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Imagine being a 40 year old at the time, you had spent months or even years fighting in the trenches during ww1 and now 20 years later your government surrenders after only 6 weeks
Allied forces failed miserably in the initial fight against Germany. With the Germans high on meth, their blitz was overwhelmingly quick and took the allies off guard (allies were bunkering down like they did for in WW1). German tanks steamrolled through and Frances surrender was the unfortunate result, they weren't prepared.
Fun fact: Before the war, France used the same timezone as the British isles. But Germany moved the French clocks forward an hour as they used the timezone we now know as Central European Time
For a family of 6,yeah. During the siege workers had only around 200 grams of bread a day aka couple of pieces. Soldiers had around twice as much,with other populus getting around 100-150 grams. People ate all of their pets,pigeons,rats,mice,all of them. Only after a month the siege started,cannibalism started too. A soup made out of fine animal skin shoes was the best dish one could have. About a million starved,couple hundred others because of exhaustion,illnesses and german bombings. German bombs took way less lives than anything else,though. Mainly bombing not the people but the infrastructure and etc. ruining the starving and already practically destroyed city even more.
@@Captain_FAIL i would gladly resort to cannibalism if I was in that situation. In the winter you are literally walking around a massive frozen meat locker with the freezing cold and the dead every where.
Reminds me of stories my grandad would tell me from the war. He was born in german-occupied Jersey, just off the coast of Normandy and Brittany. We had our own language here, Jerriais, but English was the more widely spoken one. Jerriais made a return during the occupation as it was close enough to French not to arouse suspicion, but not so close that the Germans who spoke French could understand what we were saying. Sadly, the language of my people is all but dead, with more and more native speakers dying each year and almost nobody learning it or speaking it at home.
Wow I didn't know that. So when I travel to France I don't have to change my watch's time. Now that I think of it, it makes sense that France should have another timezone. More like the same the british have.
@@GDL88there's plenty of talk about it on RUclips, which you can find pretty easily. Though, to be sure, it's difficult to be very sympathetic with post-WW2 Germans, given their complicity with Nazism
@@itsblitz4437 perhaps for the Soviets this time ? 🤔 nations under NATO that were formerly Eastern bloc nations have heavily fortified borders in case of Russian invasion
Zirmas you realise that the allied military planning wanted the Germans to bypass the maginot line, the point of the maginot line wasn’t to hold off the entire German army it was to secure the flank of the army while the main armies of Great Britain an France link up with Belgium forces in a pre decided defensive line. there is a myth around how the French didn’t expect the Germans to go through Belgium again when of course they expected it and that’s what decided french defensive planning in the interwar period. What ultimately doomed the allies is that they didn’t concentrate their forces correctly
I really like these videos. I'm always so focused on the weapons and battles of wars and don't usually think about the civilians and their lives. Thank you.
I actually found out that my grandfather, in France (he was an American soldier), had a kid with a french woman and told nobody. I took a dna test recently and found out I had relatives in France, and that's how I found out. I met them earlier this year and they were some great people!
@@equarg Oh yes, I’ve heard of a similar story where a black couple had a child that was very light skinned *after* birth. The man accused her of cheating, but it was proven the child was his. Plus, some dark-skinned children are born very light after birth but regain their melanin later on. Though It’s funny because my brother was the opposite. He born with a tannish complexion, but his skin got lighter later on. He was also born premature, so that might explain it too.
One thing about the artwork - The Germans never got the masterpieces from the Louvre like the Mona Lisa or the Venus de Milo. In 1939 all the artwork was split up and hidden in chateaus across the French countryside under the coordination of the curator, M Jacques Jaujard. The last piece of artwork left the Louvre on 3rd September 1939. The Mona Lisa had to be secretly moved five times throughout the war in a game of cat and mouse with the Germans.
Don’t know how accurate it is, but Robert Frankenheimer’s “The Train” is a great depiction of the Nazis trying to steal the art and the efforts of the French resistance
@@TheDanrox110 Well hell, small world! I always laugh at the part where they drop the sign on the water tower after the train leaves, revealing they're still in France.
But the German blitzkrieg made it harder for France to defend because refugees start to go to France then after that they fought... But the Germans encircled Most of France's forces which lead them to low defence which means they can take France without really struggling of defenders
@@LeoTheJust At least Yugoslavia had Tito. Apparently the guy was such a threat that he was an Abwehr objective as early as 1941. A friend of mine read that in her grandfather's war diary.
@@stc3145 Few know that Warsaw was after Manilla in the Philipines the most ravaged city of WW2. Even more then nuked Hiroshima/Nagasaki and bombed Berlin/ Tokio Warsaw was for 85% totaly destroyed, Manilla 90% The Nazi's destroyed warsaw on purpose to quel the uprising. both had additional massive massmurder of civilians by the occuping armies during the uprising / battle. Warsaw 150.000+ and Manilla 100.000+
@hellasow promote it? Its literally a video on nazi-occupied territory. Its like complaining about an american flag in a video on the allied-occupied Japan.
In France we use the expression "to be called arthur" (Se faire appeler arthur) when we "get it in the neck", scolded. It's a reference to the german patrols yelling "Acht Uhr !" to those who were still outside after 8pm during the occupation.
Strange name of Arthur, I had 2 people that I called Arthur and it enraged them. I was very young, 10-17,never knew why that name enraged them, but they were too young also to grasp this reference.
@@fantomasvsfantomas2288 Who would make that up as a joke? Lol. It sounds like one of my grandparents anecdotes of the old country. (Proper use of the word anecdote - it doesn’t mean specific story, it means general story. I.e the barefoot children used to play the malde le fegn on the bridge after dark)
The truth is that those parts of France that Italy occupied were Italian before Napoleon III took over and the French state forced everyone to speak French and forget everything about being Italian.
@@jameslegrand848 And...? This changes nothing, it was just another case of opportunistic acquisition of territory by France, taking advantage of the disunity of its Italian and German neighbors, of course, all in accordance with the international laws and practices of the time. My point is that the Italians had a legitimate claim to French territory that they occupied at WW2.
