1940 Les victimes de guerre

May 15, 1940. French newsreel. Olivenstein translation: Translation after typical French baracks bugling: "11 May, morning in France: our civilian population counts already 150 deaths & almost 400 wounded from that dumping of bombs from planes as systematic as blind in its rage on a number of our cities & villages having NO military value."
Church door message: "[difficult to read]...Sacrodose, Mass held at 3 pm 8-9 pm"
Elementary school sign: "Today NO SCHOOL"
Damaged blackboard: "Friday 10 May. Eating too much makes one ill. 5689 divided by 23 = "

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• France
• 1940
• Air
• Raid
• Bombing
• Civilian
• Casualties
• Luftwaffe
• Battle
• Invasion
• Schools
• Hospitals
• Collateral
• Damage

[olivenstein]

Translation after typical French baracks bugling: "11 May, morning in France: our civilian population counts already 150 deaths & almost 400 wounded from that dumping of bombs from planes as systematic as blind in its rage on a number of our cities & villages having NO military value."

Church door message: "[difficult to read]...Sacrodose, Mass held at 3 pm 8-9 pm"

Elementary school sign: "Today NO SCHOOL"

Damaged blackboard: "Friday 10 May. Eating too much makes one ill. 5689 divided by 23 = "

[skoblinI]

Thanks again, Olivenstein....even the blackboard....great! :) Next one...bombing of Belgium and shot down German planes.

[skoblinI]

you didn't work out the math problem though..... :)

[olivenstein]

Good point! Notice how division tables are different in France. Also periods and comas are inverted. For example: $12,500.75 becomes 12.500,75 $

[DivisionCharlemagne0]

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