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In 1944, in southern England, Allied troops were getting ready to land in Normandy. US soldier Jack Lieb was there with his amateur camera. On D-Day, John Ford shot in color with his camera crews. His Hollywood colleague George Stevens also landed in northern France with his team on 6 June 1944. Those men documented the advance and finally the liberation of Paris up close.
The first half of the 20th century, the two world wars, the parades in Nuremberg and Moscow, and the appearances of Roosevelt and Churchill are handed down and remembered by generations in classic black and white. But little known, hidden in film archives and private collections, other images have also survived. Because Hitler's lover Eva Braun and the Führer's pilot Hans Hans Baur, Marlene Dietrich, and Roosevelt's Minister of Finance, some soldiers of the Wehrmacht and the cameramen of the US secret service OSS had a common passion: they filmed history in color, for private pleasure or to document historical events.
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@FreeDocumentaryHistory 10 месяцев назад

In this episode: In 1944, in southern England, Allied troops were getting ready to land in Normandy. US soldier Jack Lieb was there with his amateur camera. On D-Day, John Ford shot in color with his camera crews. His Hollywood colleague George Stevens also landed in northern France with his team on 6 June 1944. Those men documented the advance and finally the liberation of Paris up close.

@brianswelding 10 месяцев назад

Is there a fourth episode?

@woodenseagull1899 10 месяцев назад

I do remember so well , as a boy living in a leafy Sussex Lane in England , where the Canadian's where assembled , prior to the " Big push " in 1944. Even now I think of what happened to them? ..I believed they sailed from Shoreham harbour. Thank you Canada, you did more then enough....

@mail-qh2qc 10 месяцев назад

This is gold and should be shown in schools as a main component of History class. This war along with the political patterns needs to be taught in schools. History is repeating itself.

@stanlee2200 10 месяцев назад

do you have the last part in colour?

@n7862 10 месяцев назад

pls stop blurring / censoring graphic scenes in your videos, really puts the mood off

@Charleyj1973 7 месяцев назад

As a proud Canadian who’s grandfather and his brothers were in the first wave of Canadian soldiers on Juno beach I am grateful that they all came home. I will always respect and appreciate the sacrifices all of the men and women made to keep us safe and free. May all who gave everything rest in peace. Never forget ❤

@philster6383 6 месяцев назад

As a proud Canadian my great uncle died in Italy as Canada made their way through Italy changing the course of the war against Germany. He was born here and his grandfather immigrated, to Canada, from Germany in the late 19th century

@rosesprog1722 6 месяцев назад

As an ordinary Canadian, I can't help but wonder what the heck we were doing fighting other people's war. The Germans failed to invade Britain and failed to conquer the USSR, that they were a threat to the rest of the world doesn't seem to be quite realistic.

@killerbam1234 5 месяцев назад

how do you feel know in your country? you lost the war

@christophercook723 4 месяца назад

Canadians are from America, the Continent.

@christophercook723 4 месяца назад

@@rosesprog1722 Canada was involved in a World War. If they were not stopped the Germans would have attacked you lot. The non ordinary Canadians understood that. Also the then King was your Monarch. Your thinking is 1722?

@johnrobertson4384 9 месяцев назад

Total respect to the Canadians. From Scotland UK 🇬🇧

@trenthogan4212 10 месяцев назад

A big Salute to the Brave Canadians who took Juno beach and were not even mentioned in this documentary. Very sad.

@SinisterBlackheart 10 месяцев назад

they were not shy to mention the us forces many times and than ignored who took Juno beach other than the allies. I kind of dislike when documentaries do this. single our certain countries but promote their own to glorify themselves.

@peterhanssens7260 10 месяцев назад

Due to the bravery of Canadian Troops in the liberation of Antwerpen and onwards into the Netherlands and their unbelievable courage, led my parents to immigrate to Canada in spring 1952. Canadians are held in very high regard in Belgium and rightly so.

