You can also tell about the mass graves found of German soldiers found with there heads bashed in to safe bullets. Or about bombing raids that went wrong and killing thousands of people who lived there. But no... let's keep it to the Germans who did wrong right? That's giving more clicks for you
If I may Florent please reach out to the channel WW2TC Paul Woodage is a wonderful host and I think it would be wonderful if you could share your Grandparents story with his viewers
Thank you from the proud son of a British soldier who fought in France alongside many other nations to rid Europe of Nazi domination. You are keeping history alive and hopefully in some small way doing a vital job of making us never forget.
I’m from Nevada US. Thank you so much for this story and your dedication and work in preserving WWII information. My dad was in World War II. He was in the Army Air Forces and flew C47s, and also was a glider pilot. He was in Market Garden and Varsity. I never got tired of hearing him talk about his time in the service, which he spoke of often. He loved the French and even stayed another 6 months in France to help with reparations. My dad and I went to France back in 1969 when I was a teenager. He wanted to see some of the places he had been. It was a great trip and really made me realize the sacrifices of the servicemen and the horrors of war. Thank you again for your commitment in preserving history.
August 1944 and it's now August 2024. So 80 years ago. It's wonderful that you recorded this lady. Her first hand experience is invaluable. I am Australian, and let me assure you, we did know of this massacre. But listening to the French lady was very important for me. Thank you for your work. 🌏
Incredibly moving video and film. The atrocities brought against civilian and non combatants seems to get lost sometimes. I learned more in 2 conversations with Mrs De Liberto who resided in Cicero Illinois USA after the war with her husband. The gentle old widow needed a ride with her dog back to pickup her vehicle from our service garage. When I knocked on her door she invited me in while she gathered her purse and dog for the ride. I was shocked to see her putting a P38 pistol in her purse before leaving. It began an eye opening conversation when I asked why she needed that. She said "always protect yourself young man, my father gave thto me during THE WAR ". Her father was a local contact and leader in the French Resistance. What a life lived. May the victims rest in peace. Freedom isn't free
This was an absolute touching video. I'm from New Jersey U.S. I've been wanting your videos for a while. This nice old lady reminds me of my late grandma. My grandma was from Poland. She taught me so much of WW2. Years later after watching your and other videos, she was not wrong. Thank you! I will continue to watch. My one grandfather fought in Africa and my other grandfather fought on iwo jima. My father was in Vietnam and I was in Iraq in '03. Thank you again
I live in Missouri, US and have to say that you all are doing an awesome job of sharing the history of such a tragic time in this world. You are teaching us about WWII better than our own schools are doing here in the US. I wish and pray that this history education was brought to the forefront here in the US so our children can learn and never forget how devastating war really is. God bless everyone on your crew and the witnesses that you talk to for sharing these incredible accounts of what really happened during the war.
I am absolutely gobsmacked by this! My father's maternal ancestors left Tourouvre in 1637 for Quebec, Canada. My great aunt was a genealogist and actually visited Tourouvre in the 1990s, but I don't recall her mentioning the 1944 massacre there. My heart goes out to the souls who lost their lives and their families who survived them.
Such a well done film. A little known event that world needs to know about. It reminds me of the Nazi destruction of the Czech town of Lidice in retaliation for an attempted assassination of Reinhard Heydrich. Thank you for making this interesting and moving documentary. These stories need to be told.
It is absolutely essential to remember these accounts from our not-so-distant history. Lest we repeat them again. Thank you greatly for what you are doing.
My grandpa René Paris that you see in the video was liberated in April 1945 by british troops. He was very thankful for the British soldiers who bravely fought to liberated him and so many. Thank you on behalf on my family and the french.
Until now, I have never heard of what happened at Tourouvre. Another example of the SS taking out revenge on the innocent. Madame Fauquet is a national treasure and I'm glad Flo was able to bring her story and that of Tourouvre to the forefront.
