Excellent documentary, but given all the care taken in its creation, it is unfortunate that AI narration was employed, with the resulting mispronunciations and masking of the interviewees’ voices. It’s like preparing a delicious meal and then ruining it with too much salt.
Very informative, l appreciate that. I knew little about the occupation of Paris. Very difficult to listen to due to multiple mispronounciations in all three languages, French, German and sometimes, even English. If this were cleaned up, you would have an impressive podcast.
Как трогательно... Ну просто я сейчас разрыдаюсь от умиления к этим историям любви между неразборчивыми француженками и солдатами вермахта, которые в перерывах между посещением борделей и Эйфелевой башни не забывали отправлять парижских евреев в концлагеря.
sorry if i offended you. much of my family was killed by the communists so its a bit of a touchy subject for me also. i was upset that you called french women promiscuous because they dated wehrmacht soldies.. i realize the truth about the communists is touchy for some people and of course youre not alone. meanwhile my posts and the truth about the communists get hidden and posts like yours dont. have a good day
Мой дядя воевал под Сталинградом, в первые времена (с его слов) было очень жутко (они перли и перли) а потом когда они закончились, видимо привезли курортников неженок, после этого Сталинградская битва и закончилась.
My grandfather was a Parisian Jew during the war. I will always remember him telling us how disgusted and shocked he was that it was French police officers who rounded up the Jews. He survived in part due to the kindness of countryside french farmers. The Parisians according to him did too little too late. They mostly submitted to their occupiers and only "woke up" when the allies were close.
oui ma famille était a la campagne, et leurs récits étaient terrible. ma grand mère a caché de nombre juifs en fuite, sans faire partie de la résistance. cela se faisait beaucoup à la campagne en tout cas. mes 2 grands pères étaient prisonniers de guerre. et des grands oncles faisaient eux partis de la résistance et en sont morts. ma grand mère paternelle, dont ses frères faisaient t partis de la resistance ne le savaient pas pour sa protection mais aussi car elle était trop bavarde apparemment. dans ma famille il y a donc eu des résistants, des prisonniers de guerre, des personnes qui ont caché des juifs de passage sans être résistant à proprement parler et des "attentistes" comme on les a appelé après ( personnes essayant juste de survivre sans dénoncer ni aider). heureusement pas de collabos.
When Allied paratroopers landed in France to start the liberation of France, they never knew if a French civilian would help him, or turn him over to the occupying Nazis!!!😮
This is an example of present US mentality of blue urban areas and blue states that rely on the government and grant full authority to take care of them... whereas red rural areas in these same states that are independent and in a different world than the cities. Excellent example here.
Documentaire exceptionnellement bien fait et surtout très richement illustré. Il évite le manichéisme trop fréquent dans ce genre de travail (l'histoire est toujours écrite par les vainqueurs...) et nous fait mieux comprendre cette situation très ambivalente entre la population et les troupes d'occupation. Bravo donc et merci beaucoup.
На кавказе черноморское побереже. Не совсем было романтично. Я знаю где захоронены солдаты в горах в ущельях. Этож надо было столько пройти и остатса в горах в глуши, где дубы вековые.
Merci beacoup. I appreciate a candid and honest documentary on how was german occupation. Many years ago I saw the movie "Lacombe Lucien" and was shocked on how the portrait of many french characters was so different from the so called hollywoodesque "Every french was a resistance fighter" fairy tale. Keep the good work.
This is an excellent documentary for a topic of the Second World War that is rarely discussed in detail. One concern I have worth pointing out is the narrator's absolutely terrible pronunciation of German and French words. I didn't expect the pronunciation to be perfect, but he absolutely butchered these words. Yes, I realize that this documentary was not originally made in the English language, but come on.
Hello, I'm french and I live in France. Here it's a "real" and nice french narrator who speaks, because it's a french documentary made in 2015. I suppose there is an AI automatically speaking for the foreign audience.
