Paris 1940 - Deutsche Besatzung - German Occupation - l´Occupation allemande, film: color/bw
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- In den Strassen von Paris im Herbst 1940, gefilmt von Gerd Brügelmann, damals Soldat der Deutschen Wehrmacht. Neben kurzen Farbaufnahmen von den Champs Elysées, einer von vielen Paraden rund um den Triumpfbogen und einen kuriosen Tretauto, sind zahlreiche Aufnahmen rund um den Opernplatz zu sehen, damals Standort der Wehrmachtskommandantur und der Deutschen Stadtverwaltung. Beeindruckend sind auch die Aufnahmen von der Kathedrale Notre Dame in Reims mit einer gigantischen Schutzkonstruktion vor dem Eingang, zudem gibt es noch ein paar Eindrücke vom Schloß Fontainebleau, südlich von Paris.
Hintergrund: Im Rahmen des "Westfeldzuges" des Zweiten Weltkriegs wurden die westlichen Nachbarn Niederlande, Belgien, Luxemburg und Frankreich von der Deutschen Wehrmacht angegriffen und innerhalb von sechs Wochen besetzt. Paris wurde zur offenen Stadt erklärt, d.h. die Französische Regierung erklärte, Paris würde nicht verteidigt, durfte laut Kriegsrecht deshalb nicht angegriffen werden und wurde von der Deutschen Wehrmacht am 14. Juni 1940 kampflos eingenommen. Es folgten vier Jahre unter Deutscher Besatzung und NS-Besatzungspolitik. Die Filmaufnahmen z.T. in Farbe entstanden im Herbst 1940, gefilmt von Gerd Brügelmann, mit einer 16mm Filmkamera.
In weiteren Filmaufnahmen aus dem besetzten Frankreich von Gerd Brügelmann und anderen Kameraleuten sind weitere Aufnahmen aus der Besatzungszeit in Frankreich enthalten. Sie zeigen neben scheinbar idylischen Landschaften und Städtchen auch Spuren des Krieges, Zerstörungen, Flüchtlingselend, die ungeheure Logistik des Krieges und das Leben der Besatzer.
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It would look great if not this "Paris 1940" watermark taking 1/4 of the screen.
It's interesting to see how well ordinary people dressed back in the day to go out in public.
Yes
Hard not to notice how slender and well dressed the ladies are versus today's American land whales.
I asked my Grandpa what his best time in life was and he said to me:“ in Paris“. I laughed first and was a bit shocked, because he wasnt talking about a business trip but then I realized, of course it would be his best time because he were 21, far away from his little boring village in Germany and were together with other young fellas in a beautiful city full of single women.
The Germans didn't treat the France and Belgium the same way they treated Poland and Russia.
That's because Poland and Russia had a larger Jewish population. Germany declared war on Poland Sept 1, 1939. England declared war on Germany Sept 3, 1939.
That's right, although france was the hereditary enemy for germany. But the Nazi Propaganda conveyed east europeans inferior than west europeans. However there happened huge war crimes in every occupation zone. ✌🏻
The Germans mass murdered in every country or islands they took over.They sent ladies from the Channel Islands to death camps.Good job it all came to an end in 1945.After German was flattened.By Britian France America and Russia.And Colonial soldiers.
Exactly, people do not realise the horror it was in the Eastern Europe occupation
So you’re saying that murdering only 100,000 French and Belgium jewish citizens shows a better treatment.
Why 111 unlike??
This is HISTORY! Not propaganda.
I don't understand...
Let people express their disapproval
No, you understand. They don't.
It's called an opinion. Something that people can express because they want to, nothing to do with you understanding or not.
The reason the Germans are behaving themselves is because Hitler gave strict orders for the Troops not to cause problems when they entered Paris. That's a historical fact. What most of them didn't know was they would be redeployed and die in Russia.
Germans did not treat Paris like they did in Warsaw.
I am French this is never shown during our education...too embarrassing I imagine...One has to always question education or is it propaganda. I chose to watch allo allo...which was never shown on national TV again too embarrassing for the French authorities.
Il faut être honnête si la France n avait pas tant humiliée l Allemagne après la guerre de 14 18. Il n y aurait pas eu peut-être Hitler... Aujourd'hui l Allemagne est le pays d Europe le plus solide le plus sérieux. La France après le général de Gaulle à perdu son sérieux.
