Paris 1940 - Deutsche Besatzung - German Occupation - l´Occupation allemande, film: color/bw

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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[@kazymjir]

It would look great if not this "Paris 1940" watermark taking 1/4 of the screen.

[@Eric0816]

It's interesting to see how well ordinary people dressed back in the day to go out in public.

[@user-qm7tw9gq3n]

Yes

[@clarkewi]

The Germans didn't treat the France and Belgium the same way they treated Poland and Russia.

[@maryjeanjones7569]

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.

[@fynnv.b.7986]

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. ✌🏻

[@leerubybritvic1990]

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.

[@soviet.chronicles_8415]

Exactly, people do not realise the horror it was in the Eastern Europe occupation

[@tennissir1986]

So you’re saying that murdering only 100,000 French and Belgium jewish citizens shows a better treatment.

[@utuber8xx]

Why 111 unlike?? This is HISTORY! Not propaganda. I don't understand...

[@casteretpollux]

Let people express their disapproval

[@frederickwallace6552]

No, you understand. They don't.

[@benbaselet2026]

It's called an opinion. Something that people can express because they want to, nothing to do with you understanding or not.

[@Watermark..]

Germans did not treat Paris like they did in Warsaw.

[@nofgood4live]

nice footage and thanks for sharing,. but why ruin it with those big letters?

[@BenSeigal]

Thanks for adding an English translation, very thoughtful as usual!

[@ReggidReggid]

Wer steckt hinter Weltfilmerbe? So viel geniales Material in so vielen Dokus...

[@MayorOfMoetown]

Everyone still dressed so nicely

[@kerrysammy3277]

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

[@slava15m]

Войной и не пахнет.Чистый город,чистенькие людишки.

[@IraqCTR]

Watermark too big!

[@AnRo0002]

da sind nicht nur Bilder von Paris dabei, sondern auch von Reims und von Fontainebleau

[@christianterraes8334]

Oui absolument.

[@summer20105707]

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.

[@stellalewis9855]

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 🌹👠

[@bretagnejean2410]

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.

[@Fondrom]

There are also would of been a people who were told about the German invasion in the 1870s by their parents/grandparents

[@rosairedubrule60]

people forget that facism was a worldwide popular cult

[@roadstersmart]

3:34 Fontainebleau castle

[@BlastFrag1]

Hard not to notice how slender and well dressed the ladies are versus today's American land whales.

[@ThePtoleme]

Have you seen the well dressed Black Gentlemen at 2:23 ?

[@earthakitt3661]

Most likely from French-controlled Africa.

[@daveh9551]

Silvana Barilla wtf are you talking about?

[@danrode104]

Three bigots above...

[@guybourgaud6336]

Nicht nur Paris,aber Fontainebleau ( 70 km südlich) Schloss.

[@Neotron2001]

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.

[@xmaxxp657]

Wieder mal ein sehr interessantes Video wie man es von ihnen kennt

[@archibaldcortex912]

2:04 guy smiling at the girl!

[@german_spirit7545]

Well seen! Awesome footage.

[@AnthonyBerkshire]

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.

[@Codingforce]

Wow was für ne tolle Qualität.

[@kassian2902]

The cathedrale in the end is not in Paris but in Reims!

[@filmschatzarchiv]

+Kassian von Berendt Notre-Dame Saint-Jacques de Reims, that´s right. Thank you.

[@veronicavanleeuwen9342]

+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.

[@tommyross78]

+Kassian von Berendt Cathédrale Notre dame de PARIS

[@Codingforce]

+Veronica Wieland to save the glas from allied bombs

[@hahapack5308]

Kassian von Berendt .True.It s the Reims cathedral.i lived in Reims for 5 years.Comte St Germain.

[@Don_Camillo]

Manche wissen ganz genau Bescheid über jene Zeit und offenbaren durch ihre Kommentare allein, dass sie gar nichts wissen..... Zum Glück gibts solche Filme.

[@veronicavanleeuwen9342]

Thank you for this great video

[@futurehistory2110]

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.

[@christianterraes8334]

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.

[@jeep146]

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.

[@starrerpfeil7857]

Sehr interessant!

