@@alofii6106 Be careful what you wish for. Just because something looks immediately better, doesn't mean the long term is better. As mentioned in the video, we wouldn't have had the nazis and huge loss of life due to two huge world wars but also we'd see colonialism and national pride to a huge extent and thats not including other things that would also be affected. World trade, the longest peacetimes we have seen (of course, wars still happen but you don't have to wake up expecting an air raid in most european cities), huge leaps in technology and learning is stuff we wouldn't have experienced without such a catasrophy occurring. So pick the lesser evil, no immediate evils but very slow if any progress, or evil and then huge changes to everything
Lets have a FOURTH alternative. In this reality, the Christmas Miracle does not occur in 1914. Instead it occurs in 1915. There are diaries and accounts of Generals giving orders in 1915 specifically to counter the chance of another 1914 miracle. And there were still troops who, while they did not cross into no-man's land, did observer their own "cease fire" for the day despite the orders. As you say 1914 was too early for such a miracle as nationalism and feelings were still high. But after one year of fighting in trenches and mud and water and seeing their comrades die, the troops were more ripe in 1915 for a more general mutiny like the Russians in 1917. In this scenario, localized miracles start to rapidly spread up and down the trenches due to how interconnected they are. Eventually the generals hear of this and try to issue orders to get back in the damn trenches. But the troops having suffered for over a year basically say screw you. Oh sure some gung ho officers start spouting orders and shouting .. and a few have "accidents" at that point as the disobedience spreads. Diplomats finally hearing of this jump on the opportunity to propose to their governments and extension of the ceasefire. Lets talk they say no need to keep fighting we have a chance. And the politicians listen and order the Generals to stand down and issue a general ceasefire until the new year. Sure this all spins on the need of both groups on the western side seeing this chance. But as mentioned diplomats were always working behind the scenes to pressure the military and governments for peace. Heck after a year of two front warfare the German generals might even agree to a chance to have breather as they can see they are not winning, and if they can get a western truce then they can focus on Russia. After that it all starts heading down a similar path as this video except maybe some changes. The Western nations MIGHT bring in Russia to the talks, or they could decide those backward fools (they were not well perceived in the West) can suffer their own fate for declaring war over Serbia to begin with and escalating the whole mess. But a 1915 Miracle might have worked.
*Commanders:* "The war will be over by Christmas..." *Soldiers:* ua-cam.com/video/jfE5ApizU6c/v-deo.html *Commanders:* "... Of 1918." *Soldiers:* ua-cam.com/video/jfE5ApizU6c/v-deo.html
"Could have been avoided, if the mentality of old men in charge had just slightly changed." I feel like this is applicable to SO MANY events in human history.
The Christmas Truce was a amazing moment in human history, soldiers refused to fight days after but they were eventually forced to do so. War is just old men in power throwing young lives away for more power.
@dragon How was the Second World War any different? The Holocaust wasn't known about in 1939 (and at least the USA employed pretty racist propaganda against the Japanese).
@@chawk6201 My point is that ethical reasons were not what motivated the war on the side of the Allies. Just as in the First World War, it was purely geopolitical power-play.
France: We could give up one small African colony, or potentially lose millions of lives fighting... Also France: Those millions of people weren't really doing anything anyways and I really kinda like Africa, soooo
They could have had the whole Sahara. The division of Africa is weird some powerfull countries like Germany had very few compared to the British and the French
@_jeff _ I know thats why my country got Angola,Mozambique and a part of the Congo. Of course the Brits where always eyeing Angola, because we got lucky there Angola is an extraordinarily rich place from diamonds to oil and all in between.
Also France: Oh boy wasting human lives sure is fun! Let's murder each other again in service to the Supreme Being! *France devolves into bloody revolution*
@@typicalperson6389 I mean, Putin said he was going to temporarily stop attempting to invade Ukraine over the Orthodox Christmas Period, but didn't. No surprise there then.
No one goes to war thinking they'll lose. They either give concessions or don't start it if they think that. In this case, the Schlieffen Plan came very close to winning. Had the Germans followed it more closely, they might have won in late August or early September in the West, shipped their troops East and beaten the Tsar handily.
for most of the last 700 years, France was basically that one kid who no one liked because he was the tallest and strongest. have a look at the number of wars in which the main reason was "yo fuck France". how do you expect them to not be mad when everyone else constantly ganged up on them
@@godemperorofmankind3.091 one of the main reasons people make fun of french incompetency was the george bush administration spreading propaganda about france when they refused to join the war against iraq although i still hate the french anyway, one because as a brit that is my duty, and two they are really obnoxious
@@looney9105 it def would have The situation in russia and other countries back then was prime for communisn maby not in ruassia but it 100% would have somewhere els
This was like a reversed Kurzgesagt video; started feeling good thinking how wholesome would had it been for the war to end in Christmas because the soldiers didn't want to fight anymore, ended up losing another bit of faith in humanity realizing it would've happened anyways in the future because humanity doesn't ever learn.