Watching authentic pictures like these destroys decades of Hollywood propaganda bullshit LOL
Everyone still dressed so nicely
I want to see more films like these. Written history has often lied to us. War is hell! But through it all, people are still people. Those who die in war are not the politians
How many frenchman does it take to defend Paris?No one knows,it's never been tried!!
-Against the Vikings 886 a.d.: 2000 men
- 1429-1430: 5000 men
-1871: 24.000 soldiers
-1914-18: 1.3 Million soldiers
-1940: 210.000 soldier
now you know it!
Ali Kara à dead soldier can't fight anymore.
Ali Kara lol it's true that's what makes it funny.
Ali Kara I appreciate this joke. How many times did the " kriegsfreudigen" German part of Germany ( not all ! ) tried to invade neighbor states and how many times did they at last fail
Aquila d'oro Why'd you ruin joke
nice footage and thanks for sharing,. but why ruin it with those big letters?
What is worse or better, back then under a German occupation with all aryans around or now having multicultural freedom?
Have you seen the well dressed Black Gentlemen at 2:23 ?
Most likely from French-controlled Africa.
Silvana Barilla wtf are you talking about?
Three bigots above...
The city looks remarkably intact. But I could tell by the looks on the faces of some of the 40 to 50 year old french men they weren't happy with what they were seeing. French who fought in the first world war were probably appauled by how their government failed so miserably.
I don't think anyone looked that happy about what was going on at all, but French are very proud and resilient the women were acting as if they couldn't care 🌹👠
Of course city are intact because they surrender. America do mote destruction of france that nazi have done. Bliezkrieg was fast so cities have not suffer a lot.
There are also would of been a people who were told about the German invasion in the 1870s by their parents/grandparents
people forget that facism was a worldwide popular cult
I never saw any brutality of german soldiers to other people in any rare videos like this. Seems like western propaganda is hard and strong..
Войной и не пахнет.Чистый город,чистенькие людишки.
da sind nicht nur Bilder von Paris dabei, sondern auch von Reims und von Fontainebleau
Oui absolument.
Today in 2019 in my city there are Dutch, Spanish, French, Belgian, German, American, Italian people walking the streets and drinking some beers peacefully, dancing in bars, enjoying life.
I like to see Europe, and world this way.
No more war.
Quite calm and cool pictures. Didn't expect that, after it was France who declared war on Germany. They could've had taken revenge here. These pictures need to be censored cause they don't fit with the modern art of history.
+Valdakyr Britain declared war first, France followed later, only after Germany invaded Poland.
Britain declared war after the invasion of Poland, not before...
Obviously the "white brothers" of the UK and France wanted to save poland so much they left it to the USSR in 1945.
+ Philipp F - People have to educate thelselves and stop repeating the same cliched one-liners. 1. "... The resistance was a joke and most quickly accepted defeat..." And so was it in Czechoslovakia, Austria, Croatia, Belgium, Denmark, Greece, Hungary, Norway, the Netherlands, Finland, Poland, Yugoslavia, Monaco, Serbia, Montenegro, Luxembourg, Lithuania, Macedonia. 2. "...French women didnt seem to hate the germans and half of France (under Pétain) also didnt..." Yup, brother countries steeped in history. Two countries as close as brothers.
The "resistance" was best at humiliating their own people who just lived on as normal during the occupation. The lowest of low. Considering the state of the world, it was hardly a surprise. Evil won.
Watermark too big!
Nicht nur Paris,aber Fontainebleau ( 70 km südlich) Schloss.
Wer steckt hinter Weltfilmerbe? So viel geniales Material in so vielen Dokus...
Is it really true that the French (even non-occupied Vichy France) handed over their Jews faster and earlier than Mussolini's Italy......??!?
J M Yes it is. Most eastern europeans and Poles did the same. Antijudaism was not just a german phenomenon by any means.
2:04 - her smile quickly faded away as she safely passed the soldiers
Manche wissen ganz genau Bescheid über jene Zeit und offenbaren durch ihre Kommentare allein, dass sie gar nichts wissen..... Zum Glück gibts solche Filme.
2:04 guy smiling at the girl!
Well seen! Awesome footage.
Wieder mal ein sehr interessantes Video wie man es von ihnen kennt
Must have been scary seeing your nation taken over by an outside power overnight. I guess they just got on with it and hoped for the best.
La qualité de la vidéo est extraordinaire !
