How World War 1 Came To A Violent And Horrific End | First World War | Timeline
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- The war's last months were more destructive than trench warfare had been. Germany remained on French soil, believing herself unbeatable. The armistice was the Allies' bid to obtain - on paper - Germany's unconditional surrender. At Versailles she was made to shoulder the blame for the war so she was forced to pay for it. The war, with losses of over 20 million, was later deemed as a senseless waste, but at the time it was seen in positive terms - for defence against aggression and for glory. It curbed militarism, for a while, but was not the war to end all wars. Its terrible message to the century it shaped was that war can fulfil ambitions and that war can work.
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My great great grandfather died 27th March 1918 aged 34, he's remembered with honour at Ramleh war cemetery.
Was he a shoemaker in Stockholm at the time?
God bless that great man.
What a great grandfather; thanks to him, up there , for our freedom today
Sorry for your loss 🙏 You must miss him
Really? Nah
Really?
My great uncle was killed near Ypres on the 29th of September 1918..two months before armistice. He was a royal inniskilling fusilier and was only 19. His death is commemorated at Tyne cot War grave memorial near paschendale. Thankyou for your service Charlie
You meant to write 29th September 1918... 100 years off... Otherwise may his soul rest in eternal peace. It just bothers me that so many young and gallant men died for nothing. The world loses innumerable young men and women due to a few old geezers disagreeing on some worthless ideology.
@@richardbwanika2166 I did thankyou for correcting me :)
He survived for over a year over there just to be killed right near the end. Such a shame RiP to all those who served in such a pointless war
@@kravercramel The pleasure is mine Chris! And thank you for sharing him with the rest of us who hold these great people in high esteem, and again for keeping his memory alive coz that way he lives on still. He is lucky to have a relative like you. Cheers and God bless.
@@kravercramel I forgot to mention... I too did have a great uncle on my mom's side who during WW2 fought for Britain in the King's African Rifles, as the Ugandan regiments were referred to then in WW1 and WW2. Although they mainly served as kitchen boys, and only got called upon when the ranks got depleted. He served in 2 countries; Algeria when Rommel was untouchable, and in France towards the end of the war where he intermingled with African soldiers from the Congo fighting for France. Most African soldiers fought for the European countries that colonized them or were under their protectorate as Uganda was with Britain.
My Granpa fought in The Great War. He never told his story, so I will now.
At the tender age of 16 he (illegally) signed up with The Manchester Boys.
He was not alone. He heeded the great call that "Your Country Needs You."
As did most of the men and boys of the community he grew up with, from school friends, to greengrocer, to butcher, to policeman.
In 1917 Grandpa returned from the war. And never spoke of it again, even to his wife and children the subject was tabboo.
He married my grandmother in the 1930's and my mum was born in 1940.
Grandpa passed away in 1971.
A few years ago, I went to The Somme with my mum. She was in the last few years of her life, and she wanted to know what had happened to her dad before she too went away.
The toll of death was so vast that it took some effort to track down the story of my Granpa's Manchester regiment.
The regiment of 900 men, all from the same Manchester community were ordered to "go over the top" one winter morning, just before dawn.
900 men went over the top and charged the German lines that morning.
Less than an hour later 132 returned. My Grandpa being one of the "lucky" ones.
But almost everyone he knew, had grown up with, had shared community with, was dead.
He had just turned 17.
The effect on him was so catastrophic, that he could not bring himself to speak of it for the next 55 years. He kept his medal secreted away in the back of a drawer.
It had a profound effect on me as well. My very existence is possible because of a roll of six on that morning. How many me's of today are not here because their ancestor rolled a five or under ?
What this documentary does not mention, is that the joy amongst the survivors is that this was the war to end all wars. I believe that so many put their lives on the line, because it meant no-one would have to again.
That is the saddest part for me. So many sacrifices were meaningless. Futile.
Lest We Forget, has indeed, been forgotten.
So, for the sake of my dear gentle Grandpa.