WW1 might be the most influential event in modern history. The collapse of the european empires, the decline of traditional religion in the west, and the creation of very radical ideologies, could all be traced back in some way to WW1
Well, either that or the 7 years War is the biggest event. Probable that if the French had won the 7 years War, instead of the British, with the French still being seen as a threat to the colonies and the Industrial Revolution happening in Britain, but to a less burgeoning extent due to not having India to supplement an explosion, the American colonies still would have wanted to stay under the British Crown due to perceived need for protection against the neighbouring French Colony, Britain would still reach parity with France again iin the next few decades, having gunboats after the Industrial Revolution, when the French wouldn't have them, To begin with, and then probably not even in the Medium-term either, as the monarrchy would be holding industrialisation back, as always happens with autocratic powers wanting to maintain the status quo.Lastly, there would be no Germany, with the French having maintained a strong military and hegemony of the continent, unlike the decline they had in the 19th century. It's probable that without the British winning the 7 years War and taxing the colonies, there wouldbe no USA or modern state of Germany. The brits and the french would be Dominating the world for the foreseeable future, probably for Centuries, with the aid of industrialisation
@@Rowlph8888 eh, i feel that the 7 years war was always going to be a british victory. WW1 on the otherhand was a time when the concept of a superpower did not exist. It was just lots of middle powers with colonies they were extracting resources from. If that ideal died earlier (perhaps a more aggressive US and japan alliance to take asia for themselves, forcing a proper EU where national identity was lost) the superpowers of today would have been locked on totally different continents with no real method of landing troops en masse in any real proximity to each other. Would have probably been something more akin to the naval battles of the spanish vs the british with heavily fortified static defences in the middle east, balkans and russia.
“Politicians who took us to war should have been given the guns and told to settle their differences themselves, instead of organising nothing better than legalised mass murder.” -Harry Patch
"That any concession given was failure." Y'know, I was finally reading "WorldWar" by Turtledove, and this reminds me of the summerization between the alien invasion and the human diplomats. "You consider anything but conquest of the whole world is to be viewed as a failure. But for us, letting you keep any territory on this planet is a failure." or... something to that effect.
Does anyone find it annoying whenever you ask about a hypothetical, that you get told that it would be impossible even if you acknowledge it wouldn’t happen?
Our Christmas on the frontlines We walk among our friends We don't think about tomorrow The battle will commence When we celebrated Christmas We thought about our friends Those who never made it home When the battle had commenced
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Right when you said "Maybe splitting up their enemies would be a good thing" I got an ad for UA-cam TV. I agree, It is time to split up the enemies of the people.
A Christmas on the frontline, we walk among among our friends, we don't think about tomorrow the battle will commence, when we celebrated Christmas we thought about our friends, those who never made it home when the battle had commenced.
Blackadder Goes Forth- episode 'Goodbyeee' has one of the most heartbreaking endings to one of the funniest TV series. It gave a good simple in depth about how grusom it was to be in that war while still being humorous until the last few minutes. Lest We Forget. Merry Christmas, everyone.
George saying he was scared, is one of the most heartbreaking parts. All through the series, he's been this childlike buffoon and it really is, in that moment like someone was sending a little boy over the top. It is, in a very real way, the death of an innocent
Cody please open your own store as I am just now watching this video in 2024 and I can’t get a single one of your plushes including but not limited to the German empire plush, the U.S. plush, and the Soviet plush. Thank you, a staunch fan of yours.
I just started tearing up from hearing the song play in my head😢. These men just wanted to go home, but they couldn't, because of politics or whatever. There's a quote from a WW1 soldier that basically said "war is just legalized mass murder"
The Monsieur Z/AlternateHistoryHub conspiracy grows ever stronger as they release another similarly themed Alt History video within a week. (I'm not complaining all alt history is good alt history)
“The infantry doesn’t shoot anymore, just the crazy artillery. The masters make war, they have a quarrel. And the workers, the little men stand and fight. Is that not a great stupidity?” -Hermann Baur, Christmas of 1914
Like most things in history, just because something doesn't happen doesn't mean the worlds a better place. But to have a video that is mostly dedicated to peace and happiness at the end of 2020, is amazing. Great Videos and I can't wait for 2021.
I think what is very funny, is/are the similarities between this and the TET Offensive. History can teach us lots - really looking forward to what you come up with next, Cody. Upward and onwards my friends!
As for the belief the war would be over by Christmas, some such as Lord Kitchener did recognize it would take awhile. The British recruitment drive he organized talked about a 3 year term with the possibility of the war taking longer than that.
Late to this party, but if Fritz Haber had not come up with an industrial process to produce nitrate fertilizers, the war would have been over by Christmas from the simple lack of explosives available to the Central Powers. The Allies would still have access to the mountains of bird dung on the island of Guano, so the Central Powers are forced to negotiate a peace while they are still able to fight.
"There have been some subversive mutterings amongst the men. You'll recall the French army last year at Verdun, where the top echelons suffered from horrendous uprisings from the bottom." "Yes sir, but surely that was traced to a shipment of garlic éclairs."