@@Melnek1 They had not a legitimate claim if the population wouldn't join. Furthermore, they were not italian but savoyards (in Savoy) and Niçois (in the County of Nice). Local languages, cultures and cuisine of these areas were pretty much different of the ones of Italy, and even though italian was the official language of Piedmont-Sardinia, it was the mother tongue of only 8% of the population (and french was the mother tongue of 5%) in 1860 in the county of Nice, a hundred years before WW2. They never "forgot" that they were Italians because they never were Italians. They were occitans highly influenced by Italy. What you're saying is as false as if i was pretending that Dutch people forgot they were German because they have been close culturaly and and were at one point in history in the same political entity. Mussolini had no valid claim on these regions and neither did he on Albania, Ethiopia nor Greece. Oh! And by the way "France taking advantage of a desunified Italy" is complete bullshit. They supported the unification of Italy, and fought by its side against the austrians. The french then conquered Lombardy that was under Austrian control and immediately gave it to Piedmont-Sardinia. The county of Nice and Savoy are gifts for the help of France that was crucial in the Risorgimento.
@@Melnek1 You're a complete moron. Napoléon III supported italian unification and independance. As for Savoy being an italian land, thanks for the good laugh.
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Bravo. These bite-sized morsels of WWII history are absolutely delectable. Thanks for all your effort in enlightening us to perspectives that aren't commonly seen. I'm inspired to find out more about the French Resistance. I can't imagine what it must've been like to take arms against a dominant military force; not only risking your lives but also that of your family and loved ones should you be caught.
Hitler told Mussolini that if he wanted to take some land, he had to conquer it. I let you guess how effective was an unprepared attach through the Alps.
Ironically enough, France did not change its time zone back after the war, staying on Central European Time with most of the EU. It also retains the use of identity cards to this day.
My grandmother,Crosette was a resistance fighter and gave her life to counsel and protect my father.She was a seamstress and hidmy dad with her revolver in her seamstress trunk when the Germans came into their village and lined up people in the streets for deportation to work camps or the old and feabel to be shot on the streets.He was a very young teen and escaped my grandmother disappeared forever never to be seen again.I can't imagine the hardship they all endured and her sacrifice for us to be here today,she was toyghf and brave,my personal hero.💙⚜️
A beautiful video Griff! Very well done with a true artistic flair. My grandfather was actually an STO during WW2 and apparently he nearly died towards the end because of allied bombing and starvation as the Germans abandoned the STOs to fend for themselves. As always, thanks for letting me voice for it! Merde!
Good thing they aren't doing curfews and mandatory ID cards like the Nazis anymore. Just a mandatory ID card, curfews, house arrest, mandatory vaccination, wearing of slave submission mask, mandatory closing of ONLY small business, churches, and banning of private gatherings. I guess we are doing it better than the Nazis because we hypocritically call tyranny as freedom. That is the secret to making it work! People that read history are idiots. Intelligent people watch TV and believe everything they see and hear while calling those that notice patterns and ask questions as "stupid" and "crazy".🤪
@@dakoderii4221 Places have different local COVID laws but everyone understands them to be temporary. My US state has mild conservative restrictions, based on local medical expert opinions, but some people are arguing that common sense and slight inconvenience is tyranny. (Complete loss of income AND refusal by govt to supply the "paper" that is their exclusive monopoly, that IS tyrannical .. a Fiscal Holodomor unfolding.) Masks are no more slave submission in common spaces than masks worn by medical personnel, or mandatory hardhats & steel toed shoes at some work sites, or mandatory eye protection on welders, or mandatory uniforms at fast food, or mandatory coats and ties in some restaurants, or mandatory shoes/sandals and shirts to enter a convenience store to buy beer on the way to the beach. Masks are one more tiny rule added to existing rules of civil society .. I see a problem with some US locations closing restaurants even when they invest in outdoor dining. I went to an indoor Tex Mex restaurant yesterday .. there was a sheet of plastic separating booths but I admit it was altogether risky with everyone breathing the exhale of people nearby. If ONE of those hundred people was an asymptomatic carrier, I could have huge problems or death for a meal of chips and burrito. Yet I understand how contentious it is trying to balance the rights of consumers and the rights of small business with the rights of hospital medical staff and the goal to maintain some slack in terms of ICU beds and other resources.
3:35 you cant prolong darkness AND hasten night at the same time. If the clocks were moved forward it would be darker in the morning and brighter in the evening
4:24 I love that shot of the Frenchie, just completely takes all the stereotypes for French citizens: thin mustache, cigarette in his mouth, restaurant owner, pissed off, formal dressing, it’s just great.
@Hernando Malinche everyone could be chuck norris, if we all treated everyone as if they were chuck norris we would have peace on earth May Norris bless you and us all
I have to say it really boils my blood as a French guy when Brits or Americans make fun of France's WW2 behavior. When the fact is these 2 countries have never been invaded. And the entirety of WWI was fought on French soil.
Not that different: misery, rationing, propagandistic bombing, mass sistemic corruption and engineered inefficencies (ever wondered why Italy was so unprepared for war?) resistence slowly taking shape then exploding after september 8th, while the Salò puppets helping nazis with deportations and retaliations. The "when HE was there..." gold era is a huge propagandistic LIE Italy is still struggling to shake it off.
life wasn't that bad BEFORE the start of the war, it was the same sometimes even better than France or UK to say some countries, after that when the war started situation degenerated and the resistance started taking power
Actual fact: Gas lights were used in 1889, until electrical modernization in early 1900's. www.toureiffel.paris/en/news/130-years/brief-history-towers-lighting
Now, after all of this harshness that Germans forced over French, it's pretty much shocking that german occupation policies in France were actually, comparing to the other countries, one of the most lenient! In some other countries, especially in Eastern Europe, (like in Poland, Soviet Union or Serbia) there were such measures that for any killed German soldier they would execute randomly chosen 100 civilians and for every wounded 50 civilians! Not to mention that massive ethnic cleansing and even genocide policies were introduced later! I mean, Nazis really did know how to make a occupation as hard as possible.
But left mention of the fate of France's Jews out of a video about the Nazi occupation of France. That was such a big part of it, I don't understand why it would have been left out, unless there is another video about that. There is certainly a lot to tell regarding that aspect of the tragedy.
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Napoléon never occupied Prussia He beat the Prussian army and didn't stay. He never wanted to conquer Prussia and exploit it whereas the Nazi occupied France to get tons of resources and defend against a possible invasion. He was happy With having the confederation of the Rhine between Prussia and France. He did occupy Spain and some parts of Italy though. Even Egypt for a time before he was emperor
*Women drops "child"* Me: you dropped your "child" *"Child" is grenades* Me: *NANI* (Edit: my god guys 700 likes thx this edit was written on september 20, 2020)
Okay, I get it, you could argue that the capitalization and period aren’t required as the reply wasn’t a true sentence I considered reformatting it but it didn’t feel right. Also, I think the Grammar Nazi capitalization is okay as I think it’s a proper noun. I don’t honestly care about the mistake, fine mistakes like OP’s mistake is alright, we got the message anyway.
