The Sorrow and the Pity | movie | 1971 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

From 1940 to 1944, France's Vichy government collaborated with Nazi Germany. Marcel Ophüls mixes archival footage with  | dG1fM0RGZXJSODFQZXM

Transcript

00:00France fell in 28 days, a victim of the Nazi blitzkrieg.

00:09The jubilant Hitler made his first visit to Paris at 6 a.m.

00:37The French fled Paris, jamming the roads, panicked by the swift German advance.

00:58Marshal Pétain offered France the gift of his person, and the drama of collaboration

01:03and resistance began.

01:22These are the faces today of leaders and followers, of brave men and cowards and men who did nothing.

01:30A French aristocrat who joined the Waffen-SS and fought on the Russian front.

01:36Another joined the resistance.

01:40A German occupation officer argues that the resistance fighters should have worn armbands.