This is the what Christmas should be about, peace and good will to all I hope you all enjoyed your Christmas even though it was very different for everyone this year
At first I thought this was a shitpost, but then I saw the length and immediately realized just how different everything would've been if it had happened. Kind of sad to think about, if I'm being honest.
The beginning of the video was so sweet when I saw the the German military thing I thought it was going to be the end but no the German was just going to give America a gift and America gave Germany a gift and I just wanted to cry the music was so calming after that and just a great introduction to a great video and a great advertisement for your merch
Commander Nigel McTeabeard: OI, where you boys think yer goin?! Soldier 1: Home, it's Christmas. Commander: We're not done here, there's huns to hunt! Soldier 2: Home by Christmas, sir. Commander: You wat, lad? The entire trench down the line: *HOME. BY. CHRISTMAS. SIR.* A bunch of confused, glory hungry officers on both sides, plus Hitler, then yelled angrily into the night as the boys on both sides left the trenches and headed home.
The Iron Dice did a great podcast on how sailors refused to go on a suicide mission at the end of the war and the revolution that ensues afterwards establishing a republic. It's a lot like the second option.
@@cdur5091 Boomers have existed forever. The whole word boomer comes from "baby boomer" which applies to babies being born in large numbers after a war.
@@noodled6145 Generally when talking about boomers it does refer to baby boomers but that’s the generation that was born after World War II because all the soldiers were coming home to their girlfriends and wives. The generation before that was not called baby boomers but the greatest generation.
Idea for a video: what if France attacked from the Maginot in 1939? What if France intervened in the Rhineland remilitarization? What if France stopped the Blitzkrieg?
Germany was able to rebuild an army after being basically broke.Now imagine a German Empire in full swing having 30 years to do nothing but build an army.
Tech wouldn't have advanced as much in ww1. The quotas made the German engineers think more about optimizing equipment. Prety sure we wouldn't be so advanced today without such a big war.
@@dmyt58 tbh we don't know how important war is to developing/making huge jumps in technology. Look at the 21st century and see how gigantic our advances are currently: Computing power, "futuristic" weapon research in form of for example rail guns, vehicles, medicine, plastics/materials in general etc. and we're living in what seems to be the most peacefull time ever. With no immediate grandscale war on the horizon anytime soon. And still we make huge leaps when it comes to technology. Why shouldn't we have made big jumps in technology during a more peacefull 20th Century?
@@anblueboot5364 see we say that but at the same time the Middle East was on fire, then stopped for a little, and now back on fire. So I do say war does force innovation because the stakes are higher. When the stakes are high we rush to find new innovations. It sucks to say this but It seems that innovation has its prove, and that is the price of human life
@@trickzy456 I think you're over hyping the role the middle east played when it came to technological advancement. The US/West is not in an arms race like back than during the 1st, 2nd WW and Cold War vs Russia. You're making a fool of yourself if you belief that technological advancements were made because anybody feared the middle east could have caught up to any major powerhouse and outclassed them in any way possible. It's like saying that the USA is in an Arms race with Peru, what a pathetic arms race is that one?
@@anblueboot5364 no I’m not saying that the fear of the Middle East forced us to Innovate. Perhaps I worded what I wanted to say wrong. I was just saying that technological advancements seem to happen more quickly when we are in times of danger
I remember learning about the truce back in early history class and genuinely didn't believe it. I remember asking my teacher how they could go back to killing each other after that. Dont remember what they told me though
What if the (inevitible) war that broke out in the early 20th century was just as glorious and 19th century-style as everyone expected, rather than the gory trench warfare that came to be with the WW1 of our time line? What would have to be minimally different for that to happen I wonder?
Hitler:"Now that this war's over, I think I might take up painting."
Ahh yes. The blessed timeline.
Ok I kinda wish it went that way
@@alofii6106 Be careful what you wish for. Just because something looks immediately better, doesn't mean the long term is better. As mentioned in the video, we wouldn't have had the nazis and huge loss of life due to two huge world wars but also we'd see colonialism and national pride to a huge extent and thats not including other things that would also be affected. World trade, the longest peacetimes we have seen (of course, wars still happen but you don't have to wake up expecting an air raid in most european cities), huge leaps in technology and learning is stuff we wouldn't have experienced without such a catasrophy occurring. So pick the lesser evil, no immediate evils but very slow if any progress, or evil and then huge changes to everything
@@NaokisRC wow thats even better,more traditional society that keeps up with technological advances and peaceful decolonization
@@NaokisRC Hipsters and the modern left not existing already makes this timeline perfect
Commanders: we didn’t say WHICH Christmas.
Yeah. The soldiers were home by the Christmas of 1918.
@@kamanashiskar9203 at least the ones taht survived that long
@@kamanashiskar9203 Just in time to give their families the Spanish Flu
And so the great mutiny happened
You know Orthodox Christmas is a couple of weeks later due to the calendar difference?
