will everyone please stop arguing? i completely agree with MegaSteelers7.
hundreds of brave men, both british and german, died in that pointless war. both simply did as they were commanded and walked straight into death itself!! you cannot blame any of the soldiers for the war!! they were pawns in the irritable chess game between british and german leaders.
All these men are dead. None saw their homes, their families, their lovers. They went to war for glory and pride. They trusted their superiors and left the safety of the trenches, knowing they were going to their deaths. Can any of you imagine going into hell itself, knowing that within minutes, seconds even you will be dead and forgotten. Bravery at its most base. All these men fought for glory, all these men died in the mud, forgotten by all.
The German General Ludendorff famously said "The British fight like lions but are lead by donkeys" and its true. Fuck you Sir Douglas Haig. Rule Britannia!!!!
The trouble with British and German soldiers are, that they are similar poles on the same magnet. Doesn't matter if they are positive or negative at the same time, they still bounce off one another like there's no tomorrow ............. Doesn't mean they still don't care for one-another though
The British made the same errrors as the Germans did.Why did they launch a offensive after Verdun?Didn't they see that one had no chance against an entrenched enemy?
@ThePhantomMajor Yeah the Frogs they bore the brunt in ww1 on your side.Many forget it they just think of the French defeat in ww2.It's a little bit unfair i think!
@Ahornblatt2000 There was a view that (a) an offensive needed to be launched to relive pressure on Verdun where the French were suffering heavily and (b) Verdun was a huge fortress, whereas the Somme attack focussed on a 16mile strip of trenches, not all heavily defended and (c) the artillery bombardment was expected to have destroyed German resistance. It was believed that this would allow the troops to mop up the enemy. Different type of battle/attack that at Verdun.
@THthefirst (a) is okay (b) partly too but (c) not.When the battle of the Somme took place the war has already been raging for 2 years.I think it was known to both sides that even the most concentrated bombardment against an entrenched enemy can not totally wipe out and destroy the enemy,and what a single surviving machine gun can do to advancing troops was known too
@Ahornblatt2000 The evidence is clear that the generals believed the bombardment would succeed. They thought this because sustained shelling on this massive scale had never been attempted before the Somme.. If you disagree - please state where it was so used before. The weakness was that it was spread too thinly due to Haig's grand ambitions. When concentrated fire over a smaller area was used in Sept 1916 by Rawlinson it was v effective and many of the first day objectives were taken.
@THthefirst The First Battle of Champagne was one where an artillery barrage was unleashed for the first time.Okay not in such a big extent like in Verdun or Somme but it was a "foretaste" of battles which lay ahead of them
Btw, Haig let loose over 1400 guns which fired in 8 days over 1.5 shells according to Wikipedia.I wouldn't call it "spread too thinly".
@Ahornblatt2000 So that's my point - there was nothing to compare it to before. As for Haig, if you work out the square milage (about 16 miles x 5 miles) then that was a huge area to cover, particularly given that 1/3 of the shells were duds. Some sectors (in the north and centre) had too few guns for their objectives. Rawlinson wanted to bite and hold - ie. focus on one area at a time, then move on - but was overruled by Haig who had the cavalry waiting in the wings to push on 15 miles!
@THthefirst Yes but you only fire at the trenches and on the barbwire before it.How much would it be? 50m-150m wide strip? Or more?.16 miles are about 25-26km x 0,150km= 3,9km².Even if 1 in 3 was a dud that are still 1 million shells left spread on 3,9km².Not bad,huh?
But i really didn't know you still had cavalry in action in 1916.Wasn't that a sign of insanity?
@Ahornblatt2000 It was much more than that as anyone who understands the period would know. Each "line" was in fact between a series of many trenches, each with communication trenches linking them, and forts/redoubts/strongholds. Each "line" went back at least 1km, and in some parts of the line nearly 2km. There were two of these "lines", and in 1916 the Germans built a third. Look at a trench map. Yes, cavalry were supposed to break through. It's a fascinationg period - go study it.
@THthefirst Yes maybe it's fascinating period to study it but i doubt these guys who went through all that found it fascinating.You right i'm not an expert for ww1 but even i knew there were more than 1 trench i know there were some behind in order to retreat when needed.But do you think they all had been pounded?
@Ahornblatt2000 Certainly not everything that Haig did can be justified but you can probably say that of every general in history Ahorn. I don't think the war could have been fought in a radically different manner and of course it was the same for BOTH sides. The Germans suffered heavier casualties at the Somme than the British did.
@YaxKukMo1426 Nein they did not.It was a combined attack by the British and French and the western Alliies were the attacking forces so it's clear that they suffered higher casaulties than the Germans.Even Wikipedia tell you so.Check it out!
This war was one that should never have happened. (not that any should). Before this there was no history of enmity bewtween Britain and Germany. We are very much interrelated. Our royal families were closely related. And our language has similarities.
Lack of any bad feeling between the two nations was evident the first Christmas of war. Also, a notice the Germans put up from their trench - 'We are Saxon, you Anglo Saxon, so why do we fight? says it all. Media created hate with lies.
@Cordeman That's a simplification - Germany was at the time perceived as a threat to Britain and its interests in a world that was entirely different from now when European powers had empires and thought nothing of it. Obviously no one sane advocates war, but they did not have the foresight to see that it would result in huge losses - all wars previously had been quick and decisive before with nothing like the casualties suffered.
The Lancashire fusiliers was the most decorated regiment of WW1. At Gallipoli alone they won 'six Vc's before breakfast'. They were machine gunned as they hit the beach, but fighting up the cliff took the the Turkish positions at bayonet point.
These were hardy young men from the Industrial north. Many come not only from the same town, but the same street. They grew up together, and died together
My great grandad pte James Healy he was in the Lancshire fusiliers and was never seen or heard of again, after going over the top on the morning of the 1st July 1916
@roytheboy65 Both my Grandads came through the Somme one was killed by the Luftwaffe during a raid on Brum and my other lied and went to war for a second time ( Royal Warwicks ) and survived that too !! unfortunatly four of my great uncles did'nt come back from Aubers Ridge, Arras, and the Ypres salient. All missing.
@roytheboy65 The clip at 2.45 of the men in the road is of the Lancashire Fusiliers, in the Sunken Road ahead of Beaumont Hamel on 1 July 1916. RIP to Pte Healy.
@Ethan15811 As much of the British army at this tome had very little battle experience, Haig and other generals commanded (dubiously) that they walk towards the German fortifications as it would prevent them from panicking in a mad sprint and causing the attacks to fail.
@Ethan15811 As much of the British army at this time had very little battle experience, Haig and other generals commanded (dubiously) that they walk towards the German fortifications as it would prevent them from panicking in a mad sprint and causing the attacks to fail.
@Ethan15811 Because thats what they were trained to do...they spent weeks in training at places like Beaucourt practising on make shift trenches.there was no room for individual thought,,,Rawlinson said that Kitcheners Army was uncable of fire and manouver..but on the 14th of July they attacked at night and took the Bazantine ridge,,these same men who he said couldnt even think...
Most of the Lancs in this clip at 0.34 are dead 20 mins after this film,, Malins filmed them in the sunken road (hunters lane) its actualy in no mans land ..he then left them to film the mine from jacobs ladder,,, 20 mins later these men went over the top ..they are all buried 100 mtrs away at the Rambuli just out side Beaumont Hammel...LEST WE FORGET,,FOR OUR TOMMOROWS THEY GAVE THERE TODAY
Thanks for this film,My Grandfather John Horrigan fought in The Royal Dublin Fusiliers and was a POW but was lucky to return home to his family in Dublin!
@1Dougy85 Between 20th March and the 10th April 1918 the Germans suffered 239000 casualties during Operation Michael (Das Kaiserschlacht). That s a rate of attrition three times higher than the British army suffered at the Somme. Between March and July 1918 the Germans suffered nearly a million casualties in a series of offensives which essentially broke it as a fighting force.
@Caracalla23 Good point you brought up. People like to say how the British and French were all used up in 1918, which isnt entirely true. You never hear that about the Germans, which they were. Their best troops were gone.
