GERMAN soldier saves WOUNDED FRENCH WOMAN/So CLOSE, but IMPOSSIBLE meeting
French story of how a German soldier saved a wounded Frenchwoman. This meeting changed his whole life, which he spent looking for the girl. But Providence decreed otherwise.
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:30 1940 Germany occupies France
00:45 A Belgian family flees the Germans to France
01:10 Parents seek refuge to help their wounded daughter
01:27 The German army enters Bethune
01:38 Hermann Ropp, a young German soldier
01:57 Hermann discovers a family in a church
02:51 Hermann is captivated by Rose's beauty
03:13 The priest explains to Hermann that Rose is seriously injured
03:23 Hermann realizes what his country is doing
04:07 The priest says that Rose needs immediate medical attention
04:27 Hermann finds an ambulance
04:49 Hermann will remain at the girl's bedside for an hour
05:39 Rose wakes up as Hermann leaves
05:50 Hermann asks Rose for forgiveness and tells his father his name
06:22 Hermann surrenders to the British
06:42 1945 Herman searches for Rose
07:39 Rose is left blind and lives with her parents in the south of France
07:51 Rose learns from her father that she was saved by a German soldier and wants to know his name
08:38 1978 Rose dies
09:06 Father reads in the newspaper about the death of a certain Herman Ropp
09:32 Father finds out Herman's mother's phone number and calls her
09:43 In conversation, they realize that they were neighbors and lived across from each other
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