The Complete History of the SS Charlemagne Division (French SS)
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- When everything came to an end in Berlin in 1945 most people imagine the typical crowd defending Hitler's bunker to the last. The reality is however that most of these men were actually French. What on earth were these Frenchmen doing here? What is the SS-Charlemagne? Why did Frenchmen choose to fight for Germany? Why fight a doomed cause? What happened to them? This is the full story of the Charlemagne Division.
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Sources:
Tony Le Tissier - SS Charlemagne: The 33rd Waffen-Grenadier Division of the SS
Robert Forbes - For Europe
Henri Fenet's accounts
Couple things!
1) Yes there will be mispronunciations, I am an Englishman covering both French and German history here and we aren't known for our foreign language ability, my apologies.
2) The author I used as a source was using the English equivalent of SS ranks and I didn't even catch on until later on. So some are in German and are SS ranks, other are British. Annoying, I know, will keep my eyes peeled in future! Every book I've used covering the SS before had used the SS ranks so I didn't even think about it.
I can find it in my heart to forgive this massive mistake..
It's alright their ranks aren't really all that different once you learn the purpose of each one.
The waffen units were correct.
The globalist, bilderberg, economic forum are the problems that came about as no one ended their mentors/teachers.
See major Jordan's diaries by federal expression.
Well I have to give you credit for being …what I call an honest man…“your an honest man “… thanks -it’s a good story too… I wonder who of these SS men were definitely or somewhat (unfortunately, in a war involving so many countries that utterly burden their armies with the responsibility that they must encompass these vast logistical land areas and the hard to imagine numbers that represent the human beings involved …just ponder, for a moment the considerable proportions that encompass only the one country of Russia …… I’m not sure this question could even be seriously considered or asked?) “worthy” or to try to put it like this “of the same mention” or maybe one could say “by the same token” but ultimately to consider it with the same phrase I used when I referred to you?….”an honest man”? ….sometimes it might come down to a few factors that could change your mind about pointing out the truth in matters or things : 1) depending on where you are ? 2)depending on who your with? 3) when your there? 4)and not who you are ? 5)and not why you are etc.? ….it’s not an easy thing to be an honest man sometimes ?… well …it’s certainly an interesting thought to consider and even more…ask oneself?
I will be informing the RUclips authorities of your stolen history footage from, unlike yours, very reputable history channels.
You believe in Q and the false US electing lies as well, don't you.
Even hearing your voice creeps us out, dripping with righteous hatred.
You need 6 months in the standing cells in Auschwitz or condemned to death on the Bodger Swing or even better thrown in block 10 in the starvation room....
I'm french and this video is an absolute gem. Serious subject treated like a professional.
You would never find this topic discussed on the french youtube, in the french MSM at large or even among published historians.
I just discovered your youtube channel, thank you for your work.
How do French people view these men?
@@markportadown Funnily enough, we tend to undermine the importance of the phenomenon due to the "Resistancialism myth".
The gaullists and the communists who took over after the Liberation started to create a narrative in which all the french people (or at least 98% of us) resisted against the german occupant.
So the fact that some Frenchmen willingly joined the Schutzstaffel to fight bolshevism, and that it's not about 50 lost souls but thousands of them, is...hard to blend in this narrative.
We also tend to represent the SS Charlemagne more as a belgian thing, especially through Léon Degrelle.
But yeah, the collaborationists were and still are seen as traitors. De Gaulle let the communist resistance do a purge (executions, beatings, humiliations) when he took over in 1944 to allow a "national reconciliation" afterward.
@@chaussurefrancaise2693 et toi, t'en pense quoi des collabos?
@@Dorian131 Et toi?
@@Luftwaffengel je n'aimes pas que les nzi étaient contre d'autres européens comme les polonais, mais je trouve que la France d'autre fois avait de meilleures valeurs qu'aujourd'hui, Travail, famille patrie, les français étaient chez eux même si que la partie de Vichy alors qu'aujourd'hui l'Europe est dirigée par des juifs, anti européens, pro islamisation et la France privilégie les non français, mais pour répondre simplement je ne supporte pas tous ce qu'ils ont fait, mais en voyant l'Europe d'aujoud'hui je serai collabo
The French get a lot of shit about being wimps, but they are historically vicious fighters.