@@sobova1703 I also believe that A.I. is translating! And it makes me happy that we do not have to worry about A.I. is taking over the world, like so many people seem to believe! A.I. appears to be totally retarded!
Oh , you missed some hilarious parts that go beyond bad pronunciation. I giggled when the narrator talked about that parisian hotel named "The Georges Vee" !
Les français ont perdu la guerre en 42 jours. Ils ont rendu la capitale à Paris sans combat. Par exemple, en Union soviétique, à Stalingrad, il y a la Maison de Pavlov. Il a combattu pendant 58 jours. À l'époque, toute la France, les usines Peugeot, Renault, etc. travaillaient pour Hitler et les camps de concentration@@crankmasterflash5801
Les français ont perdu la guerre en 42 jours. Ils ont rendu la capitale à Paris sans combat. Par exemple, en Union soviétique, à Stalingrad, il y a la Maison de Pavlov. Il a combattu pendant 58 jours. À l'époque, toute la France, les usines Peugeot, Renault, etc. travaillaient pour Hitler et les camps de concentration
Super documentaire qui nous fait vraiment bien comprendre le sujet. Avec le point de vue allemand en plus, que l'on connaît bcp moins. C'était un plaisir d'entre les histoires de toutes ces personnes.
Is the English soundtrack here generated by AI? All the pronunciation is very unusual especially for French and German words. Interesting video for sure.
I venture to guess all those rightful owners are currently deceased. Luftwaffe general Hermann Goering being an aficionado of fine arts treasures. Had train 🚆 box cars loaded up & shipped to Berlin. No telling where it all ended up after the war???
Yes, the pronunciation of both French & German was rather difficult to understand, had it not been for the subtitles, I wouldn't have been able to follow the narrative. Otherwise it was quite informative. Merci, Dankeschön, Thank you!
I prefer stories of the French Resistance and the Involvement of singer Edith Piaf who boosted morale of freedom fighters by singing to the Resistance Fighters hiding in the sewers of Paris
A really good documentary. I was particularly surprised by the speeches of former German soldiers and auxiliaries who still show no sense of guilt for having been invaders. They are just happy to have spent those terrible years in an "amusement park" called Paris. Very regrettable of them! Oh well, you know, they're Germans.
J ai vu beaucoup de reportages sur la 2ème guerre, sur la déportation aussi mon grand-père ayant été déporté et mort a mauthausen mais ce reportage est vraiment riche en anecdotes et images saisissantes. Formidable
The pronunciation of German and French names in this video is absolutely appalling. The narrator's ignorance continually jarred with the impressive documentary film.
AI has a long way to go. Doesn’t any human view and listen to these videos before release? This is amateurish and embarrassing, but typical of the lessening of all standards in the modern era, including intelligence. Millions of Americans think The Donald is a swell fella, for example.
Hello, I'm french and I live in France. Here it's a "real" and nice french narrator who speaks, because it's a french documentary made in 2015. I suppose there is an AI automatically speaking for the american audience.
The presentation was first rate, really well put together , but the male narrator`s pronouncing of French names and places leaves a lot to be desired .
Hello, I'm french and I live in France. Here it's a "real" and nice french narrator who speaks, because it's a french documentary made in 2015. Seems there is an AI automatically speaking for the foreign audience.
J'espère que quelques-uns ne sont pas rentrés chez eux. Il y a quelques années je vais faire saillir une chienne en Allemagne, en pleine campagne, comme je ne trouvais pas ma route je m'arrête chez un commerçant pour demander mon chemin dans mon allemand approximatif et je tombe sur un vieux, content de voir un français et qui m'explique qu'en 40 il était à Paris (je n'ai pas tout compris) et il m'explique ses frasques à ce moment sa femme du même âge arrive et lui demande de quoi on parle et le vieux lui répond que nous parlons politique, ça m'a bien amusé. Toutefois ce qu'il m' expliqué (enfin ce que j'ai compris) correspond bien au documentaire.