To remember the one German who tried to save a life in all the horror, she remembers so clearly as a child then. To share the story this year so clearly what happened is remarkable trauma you never do forget. This is the remarkable part of trauma you need to be ready to speak of it in your own time as it is fragmented for months or years. It really seems this lady has not forgotten but knows speaking about it in our world in 2024 is needed. We live in such authoritarian times with over 70% of the world’s population living under dictatorship and despot regimes. None is about faith in any way as people are trying to stoke hate daily over, it’s about greed for themselves! Thank you Joey & Florant for the work put into extremely high content with the research into this crime. We must never forget or downplay ever on the millions murdered for hate of another human being.
A really great documentary! I'm glad I am subbed to your channel. Maar wacht eens even, ik lees hier verschillende Nederlandstalige comments. Of is dit toevallig?
Excellent video. Thank you for sharing this WWII story and the more personal, family experience. The lady telling her story of hiding in a ditch then field as she feared for her life…..I got chills imagining such fear. Respect.
Great presentation of this tragic story. My wife’s family in Poland experience a similar situation when the Germans arrived in 1939. They were all relocated to a refuge camp and remained there throughout the war. They lost everything but their lives.
A very good documentary on what happened there . After 6 June 1944 ...there were many killing of Civilians and unarmed POW Soldiers across Europe by the SS ...MAY WE NEVER FORGET ...
Thank You. We know all about the war, but very little of the people who lived it as civilians. More of this please. God bless those who stood fast in the face of an evil strait from hell...
beautifully told. I could hear the emotion in your voice and it filled me with empathy for the town, and the people. I hope and pray this same brutality will stop for the people of Ukraine.
I remember seeing a Documentary about this tragic event . It was Released I believe in the early 1970's & was narrated by Legendary Actor Lawrence Olivier. The Docu Series was Called The World At War .
Not to be nit picky but at 4:04 you stated the US Air Force bombed a supply truck. I had a relative that was a fighter pilot, he was adamant that he was in the US Army Air Corps and never wanted to say he was in the Air Force. He was very proud of the US Army Air Corps. USAF became a stand alone branch of the US Armed services in 1947.
Ive guided for 35 years on Dday themes, and live not so far away, at Livarot, but not heard of this massacre. Thank you for drawing it to my attention. Years ago in my meeting with a lady called Mme Delaunay in Bayeux, she described the minds of the SS, indoctrinated with racial superiority and inevitable triumph over racially inferior "others", how they began to fall apart in defeat - it simply wasnt possible or permitted. She served at table in a chateau used by the SS, and as the British forces approached they went berserk, running around the roof naked and breaking into the drinks cellar. She managed to walk away from it.....
this is david and janette from tasmania we had family members wwi wwii vietnam and bor war we are sixty and we have been doing family history for 28 years we know roughly how you feel we have same problem to many skelatons in the closet and some people dont want to diskuss it sorry about spelling i type how it sounds butifull show and sad at same time we pray for thos famillys that they may never see those atrositys again alot of young people would never know but through your werk people can watch and maybe undrstand and watch and lern what people had to deal with thank you so much for understanding 😄❤💯👍
War is so , so horrible , tragic .So many innocent lives lost , men , women and children as well as those serving un the armed forces , many of them also were inbocent young men in the prime of there live only to have it taken from them
I can imagine the terror those helplessness people went through, they sounded like a bunch a cowards going after innocent defenseless Civilians and the one's that survived are scared & traumatized for the rest of their lives like this Jewish German woman my mother knew and befriended back in the late 70s she was the same age as my mother who is 89 now her friend Val came to the United States after the war and she told us that the German soldiers murdered her parents and she talked a little about it , and we knew she was traumatized infuriating on what these criminals did.
