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In 1945 Claude Chabrol stood here00:00:03
facing the German enemy. Today00:00:06
this pedestrian bridge connects the00:00:08
French Strasbourg and the German00:00:10
team.00:00:17
For Claude Chabrol and his comrades,00:00:20
the Rhine was then the border to a00:00:22
neighbor who had repeatedly brought death and00:00:25
ruin.00:00:31
The feeling that they were now 20 year00:00:34
old when this kind of pasolini00:00:36
or step line that changed everything00:00:39
for me the rhine00:00:40
I find the feeling again after it00:00:46
revives the satisfaction00:00:51
I had the impression of suddenly00:00:54
being immersed in a changed war00:00:55
the war was different now it should00:00:59
take place in Germany In the country00:01:00
that was for me for the child that I was00:01:02
the country of the invaders,00:01:07
thousands of French soldiers00:01:09
still lost their lives in these last weeks of the war,00:01:11
but the first French army could00:01:14
no longer be stopped.00:01:16
Germany's surrender was only00:01:18
a matter of time.00:01:32
In my childhood I was an officer That00:01:35
Germany was the archenemy was a00:01:38
mixture of admiration, fear and00:01:40
distrust00:01:43
for Claude Busse Golf family there are00:01:46
two Germanys the country of poets00:01:48
and thinkers and the country of militarists00:01:51
the mother played Schubert on the00:01:54
piano the children read Goethe and00:01:56
Schiller00:02:02
I have to stay with my parents Nobody hates it,00:02:05
on the contrary, my parents00:02:07
adored German poetry and00:02:09
German music but my father00:02:11
always said dog squadron war 14 18 so it00:02:13
's only a matter of time when00:02:15
the Germans next00:02:16
invade as if there has to be a war every 3000:02:19
years and00:02:22
In fact, like his grandfather00:02:25
and father, Claude Boussa Goll also has to go to00:02:27
war against the Germans.00:02:32
These wars between the Germans and the00:02:33
French. As an Alsatian, Frederik, who00:02:36
particularly suffered from them,00:02:39
on April 20, 1945, he was with the first00:02:43
French army here at Renault On the00:02:45
Rhine,00:02:48
the Germans blew up almost all the bridges,00:02:50
the French crossed over, it00:03:03
was actually the border.00:03:05
We wanted to go to the other side to00:03:07
show them that we still00:03:09
existed because the four years we had to work with the00:03:12
German nuclear power plants were to be lamented and00:03:14
that is Incredible,00:03:15
we will never forget that, she was00:03:20
still very young at the age of 20,00:03:23
not like our fathers who fought in the First00:03:26
World War. Kastel,00:03:29
Frederik Baer's hometown in00:03:33
Alsace-Lorraine An00:03:43
eventful history back and00:03:45
forth in June 1940, Hitler occupied Alsace00:03:50
Lorraine. The region became radically Germanized.00:03:53
Most of the young men were00:03:55
forcibly recruited first for labor service and00:03:57
then for the Wehrmacht.00:04:07
I was drafted on April 18, 194200:04:11
and it was very, very hard because00:04:16
we didn't want the German uniforms00:04:17
wear00:04:21
the Germans make Frederick Fritz00:04:24
B back00:04:29
then that was unbelievable. There were00:04:32
worlds apart between the Germans and the French. We went to the00:04:35
French school. Personally, I went to school for nine00:04:36
years00:04:43
Then00:04:46
having to go to war with the Germans, her00:04:48
father comforted her at the beginning,00:04:52
he told me eight, it doesn't bother her, it will00:04:54
pass, you just have to get used to it,00:04:55
but six months later he said they00:04:58
are no longer the same Germans as those00:05:00
Germans in the First World War are00:05:02
different on the Eastern Front, Frederik loses00:05:07
his brother.00:05:08
He himself is able to secede from the Wehrmacht in the summer of 1943,00:05:12
but the Soviets initially hold him in00:05:15
a camp as a German00:05:17
prisoner of war. Through a00:05:19
prisoner exchange he finally ends up00:05:20
in Algeria with the00:05:22
French army. Now he can00:05:24
finally act as a soldier French people fight against the00:05:26
Germans who have already brought so much suffering on00:05:28
their people.00:05:36
14 million French soldiers lay in00:05:39
the military cemeteries of France after the First World War. There was00:05:41
hardly a00:05:47
family that had not lost a father, a son00:05:49
or a brother.00:06:04
In the early summer of 1940, the00:06:07
