File talk:Frenchmanweeps1940.jpg

Altering Caption

The caption says "A Frenchman weeps as German soldiers march into the French capital, Paris, on June 14, 1940, after the Allied armies had been driven back across France", however: 1) It doesn't make sense as it's extremely doubtful there was a civilian crowd to greet German soldiers in Paris. 2) The same picture on Commons tells a different and more believable story, supported by a movie [1] (very end) showing the same scene in context.

French people staring and waving at the French Army remaining troops leaving metropolitan France at Toulon harbour, 1940, to reach the French colonies in Africa where will be organized as Free French Forces fighting on the Allied side, while France is taken over by the Nazis and the Petain regime collaborating with them. Screenhot taken from the 1943 United States Army propaganda film Divide and Conquer (Why We Fight #3) directed by Frank Capra and partially based on, news archives, animations, restaged scenes and captured propaganda material from both sides. As a propaganda film from "unknown" source, it is unsure if the scene was really shot on location or if it was later restaged in studios.

In light of this, I'm editing the text of the picture accordingly and captions where used. 82.231.41.7 (talk) 23:16, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Truth hits everybody

now the original footage from where this still was taken scene from is included. wikipedia is made with an educational purpose not propaganda. Truthitseverybody (talk) 22:50, 17 February 2010 (UTC)