At the end of WWII, 2 NKVD agents asked a German general if Stalingrad was the most important battle of WWII, he said no. It was The Battle of Britain. The 2 russkies left without saying a word.
"It's a Long Way to Tipperary" ....a popular song of the Boer War that found new audiences in the Great War..... sounds like it is sung by Sir Harry Lauder on this occasion.
The men leaving the trenches are thought to be belonged to the Royal Newfoundland Regiment. The RNR were from the small island commonwealth nation of Newfoundland (before it became a Canadian province). After this battle, only 10% of their ranks were available for roll call the next day. An entire generation of young men lost in that single battle. I remember seeing the one that didnt make it out of the trench in a history book.
@AlwaysColin the guy who didnt make it properly got a few extra packet off fags or a few pints in naafi for stageing that lol...wish he could be traced would love to know who that guy was...
Shit did you see them getting killed in 2:35! They must of been very brave to do that. I give them the upmost repect for giving there lives for the sake of us and our freedom.
the clip at 2-35 was a reconstruction.there is very little footage of actual battle frorm ww1 so the film crews used to stage reenactments to show in the picture houses back home.The size of the cameras would have made suicide to actually film battle scenes..still brave men everyone of them..
they had a few films of it, it was considered bad propaganda to show them though because so many were killed in front of the cameras, so they staged the scenes shown instead.
the germans did not waqnt to give up but back home the county was not backing them and of course there was looting in the streets so germany took any offer to stop the war so you get hitler
Great trench shots, If you could check out my WW1 interactive, "Choose your own combat" preview video, I would be in your dept. It's my latest upload, packed with action!! Thanks a lot.
I find myself nearly obsessed with the early 20th Century catastrophe that was the First World War. How could a civilization that had been at peace for a half century and was completely interdependent economically so self-destruct? It surely owed more to stubborn politicians and military grand poo bahs than it did to the brash, brazen martial pride of millions of idealistic young men who embraced their chance for glory and adventure and were surprised to find mechanized horrors and mass death.
Right, MinisterAT. However idealistic and martial, young men did not have the power to decide about war - besides, many Europeans were idealistic and peace-loving socialists. It was chiefly the top-brass in Germany and Austria, then in Russia, which made the whole diplomatic and political machinery drift toward "settling up matters" through military means. Once the armies set marching toward Serbia, Russia, Belgium and France, nothing could stop the chain reaction.
Didn't matter because the German public was fed up with the war and wanted to oust the Kaiser, which they did. The kaiser wanted to turn the troops against his own people but his generals refused. Are you one of those people who believes that whole jewish conspiracy? The German forces in the west were spent and were on the retreat. GERMANY LOST THE WAR FAIR AND SQUARE!
germany lost the war fair and square.you say it as if it is a game.some sport.this is the most ugly thing in the world.and most countries are guilty.also the ugly english empire with their killings of innocent people everywhere in the world
America entered the war because germany was about to win, and then germany would get power and the would probaly not get back money wich they had lent to breat britain and some other country i cant remember.
Wrong, After Russia surrendered, Germany brought all of it's manpower to the western front before the Americans could make a difference. However, they suffered horrific casualties in their spring offensive and their army was spent by the time the US even got Europe. With their forces in retreat and fresh american troops landing in Europe by the thousands they asked for an armistice.
The German homefront had almost collapsed in 1917 as well due to the naval blockade of Germany and bad harvests. There almost was a communist revolution in Germany too, and after the armistice the retuning soldiers had their hands full striking down communist revolutionaries in Germany and Austria (the Entente even granted Germany some arms to fight them).
The "Prussian" military was too "proud" to surrender and they did the same thing for their Fuhrer in '44-'45.
Wrong! Wrong! Germany were bogged down even worse than the Allies, and if you can be bothered studying WW1 1918 proved to be a very British victory indeed, British were better motivated, better trained and better morale than the American or French armys.
This is very true. It was the British/Commonwealth which carried the victory in this particular battle...their morale carried them through it. However, in terms of training it would have to be the American army.
retard, the allies who had been in it from the start i.e everyone except america were pushing the Germans back to Berlin before you arrived. America are just a bunch of self interested pricks that come in at the last minute then say victory was because of them....YOU ARE JUST THE BIGGEST BUNCH OF CUNTS, I SWEAR TO GOD I WILL LYNCH ANY FUCKIN AMERICAN THAT WOULD SAY THAT TO MY FACE, MY GREAT GRANDAD WAS THERE FOR 3 YEARS AND IT'S PEOPLE LIKE HIM WHO WON THE WAR, NOT A SINGLE FUCKIN NATION
There was no way in hell Germany could win the WW1 (if you meant that war) in 1917. Their only chance was in 1914 and Von Schlieffen who devised the his attack plan knew this all too well. Getting bogged down on two fronts spelled disaster. In 1916 the naval battle of Jutland ended in draw but a strategic victory for the Royal Navy, who maintained the successful blockade of Germany. After the bad harvests of 1916-1917 the German homefront was nearly collapsing due to starvation.
Germany's last desperate attempt to win WW1 was the Spring Offensive of 1918, which was planned to win the war BEFORE there was a significant number of American troops to make a difference (they only arrived in force in the summer of 1918). That offensive was stopped by the French and a few brave Australian divisions. After that Germany was doomed, with or without American troops entering on the Entente side. The Prussian military foolishly endured, like Hitler in '44 and '45.
@McLarenMercedes There were many British regiments which held the German Spring Offensive. There Highland regiments and Lancashire fusilers fighting side by side - my father's brother in the latter, and killed four days after turning 21 on April 24th near Givenchy. So do not start saying it was the French and Australians.
the lancashire fusilliers fought alongside the royal newfoundland regiment on july 1st 1916 out of nearly 900 men only 70 some odd answered the role call the next morning. In newfoundland July 1st is a very somber event and well not a cheerful day like in the rest of Canada . god bless those poor men.
we all know its sound effects, was no sound them days bloody hell u young uns think most ppl brain dead, lol no offence though, 5000 a day was killed out there, let alone 300 a week deserting, was no picnic...
Ja, icht bien eien Catholic. You have minced your brian housing group with someone else dip shit. I neither glorified the SOVS not the Yids. You talk a lot of smack ! You couldn't punch your way out of a wet paper bag. Since your so intelligent -- how is a Catholic a Jew and vice versa?
You are a moron. You dont know jack squat, and boy you make it obvious.
Who made the American atomic bomb? German (Jew) scientists, famously, Einstein was involved.
The Russian Army was shit eh? That is why they single handedly defeated the German Wermacht right? When the yanks landed on D-day, the Germans had been retreating from Russia for nearly a yean and half.
You are an idiot. You also are a perfect example of Americas failed public schools.
Yean and a half? Clever. The Ruskies took a pasting, so much that their war was dubbed the "Unknown War". Shrink, teacher, professor, self appointed lawyer, puesdo warrior.........Did you I miss anything? It is better to have not attended the University and learned something than to have attended the University and learned nothing.
For your info, the "class the stars fell on" was West Point Military Academy, class of 1915. Out of 159 graduates, 64 were later promoted to the rank of General.
it was 59 not 64 my cousin is a west point graduate also my uncle and patton wasnt in the class patton went to virginia military institute im not british im only correcting your comment also its the class of stars not calls of stars
If it were not for US involvement, and victory in both World Wars, you Commie sons of bitches wouldn't have amounted to more than a hill of frozen owl shit. The US leads the way in world domination and your sorry assed "Russian Federation" just ain't getting it done. Hello Chechnya? Have some more vodka and reply after you studied the real history of both World Wars, not just he Commie version crammed down your Red Throats by Stalinistic SMERSH
Clearly this jack-wagon has shit for brains and just likes to spout off ignorance. His quote, "The Russian Army was shit eh? That is why they single handedly defeated the German Wermacht right?" is simply factually incorrect. What a loud mouth ignorant ass!