Historically true. They're not the same people anymore.
Hitler said they’re the second best soldiers in Europe.
@ScipioVision Doubtful considering they folded almost immediately when he attacked. If they were so good they wouldn't need the legion. Frances premiere fighting force, that they couldn't seem to find in France.
@@ScipioVisionWhere, I don’t see that??
Leclerc executed those men because he got mad as one of them owned him well!
Leclerc asked the French SS men: "why are you wearing a foreign uniform?"
And one the SS man just replied to him: "And you my general, why are you wearing a foreign uniform?" as indeed Leclerc and his men were wearing american uniforms.
the french are americas oldest ally while the germans have their worst enemies since 1870
@AlphonseSwedgenso just Antisemtism. America were allies of france. Germany enemies
@AlphonseSwedgen The opinion of an SS man is worthless now and then. Bayonet fodder.
Well I mean we're they wrong, if you showed any of them France today they'd say Europe lost
@@MIKE_THE_BRUMMIEexactly
Genuinely and pleasantly shocked at someone actually telling the truth about this topic/era. Nice work.
It's about time, the demonization propaganda of NS Germany has been so engrained into the Wester Psyche that so many people, even historians completely ignore events or straight up lie about them. But with current events and how they over played their hand the conditioning is starting to break and content like this will be essential especially for those who already have an interest in history. We are living in a very interesting age boys. Tribe and Train, the future is ours.
Well put!
Makes you appreciate how hard they fought. While they were doing this I was playing video games.
Excellent documentation 🎉🎉🎉
You'll find the same neutrality on the Wikipedia page. The unit never stood long enough to commit war crimes regularly.
Though they did slaughter 113 Jews in Krusyna. And took part in anti partisans operation in Belarus so...
Though mention of that are H A R D to find
It was a surprising revelation to me to discover that almost every country in Europe had volunteers fighting alongside the Germans against the Soviet Union. In fact, the memoires of foreign SS soldiers became a favorite literary genre of mine for a time. Quite a different picture from the one I received growing up! Thank you for being honest and fair. It's time to set aside war time propaganda and have a more mature and ultimately useful perspective. Your time has come.
Serbs didnt...
That doesn't mean that there were no critique. Ukrainians based on statements of many of our SS-men were largely seen as brothers. It was naive for them to think that someone like Himmler would be sidelined for Rosenberg's ideas regarding Ukraine. They don't seem to have any negative feelings towards Steiner. They seem to have blamed Hitler and Himmler for the failed policy in Ukraine. This is why I support them now as much as I can. I don't want to repeat mistakes of the world wars.
Fighting the soviet people, disgusting.
We have the Ukrainians, estonians, mongolia, even china, and more.
@@paulcheng7111
Even in here Indonesia, Javanese was forming NS party due some of them seen germany first hand how effective many of the policy was.
I add a bit of oversimplified history of indonesia here:
This party quickly dismissed, ridiculed, ostracized and squashed by sukarno, hatta (both are 1st president & vice president of Indonesian) and his "revolutionary" friend (i know sound too commie but many of them were including sukarno also majority of them was member of frmasn).
Because many of them who ostracized this movement know if any party that glorified/proud their culture before islamizations of south east asia, wanted to go back to it (just like Germany with HRE & Italy with Roman Empire) it would be harder to control or propagandized. But the same group that is sukarno, hatta and all the 'revolutionary' welcoming japan and even become face figure to promote romusha (japanese forced labour/servitude) due "in the near future japanese promise would give Indonesian a fully independent nation", many of them ended up dying. Because, again, just like any heavy physical labor sanctioned by the dutch, the payment from japan govt was also got pocketted/corrupted by local official (most of them were coming from Surakarta/Jogja Royal family) and a lot of them died in foreign land such as burma and malaysia.
