PARIS, FRANCE, 08/25/1944, PARIS LIBERATION _ CIVILIANS AND GERMAN PRISONERS IN THE ST - LMWWIIHD239 

As a child in the UK 🇬🇧 I remember asking my mum, who was of that era - what were the German POWs like, “glad to be out of it, some of them were just boys” was her reply.

Imagine if motion pictures had existed 500-1000 yrs ago, the footage we would have today. It's important to document history with film, it's the only real (reel) time machine we have. Great footage.

I was a kid under german occupation but, believe it or not, Paris streets were safer then than today

People are restless, tired of wars, but during peace time, eager to go to war.

Captured Germans in France are crying because they have just stopped chilling out, captured Germans in the USSR are completely calm, because they have gone through 7 circles of hell ..

9:31 Not the best idea to keep those moustaches.

after watching this film im wondering what a great joy people of France had to feel. Greetings from Poland.

Those that study history must bear the burden of watching it repeated by those that didn't.

Funny everyone was in the resistance when the allies arrived.

76 years ago tomorrow and still resonates so deeply

I was there 25 years later. I was in the Army and stationed 12 miles outside of Paris.I think my Dad was in Paris in 44.

Nice to see the restaurant La Coupole @00:59 which still exists in Boulevard de Montparnasse. Aussi le restaurant Le Dôme (108, blvrd. Monparnasse) (01:13) Thanks for posting.

Wonderful old film not seen by me before. Where was this stuff hiding? We need to see more of this genuine old documentary film.

and look at all that beauty that is France today....

'I was a member of the resistance' 'We don't have you on our books as a member' 'I was with the secret unit' 'We don't know of a secret unit' 'It's because it was secret'

In Germany we call that "Wendehals". They collaborate with whoever is in charge at that time.

Its hard to imagine that you're a prisoner in other country knowing that your own country is devastated from war and your family whom u love u didnt have any idea if they are still alive back home

The French were two faced, however… the German occupation wasn’t too bad. Paris was starting to learn German by the time the Americans came. French men volunteered to help fighting Communism. French women loved the German men, life was still good. The German occupation wasn’t as bad as allied propaganda makes it out to be

3:48 - thumbnail 5:47 8:49 - again that guy

Ах, какие французы сразу смелые стали! Меня смех разбирает...

This is the romantic victory, liberation and happiness rarely seen in war. And the illussion of trying to achieve it i believe has contributed to starting too many wars. It happened here though. Well fought for by the allies. Poor germans not knowing what to expect from being pow. Statistically they were lucky to become pows for the allies, where survival percent was very high.

People very suddenly become humble when the tables are turned.

Os franceses covardões ficaram valentes só quando os americanos chegaram. Ficaram quatro anos sob ocupação alemã e Paris estava intacta, tivessem ficado um ano só sob ocupação soviética e a cidade estaria em ruínas, totalmente pilhada e sem nenhuma Igreja de pé.

Now my favourite part..... THE COMMENTS... Different people (anonymous) fighting, claiming each other wrong, teaching real history 😁 shout-out ing to each other (comments they like) Cussing at each other (comments they hate) And then like me (others having habit like me) who reads and just takes the vibes of different comments like weeds...

"We defeated the wrong enemy" - George S. Patton

I don't know where you have stolen this video from, but it's priceless. I can feel the life in 1944-45.

👍 😘 Breathtaking. 😁 I wasn't born that time. I was born many decades later. But I am very excited to see the unbelievable moment that the Americans and British soldiers entering Paris. A moment of light 💡 in so much darkness. Efrat. Israel. 🌹

Reading through some of the thoughtful, empathetic and tolerant comments here... Say, aren't we about due for another one of these world wars? And now, due to our "great advances" it'll be one that isn't winnable? What a sad sad shame.

Nice video.All the lucky ones.We should remember the ones that did not make it on this day.

it looks as germans were admired and loved by many french people...

Many of the German soldiers looked middle aged +, even among the rank & file. It shows how Germany by that time was scraping the barrel grabbing everyone who could hold a weapon. No doubt many of those taken prisoner in Paris were "occupation" troops and not considered as front line fighters and one would suspect that it was the younger diehards in the ranks who put up some resistance.

I’ve never seen the surrendered German troops look so terrified

Incredible footage, thank you.

How brave are the French, when the Germans come with guns in hand they all run away, but when the Germans surrender they hit and kick them...