Clearly this jack-wagon has shit for brains and just likes to spout off ignorance. His quote, "The Russian Army was shit eh? That is why they single handedly defeated the German Wermacht right?" is simply factually incorrect. What a loud mouth ignorant ass!
Clearly this jack-wagon has shit for brains and just likes to spout off ignorance. His quote, "The Russian Army was shit eh? That is why they single handedly defeated the German Wermacht right?" is simply factually incorrect. What a loud mouth ignorant ass!
@RoseMustardGas Ok Bud You talk about your involvement in both wars you didnt even come into the first world war until after Canada did all the dirty work, Canada pretty much won every major battle of the first world war, Vimy Ridge , Passchendaele, the Somme, you name it we were there, ww2 has been over glorified by Hollywood and once again you forget about the Canadians who were there from the start watch for king and Empire and for king and country for the truth or go to Europe and see.
No knock on Canada or any Canadians' input in either World War. Where do you come from? Are you implying that both WW's were won on the backs of Canada? If so put down the crack pipe and pick up the history book. US military might won the day, of that there is no question. And yes I have been to Europe several times and visited numerous US (allied and axis) battlefields, cemeteries, and related sites. The US presence is heavy there and this is no disrespect to your country's sacrifice.
@RoseMustardGas just watch for king and empire and for king and country or read the books, thats a history lesson for ya right there. And im not saying it was won on our backs it was a combined effort but the Americans seem to think they did everything themselves, maybe not the people who were over there during that time but the generations after seem to have it burned in there heads that the U.S.A did it all, watch or read king and empire or king and country.
@burnz0021 --OK I see your beef. Yes US film has done both a service (in remembrance) and a disservice (in gross displays of excess) about this country's part in 20th century conflict. However don't be jaded by film maker's eyes. True students of history study all facts and recognize all participants sacrifices. I am one such and do not subscribe to the H-wood $ machine..castrating history for a film's sake. I salute the PPCLI, ANZAC's, and all other relevant (yes US included!) uits of WWI.
@aeleenrock The Soviet Union would have faded into dust if it was not for US lend lease, The Soviet Union just raped their way through Germany and just land grabbed. Stinking Russians, they cant even hire decent spies FFS. Read about Russia getting lend lease from the US.
@aeleenrock although the russian army wasnt shit, quite from it. You have to commend an army which can hold out for two years outnumbered 10 to 1 and a lot of the time overstretched and on the winter
@SirOneoneselfandone I have no admiration for an army which was all too willing to follow a political leadership which has the blood of tens of millions on its hands and was also willing to shoot thousands of innocents as it did in Serbia.
@SirOneoneselfandone It was a known fact that British soldiers led by German officers would have been invincible.Who know's.Just hope we never see conflicts on such a scale again.
@aeleenrock "The yanks landed on D-day" - yet another person who refuses to ignore the part played by Britain, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and France in that landing.
Death has no morals or scruples,it doesn't select what colour or religion or creed you are..So especially on this day "Armestice Day" lets just remember the fallen.Whatever nation.
@HalfBrickStudios2010 All you Americans watch for king and Empire and For king and country to get the truth about the 2 great wars then you will see that you Did Not win the war!! Canada won a lot of major battles in both world wars we fought and died for the British empire, Its all Hollywood putting out all these movie to make you think you won it all, you were not even in the first world war pretty much and you forget about who was fighting in the second world war from the start.
@HalfBrickStudios2010 I apologize for the ignorance of so many of my fellow countrymen. They don't know nearly as much history or geography as they should.
@aeleenrock I Totally agree with you, Im Canadian and ive been sick forever of the Americans going on about everything they did in the 2 great wars, First off they were not even in the first world war in my books, and did not even get involved in the second until they were attacked, Hollywood makes the Americans look better then they were, Watch for king and empire and For king and country for the truth Americans.
Kudos to you Canadians for doing a damn fine job in WW2, according to German accounts when facing them. The Aussies did well too (a few of them played a vital part in stopping the German spring offensive in 1918).
Learn this however. Pick up any book written about a historian about WW2. 80% of Germany's casaulties were on the Eastern Front. They fough there for 3 bloody years before D-day, and were already on the retreat after Staligrady in early '43.
Hitler knew damn well the the war would be won or lost in the East. Therefore this front was the most brutal and bloody in the entire war. The tank battle in Kursk was the biggest tank battle in WW2. Fact. The Western allies knew damn well too that if the USSR surrendered then Germany would have loads of divisions free to secure "Fortress Europe", and for this reason it became adamant to provide them with equipment and weapons to have them stay in the fight. It saved many lives too.
First you call me an intellectual, then you say I've learned everything from Youtube, which one is it? You cant even construct a proper argument, and that is really sad. Im a Latino that speaks (fluently) 2 languages, you are one dimwit that cant even speak or type in your native language.
Perhaps you attempt to attach some some meaning to your life as such? Rancor and ridicule go hand in hand with you. How can you believe that ridicule is the test of truth? I suspect that all your words are untrue; therefore, the turth will not set you free.
It's not my native lingo BOYO. You have had a 1,000 (+) dreams and they are all nightmares. You sure get your jollies off of picking on people. You are the "A" typical grammar school yard bully. Who gives a fiddler's fart how many languages you speak?
Don't be too hard on the boy. He's in search of a hat big enough to fit his head. It will be a life long journey. He has yet to understand that he'll neither find it nor will he find the "golden fleece".
Lolz, you just showed how much you know by attacking me personally instead of my argument. You are a Libertarian Nationalist, the type of terrorist who believes in manifest destiny, American superiority, and most of all god and constitution.
You need some new buzzwords old man. My 'real world' experience is far greater than your mid-western rust belt experiences, lolz.
If the kitchen gets too hot -- get out ! You can dish it out but you can't take it. Manifest Destiny! Alles ischt sheissen. Kolkoff. GOD is my Pilot. Terrorist am I -- what organization have I sworn an oath? Real World, you make me laugh. Mid West, sin loi my boy, I've never resided there. So you're a World Traveler are ya? Write a book. It should be easy. After all you know so much. Too bad that you are mentally fettered as you have long since been encumbered.
Ukranians fought a honorable fight, they were mainly anarchist. But had they remained under the Axis boot, they were doomed anyways. Soviet communism was fascism. But western Europe (esp the UK) owe the communist resistance in the eastern front for their own survival.
Looking at your channel, you seem to be an anti semite, christian nationalist. So much for your 'values.'
You thinking is backward, probably because you're old and have never stepped foot in a classroom. People like you are the ones that make wikipedia such a big success!
Nations arent there to serve the people. Such is the case in the US, where government serves corporations. Do you really think any country is worth dying for? If you do, you are stupid, dying for the elite in a country is always such.
Funny how you always resort to 'shoot me' as if youre unaware were on youtube
Did you learn that while attending a Kosovel? Shoot whom? You? You aren't worth a round. If you understood the term "interlocking fields of fire" you would understand. When the shooting does start it means everything to the gunner and A gunner.
Think progressive. Remember you did graduate from a "pretigious Univeristy. You never answered, was it either White Fence, Hoyo de Maravilla, Clover, or Soto?
Why dont you become a 'resident' in our world of reality, reason and logic? Your questions are lame, idiotic, and obviously coming from a childish brain.
Geez, why didn't the Soviets plant the Red flag over the Reichstag before 5/45 (not 4/45, like you said). Because they lacked oganization like you claim they did? Unlikely. Americans and Europe owe the Communists in Russia more then they're willing to admit. I doubt you've stepped inside a class room since your high school days. Canada is ok
Resident of the World? European Communism is a dead dog. It broke like a nickel watch due to economic resistance, a failure to adopt democractic ideology, and the failure to reform; hence, their failure to rule. As I stated, I graduated with a B.S. from FSU. Furthermore, in your case, it would have been better not to have attended a university and learned somehing than to have attended the university and learned nothing. Canda is a beautiful place to visit.