After the independence of Indonesia sukarno, hatta & co start purging historical books like one of the most important one was Serat Darmogandul (historical record how islam conquer javanese & its neighbor ethnic and entering dark age from 1450 AD).
After the Dumbs & bootlickers speak louder than Intellectuals sukarno began more into his debauchery, not giving any fck to commoner and start stealing someone's wife (there's total of 11 women he already married). His diplomacy only spouted non sense if you know what really happened in both wars, getting too close with CCP, his own goverment are bunch of corrupt and often filled with r-word people until in 65's we have 650% inflations, some of us eat bulgur(grain for horse fed), wear rice bag due couldn't afford shirt or die of starvations. He ousted because he wanted to usurp the army and install the communist revolutionary as armed forces just like china.
But it failed, he died of Overdose viagra that caused his organs not working properly, his medication also coming from dog medicine.
Because of him indonesian now full of people who blind towards their history, thats why you can see many terrorist coming from inddonesia. If only the NS party in Dutch Colonial was unstoppable back then we would not have gone thru all of this.
Georges Blond in his 1952 "L' Agonie De L' Allemagne - The Death Of Hitler's Germany"
mentioned the French SS contingent in the last battles.
He further remarked that the non-German SS fought to the very bitter end,
even when the Germans quit already, because as desperados & renegades in their own
countries, they would have nowhere to go.
In fact, they were able, after the war to sign for the foreign legion and during the Indochine war, some solders were from ex SS
"the non-German SS fought to the very bitter end,
even when the Germans quit already"
The Germans fought till the bitter end. Not saying some foreign SS troops didn't but to claim the German SS didn't fight till the bitter end straight up false and disrespectful.
@@bus8537I’ve read the book devils guard
I can only imagine the months of research it must have taken to make a video of this quality on a topic as obscure as this. Your near complete lack of bias really shows and is greatly appreciated. Keep up the great work!
That means the world mate, thank you so much for the big donation!
The illegal execution of a large group of French surrendered SS by French Free Forces under Leclerc, was one of the sad major stains on the Free French military campaign of WW2. I looked up the details in French not seen on English internet (I am French), and really it was General Leclerc's fault. Leclerc was a French nobleman who held medieval views of class hierarchy and despised most enlisted level (low rank) men he saw like peasants unworthy of life. So when a French SS answered his taunt, he got incredibly angry and had them all shot. The end is absolutely heartbreaking, as French troops shot their own SS countrymen, many of whom died yelling "VIVE LA FRANCE". Some of the French troops shooting the French SS were in tears, and some even died in alcoholism or suicide later because they never got over the event. Keep in mind they shot mostly 18-20 year old French patriot kids by a bullet in the head into ditches. The local German population then kindly buried what they considered "heroes who helped us" and put flowers all over the tombs. Even until after the war, the German population cared for the site of the execution.
Leclerc executed those men because he got mad as one of them owned him well!
Leclerc asked the French SS men: "why are you wearing a foreign uniform?"
And one the SS man (1 lieutenant) just replied to him: "And you my general, why are you wearing a foreign uniform?" as indeed Leclerc and his men were wearing american uniforms.
Since you are French may I ask a question. I have read multiple books about the "Hundred-Year War" period. Since I am an English speaker (Both My Parents spoke French but I grew up in New England and was lazy so I do not) all the books I read are from the English perspective. I would love to read about the period from French historians, I mean after all the war was more than Crecy, Poitiers, and Agincourt. One would not know from reading only the English POV. Can you give me a list of French Authors on the subject?
Indeed , LeClerk remarked "aren't you ashamed to wear a foreign uniform as a self proclaimed patriot " , (now LeClerk was wearing an American uniform, he clearly hadn't thought this comment through) when the officer commanding this group of young Charlemagne volunteers, replied in rebuke "Are you sir , not ashamed to be wearing such a uniform, as a self proclaimed Patriot and General of France , and you know the tragic outcome from this ironic exchange, probably meant in humour ☮️❤️
Leclerc was also ex-Action Francais. His attitudes would have been very close to the Catholic contingent of the French Charlemagne men.
