It's stranger because France had just been liberated from Nazi Germany. If you look at American cities in the same time the lifestyle would seem more familiar
@@niclasjohansson5992 Yes footage from America in that time period looks very similar, In general i think the french are more mindful of their appearance and dress when they leave the house though
Aside from phones, they all seem to similar to us. Even though is was like eighty years ago, we see a resemblance of us in the smiles and looks. That's part of it for sure.
@@shawnsteuer9951-I was a child in the 1950s and there was very little throwaway plastic in everyday shopping. Plastics seemed to exist here and there with some occasional objects such as cellophane which was used for expensive florist flowers... and other things ..but even my toys were largely made of metal and wood. And that was not wartime...when shortages made everything vital to be re-used.I understand your point about the prewar advance in that medium - Bakelite etc -but homes were not flooded with stuff like now.. especially throwaway plastic and takeaway. and all the packaging. My mother went to all the little shops like the butcher / baker / greengrocer / etc and it was all in paper bags etc which were reused.The supermarkets need to be burned down!
Le Mans was liberated by Patton's 3rd army on August 8. The Germans had retreated by then and the city was taken without much resistance. Le Mans mostly suffered heavy bombing of the train station area. Many people seen on this video were waiting for a son, a brother, a nephew, a husband.. still detained in Germany. Many would never come back..
Yeah, suddenly that "break" in history is gone. Where everything black & white feels like "the time before" and everything in colour is the "a couple of decades ago"... It makes a huge difference and it makes the tragedy of WW2 so much more tangible...
Watching films like this make me wish my mom's dad were still alive. He served with General Patton's 244th Field Artillery, and I remember him sharing with me that Le Mans was one of many places his outfit saw during that ten months of combat.
Modern movies horribly portray the past. They're too stuck in negative stereotypes and cliches that stem from pop history. Genuine old movies in my opinion portray what I'm seeing here- happy individuals who put effort into their appearance and handle themselves decently.
it was written on the newspaper "les allemands résistent encore dans le sud du saillant de fier" translated "germans still resisting in the south of the saillant valley"
Perhaps a slight misreading : the title seems to be about Flers, a smaller town in the eastern part of Normandy, about 60 miles north-west from Le Mans (sorry for my bad English).
@@benoitagnes9678 I checked (my books, not google 😉). Following the Avranches breakthru on july 31st the Brits army corps 8th, 30th and 12th push toward Argentan from the north while the US 7th and 5th flank from west and south thus closing what is knowed as the Falaise pocket where many germans were trapped. Flers is about 100 miles south of le Mans and was on the Brits way. So yes the last fight in Falaise pocket did happen south of Flers but it was already liberated. Il est très bien ton anglais 😉
Well, that's likely because they *filmed* the classy and beautiful parts. Do you think they were fair and filmed the bombed out parts and homeless people who had lost everything in the war??
@@wezmarauder2754 true point maybe it’s the same today if you filmed the rich beautiful homes and city centers 100 years from now they would think we lived in a modern utopia didn’t think of that
@Nobby Barnes actually he probably also voted for Biden despite being deceased. As a majority of swing votes can be thanked to the deceased and voter fabrication
What is so great about storming Normandy? France was an Imperial power that subjugated millions in Africa, South America, and Indo-China and brutalized the local population in the same Nazis did. Do you know that French Colonial Govt. slaughtered 100000 Algerians after the 2nd WW. You should be ashamed of your grandfather
@@carpii there's irrefutable evidence asshole, that the supreme court refuses to even engage in. But don't worry, something is going to happen come January, over half the country is behind it. And no measure of youtube censorship will have any hope of stopping
Le Mans twin town since 1974 is Bolton in Lancashire. Which is where im typing from now. Greetings! And to Paderborn in Germany too which has the same arrangement.
This is awesome! I could watch footage of regular folks from that era, for days! You're right there with them; I get a taste of what my old dad (borne 1914) experienced during the war.
I'm from Le Mans. I don't recognize this city. I'm sure that there ain't got any footage of the historic neighboorhood. I think most of the picture is from the downtown of Le Mans
On reconnaît pourtant bien la place de la République, et le Vieux Mans c'est le centre de la ville, la ou il y a le Palais de Justice donc c'est normal
@@clem_tangerine il n'a pas compris que sous Jarry tout a été bétonné et la ville découpée au cordeau. On voit bien la place de la Sirène et la rue Gambetta...mais il a raison tout a été tourné dans le centre ville pas dans le centre historique.
C'est incroyable :) Sa me fait bisard, de voir ma ville à cette époque. Je reconnais certains endroit, sa nous fait un bond dans le temp :) Merci pour cette vidéo :)
Only proves how shallow, ignorant and narrowminded people are. Did you ever wonder why British artists made it big in the USA but not German, French or Italian artists? Might have something to do with the language... Same thing. People in general can only relate to lyrics they can understand.
I think the scene with "Automobile Club de l'Ouest" is shot on the Place de la République, with the post office on the left! (I live and was born in 1995 in Le Mans)
These Frenchmen and women are soooo glad to be free of German occupation. Simple things such as food and clothing are available again, although still rationed.
Ma petite ville comme c est beau on vois la place de la république pour les autres endroits un peu de mal a reconnaître....Les gents avais le sourire le pire était derrière eux.
Ouiiiiii je trouve ça troo drôle on reconnaît bien la place et tout et chuis pas sûre mais peut-être que les magasins du début c'est les Galeries Lafayette d'aujourd'hui ? En tout cas je trouve ça troo drôle 😂
Faux. Le pire c’est aujourd’hui. Suffit de voir ce qui traîne dans le centre-ville ou en périphérie pour s’en convaincre. Mais les progressistes vous diront que vous êtes un facho si vous faites ce constat :)
2:55 Place de la République avec en arrière-plan où se situait le siège de l'AOC à l'époque (Automobile Club de l'Ouest). Le bâtiment sur la gauche est resté tel quel, c'est une banque aujourd'hui.