In one of our english texts we had a story about german occupied french where one kid ( french) hated his french teacher and then under the new orders french was disbanded from schools. Later on the author said something extremely beautiful. "Will they make the birds chirp in german too".
For me as a german, it is unbelievable to see Germany and France being so close to each other. It's incredible that after all this terror Germany induced and the centuries of war they faced with each other, they could become friends nowadays. Whenever I feel like worlds going insane, this thought gives me hope that other conflicts may be solved in the future as well.
It's the same with the US and Japan. Japan was brutal in the pacific, but the US put aside this, helped Japan rebuilt and now they're close allies. This is one thing I love about the US, it is willing not to hold a grudge if you're ready to work with them. After the Cold War, they even tried to be closer to Russia and it worked until Putin.
@@KingZercules The US helped japan to get trade deals and to prevent another WW2 germany from happening and they helped russia to try and avoid nuclear warfare, not saying that the US is bad but im just clearing up that it wasnt because theyre super kind and friendly
my great aunt was in her late teens/early 20s during ww2 and lived in a small village near nice in vichy occupied france. i grew up hearing stories about it from her. the farmhouse that had been in our family for centuries was then used as a meeting place for nazis and they forced her and her husband to be servants to them (and according to family rumors, they also killed her newborn infant with poisoned milk). the farmhouse now belongs to my parents and you can see where swastikas were carved into the walls by the soldiers. her husband died shortly after the war and she herself recently passed in 2020. she was an amazing and strong woman with so many stories
Little anecdotes from my family who lived this war between the occupied zone and the free zone. In free zone when my grand father was ten years old he was chased by german plains just for having fun. In occupied zone both my grand parents had to share their homes with germans while their fathers was captured or fighting. My great great grand mother raised 12 children and lost two of them while she had no news of her husband during 4 years. My great uncle has been denonced at the gestapo and moved to a camp because of his help to refugees. another uncle has been prisoner in a germany farm and didn't have coat and pullover during winter by -20•C .And everybody was so hungry, they gaved the amount of 300gr of bread/days per persons, 90gr of meat/week , 150gr of fat /15 days and 50gr of cheese/month when they had it in groceries 👍
There is an animated series that showcases a little of the life in occupied France, at least in the lives of a group of children. “The Long Long Holiday”
The only reason they are the leaders in luxury industries like rolex with watches is because all their copetitors were destroyed in WW2. They played smart, that's for sure.
*Door slams open* Polish Partizans who basiclly created their own underground country with courts, prosecutors and sittings of underground parlament: Kids, kids I think we can all agree who the winner is(Take it with a pinch a salt If u can I am just playing along XD)
My mother’s family lived in rural East France during the war. Grand-père raised his fist in anger towards the Germans and a german gave him a chocolate bar. Oh and the world war 1 vet in the family fought and died in the resistance. Neat video
@@thegamerboytgb4350 I assume the grand pere was a small boy at the time so the german soldier probably thought him waving his fist was more cute than dangerous which would explain why he gave him a chocolate bar.
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Wow cool!
Tysm for doing this topic!
That means there wont be need of censoring the video right?
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We were not demonetized! RUclips has been being 100 times better lately and the channel is doing really well. I don't want you guys to worry, we're getting through this :)
Yeehaw, RUclips finally understands
Glad that RUclips wants to understand how history should be told AS IS.
I was worried this video might got deleted.
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HEEEEEEEY! Good to hear :D
Good news in these dark times
Me: They left the baby!
The French Family: We’re gonna do what’s called a “pro gamer” move”...
Haha grenade go brr
Me: Bruh she dropped her whole ass baby on the floor.
Baby: Is actually bundle of live hand grenades
Me: Oh...
Zack Anthony It’s a meme.
I said that too in my brain
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Imagine being a 40 year old at the time, you had spent months or even years fighting in the trenches during ww1 and now 20 years later your government surrenders after only 6 weeks
Imagine spreading cream cheese over your bagel that just came out of the toaster only to drop it on the floor and have it land face down.
Allied forces failed miserably in the initial fight against Germany. With the Germans high on meth, their blitz was overwhelmingly quick and took the allies off guard (allies were bunkering down like they did for in WW1). German tanks steamrolled through and Frances surrender was the unfortunate result, they weren't prepared.
I HAD IMAGINED IT. I WAS NOT SURPRISED
45 days=3 weeks? Wow great 👏👏
luka :D 5 weeks
Fun fact: Before the war, France used the same timezone as the British isles. But Germany moved the French clocks forward an hour as they used the timezone we now know as Central European Time
"Daily calories intake reduced to 1200-1500 calories."
Leningrad: That's for a whole family, right?
A grad's gotta eat fam
For a family of 6,yeah. During the siege workers had only around 200 grams of bread a day aka couple of pieces. Soldiers had around twice as much,with other populus getting around 100-150 grams. People ate all of their pets,pigeons,rats,mice,all of them. Only after a month the siege started,cannibalism started too. A soup made out of fine animal skin shoes was the best dish one could have. About a million starved,couple hundred others because of exhaustion,illnesses and german bombings. German bombs took way less lives than anything else,though. Mainly bombing not the people but the infrastructure and etc. ruining the starving and already practically destroyed city even more.
North Korea: that's Kim's snack
@Spicyleaves damn bro you trippin. The whole city's calorie intake is too high. It was south of 1000 during peak fighting years.
@@Captain_FAIL i would gladly resort to cannibalism if I was in that situation. In the winter you are literally walking around a massive frozen meat locker with the freezing cold and the dead every where.
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>makes video about french occupation
>uses german composition in louis [sic] of all sorts of french, "somber" music
Exactly what I did
Sounds like the US today
"...the French were subjected to an even worse fate; bureaucracy."
The French now: The ride never ends.
i guess we kinda got the taste for it
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I don't get it?
germany rapes france
50 years later
france: i just cant quit you
germany: shut up baby, i know it
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Reminds me of stories my grandad would tell me from the war. He was born in german-occupied Jersey, just off the coast of Normandy and Brittany. We had our own language here, Jerriais, but English was the more widely spoken one. Jerriais made a return during the occupation as it was close enough to French not to arouse suspicion, but not so close that the Germans who spoke French could understand what we were saying. Sadly, the language of my people is all but dead, with more and more native speakers dying each year and almost nobody learning it or speaking it at home.
What are more people speaking in the area now?
@@TheAzureNightmare they speak French however many areas of Brittany still have a couple tens of thousands who speak our local Gaelic language Breton
Did he ever talk about the beast of Jersey?