@spm36 9 месяцев назад

They state "allies" correctly, stop crying, and get over it

@TomCraddock-dx7yu 9 месяцев назад

@@spm36haha was thinking the same

@ENCLAVEDivisionX 9 месяцев назад

I agree, but America committed 75k troops, and Canada committed 14k to the landing. I respect Canadian brothers, but England kinda absorbed those numbers into their own military, and took the credit.

@TRVBAL 4 месяца назад

The past 3 or so hours, I have been completely enthralled by this Docuseries

@FreeDocumentaryHistory 4 месяца назад

excellent

@Skeks_s 3 месяца назад

Me too. I'm so glad it's here. I t's proving hard to download cos i wont be shocked if this all get suppressed : we said never again and people are being allowed to obfuscate history and truth and the same kind of mind machine is gearing up again - we cannot allow it. We have to preserve with total honest and compassionate TRUTH what certain ideologies lead to. The links for other videos process for download: these dont....for private safekeeping

@exsubmariner 2 месяца назад

I came across this channel at midnight I'm still watching having my breakfast

@GetRealBaby 6 месяцев назад

My dad at 33yo tried many times to join the military service after Pearl Harbor but was refused because he was color blind, was too tall (6' 8 1/2"), and wore a size 16 shoe. I remember him laughing when he said he was told, "We don't have boots to fit you." Instead, he took a job at Hanford, Washington, where he was exposed to lethal doses of radiation, eventually causing cancer in his kidneys and elsewhere. It was a death sentence that the DOD and GE admitted were at fault, that they should have provided my dad greater body protection when working around high levels of radiation. I wish now the military would have taken him back in '41. He may have lived beyond the age of 44, and I may have had a father to help raise me. I love you Dad! I miss you greatly, more so with each passing year. May your soul be resting in peace. I'll see you soon...may that be true. I'll see you soon.

@alancollinge9136 4 месяца назад

Wow, so sorry to hear of that, but it sounds like your dad was a real patriot, worthy of much respect!

@michaelw1456 2 месяца назад

I wore the widest book the Army made in 85 "EEE" wide. Bless your dad for his devotion to serve.

@GetRealBaby 2 месяца назад

@@michaelw1456 Thank you, and thank you for your service. I wore a 14E. Because an over 13 size was out of stock at Ft. Ord, CA, there were a few of us who had to wear gym shoes for the first few days of Basic.

@CodeUK93 10 месяцев назад

RIP all the hero’s of the allied forces 🫡

@user-sz2px8pv3f 10 месяцев назад

And the axis

@Marc-dj5fk 10 месяцев назад

And all the heroes who fought for their country.

@originalgangsterloc 10 месяцев назад

these are the best type of docs , no modern present day clips just old footage , narration and some historian commentary

@frankkoolosko4255 7 месяцев назад

My wife’s 102 year old uncle is one of the last surviving D-Day soldiers. He was actually in Normandy for the 75th anniversary and I know he was on Fox because I have pictures of it. My father and my two uncles in my mothers father, all fought in World War II

@williamyoung9401 10 месяцев назад

It's incredible how Humanity can rebuild the world almost as quickly as it's destroyed. Amazing what we can do when we put our minds to it.

@1_Fish.2_Fish.Red_Fish. 10 месяцев назад

We need to do it again!

@ramontria8628 9 месяцев назад

Resilience and the will to survive are part of human nature. No matter how difficult things were, the mindset and resourcefulness of humans made the difference.

@loneranger5349 9 месяцев назад

Not all people some races only destroy.

@factsandworldknowledge2654 8 месяцев назад

@@loneranger5349 surely the so called "aryan race" has destroyed it than others

@zoltankovacs2902 6 месяцев назад

The plan Marshall helped also

@robertliskey420 10 месяцев назад

In all my years studying and seeing documentaries this has got to be one of if not the best. Not only footage I have not seen but the descriptions of the who, what, and where are incredibly valuable. Good example I always thought Panorama was for the Germans! My Father went ashore in Normandy on the second day.