Le bâtiment sur la gauche de l'AOC était un cinéma au rdc un peu sur la droite c'était un pub je sais j'y ai travaillé en 1970/71 l'enseigne du pub était " le scaron"
@ A ce moment, 2 mois après le D-Day, le front Allemand est percé. Oui, pour ces gens la guerre est finie, on le sait maintenent, mais dans leur perspective de l'époque, ils ne peuvent en avoir la certitude. La percée a lieu le 31 juillet, la libération du mans le 8 août, le journal qu'on voit doit être vers le 12-15 août :)
People never change. I can almost feel what they felt as they lived in that moment. It is something else to think about how this will soon be all of us. Watched by people who wonder about our lives long after we have lived them and died.
The paper they are reading, "Le Maine Libre" (Free Le Maine) was only a month old in this footage...it was founded when that province was freed from German control by the Allies, and is still in business today...you can read it online.
Petite petite .... pas tellement haha Une population d'environ 100 000 habitants vers 1944, en France, c'est une ville de taille moyenne, voir dense car aujourd'hui elle est de 150 000 environs haha
If you don't understand the irony of the situation, vis a vis Europe 1944, you should check out Claude Chabrole's 1993 film, "l'Oeil d'Vichy" 'The Eye of Vichy' which recounts why France in particular was spared many [though not by far all] of the horrors of WWII. Collaboration. It's a trip. My own grandffather lived in France at the time: architect, air raid warden, and member of the Maqui, Chevalier de Légion d'Honneur', died in 1976, but there were likely more collaborators than members of 'La Résistance.' Something worth remembering when defeat looms and hope for the future seems unclear. People go along to get along.
@@MariVictorius No, I don't think so. After Pearl Harbor my grandfather was sent to New Caledonia and stayed in the South Pacific for 3 years. He was in the US Navy. My grandad died in 1988 at 79. I miss him very much...he was a cool guy.
To be fair, that's really more of a basket. ....But, wait for her shock when she gets home and discovers that her son-in-law of two years (who had a ravenous appetite for this stuff!) has suddenly left -- heading east apparently (fully dressed in his usual grey tunic and coalbucket helmet -- didn't her daughter say he in the fire service?!?), never to come back!! What a waste! ....Who the heck is going to eat all of this! And then the further perplexing news from her daughter that they've been scheduled to get new haircuts -- to be administered (ah, but this service will be for free!!) out in the open in the same town square!
Cyrano de Bergerac L’enfance des années 40 et celle des années 60 n’est pas du tout identique!Le style vestimentaire n’est pas le même,il n’y avait pas de rationnement,la guerre mondiale était finie...
@@bluebalade Bien sûr, mais c'est je parle plutôt du côté suranné des choses. Avez-vous vous les commerçants laver à grande eau le sol de leur magasin de nos jours? Où avez-vous joué aux billes jusqu'à vous en écorcher les genoux dans la cour de votre école ?
@@cyranodebergerac1080 Non bien sûr c'est plutot rare de laver à grande eau le sol de nos jour mais je peux voir encore aujourd'hui les 7-10 ans (garçons et filles) s'amuser comme d'antan aux billes dans la cour des écoles et à la limite j'ai envie de jouer avec eux (je suis de 69) ;-)
Not only the US but also The UK, Canada, the French resistance, the French army Leclerc and De Lattre de Tassigny. Here in France we don't forget De Gaulle of course neither Churchill. By the way D DAY was on the 6th of June. Allies didn't wait till in August to liberate France. In September 1944 the front of the war was in Germany or at least very near. Le Man is far from Germany you know.
The US, British, Canadian and British Commonwealth soldiers liberated France, my great uncle, a British soldier died on the beaches of Normandy on D Day, his surname was Amos, my mother's maiden name
@@genez429 The Europeans are generally sensitive about the large role we played in WWII, because it doesn’t really align with how they like to look down on us. If it hadn’t been for the US, they’d all be speaking German right now.
Really very interesting, thank you so much! And thank you for NOT adding sound - I find the fake stock sounds that some remastered videos contain incredibly distracting and annoying - much nicer to see the authentic images without added sound.
Well, you wouldn't want to be in Le Mans before August 8, 1944. The Nazis were occupying Le Mans up until that date, when American forces liberated the city.
Patrick Vibien Another ww2 video I saw showed a segment someone commented that the soldier in the video WAS there grandfather. He went on saying of all his grandfather did during the war... what a find on TH-cam
@@glenn9683 Hello Glen, I wasn't suggesting it was owned by him but managed by him. Per my understanding, Jules and Lucien Peltier were directors. Please explain your relationship: I am interested
@@glenn9683 Hi Glenn, Jules Peltier is my great grandfather so we are both right! Can you give me some of the lineage for your and Les Galleries. I have nothing for that branch of the family.
I love seeing these images in color because it stops people from saying oh, it was nearly a hundred years ago or it was a long, long, long time ago, can't people just move on? No, to see the French hold images of Hitler in color makes me feel like I'm there with the people and we share this universal feeling of unity and wanting to defeat the Nazi's and take down Hitler once and for all.
Hello from Le Mans ! Funny to see some building that didn't change from that period ! And sad that ANDRE closed its shop after lockdown this summer (2020) was my favorite shoes shop.
Fast food isn’t the problem. Sugar is the problem. We’ve had fast food since the 50s but only when they swapped in sugars for fats in the mid 70s did things go horribly wrong.