Germans invaded France again00:06:09
Hundreds of thousands of French people have to00:06:11
flee from German tanks and00:06:13
German bombs00:06:21
and Hitler triumphs in Paris. 1800:06:30
million French people go into00:06:32
German captivity.00:06:33
Many will not survive. In revenge00:06:37
for the resistance,00:06:40
the German occupiers shoot 30,00000:06:42
French00:06:45
hostages. Thousands of resistance fighters deport00:06:47
them to concentration camps00:06:48
as well as over 75,000 French Jews,00:06:51
only a few of whom will return00:06:54
shortly after the liberation of Paris,00:06:56
the last deportation train leaves the00:06:59
Drancy assembly camp. I know how many from a00:07:02
Jewish family will not return00:07:12
The Gestapo arrested00:07:15
but can fly. In 1945 he also invaded southern Germany with00:07:19
the French army.00:07:23
You shouldn't forget that I had only00:07:26
just escaped from the hands of the Gestapo,00:07:27
that I was tortured, that I had00:07:32
fought as a resistance fighter against the Germans, that 21 of my00:07:35
family members were from the Germans00:07:36
had been deported and no longer00:07:38
came back. Undoubtedly, I felt a00:07:41
feeling of revenge and satisfaction that00:07:44
the war was over00:07:49
when French soldiers opened00:07:52
the gates of the00:07:53
concentration camps with the Allies.00:07:56
Any help came too late for thousands of prisoners,00:08:03
including for many members of Juma00:08:06
Tories It wasn't until the invasion of00:08:10
Germany in 1945 that his00:08:12
worst fears became a cruel00:08:14
certainty.00:08:19
I'll never forget that,00:08:24
even today when I think about it. It's00:08:32
very hard,00:08:33
of course I hated the Germans. There00:08:35
was no other way,00:08:36
innocent people who00:08:39
were massacred just because they were Jews00:08:41
was unbearable when the head of government00:08:52
visited the troops in the spring of 194500:08:55
and symbolically crossed the Rhine,00:08:57
the end of Nazi rule was00:08:59
sealed.00:09:08
De Gaulle wanted to quickly gain ground in order to00:09:12
substantiate the claim to a French occupation zone.00:09:23
After Pforzheim, Karlsruhe and Baden-Baden,00:09:26
the strategically important00:09:28
Freudenstadt was to be taken00:09:34
Claude Chabrol is also00:09:37
on the way to Freudenstadt with his unit on April 16th00:09:38
as a medic, he is taking care of00:09:41
the wounded.00:09:43
For me it feels like a kind of00:09:45
justice, punishment for what00:09:47
happened. My first reaction00:09:49
in Germany was months ago00:09:51
Now it's your turn. Let the00:09:53
war take place with you.00:09:57
The French have to be on their guard. There are00:10:03
still scattered German00:10:05
Wehrmacht units In00:10:20
1940, the whole of Freudenstadt cheered for the00:10:23
leader when he visited the wounded there after the00:10:25
French campaign.00:10:28
Given the numerous hospitals in the00:10:31
city, the people of Freudenstadt hope to be spared from the war until the00:10:33
end.00:10:35
A small werewolf group wants to stop the00:10:37
French a few kilometers from00:10:39
Freudenstadt00:10:41
Fight but the troops00:10:43
cling to the leader's words.00:10:53
A German Freikorps is lurking in the forest.00:10:56
Hans' combat troops are fighting a00:10:59
battle with the00:11:00
French across the line.00:11:01
They now suspect that there are additional defense00:11:04
troops in the city The00:11:08
flag was hoisted00:11:11
on Monday, April 16, 1945. The00:11:15
French are driving heavy artillery on the00:11:28
grenades that hit mine.00:11:31
If they had all gone through,00:11:34
I wouldn't be here00:11:40
a shock because00:11:44
everything collapsed, not what we had00:11:47
previously believed and hoped for and00:11:50
what we had fought for. Money for00:11:54
Germany. We fought for Germany.00:11:56
We clashed with the soldiers. We00:11:59
fought with them inside.00:12:03
The war was so far far away. The fathers00:12:06
and men The front00:12:08
now reaches the idyllic vacation spot,00:12:11
puts women and children in fear00:12:13
and terror.00:12:19
This first rocket stands00:12:23
over us with tremendous force. If00:12:28
the glass had been bigger, it would have been better for him.00:12:42
My father wasn't there, just with my00:12:44
mother and me My little sister00:12:47
Anna is still trying to save what could be00:12:51
saved.00:12:53
When the young paramedic Claude Boussa00:12:56
Goll is on his way into the city,00:12:58
he has no idea what awaits him there.00:13:03
