Part 2: time travel back to 1944 - Haunting WWII photo comparisons from the southern France Invasion
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ส.ค. 2024
- The story of each picture shown in part 1 of "World War II "Then and now" - Invasion of southern France" explained.
Animated "then and now" photos, depicting German and Allied soldiers on the French Riviera, during World War II, with comparisons of the same locations today.
If you are the relative of a soldier who fought in south eastern France and have any photos or documentation about the area during WWII, please contact me: jean-loup@gassend.com
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Based on the book "Autopsy of a Battle, the Liberation of the French Riviera". Jean-Loup Gassend. Schiffer publications. - บันเทิง
This is part 2 of the video. Please watch Part 1 first, with WWII "then and now" comparisons, that can be seen here: th-cam.com/video/hAB2ZqJ3vb4/w-d-xo.html
Very impressive and deeply moving. So well done to split it into two videos. PLEASE everybody, watch part 1 first just to let the picture as such move you, to then be moved by the explanations in Part 2.
I don't think "enjoy" is the right word. I really appreciated this. After I watched the first video I came away feeling like something was lacking, but I couldn't put it into words. I was happy to find this and fill in some of the blanks. These people had lives and loved ones. They all, whichever side, deserve to be remembered. Thank you for this. I subscribed.
Absolutely fascinating. To actually put names and faces and stories to these historical photo's really makes them so much more profound and meaningful. And correctly pronouncing the locations. These documentaries are by far the best I've got to see. Amazing. Thank you for your diligence.
Truly origional video content here, bringing these photos, to life, bringing these young people back to life almost. Sterling work.
Such a waste, all these young men killed for nothing.
Thé Word That you're living is not nothing.
@@fonsecamaurin5853...SOME people STILL don't GET IT... that's the TRAGEDY of IT.... I thank God, AND the GREATEST GENERATION every chance I get for giving me my existence. I saw a documentary in the military channel revealing how CLOSE that PSYCHOTIC BASTED was to take over the world... again I thank God, and ALL the countries involved in "Operation Overload" in 1945. OS-3 US NAVY inactive reserve NAB Little Creek Virginia 🇺🇲🫡🪖⚓🔱👉🥃🥃🥃🥃🥃🤙😎
YES I AGREE WHAT THE PEOPLE GET NOTHING THS YOUNG MEN GAVE THERE LIFE PUT TO WASTE AND PARENTS HOW CAN THEY FEEL PROWD TO SEND THERE YOUNG OR NOT TO YOUNG TO BE TAKEN TO WAR THATS LIKE SAYING GO DIE PARENTS STOP THIS FOR ONCE PRESIDENTS ARE SO SELFISH CAN BE EVAL BOTH SIDES ONE TO DEFEND THERE COUNTRY AND THE OTHER AS WELL BUT I DONT GET THE POINT .KILL TO KILL TO WIN A POWER OF A PRESIDENT THAT WANTS POWER AND BE SELFISH NOT CARE FOR NO ONCE LIFE ITHER SIDE WAR IS NOT THE SOLUSION WAR IS NOT WORTH IT ITHER USING YOUNG MEN .TO BE KILLED FOR OVER NOTHING IS NOT THERE POWER IS NOT THERE DREAM TO GET POWER OVER GETTING MURDER IS PRESIDENTS EAGLE AND SELFISHNESS WE STILL HAVE IT NOW 2024 JUST THINKING ABOUT THEM SELFS .NOT PEOPLE .THEY GIVE A DAM BUT PARENTS DONT FILL PROUD THAT YOURE YOUNG MEN GO TO THE ARMY .THEY JUST BEING USED AS CARNADA FOR THE HUNGRY FISH .WONT EVER PERMIT MY SON TO LOOSE HIS LIFE FOR NOTHING JUST LIKE THIS PEOPLE DID
Kids, most of them were kids. My heart wants to scream 😭😭😭😭
@@fonsecamaurin5853 you think the world that would have been otherwise would be different?
haha
humans are humans behind all the pasade of a good life lies cruelty you cannot imagine
the walth we live in is payed with human lifes for everyday
It's nice to see the story behind the people in these pictures. Be they good or bad stories it's all part of the human narrative. Your work is much appreciated. Thank you.