Lets have a FOURTH alternative. In this reality, the Christmas Miracle does not occur in 1914. Instead it occurs in 1915. There are diaries and accounts of Generals giving orders in 1915 specifically to counter the chance of another 1914 miracle. And there were still troops who, while they did not cross into no-man's land, did observer their own "cease fire" for the day despite the orders. As you say 1914 was too early for such a miracle as nationalism and feelings were still high. But after one year of fighting in trenches and mud and water and seeing their comrades die, the troops were more ripe in 1915 for a more general mutiny like the Russians in 1917. In this scenario, localized miracles start to rapidly spread up and down the trenches due to how interconnected they are. Eventually the generals hear of this and try to issue orders to get back in the damn trenches. But the troops having suffered for over a year basically say screw you. Oh sure some gung ho officers start spouting orders and shouting .. and a few have "accidents" at that point as the disobedience spreads. Diplomats finally hearing of this jump on the opportunity to propose to their governments and extension of the ceasefire. Lets talk they say no need to keep fighting we have a chance. And the politicians listen and order the Generals to stand down and issue a general ceasefire until the new year. Sure this all spins on the need of both groups on the western side seeing this chance. But as mentioned diplomats were always working behind the scenes to pressure the military and governments for peace. Heck after a year of two front warfare the German generals might even agree to a chance to have breather as they can see they are not winning, and if they can get a western truce then they can focus on Russia. After that it all starts heading down a similar path as this video except maybe some changes. The Western nations MIGHT bring in Russia to the talks, or they could decide those backward fools (they were not well perceived in the West) can suffer their own fate for declaring war over Serbia to begin with and escalating the whole mess. But a 1915 Miracle might have worked.
nice
If only we had THAT timeline. No second World War and No Cold War, a blessed timeline.
That’s kinda similar to monsieur Z’s video on the Christmas truce ending world war 1 the other day.
@@ErikWarhammer Until some other crisis takes its place.
If only
" so were gonna return home at Christmas "
" YEAH HELL FREAKING YEAH "
" of 1918 "
" F*CK "
*Commanders:* "The war will be over by Christmas..."
*Soldiers:* ua-cam.com/video/jfE5ApizU6c/v-deo.html
*Commanders:* "... Of 1918."
*Soldiers:* ua-cam.com/video/jfE5ApizU6c/v-deo.html
No what earlier!!!!!!
Ya bo...
November 11th 1918
Frick
"Assuming you survive till then"
*gets machine gunned with 300 other comrades*
“What the hell are you men doing?!? Fraternizing with the enemy. Where’s your sense of German pride?”
“It’s on holiday leave! Merry Christmas!”🎄🎁
"Korporal Hitler was odd like that..."
**British and German kids wake up in trenches**
"It was all a dream?"
Always has been
“Yes soldier, get your ass up, it’s go time”
@@pixelproductions150 yep
@@pixelproductions150 Irish: Alright lads, get off yer arses and fight
"I used to read time word magazine"
The generals said that the war would be over by Christmas. They just didn’t tell them that it would be in 4 years
"OOOOHHHH you thought we meant THIS Christmas...well, we never specified which one it would be, you should have listened better"
I only pray that the war makes it home to see his family 😔
@@DakotaofRaptors lmao
True like all nations said ww1 would be a quick war and it was compared to many other wars in history,only lasted 4 years,perception is important
@@alphagamer9505 Yeah the World Wars are relatively short.
Cody I know sponsors pay well but you didn’t have to do an ad for chocolate during the entire video.
@UCDwxWcjOreO1nwvgL5E1cQg stop spamming
Well, Chocolate is good, so who cares.
Want more poop?
Goodbye
Hey Emp! I just wanted to say that im super sorry Mr.Z got his rabid audience of facists to attack you! Much love and happy holdiays!
Soldier: I thought I was going home by Christmas?
Commander: Yes, your going home in Christmas of 1918.
If you survive till then
@@carrydedier9952 if you escape from duty :3
"Could have been avoided, if the mentality of old men in charge had just slightly changed."
I feel like this is applicable to SO MANY events in human history.
The Christmas Truce was a amazing moment in human history, soldiers refused to fight days after but they were eventually forced to do so. War is just old men in power throwing young lives away for more power.
@dragon
How was the Second World War any different?
The Holocaust wasn't known about in 1939 (and at least the USA employed pretty racist propaganda against the Japanese).
@@xCorvus7x But the US started the propaganda after the Japanese attacked them. So that's not a really good argument.
Some wars are necessary though
@@chawk6201
My point is that ethical reasons were not what motivated the war on the side of the Allies. Just as in the First World War, it was purely geopolitical power-play.
"When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die"
Government Official: You'll be back by Christmas I swear
4 Years later
Soldier: So that was a fucking lie
No, it wasn't a lie...they merely failed to specify WHICH Christmas they'd be home by.
@@MacrossSD It’s hard to argue against his assessment
@@MacrossSD Even so it was the plan it just you know the French did not surrender like they thought they would.
we have been tricked backstabbed and quite possibly bamboozled
Government official: Let's go, in and out, couple month war.
Four brutal years later.
Government official: * mental breakdown *
France: We could give up one small African colony, or potentially lose millions of lives fighting...
Also France: Those millions of people weren't really doing anything anyways and I really kinda like Africa, soooo
They could have had the whole Sahara. The division of Africa is weird some powerfull countries like Germany had very few compared to the British and the French
Imagine wanting anything to do with Africa whatsoever.