I will not forget. But I must forgive.
Wow great story mark mate I could not imagine the hardship and trauma suffered in France those years it's by luck we were not born in that era as I couldn't even comprehend it our young generations don't realise how privileged there lives are now respect to your grandpa real hero
Heroes ... sadly sold out by politicians.
@@markmewordz6860 The scourge of the willing! If they stood alongside them in the trenches, they wouldn't be such a stink in the nostrils!
We think about our friends who didn’t make it home and didn’t have the chance to live a full life
What odds to stay alive. WW1 may have been the worst war in terms of casualty rate.
This series is very dear to me as it reminds me of my late "old man " my Dad had found these whilst buying his daily newspaper as they were a bonus "for a small fee" of course lol. He bought every last one to give to me . I always had a deep interest in history and archeology amd anything military.The family lived in the UK but i was on the continent. Got them for Xmas when on holiday . Bless him and may he rest easy ,wherever he may be. Miss you dad.
35:49. The naval blockade against Germany continued after the Armistice.
"This is not peace. It is an Armistice for twenty years."
"He got it wrong by just 65 days."
But his foresight was 20/20.
...THAT'S THE TRUTH-!!!
Well, France’s own fault for its vengefulness. Germany had no territorial claims and no wish to go to war in 1914; France did.
Actually he said this because he wanted the peace terms to be much harsher on Germany. The harshness of the terms was the cause of the next war.
@@Ukraineaissance2014 ...and as I recall, Clemenceau and Foch did not live long enough to see the outbreak of WW2.
@@mebsrea Boy if you only saw a map of europa circa 1918...yea i have one...not even Google will have this unless you do hexagram sommersaults over the rhine to git it.
Does anybody else watch these old videos and or b&w pictures and think: "All these young men - everybody in these pictures, the person who took the picture - everyone is dead." It's weird....
Imagine seeing your grandfather on there ? Now that would be weird.....
@@MyAddad Or you from a past life.
@@RayRobinson0311 It's weird, i've seen pictures of my family from the first war, and you can see them in my family of today...... Just shows you how blood and DNA don't die.....
Yep
Imagine those old but rich guys who had their portraits painted. Not so very different.
This series has the best narrator of all of them. The pacing, the audio, the content... 10/10
thanks
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@@rascallyrabbit717 Except the sound mixer should be beaten about the ears until he turns down the frigging background music.
@@michaelgartly3753 it’s the result of down mixing from 5.1 to UA-cam stereo. It’s not the fault of the mixer but the software.
PBS for you
This is probably the most informative documentary series about world war 1. Excellent work.
You should see the channel "the great war". They are amazing. They even have week-by-week accounts of what happened for every week of the war.
You can thank PBS, since this is from PBS. This channel just takes their videos
Your right o'chap
One hour documentaries are only superficial, no matter how well done. Reading books is much more informative.
@@tomc642 this documentary is based on a book by Hew Strachan.
My son was in the Navy. In the early days of his service he visited his Great Uncles grave in Belgium and left his Navy insignia. It was a deeply moving moment.
Kikikkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk..y..u..k..
Eero
People the world did not yet know,
JRR Tolkien,
He also fought and survived.👈🙏 RIP.
Just like 88 pet cent of British did
@@anthonyeaton5153 88?
@@thomassmith4826 a better way is 12 percent were killed. True
10 out of 10 documentary. the film, audio, narrator, Music, everything was excellent.
Agreed the narrator was amazing
"They produced only 20 tanks"
Battlefield 1: I pretend I didn't see that
Called tanks … because they hide them and told the regular boot “ they were water tank “ 👍
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I was stupid forgot the account password. I would appreciate any tips you can offer me.
@Nash Landon Instablaster =)
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They liked stealing them more. Plus, I think it was more like 22
I enjoyed this documentary very much. My grandfather served in WW1. My father in WW2. thank you this.