I'll be the one to observe that at 03:30, the film shows a capital 'N' from a painting or sculpture and the soundtrack transitions very subtly into a musical theme from Beethoven's Eroica Symphony. The same one that was dedicated to "the memory of a great man." Napoleon.
3:34 Fontainebleau castle
Here is the information to this video published above translated to English:
"In the streets of Paris in the autumn of 1940, soldier of the German Wehrmacht filmed by Gerd Brügelmann, at that time. In addition to short color shots from the Champs Elysées, one are numerous shots around the Opera square, then site of the army headquarters and the German municipality of many parades around the Arc de Triomphe and a curious pedal car, to see. Impressive also the recording of Notre Dame with a gigantic protection construction in front of the entrance, also there are a few impressions of the castle of Versailles.
Background: In the framework of the "Western campaign" of the second world war, the Western neighbors of Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and France by the German army were attacked and occupied within six weeks. Paris has been declared open city, i.e., the French Government announced Paris would not be defended, therefore could not be attacked according to martial law and was occupied by the German Wehrmacht on 14 June 1940 without a fight. There followed four years of German occupation and NAZI occupation policy. The filming partly in color emerged in the autumn of 1940, filmed by Gerd Brügelmann, with a 16 mm film camera.
In other footage from the occupied France by Gerd Brügelmann and other cameramen, other recordings from the occupation in France are included. See also traces of the war, destruction, refugee misery, the enormous logistics of the war and the life of the occupying forces in addition to the seemingly idyllic landscapes and towns."
The world was very different 80 odd years ago.
Very different.
Wow, nice occupation:) French life still goes on like nothing happened. I wish we had the same German Occupation in Warsaw in 1939-44. But it would require non resisting from our side, just like smart France and Czech did.
+szymusiek1980 yes man, RIP, your land was martyred.
szymusiek1980 you arent very intelligent the biggest resistance was in france
Fabio Gasparini Yea "the biggest". But the most numerous doesn't mean the most active. Our resistance was the most intensive and active, despite it was less numerous than french.
Are you Polish? Poland was martyrised by those fucking Nazi's, probably more than any other Country... unfortunately you are too close, it was inevitable.
Veronica Wieland it could be avoidable if Poles have chosen right - if we joined Hitler like Hungary or just if we let the Germans get in, like smart Czechs did. Poles we too proud and mindless. And it depends what do you mean by "martyrised the most". Nazis were killing mainly the Jews living in Poland. If we are not including killed Jews to the statistictics, the number of Polish casualties will be much smaller.
Thanks for this video, I just sent this video to my great aunt who was born in Paris 1940, she was three months old when the Germans took over and was forced into hiding with her the rest of family , our grandmother included.
Again, this piece of film shows some grey-tones that might be irritating from the current perspective. But it is not sure that the particular young women is french. It is more likely that she was simply a german tourist, who had being invited by her husband or boyfriend who had been in service? Paris was a tourist attraction even under occupation. I´m coming up with more Paris footage from the early 1940s.
FILMSCHÄTZE AUS KÖLN - VOM RHEIN - WELTFILMERBE Many Austrian and Swiss women worked in Paris during WWII, she could also be Swiss or Austrian
FILMSCHÄTZE AUS KÖLN - VOM RHEIN - WELTFILMERBE
Like the uploader of this video rightly pointed out, the woman who dances the jig on the street of Paris could well be a German woman, noticed that she parted from the German without saying a word, so it could be his German wife who saw off her husband to work, and she goes shopping in the city, well German/Austrian/Swiss women flocke to Paris in those days.
astridbelge Not to forget that german couples travelled to occupied Paris to marry in the office of the german ambassador!
FILMSCHÄTZE AUS KÖLN - VOM RHEIN - WELTFILMERBE The woman at 1:35 must be a stranger to the German (I made a mistake before)
the woman at 1:35 did not at once speak to the German, they parted ways without even looking at one another, perhaps they did not know each other and simply just walked side by side. If they knew each other, they would say something before parting ways at 1:40 ! I made a mistake, those two people did not even know one another, and they did not hold hands, they just happened to cross the streets at the same time, the woman at 1:35 did not once look at the German. THEY WERE STRANGERS!!!!!!!!!!
Wow was für ne tolle Qualität.
I have never had to live under any occupation and cannot even imagine what it would feel like having foreign occupation of my homeland. I am sure it is a disgusting feeling.
Danke, Herr Gerd Brügelmann mit einer 16mm Filmkamera.
The cathedrale in the end is not in Paris but in Reims!