Nicely said mate. It's how I feel but couldn't put into words.
People walk down those streets and lanes today totally oblivious to scenes that happened right on the very spot they are standing. A pleasant little taverna now may have been the site of a bloody battle. Heartbreaking.
What's sad is people don't realize it's beginning again. Klaus Schwab, the Davos crowd are seeming to plan a 4th Reich so to speak. Different tactics but a One World govt is literally what the Axis had in mind.
a superb upload, thank you, the detail is superb.
Great work, the detail that you’re able to track down is incredible.
I am now crying for these children. I am furious, and these weren't even mine. Wars should be fought in a ring by those who start them. Leave the people, and even more, the children, alone. Most of them hadn't yet learnt to understand the world beyond their family.
Fascinating. Thank you!
No matter the side, All gave some, and some gave ALL! RESPECT TO THEM ALL!!
Outstanding job!👍🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Sharing this with our children who are in their early thirties and educators.
They will share this with their students so that we NEVER forget!
Thank you for all the hard work that it took to bring this to us.
My grandfather was a paratrooper in the 517th. He told me about his time in Nice. He was in Operation Dragoon as well as the Battle of the Bulge, where he was twice wounded. I was honored to have him pin his jump wings on my uniform, when I graduated from Airborne School.
What company was he in? Do you have any photos he took in the Nice area?
@@CrocodileTear He was in C Co, 517th. The only photo I have from his time there is a portrait of him that appears to have been taken in a studio in Nice.
@@seancrouse9623 OK, thanks for your response
Every time I see photos from world war I are world war II. It seems like memories from so long ago.
For all those who served and died may they rest in peace.
Excellent video pretty sad for all the families war is hell
"The spirits live, as long as the living remember! " Old Native American saying
Gone but NOT forgotten! 😞
Watched both parts......outstanding. Thankyou from an ex British paratrooper.
Sorry for the reupload, but the first version was classified as 18+ by youtube, so I have blurred a few scenes.
Brazen censorship will be the detriment of this website... Anyone who clicks on a video with the title "Haunting WW2 Then and Now images" should be prepared for stuff like this. It's not TH-cam Kids section for crying out loud where unsuspecting small children will wander off to!
You may have heard of my great grandfather, Staff officer Oberst Hartwig Pohlman, helped with the fall of Norway and is portrayed in the film the kings choice, i have all his paperwork, many decorations then arrested for shooting another officer, he was sent to trial and spent 3 months in Torgau but with friends maisel and hengl, he was released, i have a whole file of him, with photos and many more things.
@@tomhirons7475 Hi. No, I have not heard of him, but I do know a WWII historian in Norway who would probably be very interested to find out more about him and read the paperwork you mention. Can you send me an email: jean-loup@gassend.com
Another outstanding video and presentation.
Thank you for your hard work making these videos.
Btw your videos are amazing. I love ww2 history
Excellent overview putting the pictures into context. You do a great job with your work. 👍
Love your videos and I’m so glad you are doing this. Cheers to you from Canada 🇨🇦
Deeply researched material. I like it.
thank you for all you’ve doing. I’m finding it very interesting. please keep up the great and important work. God speed.
Great job brother. It brings the incredible numbers down to personal and individual vignettes! Very meticulous fact finding and archive digging. Well Done, thank you!
Great stuff ...I've visited the south of France, 20 years ago...I never gave it a 2nd thought...all the towns you mention I visited. Again Great stuff ...Antibes I remember it well , thanks Jean Loup 😊😊😊
This is an excellent channel.
Amazing
RS. Canada
Thank You for this video.
*_Full of sadness and the futility of war. Few of us will survive another world war which the politicians will start._*
Love the explanations!!