The people are desperately trying to00:13:05
put out the fire, but almost the entire00:13:07
old town just burns down00:13:08
three weeks before the war ended00:13:17
it was the first time that I came to a00:13:20
city that was on fire00:13:23
instead of a war with weapons against00:13:25
weapons I was suddenly00:13:27
faced with civilians there were almost no men00:13:30
there only older women and children00:13:39
and first of all I once saw how00:13:42
the German population00:13:43
had to suffer from the horrors of the war,00:13:45
even though they were of course unarmed.00:13:47
Either two SS were still part of the Wehrmacht00:13:49
and suddenly I had a completely00:13:53
different picture of the war. Claude Chabrol00:14:00
is a medic and there are many injured people in the city00:14:03
He wants to help but just like in the night00:14:07
he gets the marching orders again.00:14:09
As he's leaving he finds a00:14:12
seriously injured man from Freudenstadt.00:14:14
He's desperately looking for a hospital for00:14:16
him. A German doctor came to me,00:14:21
very tired and overloaded in this00:14:26
entrance hall where injured people were lying around on00:14:28
stretchers They were in00:14:30
pain and they needed and00:14:32
could only smell injured people. I told him00:14:35
that I had an injured German for00:14:37
her. He could reject him.00:14:41
He tried to tell me that I00:14:43
should keep him. He told me I could00:14:47
n't take care of him. You00:14:48
see What condition are the00:14:50
injured here in?00:14:53
I had to make my last bandages with paper. Of00:14:55
course I didn't run with00:14:57
me on the way to the front.00:14:59
We both went out to check on him.00:15:01
He leaned over the injured man. He00:15:04
came back up and looked at me00:15:06
and told me he was dead.00:15:10
The advancing units were occupying00:15:13
a city that was 40 percent destroyed.00:15:21
We could hear them from far away making this00:15:24
noise as they drove. They wanted to go all the way00:15:29
around the street00:15:30
and then the first one drove over these00:15:34
caps over this wall and they drove in00:15:38
master everything and stood to the left of the house00:15:42
directly in front of our offices and00:15:48
got out of the tank very quickly everywhere00:15:54
the colonial troops have to march in first00:15:56
as so-called shock troops, which is why they suffer00:15:59
the greatest losses even00:16:01
at the end of the war00:16:04
but now they are the victors were00:16:12
very drunk00:16:13
we have Gertrud had many freedoms for three days free,00:16:16
even if women in00:16:22
his field post had cameras,00:16:24
they were always warned about the possible revenge of00:16:26
the enemies. Now the00:16:28
family camera house became a place of refuge,00:17:09
an official rape and00:17:12
pillage freedom but as some people00:17:14
from Freudenstadt still believe today It00:17:17
didn't exist,00:17:21
we know that there were attacks but they00:17:24
were severely punished. The00:17:26
French army would never have00:17:29
allowed something like that and certainly not the00:17:31
Moroccans.00:17:34
As far as I know, there was a declaration00:17:37
from the general, the boy who was in charge at the time,00:17:41
and that can be verified at any time00:17:43
That every Moroccan who is00:17:45
guilty of rape00:17:47
or who is00:17:49
caught stealing is shot on the spot.00:17:55
I myself know of two executions in00:17:58
our division. Only gradually does00:18:05
the military leadership get the situation under control. Contemporary witnesses00:18:06
report that hundreds of00:18:08
women have been raped. There are exact figures00:18:11
Not00:18:12
after taking Freudenstadt,00:18:14
the French move on. They00:18:17
absolutely want to take Stuttgart before the Americans00:18:19
and advance to Lake Constance.00:18:26
The French soldiers face a00:18:29
long, arduous march through the00:18:31
Black Forest. Starving and00:18:33
exhausted, they come through a00:18:35
rural area that has so far been00:18:37
largely spared from the war What remained was what00:18:45
I most hoped for from Germany back then,00:18:46
which was to eat properly.00:18:48
I have 20, I've been hungry for five years.00:18:51
We passed through a rich area.00:18:57
We had the impression that the people had00:18:59
hardly noticed anything about the war. That was what happened00:19:02
Berlin or Dresden cannot be00:19:05
compared, they were wealthy00:19:06
regions where there was a lot of food and we00:19:08
