Reading Churchills the World Crisis 1911-1918 and it makes interesting reading. The allies really played into the Germans hands all the way through the war until 1918. The idea was to wear them down but a look at the statistics shows that the Germans kill rate was unsurpisingly double that of the Allies. The tables were only turned ironically when the Germans felt confident enough to go on their great Spring Offensive in 1918 and lost 800,000 men.
War has been happening long before the rifle was invented my dear. It is in our blood. That is who we are. You could say education can combat it, I say look at ww1 as a prime example. Germany and britian where both capitals of culture and learning. The best medical schools of the day where in germany. And yet the more educated the civilization was, the more heinous weapons they produced. Go figure. We are a doomed spiecies.......
For some men who were attacking their wish was that they would get wounded and transported out of the front lines... Sadly the killer was almost allways dieing from wounds and rarely from instant death.
Oh these proud Generals getting medals every soldier should be given a medal for following these stupid generals orders. The ones shot because they refused to go over the top should get a special meantion, Coward NO i say HEROS every last one Generals should be made accountable and the Government the SAT BACK AND JUST GOD DAMN WATCHED! yup point the finger at Generals but look beyond back to the leadership ! ! !
I constantly think, "How easy it is to send other men to do the dying." It's easy. The field marshalls and the generals who stand safely miles behind the lines will later write how "bloody magnificent it was." Sure it's magnificent when you're sitting over your caviar and champagne, not bleeding your life out on the battle ground. It's always "bloody magnificent" when you're alive.
the problem wasnt so much with the officers themselves, as it was with the "academies", schools where officers learned how to fight and command. The problem is, most instructors in these academys, are old officers from past wars, IE the colonial wars and the like, where the main tactic was to line up in formation and charge. history has shown the military mind is SLOW to learn and adapt, and it took thousands of lives to prove those old tactics, simply wernt workin
@mechwarriornut of course. Military ppl sure doesn't stand out for innovation... their mind is closed. How can one accept WAR in general? Mens shooting other mens... the mankind has to be some kind of mass asylum or something
Can't help but notice that some of the men have Lee Enfield #4 rifles, and not the proper Mk 1 type that was used in WW1. Guess they couldn't find enough of them for the movie.
Would it really matter if you walked or run? Either way you were going to die that day. Interesting how the officers are 4 miles behind the front line.
An infantry corps in the line was about six or seven miles from one end to the other. To remain roughly equidistant from all points of that line, the command staff HAD to be four or five miles to the rear. Radio technology was as yet so bulky as to be unusable at the front, so they had to use runners.
Actually, a big reason for the failures on the Western front was the impossibility of commanders communicating with the front in real time.
for real...these movies/documentaries make me more pissed off than sad!!
what th ef kinda motivation is 'going over th top and never go back?' what th ef mayn. honestly this stuff just frustrates!!! walk forward instead of run forward?? what th ef. why th ef were th officers ordering them to just 'stroll in th park whizzin'with bulletz and shrapnel'.....its a battlefield. not a frickn park!! waste of lives!!! ef sake mayn. I just don't gedit ay!! why like this?!!
@kinglijah They are walking because each one is carrying 6 stone (85 pounds, 38 kilos) of kit. And they were early twentieth century volunteers (conscription didn't begin in England until the following year) with a limited diet. They weren't as tall or as strong as soldiers now.
@conswaz Lol, yea. That's exactly what the first day on the Somme was like though. 20,000 dead and 40,000 wounded and maimed because they walked into the German machine guns and artillery over... and over... and over. It's unbelievable really.
Infantry (and cavalry) in those days were trained to fight moving in good pace.
Ive been studying the Great War in college and its quite odd how the armies of that day were subjected to stale trench fighting, when they had trained and drilled in fast-moving maneuvers. Ironic how it ended up..
Quite a blunder; trying to out-dig the enemy and bring your fortifications around to encircle theirs...
Well, in the context, they didn't have much choice. The French were literally begging them to mount some sort of diversionary attack to take the pressure off Verdun.
They were forced to lead into battle an army that wasn't fully trained, and under less-than-ideal circumstances, again, due to the French demands.
@boxwoodgreen Hardly. The idea of frontal assaults on fortified positions was effectively dead since the American Civil War, where the foolishness of it was proven time and time again at Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Cold Harbor, etc. Yet it was still done in every single war between the Civil War and the Great War. The Japanese frontal assaulted heavy entrenched Russian positions in the Russo-Japanese war with horrifying casualties, yet the generals of WW1 learned nothing.
@boxwoodgreen The problem was simply that technology had advanced much faster than military doctrine. All generals, all staff officers were locked in thinking from 1850. They had not adapted. And it was like that on every theater. Somme, Verdun, Eastern Front, Austro-Italian front, Gallipoli, even in China (where the Japanese fought the Germans.)
The one thing that always pisses me off about WW1 is how the Entente, especially the Brits, always claim how they were fighting for freedom. Hint: they were not. It was two lage military blocks smashing into each other for "god, kind/kaiser and country", nothing else. Millions of men lost because some asshat of a king in London or some jackass of an emperor in Berlin.
@higuma75 Exactly! And because of the Entente's attitude about the whole war, including France's need to avenge their loss to the Germans in the Franco-Prussian War by screwing Germany over after the war, the Germans, in turn, ended up feeling the need to exact revenge, causing millions upon millions more to die two decades later... What a mess.
World War One was the most important events of the last 100 years. All of the major conflicts and disputes can be traced directly back to the Treaty of Versailles. WWII was more a continuation of WWI and the Germans venting their rage for being screwed over so badly.