J’ai pu identifier la rep grâce à l’immense panneau de l’ACO. Pour le reste c’est difficile à identifier la prise de vue est trop serrée, aucun plan large.
US soldiers stayed in France from 1950 to 1967 when De Gaule asked them to go home. Who amount them were able to speak French or if you prefer wanted to learn French.
Imagine a few years later from now, technology will found that old recordings, despite the lack of sound, still retain a small trace of sound and recreate the sound just like how we remaster and colorized black/white film nowadays. What a great age we live in..
bobduvar Vous plaisantez tous les deux j’imagine ? À moins que vous ayez fait une overdose de nostalgie ! En 44, à part la joie évidente de la Libération en cours, c’est plutôt une atmosphère délétère, entre collabos en pleine débandade, milice enragée, délations en tout genre, femmes tondues en place publique par des « résistants » de la dernière heure... bref, sans vouloir noircir le tableau, pas très glorieux tout ça, et pas vraiment chaleureux... Demain : interro de rattrapage pour vous deux, sujet : La France de 40 à 44 !
@@Tacotac64 Oui il faut arrêter de fantasmer cette France du passé.
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Belle, peut-être, fière, pas si sur. Cachés dans cette foule, il y a parmi eux des gens qui il y a à peine quelques semaines collaboraient avec les Nazi et qui essaient de faire profil bas...
Le Mans was a key city for supply chains, being midway on the main road from the major port cities of the Atlantic and the capital (Paris) so as soon as it was liberated, goods started flooding in (hence the stocked shelves. Also to consider: these weren't exactly all "store articles". As indicated by the sign above, it's rationed produce. There are only a couple of ration depots around the city, with a very large stock to supply the entire population. It may seem a lot, but in the end it isn't). The train tracks and main stations around the city's periphery (including residential areas used by car-factory workers from Renault for instance) were bombed before D-Day because, well, roads work both ways, so it was key to stopping reinforcements getting to the coast as well as any potential assets that could be used by germans. 31 dead and 45 wounded, all civilians. But otherwise, they wanted to avoid bombing it to oblivion because they would need it in turn, and because bombing some "factory bums" is one thing, bombing a historical city center with no real strategic value and a serious risk to have a more well-off population turn against you, notably in the domain of public opinion, is another.
@@AndreaElizabeth100 Two American infantry divisions liberated the city in early August 1944. The British were not responsible for cleaning up Jerry from that sector of France -- the British were further north and encountering stiffer resistance as the approached Belgium and Holland in August and September.
Consider Paris was only liberated about a couple weeks prior to this filming. Paris was liberated by American troops between Aug. 19th and Aug. 25th 1944.
@Alfonso Fedele yes de Gaulle was a very honest man, with a high level of honour and love for France, but it had a very high regard for he's sacred mission to restaure France in he's honour and magnitude, and this did deep anger Churchill...but Roosevelt did never understand de Gaulle and see it only as a future dictator...
@@Tom-kc9hg You don't sound happy. If being white is all it takes to be happy, then it shouldn't matter what anyone else is. I'm glad France is no longer so white. C'est vachement mieux.
@@alexandre210613 I don’t know why but I thought that after the landing there was a path of complete destruction between Normandy and Paris. I’m glad your city was spared! Apparently there were several places that were left unscathed!
@@Tracymmo I see. I’m glad as it looks like a beautiful place. When I see the destruction of some towns and cities during the world I guess I have generalized it to mean most places endured severe damage.
@@zoso73 The city is still exactly the same today, except Palais de Justice which has been moved to a new building, and modified to become a shopping area
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Et une ville souvent oubliée quand on parle de la Seconde Guerre Mondiale en France !
@@zoso73 je ne rejoins pas vraiment l'idée de elegy je trouve que Le Mans a beaucoup changé , certaines parties de la ville on des airs d'avant oui, mais il y a eu beaucoup de changement
2:18 - I've had those French Grits before. Everybody tells you they are great, and you don't believe them. But then you try them and it turns out they really are great, even in wartime. The French are amazing cooks
No way it was butter, not with rationing in France. That would be a months worth and butter coupons were one week’s worth. Is guess potatoes, or some type of gruel.
Something about footage of day to day life in other eras always fascinates me.
Same. No idea why, but it also feel eerie to watch
It's stranger because France had just been liberated from Nazi Germany. If you look at American cities in the same time the lifestyle would seem more familiar
@@niclasjohansson5992 Yes footage from America in that time period looks very similar, In general i think the french are more mindful of their appearance and dress when they leave the house though
Aside from phones, they all seem to similar to us. Even though is was like eighty years ago, we see a resemblance of us in the smiles and looks. That's part of it for sure.
Oh shut up, you old relic
I'm always amazed to see a world with NO PLASTIC. Things you bought were made to last, not be thrown away.
its just like that doesnt scale with the amount of people on earth consuming
There were a lot of plastic products, bakelite, nylon, celluloid, casein, shellac, polyethylene, neoprene, vinyl, teflon.
There were plastics, but little or no plastic bags, plastic cups, or plastic water bottles
@@shawnsteuer9951-I was a child in the 1950s and there was very little throwaway plastic in everyday shopping. Plastics seemed to exist here and there with some occasional objects such as cellophane which was used for expensive florist flowers... and other things ..but even my toys were largely made of metal and wood. And that was not wartime...when shortages made everything vital to be re-used.I understand your point about the prewar advance in that medium - Bakelite etc -but homes were not flooded with stuff like now.. especially throwaway plastic and takeaway. and all the packaging. My mother went to all the little shops like the butcher / baker / greengrocer / etc and it was all in paper bags etc which were reused.The supermarkets need to be burned down!
When the shopper put the bowl of whipped cream(?) in her bag without a cover I wondered where the wrap was for the top!