+Kassian von Berendt Notre-Dame Saint-Jacques de Reims, that´s right. Thank you.
+FILMSCHÄTZE AUS KÖLN - VOM RHEIN - WELTFILMERBE it looks like there were walls preventing people to come in?! It looks like a very unusual construction, not part of the old building self.
+Kassian von Berendt Cathédrale Notre dame de PARIS
+Veronica Wieland to save the glas from allied bombs
Kassian von Berendt .True.It s the Reims cathedral.i lived in Reims for 5 years.Comte St Germain.
Germany and France deserve each other!
Some of the store sighs were already in German, they must had been thrilled.
2:23 - 2 well dressed black man crossing the street!
I thought id seen every video from 1939-‘45 but I had never seen this! I recall seeing a video taken by someone who had hid the camera in the front basket of a bicycle and cruised around Paris in 1940. This is much better.
How frightening this must have been for the Jews of Paris.
And they say the Germans lost more men trying to take a single factory in Stalingrad then they lost taking Paris.
C'était une ville plus sûre que maintenant. Sur cette vidéo on ne rien de vraiment très spécial, seulement une acitivé normale pour une ville occupée.
Aujourd'hui ma ville est devenue une ville cosmopolite avec beaucoup de violence. Les Allemands se comportaient très bien, d'après les récits entendus chez moi, très polis et très intéressés par Paris. Ils photographiaient sans cesse, et visitaient tous les monuments.
Ceux que l'on appelle les "collabos" sont maintenant d'un autre bord (collaborer avec l' Etranger, par exemple, en insultant la France, il y a en des milliers, et même une certaine idéologie en découle..)
Adhemarcoyote gmail what?
Je suis heureux qu'il y en ait encore parmi vous qui ne se laissent pas faire parler par les modernes.
Salutations d'un Allemand.
"ta mère est fait tondre "le grand courage des resistants
the french did fight in 1940. about 27.000 men killed in action. but there were strong parts in french society which were collaborating with Germany and the Hitler regime. thats the reason why they were treated good after the occupation. seems to be quite peaceful in Paris in 1940. Remember the paroles at the border in Alsace: "We will not attack the Germans if the Germans do not attack us." They didnt want war with Hitler. had the shock of ww1 in their bones.
Sehr interessant!
One doesn't get a sense, from this footage, that Paris was occupied by German military! Given that France had a much bigger army, it seems astounding to me that the Germans won the war in 1940!
what the heck are you talking about germany was twice the size and population of France they obviously couldnt win
0:43 those carts are awesome. Should make a comeback.
I hope all you keyboard Historians remember that the French Army occupied 1/3 of Germany from the end of the Great War to about 1936, pay backs are a bitch.
Pfsif
The Rhineland was occupied until 1930. "keyboard historians"
Pfsif but only with help from uk, USA, Russia and Italy....
The French occupation in Germany after the WW1 had NOTHING in common with the German occupation of France in 1940-1945. The French had to 20 million Reichsmark PER DAY. And for 1 German soldier killed by the French Resistance, at least 10 French civilians were killed as hostages. Get your facts right Mr Keyboard Historian.
It's early in the occupation, all right. Civilian vehicles have not yet mostly disappeared, and I see no cars burning charcoal.
Allies bombing on Berlin but Nazi regime. Not heavily bombing on Paris
My hometown Kiev was also occupied and one of my grandmas worked in Germany
Terrible et désastreuse période. Néanmoins très intéressante vidéo. Merci beaucoup.
Thank you for this great video
2:28 Adolf himself walking in Paris.
Merci pour le partage ...
Just before the one minute mark, the German Motorcyclist was forcing a bicyclist off the rue. Maybe there was a big parade coming up, or maybe he was a megajerk, or both. A side note: I read somewhere that Hitler insisted on all of the soldiers wearing jackboots. Fortunately this put an unnecessary strain on their product capacities generally, plus jerkboots is a more apt name, I’d say.
"La vidange" that's how the Parisians called this occupation time from 1940-45. Empty stores, empty restaurants and empty warehouses.
J'ai le coeur serré en regardant défiler des soldats envahisseurs, je pense à mes Grands-Parents qui ont connu la peur au son des bottes qui claquaient sur le sol et, bien sûr, la faim. C'était une autre époque, aujourd'hui nos dirigeants se serrent la main, vive la Fraternité 💙🤍❤️
Leaving ethics aside, I have to admit that Germany conquering Paris had such a great merit. And not only for reaching the city, but also once there for maintaining public order, because even if you defeat the French army, civilians might still make homemade explosive devices.