@@genericorochimain7027Jersey? They are all British I don’t know what that guy is going on about?
But now they have the luxury of Arabic as the fastest growing language
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Fun Fact: France never actually switched back to their "actual" time zone. To this day they're still using the "German" time zone.
It’s a souvenir.
Wow I didn't know that. So when I travel to France I don't have to change my watch's time. Now that I think of it, it makes sense that France should have another timezone. More like the same the british have.
Talk about being lazy
@@rightand5719 😆😂🤣 good one!
Wait ent they use the Germany time zone
Id actually like to see what life was like in Germany post WW1 and Versailles Treaty. And then again post WW2. Those poor civilians had it rough.
All lies they did not have it hard, they didn’t even welcome the American soldiers when they were liberated.
Well they elected hitler so... in a way they are not all white
They’ll never talk about that 😂
Those poor civilians voted the nazis into power
@@GDL88there's plenty of talk about it on RUclips, which you can find pretty easily. Though, to be sure, it's difficult to be very sympathetic with post-WW2 Germans, given their complicity with Nazism
What’ pains me is that the Germans had a guy named France Holder, but they didn’t use him to hold France.
The comment below me has more likes.
Rico653 Caines is cool now, I'm not
“Years of academy training WASTED!”
Your kidding
@@lavellelee5734 He means Franz Halder. A German general.
That would be a big BRuh moment
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Brulez la Palatinate, Heidelberg deleta; they burned thousands of German villages to the ground, and now they cry murder because of a curfew...
What about belgiums suffering being used as a meat shield and not getting credit for our victory of holding germany of france in ww1
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>makes video about french occupation
>uses german composition
It's all fun and games until someone bypasses the Maginot line.
Yeah, so lol!
Is that still a thing even today?
@@itsblitz4437 perhaps for the Soviets this time ? 🤔 nations under NATO that were formerly Eastern bloc nations have heavily fortified borders in case of Russian invasion
Zirmas you realise that the allied military planning wanted the Germans to bypass the maginot line, the point of the maginot line wasn’t to hold off the entire German army it was to secure the flank of the army while the main armies of Great Britain an France link up with Belgium forces in a pre decided defensive line. there is a myth around how the French didn’t expect the Germans to go through Belgium again when of course they expected it and that’s what decided french defensive planning in the interwar period. What ultimately doomed the allies is that they didn’t concentrate their forces correctly
@Zirmas Fix you comment to "it's all fun and games until some tank breakthrough ardennes forrest" Edit: change sedan to ardennes.
I really like these videos. I'm always so focused on the weapons and battles of wars and don't usually think about the civilians and their lives. Thank you.
I went from “THEY LEFT THEIR BABY!!!” To “oh.”
@Erin Boc Trust me. That got me too.
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Ikr, i sure didn't expect a sack full of grenades lmao
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I actually found out that my grandfather, in France (he was an American soldier), had a kid with a french woman and told nobody. I took a dna test recently and found out I had relatives in France, and that's how I found out. I met them earlier this year and they were some great people!
That’s awesome. Found “lost relatives” myself in Germany and got to meet them. Ain’t it great to connect with your roots?
@@equarg Oh yes, I’ve heard of a similar story where a black couple had a child that was very light skinned *after* birth. The man accused her of cheating, but it was proven the child was his. Plus, some dark-skinned children are born very light after birth but regain their melanin later on.
Though It’s funny because my brother was the opposite. He born with a tannish complexion, but his skin got lighter later on. He was also born premature, so that might explain it too.
@Prince of Libanesien lmao xD
I’m French on my dads side my friends don’t believe me because I’m black
@@thunderkatz4219 lotta "french" are black anyways because of places like hatia anyways so that's nonsense
Fun fact: before 1945, women gave birth to hand Grenades
Yes
Wait, did they also gave birth to hand grenades?
true my great-grandma was a garnade
c'est vrai, le nom de mon grand oncle était Kaboom!
@@Megadextrious Bonjour kaboom je suis nommer apre le chose amerique a lanser sur japone je mescuse pour mon francais terrible
Absolutely love, love these. Keep it up. Different take and makes history interesting to watch.
France: *Is occupied*
German soldiers: it's free baguette
baguette*
@@vm360fly 🍾🍷🥖🥐
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Nothing like a traditionnelle!
C'est vrai.
One thing about the artwork - The Germans never got the masterpieces from the Louvre like the Mona Lisa or the Venus de Milo. In 1939 all the artwork was split up and hidden in chateaus across the French countryside under the coordination of the curator, M Jacques Jaujard. The last piece of artwork left the Louvre on 3rd September 1939. The Mona Lisa had to be secretly moved five times throughout the war in a game of cat and mouse with the Germans.
@armia krajova Yes, still, the Louvre gave them a hard fight because, "Merde."
Don’t know how accurate it is, but Robert Frankenheimer’s “The Train” is a great depiction of the Nazis trying to steal the art and the efforts of the French resistance
Reminds me of the old movie "The Train," where the French Resistance keeps redirecting a German train of stolen artwork back into France.
@@TheDanrox110 Well hell, small world! I always laugh at the part where they drop the sign on the water tower after the train leaves, revealing they're still in France.
What’s up Camus?
France:
"We should reinforce the line! Quick!"
Germany planning to flank instead: "Yes"
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Zeros DaBast not the third reich ,be proud of your grandpa tho
But that was a the whole point of the Maginot line, To force Germany to go through Belgium.
Multi exactly
But the German blitzkrieg made it harder for France to defend because refugees start to go to France then after that they fought... But the Germans encircled Most of France's forces which lead them to low defence which means they can take France without really struggling of defenders
The animations, the History...
Its absolutely Beautiful
1:09 I had a mini heart attack when she dropped the so called baby
*No! Not the Mk2!*
They were extremely expensive and useful
Stink bomb on another level
I was just confused why she did it lol.
@salting at me no good, man LMAO
Lol, i thought the husband and son were carrying a giant baguette. 🤣
I thought that too
I thought they were carrying a coffin
Lol me too
Didnt they ?
🤣🤣🤣
Everyone: talking about how hard it was to live in occupied France
Meanwhile Poland: you what
Yugoslavia...
Poles got only 1500 calories a day on average, 500 less than in France and western europe. And warsaw was completely destroyed unlike Paris
@@LeoTheJust At least Yugoslavia had Tito. Apparently the guy was such a threat that he was an Abwehr objective as early as 1941. A friend of mine read that in her grandfather's war diary.