S'ils aimaient tellement la France ils auraient peut être dû se battre pour elle et non pour les boches.
Leclerc a été trop indulgent, lis un peu comment les SS traitaient leurs prisonniers avant de l'ouvrir
"French attacking siberians at -40c during a snowstorm" what could possibly go wrong! Lmfao
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These minus 40 degrees is a lie. It was minus 20, maximum minus 30 in front of Moscow back then. Just super normal russian winter. Minus 40 in Moscow was is the winter 42/43.
One only needs to know Communism to understand how even fighting for Hitler would be preferred...
I’m enjoying hearing a different prospect on WWII. Food for thought. Thanks
No problem mate, cheers
Plenty more truth where that came from. Do the research. You may be surprised at what you find. Remember that the victors write the history and decide the narrative.
@@ruthmoreau6419we all know what you mean by that 🤓 sick fucking world we live in now.
I'm so glad you used the Henri Fenet clip. Ending on that one was very moving. A very nice touch.
Fenet was a stud!
Spain, Vichy France, Italy, Germany, Austria, Croatia, Romania and Finland… Fighting Communism since 1870.
10 000 swedish volunteers were fighting along side their finnish brothers. And atleast a few hundred swedes were in combat in volunteer SS Wiking battalion that saw heavy combat on the eastern front.
@@theycallmeantonYep, and today Sweden is being swarmed with muslim invaders. What would they have thought about it back then in 1940s.
Later then also Hungary and Bulgaria and Slovakia and Croatia and within the Waffen s s divisions actually Europeans from all over the continent
As was Russia itself ironically (they had a whole civil war over it). They're were also Russians in the German army of WW2 (mainly Romanov monarchists/white army veterans) who wanted to fight against the Bolsheviks/Communists.
And capitalism*
Some of the best units in the Foreign Legion fighting in l'ndochine were "Germans" and eastern Europeans who 'couldn't go home after WW2.. were some of them from the same Charlemagne Division?...
Some indeed joined the French Foreign Legion, some went into exile, some counceled African dictators,...
of course
Absolutly !
@@tonyhawk94
This is exactly what i've read in youtube comment on a French Foreign Legion. Many german was to depressed of what happened, some just don't to go home and few just wanted to die as a fighter (until today many of new men join because they didn't have any reason to live/heartbreak) or few just love to go war.
Many knowledge about training and warfare from SS/Wehrmacht still retained until today. Many american vets also become their brother in arms.
What a superb narration. The story, history itself Is far more than compelling. This is one of the best channels that goes really deep into certain subjects that are told more in passing in other videos except for the ones considered more relevant. But these stories are harrowing and insane how must it have been for everyone involved. Real soldiers shooting each other with a life being extinguished in a second. I must say being killed by a sword must've been horrific suffering and then very hard to even be imagined but knowing a single bullet may instantly send you where we all will go one day and not even see it coming in many cases it's just not only physical but mental torture. Gives me the chills. Great channel really enjoyable
Im butchering this but bear with this quote, A Frenchman with the US army asked a frenchman with the German army why He was wearing a german uniform, the man responded, "why are you wearing an american one?"
Yeah I only saw that afterwards sadly or I’d have included it
The Frenchman that you refer to was a General Philippe Leclerc (Hauteclocque). This incident took place in May, 1945 in Bavaria. When Leclerc pompously asked a captured group of SS Charlemagne fighters why they were wearing German uniforms, one boldly asked him why he was wearing an American one. This comment so enraged Leclerc that he ordered the twelve captives executed. The bodies lay where they fell for some weeks before they were buried. No kosher kangaroo Nuremberg show trial for Leclerc.
@@ruthmoreau6419 "No kosher kangaroo Nuremberg show trial for Leclerc."
One day. If it can happen to Cromwell's corpse, then it can happen to Churchill, FDR, and Leclerc.
Zoomer Historian! The next David Irving!
Hopefully wont deny a certain event soon 👽
Doesn't quite have the same ring to it
@@ZoomerHistoriankeep on keeping on just as you are. I have zero criticism of your delivery. Simply the best I've seen on this platform so far.
