The Execution Of 17 German Soldiers Shot By French Resistance - Bodies Found!
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Throughout the Second World War, there were many executions that saw Prisoners of War being slaughtered. Inside of France, there were 17 German Soldiers shot in reprisal by the French Resistance for another war crime, and witnesses came together to tell the story of this. But the remains of these German soldiers were then found, decades after World War 2 came to an end.
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These 17 German soldiers were just a part of millions of soldiers missing in action during WW2, mostly Soviets and Germans. It wouldn't be a surprise if many of the missing ended up in a similar circumstance such as this.
For German soldiers when the war ended, there were two groups they do not want to be captured by or surrender to, the Soviets and the French.
The German expected the French,and the Russians ,to be cordial after starting two World Wars.The Krauts should mind their own business
Or Canadian
My Father was a 15 year old boy living in Brest France in the fall of 1945, he was also a runner for the French resistance and he witness the execution of several SS soldiers after the liberation of Brest. They were not executed in the normal way instead they had there boots removed and ordered to run across a freshly cut wheat or corn field, when they got to the other side their feet were bloody and other resistance members were waiting for them and shot them, Later explaining to authorities that they thought they were "escaping". Realize that my father witnessed several men he knew from the resistance, hung or shot by the SS. So for him revenge was sweet.
A crime is a crime and so these resistance fighters was not better then the ss...
SS were not to be taken prisoner.
@@ronnyk5316Said looking through 21st century eyes.
Just for your information: the recruits who had to join the army from mid-1944 onwards could not choose whether they were assigned to the Wehrmacht or the Waffen-SS!
Unfortunately, in every war, whether yesterday or today, there are war crimes on every side.
Everyone on their side thinks they are fighting for the right thing and has the law on their side.
Let us remember the dead who fell for their countries and not outweigh the guilt of both sides 🪖🕯✝
There are crimes on every side. I agree. Young men losing their lives for fat politicians is always sad. They often don’t have a choice. I agree. However, the weight of war crimes during WW2 overwhelmingly rests with Germany. Germans killed 29 million Russians alone. The vast majority, were civilians. The Germans routinely shot 50 or 100 civilians for one soldier killed in all the countries they occupied. It’s too easy to say, “well, all sides committed war crimes, so the guilt is held equally.” Germany lost approximately 6 million people during the war. 5 times less than the Russians alone. Ask them if they think the weight of atrocities is and should be carried equally? Entire generations of families were wiped out. Then, there’s that messy issue of concentration and extermination camps too. I guess you think we should all share that guilt as well? Modern Germans, trying to pretend their countrymen weren’t really all that bad and suggesting the weight of war crimes should be shared equally among combatants, is dangerous revisionism.
When you see the mass killings Done by the Germans. Babi Yar and the total destruction of total villages is it any wonder this reprisal happened.
Not to mention the extermination camps
Oui mais les allemands n’ étaient pas tous des assassins sauf la s s et gestapo . Les soldats de l’ armée régulière étaient plus cool.
@@chantalameslon517 not true in Ukraine ofthen regular lodgers helped to round up the Jews and keep guard ,and to cordon them
What had the French Resistance to do with what happened in the East?
@@maximkretsch7134 it had everything to do with what happened in the East . Resistance was fighting nazism , USSR was an ally of
Free French, Britain , USA . Moreover many In the resistance were Jews , who had their relatives deported to Auschwitz , by that time knowledge of what happened to the Jews became wildly known .
Do you think really what went on in the cease had nothing to do with France ?
@@maximkretsch7134 French resistance a fallacy!
WAR IS NOT A PICNIC BUT A BRUTAL THING WHEREVER THERE WAS WAR
A la Guerre comme la guerre
What a weird comment
You people weird
Mord bleibt Mord, egal von wem.
I'm an American who spent some of my college years studying at the University of Bordeaux (language, history, literature, culture) and I have travelled back to southwest France many times for visits. I continue to be amazed at how "alive" the occupation and liberation continue to be in the hearts and minds of the older generation that now is disappearing as they pass away. No doubt no nation's armed forces is blameless, but WWII has remained important to many of the older French I have met because they felt unsupported by their own government in many ways and they were traumatized by the German forces among them. May we learn today from yesterday.
