Glane 10:00 village martyr

  • @andrewgibbon-williams7974
    @andrewgibbon-williams7974 Місяць тому

    Thank God for America! As Churchill said, America will always do the RIGHT thing - IN THE END!

  • @ibnenkigalileo9256
    @ibnenkigalileo9256 Рік тому +5

    The occupation was obviously carried out by the Nazis but back then and until quite recently the French used to call it “the German Occupation”.

    • @chrisl211
      @chrisl211 Рік тому +3

      No, we call it "l'occupation"

  • @wwbdwwbd
    @wwbdwwbd Рік тому +4

    Horizontal collaborators.

  • @artek-8115
    @artek-8115 Рік тому +4

    Not Nazi, not Martian, but German occupation

  • @ФилиппОстапенко-м4й
    @ФилиппОстапенко-м4й 10 місяців тому +1

    Этим пленным канкретно повезло...

  • @marceloal777
    @marceloal777 9 місяців тому

    Arde Paris?

  • @edbudzynski729
    @edbudzynski729 9 місяців тому +1

    When I see all the young soldiers fall on the Normandy beaches and can’t believe our US Supreme Court won’t defend democracy. They are pathetic.

  • @energyasylum997
    @energyasylum997 8 місяців тому

    @11:37 WTH. Cringeworthy. They’re even looking at the camera and probably thinking 💭……”what’s this dude trying to do to me?” Lol

  • @rolandgerard6064
    @rolandgerard6064 Рік тому

    Thanks

  • @coxer829
    @coxer829 Рік тому +16

    Den Franzosen gings ziemlich gut unter uns. Im Gegensatz zu den deutschen in Deutschland anschließend.

    • @rangerminun7381
      @rangerminun7381 Рік тому

      "Uns" --- Euch

    • @taunusjunge3383
      @taunusjunge3383 Рік тому +7

      Die Franzosen hassten die deutschen Besatzer, welche minderjährige Résistance-Mitglieder ohne Prozess erschießen ließen. Das Massaker von Oradour durch die Verbrecher der Waffen-SS war nur ein weiterer Tiefpunkt der Barbarei des widerwärtigen Nazi-Regimes in Frankreich und Europa. Nach dem Krieg übrigens machten Nazis in der jungen Bundesrepublik mühelos Karriere (siehe Filbinger-Affäre und Konsorten).

    • @seattlewa8500
      @seattlewa8500 10 місяців тому

      Doing ‘pretty well’? Is that supposed to be a joke?

  • @Toph.Beifong.
    @Toph.Beifong. Рік тому

    The GI uniform is cooler back then. Now they wear very large baggy clothing

  • @redskyatnight123
    @redskyatnight123 Рік тому

    Quality footage

  • @Jerseyboondocks
    @Jerseyboondocks 10 місяців тому +1

    But how is Paris and France doing now -all these years after the liberation?

  • @jorgesalazar6148
    @jorgesalazar6148 4 місяці тому

    El capitán América?

  • @LEGEND.KILLER100
    @LEGEND.KILLER100 Рік тому +1

    انزال النورماندي المعركة الاخيرة لجيش هتلر

  • @joergmueller7972
    @joergmueller7972 Рік тому +4

    so ein Schwachsinn wenn ich immer lese Befreiung von Paris ,weil es den nie geben hat.

  • @mysticmarble94
    @mysticmarble94 Рік тому +6

    the smell of freedom is in the air

  • @loki7641
    @loki7641 Рік тому +1

    BEFREIER ???

  • @Bricameron
    @Bricameron 9 місяців тому +3

    Now we have Russia. Same as then.

  • @richardsimms251
    @richardsimms251 Рік тому +4

    Yes
    Germany was a terrible and criminal country in WW2, but it is a model country for exemplary behaviour today.

    • @СергейЗнамин
      @СергейЗнамин 10 місяців тому +1

      Не хотят больше потеряться!

    • @Jerseyboondocks
      @Jerseyboondocks 10 місяців тому

      Good behavior for being scared to death to be called racist and letting millions of third world fighting age men into their country?
      Are they really better off now...hey as long as they don't seem racist right? That's all that matters?

    • @familyandfriends3519
      @familyandfriends3519 4 місяці тому

      No they are not

  • @thegamingchef3304
    @thegamingchef3304 9 місяців тому

    Why do people feel the need to come to these videos and talk about what their family tree did in WW2? Lol.