@knighttemplar5073 10 месяцев назад

Greatest respect to your dad from Aussie Digger

@redegeldunit420 10 месяцев назад

NATO is the new Third Reich

@ilTroubadori 10 месяцев назад

Hi Robert my Dad also landed on Gold beach at 18 years old on D+1, fought through Caen and Falaise Gap and on into Germany where he then had to do 18 months in the army of occupation..

@Dropitlikeitshotspot 10 месяцев назад

My grandfather was in a unit called “Old Hickory”. He was wounded in France, but obviously survived. He was and always will be a hero to me.😊❤️

@crocodile1313 10 месяцев назад

@@Dropitlikeitshotspot No wonder they call them the "Greatest Generation!" My grandfather also went through France and ultimately helped liberate the Mathausen concentration camp in Austria. May that war, especially its victims and participants, never be forgotten.

@annehersey9895 9 месяцев назад

Excellent series of films! As a student of WWII, I’ve seen more footage of Germany from 1914-1950 than most and especially from 1933-1945 and of the war from all countries involved! How refreshing to see totally new footage taken mostly by ordinary people. Three episodes of footage I’ve never seen before. Anyone interested in this time should see these! Thank you so very much!

@stanleybroniszewsky8538 8 месяцев назад

I've always believed you don't learn history by reading books but rather by the people who experienced it.

@waynelaw6319 6 месяцев назад

ThAt was 3star bradly in charge off all land forces second only to Ike with patern

@prestonbacchus4204 Месяц назад

Not just the liberation of France, but the liberation of the German soldiers who made it to prisoner of war status... and survived the war. What a relief.

@FreeDocumentaryHistory Месяц назад

Indeed

@mikebrown41182 10 месяцев назад

This should be mandatory in School across the world.

@user-nc2bf9vx5y 7 месяцев назад

The narrator and these scenes are similar to what my dad and many soldiers of color saw when they reached St. Lo. So glad that my mom, who was a history educator and a graduate of Livingstone College in Salisbury, NC interviewed him in the early 1990s just before he had several strokes which resulted in his death in January of 2001. He was an alumnus of NC A&T State University in Greensboro, NC.

@chadczternastek 7 месяцев назад

29:16 that soldier smacking that German officer with his helmet as they were driving away had me cracking up. I rewinded many times.

@waynelaw6319 6 месяцев назад

Thanks 4 t heads up lovedit

@RedStarRogue 10 месяцев назад

George Stevens colour footage really is fantastic work.

@zillsburyy1 10 месяцев назад

he took color film of the dachau massacre

@Richard_Lush 10 месяцев назад

Wonderful colour film. These have been great to watch. Thanks!

@FreeDocumentaryHistory 10 месяцев назад

thank you and much appreciated!

@thegift20luis 10 месяцев назад

Been following this series, I must say...Dame good stuff sir! Thanks for sharing!

@FreeDocumentaryHistory 10 месяцев назад

Glad you enjoy it!

@ut000bs 8 месяцев назад

I had 2 uncles who landed at Normandy. One, the day after D-Day and the other the day after that. Both made it home after the war. One of them did not come back from Korea. Very few of us can comprehend what all of those men saw. "Quisque, heroes.'

@bruceradz 7 месяцев назад

My father fought in the Pacific during WW2, but his older brother, he drove a troop carrier for the D-Day landing, bringing troops to shore. He has passed on, was a jovial man throughout his life, and lived into his 80's. We were always forbidden to ask about D-day, and his time in the Navy. But we always wondered

@FreeDocumentaryHistory 6 месяцев назад

I am sorry and sad to hear that they didn’t survive Korea. What a loss. What a tragedy.

@lyndoncmp5751 10 месяцев назад

Wish they'd filmed abandoned/knocked out German armour, especially Tigers and Panthers. Would love to see their intricate camouflaged paint jobs in colour.

@pascalswager9100 10 месяцев назад

This was amazing to watch. I could nearly smell the smells of the old war museum in Sydney I visited as a kid... funny how I thought that's what war would smell like, in My wiser years I know it must've been so very much worse. So grateful for our freedoms... lest we forget 🙏

@itwasagoodideaatthetime7980 10 месяцев назад

My Uncle who fought in Vietnam said if you want to know how war smells. Go visit a slaughter house without air con in the deep South in August during a heat wave. & then imagine that smell times ten & you're starting to get close to what a battle field smells like.