@_jeff _ I know thats why my country got Angola,Mozambique and a part of the Congo. Of course the Brits where always eyeing Angola, because we got lucky there Angola is an extraordinarily rich place from diamonds to oil and all in between.
was this after or before the franco Prussian war
Also France: Oh boy wasting human lives sure is fun! Let's murder each other again in service to the Supreme Being! *France devolves into bloody revolution*
"Hey bro, sorry about shooting at you. Here's a chromebook"
"Thanks! Here is a shirt, I got it from Target."
“sorry for killing your friends lol here’s an ipad”
We need a modern Christmas truce
@@typicalperson6389 I mean, Putin said he was going to temporarily stop attempting to invade Ukraine over the Orthodox Christmas Period, but didn't.
No surprise there then.
The scene when Germany and America Plushies Exchanged Presents was the most wholesome thing I've seen in 2020
Should of been British or French given that the US entered the war very late on
Alternate title for this video: "What if people in 1914 were less stubborn and more realistic in their planing?"
No one goes to war thinking they'll lose. They either give concessions or don't start it if they think that. In this case, the Schlieffen Plan came very close to winning. Had the Germans followed it more closely, they might have won in late August or early September in the West, shipped their troops East and beaten the Tsar handily.
Spoiler: France gets very mad
Basically all of history summed up in one sentence
France be like: I think it's time to change governments again
@@F22onblockland Execute command: Coup d'etat: [Number 3324732984732984]
for most of the last 700 years, France was basically that one kid who no one liked because he was the tallest and strongest. have a look at the number of wars in which the main reason was "yo fuck France". how do you expect them to not be mad when everyone else constantly ganged up on them
@@godemperorofmankind3.091 one of the main reasons people make fun of french incompetency was the george bush administration spreading propaganda about france when they refused to join the war against iraq
although i still hate the french anyway, one because as a brit that is my duty, and two they are really obnoxious
@@stratox1753 man George bush jsut gets cooler but the moment
Maybe the real Christmas peace was the colonies which we kept along the way.
_Hold up_
_Wait no_
Wha- how could you miss the point this badly-
What's your pfp
@@comradekenobi6908 Es from an app called Alter Ego.
>"Naziism wouldn't have rose."
>uses *UA-cam* logo.
Communism also wouldn’t have risen.
@@sgtmayhem7567 your right....it would have risen sooner and be less totalitarian
demonetization
@@U.F.R.G it wouldn't have risen at all, really
@@looney9105 it def would have
The situation in russia and other countries back then was prime for communisn maby not in ruassia but it 100% would have somewhere els
This was like a reversed Kurzgesagt video; started feeling good thinking how wholesome would had it been for the war to end in Christmas because the soldiers didn't want to fight anymore, ended up losing another bit of faith in humanity realizing it would've happened anyways in the future because humanity doesn't ever learn.
WW1 might be the most influential event in modern history. The collapse of the european empires, the decline of traditional religion in the west, and the creation of very radical ideologies, could all be traced back in some way to WW1
WW1 has always been overshadowed by WW2. Underrated global conflict of mass murder if you ask me
Well, either that or the 7 years War is the biggest event. Probable that if the French had won the 7 years War, instead of the British, with the French still being seen as a threat to the colonies and the Industrial Revolution happening in Britain, but to a less burgeoning extent due to not having India to supplement an explosion, the American colonies still would have wanted to stay under the British Crown due to perceived need for protection against the neighbouring French Colony, Britain would still reach parity with France again iin the next few decades, having gunboats after the Industrial Revolution, when the French wouldn't have them, To begin with, and then probably not even in the Medium-term either, as the monarrchy would be holding industrialisation back, as always happens with autocratic powers wanting to maintain the status quo.Lastly, there would be no Germany, with the French having maintained a strong military and hegemony of the continent, unlike the decline they had in the 19th century.
It's probable that without the British winning the 7 years War and taxing the colonies, there wouldbe no USA or modern state of Germany. The brits and the french would be Dominating the world for the foreseeable future, probably for Centuries, with the aid of industrialisation
@@Rowlph8888 eh, i feel that the 7 years war was always going to be a british victory. WW1 on the otherhand was a time when the concept of a superpower did not exist. It was just lots of middle powers with colonies they were extracting resources from. If that ideal died earlier (perhaps a more aggressive US and japan alliance to take asia for themselves, forcing a proper EU where national identity was lost) the superpowers of today would have been locked on totally different continents with no real method of landing troops en masse in any real proximity to each other. Would have probably been something more akin to the naval battles of the spanish vs the british with heavily fortified static defences in the middle east, balkans and russia.
It's crazy to me that such an influential war was caused over such petty things.
“Politicians who took us to war should have been given the guns and told to settle their differences themselves, instead of organising nothing better than legalised mass murder.”
-Harry Patch
Thats Facism for ya.
@@jakespacepiratee3740 More like any form of authoritarian leaderships.
This comment section is dumb literally every country has done this
@@CausticSpace Gotta love those Internet Pacifists running around.