One must remember also that there was a “Vichy” portion of France, and many French sympathized with the Nazis and hated Jews (remember the Dreyfus affair?)…It is a time that is still controversial, and a lot of French feel uneasy talking about it…
Standing up to the enemy when he's banging on the door is one thing, but it takes a different level of courage to stand up to him when he's in the house and holding a gun to the head of your loved ones. France never had time to unify against the common enemy as Britain did. Antisemitism was also rife in Britain (see influence of Imperial Fascist League and Union of British Fascists). French resources were pillaged by Germany under the occupation, creating very real hunger such that many thousands of the poorest died of starvation and related illnesses. I can quite see why collaboration would have been attractive under those circumstances. This generation should be glad we're not being tested in that way, since I suspect a lot more of us would collaborate than we'd like to admit.
Please watch Episode 1 of the BBC "World at War" documentary, available here on TH-cam.
The city looks like being under arrest... Dark skies and very unhappy faces of folks...
The piece of film shows some grey-tones that might be irritating from the current perspective. Although there was some sympathy with the german army among parts of the french population, at least in the year 1940, what makes you so sure that the particular young women is french and not simply a german tourist?
Just a reminder this is one of the richest place of Paris full of bourgeois and people who have much to lose, don't expect them to do something.
French people discuss here, which occupation is better... Amazing. Where's your famous glory, France? Bonne journée from Russia
Interesting how life was away from the death and destruction and how infrastructure carried on. I always think of people during that time, if they were not fighting they would be building and making the machinery and weapons of war. Not sitting around shopping and sipping espresso. Even London during the Blitz days, the Doodle bugs and V2`s the people just got on with life, work having a drink. But then again what else could you do. Other chores besides war stuff had to be carried out.
"Other chores besides war stuff had to be carried out."
Exactly; besides providing a small measure of calm to the Parisenne psyche; working and carrying on as normal probably helped you from getting on the Fuherer's s-list. Yikes.
remember this was the summer of 1940. Throughout occupied western Europe, it seemed as if nothing had happened. In the course of 1942 came the rations, persecution, embezzlement and executions. The fun was over, traitor or patriot.
@Mark Symonds - You left out another huge reason for the public to "carry on." It did a great deal to help the conquered people to keep their sanity!
Remember this is stilll the veginnning of the war.... Paris in 1943 looked totally different.
Just amazing. No one seems to smile for good reason
Sometimes my fellow countrymen seem to have behaved as cowards but we must remember that the one who is dead can't fight anymore. staying alive is a far better way to continue the battle.
Now France and Germany are reconciliated and we are both allieds in NATO.
Even though you can't see any overt aggression or violence, you can still feel the gloom of the occupation and the effect it had hanging over the people. The French underground were very brave people, much braver than I would have been!
Unglaublich wie weit man gekommen ist ich mach hab das Thema in Geschichte und habe noch nie sowas gesehen welche Millitärkraft Deutschland hatte...WOW :/
Kein Wunder, als Hit.ler 1933 gewählt wurde, hat er sofort die militärischen Ausgaben für seinen geplanten Krieg erhöht. So stark, dass ab 1935 der Haushalt von Na.zi-Deutschland nicht mehr veröffentlicht wurde, damit die anderen Länder keinen Argwohn hegen. Als der Krieg aber ausbrach, haben die anderen Länder wie USA auch ihre Produktion auf Krieg umgestellt und dann war Essig mit dem Anfangsvorteil.
Ein WOW geht mir nicht über die Lippen, denn am Ende mussten aufgrund dieses menschenverachtenden Wahnsinn Millionen junger Männer sterben, ohne was vom Leben gehabt zu haben. Alles nur wegen Hit.lers Rassenh.ass und "Lebens.raum im Osten", das man alles schon in seinem Buch von 1926 nachlesen kann.
Deutschland war nicht stark. Die mussten (und haben) schnell die anderen Länder rushen, sonst wär`s Essig mit dem Sieg gewesen. Informier dich mal auf Wikipedia über die unzureichende deutsche Kriegsrüstung. Die hatten nur Glück, fehler begehende Kriegsgegner, Schnelligkeit und kluge Offiziere und Kommandeure.
