Brest Surrender 1944

18 September 1944, the battered garrison of Fortress Brest finally capitulates. Colonel Erich Pietzonka commander of the 7th Paratroop Regiment formally surrender to General Walter M. Robertson commander of 2nd Infantry Division. At 15.00 Hrs. German soldiers were ordered to muster on Wilson Square and wait further for instructions. They were marched off to POW camps outside Brest and most were shipped to the United States.

Source: 1944 AMERICANS IN BRITTANY - THE BATTLE FOR BREST by Jonathan Gawne (Histoire & Collections).

Category:

Film & Animation

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• ww2
• newsreels
• brest
• pietzonka
• robertson
• POW
• battle
• 1944

[rugbymaddog]

Thank you for the kind comments.

Merci pour tous les commentaires sympas.

Ronan

[3Sleipnir]

You are right. But not every german soldier was a nazi.

[faerials]

On your mind : France is a racist country because it suffered under nazi occupation!?

French Women fuck with all the Wermarch...ok... and after... RAF have killed french civilians... SORRY! There is no logic in your comment... you understand what u write???

Josephine Baker sang in Paris, and french people love her more than american people... Jazz culture... there is lot of links between french and africans artists... the world is racist... France has not the rank 1...

[010bobby]

These guys are lucky..they surrendered to the Brits and Americans..If they surrendered to the Russians, off to Gulag for you!!! Look at Von Paulus 6th army, of 60,000 who surrendered, only 2,000 returned to Germany after the war..

[010bobby]

@KaiserWilhelmIV  Not counting the War supplies they stole from the allies..

[KaiserWilhelmIV]

@redfog29 Right now France is the shithole in Europe, just before Greece. Overrun by Muslims and beggars and socialists looking for a 6 week vacation.

[KaiserWilhelmIV]

@redfog29 Oh sure... did Petain get killed? no. Did the French government which actively cooperated with the Germans get killed? no. Those few resistance fighters were a MINORITY. The majority of France helped out the Germans. Once the allies came in all the French tried to all of a sudden claim " hey i was a fucking resistance fighter" when 10 minutes before they served a German soldier coffee. Its total bullshit what France did in that war.

[Camarale]

@KaiserWilhelmIV

Collaborators were only a tiny minority on the population, who was indifferent,for the most,and rather interested in looking for something to eat.So,some US fucks as you,should stop to bore us, with your usual collaborators Vichy and Jews craps.What US fucks knows about wars,except watching Hollywood saving Ryan craps,their big asses on the sofa.It would have been funny to see US civilians in the same situation.Through centuries,wars were REAL for the French,not films craps.

[Camarale]

@KaiserWilhelmIV

Children and women were burned alive in the church. Many other French cities suffered the same fate, like Buchères or Maillé. More than 30000 French civilians were massacred by Nazis in the whole France, and 27000 resistants deported in concentration camps, where most of them died. Agter 1942, a new French regular rebuilt army fought on most of this war theaters. Free French forces were 1,3 million involved in Europe in 1945. Not Hollywood resistant craps, regular troops.

[Camarale]

@KaiserWilhelmIV

Again the same craps. Total WW2 French casualties, military and civilians, 600000, were higher than all US losses of this war, on all fronts, Pacific and Europe, 416800, included 67000 French civilians killed by allied bombings, mostly US, in an heavily damaged country. Dozens cities were razed to the ground by Nazi SS, like Oradour sur Glane, which was preserved until now in the same condition than after the massacre, in June 10, 1944, when 642 inhabitants were murdered.

[DJMikaelito]

@faerials

France....fracistan maybe....soon you become africoarabistan if you keep it like that