The Hidden Struggles of France's Liberation: Politics, Power and Patriotism | FULL DOCUMENTARY
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- After D-Day, the second turning point leading to the end of the war, is the liberation of France, and the progress towards Germany. People mostly remember the Liberation from scenes of jubilation as the population was welcoming the men and women that were to free them from years of oppression. But behind the idealised images, some dark sides remain. Everywhere, disorganisation of the administration, severe food shortage and high level of insecurity lead to chaos.
But a political struggle between De Gaulle, the resistance from within and the Allied forces is taking place behind the scenes. Americans intend to administer France, once fully freed. But for De Gaulle, the only legitimate government is the one he has led from exile since 1943. The liberation of France should not be left to the Americans alone as its future sovereignty depends on its capacity to “free itself”. Therefore, any acts of bravery of the French Guerrilla, as small as they can be, are crucial into reaching this objective.
Documentary: The Hidden Side of Liberation (2014)
Direction: Caroline Amiard, Quentin Cannette, Juliette Desbois and Julie Pichot
Production: Let’s Pix
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These are the things we're never taught in school. Thank You very much
Thanks to you for watching!
They don't teach very much in school. And now we have part of the people in this country wanting to sugar coat everything and not talk about it unless it instills a false patriotism. Don't fall for it. Not everything in history is bad, but it sure isn't all good either, even when you think something like the liberation of France should be all good.
It was said in this doc that the food rationing system was dismantled in France after 4 yrs, in 1949. Lucky them! In Britain it would take almost 10 yrs before this would happen.
Britain did not fully pay back the US until 2006 ! The last payment made to US was £83M & to Canada £23M. Britain accumulated £21B debt by end of WW2. It took 61 years to reimburse the Allies.
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Talk about an untold story. I knew none of this. An exceptional documentary.
The French were lucky. Britain had another 4 years of rationing ahead of them. It didn’t end till 1953!
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Wow....I didn't know that! Do you know reasons why?
@@JusticeAlways A political class and their civil service reluctant to give up the power and control they accumulated during the war.
The French were never meant to have an occupation Zone in Germany . It was only after De Gaulle complained that they got that western strip. When the British (BAOR ) wanted to re-industrialize Germany , by restarting Steel production , the French said no . But it happened anyway , just at a lower output .
Already more than half-way through and not a single reference to the many thousands of Spaniards in the French military and resistance. This despite the fact that the documentary starts by underscoring de Gaulle's sense of hurt national pride and desire to give the liberation of France an unequivocal French identity. It really would be interesting to explore all these events from the perspective of national myth-making and to contrast what happened with the way that it was portrayed, which is in fact what this documentary does, except apparently as an exclusively French affair. The same goes for the role of Algerians, Senegalese and others.
French fought in SS Carlemagne and German SS in french foreign legion in Indochina (Bien Pien Puh)
Reminiscent of the terror of The French Revolution where denunciation meant death, guilty or not.
Voice translation is so important for UA-cam videos.
The best doc ever !
I wonder how many of those cheering wildly, had in fact betrayed others?
It was not only France. Britain and other European countries too. The British also had ration for several years. When you think about it, it was normal. The war consumed and destroyed huge proportion of wealth and productive assets. The war created huge problems such as refugees. The destroyed business relationship and supply routes. How could people get back to normal, as in pre-war normal quickly?
Sounds like Covid 2020 / 2022 Suppily issues ,etc etc
And that was just a peace time mess.
Only Berlin was bombed 314 times, not including the other 60 German cities razed to the ground, that had to be costly in the end. The British had the respect and humility to ask the US for a loan, which they half obtained. The French required it, complained constantly and always wanted more, in the US, that did not go down well.
Oui, France surrendered without a fight. And Petain collaborated. Vichy was cruel.
i just love this narators voice
French Dig for Victory only after they have been set free, in Britain we started Dig for Victory when War started, as Churchill said i can offer you nothing but Blood Sweatcand Tears You ask what is our aim what is aim Victory, Victory whatever the cost how ever long it takes..
And we did in the End Prevail...
No, you were simply on the winning side, without US help and Soviet lives, you would have joined Germany and participated in the elimination of communism from the surface of the earth during the war, as Churchill had promised to do when his forces were let go of at Dunkirk. No cold war, can you imagine... THAT's what you won, 50 years of hell for eastern Europe. Of course Churchill had no intention of keeping his word, he never did. Instead, although Germany never asked for Britain's surrender but offered very acceptable peace terms including Hitler's resignation if required, he kept the war going, got the rest of the world involved and watched over the destruction of Europe, of its unique culture and of the soul and pride of its people... a great man indeed.
@@rosesprog1722 where on earth did you hear such rubbish .
@@johnmilligan6605 Any source outside mainstream winners' history has interesting things to say, some is credible, some not but none is as far from historical accuracy than the official all black, all white unrealistic version we were all taught at school. You could google "Hitler's Peace Offers" if you want, a very interesting start.