    • @sassycat6487
      @sassycat6487 8 місяців тому

      Because it's why we feel such a connection to the war almost 80 years after it ended. Most people who didn't have family in it don't ever think about it or care.

  • @gerdrichter9242
    @gerdrichter9242 Рік тому +4

    Amerikanische Nazis lösen die deutschen Nazis in Frankreich ab.

  • @joshualarson505
    @joshualarson505 Рік тому +4

    France was liberated in 1940

  • @MYKOLA_SS
    @MYKOLA_SS Рік тому +4

    Eh bien, les Français sont-ils satisfaits de la libération ? Aimez-vous vivre dans un pays musulman?

  • @richardyoung871
    @richardyoung871 Рік тому

    In this video he fails to mention NORMANDY where a combined troops from the UNITED STATES, AUSTRALIA AND CANADA went to ENGLAND to launch there attack against GERMANY, but don't forget the PACIFIC where AMERICAN FORCES were fighting JAPANESE forces. Then came the ATOMIC BOMB and the war was over then KOREA AND VIETNAM then 911 the WORLD TRADE CENTER the PENTAGON and PENNSYLVANIA and I was in NYC

    • @metalgearray6832
      @metalgearray6832 Рік тому

      Why don’t YOU make your OWN video about THOSE battles TOO instead of complaining like a BOOMER. World war 2 was HUGE, this video is all but a small GLIMPSE.

    • @seattlewa8500
      @seattlewa8500 10 місяців тому +2

      What is your point?

  • @Кальмар_Гумбольдта

    Today, Russian soldiers are fighting fascism again.
    Forward Russia!
    Bravo!

    • @PrinceChaloner
      @PrinceChaloner Рік тому +23

      Putin and Hitler are the same...

    • @user-Sashka_Pyoureshko
      @user-Sashka_Pyoureshko Рік тому

      Are you one of Hitler's unfinished Nazis, Vanka Kalmar?

    • @davidclark3588
      @davidclark3588 Рік тому

      Imagine actually believing something this stupid

    • @lifted.5916
      @lifted.5916 Рік тому

      wut ? Russia are the invaders and are gonna invade moldova after ukraine and ur saying ukraine is fascist.

    • @metalgearray6832
      @metalgearray6832 Рік тому

      @@PrinceChaloner you mispelt Zelenskyy

  • @rufiorufioo
    @rufiorufioo Рік тому

    Gotta love the Americans in the Hotchkiss 105mm German gun shooting at Germans. The commentator said 155mm it's gotta be a 105mm Hotchkiss..

  • @НэчипайкобылеСракуказак

    Советские нацисты расстреляли триста героев РОА за поддержку восставших жителей города Прага , прямо на больничных койках . Убили героев РОА тяжело раненных в боях с гитлеровцами , май 1945 .

    • @Olga-Che35
      @Olga-Che35 10 місяців тому +1

      Ты и тут гадишь?
      Лучше вспомни, как вы уничтожали евреев в Львове, Киеве....

    • @НэчипайкобылеСракуказак
      @НэчипайкобылеСракуказак 10 місяців тому

      @@Olga-Che35 не мы , а вы . Вы напали на Чехословаки . И создали западную украину. Для Степана Бандеры .

    • @Olga-Che35
      @Olga-Che35 10 місяців тому

      @@НэчипайкобылеСракуказак да ты шо? Польша и Германия дербанила Чехословакии в 1938 г. А евреев убивали по всей бывшей Усср. И теперь батька ваш бандера, а шухевич мать

    • @НэчипайкобылеСракуказак
      @НэчипайкобылеСракуказак 10 місяців тому

      @@Olga-Che35 какая Польша . Где республика Подкарпатская Русь .

    • @Jerseyboondocks
      @Jerseyboondocks 10 місяців тому

      The Soviets weren't Nazis. What's wrong with you. Aunt, the Soviet Union lost the most people in World war II fighting Nazi Germany. They helped turn the tide of the war.

  • @dexculpepper-py1jr
    @dexculpepper-py1jr 8 місяців тому

    The FFI were communist, they got run out of France after war😂😂😂

  • @kahfilopez4853
    @kahfilopez4853 Рік тому

    First

  • @me-hk4rl
    @me-hk4rl 7 місяців тому

    lies.

  • @stevensteelforce2701
    @stevensteelforce2701 4 місяці тому

    Once there was a strong, hard working Nation with a perfect, fertile fatherland and many colonies all over the Globe. An Elf came, with a book and his falls promises, to destroy it all for them. RIP Germany