Well done! I have a huge interest in this type of content. I've seen some similiar then and now photos from Gettysburg.
Brilliantly put together part 1, then the back stories filling in the blanks in part 2. Just a suggestion, when we see the now picture followed by the overlay of the past, it would have been nice to have seen the now photo again before going to the next picture in the sequence, this is not a criticism just an observation that may have made each photo that bit more forceful.
Just found your channel, love it. Great pictures with back stories, great work….
Very impressed with your vids, thanks so much for posting and thanks for your efforts in retrieving those lost. Subscibed.
I’m surprised TH-cam didn’t make you blob it out
Thank you so much Great blog
Interesting, and especially as I have been to some of those locatons, and very moving. Good work!
Great stuff!!
No one wins a war
Then the war isn't over.
Awesome stuff, I'm glad I stumbled upon your channel. Definitely going to pick up your book 👍
Thanks. Tell me what you think of it if you get your hands on it.
Thank you for all the work you do 👌🏻👍🏻 ... All my respect. 🇳🇱
Such great work guys and dedication, thank you for keeping these memories alive for our future… I used to do something similar back in the 80’s during my time in Germany especially in the Wehrmacht camps that had become British Army camps…. I used to sneak in some areas that had been shut and closed off since the end of the war including old holding cells for political prisoners and firing positions etc. I used to have a nice little collection of photos including some I took in Arnhem, Paris etc stood in the same places that more infamous or well known photos were taken like where Hitler stood gazing over the Eiffel Tower among others…. I so wish that I had had the technology back then to do a more thorough job…. But it’s great to see you guys doing such a great job and taking the time to share with us and hopefully for future generations…. 🙏 God Bless all these ordinary guys who through no fault of their own found themselves living through the most extraordinary of times beyond their control… their memory is with us all and their sacrifices must never be forgotten or allowed to be diminished ….
this information is amazing
really good video my father joined the army back in 53 ,he did the Airborne first ,got into the 101st ,then he went to Germany ,where he met my mother in Augsburg ,my sister was born in Hanow Germany ,and I was born in Ft Campbell Kentucky army hospital ,I have a birth certificate signed by the company commander saying I was born into the 101st Airborne ,Later my father went to Vietnam in 1968 ,in I Corp at Danang and Hoi On ,he was in a ton of fighting and got the bronze star for valor ,he is now buried at Arlington Cemetary after 22 years in the Army
May your father RIP
Kudos from Augsburg. Your sister was then either born in Hanau (Hessen) oder Hanover ? So he married a German ? I know some people here being offspring of Americans who were stationed in Augsburg in the late 1950s, early 1960s. The barracks are now all regular housing, while in part old German military buildings like the casino were used by the Americans.
@@beneleonhard7915 My sister was born in Hanau Army hospital,And Yes my mother was 100% German born and raised in Augsburg met my Father who was in the American army and then they married ,my grandfather was in the Wehrmacht and sent to Ukraine then at the end captured by the Americans and one G.I. stole his watch ,My grandmother was a nurse in Augsburg
Sad all around.
War is hell.
I was born March of that year and because of this murder of these young men, I've lived a happy life. I mourn them.
I remember being bored at 17...
Easy life.
did not count how many dead soldiers were mentioned in this important document but 1 death is too many which ever side you are fighting with RIP to them all
This was a "calm area" on a "secondary front".
Amazing. Thank you for creating these videos. Time after time I wonder… if only Hitler had been killed when he was a trench runner in WWI, would the nightmare of WWII have ever unfolded.
Rip
Wow the one guy was killed on September 15th 1944. On that date on the other side of the world United States Marine Corps was hitting the beach in Peleliu for the start of their hardest battle ever. And literally thousands of young men died. And that's why they call it World War
Doc, could you recommend me some good books to read that cover Wehrmacht veterans' interviews and their viewpoints? I have looked hours and hours for stuff like this, but almost everything is watered down to escape the censors (at least that's what I recollect)... Like is there a book like Band of Brothers that follows certain companies from the German side and tell their stories?