Excellent documentary. War is not a neat and clean thing.
great documentary
Thanks so much!
Even Nelson Mandela was called a terrorist and all he wanted was freedom. Terrorist is such a a meaningless term
You can't blame the French for hating collaborators. And you certainly wouldn't want French women sleeping with the ones that conquered your country. That's aid and comfort to the enemy.
There seemed to be a lot of brave french men once the Germans had gone though, killing people without a trial on hearsay. So yes you can blame them, it made them no better than the Germans.
I remember hearing about the French women who had their heads shaved at the time it happened,but I can remember people talking about it in England,and everyone said they deserved it
I can recall going to a drive in with my parents, when I was a child in the early 60s ...they showed at intermission time, where women were having the heads shaved, apparently it's was still a hot topic.... I think the movie was (the Russian are coming). The world or the USA had bloodshot eyes over the propaganda that was being dispense on a daily basis.. Common slander of us kids was, "Hey you commie," " I've rather be dead than Red" none of us had a clue what that meant, but it's was the going thing that you heard from our parents. So it's was cool.😂
In our minds, next-door kid Jimmie, who stole our hot wheels cars, had to be a commie, it was hard to believe, but we believe it😂
@@daleslover2771 There's no doubt about it. Jimmy was a commie. Maybe even had a commie flag.lol😂
This is enlightening. Excellent Work 👏🏽†
yeah, from d day to 6 june 1944; dudee's drunk
But the French never did liberate Paris by themselves
Let me add something else. As far as the film quality of the day, there is no comparison to 4K now, so even if the old stuff is colorized or remastered. I mean look at he movie saving private, there was a whole more of the blood and guts in that from anything I have seen in any of these documentaries.
And here’s something else, besides watering down history, most of all of the younger people now a days to care less or are even interested in past history as this, and don’t even watch this stuff. This is real stuff and it should be shown. If anybody is interested in historical documentaries as this then good on them. This makes me angry.
It seems a lot of people were wrongly attacked, and even murdered by the resistance, a lot of the evidence was easily rebutted
Some nasty scores were settled in France, with an eye on post war power. Communists had enough support to think to challenge for national leadership. Some parties raced to german prison camps in 1945 to collect and shoot high profile opponents. De Gaulle was a strong nationalist when that was important to unifying and rebuilding the country.
2024 Germany is rich the allies poor
Industry and science, dearie. 🙄
I was born in 1948, I don’t specifically recall rationing, but I did have a ration card.
Yes. This might be a dark time and moment in history....unfortunately they had to do...what the had to do.....we simply cannot judge the past in the present....when we didn't live it.
Paris honours the forgotten Spanish fighters who liberated the French capital
Paris was officially freed from Nazi occupation on 25 August, 77 years ago. "Paris is liberated by itself, by its people," General Charles de Gaulle declared the following day. But the first Allied vehicles to drive into the city belonged to the 9th company known as La Nueve, and the vast majority of its members were Spanish Republican fighters.
Spanish Republicans were Communist.
It was an informative ,incredible 👍🏻, and wonderful historical coverage video about that remarkable matter...same scenario occurred ( liberated mission by allies everywhere during WW2. ) same chaos, internal revenues,Iranian revenues, Turkish plundered missions.. American Marshall law punishments and summary murderers occurred after 2003 in Iraq 😢
Thank you!
Pretty good video, but maybe the folks that out this out could also include American measurements, like miles and stuff like that.
war is hell
is this 10 years old?
Sounds like the depression here in America.
The women of the resistance had way more balls than De Gaulle.
Britain still fought on still rationed for a long..time and then fought on..
A brilliant informative and enjoyable documentary , but spoilt by not dubbing the French into english - meaning those who wish to just listen to it can't- so it is denied to those with restricted vision , or reading difficulties . I cannot understand why documentary makers do this as it has no advantages .
That depends upon one's perspective. Although your points about restricted vision or reading difficulties are legitimate I wouldn't say that there "no advantages" to not dubbing a film. Some of us consider that to be spoiling it.
@@brianally1531 with the rise in trying to make as much as possible available to people with disabilities this would appear to be going in the opposite direction . This could be considered discriminatory against those with disabilities .
Sounds. A bit like. Peoples. Courts. In. Revolution. ???!!
People's Court? Sounds like the one Roland Freisler presided over.
Nah, that was Freisler's court, no one else's.
I guess pride will not feed you.
@14:39
The General was telling a lie... LOL
And the French were never the same !
This is why the French are so French !
I have a historian friend. He’s always said that as part of reparations, Germany should have been forced to keep France.
😂😂I am german and yes we are still forced to feed the french inside the EU. We would be better with BRICS and spend money on holidays in France.
France forgets that your government declared war on Germany.