@RevengeOfRedBaron What brought Hitler to power was not Germany having been screwed over (though they were) after the First War; what brought Hitler to power was something called "The Great Depression" and the huge conflict that the Left brought to this event.
During the good years of Wiemar, 1925-29, nobody gave much thought to the post-war peace treaties; Hitler played upon this as part of his politics during The Depression.
the movie fails to show this properly but they were carrying 66lbs of equipment on average. And they were told to walk, too, because all the Germans were supposed to be dead by then..
One thing I love about WW1 is that the Entente still claims to have fought for freedom and liberty. Kind of rich, considering at the British Empire was oppressing millions of people and sent Indians, Canadians, Aussies, Kiwis, Ghurkas and many others to the slaughter for their "king", a foreign oppressor. Or the French, with their African colonies. But the Germans and their "evil empire building"was the issue. And the British empire building? Germans oppress = bad; British oppress = good? WTF!
Would be the same if Germany won the war. War Propaganda just is this way, cause your own side has to be the good one and the other side the bad one or else fighting would make no sense to the common soldier. (Actually it DOES make NO sense)
they should make a movie about Ernst Junger, a german infantryman, who kept a diary about this war. but this movie looks cool. my grandfather fought in this war, well one great and another grandfather, one german and one american hahaha. neither one died.
Look at my video that i given to you the link in my last message and add all the died I given for the most important Countries in the end
Add also the deads of countries few concerned that I give in the informations in the right of this video and you will see more deads than 5 million...
@thm149 Hey, I am a "Hun". Let every man, woman and children remember the nonsense you are taught in history lessons so you can go on hating us! Idiot
@tmcquad1 Sad thing is that this nutty form of warfare didn't go obsolete until the end of the Iran-Iraq war. Started out by Saddam as a Blitzkreig type of war then broke down into a long trench war with gas, barbed wire, trenches, long artilery barrages, biological attacks and suicide charges into machine gun fire. There is an Iraqi propaganda movie here at YT showing it all.
After the butchery of Verdun , the butchery of the Somme :-(
RIP for all these guys died in this battle in the both camps allies and German
Never again war between us European brothers !!
BUT (because there is one but) usually we can see here like in all video about this batlle by one English the old untrue english propaganda about History...
2- Brits had more soldiers of his colonies from Canada, Australia, New-Zeland and India
3- If Brits + their colonies were the most numerous because this battle proceeded on the British front and not French front, brits used 26 divisions, BUT French used 15 divisions and lost also much more soldiers in this battle, few time after their butchery of Verdun
& even in the field of the Artillery, the French used more guns (light and heavy) than the Brits
Thus it is necessary like usually to point out the truth vs the old and perfidious untrue English propaganda which was very strong to make believe that they were the alone ones to have glory or to sacrifice itself
Always they did that, like for Waterloo by example, see my video on the truth about the Battle of Waterloo --> /watch?v=ev-wteEDjXU
aaaah the deads of French, German, Brit & italian that I given ? ^^
yes of course much more deads if we consider all the missings who could not never be identified or found but like in all the war especially in the modern wars with powerfull guns and in a big & long war like the WW1
But the last official numbers count these "missings"
Guy the WW1 is one of my passion on the History since my 8 old and i will be 42 in June ^^, i know perfectly the statistics and the details of this tragedy
Look at my video that i given to you the link in my last message and add all the deads that I given for the most important Countries in the end
Add also the deads of countries few concerned that I give in the informations in the right of this video and you will see more deads than 5 million...
@cumbas No. The other Europeans are as much my brothers are the Americans or Chinese. Europe can go to hell, and it's doing that, in a hand basket because the European people are too stupid. Europe is heading for war as we speak. Nothing has changed on this continent. The whole talk about being "European" and so on... BS, lies, propaganda by the EUSSR.
Lol, that's what I'm scared for actually. To be honest, I LOVE war, just not being in it heh. Oh well, whatever happens happens eh? It's the cycle of the world.
Gee, online abusers = Albanis2 and Pseudologic. Please just quit spamming this video damn. You guys might as well plan some type of boxing match for yourselves. Funny things happen all the time lmbo.
@LiFe0In1ThE0MaTrix01 Yah spend a day in those trenches and you would probably shoot youself to get out of it all. I dont think you have any idea what these men went through
@Pseudologic ...you..huh you dont realize what's the point of giving arguments eh ? Nor do you understand what losing an argument is. OH and random insults do not hurt people.... when you attack someone attack them on something that will actually hurt em. See, if I'm gay, I would have a nice time suckign a dick. If I'm not I don't even care about your''insult'' because it doesnt apply to me and I consider the stuff you say pointless and completely illogical.
Isn't it pitiful that so many young men died because the family of inbred idiots that is the royal families couldn't resolve their pathetic differences. Still there are people worshipping the royals, those bastards to a man, who were ready to sell out their countries so long as their monarchies were preserved.
except the part where any given country of any government type, be it republic, monarchy, dictatorship, communism or even fuckin pharaohs, woould also declare war if some jackasses from other countries came along and popped the head of their arch-duke or whatever equivalent of that title their country has.
this war has nothing to do with ''royalty'' bullshit. Napoleonic wars were because of this kind of bullshit but WW1... the assasination triggered it all.
The excuse is irrelavant. If it wasn't the assassination it would be something else. You wouldn't prevent the war by avoiding the assassination. You're trying to prove to me that Germany was justified in attacking Serbia because of assassination, while in reality Germany was just waiting for an excuse. Not a single historian in the world buys the assassination as the real cause for the WW1, except some idiots from Albania, I guess.