Islam is more of a threat
In 1944 the acts of repression on the civilians are generalized everywhere in France. On August 9, 17 civilians are shot in St Julien de Crempse, a month later the resistants shoot 17 German soldiers in retaliation. Certainly it is a war crime, but these are rare acts and the German prisoners, in 1944, were rather well treated, if we take into account the exasperation of the populations. Between 1940 and 1945, 116,000 French civilians were massacred by the Germans, shot, summarily killed or killed in concentration camps.
None if this justifies the killing of these 17 German soldiers. Period.
We Must Never Forget.
"dark theaters are best for dark deeds"
Resistance fighters are not under protection of Geneva convention..... so they had no rights at all to be treatened like an ordinary soldier
Much of the French Resistance were Communists.
* treated.
You need to be clear there. If they were soldiers behind enemy lines they had. But if they pretended to be civilians, they of course had none of those.
Soldiers, but not civilians.
War crimes? There lucky the is still a Germany on this planet after what they had done.
And the Japanese
And the yanks and British Russians etc etc@@sylvialocker1653
one can say that it is lucky that there are still French, British, Spanish and Americans.
The Holocaust is undeniable!
Look at the history of your countries. Above all, the Americans with the Indians, the Spanish in their American colonies, the communists under Stalin or Mao, the French and British in their colonies around the globe.
I am happy that they all still exist.
This hatred between nations that keeps cropping up is simply stupid
Jasenovac
Same applies to many other nations.
“Eye for an eye” just imagine how many they killed…
As they were from a communications company that would be around zero.
The truth is that during the several years of German occupation, the "Frech Resistance" wasn't very resistant.
They only became bolder once the allies landed at Normandy.
The landing in Normandy was permitted thank's to french resistant sending informations about german army to London
There were far more collaborators. There was a whole government of them down in Vichy. Seems to me they tore off the armbands and start shout Vive La Resistance as soon as it was safe.
@@03pn11 And beat up some women who fell in love. Did they beat up the Parisien restauranteurs happily serving German officers Cognac for 4 years?
they were bold in june 1940
Unfortunately very true, as soon as the French realized that De Gaulle and his liberators were a few km away, the amount of resistance fighters grew and grew.
Good day, and Thank You, as Always. Excellent, and Informative videos.
If you’ve ever been to a French cemetery you don’t have to wonder why this happened to German soldiers, particularly SS members.
The USA killed more french civilians when liberating France than the Germans did in their invasion and the whole time of occupation. And, by the way, it was France who declared war on Germany!
Mais oui monsieur. Viva la belle France, ❤❤❤
@@Lea-rb9nc are you been sarcastic ?
Don’t be so silly
Would you mind to explain?
@@oscarjohnson9156 Do you think the Napoleonic soldiers in Germany behaved more decently before? Or even the Swedes?
@jagsttaeler the war crimes committed by the SS were merely against civilians. A big difference compared to killing prisonners you cant hold as you are on the move.
Is there a difference? To murder civillians is just as bad as murdering POWs (Melmady)
Wrong. Hitler ordered that any Commandos, SAS, SBS and men from similar units were to be shot. The SS carried out these murders. The SS murdered many thousands of POWs during the war.
I suspect both sides knew what to expect .
Also..it was stated by British and Canadian troops on D Day itself..that so important was it to have fighting troops fighting..prisoners were of no consequence...
Work that one out?
Vague orders..yes..of course...and people make excuses like in Band of Brothers for "shooting pow's" ....because they lack the means etc due to the operation they are involved in..."C'mon"
The excuses of excess is paramount...and is given everywhere with the Allies..I can speak with authority..my Grandfather was taken prisoner by the Germans...and he said news travelled fast (no mobile phones then)
I am being subjective now...but W.H.Y. we're Canadians shot at the Abbey in Normandy several days after the invasion happened? I truly believe they knew that they knew Canadians shot prisoners, or were not taking them.
Why..do you think the reason WHY Kurt Meyers sentence was reduced? Answer..due to a Canadian officer who stood up and said "they" had done the same..(and I summise) due to the importance of the initial operation to get troops (fighting troops) onto the beaches on D Day..orders (no matter how vague) had been given..to keep troops fighting (that no prisoners were to be taken)
I have served myself..and I KNOW how quickly word spreads..an eye for an eye in these occasions is NOT justified..but I firmly believe there WAS a reason behind the shooting of those Canadians.
Now to this story..please read the law of Armed Conflict as of this time?.