I thought I would share, my dad didnt talk about the war all that often, even tho, I would find random medals,Dogtags,Ribbons,even a German Luger. It was only when my dad got prostate cancer in 2001 (which he beat) did he talk about the war.He was in the 8th AAF as a Physical training instructor initially 1942 by 1944 we had the final push after the Battle of the Bulge, my father volunteered to be one of thos anti mine detector guys who walks in front of a tank with an antiquated mine detector..the reason for this story is as the line was moving up thru Belgium/Germany they caught sight of a Crippled B 17 in a death spiral, as my father told it everyone looked up and counted, it seemed 7 got out ss 7 chutes opened, the area that was bailed was still not cleared of Germans..my dad said, once that area was cleared a day or so later, they found the wreckage of the downed B 17 still smoking..but under it lay 9 freshly dug graves. My dad said 10 to a plane, and they knew 7 where alive, when bailing..but again 9 gravez..Was it the townspeopke who killed them, or leftover Whermacht? No one cared but for the next week or so no German prisoners where taken alive, until orders came down to start taking some alive or else
So which SS unit committed this massacre and was anyone brought to trial after the war? Also, including a map of the location of this town would have been most helpful.
The 12SS is mentioned in the documentary and you can see the location of the city of Tourouvre on a map at 03:43 min. I'm not familiar with any trial after the war and I'm not even sure that the massacre as been reported to allied troops.
@@seenit_ No, it's wrong because you are trying to alibi the massacre discussed in the video. Using massacres in quote marks would also indicate that you don't really think this was a massacre. You also are trying to downplay the tragedy that was described in the video. You aren't really being objective here, you are trying to move the blame away from the Nazs
@@williamcross210 I've studied WW2 for over a decade and am as objective as can be. I acknowledge all sides committed atrocities. These channels that glorify the allies and only illustrate war crimes by the Germans are where the objectivity is sorely needed.
It was an honor to sit inside the house of Madame Fauquet and hear her personal story about her life during World War II.
This was a great personal story. The Then and Now photographs added nicely to the presentation. Thanks for sharing.
Superb episode telling an important story.
You can also tell about the mass graves found of German soldiers found with there heads bashed in to safe bullets. Or about bombing raids that went wrong and killing thousands of people who lived there. But no... let's keep it to the Germans who did wrong right? That's giving more clicks for you
Thank you for honoring the civilians that were killed in my grandparents village. You produced an incredible documentary.
If I may Florent please reach out to the channel WW2TC Paul Woodage is a wonderful host and I think it would be wonderful if you could share your Grandparents story with his viewers
Thank you from the proud son of a British soldier who fought in France alongside many other nations to rid Europe of Nazi domination.
You are keeping history alive and hopefully in some small way doing a vital job of making us never forget.
I’m from Nevada US. Thank you so much for this story and your dedication and work in preserving WWII information. My dad was in World War II. He was in the Army Air Forces and flew C47s, and also was a glider pilot. He was in Market Garden and Varsity. I never got tired of hearing him talk about his time in the service, which he spoke of often. He loved the French and even stayed another 6 months in France to help with reparations. My dad and I went to France back in 1969 when I was a teenager. He wanted to see some of the places he had been. It was a great trip and really made me realize the sacrifices of the servicemen and the horrors of war. Thank you again for your commitment in preserving history.
August 1944 and it's now August 2024. So 80 years ago.
It's wonderful that you recorded this lady. Her first hand experience is invaluable.
I am Australian, and let me assure you, we did know of this massacre. But listening to the French lady was very important for me.
Thank you for your work. 🌏
Incredibly moving video and film. The atrocities brought against civilian and non combatants seems to get lost sometimes. I learned more in 2 conversations with Mrs De Liberto who resided in Cicero Illinois USA after the war with her husband. The gentle old widow needed a ride with her dog back to pickup her vehicle from our service garage. When I knocked on her door she invited me in while she gathered her purse and dog for the ride. I was shocked to see her putting a P38 pistol in her purse before leaving. It began an eye opening conversation when I asked why she needed that. She said "always protect yourself young man, my father gave thto me during THE WAR ". Her father was a local contact and leader in the French Resistance. What a life lived. May the victims rest in peace. Freedom isn't free
Ce genre de témoignages est tellement important, bravo, et merci.