@masonhaynes5793 10 месяцев назад

This is an amazing show! Why haven’t people seen this!

@markrix 10 месяцев назад

Ummm we did just see it 😂

@hydrocooledcarrot 10 месяцев назад

@@markrix🤭

@PTMarcoBryant 10 месяцев назад

Seen it all a 100 times

@dr.barrycohn5461 10 месяцев назад

People have seen this, do you think you've discovered it?

@RedAndYellacuddlyFella 10 месяцев назад

To the idiots responding that they have seen all these clips elsewhere - all documentaries reuse footage. The guy isn't saying that this is some rare unseen footage, he is saying that this is a well made documentary, there is a difference.

@debbiestyer453 10 месяцев назад

Fantastic series...thank you so much.

@FreeDocumentaryHistory 10 месяцев назад

Thank YOU so much for stopping by to let us know. We pass all your comments on to the team.

@daveblackburn5393 9 месяцев назад

A well done documentary on world war two. Love seeing it in color. Gives it a different perspective. A glimpse into the past during a very hard. Time. Thanks for sharing. Respectfully Dave blackburn

@FreeDocumentaryHistory 9 месяцев назад

Thank you so much for your considerate comment Dave Blackburn. It’s much appreciated.

@Chiller11 8 месяцев назад

I really enjoy viewing old film clips of WW2. It’s an additional treat to view them in colour. Excellent documentary.

@ronaldstrange8981 5 месяцев назад

How fortunate that these documentaries are still available. This is history for real. England, January, 2024.

@jamesb.9155 4 месяца назад

They should probably be withdrawn. They may be too revealing and cause triggering to today's wokes.

@j.t.jaeger1595 10 месяцев назад

Fantastic footage, should be mandatory in schools instead of the nonsense they push.

@allenschmitz9644 9 месяцев назад

Yea my dad stepped on shore D-day 9 June 15th of 1944.

@DETSRC313 10 месяцев назад

Has no one else watched this yet? It's wild!

@triadgaming3323 10 месяцев назад

It is locked behind links, so you would have watch the first,then find the second which is again behind a link in the description section and then you would finally reach here

@CannibaLouiST 10 месяцев назад

whats wild about censorship?

@gangoffour6690 10 месяцев назад

@@abrupt_oliverI wish I had teeth ! 🤣

@trevormccarthy9019 10 месяцев назад

Amazing documentary

@tekawapangjamir4990 9 месяцев назад

Awesomely documented with precious films .. one of the best have seen till now.

@jimsworthow531 10 месяцев назад

excellent rare footage; thanks.

@georgeedward602 10 месяцев назад

Very good capturing of the emotion on people's faces. I guess color helps with that in general but most films shown do not do it quite as well. Happy, sad, fearful, pain...etc. Great film coverage.

@daniellebcooper7160 9 месяцев назад

@44:50. Whenever I see these kids in documentaries, I wonder if they survived the war?...I can only hope they did. It makes me appreciate having grown up in Australia.

@JP-uk9uc 10 месяцев назад

Vicious fighting was far worse in the Pacific, for within it brutalities still not yet repeated, thank God.

@lordlapswans 10 месяцев назад

Bluring images is the first step at repeating the History you are blurring.

@thenotoriousjody4818 2 месяца назад

A bit hyperbolic but you have a point.

@doraldeddy1836 10 месяцев назад

Now at the age of 71, I fervently hope that younger folk don’t forget too quickly, what sacrifices were made so people my age and their parents could live out their lives? Of course, in another ?50? years it will be different, but in the world we are in now all generations need to remember what can/could happen, when bad people get into power? Nobody’s perfect, but there are many many more good people than bad!

@user-ln2sj8oh4q 10 месяцев назад

you should make this video public. Great series. George Stevens colour footage really is fantastic work..

@FreeDocumentaryHistory 10 месяцев назад

It is public.