ate a lot.00:19:14
Rebek he had experienced four years of German00:19:17
occupation. Now he is the00:19:19
owner and the Germans are afraid00:19:21
of revenge. The00:19:29
population was very afraid and00:19:33
I was having fun So back then I00:19:38
annoyed them a bit.00:19:39
I took away their bread or their00:19:41
eggs. He sensed the fear of the farmers. He00:19:47
could treat them the same way as the00:19:48
German occupiers treated the French.00:19:54
One day I read to a woman from a00:19:56
small German magazine00:20:00
French as well as00:20:02
in German00:20:03
if you don't tell us where you have something to00:20:06
eat you will be shot like00:20:11
I show you the booklet and said00:20:14
you see they had00:20:17
written up such documents when they were in France00:20:19
we were told if they didn't show us what they00:20:22
had They will be shot00:20:24
and now I'm telling him so give00:20:28
me your eggs Orie just wants to00:20:35
eat his fill. On April 20th 194500:20:38
he writes to his parents that he has00:20:40
made himself an omelette out of 25 eggs.00:20:48
The French00:20:50
troops are still meeting scattered Wehrmacht troops everywhere00:20:52
Units including many Hitler boys00:21:04
gave up Danny. We saw that there00:21:06
were children, boys of 15 who had been drafted here and00:21:09
who were crying and running to us. We00:21:12
refused to take prisoners of war now.00:21:15
I took a piece of paper and wrote on it in00:21:17
French and English00:21:18
that they were going home00:21:21
It was easy to be ashamed.00:21:29
The French army marched almost 200 kilometers00:21:32
across the00:21:34
Black Forest with00:21:40
the Alsatian Frederik B. The weather was00:21:47
good, not too cold, not too hot,00:21:50
but later in the Black Forest there was snow on top of the00:21:52
mountains. Below we were with our00:21:54
sleeves rolled up We started chasing00:21:56
people from the SS and it was00:21:59
snowing up there, it was very, very hard,00:22:02
we were dead tired,00:22:03
we went through the whole mountain range00:22:25
According to orders, an anti-tank barrier had been00:22:27
set up00:22:32
that people were getting00:22:35
really scared of the shooting today00:22:42
and then it was Sunday and then you went00:22:46
into the church and it suddenly said that the00:22:48
men had to put up an anti-tank barrier on00:22:51
top immediately or they would close the00:22:53
whole place together00:22:55
But after a few shots were fired, I00:23:01
took it seriously.00:23:09
A friend of mine got me and00:23:13
told me to help open the anti-tank barrier.00:23:16
I say for the camera plus to saw00:23:20
where the anti-tank barriers fall. The war00:23:23
ends quickly without unnecessary00:23:25
bloodshed.00:23:26
The French take it without a fight00:23:30
They came here the street the street we00:23:33
were up there at the window of the opera00:23:36
looked down at the window and then00:23:39
we saw that they had chickens on the tanks00:23:42
as they00:23:45
had organized somewhere00:23:46
that were the Moroccans finally00:23:51
manage to00:23:57
reach Frederik a short time later00:24:05
The young soldier will stay in a small town on Lake Constance for a few months and00:24:07
he will have to get along with the people here.00:24:14
I would say at the very beginning it did00:24:16
n't go so well because the Moroccans were the00:24:18
first here. The people were00:24:21
afraid, but here the French00:24:26
military leadership has them situation is00:24:28
now better under control, there are00:24:30
still isolated attacks,00:24:42
the parents and the two daughters were00:24:46
then raped but not right at the00:24:48
beginning00:24:49
I think it was eight or 14 days00:24:52
later00:24:53
one day when three black people have00:24:57
black hair Moroccans and they00:24:59
stood against the wall and We00:25:01
always said what was wrong with them or00:25:04
something and the next morning she was gone and00:25:07
she was apparently raped00:25:10
in the hinterland and so she was caught00:25:13
and she had something gone with another morning.00:25:19
Those were the last shots in the00:25:22
area falls on the00:25:30
eighth of may 1945 the war is over00:25:42
while all of paris is rejoicing,00:25:44
most of the french soldiers are still far from00:25:46
home00:25:50
as well as frederik b. he celebrates the day in00:25:54
a small town near00:25:56
lake constance and writes in his diary00:25:59
the joy is great War is over,00:26:02
one defines it in front of the commander Faré00:26:05