Paris the most beautiful city in the world? Of course you are entitled to your own opinion. My occupation has taken me to Paris on many occasions, and other cities. And like most cities there are some beautiful areas, but I think referring to Paris as the most beautiful city in the world is in my opinion misleading to say the least.
Back in that time it was genius . Nothing in the world like it especially back in the 1940s which they are talking about in this documentary. It’s only “misleading “ because you’re not listening or not understanding. Either way .
some? All you mean, terrible pronunciation of French and German. O well it is American, why did they not put subtitles in English and let the people speak in their lingo.
La Nueve» fue el nombre asignado popularmente a la 9.ª Compañía de la 2.ª División Blindada de la Francia Libre, también conocida como División Leclerc. Se trató de una compañía bastante destacada al estar formada casi íntegramente por unos 150 republicanos españoles bajo mando francés, aunque en la División Leclerc también estaban enrolados y dispersos otros soldados de origen español en diversas compañías.
@@asullivan4047 there were some diplomatic options for Poland, for example to give back Danzig, they won't because they thought England will help them but nothing happened. Germany attacked 1939 Poland and a lot of month later Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and France. The problem was that england and france thought they will have the same war against Germany like in the 1. world war.
C est le wokisme ds toute sa splendeur! Ce n est pas la 1ere fois que je remarque cela ds des documentaires sur la 2de guerre mondiale, or ce sont des films et photos très connues. Rendre visible la monstruosité dont ont fait preuve les nazis est somme toute normal! Donc il n rst pas acceptable que les images soient floutées!
@@vincentschneider5493 ... Des cadavres anonymes datant de plus de 70 ans ? C'est une blague ? Des cadavres dont les photos non floutées sont archi connues ? Enfin, quel est l'intérêt d'illustrer un propos avec la photo d'un cadavre... qu'on ne voit pas ?
@@vincentschneider5493 le respect des ces personnes assassinées, torturées, serait au contraire de montrer les images, les visages , cela leur rendrait hommage. Et encore une fois ces images ont tjs été montrées donc pourquoi à présent les flouter?
So was Luftwaffe general Hermann Goering. Being an aficionado of fine arts treasures. Pilfering till his hearts delight. Along with free shipping back to Berlin.
In the 80s, I met a girl in Florida who's mom was from France. Her husband was a American soldier. They met during the war. Three grown kids, the whole family spoke French when at home. Sadly the Dad was a heavy drinker.
After going to war I wouldn’t blame him. He saw things you couldn’t even imagine watching his best friends die next to him. Alcoholism is the least of his troubles. As long as he wasn’t violent to his family which doesn’t sound like the case here.
Δεν ειμαι ο κατάλληλος άνθρωπος να κρίνω... Κρίνω μόνο τόν εαυτο μου.Σας εχαριστω διότι μου δώσατε την δυνατότητα να συνγκρινω ολα αυτα τα γεγονότα με ολα όσα γνωριζω.🇬🇷
I haven’t really watched this yet, so I can’t comment on the film, I’m just noticing that a lot of people have complained about the dubbing employed in this documentary in the comments here, and if you’re anything like me and dislike dubbing, you can go to the settings for this video and change the language back to the original French, turn on subtitles and watch it that way instead, which I recommend. The dubbing here does seem to be pretty obnoxious.
Et tu aurais fait quoi toi ? Les parisiens se sont libéré eux même sans l'aide de personnes, quand les allié sont rentrés dans Paris le drapeau français était sur toute les préfecture de police et la mairie, mon grand père a été arrêté et déporté en 42 est ce la faute des gendarmes ou autres je ne le crois pas, la France était sous l occupation, tout simplement
Tout bon Français aurait dû refuser de suivre le régime de Pétain. Honte à tous ces gendarmes et élus qui ont suivi ce régime et envoyé des quantités de personnes dans les camps de concentration pour les exterminer. Ce n'est pas le cas de tous les policiers. Certains ont été exemplaires en sauvant des gens. Chez nous comme ailleurs ceux qui ont refusé le STO ont combattu l'ennemi en formant des maquis . Beaucoup y ont perdu la vie pour que notre patrie reste la France. Paris a fait exception. Il y a tant à dire....