Le Mans was liberated by Patton's 3rd army on August 8. The Germans had retreated by then and the city was taken without much resistance. Le Mans mostly suffered heavy bombing of the train station area. Many people seen on this video were waiting for a son, a brother, a nephew, a husband.. still detained in Germany. Many would never come back..
It's where I live I'm so shocked 😃
They seem happy though
@@marcodimario73 And wealthy...!
I’m from Le Mans, and it’s true, I love this video btw 💕
Patton admitted after the war that they fought the wrong enemy.
Funny how the color makes them look real, as opposed to artifacts of the past.
Yeah, suddenly that "break" in history is gone. Where everything black & white feels like "the time before" and everything in colour is the "a couple of decades ago"...
It makes a huge difference and it makes the tragedy of WW2 so much more tangible...
I was thinking the same thing!
Because colour is a whole lot of information
Agree
@@MeiYingLim So true!
Watching films like this make me wish my mom's dad were still alive. He served with General Patton's 244th Field Artillery, and I remember him sharing with me that Le Mans was one of many places his outfit saw during that ten months of combat.
I know your feelings. Thanks the internet because 20 years ago, it was still impossible to access such documents or the units archives.
I love these because it gives me a sense of what people actually wore on the street as opposed to fashion plates or Hollywood films
As opposed to black and white films which look unrealistic for some odd reason!
Hollywood has always sold us what we wanted to see, not what is.
The place is still kinda like that as today, it's so cool to see it like that
Modern movies horribly portray the past. They're too stuck in negative stereotypes and cliches that stem from pop history.
Genuine old movies in my opinion portray what I'm seeing here- happy individuals who put effort into their appearance and handle themselves decently.
It saddens me in a beautiful way knowing they were in their prime as we are now, living for their time, as the future will look back at us.
it was written on the newspaper "les allemands résistent encore dans le sud du saillant de fier" translated "germans still resisting in the south of the saillant valley"
Perhaps a slight misreading : the title seems to be about Flers, a smaller town in the eastern part of Normandy, about 60 miles north-west from Le Mans (sorry for my bad English).
@@benoitagnes9678 I checked (my books, not google 😉).
Following the Avranches breakthru on july 31st the Brits army corps 8th, 30th and 12th push toward Argentan from the north while the US 7th and 5th flank from west and south thus closing what is knowed as the Falaise pocket where many germans were trapped. Flers is about 100 miles south of le Mans and was on the Brits way.
So yes the last fight in Falaise pocket did happen south of Flers but it was already liberated.
Il est très bien ton anglais 😉
Germans were doomed !! Probably 5 of them didn’t know war was over.
My home town when my grandparents were in their early twenties... Thank you for sharing this!
Thank you for not putting any fake audio to this very cool footage
I mean you could always just mute it.
@@waterfalls__ literally 💀
Everything was so classy and beautiful it’s really insane how charming everything was
Well, that's likely because they *filmed* the classy and beautiful parts. Do you think they were fair and filmed the bombed out parts and homeless people who had lost everything in the war??
@@wezmarauder2754 true point maybe it’s the same today if you filmed the rich beautiful homes and city centers 100 years from now they would think we lived in a modern utopia didn’t think of that
That’s my grandfather’s generation. He fought in WWII and was one of the brave that stormed Normandy...makes me wish I could’ve known him
@Nobby Barnes actually he probably also voted for Biden despite being deceased. As a majority of swing votes can be thanked to the deceased and voter fabrication
My Dad was in France at the same time outside of Paris. Never talked about it. He was a good man but rarely said much about his experiences.
@@marcozolo3536 quit your bullshit dumbass
What is so great about storming Normandy? France was an Imperial power that subjugated millions in Africa, South America, and Indo-China and brutalized the local population in the same Nazis did. Do you know that French Colonial Govt. slaughtered 100000 Algerians after the 2nd WW. You should be ashamed of your grandfather
@@carpii there's irrefutable evidence asshole, that the supreme court refuses to even engage in. But don't worry, something is going to happen come January, over half the country is behind it. And no measure of youtube censorship will have any hope of stopping
I remember the 40s like it was yesterday. I am not quite as in shape as then. I can run 10 miles but not as fast.
Thirty Years War in the 40's was really memorable.
Well you should check out Jim Dandy Mangrum. He could probably do 10 miles in a bus.
@@philgray1023 yes
Your a liar
sure
Le Mans twin town since 1974 is Bolton in Lancashire. Which is where im typing from now. Greetings!
And to Paderborn in Germany too which has the same arrangement.
I knew for Paderborn but not for Bolton 😭 and I live there
@@clem_tangerine learn something every day !!
This is awesome! I could watch footage of regular folks from that era, for days! You're right there with them; I get a taste of what my old dad (borne 1914) experienced during the war.
Watching this gives me nostalgia from an experience I never had
They all look so happy to be free again.
What a surprise !
It looks like the items for sale at 3:30 are the Cross of Lorraine and a picture of DeGaulle. Thanks for posting this video!
Never wished so much for audio, incredible video.
I'm from Le Mans. I don't recognize this city. I'm sure that there ain't got any footage of the historic neighboorhood. I think most of the picture is from the downtown of Le Mans
On reconnaît pourtant bien la place de la République, et le Vieux Mans c'est le centre de la ville, la ou il y a le Palais de Justice donc c'est normal
La population a bien changé ca c'est clair
@@clem_tangerine il n'a pas compris que sous Jarry tout a été bétonné et la ville découpée au cordeau.
On voit bien la place de la Sirène et la rue Gambetta...mais il a raison tout a été tourné dans le centre ville pas dans le centre historique.
