Alsace–Lorraine
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Sep 19, 2026
speaker_4NARRATOR
To the privates of the First Division, it will always be the incomprehensible nonsense that goes by the name of the French language, spoken with perfect assurance by people old enough to know better, who refuse to make one syllable of intelligible sound in answer to even the simplest requests.
speaker_4NARRATOR
The privates were prepared to hear the French speak their own language at mention of Alsace-Lorraine and war aims, or to propound their private philosophies that way.
speaker_4NARRATOR
They granted the right of the French to talk how they pleased of their emotional pleasure at seeing the troops, or of any other subject above the timberline.
speaker_4NARRATOR
What staggered them was the insane top loftiness of using French to ask for ham and eggs and beer all the way to camp.
speaker_4NARRATOR
CHAPTER I UNDER OTHER SKIES after six months of nursing in the british trenches the four american red cross girls were inspired to offer their services to the french soldiers an autumn and a winter they spent together in southern france keeping house in the little french farmhouse with a blue front door Here the girls were so interested and so happy, that for a little time they almost forgot the tragedies near at hand.
speaker_4NARRATOR
During the first months there had come a lull in the fighting along the borders of Alsace-Lorraine, where the American girls were now stationed, so they had opportunity for enjoying the fragrant woods, the pool of Melisande, and the romantic atmosphere of the French country.
speaker_4NARRATOR
Their farmhouse was close upon the borders of an old chateau, and belonged to its owner, the Countess Castagne.
speaker_4NARRATOR
After a slight misunderstanding, a friendship develops between the old Countess and three of the four American girls, and here in the dignified old Louise XIV drawing-room they meet for the second time young Captain Henri Castagne, whom in Paris they had seen decorated with a cross of the Legion of Honour.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The watershed of the south marks no clear-cut boundary from Maine and Perche.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The valleys of the Seine and the Eure lead straight to the Ile-de-France, separated from Normandy only by those border fortresses of the Havre and the Vexin, which are the perpetual battleground of Norman history, Normandy's Alsace-Lorraine.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Within these limits lie two distinct physiographic areas, one of the lower portion of the Paris Basin, the other a western region which belongs with Brittany and the west of France.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
These districts are commonly distinguished as Upper and Lower Normandy, terms consecrated by long use and representing two contrasted regions and types, but there is no general agreement as to their exact limits or the limits of the region of Middle Normandy, which some have placed between them.
Tom WeissNARRATOR
But so far as her army is concerned, I should have said that Russia and France were responsible for that, and the more powerful it is, the less chance of any European conflagration.
Tom WeissNARRATOR
Russia might at any time come to the conclusion that a war is her only salvation against a revolution, and you know the feeling in France about Alsace-Lorraine as well as I do.
Tom WeissNARRATOR
The Germans themselves say that there is more interest in military matters and more progress being made in Russia today than ever before.' "'I have no doubt that you are right,' agreed Mr. Mangan.
Tom WeissNARRATOR
"'It is a matter which is being a great deal discussed just now, however.
Mark LindleyGUEST
So, I'm going to check out I hope you're all doing very well.
Mark LindleyGUEST
I'll give you a little update either later tonight or tomorrow on my way into Alsace-Lorraine to meet the guys.
Mark LindleyGUEST
But I hope wherever you are, you're finding peace and happiness, joy, comfort, love, and as always, the clearest of skies that you can get.
Mark LindleyGUEST
So cheers, everybody.
2 HRS 56 MINS LATER
Mark LindleyGUEST
Where are we, man? Somewhere in France, and I have no idea how to pronounce it, to be honest.
Mark LindleyGUEST
That makes two of us.
Mark LindleyGUEST
Right now, we are in the Alsace-Lorraine region, probably further south from that.
Mark LindleyGUEST
Um...
Tom WeissNARRATOR
But so far as her army is concerned, I should have said that Russia and France were responsible for that, and the more powerful it is, the less chance of any European conflagration.
Tom WeissNARRATOR
Russia might at any time come to the conclusion that a war is her only salvation against a revolution, and you know the feeling in France about Alsace-Lorraine as well as I do.
Tom WeissNARRATOR
The Germans themselves say that there is more interest in military matters and more progress being made in Russia today than ever before.' "'I have no doubt that you are right,' agreed Mr. Mangan.
Tom WeissNARRATOR
"'It is a matter which is being a great deal discussed just now, however.
Jared DiamondGUEST
Um, but most his-historians recognize that the system of alliances, the escalating system of alliances, and the escalating series of close escapes to war that had happened in the, in the years before August one, what was it? J-June 30 or July one, um, um, 1914.
Jared DiamondGUEST
Uh, there might well have been a war because of the, the system of alliances, the fact that there were countries that knew that they would profit from the war, that France saw the chance to get back Alsace-Lorraine, that the Russians were interested in extending Slavic interests, et cetera, et cetera.
Jared DiamondGUEST
Um, so it's, it's often viewed that, that even without the killing of Franz Ferdinand Another incident would have triggered World War I.
Jared DiamondGUEST
Whereas in the case of World War II, um, Stresemann, German foreign minister, foreign minister before Hitler, was attempting to, to do what every German wanted, which was to, to reverse the consequences of the Treaty of Versailles that had blamed Germany for World War I and da, da, da, da, da.
James EllmanGUEST
In fact, this was soon before the Battle of the Bulge, and the Germans stage a very large counterattack.
James EllmanGUEST
And then Operation Nordwind, another German counterattack in Alsace-Lorraine.
James EllmanGUEST
I think, to be fair, that this is one of Patton's worst showings as a general.
James EllmanGUEST
But to be fair to him, it's not as if the other Allied generals were finding great success at this time to his north and to his south.
speaker_11VOICE_ACTOR
Ah, what a joyous, charming gathering have we here.
speaker_11VOICE_ACTOR
Oh, the glow of warm friendship fills the room like a cottage fireplace in Alsace-Lorraine.
speaker_11VOICE_ACTOR
Ah, no, it cannot be.
speaker_11VOICE_ACTOR
Can I believe these weary eyes of mine? Is it not truly my intimate ami, Monsieur Montague?
speaker_17NARRATOR
The quaint little village of Benfield furnished an ancient nunnery and a castle with stables and good range.
speaker_17NARRATOR
Here the little community of Americans spent the winter comfortably being feasted and feted by the inhabitants whose steam they gained to such an extent that their departure was marked by a general holiday, assisting hands and such public demonstrations of regret that many a rude cowboy when once again careering over the pampas of Texas will rest his weary steed while memory reverts to the pleasant days and whole-souled friendships cemented at the foot of the Vosges mountains in disputed Alsace-Lorraine.
speaker_17NARRATOR
In Alsace-Lorraine whose anomalous position menaces the peace not only of the two countries interested but of the civilized world whose situation makes it intensely even sadly interesting as the theatre of that future human tragedy for which the ear of mankind strains day and night listening for detonations from the muzzles of the acme of invented mechanisms of destruction.
speaker_17NARRATOR
The lurid-garbed angel of devastation hovers careering through the atmosphere of the seemingly doomed valley, gaily laughing, shrieking exultantly at the white-robed angel of peace as the latter gloomily wanders, prayerful, tearful, hopelessly hunting, ceaselessly seeking the return of modern man's boasted newly created gods.
speaker_17NARRATOR
Equity, justice, reason.
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