When I watch this videos I think of the poor Grunt on the ground . It's just amazing what people can indure
Endure*
Yes, is it not amazing that the vast majority of humanity can be stampeded into a war by a few. The human animal has not really evolved in that area at all. Most humans still exist at a very sub human level just under the surface.
@@tibzig1 ...THAT'S THE TRUTH-!!!
@@tibzig1 You got that right!!!
Followed by the Spanish Flu and the Great Depression in 1929. That generation endured too much. The rise of fascism and communism is all to understandable.
My great uncle, Corporal Edward Taylor; died 9th November 1918 at just 23, he is remembered at Niederzwehren Cemetary in Kassel, Germany
My grandad visited the allied war graves commission in Europe around 2015. while he was there someone was introduced to him and asked where he was from.
When he told him this guy asked grandad to wait and brought him our great uncle's dog tag.
He had been found that week after almost exactly 100 years.
We knew he was wounded at the front line and sent to the rear but then disappeared.
They found him in a medical dugout which had been near missed by a shell and buried with the loss of all.
Tragic.
Thank you, Lance. You made me cry...
What an awful time to be alive.
😢😢😢 The war brought Death, destruction and horrific wounds both mental and physical. Around the world poor families were dying of diseases and hunger...
Very poor leadership in the field as well.
@@djquinn11 ...THE GENERALS WERE STILL FIGHTING THE LAST WAR-!!!
WW1 was a family feud, time to get rid of all royalty
...IT WAS ALL A DAM, ROTTEN SHAME- AND THAT'S A GROSS UNDERSTATEMENT!!!
But look at all the modern wonders communist winners brought us.......it's dialectical.
I cried at they end. It's just heart breaking to know how we as humans could do this. And that we continue to do this.
hey dragon girl 144 how's life in bubble land......... say hi to the fairies for me...... and then we can all go tra la la la la
She’s right, though. It’s also true that there have been no ‘major’ wars. But warfare has been constant ever since - we just don’t see it or feel it so it’s not real to us. Until it comes to our neighborhood. Ask the people of the Balkans. We set up the conflict in the Middle East. Imperialism never really stopped. Money and power continue to rule the lives of the people. History has shown us that if we don’t learn from it, there will be more devastating wars in the future. We need to understand human nature and grow as a species. Until then, we are doomed to repeat our past failures.
@@kensurrency2564 ...the fact that nuclear weapons exist, is probably the reason why there hasn't been another major war-!
Dale Burrell 1. We almost had one in 1950. 2. It will take only one accident to wipe us all out. So why have a super bomb in the first place? We have to change our ways of thinking, not use a super weapon to reign us in by fear. That’s what the religious texts are for. You’re arguing for the crutch. We just have to grow as a species. That’s the answer.
@@kensurrency2564 ...I'd say that so far, it has worked pretty well-(!)
I have watched plenty a war documentary in my lifetime to the point that I fear I have nothing as exciting left for me to indulge in during my rough time of insomnia or weekend evenings of spare time. That being said, this WW1 epic series, in my humble opinion, has the best if not the most moving of a score/soundtrack to match the melancholy of the hardships associated with this time period of untold human endurance. At the start and during the end of each episode, the music has always touched me in such a manner I can hardly explain, but one filled with immense sadness and sorrow for the poor souls who had to endure and eventually perish in the most terrifying and brutal ways. Those that survived carried with them physical and mental scars that the medical system of the day could not cater to or in the least offer some semblance of comfort. These brave men and women took with them this unending terror to their graves! And sadly the supposed "War to End All Wars" only turned out to be a precursor to an even more ghoulish war that brought with it more efficient ways to end a life. The evil we humans carry out upon ourselves is in itself more mindboggling as time trickles on. In watching these modern day world wars and the repercussions that follow, I pray in my lifetime i never experience such horror and pain, having survived several civil wars in my mother country Uganda, I am grateful for everyday I am alive in America and pray everyday for victims of war everywhere in the world that peace comes to them as soon as it can possibly do so... Mozambique, The Middle East, Sudan
Certainly a kindred spirit. Wish we could have a beer together.