Greece was even worse
@@stc3145 Few know that Warsaw was after Manilla in the Philipines the most ravaged city of WW2. Even more then nuked Hiroshima/Nagasaki and bombed Berlin/ Tokio
Warsaw was for 85% totaly destroyed, Manilla 90%
The Nazi's destroyed warsaw on purpose to quel the uprising.
both had additional massive massmurder of civilians by the occuping armies during the uprising / battle.
Warsaw 150.000+ and Manilla 100.000+
4:17 I love the irony with the café's name, literally translating to "Cafe of the peace" or "Cafe of peace". Nice little detail!
An Austrian invaded France to make them remember who actually invented the croissant
You comment everywhere
No
My supreme leader you are absolutely right
Lol
Its funny how people from far south became an dictator of Germany
France: this occupation sucked its against humanity
Also France after liberation : lemme get back to brutally ruling my colonies
Let me keep my promise to Algeria and let them be free.
Not!
RIP Senegalese Tirailleurs
Yep! Really worked out for those countries once France left, right?
Me: *Laughs in British*
@Ali Ali ok Ali
No iron cross as a replacement yay
Bruh even his background is animated amazing
If he would've changed in to the youtube logo on the ss police it would've been even better.
That means that RUclips demonitized the video :(
Savage Historian indeed
Zealous Doggo at least he got a sponsor to kind of make up for it
@hellasow promote it? Its literally a video on nazi-occupied territory. Its like complaining about an american flag in a video on the allied-occupied Japan.
0:49 scurry
3:29 onset
3:58 other than those
5:01 on a daily basis
7:55 able-bodied
8:13 drastic measures
9:16 quota
In France we use the expression "to be called arthur" (Se faire appeler arthur) when we "get it in the neck", scolded. It's a reference to the german patrols yelling "Acht Uhr !" to those who were still outside after 8pm during the occupation.
Hahaha ! I thought it was a joke but it proved to be true when I checked !
Strange name of Arthur, I had 2 people that I called Arthur and it enraged them. I was very young, 10-17,never knew why that name enraged them, but they were too young also to grasp this reference.
And today Macron calls you "Sexologue" (Six O'Clock)
@@fantomasvsfantomas2288 Who would make that up as a joke? Lol. It sounds like one of my grandparents anecdotes of the old country. (Proper use of the word anecdote - it doesn’t mean specific story, it means general story. I.e the barefoot children used to play the malde le fegn on the bridge after dark)
The dictionary disagrees but this is the way anecdote was used growing up…
Hitler to Mussolini: Congratulations you tried, here is a tiny piece of France
The truth is that those parts of France that Italy occupied were Italian before Napoleon III took over and the French state forced everyone to speak French and forget everything about being Italian.
@@Melnek1 Savoy and nice were given to France by the kingdom of Piedmont Sardinia as thanks for their help against the Austrians....
@@jameslegrand848 And...? This changes nothing, it was just another case of opportunistic acquisition of territory by France, taking advantage of the disunity of its Italian and German neighbors, of course, all in accordance with the international laws and practices of the time.
My point is that the Italians had a legitimate claim to French territory that they occupied at WW2.
@@Melnek1 They had not a legitimate claim if the population wouldn't join.
Furthermore, they were not italian but savoyards (in Savoy) and Niçois (in the County of Nice).
Local languages, cultures and cuisine of these areas were pretty much different of the ones of Italy, and even though italian was the official language of Piedmont-Sardinia, it was the mother tongue of only 8% of the population (and french was the mother tongue of 5%) in 1860 in the county of Nice, a hundred years before WW2.
They never "forgot" that they were Italians because they never were Italians. They were occitans highly influenced by Italy.
What you're saying is as false as if i was pretending that Dutch people forgot they were German because they have been close culturaly and and were at one point in history in the same political entity.
Mussolini had no valid claim on these regions and neither did he on Albania, Ethiopia nor Greece.
Oh! And by the way "France taking advantage of a desunified Italy" is complete bullshit. They supported the unification of Italy, and fought by its side against the austrians. The french then conquered Lombardy that was under Austrian control and immediately gave it to Piedmont-Sardinia. The county of Nice and Savoy are gifts for the help of France that was crucial in the Risorgimento.
@@Melnek1 You're a complete moron. Napoléon III supported italian unification and independance. As for Savoy being an italian land, thanks for the good laugh.
Mother: Drops baby and help the son and goes into the darkness.
Me: Wtf is wrong with you!
Armchair Historian: shows the bomb as a baby.
Me: makes sense if you want BOOM BOOM.
I thought this when I saw it.
Talk about a baby boom
Baby boomer
Were the French really using 6 y.o. kids to transport guns and explosives?
That woman: *the trickster*
Thanks!
Meanwhile on the Eastern front: Hell
@Дмитрий Климов From what I read,even the italian front was better than the eastern one
The eastern front was from when Hell froze over
*A PERSONAL LIKE FROM ME FOR THE RECOGNITION*
German soldiers lived on like 200 calories a day after the Stalingrad encirclement.
@@dietsevolkspartijinternati1373 Welcome to USSR. Stalingrad was a lesson for all of Europe.
France: gets occupied
The French: *The revolution has begun.*
again
Europe: Which one?
France: Yes
*Loads Welrod*
Yeah, the French people got a knack for revolutions.
Allies: We are going to push the Germans out of your border wanna come?
why did you occupie france?
germany: mOney
Germany: StOnKs
*Occupy**
@@butterygoodness8242 oop my bad
Germany: baguette
Germany: its free real estate
Bravo. These bite-sized morsels of WWII history are absolutely delectable. Thanks for all your effort in enlightening us to perspectives that aren't commonly seen. I'm inspired to find out more about the French Resistance. I can't imagine what it must've been like to take arms against a dominant military force; not only risking your lives but also that of your family and loved ones should you be caught.
Mortar: Honey! I’m home!
Artillery Shell: Where is our child?
Mortar: Oh our son Grenades, I left him to play outside.
Bacon Ninja WtF
Imagine what they had to do to have kids😳😳😳😳😳
@@Kokangalang stop
@@unknownalsounknown4238 o ok
They prob-
Lol Italy got a little bit of land as in a "participation award"
Hitler told Mussolini that if he wanted to take some land, he had to conquer it. I let you guess how effective was an unprepared attach through the Alps.
hey nugget
Ironically enough, France did not change its time zone back after the war, staying on Central European Time with most of the EU. It also retains the use of identity cards to this day.
And the world uses passports (from the French "passeport" literally "let go through the port"), a French invention from centuries ago.
Yeah, when I was changing planes in France in January I had to have my passport scanned 3 times.