[@professorhamamoto]

Danke, Herr Gerd Brügelmann mit einer 16mm Filmkamera.

[@rochellengel3444]

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.

[@Smashpatate]

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.

[@oraange]

La qualité de la vidéo est extraordinaire !

[@agentschmitz290]

Watching authentic pictures like these destroys decades of Hollywood propaganda bullshit LOL

[@JM-sj1rk]

Is it really true that the French (even non-occupied Vichy France) handed over their Jews faster and earlier than Mussolini's Italy......??!?

[@derKrampus]

J M Yes it is. Most eastern europeans and Poles did the same. Antijudaism was not just a german phenomenon by any means.

[@mikehiggins946]

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.

[@blankajindrich6849]

Some of the store sighs were already in German, they must had been thrilled.

[@fnln544]

The world was very different 80 odd years ago.

[@user-qm7tw9gq3n]

Very different.

[@JudahMaccabee_]

2:04 - her smile quickly faded away as she safely passed the soldiers

[@alikara7722]

How many frenchman does it take to defend Paris?No one knows,it's never been tried!!

[@aquiladoro8535]

-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!

[@patrickguernsey4929]

Ali Kara à dead soldier can't fight anymore.

[@barryguyer8005]

Ali Kara lol it's true that's what makes it funny.

[@patrickguernsey4929]

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

[@meltedicecreamsandwich]

Aquila d'oro Why'd you ruin joke

[@Chuck8417]

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."

[@empirikal09]

0:43 those carts are awesome. Should make a comeback.

[@taharserbis5649]

Merci pour le partage ...

[@vinny9708]

Thanks for posting

[@scott0239]

Danke für dieses video

[@bogdanor]

Tank you.

[@filmschatzarchiv]

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.

[@astridbelge]

FILMSCHÄTZE AUS KÖLN - VOM RHEIN - WELTFILMERBE Many Austrian and Swiss women worked in Paris during WWII, she could also be Swiss or Austrian

[@astridbelge]

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.

[@filmschatzarchiv]

astridbelge Not to forget that german couples travelled to occupied Paris to marry in the office of the german ambassador!

[@astridbelge]

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!!!!!!!!!!

[@Valdakyr]

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.

[@astridbelge]

+Valdakyr Britain declared war first, France followed later, only after Germany invaded Poland.

[@mrcaboosevg6089]

Britain declared war after the invasion of Poland, not before...

[@OnkelAdiSuperstar]

Obviously the "white brothers" of the UK and France wanted to save poland so much they left it to the USSR in 1945.

[@andreshadow2]

+ 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.

[@OnkelAdiSuperstar]

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.

[@digitalemotion3820]

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..

[@szaki]

2:23 - 2 well dressed black man crossing the street!

[@justuskruse8268]

Someone knows what march they play at 0:20 ?

[@mpsymonds1]

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.

[@nycsongman9758]

"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.

[@hildetoepoel812]

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.

[@Loulovesspeed]

@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!

[@frenchartantiquesparis424]

Remember this is stilll the veginnning of the war.... Paris in 1943 looked totally different.

[@miku4936]

I'm studying the first world war and this is so interesting.. also, I'm surprised by the camera's quality video!

[@peetyw8851]

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.

[@kevinkennedyquandt4440]

Very nice footage thanks for sharing this very interesting footage

[@rolfagten857]

They had these images on KZbin 2 years ago for seeing the music "Germans" from the movie "Les uns et Autres" (1981). That suited it perfectly.

[@fitt4393]

Amazing footage

[@MiKeMiDNiTe-77]

If you got thrust back in time to this strange dark era where would you go? What would you do? 🤔

[@MilesPrower88]

What is the name of that march in the beginning?

[@tsmgguy]

It's early in the occupation, all right. Civilian vehicles have not yet mostly disappeared, and I see no cars burning charcoal.

[@derekcustance3618]

That’s the Fontainebleau Chateau towards the end.

[@bristonknight9315]

The city looks like being under arrest... Dark skies and very unhappy faces of folks...

[@rickeygogoi696]

2:28 Adolf himself walking in Paris.

[@nebod1556]

What is worse or better, back then under a German occupation with all aryans around or now having multicultural freedom?