David Irving is a crackpot. This kid is a good historian.
@@TZZV-Zstill a controversial event
It sucks terribly that historical work has to have a disclaimer. In fact, it's a crock of sh&t.
Recently discovered your channel and it is fantastic. Keep up the important work.
Thank you very much my friend
Great vid, I'd recomment trying to explore the Balkans in WW2, collaboration governments in Croatia, Albania, Serbia, Bulgaria, and Greece could be interesting
I agree we need this so bad
Rather far outside of my area of expertise and I wouldn't know where to begin. Any books you'd recommend?
@@ZoomerHistorianI don’t know any books but I think Croatia can be good, apparently the waffen SS were disgusted of ante pavelic’s government because of brutality
@@mq7447Yeah, it's all lies. If you believe any of those ridiculous horror stories you've beem cheated. It's post war atrocity propaganda.
Your documentaries are pure information, no waffle or drama, just information.
I love hearing about the various European legions will watch when i catch up
Do one on the Kaminski brigade or the “Russland” division. That would be interesting
Unfortunately many brave soldiers will never be given the recognition for their valor.
That one there is a bit of a sore topic ,
There's absolutely no apologizing for some units . You just named the two most infamous, the SS shot Kaminski themselves and gave Dirlwanger the knight's cross . That's pretty damming commentary.☮️❤️
Some of modern history's biggest Uncle Toms, next to the Frenchies in this video lol. And don't even get me started on the 14th SS.
@@asullivan4047 if. you think Kaminski or Dirlewanger were brave, you must be a very specific kind of sadist
Great video! Hope you cover up about the Spanish blue division some day.
I will!
also excited for this one!@@ZoomerHistorian
2:44 omg the dog
it’s wearing a pickelhauble
@@shawnv123lol
would love to hear in depth all of the peace offer AH made to adversaries before and during the war. the few times you’ve mentioned it in videos has piqued my curiosity.
It's on the list, will cover when it comes up chronologically in the Hitler series, probably as it's own video
All this information is out there. Turn off Talmudvision and do some research.
I'd also like to know which of those he would have honoured.
Es waren unzählige Friedensangebote seitens des Deutschen Reiches. Unzählige. Diese wurden bespuckt und in den Müll geworfen. Ein unfassbares Kriegsverbrechen der Alliierten! Einfach unfassbar.!!!
@@MinistryofMenHe would've honored any offer he made. The goal was the destruction of Communism, not the destruction of Western Europe.
you deserve more subscribers man
Thumbs up. This one is very well done.
Thanks a lot!
Very well and detailed video! I learned much from it, thanks for the great videos.
Oh boy. I have been looking forward to this!
Appreciate the endless love!
Thank you for giving these men The Honor of True History ,Good Sir. God Bless you and have a Happy New Year 🎉
I suggest Europa the Last Battle for some more historical context on a great many things WW II.
That'd be like watching Enemy At The Gates for a report on Stalingrad...total dullard move.
@@backtoshellac6459 Why is that? We have been fed a lot of lies and misinformation over the years.
I also recommend Europa the last battle....
@@backtoshellac6459room temperature IQ type talk
And maybe read when the flagpoles bloomed as well.
Great one again!
Thanks a lot mate!
Fantastic work man, you deserve way more views
Your videos truely are a treasure. A rare brilliant gem of thorough informative objective historical documentaries in a sea of biased propaganda. I really really hope they are all saved in totality with multiple back ups in case something happens, they shoukd be reposted on multiple/every site that still allows free speech and thought... the value of these as a true historical record cannot be overstated! Thanks again for what you do! Please keep up the amazing work and please please make sure these are preserved for both future and current generations to watch and learn from...