@stanlee2200 10 месяцев назад

its as public as it gets isnt it? its free on youtube so share it with everyone you know as im sure the uploader will appreciate that. he defntly deserves it.

@user-sz2px8pv3f 10 месяцев назад

You must live a really hard life

@dsab381 10 месяцев назад

Great documentaries. Thanks!

@tacomas9602 10 месяцев назад

Seeing these new ww2 docuseries reminds me of the days watching the Military Channel (287 on direcTV) runs of WW2 in Colour.

@Silent0992 10 месяцев назад

you should make this video public. Great series

@FreeDocumentaryHistory 10 месяцев назад

It is public as of now. One week in advance of its official release, it is available but unlisted - simply means you have to know the link

@conceptalfa 10 месяцев назад

Great documentary!!!👍👍👍

@nickthurlow4456 10 месяцев назад

Absolutely Amazing video, have enjoyed all three can't believe the brilliant colour , Nick from England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

@jamesb.9155 4 месяца назад

Wonderful narration with the two switching back and forth like that. Very well written and narrated.. Beautiful Kodachrome colors of course.

@joedoakes8307 10 месяцев назад

Dead soldiers are as much a Part of this story as the injured and prisoners , ARE ! Continually blocking their images is to distort the truth of HOW terrible war really IS and always Has BEEN !

@bobcarter6869 10 месяцев назад

It's most likely RU-vid rules that they have to follow but I agree with you it should not be censored

@lwr413 10 месяцев назад

There is no Censor , all the original poster has to do is post a warning

@itwasagoodideaatthetime7980 10 месяцев назад

@@lwr413 Even if they posted a warning they would still be. Demonetised for showing the images uncensored. So if they want to earn any money from people. Viewing their videos they *HAVE* to censor them. Blame RU-vid & their monetization rules not the video's poster.

@bryanx5829 10 месяцев назад

That's because war is part of the agenda.

@arsenilazarevich8779 10 месяцев назад

Man, I am totally agree, but you the world we live in , don't you? They want to earn money for the work they put in the film. RU-vid would demonetise them if they show such pictures. Unfortunately you can't show anything here.

@gc3847 10 месяцев назад

The Director ,John Ford ," I only saw 1 body floating in the sea! " Where did he land ? Blackpool?

@schnubs 10 месяцев назад

This makes ww2 look chill af

@bshn10 9 месяцев назад

it was, we've been lied to

@yalinahewage1941 2 месяца назад

It was in the Western front 😂

@user-oh7ds8pm1o Месяц назад

Fool@@bshn10

@osvaldoelias1943 8 месяцев назад

A Fantastic visual for what we hear and read. Thank you 😊

@solrosenberg4529 9 месяцев назад

I’ve personally done many things in life that makes me feel proud of myself, such as having a successful marriage, raising two healthy sons and buying a home for us all, but nothing compares to the pride I feel knowing I’m the grandson of a D-Day veteran.

@jasonchappina8319 9 месяцев назад

Everything you said applies to me too, and I agree 100%!

@chrishansen4541 9 месяцев назад

ask him what he did in normandy after D-day

@thebirdbrand 10 месяцев назад

There was a large German POW Camp in my town in Canada. A few were sentenced to death by hanging where there is now a skating rink

@christonefeltzs5149 9 месяцев назад

In 1942, after the Allied defeat of German forces in North Africa, 10,000 German POWs were shipped from Cairo, Egypt, to New York, transferred to the Canadian Pacific Railway and moved to Ozada camp on the Alberta prairie.

@James-gr5rz 10 месяцев назад

I went to Germany in the 80s, fantastic, clean, no litter, a bus service on Christmas Day, friendly people, 🤝 hello to Ludswigshafen.

@kierangilmartin2315 9 месяцев назад

Anyone notice the soldier outside the bar waving the Irish flag? God rest all them brave souls

@arbaz79 9 месяцев назад

Incredible WW2 documentary with coloured footages❤.