Forced too when Germany attacked their ally (Poland), as was the UK
Degaul was a dorky looking dude .
Tragic outrages. May the souls of the innocent Rest in Peace and may God have Mercy on the souls of the delinquent self-righteous murderers. A sad story in isolation, however, think . . . The French were freed from Tyrany yet had no qualms subjugating the people of French Indo-China to their Tyrany. Double standards! Do unto others as you would wish others do unto you! And then, American self-righteousness would rebrand their dominance in Vietnam. The military-industrial complex has a lot to answer for. President Eisenhower fore-warned the world. It never ends, sadly.
overestimated role of France in world war II
Explain.
French resistance was hardly impressive , and vichys role was scandalous- as bad of Franco racist Spain. Only Fran I did not send Jews the death camps. before it was clear overboard was coming . French collaboration was widespread and in many cases gratuitous.that said, French resistance was impressive and very helpful from early 1944, and especially in the late spring on.that sID THE FENCH FOUGHT VERY BRAVELY IN 1940. Esp the North African troops . Communists and the young adults put their parents to shame.
So kinda don’t like the message about the GI’s. I’m assuming the bad GI’s were takin care of.
Did the germans call the french resistance fighters terrorists? Or was that not a term in use at the time?
Local terrorism was invented on July 22, 1946, when the Irgun blew up the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, killing 91 people. Many well known people including Nobel Peace Prize winner Menachem Begin and Itzhak Shamir were apparently involved, having first secured a permission from David Ben-Gurion.
As to international terrorism, it was conceived in 1979 at a secret convention held at the Hilton Hotel of Jerusalem as a reason to perpetrate pre-emptive attacks on enemies of Israel, the US and their allies. (we don't negotiate with...) The JCIT convention was organized by a certain Benjamin Netanyahu and among the guests were George Bush Sr. and James Baker III, Mr. Bush even addressing the convention on its last day. That's why, when communism fell, terrorism was all set up and ready to take over the role of the evil doers, or axis of evil of this world, the transition was almost seamless.
As to the Germans, they probably called the French fuckers or something...
they certainly did and the Brittish reffered to Irish republicans as terrorists long before ww2
44:43 Kelly's Heroes.. 🤣🤣
Yet again proves that French history is………complicated, at best. Many, many different twists and turns.
The crimes of the French revolution re-lived.
My father was an officer in the 29th Division. He told me the French girls were hiding their German boy friends in the basements.
Yes it suck Ed but they were free from Hitler
France did collaborate with the nazis and relocated the french jews to the camps. I was very surprised when, while serving in West Berlin, I saw french troops and their foreign legion marching with us and the brits. More surprised that france was awarded their own sectors in West Germany and West Berlin. Neither deserved.Justice in the post ww2 France reminds me of the justice during the French revolution and the Bolshevik revolution in Russia. Then to add insult to injury we supported the French in Indochina alienating a bunch of countries who wanted freedom. Other than Thailand, which was governed by a dictator (who happened to be OUR dictator), all of the other countries did try communism for a spell, until they saw the light...
You should read about the free french forces and their military facts during WW2, and then you understand the french sector.
Oradour-Sur-Glare. A town with every man woman and child massacred on June 10, 1944 by the SS and they hadn't sabotaged or killed any German.
You delared war on Germany.
French resistance from a nearby village kidnapped an ss officer and a soldier and burnt them alive. The comrades of the men took revenge, as deterrence it does not matter greatly that it was not the perpetrators village.
You never see that mentioned in world at war.
Wrong, a German officer or two had been tied up in their car near the village and fire was set to it. So yes, the Germans killed the men, unforgiveable but the church had munitions stacked in it, all the Germans present on that day said that they couldn't have blown it up, they didn't have the explosives with them to cause that much damage to such a big construction. Who is telling the truth? Hard to say but when it comes to avoid one's responsibilities by blaming others, the French have a much worse reputation than the Germans.
So why do the blurring?It would be great if the blurring would go away. You talk about history, and yet this has to happen. Maybe someone out there has the balls to defy all the BS and show it, now that would be real history and tell these UA-cam weenies to go pack sand. Come on people grow a set.🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬Too bad good video and great narrator, just gets AFU’d by politics. Isn’t that what got all this history going on the first place.
Keep in mind that this is a french documentary, wich means a lot about our capability at looking back at our dark hours.
You forgot the thousand of râpes from the american soldiers on the french women
Mmh.. have you watched the video really?
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
The idea of American soldiers profiteering in the black market when people in France were starving makes me sick.
The american government recognized the french provisory goverment only on octobre 44 a long time after most of the french territory was liberated and a large part by itself. WE remember this unjustice.
Who cares. You are lucky you received any help.
Le fait demeure que nous les Nord Américains avons sauvé la peau des français non pas une mais deux fois.
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And of course you did it all on your own without the assistance of any other country who was also fighting.
100 days in ww1 after the germans were on the run