Well this is a nice surprise lol. As soon as I move into my new house I'll start donating to your patreon. I finally got caught up on all your videos it's nice to see someone from my generation providing an actual unbiased opinion about these topics. Channels like Lazerpig, Tik, and Armchair Historian, are entertaining to watch but it always feels like it's the same thing over and over again with their Germans evil Soviet and Allies good comments. Im proud of my service and my families service in World War II but it wasnt anything close to good guys vs bad guys like you mentioned in a previous video. Nobody likes hearing that the Germans were ordinary people not to mention we had a ton of Germsn POW's here in Kansas some worked on my family's farms and even stayed since my town started off as a German and Czech colony. Anyways keep doing what you're doing buddy I been downloading your videos because I'm sure someones gonna try and get them taken down and all history should be preserved.
Well said.👍
@@Occident.thank you.
Agreed, I used to enjoy those channels too but eventually the propaganda and lies just became too much to bear. Like how tik claims Hitler was left wing and that he was a socialist in the same way karl marx was a socialist which is just an insane thing to say. Or how armchair's explanation for the invasion of poland was "Hitler was looking for any excuse to invade and subjugate the poles, so they did a false flag attack and used that as justification"
Also props to you for downloading these, it's very important that this information be preserved
Thanks very much mate!
Lol the idea that Hitler just randomly attacked Poland is crazy, armchair historian said that? Smh
Can’t believe someone like henri fenet survived the war and then captivity
These are great love your content! Watch Europa the Last Battle if you already have not.
Calling Churchill the biggest warmonger takes some guts. But you are absolutely right. Maybe you could have added a big idiot..😅 Great chanel! Subscribed
Churchill was all that and more. I would add that Roosevelt called him a drunken bum.
Churchill was a warmonger and is responsible for the killing of many, including the sinking of part of the French Navy.
He really hated the Germans. I personally believe his experience in South Africa played a role.
Churchill was a Jewish puppet
Because of his foolishness the great empire fell. He lived long enough to see the results
It's become vogue to describe Churchill this way and suggest that Hitler, by comparison, was dove-like. Taylors Origins of the Second World War is a good account for balance.
Another banger as always my man
Thanks legend
Very interesting and informative.
Thanks mate
These guys were bad ass
Another banger.
Thanks for the constant support!
Great content as always, i really like how i learn from you after reading about ww2 for 20 years. Please do a doc about the Brown Eminence Martin Bormann. Mentioned far to less and had way bigger influence and control over the Furious Fuhrer. Thx :)
He's on the list for sure! Doing a Goring one soon as the first of many biographies to come
Good to see some real history not saturated with emotional propaganda
I thought Leon Degrelle was in the Charlemagne SS until I looked it up today but apparently he was in another unit known as the Walloon.
Of course. Degrelle was belgian not french so he was in the belgian (Walloon) division
@@Somerandomnamex That's literally what I said
@@LILliquidNah
Zapp brannigan of the ussr: i sent wave after wave of my own men at them till the enemy ran out of bullets
Do not eat BS, boy. Just stop doing it, just stop.
great work on the thumbnail too, looks great
I don’t make them but he is indeed a thumbnail genius yes
I love hearing these accounts on the eastern front, but the endings are all always tragic and sad. Then I look around me at the current state of things and feel even worse 😂...
Another great video. Thanks for your work.
would you have enjoyed starving to death in kurland?
@@thebeimg That's not the comparison I am making.
@@SaturnReturns would be worse if they won
@@thebeimg lol.
@@thebeimg I'm not Jewish, so no.
Another great video 👍
Thank you very much my friend
History repeating itself for centuries, Europeans killing each other, so disappointing.
Like your style. Liked and subscribed 💎
Thanks very much!
Great video man
One of the best video about the Charlemagne heroes! Thank you!
was looking forward to this one when I saw it recommended to me 😁
Thanks a lot mate!
When you fight harder for the country that occupied you than for your own
Do you often display your ignorance in that manner ?
Who remembers the line in the movie "Fury" where a company leader or some such minor officer is giving orders to Brad Pitts character to block a crossroads. The officer asks; why are they still fighting? They have to know they're beat. Pitt asks in return; would you stop fighting? Both give the look saying no, as long as there's an objective and someone giving orders they'd keep fighting. I can't imagine how narrow a focus a soldier has. You probably don't even know the situation of another company in your battalion let alone how the other fronts and theaters fair
It's interesting to see events from a vantage point of the defeated, even if we reach different conclusions on certain aspects and outcomes of said events.