@chris.asi_romeo 9 месяцев назад

Excellent documentary 💯💯👏👏👏. Love watching old restored videos 📷📷

@professorwoland3181 9 месяцев назад

The cameraman never dies

@VanillaGrollia. 10 месяцев назад

Dam good video I absolutely love these on films in color.........God Bless

@Witchofthewoods. 9 месяцев назад

Thank goodness someone was intelligent enough to capture this fascinating time in history. 👏 And it really wasn't that long ago.

@hellboundrubber4448 8 месяцев назад

This is the equivalent time span of the 80's to 2023. Not long at all. I'm still in the 80's!

@AcidGambit419 9 месяцев назад

1943 - i cant believe how much color film this guy is wasting! 2023 - thank god that guy filmed so much stuff in color!

@jebbroham1776 9 месяцев назад

It's crazy to see Patton in color like that, it makes it all seem so much more recent than 79 years ago.

@user-vh3fr3lb8w 10 месяцев назад

Thiis is what we call documentaries

@joseanrodriguez3423 10 месяцев назад

One of the best colorful footage documentary of ww2 truly 👌

@A10Warthog_Pilot 10 месяцев назад

Amazing cinematography!

@prestonbacchus4204 Месяц назад

My goodness, this is outstanding. Thank you.

@neilgraves5069 8 дней назад

Its incredible this was filmed. RESPECT TO ALL ALLIES .

@raymondduck6492 8 месяцев назад

The quality of this series is so good, I wondered/worried that it was AI generated. Hopefully we won't reach that point too soon. Well done!

@Lerenthial 5 дней назад

It's just analog

@NocturnalNews 10 месяцев назад

Been Waiting for this one

@christophermotyka5384 8 месяцев назад

General Patton was the greatest Officer in WW2 his outspoken behavior was overstated he should been given overall control of the European Theater. Over and over he had to rescue other Generals.

@E_Clampus_Vitus 3 месяца назад

He realized communism is the real enemy.

@wesawebi 12 дней назад

Excellent footage, tyvm!

@leosaura1993 7 месяцев назад

Thank you for posting this,

@ajmpatriot4899 8 месяцев назад

Absolutely fantastic!

@patrickrose1221 10 месяцев назад

The feeling of despair that they all had to go through another seven to eight months is tangable 😢, especially with the ww1 graves plus the world today. A war to end all wars?

@jhondelvirtudazo3672 10 месяцев назад

keep posting docu like this please

@FreeDocumentaryHistory 10 месяцев назад

Don’t worry. We will.

@largebiff1743 9 месяцев назад

There were more POW camps in Canada than in the US so thanks for not mentioning it cause they like to go unnoticed for their good deeds.

@markknego5743 3 месяца назад

Extraordinary footage with an excellent editing and narration.

@bensonbui241 7 месяцев назад

Thank Thank you so much for sharing this information with us ……………

@UNUSUALUSERNAME220 10 месяцев назад

0:29:20 Ol boy takes the pop to the head like a champ! He'll take it! These guys ALL know how lucky they are NOT to be taken prisoner by the Russians!

@AbdulRasheed-go7tq 10 месяцев назад

Great work

@acousticmagnum5200 9 месяцев назад

Why do the blur out the dead bodies? People need to see and realize the true horrors of war. People need to see the results of war, and not just hear about them.

@User-rka_zykx76 7 месяцев назад

This is youtube are you serious? This channel would be permanently banned SO FAST. They show some of this footage in schools, or did 15 years ago when I left elementary school they did. I remember the footage of the floating bodies and mass graves. (If kids pay attention in school they don’t need RU-vid)

@4Bobay 10 месяцев назад

Check out the US Army soldier with the parachute camouflage cover on his M1 helmet. @24:48

@JohnWick-el9yw 10 месяцев назад

2023 we still watching ww2 documentaries crazy cause we might be close to ww3

@tommyvictorbuch6960 8 месяцев назад

Outstanding footage.

@u.s.militia7682 10 месяцев назад

I so wish I could’ve lived back then. Instead of serving corporate America today I could’ve actually fought in a just war. I feel so damned embarrassed over it sometimes.