Lolz, there you go again with your assumptions. I think you mean Soviet style communism is dead (or is it??). You mention economic resistance, but from what? Who encircled the USSR and cutting off vital markets. You mention democracy, but do we really have democracy in the US? Over 70% of Americans want sincle payer health care. But look at what 'they'll' give us. Most American want out of Iraq and are pessimistic about Afghanistan, while our govt escalates remains engaged in the GWOT. U R WEAK.
Communism is communism. Economic resistance vs economic resurgence? Explain yourself COMRADE professor MULNIK? Since your're so in love with yourself and the former CCCP comrade get your Ruskie flag, climb the Capitol Building, and plany "your" flag. You never mentioned what part of LOS you came from? Our family was raised there and in Sonora. Don't be ashamed of it. Anthony Quinn, born in Chihuahua, was raised near Spring Street.
What part of LOS am I from? What does that have to do with your complete ignorance of history? (Montebello). Im ashamed of being Mexican? Unlikely, quite the contrary. (take a look at my channel)
The only flag I would ever proudly raise is Red & Black flag. And then, I would burn that flag down too.
Sorry BOYO your logic is twisted beyond Hollywood. I don't wear my education on my collar as you. Canada is a great place to visit. It has one thing wrong with it. It is full of Canadians.
I haven't used vulgarity; therefore, comrade will do. Aren't they your cronies? If you are way over my head it is because you enjoy standing in a shit box. Let me see, "No Nothing" didn't you run for Presdient under that party platform? A VET knows more than you think you'll ever imagine. IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT perhaps Mejico lindo y quierdo will do you just fine.
Lolz, you make no sense. All you do is babble and drivel on. Really pathetic, really.
Vets know nothing, they know what their Generals know. Read some of Napoleons memoirs and lean for yourself how he thought of his men; and he is considered a leader of men!!!
You cant even spell in spanish properly, and a lot of times looks like some undecipherable language. You might want to go to a community college and take a quarter in spanish. One is never too old to go school!!
will everyone please stop arguing? i completely agree with MegaSteelers7.
hundreds of brave men, both british and german, died in that pointless war. both simply did as they were commanded and walked straight into death itself!! you cannot blame any of the soldiers for the war!! they were pawns in the irritable chess game between british and german leaders.
BISCWITblog 4 days ago
All these men are dead. None saw their homes, their families, their lovers. They went to war for glory and pride. They trusted their superiors and left the safety of the trenches, knowing they were going to their deaths. Can any of you imagine going into hell itself, knowing that within minutes, seconds even you will be dead and forgotten. Bravery at its most base. All these men fought for glory, all these men died in the mud, forgotten by all.
MegaSteelers7 1 week ago
The German General Ludendorff famously said "The British fight like lions but are lead by donkeys" and its true. Fuck you Sir Douglas Haig. Rule Britannia!!!!
legokid5872 1 month ago
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The trouble with British and German soldiers are, that they are similar poles on the same magnet. Doesn't matter if they are positive or negative at the same time, they still bounce off one another like there's no tomorrow ............. Doesn't mean they still don't care for one-another though
cosmictimes 2 months ago
Not sure what you mean. My comment has nothing whatever to do with hindsight.
It is a factual comment based on facts that were known at the time, before the time, and after the time.
Nothing whatever 'to go figure' about.
If I have misunderstood your comment, you should not be so enigmatic.
Cordeman 3 months ago
The British made the same errrors as the Germans did.Why did they launch a offensive after Verdun?Didn't they see that one had no chance against an entrenched enemy?
Ahornblatt2000 4 months ago
@Ahornblatt2000 BECAUSE WE HAD TO SUPPORT ABD TAKE SOME OF THE PRESSURE OFF THE BLOODY FROGS!!!!!!
ThePhantomMajor 2 months ago
@ThePhantomMajor Yeah the Frogs they bore the brunt in ww1 on your side.Many forget it they just think of the French defeat in ww2.It's a little bit unfair i think!
Ahornblatt2000 2 months ago
@Ahornblatt2000 There was a view that (a) an offensive needed to be launched to relive pressure on Verdun where the French were suffering heavily and (b) Verdun was a huge fortress, whereas the Somme attack focussed on a 16mile strip of trenches, not all heavily defended and (c) the artillery bombardment was expected to have destroyed German resistance. It was believed that this would allow the troops to mop up the enemy. Different type of battle/attack that at Verdun.
THthefirst 1 month ago
@THthefirst (a) is okay (b) partly too but (c) not.When the battle of the Somme took place the war has already been raging for 2 years.I think it was known to both sides that even the most concentrated bombardment against an entrenched enemy can not totally wipe out and destroy the enemy,and what a single surviving machine gun can do to advancing troops was known too
Ahornblatt2000 1 month ago
@Ahornblatt2000 The evidence is clear that the generals believed the bombardment would succeed. They thought this because sustained shelling on this massive scale had never been attempted before the Somme.. If you disagree - please state where it was so used before. The weakness was that it was spread too thinly due to Haig's grand ambitions. When concentrated fire over a smaller area was used in Sept 1916 by Rawlinson it was v effective and many of the first day objectives were taken.
THthefirst 1 month ago
@THthefirst The First Battle of Champagne was one where an artillery barrage was unleashed for the first time.Okay not in such a big extent like in Verdun or Somme but it was a "foretaste" of battles which lay ahead of them
Btw, Haig let loose over 1400 guns which fired in 8 days over 1.5 shells according to Wikipedia.I wouldn't call it "spread too thinly".
Ahornblatt2000 1 month ago
@Ahornblatt2000 So that's my point - there was nothing to compare it to before. As for Haig, if you work out the square milage (about 16 miles x 5 miles) then that was a huge area to cover, particularly given that 1/3 of the shells were duds. Some sectors (in the north and centre) had too few guns for their objectives. Rawlinson wanted to bite and hold - ie. focus on one area at a time, then move on - but was overruled by Haig who had the cavalry waiting in the wings to push on 15 miles!
THthefirst 1 month ago
@THthefirst Yes but you only fire at the trenches and on the barbwire before it.How much would it be? 50m-150m wide strip? Or more?.16 miles are about 25-26km x 0,150km= 3,9km².Even if 1 in 3 was a dud that are still 1 million shells left spread on 3,9km².Not bad,huh?
But i really didn't know you still had cavalry in action in 1916.Wasn't that a sign of insanity?
Ahornblatt2000 1 month ago
@Ahornblatt2000 It was much more than that as anyone who understands the period would know. Each "line" was in fact between a series of many trenches, each with communication trenches linking them, and forts/redoubts/strongholds. Each "line" went back at least 1km, and in some parts of the line nearly 2km. There were two of these "lines", and in 1916 the Germans built a third. Look at a trench map. Yes, cavalry were supposed to break through. It's a fascinationg period - go study it.
THthefirst 1 month ago
@THthefirst Yes maybe it's fascinating period to study it but i doubt these guys who went through all that found it fascinating.You right i'm not an expert for ww1 but even i knew there were more than 1 trench i know there were some behind in order to retreat when needed.But do you think they all had been pounded?
So all what Haig did was justified
Ahornblatt2000 1 month ago
@Ahornblatt2000 Certainly not everything that Haig did can be justified but you can probably say that of every general in history Ahorn. I don't think the war could have been fought in a radically different manner and of course it was the same for BOTH sides. The Germans suffered heavier casualties at the Somme than the British did.
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@YaxKukMo1426 Nein they did not.It was a combined attack by the British and French and the western Alliies were the attacking forces so it's clear that they suffered higher casaulties than the Germans.Even Wikipedia tell you so.Check it out!
Ahornblatt2000 1 week ago
Britain was very foolish to fight Germany. It gained nothing from it at all.
breezeman199 4 months ago
This war was one that should never have happened. (not that any should). Before this there was no history of enmity bewtween Britain and Germany. We are very much interrelated. Our royal families were closely related. And our language has similarities.
Lack of any bad feeling between the two nations was evident the first Christmas of war. Also, a notice the Germans put up from their trench - 'We are Saxon, you Anglo Saxon, so why do we fight? says it all. Media created hate with lies.
Cordeman 4 months ago
@Cordeman There is an old saying, which is "hindsight is always 20/20 vision".
