Mysteries.of.the.Abandoned.S09E09.1080p.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264-BTN_track3_[und] Subtitles

At 00:00:02,500, Character said: [narrator] Famous,
yet deserted.

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At 00:00:05,400, Character said: Prized, coveted and assaulted.

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At 00:00:09,066, Character said: The wreckage of sites
that became battlegrounds.

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At 00:00:14,100, Character said: A town drenched in infamy.

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At 00:00:16,467, Character said: The victim
of a notorious raid.

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At 00:00:19,266, Character said: [Jim Meigs] Everything is
in the same state of decay.

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At 00:00:21,467, Character said: This isn't just a ruin.
It's something more.

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At 00:00:25,000, Character said: [narrator] A facility famed
for break outs,

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At 00:00:27,467, Character said: subjected to a daring
break in.

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At 00:00:30,000, Character said: subjected to a daring
break in.

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At 00:00:30,166, Character said: [Katherine Landdeck]
In this case, the idea
of who is the invader,

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At 00:00:33,467, Character said: and who is the invaded,
is pretty blurred.

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At 00:00:37,367, Character said: [narrator] The musical
heartbeat of a city,

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At 00:00:39,867, Character said: brought down
by racial division.

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At 00:00:42,467, Character said: [Onyeka] There were raids.
There were arrests.

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At 00:00:44,767, Character said: People were taken away.

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At 00:00:48,066, Character said: [narrator] And a micronation
off the coast of England,

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At 00:00:51,567, Character said: stormed by a band
of mercenaries.

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At 00:00:55,100, Character said: So Sealand was now occupied
by a gang of Germans

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At 00:00:59,100, Character said: with guns and plenty of money.

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At 00:01:00,000, Character said: with guns and plenty of money.

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At 00:01:03,200, Character said: [narrator] This is Mysteries
of the Abandoned.

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At 00:01:06,367, Character said: Raiders and Invaders.

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At 00:01:10,767, Character said: Decaying relics.

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At 00:01:13,867, Character said: Ruins of lost worlds.

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At 00:01:17,500, Character said: Sites haunted by the past.

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At 00:01:21,266, Character said: Their secrets waiting
to be revealed.

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At 00:01:34,266, Character said: Hugging the banks
of the River Glen,
in west Central France,

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At 00:01:38,000, Character said: is a settlement
that appears derelict,

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At 00:01:40,367, Character said: yet tenderly preserved.

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At 00:01:46,700, Character said: [Rob] This looks like
the perfect place

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At 00:01:48,467, Character said: to have a very happy,
very productive
agricultural village.

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At 00:01:53,166, Character said: So why is there no one here?

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At 00:01:57,367, Character said: [Jim] What's striking is how

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At 00:02:00,000, Character said: [Jim] What's striking is how

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At 00:02:00,100, Character said: everything is in
about the same degree
of decay.

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At 00:02:04,467, Character said: As if this town was abandoned

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At 00:02:08,200, Character said: and destroyed all at once.

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At 00:02:15,500, Character said: [Katherine] You come
into the church

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At 00:02:17,000, Character said: and you see this giant bell.

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At 00:02:19,367, Character said: But it's not right.
It's been melted.

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At 00:02:22,367, Character said: And you can't imagine
what kind of heat
must've done that.

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At 00:02:26,767, Character said: [narrator] Nearby,
in the village's cemetery,

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At 00:02:29,667, Character said: rows of neat headstones
seem unremarkable,
until you look closer.

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At 00:02:30,000, Character said: rows of neat headstones
seem unremarkable,
until you look closer.

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At 00:02:35,567, Character said: Many of the graves
share the same date.

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At 00:02:38,367, Character said: And many of the graves
belong to children.

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At 00:02:41,567, Character said: [Rob] Your heart just sinks.

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At 00:02:43,567, Character said: It makes you wonder
what on earth happened here.

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At 00:03:00,467, Character said: [Philippe] For me,
going through the village
is a pilgrimage.

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At 00:03:04,100, Character said: You can imagine
the life before.

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At 00:03:06,266, Character said: You can imagine the people
who lived in these houses.

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At 00:03:11,200, Character said: [narrator] Philippe Lacroix
has been mayor of this area
since 2014.

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At 00:03:16,567, Character said: His village and their
shattered site
share the same name.

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At 00:03:21,667, Character said: Oradour-sur-Glane.

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At 00:03:24,467, Character said: Its ghostly streets
disguise a thriving past.

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At 00:03:29,367, Character said: [Philippe] It was
very commercial.

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At 00:03:30,000, Character said: [Philippe] It was
very commercial.

