"Before and after" comparisons of World War II photos with the same locations today, depicting German soldiers and Allied paratroopers on the French Riviera in 1944, at the period of Operation Dragoon, the Allied invasion of southern France.
The area of Nice was occupied by German troops of Reserve Division 148. On August 15th 1944, the Allies, spearheded by paratroopers of the First Airborne Task Force, landed in southern France and liberated the region of Nice over the next weeks.
The body of the killed German soldier under the tree only was found in 2006, a video on the exhumation can be seen here:    • WWII German Mass Grave discovery  Ex...  

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Allied units involved in the invasion were:
First Special Service Force / FSSF / 1st SSF
517th Parachute Infantry Regiment
509th Parachute Infantry Battalion
551st Parachute Infantry Battalion

Crocodile Tear Productions, with the participation of Sébastien Cano and Julien Fanet.
Based on the book "Autopsy of a Battle, the Liberation of the French Riviera". JeanLoup Gassend. Schiffer publications.

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Nizza Krieg Südfrankreich Frankreich

German units involved were: Reserve Division 148 Reserve Grenadier Regiment 239 Reserve Grenadier Regiment 8 Reserve Grenadier Bataillon 372 Reserve Grenadier Bataillon 164 Reserve Jäger Bataillon 28 Reserve Grenadier Bataillon 327 Reserve Grenadier Bataillon 444 Reserve Grenadier Bataillon 7 Ost Bataillon 661 Reserve Artillerie Regiment 8 Division Füsillier Bataillon 148 Kurt Hahn FestungsPionierBataillon 14 Krieg in Südfrankreich Friedhof Dagneux Volksbund Then and now Before and After World war II time travel back to the future after the battle killed in action ambush drop zone missing in action KIA MIA casualties of war photography timelapse Nice Grasse Cannes Sospel La Napoule VilleneuveLoubet Levens Col de Braus Pont de la Manda St Cézaire sur Siagne Monaco Monte Carlo Menton Pont du Loup Cimetière de Caucade Dagneux German cemetery Draguignan US cemetery Antibes Cote d'Azur Peira Cava Wehrmacht Fascism chateau de la Napoule Marvin Moles helmet comparison French Resistance débarquement de Provence Operation Dragoon Autopsy of a Battle The Champagne Campaign Rhone American Cemetery ABMC 1944 1939 1945 General Otto FretterPico General Robert T Frederick Ange Grassi Seraphin Torrin execution hanging death penalty Gestapo FFI FTP FABTF First Airborne Task Force paratroopers Operation Dragoon Southern France Invasion August 15th 1944 Liberation Occupation animation 517th PRCT Wehrmacht Nazi vermist verschollen gefallen Deutsche Soldatenfriedhof Dagneux Volksbund parents at gravesite nostalgia Dr. Med. Fritz Lauermann Fritz Dr Lauermann Fritz Dr Fritz Lauermann Hauptmann Harald von Klewitz Lorenzberg