The Last Fight for Paris: Trapped German Forces' Desperate Stand | World War II Documentary

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Really amazing documentary !!! Thank you! 😀

[@danielbaucom5252]

so refreshing to learn about the war from another perspective

[@SirDrakeFrancis]

I mean it's the same perspective here in this video

[@tailssonicteam1604]

It's stories like these that would unironically make excellent films.

[@siikliidii3380]

An almost untold story of WW2. Bravo 👏🏻

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[@Goaner89]

We shouldnt use the term "liberated" anymore

[@matthewmaurysmith2486]

It's the perfect "the victors write the history" term!

[@pedalevaaaa4172]

Why ?

[@charlieboffin2432]

Snowflake 😂

[@CALZOLA]

From 30:47 many pics shot in Marseille

[@murrayeldred3563]

A well known event.....but a great deal of excellent information .

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[@markwagstaff7209]

Excellent film 👏

[@walcoman]

Absolutely archival footage defined

[@arguitnick7943]

11:37 Goldfinger? Is that you?

[@Johnnycdrums]

What was the fate of Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz?

[@keithmcwilliams7424]

And his family ?

[@NotoLeft]

A German General saved Paris... Unfortunately they teach us about history with so much bias

[@pedalevaaaa4172]

you didn't understand the video

[@MMM-rf5gm]

It's always Pro-Ukraine accounts that stick up for the Nazis 🤦‍♂️ He was an adherent supporter of Hitler. He had already burned down towns and cities. He only saves Paris because he knew the war was lost and that he would be held responsible personally for the destruction of Paris. He was NO hero or "nice guy." Him and Bandera!

[@gfdnnfnfgnfgn]

"saved" to be ruined by gays and browns instead

[@ottoboucher7273]

The Allies had no problem destroying Dresden even though It had no military strategic value

[@charlieboffin2432]

You obviously haven’t looked at it’s geographical position as a major transportation hub have you ! ?

[@behindthespotlight7983]

I find it odd that suddenly Nazi Germany “wasn’t so bad” And oddly disturbing that if a man left earth in 1940 and returned today he’d bet the farm that the Allies lost🤨

[@Signaman-z9d]

What happened the general at wars end. In fairness he should be recognised for saving Paris even though he was the enemy. ✌️

[@jokodihaynes419]

Dietrich von Choltitz refused to burn the capital and declared Paris an open city

[@romsebrell710]

Joko. I traditori ci sono anche Nell'Esercito Tedesco!. peccato. Potevo Vedere Parigi Distrutta come Berlino . MI DISPIACE CHE HITLER NON HA LANCIATO L'ARMA DISGREGANTE SU. LONDRA AVREI AVUTO UNA SODDISFAZIONE FORTISSIMA VEDERE. LONDRA COME HIROSHIMA.....E VEDERE LA FACCIA DI CIURCILLO E SENTIRLO DIRE. RESA INCON DIZIONATA DELLA GERMANIA

[@romsebrell710]

Von Cholditz. TRADITORE.

[@THEGOODMALE]

Only because he doesn t had enough explosives and didn t control much of Paris to carry out Hitler order.

[@frederikbjerre427]

That theory has been debunked long ago.

[@sthrich635]

Paris wasn't saved by some self-serving aristocratic German traitor, in reality Paris was saved by its own people, the often underappreciated French resistance (with some help from Allies of course). On the start of D-Day, the French Resistance, already in cooperation with the conventional Allied armies, massively increased its activity in coordination with Allied advance. On the eve of liberation of Paris, the activity and morale of French resistance was at all time high - unlike doing covert operation just a year prior, they had numerous direct engagement with the occupying Germans, something the local police garrison and Gestapo weren't prepared at all to deal with. By that time many Vichy French troops, that were a sizeable portion of German garrison, had either deserted or even switched back side, while conventional German army troops all around were too busy retreating West, Choltitz's garrison was completely short-handed having to fight the resistance and barely maintain order, and any remaining units were busy transporting any valuable equipment and materials back to Germany. In short, Choltitz was losing control of Paris then, and he had no capable force left to actually demolish Paris without getting butchered by the resistance. Hitler berated Choltitz for the failure to burn the capitol because he as the military governor, completely failed to govern the city, and the general had little wish to return to Germany and confront his failure (understandably though), so he just surrendered and took all the credit for saving Paris, yet somehow people still believed Paris was saved by a Wehrmacht general instead of the brave French men and women and the Western Allies.