@Pseudologic thats why I said it was the excuse, not the cause dumb fuck. Also I am nowhere near albania. And I said, the cause becomes irrelevant with the assasination, because the assasination puts not only the royalty willing to go to war, but also the people.
@Kettch23 Correct. It was also used for decoration and served as a ventilator for the helmet. It's kind of funny how people always assume the spike was meant to be a weapon. The spikes are thin brass; you'd end up breaking it before you hurt anyone with it.
Just a bonus, German artillerymen had pickelhaubes with a ball on top instead of a spike (symbolizing a cannonball.)
@Kettch23 and it was also to help strike fear in to the enemy me i would have used it for a trench weapon when out of ammo and they broke our trench lines
At the same time it allowed for country/side identification. It was later removed for the M90 helmet standard, but any of those who still had it would occasionally use it as a melee weapon after sharpening the the spike in their trenches.
@Kettch23@Kettch23 not only from horsemen. it should deflect saber strikes in general. German artillerists had by the way a ball-shaped spike (finial) in order to avoid injuries while operating the canon.
@trooper59@Kettch23 The Pickelhaube was originally designed in 1842 by King Frederick William IV of Prussia, Even America had in the 1880 a variety of the helmet. The spike made men look taller and bigger. More Intimidating. Look at the horsehiar Greek Crest helmets. It was not necearrily desgined for battle.
No, the war broke out because of imperialism (new superpowers demanding colonies, old superpowers wanting to keep them). The assasination of Archuke Franz Ferdinand (not the leader of Austria-Hungary, he was the heir to the throne) was only an excuse.
@TheFriendlypie I didnt say it was goood as in the war was a good war, but ITS reason for starting was basically not in proportion to the slaughter. Atleast in WW2 there was the nazi's racist ideologies and aggressive expansionism that were the cause. In WW1 nobody were the clear cut badguys.
I know that, but you cant say that one shot in serbia is a good reason for everybody going to war against each other and millions dying because of it.
Im very fond of war history and i like to read about battles etc, but WW1 is the only war i cant stand to read about. So much pointless suffering and millions dead, for a war that kinda just broke out without a specific reason.
True the early German helmets were a bit bigger than the WW2 models and the early WW1 models were worn by the Waffen SS in WW2 because the Army claimed the best stuff. The helmets are correct for the era though
Are you sure about the Waffen SS wearing old helmets? I have seen some pre-war photos of an LSSAH parade where soldiers were wearing old helmets, but did they keep them during the early stages of the war? I am however sure that they wore the new helmets later on, because other than pre-war photos, I have never seen a photo of any German soldier during WW2 with the old helmet.
The SS also had to use Czech weapons for the lack of german weapons(early war). As German production picked up the availiable surplus would trickle down to the SS.
Oh, there was loads of it. I saw pictures of Somua tanks with German markings. They even used French and Czech WW1-era artillery (including the famous Austro-Hungarian 30,5 cm siege mortar, other Skoda artillery pieces and the French 75-mm cannon converted to anti-tank roles). As for Soviet materiel, I know they used a lot of Soviet anti-tank guns, but I'm sure there was other stuff as well.
They were worn on some ceremonial parades and for some special guards like at funerals and painted black for that pupose. I have only seen them on prewar images and very early in the war.
actually, 25,000 canadian casualties so i don't know what the fuck your talking about "only british troops" and thats not counting the newfies, at the time an other country
March towards machine guns, what a brilliant tactic!
revolutionist37 1 week ago
Reading Churchills the World Crisis 1911-1918 and it makes interesting reading. The allies really played into the Germans hands all the way through the war until 1918. The idea was to wear them down but a look at the statistics shows that the Germans kill rate was unsurpisingly double that of the Allies. The tables were only turned ironically when the Germans felt confident enough to go on their great Spring Offensive in 1918 and lost 800,000 men.
condelevante4 2 months ago
and with this battle, the Machine gun and her crewmen shows the higher ups what a pair of them can do agaisnt the largest army they could amass
busterdog321 2 months ago
War has been happening long before the rifle was invented my dear. It is in our blood. That is who we are. You could say education can combat it, I say look at ww1 as a prime example. Germany and britian where both capitals of culture and learning. The best medical schools of the day where in germany. And yet the more educated the civilization was, the more heinous weapons they produced. Go figure. We are a doomed spiecies.......
MegaProjectpat 2 months ago
WAR is a dirty affair overall
lordvivecjjj 2 months ago
For some men who were attacking their wish was that they would get wounded and transported out of the front lines... Sadly the killer was almost allways dieing from wounds and rarely from instant death.
Desaletor 2 months ago
Oh these proud Generals getting medals every soldier should be given a medal for following these stupid generals orders. The ones shot because they refused to go over the top should get a special meantion, Coward NO i say HEROS every last one Generals should be made accountable and the Government the SAT BACK AND JUST GOD DAMN WATCHED! yup point the finger at Generals but look beyond back to the leadership ! ! !
churdude 3 months ago
I constantly think, "How easy it is to send other men to do the dying." It's easy. The field marshalls and the generals who stand safely miles behind the lines will later write how "bloody magnificent it was." Sure it's magnificent when you're sitting over your caviar and champagne, not bleeding your life out on the battle ground. It's always "bloody magnificent" when you're alive.
warwolfii 4 months ago
@warwolfii whit out any genarals no tacs
david55509 4 months ago
time for a history lesson:
the problem wasnt so much with the officers themselves, as it was with the "academies", schools where officers learned how to fight and command. The problem is, most instructors in these academys, are old officers from past wars, IE the colonial wars and the like, where the main tactic was to line up in formation and charge. history has shown the military mind is SLOW to learn and adapt, and it took thousands of lives to prove those old tactics, simply wernt workin
mechwarriornut 4 months ago
@mechwarriornut of course. Military ppl sure doesn't stand out for innovation... their mind is closed. How can one accept WAR in general? Mens shooting other mens... the mankind has to be some kind of mass asylum or something
lordvivecjjj 2 months ago
It is hardly possible to image how it is to attack machineguns
steelhelex 4 months ago 2
Why do some of them have No. 4 rifles?