@@christophan1 tout à fait, =gentrification
C'est incroyable :)
Sa me fait bisard, de voir ma ville à cette époque.
Je reconnais certains endroit, sa nous fait un bond dans le temp :)
Merci pour cette vidéo :)
C'est sur voir notre ville comme cela fait tout drôle
@@mariebnrd5366 exactement
@@mariebnrd5366 mais bon... Mtn c plus des soldat qu'on voit passer, mais des bande, qui fout le dawa sur la place de la rep à 4h du mat x)
Bizarre....
@@harrycover9180 de ?
My mother was 7 months old in September of 44'... That's a trip!!👍
People seem so much more relatable with the remaster effects. Awesome, really.
Only proves how shallow, ignorant and narrowminded people are. Did you ever wonder why British artists made it big in the USA but not German, French or Italian artists? Might have something to do with the language... Same thing. People in general can only relate to lyrics they can understand.
Sublime travail merci !
So this is what it was like for my mother during the war thanks for the vid
I think the scene with "Automobile Club de l'Ouest" is shot on the Place de la République, with the post office on the left! (I live and was born in 1995 in Le Mans)
Oh my ...those wonderful babes ♥️ ... gone today. 😢
2:54 "Automobile club de l'Ouest" c'est la "Place de la République", sur la gauche c'est la "rue Gambetta". Merci pour la reconstitution!
Quel temps pour vivre. C'est manifique!
Thxs for this video, I’m from Le Mans, so I’m very grateful that TH-cam has recommended me this video. Thank you
Wouha c'est vraiment bizarre de voir ces images. Je reconnais certaines rue c'est dingue.
On voit la place de la République
These Frenchmen and women are soooo glad to be free of German occupation. Simple things such as food and clothing are available again, although still rationed.
Ma petite ville comme c est beau on vois la place de la république pour les autres endroits un peu de mal a reconnaître....Les gents avais le sourire le pire était derrière eux.
Agréable de voir des visages souriants
Ouiiiiii je trouve ça troo drôle on reconnaît bien la place et tout et chuis pas sûre mais peut-être que les magasins du début c'est les Galeries Lafayette d'aujourd'hui ? En tout cas je trouve ça troo drôle 😂
Les Français ont rapidement retrouvé, et le moral, et le sens des affaires.
Nous vivons le pire de nos jours.
Faux. Le pire c’est aujourd’hui. Suffit de voir ce qui traîne dans le centre-ville ou en périphérie pour s’en convaincre. Mais les progressistes vous diront que vous êtes un facho si vous faites ce constat :)
They where all smiling,amazing,you dont see so many smile faces anymore
2:55 Place de la République avec en arrière-plan où se situait le siège de l'AOC à l'époque (Automobile Club de l'Ouest). Le bâtiment sur la gauche est resté tel quel, c'est une banque aujourd'hui.
Merci pour cette précision Damien !
Salutations provençales d’un ex-dijonnais.
Le bâtiment sur la gauche de l'AOC était un cinéma au rdc un peu sur la droite c'était un pub je sais j'y ai travaillé en 1970/71 l'enseigne du pub était " le scaron"
Oui et ils sont juste devant le macdo d'aujourd'hui 👀
C'est plaisant Le Mans? Je pose la question par curiosité, n'y étant jamais allé.
very cool to see so great footage from the year my great grandfather was born
1944: c'est encore la guerre et pourtant les gens ont l'air heureux. Tout le contraire d'aujourd'hui.
D'accord.
musicsavage:
ben...ils viennent d'être libérés, c'est normal.
Ce n'est plus la guerre pour eux, tu vois bien qu'il y a des Gi's parmi eux...
Parce qu'à ce moment, le vent avait tourné, ça ne semblait plus qu'une question de temps avant la défaite des Nazi !
@ A ce moment, 2 mois après le D-Day, le front Allemand est percé. Oui, pour ces gens la guerre est finie, on le sait maintenent, mais dans leur perspective de l'époque, ils ne peuvent en avoir la certitude.
La percée a lieu le 31 juillet, la libération du mans le 8 août, le journal qu'on voit doit être vers le 12-15 août :)
That Bar Americain looks like a fun joint.
Fascinating Captain. I believe we have landed in the early 20th Century.
Coffee shot from my nose, I laughed so hard, thank you very much!
@The Arrayz Indeed.
Needs more likes. That was very good.👍👍
In a lot of these older videos, I notice the people actually smile for the camera.
Yes, genuine smiles! No fakery like today.
3:07 "Le Maine libre" name of the province of Maine, of which Sarthe department was part
"Le Maine Libre" ,since 1944,is still existing. The north part of Sarthe was part of the Maine province,with the north part of Mayenne department.
People never change. I can almost feel what they felt as they lived in that moment. It is something else to think about how this will soon be all of us. Watched by people who wonder about our lives long after we have lived them and died.
The paper they are reading, "Le Maine Libre" (Free Le Maine) was only a month old in this footage...it was founded when that province was freed from German control by the Allies, and is still in business today...you can read it online.
Great Days of Freedom, Freedom Than Us today 2021 No have Anymore
The woman at 1:40 looks beautiful
She is my late Grandma
She's gucci af
Yes, we are in fact on TH-cam.
1:45 her teeth though
0:53
This is a small town in France. Pretty sure they never expected the war to end or have million people see this in color.
Petite petite .... pas tellement haha
Une population d'environ 100 000 habitants vers 1944, en France, c'est une ville de taille moyenne, voir dense car aujourd'hui elle est de 150 000 environs haha
that's a city, a regional capital
A year earlier fascist Italy surrendered unconditionally, the struggle never ceased all those years.
@@mattgomes7762 Le Mans et ses rillettes, son circuit automobile, etc ...