Il n’y a plus que deux survivants connus. Ce fut un honneur de pouvoir la rencontrer et d’enregistrer son témoignage.
This was an absolute touching video. I'm from New Jersey U.S. I've been wanting your videos for a while. This nice old lady reminds me of my late grandma. My grandma was from Poland. She taught me so much of WW2. Years later after watching your and other videos, she was not wrong. Thank you! I will continue to watch. My one grandfather fought in Africa and my other grandfather fought on iwo jima. My father was in Vietnam and I was in Iraq in '03. Thank you again
Lo que ustedes hicieron en Irak fue un genocidio por robar petróleo
Outstanding video on a massacrer I Have never heard about. Thank you bringing this story to light.
I live in Missouri, US and have to say that you all are doing an awesome job of sharing the history of such a tragic time in this world. You are teaching us about WWII better than our own schools are doing here in the US. I wish and pray that this history education was brought to the forefront here in the US so our children can learn and never forget how devastating war really is. God bless everyone on your crew and the witnesses that you talk to for sharing these incredible accounts of what really happened during the war.
As an American, I have never heard of the massacre but I have now. Thank you for the video.
My Lai 1968,
Thank you so very much for this piece of unknown history may God bring peace to the survivors
Outstanding work. Thank you for putting that together and sharing it.
Thank you for your kind words JD, means a lot. All the best, Florent
I am absolutely gobsmacked by this! My father's maternal ancestors left Tourouvre in 1637 for Quebec, Canada. My great aunt was a genealogist and actually visited Tourouvre in the 1990s, but I don't recall her mentioning the 1944 massacre there. My heart goes out to the souls who lost their lives and their families who survived them.
Excellent video Joey and Florent! Thanks for sharing this unknown, horrible event.
May we never forget.
A most EXCELLENT film. You are doing a meaningful production of untold sorrows. How cruel the SS soldiers were all because of one man's ideology.
Such a well done film. A little known event that world needs to know about. It reminds me of the Nazi destruction of the Czech town of Lidice in retaliation for an attempted assassination of Reinhard Heydrich. Thank you for making this interesting and moving documentary. These stories need to be told.
Old German way to revenge local revolt. WW 1 done too
So sad. Thank you for documenting it.
It is absolutely essential to remember these accounts from our not-so-distant history. Lest we repeat them again.
Thank you greatly for what you are doing.
My grandpa René Paris that you see in the video was liberated in April 1945 by british troops. He was very thankful for the British soldiers who bravely fought to liberated him and so many. Thank you on behalf on my family and the french.
Excellent video as always. Thank you for sharing
Merci beaucoup d'honorer ce village par votre reportage , je suis Tourouvrain , j'ai bien connu René Paris à la Pile
René était mon grand père, merci beaucoup pour votre message.
Great film, thank you for making it.
Thank you for this documentary. My father was a WWII U.S. army vet in the South Pacific. Love hearing these personal stories. God bless those people
Thank you for the wonderful work you do.
Excellent video. I am so glad you were able to talk to the woman. Thanks for sharing.
So sad but thank you for showing us this.
Until now, I have never heard of what happened at Tourouvre. Another example of the SS taking out revenge on the innocent. Madame Fauquet is a national treasure and I'm glad Flo was able to bring her story and that of Tourouvre to the forefront.
Harbouring Taleban in Afgan City.. what would you do in your Convoy ..
As a frenchman , thank you for your work and this testimony.
Thank You - & Thank You for never forgetting
Great documentary
Keep telling their stories. I get chills learning about this horrible time in history
This channel is great!
Hello from Portugal. Thank you so much for your dedication and work in preserving the memory of WWII in Europe.
Extremely powerful video! These stories need to be told because schools no longer teach about these atrocities that occurred.
