The Scuttling of Toulon: The French Navy's Desperate Act I SLICE HISTORY | FULL DOCUMENTARY
On 27 November 1942, the French fleet - the fourth in the world after Great Britain, the United States and Japan - sank in the port of Toulon.
It was not an enemy attack but the French themselves who sent their warships to the bottom of the sea. The ‘Strasbourg’, ‘Colbert’, ‘Algeria or the ‘Dupleix’... Of the 173 ships in Toulon harbour, more than 85 have gone to ground. It was a disaster from which the French Navy would find it difficult to recover.
How did things get this far? Who gave the orders? Who executed them? The answer to these questions lies in the painful history of collaboration of the army. Caught in the tangled web of its contradictions, the navy resorted to the most desperate act of all ... the scuttling of its own fleet. A scenario that was set in motion by the events of June 1940 and would inevitably lead to this disastrous outcome.
Many books have been written on this event - often by former sailors - but no film exists. While even the darkest episodes of the Occupation were discussed, analyzed and reported widely in many documentaries, not a single film has been made which deals solely with the scuttling in Toulon harbour.
Documentary: Desperate Measures the sculting of the French fleet in 1942
Directed by: Adila Bennedjai-Zou & Christophe Talczewski
Production: Point du Jour
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