The city's population gets much larger every year in June.
Lots of pretty, stylish ladies, even with a war going on.
+1
The camera operator had an eye for the dames!
Some of them were going to be receiving new haircuts in the coming days though. ....(The more stylish ones I suspect!)
If you don't understand the irony of the situation, vis a vis Europe 1944, you should check out Claude Chabrole's 1993 film, "l'Oeil d'Vichy" 'The Eye of Vichy' which recounts why France in particular was spared many [though not by far all] of the horrors of WWII. Collaboration. It's a trip. My own grandffather lived in France at the time: architect, air raid warden, and member of the Maqui, Chevalier de Légion d'Honneur', died in 1976, but there were likely more collaborators than members of 'La Résistance.' Something worth remembering when defeat looms and hope for the future seems unclear. People go along to get along.
@Sandra Braithwaite they died in the battlefields
Caus times were rough. Everyone upped their game
My grandfather fought in the Pacific in WW2 and was on a military base in Hawaii, hit the same day as Pearl Harbor, 79 years ago.
Was he on Tarawa? My father was there. He passed away in 2010 at age 95.
@@MariVictorius No, I don't think so. After Pearl Harbor my grandfather was sent to New Caledonia and stayed in the South Pacific for 3 years. He was in the US Navy. My grandad died in 1988 at 79. I miss him very much...he was a cool guy.
Put a huge, uncovered bowl of mashed potatoes in your bag. Sounds reasonable.
I don't believe those are potatoes.
@@trainer1158 what are they?
@@Michael_______ it's cream or cream cheese (fromage blanc)! very popular in France, even nowadays ;-)
To be fair, that's really more of a basket.
....But, wait for her shock when she gets home and discovers that her son-in-law of two years (who had a ravenous appetite for this stuff!) has suddenly left -- heading east apparently (fully dressed in his usual grey tunic and coalbucket helmet -- didn't her daughter say he in the fire service?!?), never to come back!!
What a waste! ....Who the heck is going to eat all of this!
And then the further perplexing news from her daughter that they've been scheduled to get new haircuts -- to be administered (ah, but this service will be for free!!) out in the open in the same town square!
@@laureteillier9368 crème fraîche
I've always wished I could float around in a little bubble, observing different time periods. THis channel is a lot like being able to do that
I wonder if the “Bar Americain” was named “Bar Allemand” a few months earlier.
I don't speak French but sah Qu'elle plaisir
@@thehoodie j'ai explosé putin hahaha
No
I guess today is “Ahmed kebab” or something similar
@@pollymuyt you’re not totally wrong... 😆😆👋
Une mine d'informations. C'est presque la France de mon enfance puisque je suis né en 1962. J'y retrouve tout même des impressions qui me sont chères.
Cyrano de Bergerac L’enfance des années 40 et celle des années 60 n’est pas du tout identique!Le style vestimentaire n’est pas le même,il n’y avait pas de rationnement,la guerre mondiale était finie...
@@bluebalade Bien sûr, mais c'est je parle plutôt du côté suranné des choses. Avez-vous vous les commerçants laver à grande eau le sol de leur magasin de nos jours? Où avez-vous joué aux billes jusqu'à vous en écorcher les genoux dans la cour de votre école ?
@@cyranodebergerac1080 Non bien sûr c'est plutot rare de laver à grande eau le sol de nos jour mais je peux voir encore aujourd'hui les 7-10 ans (garçons et filles) s'amuser comme d'antan aux billes dans la cour des écoles et à la limite j'ai envie de jouer avec eux (je suis de 69) ;-)
née au Mans ,1964
Cyrano de Bergerac:
Moi je sui né en 63 et effectivement, la France s'est vraiment modernisé sous Giscard dans les 70's.
These dames had some gams.
I read this in Bogey’s voice.
Farm stock.
Damn Sam, dig those gams!
Very interesting as colorised. I once jokingly asked my father if he fought in WWII in black and white.
I think all us post war kids thought that.
We couldn't afford colour until about 1970.
The US liberated France during August of 1944. This was made in September 1944... Celebration and relief was to be found in the people.
The Allies liberated France.
Not only the US but also The UK, Canada, the French resistance, the French army Leclerc and De Lattre de Tassigny. Here in France we don't forget De Gaulle of course neither Churchill. By the way D DAY was on the 6th of June. Allies didn't wait till in August to liberate France. In September 1944 the front of the war was in Germany or at least very near. Le Man is far from Germany you know.
The US, British, Canadian and British Commonwealth soldiers liberated France, my great uncle, a British soldier died on the beaches of Normandy on D Day, his surname was Amos, my mother's maiden name
@@owainmeurig Sorry.... I saw the US Army emblems and did not give it a thought. True.. The Allies liberated France.
@@genez429 The Europeans are generally sensitive about the large role we played in WWII, because it doesn’t really align with how they like to look down on us. If it hadn’t been for the US, they’d all be speaking German right now.
Really very interesting, thank you so much! And thank you for NOT adding sound - I find the fake stock sounds that some remastered videos contain incredibly distracting and annoying - much nicer to see the authentic images without added sound.
It was shot on 16 mm...no sound.
You know there is a mute function, and it needs one click to activate it?
That's so amazing to watch. I'm going on a vintage roller coster trip.
*I wish I could spend just one day there, living in 1944 with those amazing people.*
Well, you wouldn't want to be in Le Mans before August 8, 1944. The Nazis were occupying Le Mans up until that date, when American forces liberated the city.
Life was still hard even after liberation.
@Tracchofyre 😂😂😂 il faut venir faire un tour.
@ tickets de rationnement jusqu’en 1948. Mes parents ont connu cette période.
André, Le chausseur sachant chausser!