Thank you very much for your kind comment.
Incredible! Thank you
To remember the one German who tried to save a life in all the horror, she remembers so clearly as a child then. To share the story this year so clearly what happened is remarkable trauma you never do forget.
This is the remarkable part of trauma you need to be ready to speak of it in your own time as it is fragmented for months or years. It really seems this lady has not forgotten but knows speaking about it in our world in 2024 is needed. We live in such authoritarian times with over 70% of the world’s population living under dictatorship and despot regimes.
None is about faith in any way as people are trying to stoke hate daily over, it’s about greed for themselves!
Thank you Joey & Florant for the work put into extremely high content with the research into this crime. We must never forget or downplay ever on the millions murdered for hate of another human being.
A really great documentary! I'm glad I am subbed to your channel. Maar wacht eens even, ik lees hier verschillende Nederlandstalige comments. Of is dit toevallig?
Great story.
The SS formations brought the brutality of the Eastern Front to Western Europe. Truly heart breaking stuff.
Excellent video. Thank you for sharing this WWII story and the more personal, family experience. The lady telling her story of hiding in a ditch then field as she feared for her life…..I got chills imagining such fear. Respect.
Another outstanding video. Thank you both for bringing these stories to us and may you be blessed as you continue on your journeys.
❤💯
Great video!
Thanks for filming those locations. Really like your pictures comparisons !
Merci !
Thank you for making this video and for making us aware of this horrific event.
Great job telling the story, Flo!
Extremely powerful episode done with compassion and kindness.
Thank you for sharing this “forgotten” story.
Great presentation of this tragic story. My wife’s family in Poland experience a similar situation when the Germans arrived in 1939. They were all relocated to a refuge camp and remained there throughout the war. They lost everything but their lives.
A very good documentary on what happened there . After 6 June 1944 ...there were many killing of Civilians and unarmed POW Soldiers across Europe by the SS ...MAY WE NEVER FORGET ...
Thank You. We know all about the war, but very little of the people who lived it as civilians. More of this please. God bless those who stood fast in the face of an evil strait from hell...
Thank you very much for your nice comment. It means a lot.
Situation Normal All Fucked Up back with touching story🙌🏻
Thank you for this interesting video. X🇬🇧💖
beautifully told. I could hear the emotion in your voice and it filled me with empathy for the town, and the people. I hope and pray this same brutality will stop for the people of Ukraine.
Thank you for the work you’re doing, it is greatly appreciated. it is so sad. Similar situations are happening in Ukraine at this second.
Madame Fauquet is so sharp and vibrant for someone over 90. God bless her.
You have another subscriber, greetings from a dutchy.
Amazing firsthand account !
I remember seeing a Documentary about this tragic event . It was Released I believe in the early 1970's & was narrated by Legendary Actor Lawrence Olivier. The Docu Series was Called The World At War .
Speechless. You honored them well
thank you!
Not to be nit picky but at 4:04 you stated the US Air Force bombed a supply truck. I had a relative that was a fighter pilot, he was adamant that he was in the US Army Air Corps and never wanted to say he was in the Air Force. He was very proud of the US Army Air Corps. USAF became a stand alone branch of the US Armed services in 1947.
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Ive guided for 35 years on Dday themes, and live not so far away, at Livarot, but not heard of this massacre. Thank you for drawing it to my attention. Years ago in my meeting with a lady called Mme Delaunay in Bayeux, she described the minds of the SS, indoctrinated with racial superiority and inevitable triumph over racially inferior "others", how they began to fall apart in defeat - it simply wasnt possible or permitted. She served at table in a chateau used by the SS, and as the British forces approached they went berserk, running around the roof naked and breaking into the drinks cellar. She managed to walk away from it.....
Hard for me to hit like, but I don’t want to hit dislike 🤷♂️
My wife’s relatives emigrated from that town to Quebec in 1617.