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At 00:03:31,867, Character said: There were a lot of shops
and professionals.

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At 00:03:34,600, Character said: It was a very active village.

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At 00:03:37,467, Character said: We had about
1,600 inhabitants
in the whole commune.

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At 00:03:41,367, Character said: [narrator] Day trippers,
shoppers,

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At 00:03:43,367, Character said: and pupils attending
the village's two schools,
swelled its numbers.

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At 00:03:48,867, Character said: Among them were members
of Philippe's family.

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At 00:03:52,567, Character said: So why has this
thriving community vanished?

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At 00:03:59,166, Character said: [Jim] One clue is this
ancient car,

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At 00:04:00,000, Character said: [Jim] One clue is this
ancient car,

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At 00:04:03,066, Character said: that's sitting in a very
prominent location,

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At 00:04:06,767, Character said: gradually rusting away.

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At 00:04:08,667, Character said: This is a very particular
type of car.

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At 00:04:12,266, Character said: It's a Peugeot 202.

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At 00:04:15,266, Character said: A model that was introduced
just a couple of years
before World War II.

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At 00:04:23,166, Character said: [narrator] The fate of Oradour
is wrapped up in the chaos
and destruction

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At 00:04:27,867, Character said: of the second World War.

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At 00:04:30,166, Character said: But this relatively tranquil
part of France

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At 00:04:33,000, Character said: never echoed to the sound
of battle

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At 00:04:35,367, Character said: or the waves of bombers
that pounded Europe
from the skies.

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At 00:04:40,166, Character said: The village lay
in the so-called free zone
of France.

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At 00:04:44,667, Character said: While the Germans occupied
the north and west
of the country,

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At 00:04:48,000, Character said: this was an area administered
by the Vichy regime,

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At 00:04:52,467, Character said: French collaborators who ruled
on behalf of their
German masters.

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At 00:04:58,367, Character said: [Jim] Life in Vichy, France
was a very tenuous affair.

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At 00:05:00,000, Character said: [Jim] Life in Vichy, France
was a very tenuous affair.

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At 00:05:02,567, Character said: In theory, they had
a certain amount
of governmental autonomy.

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At 00:05:07,266, Character said: And yet the German military
was always there,
hovering over everything.

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At 00:05:12,367, Character said: And always suspicious
of the local population.

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At 00:05:16,767, Character said: [Katherine] They're going
to be essentially left alone,

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At 00:05:18,667, Character said: as long as they do
what they're told.

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At 00:05:20,567, Character said: As long as they collaborate
or at least don't
actively fight

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At 00:05:24,967, Character said: against the Germans
that are in the area.

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At 00:05:29,767, Character said: [narrator] Not every French
citizen was so compliant.

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At 00:05:30,000, Character said: [narrator] Not every French
citizen was so compliant.

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At 00:05:33,367, Character said: Disparate bands of guerrillas,
collectively known as
"The Resistance",

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At 00:05:37,367, Character said: disrupted the German war
effort in any way possible.

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At 00:05:41,166, Character said: You can imagine
the fault lines of distrust

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At 00:05:43,467, Character said: running through French society
during this period.

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At 00:05:50,266, Character said: [narrator] For four years,
Oradour-sur-Glane

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At 00:05:52,967, Character said: existed under this
uneasy atmosphere.

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At 00:05:56,166, Character said: But then events far away,
on the beaches
of northern France,

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At 00:06:00,000, Character said: But then events far away,
on the beaches
of northern France,

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At 00:06:00,467, Character said: would change everything.

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At 00:06:02,367, Character said: The date was June 6th, 1944.

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At 00:06:06,166, Character said: D-Day.

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At 00:06:07,667, Character said: The liberation of France
had begun.

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At 00:06:12,667, Character said: Seeing the German
defeat imminent,
galvanizes the French.

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At 00:06:19,600, Character said: It fires up the French spirit.

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At 00:06:24,567, Character said: [Katherine] The French
Resistance is ramping
up their activities.

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At 00:06:27,467, Character said: They're becoming
more aggressive
and taking even more risks.

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At 00:06:30,000, Character said: They're becoming
more aggressive
and taking even more risks.

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At 00:06:33,100, Character said: [Jim] The sense of excitement
must've been overwhelming.

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At 00:06:35,467, Character said: Here, finally, after years,

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At 00:06:38,567, Character said: the allies were coming
to save France
from the Germans.

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At 00:06:43,166, Character said: The villagers must've thought
they can only hold on
until the allies get there.

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At 00:06:50,800, Character said: [Philippe] What we do know,
is that in Oradour,
there was no resistance.

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At 00:06:55,066, Character said: And as they had done nothing,
they thought...