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For several weeks, directors Éric Deroo and Charles Thimon have been offering a fascinating documentary on the Mycanal platform on the pathetic and tragic fate of nearly two million of our soldiers, imprisoned after the defeat by Germany in 1940. Who were they?
Why and in what conditions were they kept captive for five long years?
Here are some aspects addressed by this salutary work, which combines surprising archives with excellent in-depth analyzes and above all with very precious testimonies from prisoners, collected in the evening of their lives.
All the injustice of their destiny emerges from their visible emotion, from their anecdotes, from their silences, sometimes: these men were deprived of their war and above all of their future...
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