What a bunch of fascists.
@@fuqupal How dare they
TFW your occupiers teach you how to things right so you keep using them after you get rid of them xD
Would be much more convenient to carry a multiple purpose national identity card, then a driver's license, social security card, insurance card, etc
My grandmother,Crosette was a resistance fighter and gave her life to counsel and protect my father.She was a seamstress and hidmy dad with her revolver in her seamstress trunk when the Germans came into their village and lined up people in the streets for deportation to work camps or the old and feabel to be shot on the streets.He was a very young teen and escaped my grandmother disappeared forever never to be seen again.I can't imagine the hardship they all endured and her sacrifice for us to be here today,she was toyghf and brave,my personal hero.💙⚜️
My dad went on from there to join the french navy,even though he was underage,they ignored that fact and enlisted him.
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lmao
🤣👍
bruh its a good game it even has the maus
Imagine lmfao
Running over protesters in China since 1989! Guaranteed reliability in suppressing the local populace!
A beautiful video Griff! Very well done with a true artistic flair. My grandfather was actually an STO during WW2 and apparently he nearly died towards the end because of allied bombing and starvation as the Germans abandoned the STOs to fend for themselves. As always, thanks for letting me voice for it! Merde!
Lazy Lamar I cracked the enigma machine
@@lamar493 patreon get special access
Shopa Pozhiratel' and Members of the YT channel
Moral of the story:
*Don't take a French person's wine,cheese,and baguettes*
Ca cest certain!!!
Can verify this. Source: My German teacher lived in France for a while (i know, ironic)
When Baguettes are stolen, Amrys are fucking dead
Ce damage
I am half French and when someone takes my bread or cheese I go into rage mode.
Been on my recommended for ages, didn’t think it would be this good damn
Germany: Victory in France
Italy: What about me i fought the French too???
Germany: Here take part of France (Participation Medal).
if i was mussolini, id be happy with just corsica
Ata_cama Corsica would be a nice prize for the Mussolini and Italy. As for myself I might try to take hold of a couple French colonies in Africa.
It's like when they gave Chewy a medal in ROS.
Italians didn't pass in the Alps
Thib Skywalker Right and that’s why they received a participation award rather than an out right victory.
"Curfew from midnight to 6am?!?! Preposterous!!"
Meanwhile in Leningrad
Well yeah France surrendered
Meanwhile in Leningrad...
*crab rave music intensifies*
Good thing they aren't doing curfews and mandatory ID cards like the Nazis anymore. Just a mandatory ID card, curfews, house arrest, mandatory vaccination, wearing of slave submission mask, mandatory closing of ONLY small business, churches, and banning of private gatherings. I guess we are doing it better than the Nazis because we hypocritically call tyranny as freedom. That is the secret to making it work! People that read history are idiots. Intelligent people watch TV and believe everything they see and hear while calling those that notice patterns and ask questions as "stupid" and "crazy".🤪
@@dakoderii4221 Places have different local COVID laws but everyone understands them to be temporary. My US state has mild conservative restrictions, based on local medical expert opinions, but some people are arguing that common sense and slight inconvenience is tyranny. (Complete loss of income AND refusal by govt to supply the "paper" that is their exclusive monopoly, that IS tyrannical .. a Fiscal Holodomor unfolding.)
Masks are no more slave submission in common spaces than masks worn by medical personnel, or mandatory hardhats & steel toed shoes at some work sites, or mandatory eye protection on welders, or mandatory uniforms at fast food, or mandatory coats and ties in some restaurants, or mandatory shoes/sandals and shirts to enter a convenience store to buy beer on the way to the beach.
Masks are one more tiny rule added to existing rules of civil society ..
I see a problem with some US locations closing restaurants even when they invest in outdoor dining. I went to an indoor Tex Mex restaurant yesterday .. there was a sheet of plastic separating booths but I admit it was altogether risky with everyone breathing the exhale of people nearby. If ONE of those hundred people was an asymptomatic carrier, I could have huge problems or death for a meal of chips and burrito.
Yet I understand how contentious it is trying to balance the rights of consumers and the rights of small business with the rights of hospital medical staff and the goal to maintain some slack in terms of ICU beds and other resources.
Meanwhile in 2020
woman: *drops baby. walks off*
me: WAS ZUM TEUFEL
What The Hell!!!!!!!!!!!
It wasn't a baby, it was a bag of grenades.
Scott Johnson r/woooosh
Scott Johnson r/wooooosh
Scott Johnson r/woooooooosh
3:35 you cant prolong darkness AND hasten night at the same time. If the clocks were moved forward it would be darker in the morning and brighter in the evening
4:24 I love that shot of the Frenchie, just completely takes all the stereotypes for French citizens: thin mustache, cigarette in his mouth, restaurant owner, pissed off, formal dressing, it’s just great.
Lmao
restaurant owners are pissed off only to american tourist who don't try to speak French especially in Paris
@K 163 lol
@K 163 I watched the video very I n t e r e s t I n g
@K 163 Lol no problem bro I subbed and liked too honestly not a bad video at all
Germans looted priceless treasures from museums that the French themselves had looted from Egypt and the middle east.
it's all lies to make the nazis look bad
The Germans wanted to preserve that which the prophecied would be ruined, and what are we watching a single lifetime later?.........
The Germans wanted to preserve that which the prophecied would be ruined, and what are we watching a single lifetime later?.........
@@hz.mevlanacelaleddin-irumi5399 it wasn't to make nazis look bad it was to make the French look good
But... Egypt was under the control of the UK, was this a joke about how English and French museums both contain a bunch of relics which aren't theirs?
“Swastika in thumbnail”
RUclips: I’m bout to demonetize this man’s whole career
It didn't!
The most stale meme in history.
@@Clancy3 indeed
@@Clancy3 It isn't stale when Chuck Norris uses it
@Hernando Malinche everyone could be chuck norris, if we all treated everyone as if they were chuck norris we would have peace on earth
May Norris bless you and us all
I have to say it really boils my blood as a French guy when Brits or Americans make fun of France's WW2 behavior. When the fact is these 2 countries have never been invaded. And the entirety of WWI was fought on French soil.
*western front
(Also a large amount of Belgium was caught up in the Frontline)
Especially since France is half the reason America is a country. Don't worry, some of us still appreciate that.
@@SableZardYT Yeah, it was a FRENCH inventor who built the Statue of Liberty. If it wasn't for France, America would have no Statue of Liberty.
Germany did try to invade England and failed, hitler wanted to get France so they could get the uk but their plan did not work.
Do you feel the same for African countries exploited by France?