@@pilotguy40 Thank you sir! A pint with you would be such an honor. I am humbled and grateful for the interest we share in this genre/field. Wonderful to know someone loves and appreciates these documentaries. Cheers and God bless.
@@richardbwanika2166 You should read poetry in your spare time, now. You seem to be a sensitive person.
Sir, I wish you many years of peace and prosperity in your new home.
So sad to see the aftermath and effects of war.
Yes.
But they brought it on themselves, TWICE.
grow up its allwar
@@pjr5913
What?
@@pjr5913 Spoken like someone who knows nothing at all about war
The tragedy of this is that many including Marshall Foch and General Pershing said at the time that unless the German army was pushed all the way back to Berlin and brought to its knees agreeing to a total surrender they would never accept they were defeated in this horrific bloodbath of a conflict and that the whole thing would be played out again in 20 years time.The Versaille Treaty and punitive measures allowed a disgruntled corporal to seize control of Germany and indeed their prediction came to pass.
Versailles was never about 'peace'. Foch et al had the heads up. Round two was always on the cards, the corporal was irrelevant really.
However evil be later became, that corporal won not one but two Iron Crosses for exceptional bravery. Second class, usual for non commissioned ranks , but also a First Class - an award normally reserved for Commissioned Officers only. I believe his was one of only two that had ever been awarded to Other Ranks.
yes, Germany should have been crushed and defeated in detail.
The Germans weren’t defeated were they. There wasn’t even a battle not one on or in German territory let alone lost. They agreed to an armistice not an unconditional surrender. The treaty of versaille was sfter hostilities ended eith the armistice
I’m sorry your great grandfather died so close to the rnd of the war. His honorable recognition is awesome. Is he at Arlington? Frsnce? Or ehere is he interred?
What a beautiful master piece this documentary is, how moving the end is, I loved the music and the way they showed the deserted battle fields and the words of the French officer, they couldn't have done it better, I want to thank Alison Mcallan and all the people involved in this project and above all Hew Strachan whom this beautiful work of history could not have been done, I hope no such war ever happens again this is the lesson for me.
Best regards and stay safe everyone, from Israel.
Agreed. This was masterfully done. Quite moving.
I agree. It was definitely a beautifully and masterfully done documentary. I must also add (on a lighter note), that your last sentence has the most importantly placed comma I've ever seen. Commas save lives, lol. I am in the U.S.A. and I send you well wishes :o)
@@midnightodellewest1999 - that comma might have prevented another Middle East war.
The horrors and loss of life suffered by a whole generation of young men is an atrocity. Yet we still do the same to our young men.
We have learned nothing the statement near the end says it all. "It wasn't the war to
end all wars, not just because it left dangerous lose ends but it bequeathed the
world a terrible message, that war can effect change, that war can fulfill ambitions,
that war can work."
@@chrismerkel9604 I noted the same statement. It is one of the most profound things I have heard in a while. Losing a war is awful, yet winning a war can be worse. It condemns the next generation to fight one.
Marvelous memorial for those who were involved and gave their lives.Thankyou.
Arthur Currie and John Monash were among the most innovative and effective generals of this war.
The Canadians and Australians took it to the Germans over and over and over in that last 100 days. The Germans were told they were not vanquished but the Canadians with Currie and the Aussies with Monash were punching them in the face repeatedly.
@@marklittle8805 So did the British check your history. On the 4th November 1918 six British VCs were won and another on the 6th of November. The Australians were withdrawn from battle in the October.
I would just like to appreciate the melancholy piano soundtrack; very well done all round
Agreed.
Erik Satie - Gnossienne No.1 ?