The "Resistance" as we know it now were different groups at times not even working with each other..they had different motives..some religious..some political (I.e communist..to start another revolution AFTER the Germans had gone..look at Greece and its civil war from 1944)
These people WERE bandits "franc tirreur" and were liable to be shot. At THAT time in the Rules of War the Germans COULD take hostages for reprisal...I am amazed that this is NOT discussed.
Look at The Ardentinne Cave Massacre...the German was only prosecuted for executing 3 more than he should have done!! Not the mass of people that they took to avenge the Austrian ss that had been blown up in Rome...
Sad and tragic as it is..and to lose one's family is even worse..but I point out the facts.
The problem is that the Allies have their mouth full of what their enemy has done but they do not want to talk about their own war crimes. And most of the french are really like that.
War brings out the worst in humans 😭😭🤬
War Crimes are something only the losing side is guilty of.
And yet here we are.
War is hell. That’s why it’s best not to start one.
If I lived under NAZI tyrrany I'm sure I would have exacted some sort of revenge for having been forced to live through that hell.
Only moral cripples believe that one war crime justifies another. Such atrocities typically fall on those who played no part in the original crime (in most cases guerilla fighters were criminals under international law). Reprisal killings of guerilla fighters (who do not follow international law), though, were permitted under international law and were outlined in both British and American officer training manuals (the allies pretended after the war this was not so until presented in court). Technically, believe it or not, under the rules of war at the time, it was the French who violated international law here, not the Germans. Their killing of POWs was illegal, not the German killing. Look it up. That said, reprisal killings result in the death of innocent people and only play into the hands of the guerilla fighters. Reprisal killings are no longer permitted under international law.
POWs was illegal, not the German killing? are you saying the Germans were innocent?
@@willevans429 Try reading international law as it existed in 1944. Reprisal killings of civilians in partisan areas (what the Germans did) was legal and was even in allied (British & American) officer handbooks as a legal remedy. The French resistance also enjoyed no protections under the rules of war as they were not an organized uniformed standing army (They killed and then hid among civilians out of uniform). Killing uniformed POWs as the French resistance did, was illegal under international law. Basically, under international law, until such time as the French resistance fought in organized units wearing identifying uniforms or armbands, they were outside of international law and could be executed when caught, legally. Later, when French resistance units came out and fought like regular troops wearing identifying insignia and in units that did not disappear into the civilian population, they could be recognized under international law as legal combatants. The resistance action the Germans retaliated against was from the former period, not the latter, so the French were committing a war crime, not the Germans. Try thinking if the Germans were Americans or whatever you are. See how that changes your point of view.
It happens in every war
My wifes grandmother lived near Brest during the war and knew of atrocities done against innocent French civilians by the Germans. Yet some French women still had affairs with German soldiers. She told us some of those women were executed and their German soldier boyfriends also. She knew one of these women personally and always felt pity for her and the shame her family also had to endure. The authorities seemed to ignore the fate of these women
"Throughout the Second World War, there were many executions that saw Prisoners of War being slaughtered. "
* Murdered
Hits it better. Also provides a motive why 'French Resistance' had plenty of motive to lie about Germans.
“God save us if we loose the war”… quote attributed to Herman Goering just was WW2 started. War is brutal and Germany was terrible. The consequences of loosing a war is terrible for the losers. For many it was better off dying in battle than surrendering. Like in antiquity, many Generals chose to commit suicide in defeat.
General Sherman said it best after being criticized for his destructive march to the sea during the Civil War: "War is Hell"
The French couldn't wait to leave the British expeditionary force sent to fight alongside them to their fate as they cowardly negotiated a separate surrender. Most became collaborators but others preferred killing off duty soldiers to a stand up armed fight. Not surprisingly the Germans viewed them as terrorists and treated them as such. Just as every other army has historically done, right up to the present day. Once allied troops arrived, alongside Degaulle who was pretending to be fighting too, all the former collaborators suddenly turned into resistance heroes and bravely turned on many women who had worked for the Germans or formed friendships with young German men. They beat them, shaved their heads, then for reasons unclear stripped them of their clothes and paraded their naked bodies as "war" trophies. That "men" such as these would murder unarmed POWs should shock noone.
The retreat of the British Expeditionnary Force was ordered by Churchill as soon as may 17th of 1940...
From this date, the BEF began retreating toward the coast.