I didn't know HOI4 lore was this deep
You made my frickin day. Nah, week.
Lol
Yeah bro, just you wait for the lore of the German invasion of the Soviet Union
Lmao
Nice one
The grenade baby is only slightly more prone to blowouts than the regular variety.
Bru
Hey guys remember to stay hydrated today!
Thank you!
☭ ☭ C00munist Poland ☭ ☭ No problem!
I'm allergic to water
@@yaelvacacenteno1382 so you have allergic reactions when you drink?
☭ ☭ C00munist Poland ☭ ☭ I’m proud of ya!
The full moon in the thumbnail is so beautiful 😢❤😍😭💔
You should do average life in Mussolini's Italy.
Not that different: misery, rationing, propagandistic bombing, mass sistemic corruption and engineered inefficencies (ever wondered why Italy was so unprepared for war?)
resistence slowly taking shape then exploding after september 8th, while the Salò puppets helping nazis with deportations and retaliations.
The "when HE was there..." gold era is a huge propagandistic LIE Italy is still struggling to shake it off.
North or south?
life wasn't that bad BEFORE the start of the war, it was the same sometimes even better than France or UK to say some countries, after that when the war started situation degenerated and the resistance started taking power
France, Italy... had it good compared to what the Japanese did in China.
@@tea4223 shut up capitalist
Fun fact: The lights on the Eifel tower were installed in 1987
Really?
Cool
Actual fact: Gas lights were used in 1889, until electrical modernization in early 1900's.
www.toureiffel.paris/en/news/130-years/brief-history-towers-lighting
Fun fact Europe is crumbling
this is brillant!
Yet again no history regarding armchairs
He should do something like for that for April fools lmao
Pffffffhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Good one.
They go all the way back to Babylonia.
Haha. For similar reasons, I still don’t understand “To Kill a Mockingbird”.
I thought this woman deadass dropped her baby.
“Oh hell nah jimmy not my blanket”
*YEETS CHARLIE JR*
Now, after all of this harshness that Germans forced over French, it's pretty much shocking that german occupation policies in France were actually, comparing to the other countries, one of the most lenient! In some other countries, especially in Eastern Europe, (like in Poland, Soviet Union or Serbia) there were such measures that for any killed German soldier they would execute randomly chosen 100 civilians and for every wounded 50 civilians! Not to mention that massive ethnic cleansing and even genocide policies were introduced later! I mean, Nazis really did know how to make a occupation as hard as possible.
were can I learn more about this?
Maybe because occupying France was a cake walk for them .. unlike others
True
LIES!
@@GuyUWishUWere You can start by checking out German/Soviet occupation of Poland
Armchair historian: the only RUclips brave enough to put swastikas in a RUclips video
cowarded out at 6:14 they put a Swiss cross instead of the Buddhist swastika
What about World War Two channel by TimeGhost History?
But left mention of the fate of France's Jews out of a video about the Nazi occupation of France. That was such a big part of it, I don't understand why it would have been left out, unless there is another video about that. There is certainly a lot to tell regarding that aspect of the tragedy.
*ARMCHAIR HISTORIAN THE CHANNEL STUPID ENOUGH TO BE RUSOPHOBIC*
For educational purposes only.
This channel revived my interest in history.....
ikr.
no it revived your interest in lies
I hope you've checked out EpicHistoryTV. Just super high-quality, high production value history videos. They have series covering Alexander the Great, the history of Russia, Napoelon, some on WWI, US Presidents. Their narrator is gold, and they keep it engaging. They also consolidate their series of videos on one subject (e.g 5 Russian history videos) into a single long video for easier watching.
@@rosswhitlock3025 Uhh? I have a feeling you are an American
I appreciate your video's bro you truly educate people shout out from Morocco
German Reich: *Occupies France*
United Kingdom:
*we're in the endgame now*
More Like: "Yo you don't get to slap my hoe like that, only I can"
@@ericcartmann >France is UK's hoe
>No
@@ericcartmann more like
France:Help!
UK: Ok
*months later*
UK: Help!
*Years Later*
USA: I would liberate you
US: We about to liberate this mans career
@@BaguetteGamingOfficial keep telling yourself that frenchie
Now I would like to hear about the life in French occupied Germany during Napoleon.
Lmao, yeah i hope armchair historian sees this.
The Confederation of the Rhine?
@@drybrucke1 no.... Prussia
@@drybrucke1 Prussia represents Germany lol
Napoléon never occupied Prussia
He beat the Prussian army and didn't stay. He never wanted to conquer Prussia and exploit it whereas the Nazi occupied France to get tons of resources and defend against a possible invasion. He was happy With having the confederation of the Rhine between Prussia and France.
He did occupy Spain and some parts of Italy though.
Even Egypt for a time before he was emperor
Me: mom can we get hitler?
Mom: no we have hitler at home.
Hitler at home: 8:19
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
😆😆😆😂
65 year old Hitler if he survived the war.
Baldler
I like how at 0:08, that’s an Inglorious Basterds reference
*Women drops "child"*
Me: you dropped your "child"
*"Child" is grenades*
Me: *NANI*
(Edit: my god guys 700 likes thx this edit was written on september 20, 2020)
Your*
Ante Gadze your*
so many grammar nazis
Lukiemaster 1234 So many Grammar Nazis.*
Okay, I get it, you could argue that the capitalization and period aren’t required as the reply wasn’t a true sentence I considered reformatting it but it didn’t feel right. Also, I think the Grammar Nazi capitalization is okay as I think it’s a proper noun. I don’t honestly care about the mistake, fine mistakes like OP’s mistake is alright, we got the message anyway.
My mother was in occupied France. They raised Pumkins since the Germans would not take the pumkins.
Why didn’t they take pumpkins?
@@maxthexpfarmer3957 proly too heavy
WTF?
Even for Halloween?
@@DawnOfTheDead991 germans celebrate oktoberfest.
I find that thumbnail very offensive.
You're not supposed to show the Eiffel Tower at night.
Lol
true
LMAO!
Why?
@@ggimgood3728 for some reason it's illegal
I appreciate your accurate animation guys
Man French babies look different than what I thought they would look like
LOL
They kidnapped an American baby
😆😂
When Armchair historian makes good video...
“This enraged RUclips… who punished him severely”
(If oversimplified we’re here)
Lol
Lol
Lol
Uncool
If who we are here?
That moment when you leave the grenades instead of the baby
Imagine planning to leave the grenades but you mix them up with your baby do you leave the baby.