... en chaussettes sèches sans son chien chasseur 😉
Impeccable 😂😭
I believe that is my great grandfather store that he managed at the beginning of the segment, Les Nouvelles Galeries
Patrick Vibien
Another ww2 video I saw showed a segment someone commented that the soldier in the video WAS there grandfather. He went on saying of all his grandfather did during the war... what a find on TH-cam
Wow that's amazing, he had a nice store, do you know who the lovely girl behind the counter is?
Patrick Vibien WOW. How good is that!?
@@glenn9683 Hello Glen, I wasn't suggesting it was owned by him but managed by him. Per my understanding, Jules and Lucien Peltier were directors. Please explain your relationship: I am interested
@@glenn9683 Hi Glenn, Jules Peltier is my great grandfather so we are both right! Can you give me some of the lineage for your and Les Galleries. I have nothing for that branch of the family.
it has hte same feeling as old home movies and it trips me out nothing has changed.
1:30 omg she looks just like my grandma
Or perhaps you, in a past life? 🤔
Votre grand-mère a sûrement des origines françaises... 😉
Your grandad was a lucky man.
I love seeing these images in color because it stops people from saying oh, it was nearly a hundred years ago or it was a long, long, long time ago, can't people just move on? No, to see the French hold images of Hitler in color makes me feel like I'm there with the people and we share this universal feeling of unity and wanting to defeat the Nazi's and take down Hitler once and for all.
It’s nice we still have their gratitude and respect 76 years later🙄
huh? They hate us...except for our blues singers...and Jerry Lewis. Don't forget Jerry Lewis.
@@uncletony6210 Thanks Lafayette and Rochambeau isn't it ?
Ho, and for the Statue of Liberty too...
You’re still very welcome in France 🇫🇷
@@uncletony6210 Wow, you seem to be connecting to the internet from 1965.
Without France we would still be British.
These are the most fascinating videos on TH-cam! 👍😎
3:30 affichettes (posters) du Général De Gaulle et croix de Lorraine.
Hello from Le Mans ! Funny to see some building that didn't change from that period ! And sad that ANDRE closed its shop after lockdown this summer (2020) was my favorite shoes shop.
The last fragments are what we would now call "The Internet".
What a great feeling they had? Knowing that the war is over but it wasnt really over yet but they knew it was almost over
Those were the good old days before fast food 🍱 messed everything up ⬆️
Yes world war 2 was the good old days.... Right
Fast food isn’t the problem. Sugar is the problem.
We’ve had fast food since the 50s but only when they swapped in sugars for fats in the mid 70s did things go horribly wrong.
Ever been to France, idiot................?
Yes, I crave mashed potatoes dished up into a bowl and placed in a straw basket! ...The old food-to-go!
France still has some of the best food in the world. They have some fast food, but they don't eat there often and still prefer quality over quantity.
Neat!
I love the smiles.
on y voit la rue gambetta au debut et a la fin la place de la république, les commerces vus sont fermés mais les batiments existent toujours :)
Oui j'ai put identifié rue GAMBETTA PLACE DE LA REPUBLIQUE ET RUE DE BOLTON .
J’ai pu identifier la rep grâce à l’immense panneau de l’ACO. Pour le reste c’est difficile à identifier la prise de vue est trop serrée, aucun plan large.
J'habite pas la bas mais ça doit vous faire bizarre à vous les habitants du Mans haha
Le palais de justice de l'époque, je crois que c'est le batiment du crédit lyonnais place de la rép'.
A few weeks before the Americans came that bar would have been named Le bar allemand
Il y avait déjà des chaussures André en 1944, un Félix Potin.. incroyable.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A9lix_Potin
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_(chaussure)
Il y avait même les Nouvelles Galeries.
This just beautiful!!!
Le magasin du début me fait penser aux Galeries, rue des Minimes, au vu de la place et des moulures.
J'ai pensé pareil !
C'est le cas.
The footage is so amazing you want to jump right in and join them!
If I were a US soldier at the time my kids would be speaking French.
I was thinking the same thing myself.
They could still learn
If you were a US soldier at the time, many of yours probably are.
....and have half-sisters and half-brothers who were already speaking German!
US soldiers stayed in France from 1950 to 1967 when De Gaule asked them to go home. Who amount them were able to speak French or if you prefer wanted to learn French.
Imagine a few years later from now, technology will found that old recordings, despite the lack of sound, still retain a small trace of sound and recreate the sound just like how we remaster and colorized black/white film nowadays. What a great age we live in..
I've actually seen videos of experiments like this already. th-cam.com/video/FKXOucXB4a8/w-d-xo.html
th-cam.com/video/eUzB0L0mSCI/w-d-xo.html
Qu'elle était belle et fière cette France !
Oh mon Dieu que oui !!! Des temps difficiles mais Ô combien chaleureux et bienveillants entre la population !
bobduvar Vous plaisantez tous les deux j’imagine ? À moins que vous ayez fait une overdose de nostalgie ! En 44, à part la joie évidente de la Libération en cours, c’est plutôt une atmosphère délétère, entre collabos en pleine débandade, milice enragée, délations en tout genre, femmes tondues en place publique par des « résistants » de la dernière heure... bref, sans vouloir noircir le tableau, pas très glorieux tout ça, et pas vraiment chaleureux... Demain : interro de rattrapage pour vous deux, sujet : La France de 40 à 44 !
Tant de courage dans cette population!
@@Tacotac64 Oui il faut arrêter de fantasmer cette France du passé.
Belle, peut-être, fière, pas si sur. Cachés dans cette foule, il y a parmi eux des gens qui il y a à peine quelques semaines collaboraient avec les Nazi et qui essaient de faire profil bas...
