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80 years of the Provence Landings: the last witnesses pass on the story to the younger generations
80 years of the Provence Landings: the last witnesses pass on the story to the younger generations
(france 2)
Allied soldiers landed on the beaches of Var to liberate Toulon and Marseille. Less well-known than that of Normandy, this landing is at the heart of the duty of remembrance.
“They accomplished, that day and the following ones, a work of which they knew the immense perils.” Emmanuel Macron paid tribute, Thursday August 15, to the “hero” of the landing in Provence, during commemorations in the presence of foreign leaders. Eighty years earlier, the French army had launched an assault in the South-East, with the help of Allied soldiers. Among these soldiers was Herbert Traube, a Jewish Austrian enlisted in the Foreign Legion, who today passes on the memory of this episode of the Second World War to younger generations.
Led by teachers, students traveled to the Var to listen to a historian recount how strategic the landing in Provence was. “It’s about creating a pincer movement to force the German army to liberate France”he explains. A necessary transmission to immerse the younger generations in history. “The landing in Provence is less well known”recognizes a student.