Darn wish I kept those cool grenades
In one of our english texts we had a story about german occupied french where one kid ( french) hated his french teacher and then under the new orders french was disbanded from schools. Later on the author said something extremely beautiful. "Will they make the birds chirp in german too".
Good on you for using the historically accurate flags. I approve.
Everyone's gangsta until the art student decides to cut his mustache square
you should now a version talking about polish resistance and how it was to live in ocuppied poland.
It was glorious to live in NS-occupied Poland as it was anywhere else they occupied.
@@rosswhitlock3025 lol, how does it feel to have such a bulging brain?
@@rosswhitlock3025 for the Nazis you mean?
It would have probably worse, since slavs were seen as untermensch in nazism
"No Outside Activities From 12AM To 6AM"
Ayo FNaF in WW2??
Germany: **Occupies France**
France: **Gets occupied just so they have a reason to start a new revolution**
@@whyhello9649 you can like it now
For me as a german, it is unbelievable to see Germany and France being so close to each other.
It's incredible that after all this terror Germany induced and the centuries of war they faced with each other, they could become friends nowadays.
Whenever I feel like worlds going insane, this thought gives me hope that other conflicts may be solved in the future as well.
They had no choice!
They are both Muslim countries now.
@@edgein3299 what?
It's the same with the US and Japan. Japan was brutal in the pacific, but the US put aside this, helped Japan rebuilt and now they're close allies. This is one thing I love about the US, it is willing not to hold a grudge if you're ready to work with them. After the Cold War, they even tried to be closer to Russia and it worked until Putin.
@@KingZercules The US helped japan to get trade deals and to prevent another WW2 germany from happening and they helped russia to try and avoid nuclear warfare, not saying that the US is bad but im just clearing up that it wasnt because theyre super kind and friendly
Imagine the French being like "no do you even know how long it took to steal that"
@Socio Cynical Steal what? The Europeans plundered from the African tribes, not vice-versa.
HoodBoy ssssh that messed with his European victim-complex.
@@abigailrowe5024 I would prefer French we other Europeans don't like to associate with them
@@johnpauljones3426 Very true. Have you noticed that all the messed up African countries today are those that were colonized by France?
@@coitze8704 hey yeah that's true, all the former British colonies are at least ok meanwhile all the French one's had dictatorships
my great aunt was in her late teens/early 20s during ww2 and lived in a small village near nice in vichy occupied france. i grew up hearing stories about it from her. the farmhouse that had been in our family for centuries was then used as a meeting place for nazis and they forced her and her husband to be servants to them (and according to family rumors, they also killed her newborn infant with poisoned milk). the farmhouse now belongs to my parents and you can see where swastikas were carved into the walls by the soldiers. her husband died shortly after the war and she herself recently passed in 2020. she was an amazing and strong woman with so many stories
How was it under Italian occupation ?
Menteuse
Not wanting to sound like a Nazi, but kudos for the swastika instead of the iron cross.
I prefer the iron cross
@Morgan W Rees the German empire was better. The imperial German flag has the Prussian iron cross
Alternate History Hub just uses the RUclips Play Button.
Why would praising historical accuracy make you a nazi?
What has the one thing to do with another?
I always admire these detailed storys we might've never even known of thanks TAH
I'm pretty sure that most people already knew most of this.
Little anecdotes from my family who lived this war between the occupied zone and the free zone. In free zone when my grand father was ten years old he was chased by german plains just for having fun. In occupied zone both my grand parents had to share their homes with germans while their fathers was captured or fighting. My great great grand mother raised 12 children and lost two of them while she had no news of her husband during 4 years. My great uncle has been denonced at the gestapo and moved to a camp because of his help to refugees. another uncle has been prisoner in a germany farm and didn't have coat and pullover during winter by -20•C .And everybody was so hungry, they gaved the amount of 300gr of bread/days per persons, 90gr of meat/week , 150gr of fat /15 days and 50gr of cheese/month when they had it in groceries 👍
There is an animated series that showcases a little of the life in occupied France, at least in the lives of a group of children. “The Long Long Holiday”
Definitely recommend watching!
i LOVE that series!!!
1:08
Did anyone else panic inside a little when she dropped her baby?
The “baby”
Same
Only to be a bag of grenades
@@warh1story563 'Nades*
@@R4in46 isn’t it grenades?
The occupied areas are in monochrome Black and White, while the liberated areas are in full colour.
Only Legends like you know that you are referring to the saboteur one of the best yet most underrated games
Well the color was needed at the front, so the Germans requisitioned it. :-P
The Saboteur. I wish there were more open world games in WW2
Ah! I see you're a man of culture as well
Ikr? should be the other way around.
Germany: walks through the ardennes forest
France: Wait, that’s illegal
*Cheating
@@AKaptijn94 Soviet union: France surrendered lol
Beast Deas it did tho
@@beastdeas7250 soviet union realises it faces a 1 front war with germany: hold my peasants
In a historical Way that was totally normal the french plan was to let's the german push to the Ardennes
1:05 drops baby casually and walks away lmao, oh nvm haha
Switzerland: This is fine.
weedon shav or maybe they’re smart?
@@moonman5188 they've avoided many unnecessary casualties by staying out of wars
Jacob Hoffman true
The only reason they are the leaders in luxury industries like rolex with watches is because all their copetitors were destroyed in WW2. They played smart, that's for sure.
@Giancarlos Benitez True
The French Resistance: We were the best resistance group
The Yugoslav Partizans: *WHAT WAS THAT, PUNK?*
Edit: dear god why did i bring up the Balkans
*Door slams open* Polish Partizans who basiclly created their own underground country with courts, prosecutors and sittings of underground parlament: Kids, kids I think we can all agree who the winner is(Take it with a pinch a salt If u can I am just playing along XD)
* Lithuanian partisans joined the game *
Actually, the yousoglav partisans were less than the french ones.
Official Fat Yoshi it’s kinda a moot point really, they all lost to the Germans so it doesn’t matter who resisted them best lmao
Polish Home Army, Polish People Army and Polish Peasent Battalions: *YOU BETTER WATCH YOUR MOUTH!*
My mother’s family lived in rural East France during the war. Grand-père raised his fist in anger towards the Germans and a german gave him a chocolate bar.
Oh and the world war 1 vet in the family fought and died in the resistance.
Neat video
Huh? A angry fist = chocolate?
@@thegamerboytgb4350 I assume the grand pere was a small boy at the time so the german soldier probably thought him waving his fist was more cute than dangerous which would explain why he gave him a chocolate bar.
“Snickers?“
@@BBraun-gw4hs
XD
I guess a nice ba of Panzerchokolate