@stephen1137 4 месяца назад

A Day: The initiation of the detailed planning and preparations for the operation. B Day: The commencement of specific preparations, including the movement of troops and equipment to staging areas. C Day: The day immediately preceding the main operation, involving final checks, briefings, and last-minute adjustments. D Day: The actual day of the operation.

@t5ruxlee210 9 месяцев назад

Actual real movie film of D-Day is extremely rare. The "Go For It" decision very much hinged on the fact that the stormy weather off Normandy in early June is normally very consistent. In 1944 an unusual thing happened. The Allies knew that what appeared to the Germans as one large incoming storm system was actually two lesser systems separated by a possible few days of acceptable weather for a landing. This choice was very unhelpful to the medium bomber pre landings missions and the paratroop deployments but overall, it came as a complete stunning surprise to the German high command.

@stanleybroniszewsky8538 8 месяцев назад

From what I understand, there would have been much fewer Allied casualties if the weather was more favorable. The water currents from the English Channel played a big factor in that.

@iainmulholland2025 9 месяцев назад

Why is this series censored? The dead and dying are a part of war and should be shown as part of the brutality of every war. Could be better.

@HammerJammer81 10 месяцев назад

Massive amounts of German POW's were also sent to the prairies in Canada, where many of their families still reside.

@christonefeltzs5149 9 месяцев назад

@Chiller11 8 месяцев назад

Among them were numerous members of the 14th SS Division Galicia one of whom (Yaroslav Hunka) was honoured in the Canadian Parliament a few days ago. The ceremony proved highly embarrassing to the ruling Liberal government. It was an unwelcome reminder of the British decision to shelter members of the 14th SS after the war.

@GRbobkaina 8 месяцев назад

Same in France.. my grand parents had" their" German Soldier helping in the farm.. He stayed for a few years

@howl_with_the_wolves 10 месяцев назад

On the Western front German troops were eager to surrender it was a completely different story on the Eastern front where the fighting was gruesome.

@virginianative847 10 месяцев назад

This is great

@neilchaplin8235 10 месяцев назад

They wouldn’t have liberated France if they knew what we know now!

@larrymiller8210 6 месяцев назад

Excellent! Thanks!

@jenniferwong4530 9 месяцев назад

Thank goodness men like Roosevelt and Churchhill were in power. They guided the world to victory. It was at a terrible cost of life. So much death all for the ego of one megalomaniac dictator. May we learn the lessons of history and never repeat them. Rest in Peace 🙏🙏🙏

@ferociousgumby 9 месяцев назад

Hmmmm, will every other shot be blurred out this time?

@xochitl9161 7 месяцев назад

Excellent footage.

@Chiller11 8 месяцев назад

There was never an intent to occupy or administer Paris by the Americans. The only question was which Frenchman would be at the head of the French post occupation government. By the time of the liberation de Gaulle had established himself as the most powerful candidate. There was a sense of ambivalence and resignation among both the British and the Americans.

@jackbassett9365 9 месяцев назад

The Juno Beach segment went by without a single mention of Canada and mostly seemed to show American uniforms. It was Canada's beach.

@shecksthesheckler423 9 месяцев назад

According to American and French history only the Americans liberated France, The British, Canadians, Polish and Free French hardly ever get a mention

@E_Clampus_Vitus 3 месяца назад

Did those soldiers get paychecks? If they got paid. We’re all good and they owed nothing more. If you think they are you should take it up with the bankers who funded the war. It’s their baby. The soldiers are just tools looking for a paycheck.

@g4joe 9 месяцев назад

My Dad says the whole War was in colour. 😄

@knkimmel7409 10 месяцев назад

Thanks!

@pierrelombaard9961 21 день назад

Pls leave the snotty biased comments. Appreciate the footage for what it is and brought to you by brave camera men and woman. Its 80yrs to late for political comments. Respect to all these brave journalists

@martybeazley3306 10 месяцев назад

They avoided minimizing US deaths by making sure everyone had to rush the beech under machine gun fire. There was obviously no other way to attack with exceedingly high losses. Good job.