Emerging from War: France Post-War Transformation I SLICE HISTORY | FULL DOCUMENTARY

Former waffen SS volunteers were recruited by the french to go fight in Indochina

Germany (west) and Japan were back on there feet faster than uk and France

Amazing documentary…….. loving these vids

A good documentary about the post-war latrine, but it failed to give due emphasis to the expulsion of American troops from French territory. The reason: rapes of French women and teenagers. Another thing that was missing here was the racist French colonial violence in Algeria and Vietnam.

This is the France that my late father knew very well as a GI in June 1944, when his unit (segregated) was shipped from Southampton, England, to Normandy. A little more than 2 years later, he would be honorably discharged from the U.S. Army in Paris and go on to work in Germany as a civilian employee of the U.S. government for 3 years.

Excellent documentary!

Do no forget about the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natzweiler-Struthof_concentration_camp on French soil and those who died within and around it.

Can you now do a similar video of the UK after the war Please !

Most of our history is too narrow, and can only serve as data to figure out the big picture.

After around 1900, Europe lost its top tier position as global leaders because their leaders could not find a suitable balance of power between the states, which was equally acceptable for all. Note that with Versailles and many other bad choices, ALL Europeans lost.

WW1 and WW2 was one struggle which roots go back a 1,000 years: the battle for continental supremacy and a balance of power between France and The Holy Roman Empire, with Russia off to one side of that, and Great Britain off to the other. This is how the quote "peace for 20 years" (Foch) should be interpreted.

WW1 and WW2 was simply another "30 years war" with the difference being that the naval powers (GB and the USA) stepped in and supported France as the "favored nation" as a proactive divide-and-rule strategy of intended global control and domination (see footnote).

In the end ALL Europeans lost and became subjected to the American Century, whose post-WW2 Truman Doctrine was simply more divide-and-rule, to drive a rift between Europeans.
After the Cold War this "rift" was simply "ruled" to be further east, and the desirable status quo of "Europeans set up against each other per outside ruling" was moved a few hundred miles eastwards. The new "Iron Curtain" will soon be declared, under some or other fancy term, to divide the eternal "good guys" and the new "bad guys"…

Read Mackinder (1904), which found its logical continuation with the post-WW2 Truman Doctrine, and Churchill's Iron Curtain.

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Footnote:
My sincere thanks to a fellow youtuber (@realvipul) who thought my one of essays explaining the divide-and-rule/conquer strategy of power was "TLDR" or too complicated and therefore ran it through AI…
"The comment discusses the concept of "divide and rule" as a strategy employed by powerful entities to maintain control. It argues that human systems are inherently chaotic due to the complexity of human nature, making them susceptible to manipulation through division. The example of the Roman Empire's conquest of Britain around the year "0" is used to illustrate how this strategy works, emphasizing that the motivations of individual collaborators are less important than the overall effect of division in enabling the empire's dominance. The comment then extends this analysis to the American Century, suggesting that the same strategy was used to exert influence over Europe. It highlights that the goal is to create maximum division among opposing groups while maintaining unity within the ruling power. The comment criticizes the media and political leaders for perpetuating a cycle of lies and wars, often under the guise of opposing territorial expansion while simultaneously promoting systemic expansion. In essence, the comment argues that the "divide and rule" strategy is a fundamental tactic employed by powerful entities to maintain control, and that understanding this strategy is crucial for comprehending historical events and current geopolitical dynamics."

It's divide-and-rule/conquer.
Europeans once grew into North America using this technique, morphed into "USA" and then gained North American hegemony using this technique, morphed into the American Century and gained global hegemony using this technique, and are now using the divide-and-rule technique as desperate attempt to hang on to global hegemony…

The other side of war we more often do not see.

Great documentary.

Thanks for the upload.

Bless them

Rationing lasted in Britain till 1954 . As a child in France on holiday I could buy sweets which I couldn't buy in Britain!

Very interesting.