Great work. Good stuff, was a pleasure to digest. Although much of this wasn't news to me, some of it was.
Keep up the great work.
Subscribed. You have an excellent channel
Thanks very much mate
Can you make a video about The Nazis Religion?
Yeah it’s on the list
Very informative as always, thank you for your work
As you were speaking about frenchmen signing up because of their christian faith i got to thinking if you ever considered making a video on A.Hs and WW2 Germanys view on christianity, some people will claim they were very anti christian even among right wing circles however I think there are many quotes especially from A.H that would disprove this myth. Great video as always!
Yeah it's on the list for sure, I'll do it in the not so distant future
Thank you!@@ZoomerHistorian
@seas1829 Adolf Hitler was not anti-Christian this is allied wartime propaganda trying to make the Germans seem Godless. A.H. was raised Catholic but like many these days did not actively keep going to church as an adult. A.H. encouraged strong church ties amongst his people to a certain extent because of the strong moral teachings and the cultural connection it held with many. What A.H. did not like was when Religion started to get involved with politics so permitted christianity as long as they kept to the religious side and kept out of politics. To stop Churches exploiting church peoples for muny they banned church donations from lay people and the state payed ministers wages . in the German Army belt buckle it said "God is with us." Gott mitt uns "
"We will wash off the Christian veneer and bring out a religion peculiar to our race"
Greetings from Puerto Rico 🇵🇷!
Hi
Notre honneur s'appelle fidélité.
another great video
Thanks as always my friend
Thank you for the video.
A magnificent video. Thank you for sharing. Sone great footage also.
Really, it was an informadible introduction episode and informative video...thank you for sharing
Do a video on the Italian division in the SS! No one ever talks about that but it’s so interesting!
Interesting and informative. Excellent photography job enabling viewers to better understand what/whom the orator was describing. Special thanks to veteran soldiers/civilians sharing personal information/combat experiences. Thru diaries/Memoirs enabling historians to replicate those stories. For future generations to better appreciate the hard ships/sacrifices suffered by the soldiers/civilians. Fighting/perishing /surviving knowing at times debilitating wounds were often times possible. Yet still advanced forward regardless of the consequences. True grit style determination to succeed!!! By mid 1944 the allies had military operations advantages over the axis troops. The disillusioned leadership in Berlin. Lived in denial that wonder weapons would give them an advantage in turning the war around to their advantage.
The only SS unit that didn't surrender but, was destroyed in Berlin.
Amazing work!
No more brother wars. Defend Europe and America.
america and europe are not brothers dummy
They seem based
Awesome content man
A very interesting video in a little reported part of the war thank you
I was sold at war monger Churchill!
Those last Frenchmen who fought to the end near the Fuhrerbunker are the only Frenchmen who redeemed my negative thoughts of France up until that point in post Napoleonic France's most recent history.
However in truth I say this as a conflicted man of German, Italian, French and Spanish blood.
France pretty much ceased being a big boy after Napoleon was defeated. They went on a decline, by 1914 they barely hung on against just 60% of the German army on 1 front and needed British, Russian, Italian and American support to just scrape a win. Tf was that by France??
@@rhysnichols8608 if you read my comment, you'll know you're in essence repeating much of what I said.
What's the point you'd like to convey here? Can I learn something from your contribution?
@@justadildeau
Stop being a cunt, I’m just engaging in discussion. Usually when someone agrees with you and reaffirms your point, it’s not customary to get passive aggressive. My mistake, next time I won’t seek discussion with people who share my niche views.
@@rhysnichols8608 read a book of history please...