Who?
tfw one of the most deadly conflicts in human history could have ended immediately if France shared
sharing is caring
@@ComicCub commie
@@ComicCub yes
@@ComicCub communist detected democracy is the truth
The conflict would've never happened in the first place if Germany shared (Alsace-Lorraine).
Two years in the future: "What if COVID-19 had ended by Christmas (Of 2020)"
Or the summer of 2020
“What if COVID-19 had ended by 2021?”
What if COVID-19 had ended within 2 weeks after the quarantine started
2030 AlternateHistoryHub: what if Covid 19 ended in 2029?
"What if COVID-19 ended in 2019?"
"That any concession given was failure."
Y'know, I was finally reading "WorldWar" by Turtledove, and this reminds me of the summerization between the alien invasion and the human diplomats.
"You consider anything but conquest of the whole world is to be viewed as a failure. But for us, letting you keep any territory on this planet is a failure."
or... something to that effect.
Does anyone find it annoying whenever you ask about a hypothetical, that you get told that it would be impossible even if you acknowledge it wouldn’t happen?
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
If it ended by Christmas, that would put a whole new meaning for “war on Christmas”
Most likely the Franco-German War of 1914.
@@kamanashiskar9203 It probably be known as the Six Months War
@_jeff _ Could be
This means that everyone plays football forever.
*soccer
It goes from a World War to a World Cup, and all because of Football
Truly the darkest reality
GAA takes over the world. That’s real football.
@@nuzlockecomics5440 *Football
Today we're all brothers
Tonight we're all friends
A moment of peace
In a war that never ends
We were all
We were all
We were all
WE WERE ALL FRIENDS!
Go sabaton!
Today we're all brothers,
We drink and unite,
Now Christmas has arrived
and the snow turns the ground white
Our Christmas on the frontlines
We walk among our friends
We don't think about tomorrow
The battle will commence
When we celebrated Christmas
We thought about our friends
Those who never made it home
When the battle had commenced
*German and British soldiers chilling together*
The very next day: *Friendly Fire: OFF*
The very next week: *Friendly Fire: ON*
Sadly there are no ww1 veterans left alive.
:(
Yeah, the last WW1 veteran passed away in 2009.
Obviously, wwi happened in 1912-1918 and it's 2020
1914 not 1912
the youngest of them was most likely born in the 1890s and the last person alive who was born in the 19th century died in 2018.
AltHistHub: The Christmas Truce
KnowledgeHub: TIM ALLEN
i'm about annoyed at knowledgehub. Sounds less like knowledge and mroe like half drunk and or stoned ramblings.
I am the funniest UA-camr of all time I watched my latest video and laughed for 69 minutes straight I am extremely funny I am dangerously funny and I have two girlfriends who think I am extremely dangerously funny and they watch all of my videos thanks for listening dear sha
@@singletona082 that's why he renamed his channel to "Knowledge"Hub
@@singletona082 Me too, he lost himself. I mean fairly odd parents video was okay it gave a lesson about power, but now it's just rambling.
@@singletona082 watch knowledge hub old videos from 2 years ago. Much better
I want to a video where the whole Alt history community just collaborates together on one large scale project, idk why.
They did on canzuk to a very limited extent
@@adamhauskins6407 Link?
I really love how wholesome that was. The Germans and Allies celebrated Christmas, despite not knowing if the other would betray one of them.
Coming back to this video every year for the holiday season is always fun
and then they said "We'll be home by Christmas". funniest shit I've ever heard!
@Ian Is based but the opposite
Flatten the territory they said.
It'll be over by Christmas they said.
and other hilarious jokes you can tell yourself
Oh that slaps me on the knee!
If it hadn't been for the "Miracle of the Marne”, Paris would have fallen in September 1914.
Right when you said "Maybe splitting up their enemies would be a good thing" I got an ad for UA-cam TV. I agree, It is time to split up the enemies of the people.
Last time I was this early I thought world war 1 was going to be over by christmas
Not early
"Shut up and take my money!!!" - Me as soon as I saw the German Empire plush
I know he's so cute
A Christmas on the frontline, we walk among among our friends, we don't think about tomorrow the battle will commence, when we celebrated Christmas we thought about our friends, those who never made it home when the battle had commenced.
Blackadder Goes Forth- episode 'Goodbyeee' has one of the most heartbreaking endings to one of the funniest TV series. It gave a good simple in depth about how grusom it was to be in that war while still being humorous until the last few minutes.
Lest We Forget.
Merry Christmas, everyone.
Good luck, everyone
My favorite episode revolves around Baldrick's culinary skills.
George saying he was scared, is one of the most heartbreaking parts. All through the series, he's been this childlike buffoon and it really is, in that moment like someone was sending a little boy over the top. It is, in a very real way, the death of an innocent
General : We'll win the war after this one push.
Soldiers in mutiny : Funniest shit I've heard
This is a quote to remember
"Were not Occupied anymore, YIPEEEEE"
Cody please open your own store as I am just now watching this video in 2024 and I can’t get a single one of your plushes including but not limited to the German empire plush, the U.S. plush, and the Soviet plush. Thank you, a staunch fan of yours.