[@phillipkrelle5661]

So if we skipped paris it could have been over by xmas ?

[@MikeWoot-swp]

Sleep masks are dope, unless u fall asleep to this WW2 sh¡t. Because u will regularly wake up to artillery barrages and being blind during these attacks... kinda sucks. 😂

[@mikeosgood3846]

De gaulle along with Monty were just ego driven. Concerned about their own legacy instead of country.

[@charlieboffin2432]

Say what you like but Monty cared a lot about his men and their welfare plus he understood logistics , tactics and public relations . Turned around our fortunes in North Africa and defeated Rommel just before the Americans finally showed up in time to get a kicking at Kasserine .

[@Johnconno]

Picasso gave Eisenhower a few billion francs to help out.

[@zillsburyy1]

did everyone like the movie?

[@michaelstudd533]

💥💥

[@cameljoe1952]

Who was in Paris?

[@Rhapsodies_In_Red]

40:08 Boop

[@bongbongGAMING7878]

I think he disobeyed Hitler not because he got conscience but because they're losing the war and not destroying anything is the Pontius Pilate ticket way out from Allied firing squad. Had it been under a different circumstance I doubt he'd disobeyed boss Hitler. 🤣

[@diamondcityrebel2571]

🎉🎉🎉

[@francislea4700]

Is this AI ?

[@killahurtz6786]

Germanys handling of Paris by mostly handing it over is something that would pay significant dividends later. For example, the Berlin Airlift would not have happened had Paris been reduced to ashes in 1944. It set a level of civility that Germany would later on benefit from.

[@chuckmiller8951]

Like Dresden and Hamburg??

[@chuckmiller8951]

Or the way the soviets handled Berlin?

[@ilimes]

Germany had been nothing but civil the entire time. The current state of Paris and most places in Western Europe are now worse than if they'd been demolished.

[@MarioPenalti]

​@@ilimesso ein scheiß

[@killahurtz6786]

@@chuckmiller8951 The facture between the Soviets and Western Allies had begun to deepen before Paris liberation. It literally says in the video that DeGaulle was fighting both communists and the occupation.

[@clevelandaeromotive]

Wait a minute, you mean a European armed force acting in their internationally recognized right to fight their occupiers are called “resistance fighters”…. Not “terrorists”?? Wha-what??

[@gfdnnfnfgnfgn]

Liberators not occupiers

[@clevelandaeromotive]

@@gfdnnfnfgnfgn Nazis were…. “liberators”?

[@Unomaximus]

As a historian, you should do your best to avoid spreading misinformation or propaganda. Always be empirical, and do your research before you put your name on something. The wehrmacht/ss formations defending the vital logistic hub that was Warsaw proper was so dense and well defended that even if Stalin was deadset on freeing Warsaw and saving the Polish Underground as quickly as possible it would have taken him at least 3 weeks to do so given the circumstances BEFORE the uprising. The allies and the polish exiled government gave the the signal to the home army the go ahead too early. Anybodys intentions can be anyones guess. I am unbiased, and my view is based off of real time situations, formations, and conditions on the ground at the time. Please refrain from spouting textbook history if you wish to be respected as a 'historian'. Toeing a line that has been drawn is not condusive to learning and growing from our past. Thank you. Afterthought: i am not judging you. I remember trying to cut through all the bs back in my day, let alone now where much information is even more gatekept/hidden even though i would have thought the opposite would have happened given how 'far' we have come technologically. Of course i learned long ago that utopia doesn't exist. All your answers can be found on a piece of paper in the back of the bookshelf that nobody has looked at in 20 years. Read read read, cross analyze, look between the lines, read some more, then come to your conclusion when you have gathered as much of the picture as you possibly could have. Godspeed 👍