Go figure.
THthefirst 3 months ago
@Cordeman That's a simplification - Germany was at the time perceived as a threat to Britain and its interests in a world that was entirely different from now when European powers had empires and thought nothing of it. Obviously no one sane advocates war, but they did not have the foresight to see that it would result in huge losses - all wars previously had been quick and decisive before with nothing like the casualties suffered.
THthefirst 1 month ago
Today Sep 15th was the first day tanks were used at the battle of the somme
for the first time in ww1.
AUG351 4 months ago
The Lancashire fusiliers was the most decorated regiment of WW1. At Gallipoli alone they won 'six Vc's before breakfast'. They were machine gunned as they hit the beach, but fighting up the cliff took the the Turkish positions at bayonet point.
These were hardy young men from the Industrial north. Many come not only from the same town, but the same street. They grew up together, and died together
Cordeman 4 months ago
como se llama la cancion de fondo? y el cantante?
ari86XD 4 months ago
Dress it up and present it - but fact is WAR IS HELL!!
itrmful 4 months ago
My great grandad pte James Healy he was in the Lancshire fusiliers and was never seen or heard of again, after going over the top on the morning of the 1st July 1916
god bless him.Rip
roytheboy65 5 months ago
@roytheboy65 Both my Grandads came through the Somme one was killed by the Luftwaffe during a raid on Brum and my other lied and went to war for a second time ( Royal Warwicks ) and survived that too !! unfortunatly four of my great uncles did'nt come back from Aubers Ridge, Arras, and the Ypres salient. All missing.
Thisbloodypave 4 months ago
@roytheboy65 The clip at 2.45 of the men in the road is of the Lancashire Fusiliers, in the Sunken Road ahead of Beaumont Hamel on 1 July 1916. RIP to Pte Healy.
THthefirst 4 months ago
When I watch these films I wonder if I'm watching my relatives. four lost two came through.
Thisbloodypave 8 months ago
It was considered coverdly if you were running in the battlefield... warfare in those days was fucking retarded
thatLATVIANkid 10 months ago
That is primo footage mwilso, thanks.
Ypipable 11 months ago
The Germans suffered MORE casualties during the Somme campaign than the British did.
Caracalla23 1 year ago
@Caracalla23 y
MrNamchebazar 1 year ago
@MrNamchebazar x
Caracalla23 11 months ago
your giving me the picture that it was a happy time
omelienchick 1 year ago
@omelienchick that was what i was thinking, i dont think this is the right music to choose for an event that was so vilent. - sorry bout spellingt :/
101Becka 10 months ago
Why did they charge and then start to walk？
Ethan15811 1 year ago
@Ethan15811 As much of the British army at this tome had very little battle experience, Haig and other generals commanded (dubiously) that they walk towards the German fortifications as it would prevent them from panicking in a mad sprint and causing the attacks to fail.
SullyTheK1d 1 year ago
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@Ethan15811 As much of the British army at this time had very little battle experience, Haig and other generals commanded (dubiously) that they walk towards the German fortifications as it would prevent them from panicking in a mad sprint and causing the attacks to fail.
SullyTheK1d 1 year ago
@Ethan15811 Because thats what they were trained to do...they spent weeks in training at places like Beaucourt practising on make shift trenches.there was no room for individual thought,,,Rawlinson said that Kitcheners Army was uncable of fire and manouver..but on the 14th of July they attacked at night and took the Bazantine ridge,,these same men who he said couldnt even think...
MrNamchebazar 11 months ago
@MrNamchebazar Seems nfair to say people can't think.
Ethan15811 11 months ago
0.22 seconds in that's the sunken road
I been there. A bit hole is there now, I mean huge!
Gratoz1 1 year ago
A silent film with sound affects.
louisvilleslugger 1 year ago
Most of the Lancs in this clip at 0.34 are dead 20 mins after this film,, Malins filmed them in the sunken road (hunters lane) its actualy in no mans land ..he then left them to film the mine from jacobs ladder,,, 20 mins later these men went over the top ..they are all buried 100 mtrs away at the Rambuli just out side Beaumont Hammel...LEST WE FORGET,,FOR OUR TOMMOROWS THEY GAVE THERE TODAY
TASHKENTGOATMAN 1 year ago
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TASHKENTGOATMAN 1 year ago
poor guys
TheSabbath8 1 year ago
Thanks for this film,My Grandfather John Horrigan fought in The Royal Dublin Fusiliers and was a POW but was lucky to return home to his family in Dublin!
isobellaj 1 year ago
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Caracalla23 1 year ago
deutsche soldaten sind auch heute noch die Besten !
3Huba 1 year ago
does anyone know the song in the background and the exact number of casualties for the germans in the battle of the somme? thanks.
persiankid2211 1 year ago
@persiankid2211 It's a Long Way to Tipperary is my guess.
July1 to November18 - 95 German divisions were engaged with losses of 419,989 (72,901 POW)- according to Chronicle Of The First World War.
Sir Charles Oman who was a prestigous military historian and investigated German casualty lists during the war put it at 560,000.
German official account post war put the number as high as 680,000
1Dougy85 1 year ago
@1Dougy85 Between 20th March and the 10th April 1918 the Germans suffered 239000 casualties during Operation Michael (Das Kaiserschlacht). That s a rate of attrition three times higher than the British army suffered at the Somme. Between March and July 1918 the Germans suffered nearly a million casualties in a series of offensives which essentially broke it as a fighting force.
Caracalla23 1 year ago
@Caracalla23 Good point you brought up. People like to say how the British and French were all used up in 1918, which isnt entirely true. You never hear that about the Germans, which they were. Their best troops were gone.
1Dougy85 1 year ago
@persiankid2211 he's right, Its a long way to tipperary
gixer121121 1 year ago
can you imagine having to fight a war where you can blow people to peices but you cant realy defend yourself
phillip549 1 year ago
Tough bastards.
doverstraits 1 year ago
Britain and Germany should have been allies,fuck the rest of Europe
kopynd 1 year ago
At the end of WWII, 2 NKVD agents asked a German general if Stalingrad was the most important battle of WWII, he said no. It was The Battle of Britain. The 2 russkies left without saying a word.
HasAnyoneSeenMyPipe 1 year ago
RESPECT.
simplyguys 1 year ago
i like it
topimi 1 year ago
boobies
Velcro151 1 year ago
Lol watch buddy at 1:03 to 1:05 oooow should I.... No. No mabe I can fuck it..
Explosivecork 1 year ago
What is the song playing throughout the video?
Portertbone 1 year ago
"It's a Long Way to Tipperary" ....a popular song of the Boer War that found new audiences in the Great War..... sounds like it is sung by Sir Harry Lauder on this occasion.
hapag16 1 year ago
2:28
The men leaving the trenches are thought to be belonged to the Royal Newfoundland Regiment. The RNR were from the small island commonwealth nation of Newfoundland (before it became a Canadian province). After this battle, only 10% of their ranks were available for roll call the next day. An entire generation of young men lost in that single battle. I remember seeing the one that didnt make it out of the trench in a history book.
AlwaysColin 2 years ago
@AlwaysColin the guy who didnt make it properly got a few extra packet off fags or a few pints in naafi for stageing that lol...wish he could be traced would love to know who that guy was...
19smokey19 2 years ago
I never did.
ErnstBecker 2 years ago
Wrong religion boyo ! Yours?
ErnstBecker 2 years ago
J.R.R. Tolkien was in this battle!
Doum92 2 years ago
Shit did you see them getting killed in 2:35! They must of been very brave to do that. I give them the upmost repect for giving there lives for the sake of us and our freedom.
Andrew21795 2 years ago
the clip at 2-35 was a reconstruction.there is very little footage of actual battle frorm ww1 so the film crews used to stage reenactments to show in the picture houses back home.The size of the cameras would have made suicide to actually film battle scenes..still brave men everyone of them..
jypmac 2 years ago
they had a few films of it, it was considered bad propaganda to show them though because so many were killed in front of the cameras, so they staged the scenes shown instead.