and the French flag replaces the00:26:07
swastika in the public square. At the00:26:13
evening ball we dance with the local girls.00:26:20
The soldiers would much rather have00:26:22
danced with the girls at home. Their00:26:24
families have finally seen00:26:27
the news again Peace reached00:26:29
Claude Boss AG and his division on00:26:31
the march across the Alps.00:26:32
The French also occupied part of00:26:35
Austria. The young medic celebrated00:26:39
May 8th in Feldkirch. I was very happy00:26:45
that the war was over, the right00:26:47
word. Of00:26:48
course I hadn't00:26:49
won alone, but I had this impression00:26:51
as a 20-year-old, glad that it was over and00:26:54
I was still settling in because in00:26:56
reality I then noticed00:26:57
that real life was opening up.00:27:01
I had to start my studies again.00:27:04
I will never forget that day. I00:27:07
think it was difficult It is possible00:27:10
to experience another beautiful day like this eighth time in Feldkirch.00:27:14
WWF Martin is still fighting for the00:27:18
survival of the resistance on May 8th. The fighter had to go through00:27:21
the Ravensbrück and Buch concentration camps.00:27:26
Shortly before the end of the war she was sent on one of00:27:28
the infamous death marches00:27:30
For you, the eighth of May is the day of00:27:33
liberation in the USA. Only you will find one00:27:37
of our friends had died three days00:27:39
before,00:27:42
just like that. We all thought that we00:27:46
would die, just a few more days and00:27:49
life would be over and then we saw00:27:52
soldiers coming, all of them Were very nice00:27:58
then the following happened: the commander00:28:03
whose troops had just passed a German00:28:05
castle had00:28:07
taken a sword and a crown with him.00:28:09
He gave the sword into his hand and00:28:13
put the crown on my head.00:28:17
My friend Vera said he looked00:28:20
like me Like Joan of Arc00:28:24
in August 1945, the French became the00:28:28
fourth occupying power to take over the00:28:30
administration of their sector in Berlin.00:28:35
Robert Like Allah arrives with the first00:28:37
French soldiers in the German00:28:39
capital.00:28:48
We may have come to Berlin as victors,00:28:52
but we were immediately moved by the suffering of the people The00:28:56
German population at that time was00:29:00
mostly women and children and00:29:02
old people.00:29:04
Maybe I think the change00:29:10
can be a feeling of solidarity00:29:13
and sympathy.00:29:21
Not only the Germans are suffering from hunger,00:29:24
the French can hardly00:29:26
provide enough food for their own soldiers.00:29:28
They are also relying on the help of the00:29:29
Americans00:29:36
I've never been so hungry. Back00:29:38
then, the00:29:40
American rations were soon collected. That had a00:29:42
little moment, but often it00:29:45
just wasn't enough and yet somehow00:29:49
life began again for the young soldiers00:29:52
and for the German women.00:29:56
Sometimes I do the same the00:29:58
others00:29:59
I went dancing there was a small00:30:02
ball and pulling it a group00:30:05
of young girls also came there in my little00:30:07
blonde who made me feel very good but00:30:10
every time I wanted to ask her for a dance00:30:12
I often00:30:16
danced with a small private one00:30:17
The German police also came by every now and then.00:30:21
They raided00:30:22
the girls. Roberta saves00:30:29
his brunette from the police. The00:30:32
Berliner Felicitas Fahrmann and he00:30:34
become a couple00:30:38
despite the official ban on fraternization.00:30:41
Hardly anyone sticks to that anyway.00:30:48
Then they have to separate He00:30:50
falls seriously ill and is taken to a00:30:53
sanatorium in the Black Forest. His lover00:30:56
is not allowed to follow him,00:30:58
even if there was no wall. The00:31:00
Russian occupation soldiers did00:31:02
their job well. She just couldn't get00:31:04
through. He is supposed to get well again in a clinic in Sankt Blasien.00:31:10
There he meets former concentration camps00:31:13
Inmates were given medical care there.00:31:20
Watching it was very close to me. Visas,00:31:24
living dead who didn't want to die. They went00:31:28
out in the Franconia. I knew one00:31:33
time, then I didn't see him again for a while00:31:36
and then they were closer to life again.00:31:43
These people who didn't want to die00:31:45
if they did had made it this far,00:31:48
it showed how much courage they had00:31:52
in them, the will to survive, recovered from his00:32:02
serious illness thanks to a German00:32:05