Litterboxer529 5 months ago
@Litterboxer529
Maybe a prop shortage
Haddockxyz300 5 months ago
*getting shot by machine gun fire*
lets just keep on walking guys!
jason200912 5 months ago
Can't help but notice that some of the men have Lee Enfield #4 rifles, and not the proper Mk 1 type that was used in WW1. Guess they couldn't find enough of them for the movie.
Gasbaggful 5 months ago
@Gasbaggful Many would have been armed with the Mk III.
zipsrule 5 months ago
Irony, it would technically be World War Six or so. The War of the Spanish Succession can be counted as World War One.
higuma75 7 months ago
what is the significant to go forward and in front of the emenies?
LET THEM DIE ? JUST ? i have no ideal of this.
kwh0827 8 months ago
Cant imagine the real guys as such whiny pussies.
Skandalos 8 months ago
@Skandalos You ever been to war? Ever get shot at? Been forced to kill a man? To go over the top?
KaiserReich98 8 months ago
Would it really matter if you walked or run? Either way you were going to die that day. Interesting how the officers are 4 miles behind the front line.
JRFrancisco20088 10 months ago
@JRFrancisco20088
An infantry corps in the line was about six or seven miles from one end to the other. To remain roughly equidistant from all points of that line, the command staff HAD to be four or five miles to the rear. Radio technology was as yet so bulky as to be unusable at the front, so they had to use runners.
Actually, a big reason for the failures on the Western front was the impossibility of commanders communicating with the front in real time.
UdallIn72 7 months ago
900 yards of rough ground. 4:00 looks like a wheatfield to me.
parfitt21 10 months ago
What the name of the first music?
lafther210 10 months ago
so is this out yet or what? this 'sneak peak' has been up forever.
jerflm4 11 months ago
for real...these movies/documentaries make me more pissed off than sad!!
what th ef kinda motivation is 'going over th top and never go back?' what th ef mayn. honestly this stuff just frustrates!!! walk forward instead of run forward?? what th ef. why th ef were th officers ordering them to just 'stroll in th park whizzin'with bulletz and shrapnel'.....its a battlefield. not a frickn park!! waste of lives!!! ef sake mayn. I just don't gedit ay!! why like this?!!
kinglijah 1 year ago
@kinglijah They are walking because each one is carrying 6 stone (85 pounds, 38 kilos) of kit. And they were early twentieth century volunteers (conscription didn't begin in England until the following year) with a limited diet. They weren't as tall or as strong as soldiers now.
lancs02a 11 months ago
The first lines of soldiers which were assulting the enemy trenches had exacly no chance to survive. It was a certain death
TheBloody071 1 year ago
i've scene that movie it was pretty good
NaziZombiefan82 1 year ago
War is scary shit
It strikes fear into mens heart
jacksta246 1 year ago
at 1:24 the rifle with bayonet is incorrect.
that's a later, WWII version Enfield, not an SMLE.
Rickinsf 1 year ago
@Rickinsf who gives a shit?
BloxEzio22 1 year ago
@BloxEzio22 Try again, I know you can do better.
Rickinsf 1 year ago
The British and French knew how to fight then?
PoluGON 1 year ago
what a waste of lives
ozeangruen 1 year ago
Hmmm...what a WONDERFUL idea to take a bunch of people and SLOWLY walk up to enemy trenches!
conswaz 1 year ago
@conswaz Can't run across No Man's Land, too much ground to cover. Have to have enough energy to fight the enemy when you reach the other side
Falcon988 1 year ago
@Falcon988 Well yeah, but it seems kinda stupid to to head up there anyways, since they are just going to get mowed down by German machine guns.
conswaz 1 year ago
@conswaz Lol, yea. That's exactly what the first day on the Somme was like though. 20,000 dead and 40,000 wounded and maimed because they walked into the German machine guns and artillery over... and over... and over. It's unbelievable really.
Falcon988 1 year ago
@Falcon988
Infantry (and cavalry) in those days were trained to fight moving in good pace.
Ive been studying the Great War in college and its quite odd how the armies of that day were subjected to stale trench fighting, when they had trained and drilled in fast-moving maneuvers. Ironic how it ended up..
Quite a blunder; trying to out-dig the enemy and bring your fortifications around to encircle theirs...
what a waste.
corporateCoffee 1 year ago
xd why they walk to them and not run its so stupit between 6:30-7:00
dirkhalo 1 year ago
@dirkhalo i woulndt exacltly like to run into bullets like that...id just focus on keeping my head down
JTelli786 1 year ago
Running in the open under MG fire.
The worst idea an officer can have since MGs exist.
oOCrossroadsOo 1 year ago
@oOCrossroadsOo how else are they gonna get anywhere?
jacksaysyo 1 year ago
@jacksaysyo : That's still fucking stupid.
oOCrossroadsOo 1 year ago
There is a special place in Hell for the staff offficers from the Somme
boxwoodgreen 1 year ago 76
@boxwoodgreen why? they just did their duty.
ignacev8x 1 year ago
@boxwoodgreen Not quite. You don't go to hell for incompetence.