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I have , compared to her previous power France went on a decline after 1815. This is evident in 1870 and 1914, and the wars they did win against Mexico and Italy and Russia weren’t as good as their previous military record, these were largely second rate powers and France had strong allies to rely on in the Crimean war. When they actually faced peer on peer warfare in 1870 they were crushed. France of course was still powerful after Napoleon, but compared to the 17th to early 19th century, France was not the same player she was in the 19th and 20th century. How can France, the country that marched to Moscow and dominated Europe for centuries, barely manage to beat Germany when they had the 2 biggest empires in the world on their side, ww1 was a shock to many, really the combined might of France, the British empire, Russian empire and Italy ought to have won the war within months, it wasn’t until the US joined that Germany finally circummed. You can point out many individual cases of French brilliance post 1815, such as Solferino or Verdun, but on the hole they did take a steady general decline. They weren’t the foremost nation in Europe anymore
Napoleon took on the banks before it was cool.
Well, as a French, Napoleon put us in the shit. Our bank is owned by private, but the state finance and support everything. I beleive it is kind the same in USA with the %3D
More like banked rolled by them
How do you find the information you use for the videos? The amount of detail is extensive, and I would imagine much of this was buried and un-googlable.
There are at least 2 books, "charlemagne " and "for europe "
@@wingatebarraclough3553Another one: H1tl3r's Crusade.
great video mate, ive got a charlemagne uniform
4:56 sooooo you don’t like Churchill? He did get the job done. And was ignominiously turned out the back door before the war was won.
Apparently wanting to fight nazis is warmongering.
He got the job done, but who was he working for? Not the British people.
What job? Destroying the British Empire (and all of Europe) so he could defeat the enemies of his “sponsor” bankers?
Thank you for this video. I have the book Pour L'Europe, reading it brings a lot of strong emotions.
Oh yes!
The elite 2th REP of the FFL still uses an old SS-March as their Regiment March. They basicly altered the text of the infamous song "SS marschiert ins Feindesland (SS marches in enemy territory)" aka "Teufelslied (The Devil's Song)" which was also used by the SS Charlemagne Division and slowed it down a bit, so it matches to their slower marching speed.
The lyrics are:
La Légion marche vers le front
En chantant nous suivons,
Héritiers de ses traditions
Nous sommes avec elles.
Nous sommes les hommes des troupes d’assaut,
Soldats de la vieille Légion
Demain brandissant nos Drapeaux
En vainqueurs nous défilerons
Nous n’avons pas seulement des armes
Mais le diable marche avec nous.
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, Car nos aînés de la Légion
Se battant là-bas, nous emboîtons le pas.
Pour ce destin de chevalier,
Honneur, Fidélité,
Nous sommes fiers d’appartenir
Au 2ème REP.
A friend of mine served 5 years in 2eme REP
Frightened of Bolshevism. Perfectly understandable.
I think everyone needs to know that the Partisans weren’t heroic countrymen but barbaric communists.
Thanks!
Thanks a lot!
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these are the Only Frenchmen form the WW2 Era who are Respectable.
How can you say such a thing when Eisenhower had estimated French resistance at 20 armed divisions?
Above all, they betrayed our nation even if I can recognize the motivation to continue the fight towards the end of the war because of communism, they are traitors and fighting in the name of losing Germany does not make them more glorious.
i think the ones who sacrificed themselves covering the british fleeing at dunkirk might not like this com
also your profile picture depicts a french norman soldier the ones who ended anglo saxon rule in england and started its frenchification that lasted centuries so it doesnt match your anglo saxon name
Outstanding information. Awesome
Thanks pal
Crazy how them and the Spanish kept fighting for Berlin instead of trying to cut and run to the American lines
They knew they had no home to go back to anymore. It would almost be worse for them to surrender to the Americans them to the soviets. They would be immediately handed over to french authorities where they would be placed before a kangaroo court and executed for treason within weeks.
Because they would certainly have known they would be labelled as traitors to their country well the French anyway and would be executed as such.
The interlude music at 34:54 is ironically, The Maple Leaf Forever, an older Canadian patriotic song.
just found this channel and love it.ive read 100s of books on ww2 but almost nothing about this.easterfront and last battles are what i like the most.
I recommend Europa, the last battle....
awesome LVF documentary 👍 RIP czonian ghetto
You should do das reich next
The material I have would mean it's the Latvian SS next if I do another big SS video
Respect to Eugene Vaulot