"Today we're all brothers, tonight we're all friends, a moment of peace in a war that never ends"
I just started tearing up from hearing the song play in my head😢.
These men just wanted to go home, but they couldn't, because of politics or whatever.
There's a quote from a WW1 soldier that basically said "war is just legalized mass murder"
The Monsieur Z/AlternateHistoryHub conspiracy grows ever stronger as they release another similarly themed Alt History video within a week. (I'm not complaining all alt history is good alt history)
not just similar, they practically released the same video
Monsieur Z is just cody overdoced in right wingness.
AHH doesn’t like communism any more than MrZ.
@@____________838 yeah, but mr z is a little fashy, ngl.
@@quedtion_marks_kirby_modding how?
Hanz, what are you talking about? That shell hit you hard huh? Internet? Memes? WW2? We just took Paris! The plan worked! Come celebrate...
I have no clue why, but this makes me feel depressed
God what i would give to end up in that world
@@Ω3103ζ I’d like a few earlier changes, to be honest. Like one where Karl Marx is dropped off on a remote Polynesian island at age 20.
@@gabesteinberg6244 I mean communism would've risen anyways
@@Ω3103ζ silence Kaiserboo
8:23 Your next line is going to be "Is that a JoJo reference?!" Great video, Merry Christmas
Is that a JoJo refe...NANI?
“The infantry doesn’t shoot anymore, just the crazy artillery. The masters make war, they have a quarrel. And the workers, the little men stand and fight. Is that not a great stupidity?” -Hermann Baur, Christmas of 1914
Love the plush merch intro - you definitely know how to open up a subject involving one of history's darkest hours on an upbeat note, Cody!
"Let's continue this scenario next year"
*Sets my clock*
Thank you for another year of Alternate History. These are always fun and often thought-provoking.
Like most things in history, just because something doesn't happen doesn't mean the worlds a better place. But to have a video that is mostly dedicated to peace and happiness at the end of 2020, is amazing. Great Videos and I can't wait for 2021.
I think what is very funny, is/are the similarities between this and the TET Offensive. History can teach us lots - really looking forward to what you come up with next, Cody. Upward and onwards my friends!
As for the belief the war would be over by Christmas, some such as Lord Kitchener did recognize it would take awhile. The British recruitment drive he organized talked about a 3 year term with the possibility of the war taking longer than that.
So this is what the video boils down to: It would've been fine if everyone weren't so stupid.
That honestly sums up the entire 19th and 20th centuries
Most of history, really
The story of life...
Don’t forget the 21st century
Typical humanity moment to think that we're smarter than we were in the past lmao
Nothing better for christmas than a unrealistic scenario about christmas
ye......ah...
Ah yes the most wholesome war in human history, edning with both sides exchanging presents...wait
Late to this party, but if Fritz Haber had not come up with an industrial process to produce nitrate fertilizers, the war would have been over by Christmas from the simple lack of explosives available to the Central Powers. The Allies would still have access to the mountains of bird dung on the island of Guano, so the Central Powers are forced to negotiate a peace while they are still able to fight.
Merry Christmas to all of you!
The 2014 Sainsbury's Christmas ad would never have been made.
oh shit yeah i remember that.
Or it would have as the miraculous event that ended a war
"There have been some subversive mutterings amongst the men. You'll recall the French army last year at Verdun, where the top echelons suffered from horrendous uprisings from the bottom."
"Yes sir, but surely that was traced to a shipment of garlic éclairs."
"Our xmas in the trenches our xmas far from home" - Sabaton
Merry Christmas Cody.
This is the what Christmas should be about, peace and good will to all
I hope you all enjoyed your Christmas even though it was very different for everyone this year
The nicest Battlefield game ever.
You’re plushies of generalized nations are more detailed and have more E vibes than any of Vivzipop’s, great job
At first I thought this was a shitpost, but then I saw the length and immediately realized just how different everything would've been if it had happened. Kind of sad to think about, if I'm being honest.
Absolutely wild how Lenin was Germany's secret weapon, basically as effective as the nukes were in WW2.
The idea that France would quit without Alsace and Lorraine is beyond fantasy
In a time of death, war and suffering, both sides came together and celebrated Christmas.
That’s a beautiful thing.✌️🎄
This is Cody’s geopolitical response to the rising power of Whatifalthist
Lmao yes copying
Whatifalthist > alternate history hub
What if France won the 7 years war? Or Second Mexican Empire succeeded? By the way marry Christmas
no
@@mrjaman3752 Why not?
@@mrjaman3752 shut up
@@elharvey5032
Why should we marry someone named Christmas?
This has become my Christmas tradition
The beginning of the video was so sweet when I saw the the German military thing I thought it was going to be the end but no the German was just going to give America a gift and America gave Germany a gift and I just wanted to cry the music was so calming after that and just a great introduction to a great video and a great advertisement for your merch
Commander Nigel McTeabeard: OI, where you boys think yer goin?!
Soldier 1: Home, it's Christmas.
Commander: We're not done here, there's huns to hunt!