[@BlockbusterVideo1996]

Awesome!!!!

[@edwardmallon8679]

Just amazing. No one seems to smile for good reason

[@pauloeduardosilvalinkscaja4584]

Une situation trés difficile

[@eshelly4577]

I have photos of my Opa in France on leave in 40

[@ichmalealsobinich]

"La vidange" that's how the Parisians called this occupation time from 1940-45. Empty stores, empty restaurants and empty warehouses.

[@fanfam]

Can you do a video about Paris 1633?

[@benbaselet2026]

I don't think they have time machines.

[@JuanCarlosJimenezchugarland]

What kind of Auto/ car/ Moto was between 0:42 and 0:47 ? i never seen that before

[@adamblack2864]

Looks like a custom made bike.

[@jameshay7247]

WW2 French tank.

[@mildredmapp]

It looks like a velocar quadricyle Mochet.www.velorizontal.com/hommage_mochet.htm

[@eddiethecounsel]

Do you have any footage of the Velodrome d'Hiver?

[@Eccoriens80]

Avez vous des images des Cadets de Saumur et du sabordage de la Flotte à Toulon ?

[@eleanor93chapuis84]

the castle ( Napoleon ) is not in Paris but is Fontainebleau , 77 Seine et Marne

[@soren9310]

was that actually Napoleon's residence?

[@woodenseagull1899]

Germany and France deserve each other!

[@user-gu3fv2et9u]

My hometown Kiev was also occupied and one of my grandmas worked in Germany

[@pplayer666]

2:31 Can anyone read what it says on the window sign?

[@szymusiek1980]

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.

[@veronicavanleeuwen9342]

+szymusiek1980 yes man, RIP, your land was martyred.

[@fabiogasparini91]

szymusiek1980 you arent very intelligent the biggest resistance was in france

[@szymusiek1980]

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.

[@veronicavanleeuwen9342]

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.

[@szymusiek1980]

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.

[@titusho2]

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.

Triste. Cidade sem vida..

[@negriboedov]

Want to see this video in color !

[@filmschatzarchiv]

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?

[@mackdaniel131]

0:41 what kind of car was that???

[@reginaldyong4801]

Looking at the ordinary Parisians, wonder what was passing through their minds at the time

[@RavingMadJock]

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 !

[@chickoyanin2559]

I expected to see a different hand salute by the germans on 2:09...

[@aromelun]

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.

[@erpollock]

How frightening this must have been for the Jews of Paris.

[@philhodgkinson1460]

Never been to Paris this was filmed 5 years before my little life started!?

[@joaomarveloso1049]

which car is this at 0:42 ?

[@neiserra6274]

Ainda bem que o meu pai fugiu de Paris para o Brasil em 1934 ele ja sabia o que ia acontecer humilhações

[@user-sp2nr4tg8x]

0:43 elektro engine?

[@judithsuarezdejesus3756]

0:42 the car😍

[@mtlicq]

almost like a car I built when I was 12 y.o. : )

[@musicaltheatergeek79]

@@mtlicq One night, my grandma left in her wheelchair, and she never came back. The next day, the neighborhood kids had a go-kart, with two really big back wheels.

[@adhemarcoyote]

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..)

[@barryguyer8005]

Adhemarcoyote gmail what?

[@meyer1519]

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.

[@jetezvostelesstoplamalbouf5359]

"ta mère est fait tondre "le grand courage des resistants

[@angeloacorda8730]

Colored pls !!

[@ernafan]

Ich denke die von heute wissen es auch wo mann zu weit gegangen ist und immer noch geht.

[@marigimenez6533]

El nombre de la marcha del minuto 0:20 , please??

[@nudelsuppenudelsupped4639]

Unglaublich wie weit man gekommen ist ich mach hab das Thema in Geschichte und habe noch nie sowas gesehen welche Millitärkraft Deutschland hatte...WOW :/

[@GoMrTom]

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.

[@OliverdeClisson]

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.

[@jonoanym7349]

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.

[@MK-rn2hm]

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.

[@daeelly150]

I notice that Paxton was wrong when he has told there were few germans while the occupation and has messed with the nimber of erman administrators . Watch : there were soldiers everywhere