Des idiots ont récemment prés de chez nous profané par des croix nazis les sépultures de ces héros. La semaine dernière beaucoup de patriotes ont réparé ces folies. Une cérémonie a eu lieu sur ces lieux à la suite pour honorer ces résistants au lieu dit La Butte rouge en côtes d' Armor.
Und jetzt kann jeder Franzose die muslimische Besatzung genießen. Ist das keine Schande, wenn es bald keinen Franzosen mehr gibt? Wo bleibt jetzt der Widerstand? Kulturell sind Deutsche und Franzosen viel enger verbunden. Was spricht gegen eine Verschmelzung beider Völker?
I'm waiting for a list with names of German soldiers stationed in Paris who died when die US came in. The beating up of the woman and shooting at windows with light is just a small bit of how cruel the Germans were.
Do you know how you would behave under a long and brutal occupation? Be scrupulous before condemning others so cavalierly. My parents survived fighting the duration of the war in le Résistance. They were in their late 90s before they even spoke a word about that war.
@@stanzanossiSubmitted more than activelly collaborated. There were 500,000 resistants, about 1 million active collabos and the rest just "survived" in humiloation.
@@johnsmith-mq4eq If a Russian woman fooled around with a Nazi invaded, she would later be put up against a wall and shot! If a Polish woman did the same, after the war she could never face her neighbours again! The worst thing that happened to slutty French women was that they got their heads shaved after the Germans were defeated!!!
How delightful. It's so comforting to know that the Nazis had such a lovely time while they occupied Paris! The ultimate insult. The occupyed People's homes, stole their art and eliminated countless . I generally can always appreciate perspective. Yet I find it rather offensive that the narration is almost celebratory!
Ukrainian's are tougher then French were. Putin also wanted to parade in Kiev like Hitler did, but smth.went wrong. The whole nation stood against the russian invaders. It's a pity that nations are fighting and the leaders dont want to learn the historic lessons.
Firstly the brickbat. I'm half-French and your pronunciation of French names and places ranged from atrocious to comical, Louis Exx Aye Vee? Louis the fourteenth please. And your pronunciation of German names and English words was every bit as bad. In fact this about the worst narration I have heard on any RU-vid video that I have watched - it was dreadful. Now the bouquet - Thank you! I'm a political historian and this was a very interesting, very educational and very informative video that I really enjoyed and learnt a lot from watching it. A BIG well done!
Yes, I agree. The pronunciation of French and many English words was strange and amusing. I don't understand why the narrator also mispronounced a lot of English words . Sometimes he pronounced certain English words one way, and then he pronounced the same words differently later in the video. It's very bizarre. I think the narrator may be an artificial, computer generated voice. 😃
You should be happy that the pronunciation is so awful, it just goes to show that artificial intelligence will never take over the world, as so many people are afraid it will! 😅
The mispronunciations are SO cringy as to make this video nearly unwatchable..This is why using computer generated narration, no matter how advanced, is never a good idea.
Excellent, voir l'autre côté de la lorgnette est un grand plus. Mon ressenti ? Le reportage me donne le sentiment que les choses ont de générées quand primo le pillage de la nourriture a braquée la population contre l'occupant puis avec l'attaque contre l'union soviétique qui a demandé aux communistes en territoire occupé de déstabiliser les arrières allemands. Alors le cycle action répression a creusé le gouffre de la fracture.