Tom
Du Ahnung aber zu wenig. Die Siegermächte haben es hingenommen das Deutschland aufrüstet. Gegen den Vertrag von Verseile. Im Spanischen Bürgerkrieg haben auch alle schön Ihre Luftwaffe getestet. Japan, Deutschland, Italien haben den Völkerbund verlassen.
Italien hat das Königreich Äthopien überfallen.
Anzeichen gab es genug.
my grandpa was on the french coast,he build supmarine bunker for organisation Todt.He say the french people good people.The farmes have no horses,the germans rent the horses for the harvest,no proplem.In this area the people work for fishing,but german give many ather jobs and money.Problem when came the partisan,he maks war and have no uniform and kill the german soldiers,the end off fun.Because then came the SS .Everyone worked together,after the war everyone was in trouble//resistance. Haha. He say ,the english knew exactly what boat ran out,and when the flak crew has breaks.Every inch of civil spies.The Allies would have won anyway,even without resistance.A lot of innocennt french people would still live.
„The war is terrible. Killing a person is a sin!”
I'm studying the first world war and this is so interesting.. also, I'm surprised by the camera's quality video!
И эти французы тоже победители. Смехота и только...
Amazing footage
I have photos of my Opa in France on leave in 40
I expected to see a different hand salute by the germans on 2:09...
They had these images on TH-cam 2 years ago for seeing the music "Germans" from the movie "Les uns et Autres" (1981). That suited it perfectly.
A slick, sick answer would be that it’s always nice to go well-dressed to a concentration camp. The reality is that most “ordinary” people did dress well to make any outside trip. It must be expected that most of the population (40 million in 1939) tolerated or learnt to live with or learnt to ignore the occupiers. That no criticism because my considered view is that I would have been neither collaborator or resistance but in the middle. It’s estimated that in the years 1940, 1941,1942, there were perhaps 40,000 people that could be defined as resistance ( that is one in every thousand). That figure probably rose to 100,000 by 1944 when it may be said that the chances of Allied victory were very high. I’ve not found a reliable figure for the number of collaborators (people who made a pragmatic decision to assist the occupiers) or collaborationist (those with an affinity to the tenets of fascism) or those horizontal collaborators ( ladies who….well, pretty self-explanatory).
But even that 100,000 resistance fighters (or partisans or insurgents or terrorists depending on who is fighting them) seems to me to be a relatively low percentage of the population. As I have said, not a critics, as I would guess just day-to-day survival would be tough.
Very nice footage thanks for sharing this very interesting footage
This is an important document, however sad and tragic.
French have still beautifull cities, we have still beautiful memories of Polish heros. That's the price of fighting.
Though things seem normal in the air' one can sense the unease tension and uncertainties and darkness of the take over by Nazism, horrible!.. I like the beautiful classic cars.
France signed an armistice at Compiègne with Germany-not a surrender.
My Father was a German official and was in Paris,the lief was very normal,the German ocupation was paceful,the soldiers most be very respect ful with the French people or in many time they was pay with jail.....Our Family was scaped from the Russian Revolution,and as be Germans to,my Father was considerer good for faiting as official in the German Militery accademy,..
Sleeping with allied soldiers because they were hungry...
This military parade was psychological war against Paris. Day by day for entire period of occupation, in morning this was a reminder for French population who’s in charge
2:23 2 black men crossing the street :)
Nice archive footage from Gerd Brügelmann ~ but I somehow believe if it wasn't for the fact that he was in thee Wehrmacht and in uniform at time he'd filmed this - as civilians would've have been certainly been challenged & arrested by (Herr Flick) the men in black leather raincoats !
Meanwhile in Morocco in “Ricks Cafe” people were drinking brandy and having a good time.
"Ricks Cafe" in Casablanca was a pure Hollywood-FICTION. - The American SCRIPTWRITERS didn't know at all what
was going on on the other side of the ATLANTIC! - In reality whole NORTH-AFRICA was warraged:
From Egypt and Libya in the East up to Casablanca (in Morocco) in the West, where the Allies landed in November
1942! - Thus, there was no place for RICK and no place for LOVE-ROMANCE either! (K.N. Historian - 10/11-2021)
If you got thrust back in time to this strange dark era where would you go? What would you do? 🤔
How you going to keep comments respectful ? Germany occupied France , who is here the agresor???
I have not forgot Germany for that. Once you lost the trust is difficult to trust again. What a shameful thing to do, what a crazy thing to do. It was a totally collective madness.
Vive La France! 🇫🇷