Operation Dynamo in Dunkirk began as soon as may 26th and ended up on june 4th 1940.
French armistice happened on june 22nd 1940...
18 days after the last british soldier had left France...
Nearly all the losses suffered by the BEF happened during operation Dynamo.
The BEF had lost less than 2000 KIA in direct fighting against the German in spring 1940, whereas at the very same time French army suffered between 80K to 100K KIA ( The 20K difference being those who died of their injuries in hospital during summer 1940)
For 1 tommy dying fighting in 1940, 40 to 50 French soldiers died.
The rest of your comment is as accurate as the 1st part.
In the 1970's I had to go to France for work, myself and a couple of others found a small hotel run by an old biddy who spoke no English but then we found out she spoke fluent German as do I , so she regaled us with war stories, I always regret not taping her accounts, she had German boyfriends and she told us she preferred the Germans over the Bolscheviks, I heard this statement quite a few times from other elderly French folk !!
@@BFOP15 it all started when the Belgian King capitulated and put us in trouble, we had to retreat then, while the defence of Dunkirk was the first time any decent resistance was given against the germans, a lot of the defence was taken up by the French who made a huge contribution to the BEF getting away, I cannot believe the original comment and where that all comes from, sometimes people come up with all kinds of stuff
Live by the Gun die by the Gun. This was minor considering what the SS did.
If you don't want to witness the brutality of war don't start it.
Could you do untold past about some 16 to 37 German soldiers killed in April 1945 in a town by american 63 rd division 254 th regiment some were prisoners
I'm Germany
In Germany
@@seanohare5488kleines dummes Kind.
After the Melmady, It became a free-for-all.
@@michaelcudby787 No, it was happening on the Normandy beaches on D-Day, specially by American troops. The sad part is that the Atlantic Wall was largely manned by invalids, young boys and old men alongside forced conscripts from occupied countries. Many of them just wanted to surrender and go home.
¿Solamente 17? Qué generosos los resistentes franceses...
I have a difficult time feeling sorry for the Germans in this case.
The French were the ones who declared war on Germany.
@@Karl-nv5ok yes cause they invaded poland
They shot nazis? how dare they...
They shot Germans. Not every German was a party member.
I read somewhere than only around 10% of Wehrmacht soldiers were party members with even lower numbers in the Kriegsmarine and Luftwaffe.
have you some dokumentation from amarican and english war crimes too?
Best Not to " document" anything 🤫🤫
War Crimes are something only the losing side is guilty of.
@@brocklanders6969Oh would you give it a rest? Saying the same thing over and over doesn’t make it so.
@@sugarkane4830 Actually it does.
@@brocklanders6969 what a stupid comment, shows brain demage.
Yeah the French were incredibly brave once the Brits and Americans liberated their country…
You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. Shame on you for such a remark.. my parents lived through this, resisted during the entire conflict and were tortured by the gestapo for their patriotism...
American s were 3 years late starting
@@firstnamelastname-ys3mz very true. And the Soviets were mainly responsible for winning the war. What does that have to do with the French as Nazi collaborators? Or the French Resistance only being active once their country had been liberated?
In fact after the fighting the whole population of France had been in the Resistance all the time
@@DavidISHERWOOD-iu1xn good one!!!
French Resistance were primarily communists. De Gaulle knew and had to move fast to take charge.
It is difficult to feel sorry for executed Germans. Blame Hitler for this event.
You're sick.
@@Karl-nv5ok Right Herr Karl
War crime here.
Yes, the Germans did commit a lot of war crimes.
🤣War Crimes are something only the losing side is guilty of.
@@brocklanders6969
Ukraine lost months ago.
Youre prob an ignorant ameritard who watch nick fuentes
Military justice.
Allies also guilty of crimes.
The number of wehraboos in the comment section is astounding.
The amount of people who still use the silly childish term wehraboo is even more astounding.
The French didn't liberate themselves in 2 World Wars. Small wonder they're about to be a Muslim majority country with nuclear weapons. They've been more lucky than they deserve for too long.
"cheese eating surrender monkeys" seems as apt as ever
Ukraine's did a lot of the killing as well, with the Nazis.
Pales in comparison to what Croatians did to Serbs. Russians were given a mercy... Ukrainians arent catholics
Every country had collaborators even Russia. Keep in mind more Ukrainians fought for the Red Army against the Germans than helped the Germans.