Oh geez. Interesting footage, interesting premise but WHY is the English narration ruined by someone who cannot pronounce any of the French or German words. Makes this program hard going. Also, object strongly to apparent presentation of an occupying army as a bunch of loveable lads. Sure, it’s a long time ago and many Germans may have been hapless rather than evil but let’s not forget,as this film says at the outset, the terror, the torture, the executions, the starvation, the unaccompanied children, the writers who were all sent to concentration camps as a result of this occupation.
Makes you think about it I had not done so before. I'm pretty sure the Allies had brothels in places like Africa and Italy too. There is also a really great Vichy France film documentary called The Eyes of Vichy,, it uses Vichy French newsreels and media. .
The Allies weren't occupying, the Germans were occupying. Stealing and depriving the French of food. Also murdering their Jews. The Allies weren't doing this. As for Vichy France, they too did all of the above, besides being traitors!
The documentaries are good to help remember what happened in war excep this one masks the horror by blurring out the real results of torn and destroyed soldiers and civilians. According to my parents (Dad was a foot soldier in WWII and the first into Mauthausen) color photographs/films were not shown because it was thought too horrifying for the home front. To me, the soldiers gave their lives for a cause and that sacrifice should be remembered and avoided.
@@savx.g4769 Absolument rien de respectable. Les nazis n’avaient que du mépris pour la France et les français qu’ils estimaient être une race inférieure. Toutes leurs dépenses d’occupation ont été financées par la France, ils ont fusillé les résistants, envoyé les juifs de France se faire gazer en Pologne, ont rationné les français pendant 4 ans et ont très sérieusement envisagé de faire sauter Paris quand le vent a tourné. Et vous voulez leur passer de la crème ???
The film deserved a real narrator- the auto stuff is awful. Also, they never mentioned D-Day or the begging De Gaulle did to get Ike to detour to save Paris and let Le Clerque (?) enter the city first. Ike did it to give the French a chance to redeem it's lost honor, while allowing the Germans to get away and set up defenses. It was Ike's biggest mistake, especially after De Gualle strutted through the city claiming it was a "French victory and ONLY french". No Germans were afraid of the French 'Army', but they knew better than to fight the US. Some gratitude.
Bien vu ! de Gaulle a été complètement oublié, il faut aussi souligner la protection qu'il a reçue des Anglais et l'appel du 18 juin 40. Quant au Général rentrant dans Paris pour le libérer le 25 aout 1944, il s'agit de Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque.
You said only bs you know nothing about de Gaulle discourse at the hotel de.ville he have said liberated by the French =3days of civilian riot before allies have come. By French army =general Leclerc 2d Arm div. And With the HELP of allied troops. De Gaulle was the one and only who have resisted from the day one and he have thoughts how the France and republic must be restored after the collaboration.
@@badbotchdown9845Only a wimpy bleeding Heart like you would defend the French cowardice. If you knew anything about the War, you would know why there are millions of films of the battles and how many French fought? LOL.... go away, boy-you bother me...
400 million francs = 160 million euros???? Well, the comparison is somewhat ludicrous for several reasons. One is that inflation has occured since. But the less obvious one is that these were "anciens francs", which were the francs of the day. One day there was a switch from anciens francs to nouveau francs and one hundred ancien francs were required to have one nouveau franc.
Very informativexand interesting documentary, thank God Paris belonged again to the French! The Narrators should af least have learnt proper pronunciation of French....and even English!
My Father an American soldier managed a flight to Paris two weeks after the Germans fled the city . He told me if you went to a public bathroom, a woman sold you a bit of toilet paper , not much . She controled the public restroom that was how she earned any money to buy food ...
un documentar foarte bun văzut din altă latură cea ce m-a făcut să înțeleg că IUBIREA față de om a avut o altă viață a acestui oraș PARIS,într-adevăr orașul îndrăgostiților. 🎉
I watch this movie and think: were the French and Germans really enemies?There was no struggle for freedom on the part of France, only when the Russians expelled the Germans from their land and it became clear who would win, resistance formed and a second front opened, even Keitel asked when the German surrender act was signed: Are they winners too?