Éternel respect for m'y ancesters that defend France during WW1 and then during WW2. This country will flow in my blood forever. Vive la France pour toujours et a jamais

the cowards came out of their caves to hit prisioner who can not protect them selves, same guys who became resistance after fighting was over

Немцы в глубине души рады. Впереди ждали бои, поражения, смерть. А тут вдруг плен, жизнь. Для них война закончилась. Это ещё американским солдатам впереди бои, Ардены, Одер....

Looking at the French capital, it is most untouched by the war, and ruins and corpses on Warsaw's streets

The film quality is amazing. Crazy to think that in 22 years it will be 100 years since the end of WWII!

So much hatred in the comments. The humanity didnt learned anything

So many lives wasted. Respect to ALL

And just like that everyone was in the Resistance.

Ces allemands ont sans doute commis des exactions, mais c’est voir ces pauves gars dans cette état m’en fait un pincement au cœur. :(

There was a brief shot of the La Coupole , I had my 40th Birthday dinner there... Chilling to see it midst occupation..

Что немцы заехали в Париж спокойненько, что американцы с англичанами. Французы те ещё воины, победители!

10:18 4 years before that, they also kissed German soldiers))

Its the sad thing of war that it is the young who have to die. Most of the german soldiers looked old enough in this, probably cos the flower of german youth was already dead by late 1944

I'm scared looking at this comment section. Wtf?

Heróica França e Inglaterra. Saudações. São Paulo. Brasil.

All those Germans looking worried, scared that they might be treated the way they treated their enemies when they won.

A lot of these German soldiers fought for France in French Foreign Legion in Vietnam. Especially former SS soldiers captured in 1944

France under occupied by German for few years and hopefully, France people understood how Vietnamese wanted to be liberated from colonized 100 years by French.

suddenly all the men were from the resistance

Resistance killed more French than Germans, because France had more collaborateurs than opponents. So my grandfather told me the German soldiers (he) had a good time, and the french too.

The Germans committed a lot of atrocities in France during the occupation but on liberation day n Paris people don't seem to hold a sentiment of revenge or a desire to harm the germans being marched in from of them, they just happy for the liberators wth hugs and kisses. Great history moments recorded in the minds of millions of people. Thanks to share it with us.

These were the days when everyone said "God bless America". We done good, and so did our allies.

Французики даже на фоне пленных немцев жалко выглядят.

Gracias a la Nueve por su trabajo, no se os olvida

Какие-то парижане и не сильно страданувшие от оккупации, есть даже вполне себе в теле граждане... Вообще от ролика ощущение, что приехал один танчик союзников и всех фашиков разогнал))) Сейчас во Франции обычные демонстрации более драматично происходят)

Amazing images ..this is the HISTORY!!!

Amazing footage! What a great piece of documentation. Nowadays, situations like these get filmed with damn smart phones so the quality is often so lossy.

Great video,thanks for sharing.. Further research of Vichy.. Had no idea France had a Free zone. Wondering what the life was like for the +1 million French soldiers forced into labour camps,how many of them survived the war?

France was famous for the “horizontal collaboration” of many women. I notice towards the end of the film that many French women are preparing to provide the same services to the Americans.

Смелые французы воюют с пленными.....

Now french people had preferred German invasion more that Third world invasion that we see nowadays, that is condemning france to be a new province of África.

Interesting, not a single destroyed building in this town under German occupation. While the German towns got burned to their ground by the enemy

Este metraje no lo había visto en ningún otra parte Es Genial

Fantastic footage. Good upload.

Sad fact is many German soldiers was sent Russia to build as POW, and at of 3,060,000 German military personnel were taken prisoner by the USSR 1,094,250 died in captivity. also must add from 3,060,00 taken my soviet 400,000 was civilians.

Thanks for not blocking the comment section

Hitler ordered Paris to be burned to the ground. His commanders disobeyed.

Those brave and tough resistance fighters popping up all over the place like cockroaches at night after four years of collaboration.

Germans surrender and suddenly every Frenchman is a resistance fighter.

Awesome Thank you so much

Imagine the elation after close to five years of occupation by the Nazis, to see the American and British, and Free French armies coming down the road. To know that utter nightmare was finally really over. Everyone slept well that night.