doctor. In00:32:06
1946, his Felicitas was finally allowed00:32:09
to come.00:32:10
They got married in Sankt Blasien and00:32:13
lived there for a few years.00:32:19
I have a lot of friends who also00:32:21
got married. They were really brave were00:32:24
the ones who immediately returned to France00:32:26
because things were made difficult for them there.00:32:28
The French population did00:32:31
n't immediately accept something like that. The00:32:37
French received a large part00:32:39
of southern Germany as an occupation zone.00:32:42
Brenner's Park Hotel in Baden Baden was the00:32:44
seat of the highest French00:32:46
military government00:32:51
Gradually replaced by occupying troops,00:32:53
at the beginning of 1946, 20000:32:57
thousand French soldiers and civil servants00:33:00
and their families settled in Germany.00:33:08
The Alsatian Jean Paul Gaillard has also been forcibly00:33:16
recruited as a French occupying soldier in Germany since the summer of 1945. Just a few00:33:18
weeks before, he had been forcibly recruited for the Germans on the00:33:20
Eastern Front Having to fight in00:33:25
1945 I loathed them Omega in00:33:31
May 45 I only thought it was my own fault they only00:33:36
got what they deserved00:33:41
even though they are now one of the victors00:33:44
and those who have power over these00:33:46
Germans00:33:47
but the fate of the defeated does00:33:49
n't leave him cold either00:33:56
Ludwigshafen00:33:57
the city guard at the bridge of00:33:59
Ludwigshafen it was the only bridge00:34:01
someone could go from the American zone00:34:03
to the French zone. There were00:34:09
German women who were willing to00:34:11
do anything to get over the bridge to00:34:14
return home00:34:21
if they wanted to Doing everything with them00:34:29
that touched me,00:34:31
it was almost like a rape for00:34:34
which you had given your consent.00:34:43
Germans and French people now live in Freudenstadt and00:34:46
have to share everyday life with each other.00:34:51
Of course you wouldn't have loved them, so00:34:54
that's for sure, but it wasn't that00:34:58
yesterday Sugar begins in00:35:05
words. They didn't want to be with us00:35:09
at first, not when I think there00:35:11
was already a distance, but they were00:35:17
actually so busy with themselves00:35:19
that they didn't even have to00:35:22
sort out the necessary rules.00:35:25
Many French occupiers00:35:28
soon followed, taking their families like elsewhere00:35:31
They also have the best00:35:32
living quarters here00:35:36
in the Schaaf family's villa.00:35:38
The director of the French school sees her.00:35:43
She came to us sick with very00:35:46
small stubble on her head and her00:35:49
hair had been cut off before in France,00:35:53
which was something the Germans could do00:35:55
Imagine she has such a00:35:57
hatred for the Germans and my00:36:02
grandmother has such a hatred for the French.00:36:04
That's what the French ski French said00:36:15
room and they00:36:18
cook for me then the grandmother had to00:36:21
serve them00:36:23
and later they really became00:36:27
friends, the two of them but the word00:36:30
hereditary enemy is always omnipresent,00:36:36
it's not an easy life together the00:36:40
triumph of the victor humiliates the00:36:42
defeated even on Lake Constance00:36:45
here hope that the tricolor was00:36:48
here That was every morning and evening00:36:51
a flag was hoisted, that was00:36:54
certainly the ones at the front of the00:36:57
state office who marched there,00:37:00
they kept watch, the team that was00:37:02
always posted at the flag and00:37:04
then also the mass, the older people00:37:08
standing at attention And the children see all of this00:37:18
with completely different eyes00:37:20
because the French have a lot to00:37:22
offer. That was really big for us00:37:32
and makes them all look at the people who are00:37:35
driving it. The Frenchman is driving it. I never had00:37:38
the feeling that the occupying power,00:37:40
in that sense,00:37:42
nobody was happy about it About the00:37:44
billeting of the French but little by00:37:46
little the Germans noticed that this00:37:48
also had advantages. Then the00:37:51
women had to cook for the French and00:37:55
of course they brought everything here and00:37:57
then the family had something to eat on the flight00:38:00
so the others would also provide everything for him00:38:04
This is also the case at the Löwen inn, where the00:38:08
troupe of the Alsatian Frederik, who00:38:10