Alexeagle0 2 years ago
2.35 is proven to be a staged scene (its not actually a trench they are - just a bank of earth)
pfurness678 2 years ago
the germans did not waqnt to give up but back home the county was not backing them and of course there was looting in the streets so germany took any offer to stop the war so you get hitler
merbenzgill 2 years ago
İttifak:won a single front "CANAKKALE".Gallipoli,(TURKEY)
taraftarlarakt 2 years ago
QUO FAS ET GLORIA DUCUNT
Andreas16329 2 years ago
Just stop reading the "Völkischer Beobachter", will ya?
alexiljin 2 years ago 3
Great trench shots, If you could check out my WW1 interactive, "Choose your own combat" preview video, I would be in your dept. It's my latest upload, packed with action!! Thanks a lot.
dubblestein 2 years ago
I find myself nearly obsessed with the early 20th Century catastrophe that was the First World War. How could a civilization that had been at peace for a half century and was completely interdependent economically so self-destruct? It surely owed more to stubborn politicians and military grand poo bahs than it did to the brash, brazen martial pride of millions of idealistic young men who embraced their chance for glory and adventure and were surprised to find mechanized horrors and mass death.
MinisterAilingTongue 2 years ago
here here
kerbal666 2 years ago
Right, MinisterAT. However idealistic and martial, young men did not have the power to decide about war - besides, many Europeans were idealistic and peace-loving socialists. It was chiefly the top-brass in Germany and Austria, then in Russia, which made the whole diplomatic and political machinery drift toward "settling up matters" through military means. Once the armies set marching toward Serbia, Russia, Belgium and France, nothing could stop the chain reaction.
Fridomfry 2 years ago
well actually no
germany had already made its spring offensive before america had even got to europe.
america was not a crucial country in WW1, the central powers were about to lose anyway.
WW2 on the other hand is a different story
sh1ft9 2 years ago
Didn't matter because the German public was fed up with the war and wanted to oust the Kaiser, which they did. The kaiser wanted to turn the troops against his own people but his generals refused. Are you one of those people who believes that whole jewish conspiracy? The German forces in the west were spent and were on the retreat. GERMANY LOST THE WAR FAIR AND SQUARE!
rolsson138 2 years ago
germany lost the war fair and square.you say it as if it is a game.some sport.this is the most ugly thing in the world.and most countries are guilty.also the ugly english empire with their killings of innocent people everywhere in the world
RRFF12345 2 years ago
Germany lost the war before the Americans entered. The Americans just brought a quicker end.
rolsson138 2 years ago
don't forget that germany defeated russia at this time
StarAll4life 2 years ago
America entered the war because germany was about to win, and then germany would get power and the would probaly not get back money wich they had lent to breat britain and some other country i cant remember.
Snorkelsson 2 years ago
Wrong, After Russia surrendered, Germany brought all of it's manpower to the western front before the Americans could make a difference. However, they suffered horrific casualties in their spring offensive and their army was spent by the time the US even got Europe. With their forces in retreat and fresh american troops landing in Europe by the thousands they asked for an armistice.
rolsson138 2 years ago
@rolsson138
Well said.
The German homefront had almost collapsed in 1917 as well due to the naval blockade of Germany and bad harvests. There almost was a communist revolution in Germany too, and after the armistice the retuning soldiers had their hands full striking down communist revolutionaries in Germany and Austria (the Entente even granted Germany some arms to fight them).
The "Prussian" military was too "proud" to surrender and they did the same thing for their Fuhrer in '44-'45.
McLarenMercedes 10 months ago
America entered the war because Germany tried to get Mexico to invade and attack the United States.
sambttn 2 years ago
Wrong! Wrong! Germany were bogged down even worse than the Allies, and if you can be bothered studying WW1 1918 proved to be a very British victory indeed, British were better motivated, better trained and better morale than the American or French armys.
j0andc0 2 years ago
This is very true. It was the British/Commonwealth which carried the victory in this particular battle...their morale carried them through it. However, in terms of training it would have to be the American army.
AlwaysColin 2 years ago
retard, the allies who had been in it from the start i.e everyone except america were pushing the Germans back to Berlin before you arrived. America are just a bunch of self interested pricks that come in at the last minute then say victory was because of them....YOU ARE JUST THE BIGGEST BUNCH OF CUNTS, I SWEAR TO GOD I WILL LYNCH ANY FUCKIN AMERICAN THAT WOULD SAY THAT TO MY FACE, MY GREAT GRANDAD WAS THERE FOR 3 YEARS AND IT'S PEOPLE LIKE HIM WHO WON THE WAR, NOT A SINGLE FUCKIN NATION
crackfox9 2 years ago
@crackfox9 im not american im finnish
Snorkelsson 2 years ago
so the fuck what? my left bollock is bigger than my right but I dont go on about it
crackfox9 2 years ago
yeah me too, my great grandfather was wounded at Ypres (eep)
FergieAndMacFilms 2 years ago
@Snorkelsson
There was no way in hell Germany could win the WW1 (if you meant that war) in 1917. Their only chance was in 1914 and Von Schlieffen who devised the his attack plan knew this all too well. Getting bogged down on two fronts spelled disaster. In 1916 the naval battle of Jutland ended in draw but a strategic victory for the Royal Navy, who maintained the successful blockade of Germany. After the bad harvests of 1916-1917 the German homefront was nearly collapsing due to starvation.
McLarenMercedes 10 months ago
@Snorkelsson
Germany's last desperate attempt to win WW1 was the Spring Offensive of 1918, which was planned to win the war BEFORE there was a significant number of American troops to make a difference (they only arrived in force in the summer of 1918). That offensive was stopped by the French and a few brave Australian divisions. After that Germany was doomed, with or without American troops entering on the Entente side. The Prussian military foolishly endured, like Hitler in '44 and '45.
McLarenMercedes 10 months ago
@McLarenMercedes There were many British regiments which held the German Spring Offensive. There Highland regiments and Lancashire fusilers fighting side by side - my father's brother in the latter, and killed four days after turning 21 on April 24th near Givenchy. So do not start saying it was the French and Australians.
Cordeman 4 months ago
the lancashire fusilliers fought alongside the royal newfoundland regiment on july 1st 1916 out of nearly 900 men only 70 some odd answered the role call the next morning. In newfoundland July 1st is a very somber event and well not a cheerful day like in the rest of Canada . god bless those poor men.
stefansmom 2 years ago
respect
j1m169 2 years ago
video was silent, the noise is sound effects
humbertabe 2 years ago
we all know its sound effects, was no sound them days bloody hell u young uns think most ppl brain dead, lol no offence though, 5000 a day was killed out there, let alone 300 a week deserting, was no picnic...
19smokey19 2 years ago
poor buggers, always remmebered,my great grand was shot at the somme,the germans then made him work down a salt mine,evil basterds
qwertyuiopm250 2 years ago
Ja, icht bien eien Catholic. You have minced your brian housing group with someone else dip shit. I neither glorified the SOVS not the Yids. You talk a lot of smack ! You couldn't punch your way out of a wet paper bag. Since your so intelligent -- how is a Catholic a Jew and vice versa?
ErnstBecker 2 years ago
Where did the calls of stars fall on? West Point arsehole. Bradley, Eisenhower, and Patton. While "Monty" sat on his arse with his 8th Army.
ErnstBecker 2 years ago
How can a Catholic be a Jew?
ErnstBecker 2 years ago
You are a moron. You dont know jack squat, and boy you make it obvious.
Who made the American atomic bomb? German (Jew) scientists, famously, Einstein was involved.
The Russian Army was shit eh? That is why they single handedly defeated the German Wermacht right? When the yanks landed on D-day, the Germans had been retreating from Russia for nearly a yean and half.
You are an idiot. You also are a perfect example of Americas failed public schools.
Ya lousy yank - off.
aeleenrock 2 years ago 12
Yean and a half? Clever. The Ruskies took a pasting, so much that their war was dubbed the "Unknown War". Shrink, teacher, professor, self appointed lawyer, puesdo warrior.........Did you I miss anything? It is better to have not attended the University and learned something than to have attended the University and learned nothing.