Gurumze 7 months ago
@boxwoodgreen
Well, in the context, they didn't have much choice. The French were literally begging them to mount some sort of diversionary attack to take the pressure off Verdun.
They were forced to lead into battle an army that wasn't fully trained, and under less-than-ideal circumstances, again, due to the French demands.
UdallIn72 7 months ago
@boxwoodgreen Hardly. The idea of frontal assaults on fortified positions was effectively dead since the American Civil War, where the foolishness of it was proven time and time again at Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Cold Harbor, etc. Yet it was still done in every single war between the Civil War and the Great War. The Japanese frontal assaulted heavy entrenched Russian positions in the Russo-Japanese war with horrifying casualties, yet the generals of WW1 learned nothing.
higuma75 7 months ago
@boxwoodgreen The problem was simply that technology had advanced much faster than military doctrine. All generals, all staff officers were locked in thinking from 1850. They had not adapted. And it was like that on every theater. Somme, Verdun, Eastern Front, Austro-Italian front, Gallipoli, even in China (where the Japanese fought the Germans.)
higuma75 7 months ago
The one thing that always pisses me off about WW1 is how the Entente, especially the Brits, always claim how they were fighting for freedom. Hint: they were not. It was two lage military blocks smashing into each other for "god, kind/kaiser and country", nothing else. Millions of men lost because some asshat of a king in London or some jackass of an emperor in Berlin.
higuma75 7 months ago 12
@higuma75 Exactly! And because of the Entente's attitude about the whole war, including France's need to avenge their loss to the Germans in the Franco-Prussian War by screwing Germany over after the war, the Germans, in turn, ended up feeling the need to exact revenge, causing millions upon millions more to die two decades later... What a mess.
halo9449 6 months ago
@boxwoodgreen Why do you say that. Do you think you could have done any better than they did with the same knowledge, training and experience?
zipsrule 5 months ago
@boxwoodgreen
Right hand of satan...
bennorco1 5 months ago
@boxwoodgreen yeah but some if they didn't follow their orders they will be shot
japper96 3 months ago
@boxwoodgreen For all WW I staff officers.
PalleRasmussen 3 months ago
@boxwoodgreen and theres a special place in heaven for the lads who went over the top
metalfuk1 2 months ago
@boxwoodgreen dont blame them, blame the idiots who had the wonderful idea of using the Human Wave tactic
Awesomeduud 2 months ago
World War One was the most important events of the last 100 years. All of the major conflicts and disputes can be traced directly back to the Treaty of Versailles. WWII was more a continuation of WWI and the Germans venting their rage for being screwed over so badly.
RevengeOfRedBaron 1 year ago 32
@RevengeOfRedBaron What brought Hitler to power was not Germany having been screwed over (though they were) after the First War; what brought Hitler to power was something called "The Great Depression" and the huge conflict that the Left brought to this event.
During the good years of Wiemar, 1925-29, nobody gave much thought to the post-war peace treaties; Hitler played upon this as part of his politics during The Depression.
SatchmoSings 9 months ago
@RevengeOfRedBaron
well they they got their revenge alright.
Isivish111lol 7 months ago
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DoBrigh 6 months ago
@RevengeOfRedBaron Thanks Captain Obvious.
zipsrule 5 months ago
@RevengeOfRedBaron
Thats not really true, one could also say the same about the french-german war of 1870-1871
maartenrules 5 months ago
@RevengeOfRedBaron
@maartenrules
Well, you could trace this back to the napoleonic wars, which is basically what set of our modern day history.
And you could further trace that back to atleast the boston tea party (then i don't know what set off that) and probably further back as well
hevehoc 4 months ago
@RevengeOfRedBaron the most important event of the last 200 years if you just consider america
thatthat2 1 month ago
why they are walking, its better to run
TheSabbath8 1 year ago
@TheSabbath8 Because if they run, they'll be exhausted once they enter the enemy trench and they're won't fight very well.
metalrocks21rapsucks 1 year ago
@TheSabbath8
the movie fails to show this properly but they were carrying 66lbs of equipment on average. And they were told to walk, too, because all the Germans were supposed to be dead by then..
doitman 1 year ago
1.15 nice chemitrails
protonello 1 year ago
6:20 Why aren't they charging?
Truth118 1 year ago
Is this a series like Band of Brothers ?
AngusOnkel 1 year ago
artillery soldiers had a ball on top instead of the spike, because the spike could cause injuries
olrb114 1 year ago
at 8:00 that dudes a jugernaut
tigertank557 1 year ago
victors decide history
attackmike 1 year ago
One thing I love about WW1 is that the Entente still claims to have fought for freedom and liberty. Kind of rich, considering at the British Empire was oppressing millions of people and sent Indians, Canadians, Aussies, Kiwis, Ghurkas and many others to the slaughter for their "king", a foreign oppressor. Or the French, with their African colonies. But the Germans and their "evil empire building"was the issue. And the British empire building? Germans oppress = bad; British oppress = good? WTF!
higuma75 1 year ago
@higuma75
there is propaganda in every war.
Kamfrenchie 1 year ago
@higuma75
Would be the same if Germany won the war. War Propaganda just is this way, cause your own side has to be the good one and the other side the bad one or else fighting would make no sense to the common soldier. (Actually it DOES make NO sense)
HDreamer 1 year ago
@HDreamer soldiers never fight for good or bad they feight just for the man next
ozeangruen 1 year ago
anyone know why officers have to hold pistols when there in battle?