Soldier 2: Home by Christmas, sir.
Commander: You wat, lad?
The entire trench down the line: *HOME. BY. CHRISTMAS. SIR.*
A bunch of confused, glory hungry officers on both sides, plus Hitler, then yelled angrily into the night as the boys on both sides left the trenches and headed home.
In this timeline Hitler is shot by one of his comrades for being a Christmas grinch
Hitler: I want war!
Comrade: Shut up! We’re going home!
0:21 ww1 had ended by Christmas
This was brought to you by Santa, America and the German empire
Anyone else who came back here after hearing Sabaton's song about the Christmas Truce?
Me
3:10 That rest ye merry gentlemen hits different. What exact version is it?
great video
The Generals - once they found out about the informal truce - when out of their way to stop it snd get their troops back to fighting.
Well technically the war did end by Christmas, we just didn’t tell you which one.
W
The Iron Dice did a great podcast on how sailors refused to go on a suicide mission at the end of the war and the revolution that ensues afterwards establishing a republic. It's a lot like the second option.
“Current year joke”
Still accurate *laughs*
*cries*
This video has aged beautifully.
12:54 as a person who lives in germany that got me lol.
In an alternate universe, Kanye East read Mein Kampf and became Hitler 2.
Nice video idea
3:02 that's exactly what were driving mass munities on Italian front.
This alternative scenario was very very interesting and Merry Christmas Cody!
I’ve watched this video multiple times and idk why but I tear up every time
Mr. Z has got to be hacking Cody's computer to find these things lol
Mr.Z is an actual Facist, racist, and homophobe, by the way. No bullshit, I mean it.
@@jakespacepiratee3740 why tho
@@jakespacepiratee3740 really? So how'd you find it out.
I've heard he is alt right, not sure tho
@@pinklasagna8328 well if we asume he's french it makes sense.
Imagine falling for the ol’ “you’ll be home by Christmas” trick
They plaque will be over by Christmas they said
Imagine? Just ask anyone that was in vietnam 😂
@@chocolateman1 and now it’s gonna last til next Christmas smh.
Well basically WW1 would have ended if they said "SHUT UP, *BOOMER* "
Damn right!
Boomers didn't exist until 1946
@@cdur5091 damn bro
@@cdur5091 Boomers have existed forever. The whole word boomer comes from "baby boomer" which applies to babies being born in large numbers after a war.
@@noodled6145 Generally when talking about boomers it does refer to baby boomers but that’s the generation that was born after World War II because all the soldiers were coming home to their girlfriends and wives. The generation before that was not called baby boomers but the greatest generation.
Alternate WW1: Ends by Christmas 1914
Alternate Hitler: That wasn't part of the plan
Really heavy feeling to the start of this video, well done Cody.
Idea for a video: what if France attacked from the Maginot in 1939? What if France intervened in the Rhineland remilitarization? What if France stopped the Blitzkrieg?
Germany was able to rebuild an army after being basically broke.Now imagine a German Empire in full swing having 30 years to do nothing but build an army.
Tech wouldn't have advanced as much in ww1. The quotas made the German engineers think more about optimizing equipment. Prety sure we wouldn't be so advanced today without such a big war.
@@dmyt58 tbh we don't know how important war is to developing/making huge jumps in technology. Look at the 21st century and see how gigantic our advances are currently: Computing power, "futuristic" weapon research in form of for example rail guns, vehicles, medicine, plastics/materials in general etc. and we're living in what seems to be the most peacefull time ever. With no immediate grandscale war on the horizon anytime soon. And still we make huge leaps when it comes to technology.
Why shouldn't we have made big jumps in technology during a more peacefull 20th Century?
@@anblueboot5364 see we say that but at the same time the Middle East was on fire, then stopped for a little, and now back on fire. So I do say war does force innovation because the stakes are higher. When the stakes are high we rush to find new innovations. It sucks to say this but It seems that innovation has its prove, and that is the price of human life
@@trickzy456 I think you're over hyping the role the middle east played when it came to technological advancement.
The US/West is not in an arms race like back than during the 1st, 2nd WW and Cold War vs Russia. You're making a fool of yourself if you belief that technological advancements were made because anybody feared the middle east could have caught up to any major powerhouse and outclassed them in any way possible.
It's like saying that the USA is in an Arms race with Peru, what a pathetic arms race is that one?
@@anblueboot5364 no I’m not saying that the fear of the Middle East forced us to Innovate. Perhaps I worded what I wanted to say wrong. I was just saying that technological advancements seem to happen more quickly when we are in times of danger
"Zum Frühstück nach Paris, zum Abendessen nach Sankt Petersburg
(By Breakfast to Paris, by dinner to St. Petersburg)"
-German War Slogan
I remember learning about the truce back in early history class and genuinely didn't believe it. I remember asking my teacher how they could go back to killing each other after that. Dont remember what they told me though
What if the (inevitible) war that broke out in the early 20th century was just as glorious and 19th century-style as everyone expected, rather than the gory trench warfare that came to be with the WW1 of our time line?
What would have to be minimally different for that to happen I wonder?