I recently read this book, that I consider was very high quality, regardless of nationality: In Deadly Combat: A German Soldier's Memoir of the Eastern Front, by Gottlob Herbert Bidermann.
For WWI there is a book by Dominique Richert that is amazing for the period of the first months of the war, and also the eastern front later on. It was recently translated into english.
@@CrocodileTear Thanks Doc! Will definitely read them!!
@@sugandhakohli TEll me wat you think if you get through them.
I think the hotel you´re showing is the Hôtel Ruhl, because it is too far down towards the center of Nice and it looks like the building on the very left side is the Palais de la Méditerranée. Both Ruhl and Negresco have (Ruhl had, it´s was then destroyed, but I knew/saw them as a child) two domes (coupoles).
It´s not important for foreign viewers, I just wanted to share this thoughts with you.
Which exact scene are you talking about? Because The Negreco is visible twoce if I am not mistaken, and one photo shows both the Rule and Negresco, but from far.
@@CrocodileTear I sent you a mail to your above mentioned mail address.
@@CrocodileTear Changing gears completely; I did a lot of snorkeling in the vicinity of Ste Maxime for many years. I found in the sea cartridges (3 or 4), not far from the shore, the exact place, just in case you want to locate it, is La Nartelle/Plage des éléphants. I suppose they are FLAK cartridges, but I´m not really knowledgeable. Are you familiar with those things?
Very interesting and sad. Thank you for your work. Are you Russian?
I am Canadian and French.
I have relatives that fought in the US Army and Navy and also the Wehrmacht and Waffen SS, what I have a hard time swallowing is that France and others supported Communism in two world wars....maybe it's because of who controlled their Governments or the influence $$$ or otherwise to do so.
Sounds like you need to read up on what Fascism and the belief systems of fascists are all about then.
@@Frank_Nemo Because Communism works lol??
On a lighter note, we could say you are the love child of two enemy factions!
@@hansgruber650 As a wise man once wrote, 'Given a choice between a turd burger and a shit sandwich, anyone who believes in democracy will always go for the turd burger.'
@@Frank_Nemo So basically you gave a nothing burger.
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Bonsoir ! Bravo pour cette vidéo très enrichissante pour quelqu'un qui souhaite reconstituer des unité de la heer en Provence, je vis à Draguignan et je voulais savoir si vous aviez des informations concernant les unités allemandes qui pour le peu qui restait en ville on combattus et si vous avez des photos d'allemands de Draguignan je souhaiterais bien vous contacter par mail ! Bien à vous
Anthony
Je n'ai pas de photos d'Allemands prises à Draguignan, et cette ville se situe un peu en dehors de la zone d'intérêt.
Avez vous vu ma vidéo sur les résistants Francis Tonner et Henri Bergia?
@@CrocodileTear bonjour ! Merci pour votre réponse, non je vais consulter votre vidéo, en tout cas je vais essayer de poursuivre mes recherches je fais partie de l'association dragoon on wheels situé au muy, nous ferons le 80eme anniversaire de la libération de la Provence au mois d'août prochain, nous reconstituont la 509eme et la 517eme para
so, where was the then and now?
Haha, watch part 1 befor watching part 2 mate. Here is the then and now in part 1: th-cam.com/video/rz6ISDEJ9EA/w-d-xo.html
What is then and now
The then and now is in part 1, that you can see here: th-cam.com/video/rz6ISDEJ9EA/w-d-xo.html
Question... if Hitler had NOT been a live, would the German Nation try to concur Europe?
It took a psychopath to run the show, but it took others to chime in - some would organise, benefit, others would die, come home maimed or disturbed. It is never just one person.
I'm metric system illiterate 😔 meow, MEOW man.
More like French then Retreat.
War and the French , just don’t go together.
What nationality does war go well with?