The other D-Day: France's forgotten colonial troops and the Provence landings • FRANCE 24 English

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@matttravers6690 Ай бұрын

hell yes, need more content on french colonial troops

@molkakaminski Ай бұрын

yes! and their atrocious treatment of European women in the territories they ‘liberated’

@j4genius961 Ай бұрын

@@molkakaminski Europeans did far worse to African women so F your women

@Alaskan-Armadillo Ай бұрын

@@molkakaminski While technically true it is obvious that your signaling out colonial troops because they're African.. Anyway when you get the chance try and respond in a way that adds to the conversation and isn't a dog whistle.

@molkakaminski Ай бұрын

@@Alaskan-Armadillo signaling because their behaviour towards european civilians and women in particular was the worse of the entire Allied armies! do you know what italians called it?!? Marocchinate, research that!

@LillianSteele-u9v Ай бұрын

I am astounded and stunned. My dad was also in WWII, and he said that the African Soldiers along with the 560 plus American Nations Indigenous soldiers, were some of the best soldiers in the world. He was of Senegalese descent. My dad was my hero.

@David-jl6hr Ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing, great piece of important history.

@3generals14 Ай бұрын

This is amazing I’m glad they made this documentary, my Great Uncle was part of Operation Dragoon in the US Army 14th Armored Division

@MrBothandNether Ай бұрын

Thank you for bringing this to us

@ak9989 Ай бұрын

My uncle was in French North Africa 45th Division and Southern France fighting to liberate France.

@DKDUBBA8165 Ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing! I knew nothing of these brave men until 11 minutes ago 🙄😟🤬😡

@realitychannel9665 Ай бұрын

i know many countries took part in the Liberations of FRance, and they got credits for it, so as to Africans too, they should be considered and recognised as heros , respected and cherised.

@PapaNdiaye-uj9rq Ай бұрын

We will never forget as a African people

@RasEmpress Ай бұрын

Said thing in the American Revolution…. Raised in 1779 from the free Black community of Saint-Domingue (now Haiti), the Chasseurs served during the French campaigns in the Caribbean and during the Franco-American Siege of Savannah.

@Keithmwango Ай бұрын

So now you choose to recognize the contribution of African soldiers,after 79 years.Too little,too late la France.

@speakup18 Ай бұрын

The reason why Africa is distancing herself from France..

@peabase Ай бұрын

Because France is finally giving credit where credit is due? You're an odd one.

@speakup18 Ай бұрын

@@peabase too late the damage is already been done..

@peabase Ай бұрын

@@speakup18 Aw. Will all African countries stage a coup d'état and kick the French out?

@molkakaminski Ай бұрын

distancing?!? half of them live in france😂

@jason4275 Ай бұрын

France Raped and Pillage Africa, enslave the local population for domesticated labor work the lucky ones became solders and France made sure to murder the best and brightest who wanted independence for over 100 years

@adamswurie4999 Ай бұрын

I didn’t get history class about African soldiers in France

@ak9989 Ай бұрын

Every soldier should be honored. If it wasn't for these colonial troops the French army would have been even more useless 😂

@ak9989 Ай бұрын

There is a good book to read for those interested called GOUMIERS. Morroccan Hill tribal soldiers who fought at Monte Cassino and Southern France.

@Albanach-je1nk Ай бұрын

I think you should show this to Marie LePen

@JogetUrzikstan Ай бұрын

BF5 has covered their story in their Campaign mode

@arigisku Ай бұрын

What cycle. Now the African Soldiers grandkids have wizened up to the antics of the French, who had remained ungrateful and hell bent on continuing the domination. No wonder Sub Saharan Francophone are throwing off the French Yoke.

@jamesalexander3530 Ай бұрын

The colonial troops need to film their own by their own nations, not rely on France. Its like waiting for handouts.

@femithomas9144 Ай бұрын

😢😢😢😢😢

@BC-ns6px Ай бұрын

It is so humiliating for them to fight for the country that opressed them for centuries.

@Briselance Ай бұрын

Oppressed them? For centuries? We were not the kindest, that much is true. But we built hospitals, roads, ports, bridges, etc. that no one else had built before. And, centuries? The colonization went from the 1830's until the 1960's. The Arabo-African Slave Trade lasted indeed centuries, though.

@ak9989 Ай бұрын

Indeed however there was a massacre of Senegalese troops in 44 by the French army@@Briselance

@okokok1993 Ай бұрын

Because they built certain things u think it means they wasn't oppressed smh get a grip @@Briselance

@Alaskan-Armadillo Ай бұрын

@@Briselance As usual the reactionary downplays and deflects..

@TheGrenadier97 Ай бұрын

Impossible. The land of liberty, fraternity and equality would never do that, much less have colonies.

@Briselance Ай бұрын

France had colonies from 1830, 1832 or so, until 1962.

@engineeranonymous Ай бұрын

How about what the colonial troops in French Expeditionary Corps do in Italy after Battle of Monte Cassino. Will we also remember that ?

@ZoomZoomMX3 Ай бұрын

Thank you brave soldiers who fought to oppose facism.

@kusheran Ай бұрын

Fascism and Racism!

@peabase Ай бұрын

The takeaway here is that they suffered racism while eradicating the very worst manifestation of racism.

@bavery6957 Ай бұрын

No surprise that Americans played a major role in this disgrace. I'm in Austria and this video was followed up by an ad for the Austrian Freedom Party about having a "Volkskanzler" for"the people". That term seems vaguely familiar. 🤔 Kristallnacht 2.0, anyone...?

@pauldrabo2243 Ай бұрын

😢😢😢😢

@ZackaryPaddison Ай бұрын

And then really but back because they didn't want to be colonies any more

@jason4275 Ай бұрын

*WW1 started in Africa in 1890 when European powers attack and invaded Africa, continued during WW2 and this war lasted until the fall of apartheid in 1994.*

@Mouchos Ай бұрын

You seriously and desperately need knowledge in History, nothing i've read here make any kind of sense whatsoever

@upendo.3570 23 күн бұрын

@@Mouchos😂 I thought he was joking

@BC-ns6px Ай бұрын

I would not want to be French given the devastating humiliating defeat by Germany. The set back is done by Soviet and US. France did not have any effect. A dark chapter for French.

@skiteufr Ай бұрын

It was one defeat in hundreds of wars... many wars have ended with the Germans humiliated by the French also. Just open a book

@Briselance Ай бұрын

Dark chapter, indeed. The Campaign of Norway was our only victorious campaign in 1940. Maybe operation Dynamo too, with the covering of the reembarking of what was left of the BEF.