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this is david and janette from tasmania we had family members wwi wwii vietnam and bor war we are sixty and we have been doing family history for 28 years we know roughly how you feel we have same problem to many skelatons in the closet and some people dont want to diskuss it sorry about spelling i type how it sounds butifull show and sad at same time we pray for thos famillys that they may never see those atrositys again alot of young people would never know but through your werk people can watch and maybe undrstand and watch and lern what people had to deal with thank you so much for understanding 😄❤💯👍
Kommt auch mal ein Video von den "Rheinwiesenlagern" oder
"Operation Keelhaul"?
War is so , so horrible , tragic .So many innocent lives lost , men , women and children as well as those serving un the armed forces , many of them also were inbocent young men in the prime of there live only to have it taken from them
Joe ik volg je vanaf dat je nog met uw papa naar de kanten van Recogne ging zoeken achter WW2 vondsten
deze staat niet op Patreon toch of heb ik iets gemist?
Zeker niet! Een onaangekondigde video :) Ik was vanochtend pas klaar met de edit
I can imagine the terror those helplessness people went through, they sounded like a bunch a cowards going after innocent defenseless Civilians and the one's that survived are scared & traumatized for the rest of their lives like this Jewish German woman my mother knew and befriended back in the late 70s she was the same age as my mother who is 89 now her friend Val came to the United States after the war and she told us that the German soldiers murdered her parents and she talked a little about it , and we knew she was traumatized infuriating on what these criminals did.
I thought I would share, my dad didnt talk about the war all that often, even tho, I would find random medals,Dogtags,Ribbons,even a German Luger. It was only when my dad got prostate cancer in 2001 (which he beat) did he talk about the war.He was in the 8th AAF as a Physical training instructor initially 1942 by 1944 we had the final push after the Battle of the Bulge, my father volunteered to be one of thos anti mine detector guys who walks in front of a tank with an antiquated mine detector..the reason for this story is as the line was moving up thru Belgium/Germany they caught sight of a Crippled B 17 in a death spiral, as my father told it everyone looked up and counted, it seemed 7 got out ss 7 chutes opened, the area that was bailed was still not cleared of Germans..my dad said, once that area was cleared a day or so later, they found the wreckage of the downed B 17 still smoking..but under it lay 9 freshly dug graves. My dad said 10 to a plane, and they knew 7 where alive, when bailing..but again 9 gravez..Was it the townspeopke who killed them, or leftover Whermacht? No one cared but for the next week or so no German prisoners where taken alive, until orders came down to start taking some alive or else
What is history than a fable agreed upon. Napoleon Please make a video about the rhein medow camps.
this was very rare, but shirt happens^^
So which SS unit committed this massacre and was anyone brought to trial after the war? Also, including a map of the location of this town would have been most helpful.
The 12SS is mentioned in the documentary and you can see the location of the city of Tourouvre on a map at 03:43 min. I'm not familiar with any trial after the war and I'm not even sure that the massacre as been reported to allied troops.
Hitler youth. = Jugend. 16-19 Y. boys. Fanatic fighter’s of regime.
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There were "massacres" perpetrated by all sides.
You are on the wrong channel.
Nah, my opinion is just "wrong" since it's objective. Facts are facts.
@@seenit_ No, it's wrong because you are trying to alibi the massacre discussed in the video. Using massacres in quote marks would also indicate that you don't really think this was a massacre. You also are trying to downplay the tragedy that was described in the video. You aren't really being objective here, you are trying to move the blame away from the Nazs
@@williamcross210 I've studied WW2 for over a decade and am as objective as can be. I acknowledge all sides committed atrocities. These channels that glorify the allies and only illustrate war crimes by the Germans are where the objectivity is sorely needed.
H. Youth division. Teenage boys made that unit.
Can the subjective question be..Why did the Germans do this massacre?
Of course, this is your opinion, Wehrmacht, many people have different opinions
Great BS
Thanks!