Theempore1234 1 year ago
they should make a movie about Ernst Junger, a german infantryman, who kept a diary about this war. but this movie looks cool. my grandfather fought in this war, well one great and another grandfather, one german and one american hahaha. neither one died.
seamuspowers 1 year ago
what the f are they doing walking????????/??
prizes99live 1 year ago
ah lol OK
more even :-(
Look at my video that i given to you the link in my last message and add all the died I given for the most important Countries in the end
Add also the deads of countries few concerned that I give in the informations in the right of this video and you will see more deads than 5 million...
sad tragedy :-(
cumbas 1 year ago
Fawk....I hate the Hun. Let every man, woman and child remember the horror of what their acestors created. Let them be ashamed for all time.
thm149 1 year ago
@thm149 Hey, I am a "Hun". Let every man, woman and children remember the nonsense you are taught in history lessons so you can go on hating us! Idiot
machierl 1 year ago
I can't believe this was military strategy. Throw men out at machine guns in a field - poor boys...
tmcquad1 1 year ago
@tmcquad1 Sad thing is that this nutty form of warfare didn't go obsolete until the end of the Iran-Iraq war. Started out by Saddam as a Blitzkreig type of war then broke down into a long trench war with gas, barbed wire, trenches, long artilery barrages, biological attacks and suicide charges into machine gun fire. There is an Iraqi propaganda movie here at YT showing it all.
salinagrrrl69 1 year ago
I wonder if Channel Four will still be around to make a movie about World War 3.
ClothCanopyUnfurled 1 year ago
After the butchery of Verdun , the butchery of the Somme :-(
RIP for all these guys died in this battle in the both camps allies and German
Never again war between us European brothers !!
BUT (because there is one but) usually we can see here like in all video about this batlle by one English the old untrue english propaganda about History...
I explain it :
cumbas 1 year ago 3
If we see all the videos about this battle of the Somme, we can know that it was only between Brits vs German...
LIES !
If Verdun yes was just between 2 armies : The French Army and the German Army, BUT its not the case for the Somme
...
cumbas 1 year ago
1- It was Brits + French vs German
2- Brits had more soldiers of his colonies from Canada, Australia, New-Zeland and India
3- If Brits + their colonies were the most numerous because this battle proceeded on the British front and not French front, brits used 26 divisions, BUT French used 15 divisions and lost also much more soldiers in this battle, few time after their butchery of Verdun
& even in the field of the Artillery, the French used more guns (light and heavy) than the Brits
...
cumbas 1 year ago
But where are in all these videos about this battle made by the English propaganda, the tribute also for the French ?!
That is the big problem for all lovers of the truth like me !!
...
cumbas 1 year ago
What let us see and believe seeing all the videos made by the old & eternal English propaganda ?
English or brits like if they had been alone to sacrifice itself in this battle in the camps of allied
BUT NO !
French also few time after their big sacrifices in Verdun (and them alone) also were sacrificed in a great number in the Somme
...
cumbas 1 year ago
Thus it is necessary like usually to point out the truth vs the old and perfidious untrue English propaganda which was very strong to make believe that they were the alone ones to have glory or to sacrifice itself
Always they did that, like for Waterloo by example, see my video on the truth about the Battle of Waterloo --> /watch?v=ev-wteEDjXU
...
cumbas 1 year ago
& the number of deaths for the allies in the end of this butchery WW1 proove that i say :
- Brits + his colonies (Canada, Australia, NZ & India) : 960.000 soldiers died (tribute to their memories of course, it is not the problem here)
- French : 1.700.000 soldiers died (tribute to their memories)
cumbas 1 year ago
hgfhfgh
cumbas 1 year ago
@cumbas It was actually much higher, but many men were just considered "missing"
ele90 1 year ago
@ele90
??
do you write about ??
aaaah the deads of French, German, Brit & italian that I given ? ^^
yes of course much more deads if we consider all the missings who could not never be identified or found but like in all the war especially in the modern wars with powerfull guns and in a big & long war like the WW1
But the last official numbers count these "missings"
cumbas 1 year ago
@cumbas Actually unlike most wars, The missing of WWI were put into an entirely different catagory totalling at more than 5 million
ele90 1 year ago
@ele90
(1)
what ?!
do you speak about ?
Sorry i dont follow you in this "discussion" lol
5 millions ?
for the UK ??
for the USA ?? lol
5 million deads in the battle of the Somme ? LOL
Guy the WW1 is one of my passion on the History since my 8 old and i will be 42 in June ^^, i know perfectly the statistics and the details of this tragedy
cumbas 1 year ago
(2-end)
Thus if you want to speak with me about the WW1 be most precise in your arguments or/and your informations :-)
Or watch videos about the statistics like this for example ^^ :
/watch?v=KJkTLJ9QjFM
cumbas 1 year ago
@cumbas 5 million missing total for all nations
ele90 1 year ago
@ele90 ah lol OK
more even :-(
Look at my video that i given to you the link in my last message and add all the deads that I given for the most important Countries in the end
Add also the deads of countries few concerned that I give in the informations in the right of this video and you will see more deads than 5 million...
sad tragedy :-(
cumbas 1 year ago
@cumbas No. The other Europeans are as much my brothers are the Americans or Chinese. Europe can go to hell, and it's doing that, in a hand basket because the European people are too stupid. Europe is heading for war as we speak. Nothing has changed on this continent. The whole talk about being "European" and so on... BS, lies, propaganda by the EUSSR.
higuma75 1 year ago
is this a film or documentary, and on wich channel i can find it
eyederrick 1 year ago
Lol, that's what I'm scared for actually. To be honest, I LOVE war, just not being in it heh. Oh well, whatever happens happens eh? It's the cycle of the world.
