The Battle of Passchendaele, 1917

Time to pump up your speakers! This video shows the horrors of the battle of Passchendaele (Passendaele) in 1917. This my first video so please comment and express your opinions.

Clips were put together by me but belong to other people: Pirates of the Caribbean, The Last Tommy

Pictures: Passchendaele Museum, Google Images

Songs:
Gackt- Lust for Blood
Pirates of the Caribbean - Davy Jones

Try to distinguish the 3 different chapters in the video.

Quastito!

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Battle
• Passchendaele
• 1917

[111abf111]

My uncle died at Sanctuary Wood ( one of the 55,000 engraved on the Menin Gate whose body was never found) - He was Canadian, of British heritage. I can't believe you people are treating this like it's a pissing contest. You should be ashamed of yourselves.

[AlwaysASolution]

Well put sir, their memories and remembrance of the great sacrifice they have given should always be kept in our mind. It is almost Remembrance Day now, lest we forget.

[ruimopjongen]

@111abf111 i know your feeling i lost familiemembers to in WW1 and WW2 so i agree whit you about them they where my grand-grand father and my grandfather who died there when they where fighting for freedom so guys a little respect for peaple who lost somebody

[TheHappilyInsane]

Canadian Stormtroopers Passchendaele 1917

[WoodsballMachine]

@illegalbadgerbaiting 15,000 Canadians died thats a fact, Id like to see your sources. Yes, this battle didnt have much strategic meaning, the allies wanted it to show the Germans how strong they were. Since the Germans consistently stopped them at passchendaele it would be like a slap in the face to Germany. I am very thankfull to the nations who served with Canada, we needed them and always will. But i find that other nations push Canada aside and never acknowledge us for our achievements.

[illegalbadgerbaiting]

@WoodsballMachine and please dont call me ignorant when you say canada lost 15,000 when there were only 4,000 dead. The only relevance this battle had to the outcome of the war was due to casualties, nothing more nothing less, we can conclude this in hindsight due to the allies abandoning the ground theyd won in the battle soon after. i personally feel you denigrate the other nationalities who fought in this battle and you dont seem to grasp the nature or context of trench warfare om ww1.

[illegalbadgerbaiting]

@WoodsballMachine ok let me put this another way. The consensus for why the allies won the war (this applies to passchendaele, the somme etc) comes down to 3 things; the inability of Germany to replace its dead, the allies ability to absorb losses better, and the british naval blockade of Germany. These battles only mattered not for ground won, but casualties infilicted. Im not trying to denigrate canada, far from it, i'm just trying to bring a little perspective.

[WoodsballMachine]

@illegalbadgerbaiting You're misleading. You say "the facts of the battle are", your too ignorant to even know there was more than one battle at passchendaele. You put the German causalities at 200,000, thats how many they lost in TOTAL at passchendaele, Canada fought in the second battle after the British and French failed. We contributed 20,000 and lost over 15,000. it was not a 300 situation, we just weren't in the first battle and came in when the others nations couldn't do it.

[illegalbadgerbaiting]

@WoodsballMachine Sir i admire your steadfast ability to refuse to apply logic to the real world and that my friend takes balls. But the facts of the battle are that a German division was about 10,000 men, times this by 13 you have an indication of numbers involved. The Canadian contribution was 20,000 with 4,000 killed. The German casualties were about 200,000 - 260,000, these are historical facts. Are you suggesting some kind of spartan 300 situation? are you a race of immortal supermen?

[WoodsballMachine]

@illegalbadgerbaiting Im not arguing with anyone any more, you wont listen to historical facts so I cant help you. Also don't comment on my comment from 3 months ago, why do u think I would still be arguing after that long?

[illegalbadgerbaiting]

@WoodsballMachine Are you seriously trying to suggest 20,000 Canadians singlehandedly beat 13 german divisions in highly entrenched defensive positions who were backed by 1,150 heavy artillery guns? did you develop some kind of bulletproof human being up there in Canada before 1914?