ErnstBecker 2 years ago
Sorry, I'm not a Yank. Yank is another word for either non Irish or Non Canadian. Others contend that it was a Native American term, i.e. "Yanquis".
ErnstBecker 2 years ago
For your info, the "class the stars fell on" was West Point Military Academy, class of 1915. Out of 159 graduates, 64 were later promoted to the rank of General.
ErnstBecker 2 years ago
it was 59 not 64 my cousin is a west point graduate also my uncle and patton wasnt in the class patton went to virginia military institute im not british im only correcting your comment also its the class of stars not calls of stars
carsieplg 2 years ago
You should be renamed "Ignorant Assholeeenrock"
If it were not for US involvement, and victory in both World Wars, you Commie sons of bitches wouldn't have amounted to more than a hill of frozen owl shit. The US leads the way in world domination and your sorry assed "Russian Federation" just ain't getting it done. Hello Chechnya? Have some more vodka and reply after you studied the real history of both World Wars, not just he Commie version crammed down your Red Throats by Stalinistic SMERSH
RoseMustardGas 1 year ago
@RoseMustardGas Who rattled yon cage boy?
doverstraits 1 year ago
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@doverstraits The Communist called "aeleenrock"
Clearly this jack-wagon has shit for brains and just likes to spout off ignorance. His quote, "The Russian Army was shit eh? That is why they single handedly defeated the German Wermacht right?" is simply factually incorrect. What a loud mouth ignorant ass!
RoseMustardGas 1 year ago
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@doverstraits @doverstraits The Communist called "aeleenrock"
Clearly this jack-wagon has shit for brains and just likes to spout off ignorance. His quote, "The Russian Army was shit eh? That is why they single handedly defeated the German Wermacht right?" is simply factually incorrect. What a loud mouth ignorant ass!
RoseMustardGas 1 year ago
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The Communist called "aeleenrock"
Clearly this jack-wagon has shit for brains and just likes to spout off ignorance. His quote, "The Russian Army was shit eh? That is why they single handedly defeated the German Wermacht right?" is simply factually incorrect. What a loud mouth ignorant ass!
RoseMustardGas 1 year ago
@RoseMustardGas Ok Bud You talk about your involvement in both wars you didnt even come into the first world war until after Canada did all the dirty work, Canada pretty much won every major battle of the first world war, Vimy Ridge , Passchendaele, the Somme, you name it we were there, ww2 has been over glorified by Hollywood and once again you forget about the Canadians who were there from the start watch for king and Empire and for king and country for the truth or go to Europe and see.
burnz0021 1 year ago
No knock on Canada or any Canadians' input in either World War. Where do you come from? Are you implying that both WW's were won on the backs of Canada? If so put down the crack pipe and pick up the history book. US military might won the day, of that there is no question. And yes I have been to Europe several times and visited numerous US (allied and axis) battlefields, cemeteries, and related sites. The US presence is heavy there and this is no disrespect to your country's sacrifice.
RoseMustardGas 1 year ago
@RoseMustardGas just watch for king and empire and for king and country or read the books, thats a history lesson for ya right there. And im not saying it was won on our backs it was a combined effort but the Americans seem to think they did everything themselves, maybe not the people who were over there during that time but the generations after seem to have it burned in there heads that the U.S.A did it all, watch or read king and empire or king and country.
burnz0021 1 year ago
@burnz0021 --OK I see your beef. Yes US film has done both a service (in remembrance) and a disservice (in gross displays of excess) about this country's part in 20th century conflict. However don't be jaded by film maker's eyes. True students of history study all facts and recognize all participants sacrifices. I am one such and do not subscribe to the H-wood $ machine..castrating history for a film's sake. I salute the PPCLI, ANZAC's, and all other relevant (yes US included!) uits of WWI.
RoseMustardGas 1 year ago
@RoseMustardGas
Axis was WWII, nice try. Newfies actually lost the most men per capita, the war bankrupt their country and cost them their independence.
STABxYOUxRAWR 1 year ago
@aeleenrock Where are you from? and if you dislike the Americans then how come you speak their language so perfectly well?
TheRubio14 1 year ago
@TheRubio14 Pity that you think "English" is from America.
jannelolomg 1 year ago
@aeleenrock The Soviet Union would have faded into dust if it was not for US lend lease, The Soviet Union just raped their way through Germany and just land grabbed. Stinking Russians, they cant even hire decent spies FFS. Read about Russia getting lend lease from the US.
HasAnyoneSeenMyPipe 1 year ago
@aeleenrock wrong war
phillip549 1 year ago
@aeleenrock although the russian army wasnt shit, quite from it. You have to commend an army which can hold out for two years outnumbered 10 to 1 and a lot of the time overstretched and on the winter
SirOneoneselfandone 1 year ago
@SirOneoneselfandone I have no admiration for an army which was all too willing to follow a political leadership which has the blood of tens of millions on its hands and was also willing to shoot thousands of innocents as it did in Serbia.
Caracalla23 1 year ago
@Caracalla23 Well if you can prove that the Wehrmacht was a rubbish army then you probably are a genius.
SirOneoneselfandone 1 year ago
@SirOneoneselfandone It was a known fact that British soldiers led by German officers would have been invincible.Who know's.Just hope we never see conflicts on such a scale again.
mensa29 1 year ago
@aeleenrock "The yanks landed on D-day" - yet another person who refuses to ignore the part played by Britain, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and France in that landing.
HalfBrickStudios2010 1 year ago 10
Death has no morals or scruples,it doesn't select what colour or religion or creed you are..So especially on this day "Armestice Day" lets just remember the fallen.Whatever nation.
mensa29 1 year ago
@HalfBrickStudios2010 And to make it even better there was more commonwealth soldiers involved in D Day than Yanks. FACT
sammni 1 year ago
@HalfBrickStudios2010 All you Americans watch for king and Empire and For king and country to get the truth about the 2 great wars then you will see that you Did Not win the war!! Canada won a lot of major battles in both world wars we fought and died for the British empire, Its all Hollywood putting out all these movie to make you think you won it all, you were not even in the first world war pretty much and you forget about who was fighting in the second world war from the start.
burnz0021 1 year ago
@burnz0021 When did I say I was american?
HalfBrickStudios2010 1 year ago
@HalfBrickStudios2010
From a book written by a historian about WW2:
Number of German division in France on D-day. 60
Number of German divisions fighting on the Eastern Front the very same day. 230+
Who held up the bulk of the Wehrmacht and made the invasion of France possible in the first place??
The same who caused 80% of the total casaulties of the German armed forces.
Nonetheless kudos to the soldiers on all sides in the war who did their duty.
Damn Hollywood.
McLarenMercedes 10 months ago
@HalfBrickStudios2010 and more common wealth area's ie south africa
zeztro 7 months ago
@HalfBrickStudios2010 I apologize for the ignorance of so many of my fellow countrymen. They don't know nearly as much history or geography as they should.
tnielsenhayden 2 months ago
@aeleenrock I Totally agree with you, Im Canadian and ive been sick forever of the Americans going on about everything they did in the 2 great wars, First off they were not even in the first world war in my books, and did not even get involved in the second until they were attacked, Hollywood makes the Americans look better then they were, Watch for king and empire and For king and country for the truth Americans.
burnz0021 1 year ago
@burnz0021
Kudos to you Canadians for doing a damn fine job in WW2, according to German accounts when facing them. The Aussies did well too (a few of them played a vital part in stopping the German spring offensive in 1918).
Learn this however. Pick up any book written about a historian about WW2. 80% of Germany's casaulties were on the Eastern Front. They fough there for 3 bloody years before D-day, and were already on the retreat after Staligrady in early '43.
The USSR did the major part.
McLarenMercedes 10 months ago
@burnz0021
Hitler knew damn well the the war would be won or lost in the East. Therefore this front was the most brutal and bloody in the entire war. The tank battle in Kursk was the biggest tank battle in WW2. Fact. The Western allies knew damn well too that if the USSR surrendered then Germany would have loads of divisions free to secure "Fortress Europe", and for this reason it became adamant to provide them with equipment and weapons to have them stay in the fight. It saved many lives too.