takes up residence in the summer of 45, had a00:38:14
great time. We ate there like00:38:16
kings.00:38:17
We felt like God in France,00:38:19
as the saying goes.00:38:27
The landlady of the inn will soon be like00:38:30
a mother After a short time, Wirth's daughter became00:38:32
more than a friend. They00:38:40
were some of the most beautiful moments00:38:43
I've experienced the whole time.00:38:45
The sun was shining,00:38:47
the war was over, the youth were getting00:38:50
together again, the pretty girls,00:39:05
we always had company when we00:39:07
danced against them, they were happy to come We had to00:39:12
ask our father for permission00:39:14
but we always had a girlfriend. What do you think?00:39:17
We were 20 years young and young people00:39:20
don't know national borders.00:39:22
The old enemies are approaching each other00:39:25
here on Lake Constance, perhaps more carelessly00:39:27
than anywhere else.00:39:40
After half a year on Lake Constance00:39:43
we have the Germans With completely different00:39:45
eyes,00:39:46
he didn't become too pro-German, but we just00:39:50
saw the people differently00:39:51
because they were so nice.00:39:54
We almost felt at home, but00:39:58
we still really wanted to go home.00:40:03
Gohl also sounds conciliatory tones early on on his journey00:40:05
through the occupied zone00:40:10
In October 1945, in Saarbrücken,00:40:13
in his first public speech on00:40:16
German soil00:40:17
as a European from the West, he said that00:40:20
despite everything that might come between us,00:40:22
we have to work together and00:40:24
understand each other. Mori says she did00:40:29
n't believe in German-French communication at that time00:40:34
Occupation soldier in Rhineland-Palatinate,00:40:36
he doesn't really want to trust peace.00:40:43
I think the Germans were so00:40:46
shocked by what had00:40:48
happened to them that they00:40:50
were hardly capable of any great resentment,00:40:52
even if there were perhaps still00:40:55
certain feelings of hate. They were far too00:41:05
exhausted, so I I felt very little00:41:07
about it. In00:41:10
1947, Chuck Norris will return to Paris00:41:13
and pursue a diplomatic00:41:15
career. When he00:41:18
proposes marriage, he will have to00:41:19
promise his future wife that he will never go to Germany again.00:41:25
At that time, I answered clearly without hesitation00:41:38
a totally00:41:40
tense relationship with Germany,00:41:47
things turn out very differently. Jacques Morys will00:41:50
later return as a diplomat and00:41:53
help to get the last00:41:54
German-French bone of contention out of the00:41:56
way.00:41:57
He prepares the signing of the Saar00:42:00
instead of death in 1954.00:42:07
A European00:42:09
city is offered to the Saarlanders that a00:42:12
year later they rejected it by a clear majority in a referendum.00:42:20
I was00:42:22
there when the treaties of 54 were signed. Here the00:42:26
problem was solved once and for all.00:42:29
We are very happy with that. On00:42:35
the one hand, the Germans remained00:42:38
and, on the other hand, they were able to have very00:42:40
close economic ties and cultural00:42:42
relationship between the Saarland in00:42:44
France is established00:42:52
France accepts the clear00:42:54
vote of the Saarlanders for00:42:56
integration into the Federal Republic00:43:01
The end of the war becomes an opportunity for a00:43:03
new beginning00:43:07
and for the first time in a long time00:43:09
German children are no longer seen as enemies of00:43:11
France Growing up00:43:14
in Freudenstadt began for Claude bus ag00:43:17
already in April 1945 something new here00:43:21
he had the feeling for the first time that00:43:24
there must be something other than war between the French00:43:26
and Germans. I was00:43:30
still thinking about revenge but00:43:33
I almost began to doubt their purchase, not because of their00:43:35
guilt but because of that The fact00:43:38
that they should be punished,00:43:40
after all, they were punished enough by everything that had00:43:42
happened.00:43:49
Claude Boussa now has golf friends on the00:43:51
other side of the Rhine that he00:43:53
occasionally visits.00:43:56
Our relationship certainly seems completely normal to many00:43:59
people of the younger generation,00:44:00
but for the people of00:44:03
my generation it is There is something completely00:44:06
incredible about00:44:09
the Rhine between Strasbourg and Kehl.00:44:12
Today French and Germans cross the00:44:15
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