"André, le chausseur sachant chausser" I like the slogan
1944 wow WW2 didn’t end until 1945. This is such a cool look at that time.
Wspaniałe obrazy Tak toczyło się życie 😚🌷🌼
Looks like Le Mans got outta occupation and the war pretty unscathed. Amazing.
Do you know why there are American soldiers there? Are there also British soldiers there?
I was thinking the same thing...considering 1944, the stores look well stocked.
Le Mans was a key city for supply chains, being midway on the main road from the major port cities of the Atlantic and the capital (Paris) so as soon as it was liberated, goods started flooding in (hence the stocked shelves. Also to consider: these weren't exactly all "store articles". As indicated by the sign above, it's rationed produce. There are only a couple of ration depots around the city, with a very large stock to supply the entire population. It may seem a lot, but in the end it isn't). The train tracks and main stations around the city's periphery (including residential areas used by car-factory workers from Renault for instance) were bombed before D-Day because, well, roads work both ways, so it was key to stopping reinforcements getting to the coast as well as any potential assets that could be used by germans. 31 dead and 45 wounded, all civilians. But otherwise, they wanted to avoid bombing it to oblivion because they would need it in turn, and because bombing some "factory bums" is one thing, bombing a historical city center with no real strategic value and a serious risk to have a more well-off population turn against you, notably in the domain of public opinion, is another.
@@AndreaElizabeth100 Two American infantry divisions liberated the city in early August 1944. The British were not responsible for cleaning up Jerry from that sector of France -- the British were further north and encountering stiffer resistance as the approached Belgium and Holland in August and September.
Le Mans is south of Normandy so it avoided the carnage.
Priceless images, tres bien!
Consider Paris was only liberated about a couple weeks prior to this filming. Paris was liberated by American troops between Aug. 19th and Aug. 25th 1944.
@Alfonso Fedele That's right . The Americans could of but it was far better politically for the French to enter first I recall now. Thanks.
@Alfonso Fedele The french hated DeGaulle as much as Churchill did.
@@allenschmitz9644 nope, only the fanatics from Pétain did hate de Gaulle...
@Alfonso Fedele yes de Gaulle was a very honest man, with a high level of honour and love for France, but it had a very high regard for he's sacred mission to restaure France in he's honour and magnitude, and this did deep anger Churchill...but Roosevelt did never understand de Gaulle and see it only as a future dictator...
Loved the smile on the barista.
Something has really changed about the population ... can't put my finger on it.
I think it's called "happiness".
@@cameriqueTV Which comes from being white.
Too many non whites these days.
@@Tom-kc9hg You don't sound happy. If being white is all it takes to be happy, then it shouldn't matter what anyone else is. I'm glad France is no longer so white. C'est vachement mieux.
@@PresidentGas1 Too Many Racist These Days.
The world before COVID19 was so different. People at a bar, people in a crowd. Days long gone.
Spanish Flu, The Black Plauge....Every Other Pandemic In The World
Wow for 3 months after D-Day that city looked well! Its amazing how well dressed people were in that period. Now its sweatpants.....
@Alfonso Fedele Thank you. I dIdn’t know that.
@@RuleofFive Dijon where I was born and Aix-en-Provence where I live we’re not bombed too.
@@alexandre210613 I don’t know why but I thought that after the landing there was a path of complete destruction between Normandy and Paris. I’m glad your city was spared! Apparently there were several places that were left unscathed!
@@RuleofFive Dijon and Aix are south, but I think in this case, Le Mans is south of that Normandy beaches to Paris line.
@@Tracymmo I see. I’m glad as it looks like a beautiful place. When I see the destruction of some towns and cities during the world I guess I have generalized it to mean most places endured severe damage.
Lady serving brew, “We can hear you chomping that gum really well!”
I was shocked to learn chewing gum existed in 1944.
C'est ma ville !
Do you recognize any of the buildings? Est-ce que vous conaissez les batiments? (Pardonez mon francais.)
@@zoso73 The city is still exactly the same today, except Palais de Justice which has been moved to a new building, and modified to become a shopping area
Et une ville souvent oubliée quand on parle de la Seconde Guerre Mondiale en France !
@@bourdais6 Merci.
@@zoso73 je ne rejoins pas vraiment l'idée de elegy je trouve que Le Mans a beaucoup changé , certaines parties de la ville on des airs d'avant oui, mais il y a eu beaucoup de changement
2:18 - I've had those French Grits before. Everybody tells you they are great, and you don't believe them. But then you try them and it turns out they really are great, even in wartime. The French are amazing cooks
Where's Matt Damon
Imagine hearing the audio…
It would be so great
ça fait trop bizarre de voir ma ville comme
Comme quoi ?
This is good to see, France after being liberated by the US, British, Canadian and British Commonwealth soldiers.
They had to bring their own containers for shopping!
We still do. Save the planet.
We can see how we got smarter, we now have plastic that we throw once we arrive home!
@@emilienmare1508 They saved on costly packaging to 'pass on the savings to le coustomer.
@@allenschmitz9644 Do you mean we're paying the packaging for them? Or that we can purchase for cheaper?
@@emilienmare1508 yes, every one was 'cheap' back then, so it was both.
1:50 "Félix Potin, on y revient..." Inoubliable réclame radiodiffusée.
André... Félix Potin... ça a disparu tout ça... Toute une époque !
Superb! One question: Was that whipped cream, ice cream, or whipped butter she placed in her shopper?
It looked like butter
@@aaronblaylock2092 I thought it was mashed potatoes.
No way it was butter, not with rationing in France. That would be a months worth and butter coupons were one week’s worth.
Is guess potatoes, or some type of gruel.
@@Mike-kv5pl me too
I think it may have been lard for cooking, but it could also have been butter.