McLarenMercedes 10 months ago
ever heard of the brusilov offensive?battle of Khalkhin Gol 1939?
amazing that a people that cant fight shit forged the second biggest empire the world has seen(after those mongoloid savages u despise)
andresrojas22 2 years ago
It was the Nippon Russkie Border War. You gave them their nom -- not I.
ErnstBecker 2 years ago
First you call me an intellectual, then you say I've learned everything from Youtube, which one is it? You cant even construct a proper argument, and that is really sad. Im a Latino that speaks (fluently) 2 languages, you are one dimwit that cant even speak or type in your native language.
You are weak, and so are your beliefs!
raslikmuzik 2 years ago
Perhaps you attempt to attach some some meaning to your life as such? Rancor and ridicule go hand in hand with you. How can you believe that ridicule is the test of truth? I suspect that all your words are untrue; therefore, the turth will not set you free.
ErnstBecker 2 years ago
It's not my native lingo BOYO. You have had a 1,000 (+) dreams and they are all nightmares. You sure get your jollies off of picking on people. You are the "A" typical grammar school yard bully. Who gives a fiddler's fart how many languages you speak?
ErnstBecker 2 years ago
Don't be too hard on the boy. He's in search of a hat big enough to fit his head. It will be a life long journey. He has yet to understand that he'll neither find it nor will he find the "golden fleece".
ErnstBecker 2 years ago
Haha, Libtard. You must watch that werido Alex Jones who only spews conspiratoid videos. You sound just like him.
Im sure you are very smart. Psyche!!!
raslikmuzik 2 years ago
Professor Mulnik:
Looks as though you make friends wherever you go. Keep up the good work.
ErnstBecker 2 years ago
Lolz, you just showed how much you know by attacking me personally instead of my argument. You are a Libertarian Nationalist, the type of terrorist who believes in manifest destiny, American superiority, and most of all god and constitution.
You need some new buzzwords old man. My 'real world' experience is far greater than your mid-western rust belt experiences, lolz.
raslikmuzik 2 years ago
If the kitchen gets too hot -- get out ! You can dish it out but you can't take it. Manifest Destiny! Alles ischt sheissen. Kolkoff. GOD is my Pilot. Terrorist am I -- what organization have I sworn an oath? Real World, you make me laugh. Mid West, sin loi my boy, I've never resided there. So you're a World Traveler are ya? Write a book. It should be easy. After all you know so much. Too bad that you are mentally fettered as you have long since been encumbered.
ErnstBecker 2 years ago
Ernst, do you know how to read? Go back and check to whom I was talking too.
I hope this isnt your brain running on all 8 cylinders! (probably is).
raslikmuzik 2 years ago
No matter you need a lift .................
ErnstBecker 2 years ago
How goes the war comrade?
ErnstBecker 2 years ago
Ukranians fought a honorable fight, they were mainly anarchist. But had they remained under the Axis boot, they were doomed anyways. Soviet communism was fascism. But western Europe (esp the UK) owe the communist resistance in the eastern front for their own survival.
Looking at your channel, you seem to be an anti semite, christian nationalist. So much for your 'values.'
raslikmuzik 2 years ago
Im glad to see FSU take in disabled vets.
(:
raslikmuzik 2 years ago
Interlocking fields of fire.
ErnstBecker 2 years ago
You thinking is backward, probably because you're old and have never stepped foot in a classroom. People like you are the ones that make wikipedia such a big success!
Nations arent there to serve the people. Such is the case in the US, where government serves corporations. Do you really think any country is worth dying for? If you do, you are stupid, dying for the elite in a country is always such.
Funny how you always resort to 'shoot me' as if youre unaware were on youtube
Really smart
raslikmuzik 2 years ago
Did you learn that while attending a Kosovel? Shoot whom? You? You aren't worth a round. If you understood the term "interlocking fields of fire" you would understand. When the shooting does start it means everything to the gunner and A gunner.
ErnstBecker 2 years ago
Think progressive. Remember you did graduate from a "pretigious Univeristy. You never answered, was it either White Fence, Hoyo de Maravilla, Clover, or Soto?
ErnstBecker 2 years ago
Why dont you become a 'resident' in our world of reality, reason and logic? Your questions are lame, idiotic, and obviously coming from a childish brain.
Geez, why didn't the Soviets plant the Red flag over the Reichstag before 5/45 (not 4/45, like you said). Because they lacked oganization like you claim they did? Unlikely. Americans and Europe owe the Communists in Russia more then they're willing to admit. I doubt you've stepped inside a class room since your high school days. Canada is ok
raslikmuzik 2 years ago
Resident of the World? European Communism is a dead dog. It broke like a nickel watch due to economic resistance, a failure to adopt democractic ideology, and the failure to reform; hence, their failure to rule. As I stated, I graduated with a B.S. from FSU. Furthermore, in your case, it would have been better not to have attended a university and learned somehing than to have attended the university and learned nothing. Canda is a beautiful place to visit.
ErnstBecker 2 years ago
Lolz, there you go again with your assumptions. I think you mean Soviet style communism is dead (or is it??). You mention economic resistance, but from what? Who encircled the USSR and cutting off vital markets. You mention democracy, but do we really have democracy in the US? Over 70% of Americans want sincle payer health care. But look at what 'they'll' give us. Most American want out of Iraq and are pessimistic about Afghanistan, while our govt escalates remains engaged in the GWOT. U R WEAK.
raslikmuzik 2 years ago
Communism is communism. Economic resistance vs economic resurgence? Explain yourself COMRADE professor MULNIK? Since your're so in love with yourself and the former CCCP comrade get your Ruskie flag, climb the Capitol Building, and plany "your" flag. You never mentioned what part of LOS you came from? Our family was raised there and in Sonora. Don't be ashamed of it. Anthony Quinn, born in Chihuahua, was raised near Spring Street.
Suerte -- you need it.
ErnstBecker 2 years ago
What part of LOS am I from? What does that have to do with your complete ignorance of history? (Montebello). Im ashamed of being Mexican? Unlikely, quite the contrary. (take a look at my channel)
The only flag I would ever proudly raise is Red & Black flag. And then, I would burn that flag down too.
raslikmuzik 2 years ago
Sorry BOYO your logic is twisted beyond Hollywood. I don't wear my education on my collar as you. Canada is a great place to visit. It has one thing wrong with it. It is full of Canadians.
ErnstBecker 2 years ago
You dont wear your education on your collar because you received a sub-par educatioin. Who the hell wants to show that off?
aeleenrock 2 years ago
Is it educatioin or education? Spelling correct? I never did. You just have a bad case of the arse.
ErnstBecker 2 years ago
Aeleenrockhead:
What was your graduating class from Sandhurst ! Don't tread on me -- you PUMMY BASTARD ! You are a piss poor arm chair General.
ErnstBecker 2 years ago
Your use of the term comrade is very cute too. Is that a communist reference? Lolz, Im way over your head. You know nothing.
Just another typical veteran.
raslikmuzik 2 years ago
I haven't used vulgarity; therefore, comrade will do. Aren't they your cronies? If you are way over my head it is because you enjoy standing in a shit box. Let me see, "No Nothing" didn't you run for Presdient under that party platform? A VET knows more than you think you'll ever imagine. IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT perhaps Mejico lindo y quierdo will do you just fine.
ErnstBecker 2 years ago
Lolz, you make no sense. All you do is babble and drivel on. Really pathetic, really.
Vets know nothing, they know what their Generals know. Read some of Napoleons memoirs and lean for yourself how he thought of his men; and he is considered a leader of men!!!
You cant even spell in spanish properly, and a lot of times looks like some undecipherable language. You might want to go to a community college and take a quarter in spanish. One is never too old to go school!!
Comrade.
Lolz.
raslikmuzik 2 years ago
Vets have done more than you could of ever imaged. Strike out for Canada. They love liberal turds like you.
ErnstBecker 2 years ago