The Russians killed many Ukrainians...so much so many Ukrainians saw the Germans as saving them from Stalin's excesses. There two sides to every story.
Ukrainians made up the vast majority of the Concentration Camp guards, and almost all of the Extermination Camp guards.
OMG! The narrator sounds like a broken record!
And playing at the wrong speed!
Surely you discover then exume a body?
Not to forget..it was the actions of "the resistance" that left the villagers and population to their fate...Oradour sur Glan is just such a case...Read Max Hastings book Das Reich..its not such a clear cut case as one would lead you to believe
The French Resistance was a joke.
before the allies arrived the resistance where a bunch of cowards
This is humanity..
The French Resistance was very radical in its politics. They were very in step with Stalinism and the idea that they should deliver justice without judge or jury. They believed in community and administrating from a centralized body of elected representatives. They effectively worked like the Popular Front did in the Spanish Civil War, fighting against Fascism through any means necessary. Their ruthlessness was a reflection of their desperation to rid France of the occupiers. The shame of defeat was a catalyst for their activities inspiring the mainly young who fought bravely and took terrible risks in not only acts of sabotage but also rescuing Allied forces who were escaping German pursuit to ferry them into neutral Spain and get them back to friendly soil like Britain or North African territories that had defeated Hitler’s Afrika Korp.
The French RESISTANCE was RESISTING Nat-C terrorism despite your idiotic hyperbole. This happened in France not in Germany therefore the Nat-C's were where they didn't belong and got treated the way terrorists should be treated @davidgaine4697 The imbeciles are defending the Nat-C's unironically
A lot of french monarchists and nationalists fought while commies like Doriot collaborated.
@@MauriacePapion Gives one example like a typical hyperbolic imbecile.
For goodness sake please change that god awful dull AI narration voice!!
Yes, and tge same AI voice inxall these youtubes !
Civilian resistance forces in occupied territory in a declared war can't commit a war crime by killing occupying forces by any means available. Taking prisoners is not an option for resistance forces. If you need this , please find someone who enjoys typing.
No tears
In some combat situations, it is totally impossible to take prisoners. Prisoners cannot be trusted and are very dangerous.
We must never 4get. Shame so much of 20th war may not be taught in schools.
Imbeciles are both siding this. The Nat-C's were terrorizing people in other countries and sometimes those people fought back and here you are defending the terrorists. @mariaedwards6371
pathetic 🤡
French usually run and hide
True France had a 2 million man army in 1940 and defeated in 6 weeks pathetic
True in 1940 France has a 2 million man army and defeated in 6 weeks pathetic
It was said a week before D Day there were about 220,000 in the French Resistance and a week after D Day there were over 2 million.
Go read about Verdun
Operation sea lion was due in the UK 🇬🇧 & the guy that took over France 🇫🇷 said I can’t see the British being so accommodating he couldn’t BELIVE NOT a single bullet was fired when the Germans DANCED into Paris .
It was war. People die
Vive la France!
Were they cremated or were the coffins just smaller because only bones were left?
Small soldiers I think 🤔
Funklenk Zwerg Kompanie.
Really?
@@alanadair4893 I believe this group of soldiers were midgets that’s why we have the small coffins
@@Leo_Pard_A4 Yes! 247th Funklenk Zwerg Kompanie was drafted from sanatoriums etc.
Big Deal, 17 Krauts…
* humans
Replace "Krauts" with Jews / Black / Gypsies /gays and you will realise you and the Nazis are one and the same.
Maybe next time france shouldnt declare war on Germany if they can't win the fight. Then they won't have to have a resistance at all. Imagine that.
Perhaps next time they could avoid declaring war then leaving the British sent to help them in the lurch by surrendering almost immediately.
well, hindsight is indeed 20/20 when it comes to many things including war... I bet the Germans would have found an excuse to invade France regardless of what France did... said safely from my armchair in 2024
Hey bro, You talk like you have a piece of ice in your mouth or maybe you are chewing gum.
The French was never part of the allied forces.
Read about ==Commandos Kieffer== before writing this big mistake.
Are you going to make a video about the hundreds of Allied POWs who were murdered on the numerous forced marches they made going to Germany from France in 1940? Also the winter forced marches made from POW camps in eastern Europe running from the Russians in 1944/45?
Your videos are very one sided.