ChEnGsTaRz 1 year ago
Gee, online abusers = Albanis2 and Pseudologic. Please just quit spamming this video damn. You guys might as well plan some type of boxing match for yourselves. Funny things happen all the time lmbo.
ChEnGsTaRz 1 year ago
a bit over dramatic...
hardluckking13 1 year ago
@krashly71 well iam joining the marines next year someone's got to fight!!
luiskilla91592 1 year ago
these guys are pissing their pants. its suppose to be sensitive so the film maker wins a grammy or some shit. fuck the media
LiFe0In1ThE0MaTrix01 1 year ago
@LiFe0In1ThE0MaTrix01 you would be pissing your pants if you were about to go over the top.
ele90 1 year ago
@ele90 ummm no i wouldnt.. IF i signed up i would be willing to fight for freedom and my country.. so yeah...i wouldnt be pissing my pants, thank you
LiFe0In1ThE0MaTrix01 1 year ago
@LiFe0In1ThE0MaTrix01 Yah spend a day in those trenches and you would probably shoot youself to get out of it all. I dont think you have any idea what these men went through
ele90 1 year ago
@Pseudologic ...you..huh you dont realize what's the point of giving arguments eh ? Nor do you understand what losing an argument is. OH and random insults do not hurt people.... when you attack someone attack them on something that will actually hurt em. See, if I'm gay, I would have a nice time suckign a dick. If I'm not I don't even care about your''insult'' because it doesnt apply to me and I consider the stuff you say pointless and completely illogical.
Albanis2 1 year ago
thats a cool looking watch
skankkyho 1 year ago
Isn't it pitiful that so many young men died because the family of inbred idiots that is the royal families couldn't resolve their pathetic differences. Still there are people worshipping the royals, those bastards to a man, who were ready to sell out their countries so long as their monarchies were preserved.
Pseudologic 1 year ago
except the part where any given country of any government type, be it republic, monarchy, dictatorship, communism or even fuckin pharaohs, woould also declare war if some jackasses from other countries came along and popped the head of their arch-duke or whatever equivalent of that title their country has.
this war has nothing to do with ''royalty'' bullshit. Napoleonic wars were because of this kind of bullshit but WW1... the assasination triggered it all.
Albanis2 1 year ago
@Albanis2
Study history, young man, and study the differece between a "cause" and an "excuse" for a war.
Pseudologic 1 year ago
The excuse was the assasination. Which renders the ''cause'' irrelevant to austria. Which renders the ''cause'' irrelevant to their german allies.
Serbia gets invaded by austria. France by germany etc.. Which gives france and brittain and canada and all the other countries a cause.
Assasination is still the trigger for the shit storm.
Albanis2 1 year ago
@Albanis2
The excuse is irrelavant. If it wasn't the assassination it would be something else. You wouldn't prevent the war by avoiding the assassination. You're trying to prove to me that Germany was justified in attacking Serbia because of assassination, while in reality Germany was just waiting for an excuse. Not a single historian in the world buys the assassination as the real cause for the WW1, except some idiots from Albania, I guess.
Pseudologic 1 year ago
@Pseudologic thats why I said it was the excuse, not the cause dumb fuck. Also I am nowhere near albania. And I said, the cause becomes irrelevant with the assasination, because the assasination puts not only the royalty willing to go to war, but also the people.
Albanis2 1 year ago
@Albanis2
You love dick.
Pseudologic 1 year ago
@Pseudologic No arguments, and empty insult since you know of me only my youtube nickname and a vague position taken on the subject of WW1.
Sounds like a victory on my side. I'll be pleased if you don't answer. Have a nice day loser.
Albanis2 1 year ago
did that guy in the end die or was he injured the person who got shot
puppynamedmoleson100 1 year ago
@puppynamedmoleson100 no i dont think he died
craphunter 1 year ago
anyone know why the germans placed spikes on their helmet in the first place?, i know they took it out because it stuck out
trooper59 1 year ago
Because the spike helped deflecting a saber strike from a horsemen.
Kettch23 1 year ago 10
@Kettch23 Correct. It was also used for decoration and served as a ventilator for the helmet. It's kind of funny how people always assume the spike was meant to be a weapon. The spikes are thin brass; you'd end up breaking it before you hurt anyone with it.
Just a bonus, German artillerymen had pickelhaubes with a ball on top instead of a spike (symbolizing a cannonball.)
MauserKar98k 1 year ago
@Kettch23 and it was also to help strike fear in to the enemy me i would have used it for a trench weapon when out of ammo and they broke our trench lines
gunwiz96 1 year ago
@gunwiz96 you'd use your e-tool for that.
higuma75 1 year ago
@Kettch23 Yep, the design goes back to before the Franco-Prussian war of 1870/71
higuma75 1 year ago
@Kettch23
At the same time it allowed for country/side identification. It was later removed for the M90 helmet standard, but any of those who still had it would occasionally use it as a melee weapon after sharpening the the spike in their trenches.
JoeSkylynx 1 year ago
@Kettch23 nah its so they could throw their helmet at ppl with some deadliness like in saving private ryan
Dropkickutohurtytown 1 year ago
@Kettch23 True, but it was mostly a cerimonial piece than
a tool of war.
