1940 À la défense de la Belgique

May 15, 1940. French Newsreel. French translation graciously provided by Olivenstein: Part of the poster: "BELGIANS! The French Army has come here to your rescue...is to protect you against an enemy...which has no respect for...and to save your...penetrate on your soil of...seriously observe....your Ardennes border section is not...PLISSEMANGE, LA CHAPELLE, MONT ST-MARTIN...you will be welcomed in FRANCE like brothers...measures will be taken so that...as much as possible so that you do not suffer from evacuation.Since the morning of 10 May, starting in Luxembourg and Belgium, the painful exodus, fleeing the air bombing menace. All night long in Belgium and in France, all too frequently evacuees were set ablaze and massacred, even more tragedies cannot still be verified." Last sequence shows a gend'arme checking a Luxemburg passport and pinpointing the bullet holes on the Luxemburgers' front wheelwell near the "LUX" licence plate.

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[olivenstein]

S.C.A. , Service Cinematographique de l'Armee francaise , Journal de geurre Numero 33 ?!! Where in bloody hell did you find this, Skoblin?! This is far and away the best newsreel I've ever seen and I have seen a lot, and as rare as the ant's wisdom teeth. Highlights definitely for me are the Belgians passing bottles and "clopes" (cigarettes) to the Poilus. Magnificent. You are simply the best.

[skoblinI]

A rarity perhaps, you are right. I have not seen these on Youtube anywhere else. I also have Nrs. 34, 35, 36 and 37. So they will also be on here. Merci beaucoup pour le translation, mon ami! :)

[Armydicked]

The Damn Belgians and Dutch lost the war in the west. Holland was neutral in WWI and had the Kaiser living there. They ABSOLUTLEY REFUSED the French and British offers for joint operations. France & the BEF had two choices. Sit back and be invaded else attack Belgium before the Germans did. At the LAST MINUTE, Gamlin decided to defend the Neatherlands which the Bosche predicted with disasterous results. In the Next War, France needs to abandon the Dutch to their own fates!!!

[91OCB]

@Dimi10b Certes, il y a sans doute eu un sentiment de "grande soeur protectrice" de la France envers la Belgique (surtout envers les Wallons) mais c'est surtout pour éviter d'avoir une guerre sur le sol Français et qui sait, peut-être rallier les Belges à la cause française et donc, rattacher la Wallonie à la France. Celà c'est d'ailleurs discuté entre grands vainqueurs en 1918. Mais l'Angleterre n'aurait sans doute pas apprécier, tout comme les Flamands

[91OCB]

@Perversus666 I agree on the attack in 1939, France alone at that time would've destroy the Wehrmacht in few months. Hitler himself said that he felt so lucky that France didn't invade Germany in September 39. But I think that if France and the Chasseurs Ardennais had focused on the Ardennes and on Luxembourg, German wouldn't have passed them and had turned into Flanders where Belgian and British troops could take them. Attack the Maginot line would have stopped the Germans immediatly

[91OCB]

@wulfsheImut You grandfather did good. Nazis are the ass of the world, like every racism. What can be so nice in Nazism??? They think, if you're not German, Aryen and white, you're a subman.

[wulfsheImut]

Wow my grandfather was in the US army. I so wish he had been in the SS, or even Werhmacht. I would have liked that much better. I bet he wishes he had fought for the Nazis now. The way history turned out totally blows.

[youaremypreciousone]

wow my grandfather was a member fo the resistance ! =))

[0jrhindo]

S *boom C *boom* A *boom* :D

[orstho1]

contre Allemands pas trop fort.. est-e que tous les hommes etaient mobilisés?

[5000433]

French 1940 newsreels!! excellent and rare.

These are 1st army units I believe, the army that defeated its German opposite number at Gembloux. Yep it was only the collapse of the defences to the south that forced it to retreat.

Most of our uber alles junior keyboard warriors dont know anything about those 4 days.

Vive La France!

[Dimi10b]

C'est vrai qu'il faut dire que durant les deux guerres ùondiales,les francais ont été les premiers a venir défendre nos frontières avec notre petite armée royale...Merci frère francais!!!