The true and first liberators of Paris were the republicans Spanish of Le Clerk's "9". "The name of his battle tanks leaves no doubt: Guernika, Teruel, Guadalajara, Madrid Etc.( Names of battles of the spanish civil war.)The same ones that when losing that war were treated worse than mangy dogs by the French, interning them under terrible conditions in concentration camps. "The next will be you" Said an anarchist battalion leader, when he handed over his arms passing the border, to a french official. They laughed at him. A year later Germany defeated France in a few days. These heroes forgot the treatment they received, they created a good part from the structure of the French Resistance and, at the end they, liberated Paris. In France they went from being "burning churches"spaniards to french national heroes, in their country, they remained pariahs at the moment.

Lets Not forget who Declared War on Who?

16th May 1940. Churchill to General Gamelin "Where is the strategic reserve?" General Gamelin to Churchill "There is none."

And yet the French don’t like Americans but love Germans!

My grandfather (died 1993) told us that during the war, cameras were rolling constantly.

Bande d’ignares, de jaloux, de rageux. Vous auriez fait quoi sous occupation nazie sans moyens suffisants pour luter contre ça comme c’était le cas pour quasiment touts les français ? Les nazis torturaient, exécutaient, déportaient les résistants, en représailles à leurs actions ils commettaient des massacres sur des civiles non résistants mais il y a quand-même eu énormément de résistants français depuis le début de cette guerre, mon grand-père Louis Magdelaine en faisait partie, il en a été décoré et l’armée française fut capturée par les nazis car elle était moins importante en soldats du fait que la France a perdu la moitié de sa population masculine lors de la première guerre mondiale qu’elle a remporté car nos combattants y ont combattu jusqu’au bout... mon grand-père Raymond Usai a combattu les nazis dans l’armée française, il en a été extrêmement gravement blessé, il a failli en mourir. De Gaulle a beaucoup lutté contre les USA car ils ont voulu nous coloniser avec leur intervention et ils l’ont fait 6 ans après car c’était facile parce que les russes avaient fait le plus gros du boulot, c’était une guerre mondiale donc tout les pays qui en étaient impliqués ont combattu pour leurs intérêts et puis les soldats étasuniens étaient payés pour le faire. On a aussi notamment des vidéos sur les violes que commettaient de nombreux soldats étasuniens sur de nombreuses françaises à la libération et sur les gangs de soldats étasuniens qui y volaient énormément de stocks de nourriture et autres de l’armée des USA pour les revendre beaucoup plus cher à la population française qui manquait encore terriblement de nourriture etc. Alors taisez-vous et si vous êtes étasuniens écrasez-vous bien bien avec vos grandes gueules qui ne se sont jamais faites occuper par un pays, votre armée fait seulement la guerre hors de son pays...

Much more better and realistic play it at 0.75x speed

wow ... but the French suddenly became brave...🧐🤔🤫🤭

if the French people opposed the Nazi occupation in France they were called heroes, and if Palestinians opposed the Israeli occupation they were called terrorists. Where are people's brains and logic ????

"We have failed in the liberation of Europe, we have lost the war!" Patton was murdered for discovering the truth

Now look at the so called French today...Africans and Arabs...

Вот так воевали англичане, собирая пленных , галопом бежавших от Советской Армии в надежде на телерантность, после того , что натворили на востоке !!!

Why would the mean allies added France in victorious power. While the fall at the war. While they didn't add China as a victorious power. While they stood against almighty Japanese till the end of the war. This is really insane

LA9, a battalion of Spanish Republicans, was the first to enter Paris and liberate the city. Honor and Glory.

They should colorize these images. It would take on a whole new dramatic perspective.

This is an example of why you should treat your enemies with respect... because when the defeat you, they will treat you with respect also.. unlike what happened on the eastern front..

They trying to see how fast that the tank can go at 4:38

I should imagine that many of these German soldiers were relieved the war was all over for them!

Освобождение?!) От чего, от мирной жизни и не участия в войне?

7:48 THE POOR PANTHER! It could have been reserved in a museum. At least there are only a small amount of them left that look nice!

Please share with the young people teach them that it was real,Ask you teenagers kids to invite his friends and see this as a group!

The end The victor is the one who always writes history !! After the war the Allies relied on the mutilation of the German soldier in books and films On the contrary, the German soldier was brave and possessed the culture and charisma that none of the soldiers of those countries possessed.

Спасибо за кадры! У себя так подробно капитуляцию не видно! 🤘🍻

Thanks for the video, it helps us never forget.

Les sanglots longs Des violons De l’automne Blessent mon coeur D’une langueur Monotone.