OutdoorSurvivalist1 1 year ago
@Kettch23 and to shopw power and aggresion
cpldickson 1 year ago
@Kettch23 how'd it do that?
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Phuxxo 1 year ago
@Kettch23 @Kettch23 not only from horsemen. it should deflect saber strikes in general. German artillerists had by the way a ball-shaped spike (finial) in order to avoid injuries while operating the canon.
Phuxxo 1 year ago
to ram at people lol
slayerk912 1 year ago
@trooper59 it's for headbutts
chesterngiamzhenghao 1 year ago
@trooper59 i thought it was just some fashion statement
sodaandjuice123 1 year ago
@trooper59 and it was traditional for prussion troops(not sayin u were wrong kettch
Jakewil95 1 year ago
@trooper59 they were te austrians not germans. germans had the same helmet, similar to the one in ww2.
seamuspowers 1 year ago
@trooper59 That and also it was used as a melee weapon if they lost their rifle or something.
PRbeatmaster 1 year ago
@trooper59 @Kettch23 The Pickelhaube was originally designed in 1842 by King Frederick William IV of Prussia, Even America had in the 1880 a variety of the helmet. The spike made men look taller and bigger. More Intimidating. Look at the horsehiar Greek Crest helmets. It was not necearrily desgined for battle.
progressiverebel 1 year ago
@trooper59 its because so you dont kill your own people in a close trench fight !
ABCMATTISSOMMER 1 year ago
No, the war broke out because of imperialism (new superpowers demanding colonies, old superpowers wanting to keep them). The assasination of Archuke Franz Ferdinand (not the leader of Austria-Hungary, he was the heir to the throne) was only an excuse.
RudolfMaister 1 year ago
My previous post refers to WW1 German Helmets; Someone asked if they were worn in WW2.
overopensights 1 year ago
@TheFriendlypie I didnt say it was goood as in the war was a good war, but ITS reason for starting was basically not in proportion to the slaughter. Atleast in WW2 there was the nazi's racist ideologies and aggressive expansionism that were the cause. In WW1 nobody were the clear cut badguys.
IGOTDOWNS 1 year ago 2
I know that, but you cant say that one shot in serbia is a good reason for everybody going to war against each other and millions dying because of it.
IGOTDOWNS 1 year ago
Im very fond of war history and i like to read about battles etc, but WW1 is the only war i cant stand to read about. So much pointless suffering and millions dead, for a war that kinda just broke out without a specific reason.
IGOTDOWNS 1 year ago 2
ww1 movie with ww2 rifles...
TheBelva85 2 years ago
TheBelva85 don't worry somwone will make a ww2 movie in 100 years and the Allies will be using laser rifles :)
Dogmeat1950 1 year ago
@Dogmeat1950 You mean like the electric lamps in the German bunker at 3:10?
CarlSchwamberger 1 year ago
yep lol. :)
Dogmeat1950 1 year ago
the germens used the same helmets in ww1 and ww2 .thats y ther the same
henjoe1cat 2 years ago
They did not use the same helmets, check your info again.
RudolfMaister 1 year ago 2
True the early German helmets were a bit bigger than the WW2 models and the early WW1 models were worn by the Waffen SS in WW2 because the Army claimed the best stuff. The helmets are correct for the era though
MusaJames 1 year ago
Are you sure about the Waffen SS wearing old helmets? I have seen some pre-war photos of an LSSAH parade where soldiers were wearing old helmets, but did they keep them during the early stages of the war? I am however sure that they wore the new helmets later on, because other than pre-war photos, I have never seen a photo of any German soldier during WW2 with the old helmet.
RudolfMaister 1 year ago
The SS also had to use Czech weapons for the lack of german weapons(early war). As German production picked up the availiable surplus would trickle down to the SS.
MusaJames 1 year ago
I know about the Czech weapons (Zbrojovka LMG), but they also used a lot of French, Polish and Soviet weapons and materiel.
RudolfMaister 1 year ago
I was unaware of the French Soviet and Polish material.
MusaJames 1 year ago
Oh, there was loads of it. I saw pictures of Somua tanks with German markings. They even used French and Czech WW1-era artillery (including the famous Austro-Hungarian 30,5 cm siege mortar, other Skoda artillery pieces and the French 75-mm cannon converted to anti-tank roles). As for Soviet materiel, I know they used a lot of Soviet anti-tank guns, but I'm sure there was other stuff as well.
RudolfMaister 1 year ago
They were worn on some ceremonial parades and for some special guards like at funerals and painted black for that pupose. I have only seen them on prewar images and very early in the war.
overopensights 1 year ago
like rats...
guillermola 2 years ago
Don't want to pick apart at this scene but I thought that the ww1 lee enfields had a shorter barrel. Those rifles look ww2 issued.
anzac95 2 years ago
.maybe so mate but they did their best today after all those years
oldstuffandcollect 2 years ago
1:23 isnt that a Mk 4 enfield?
volcolartist 2 years ago
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NLPaganBlood 2 years ago
arent those WW2 helmets!!!!!!!
2prologue 2 years ago
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@2prologue
no the germans had the Pickelhaube
& Stahlhelm and the english had the Brodie helmet. they look the same as in ww2 but they aren't u have diffrent versions
NLPaganBlood 2 years ago
Hearing that whistle knowing that it's time to go would be worse than the guns themselves. At least I think it would be.
UtahMike41 2 years ago
God forgive us all.
jjjazzycraig 2 years ago
actually, 25,000 canadian casualties so i don't know what the fuck your talking about "only british troops" and thats not counting the newfies, at the time an other country
akropiss 2 years ago