Kill each other on an agreed field and most of them didn't even know why
Great series, definitely WWI was one of the most defining moments in history, and even though it was a nessesary moment of transition from the age of empires to the age of nations, we need to honor all those people who died no matter which were his nationality, cause they died so today we can live in peace …. Long live to all soldiers of WWI
@Ready For Anything. even though…
I totally enjoyed this series of documentaries
I bought this series in the years 2000 on DVD, watched it twice and here I am again watching it on UA-cam in 2021...so good I have no word to express my admiration for the narrator and the director and no word to express my sorrows for the sufferance of those heros who gave there lives to make the world we live in a better place.
I had a great uncle that was in the 42nd Rainbow Division in WW1.
Excellent series, thank you
Thanks for this amazing series
Expecting such a series on WW2
Middle East issues
Cold War etc
Cnn have one on Cold War. 24 episodes..very well done
By far the greatest WW1 documentary series I’ve watched the narrator, music, videos all amazing well done.
It's amazing how some of us are even here in 2021. Because just one of our great great grandparents dies, we don't get born. We really are so random
My Great-Great Grandfather in the male line, James Talbot Craig, was born 6th December 1891 and fought in the First World War and survived uninjured. He later died on 20th March 1941 in Rainham, Essex during an air raid on duty at the age of 49. Bombed by the Luftwaffe on Hermann Göring’s orders.
As ww1&ww2 buff must i say this is bye fare the best doc series i have seen, great work gent keep it up looking forward too see more of what you got .
What a touching and moving series. Thank you!
35:00. ‘He felt that forcing Germany to pay reparations could ruin Europe, politically and economically’. Good foresight!
So...Germany paid reparations and were forced to admit war guilt (even though they never started the war) SO THAT FRANCE COULD PAY HER BILL to Britain and the US? And Germany was never told that she would have to admit guilt and pay massive debts until after the armistice?
Wow...a blind kid could see the train wreck that was coming to the world after Versailles.
Spot on. And Germany didn't declare war on Britain and France 20 years later. It was the other way around. . . again
....I WONDER IF IT WASN'T PLANNED THAT WAY-(?)
America, France and Britain are monsters.
@@mikebellis5713 bc of Poland?
I listened to this series while driving to work and it made the time fly. But I was surprised it didn't address Passchendale or the Meuse-Argonne. General Pershing's mental collapse, either. It seemed odd.
it's all conspiracy talk now..lol'.
Passchendaele was in 1917. Meuse Argonne indeed would have been very noteworthy to mention.
Heartbreaking!
What a awesome video .thank you so much
The sound design on this episode is really, really good!
I was going through some of my parents personal belongings and found a little box which contained a wrist watch and a little note explaining that it was worn by my grandfather during World War One. What a little treasure to find. I sat there for an hour just trying to imagine what that little watch had witnessed. Up to that point I didn't know much about my grandfather (On my mothers side) and was very surprised to learn that he fought in the Great War.
He was born In Dublin in 1889 and went into the King's service in 1914 at the age of 25. After the war he returned to Dublin and married my grandmother Mary Doyle. They had five children, my mother being the youngest. I remember seeing him when I was a child but the only vivid memory of him that I can recall is of him sitting up in a bed in striped pajamas - he look old and frail. He died in or around 1965. Sadly that's all I know about him as my mother never really talked about her family. Pity..
Research him records are all there.
I love this series, learnt a lot but was disappointed from ep 5 to ep8 due to repeating narration and Audio 😅but still thank you so much 🥰I will look at other documentaries
Amazing documentary ...amazing channel
Ahh the end of WWI. How the world got the way it is today.
A lesser God would explode planet Earth and end our evil species.
Jlk, word yo. 😖.
@@edisonbittencourt181 IT'S A WONDER THAT WE HAVEN'T ALREADY DONE THAT TO OURSELVES!!!
@jlk there is not enough history in the world that can cure corruption
Or how the world got ww2
There is always a time for everything. A time of war and a time for peace. Amen.
There is no time for war or religions. Enough of foolishness that cause people to kill one another.
Can anyone remember back centuries to when the last hero was knighted on the battlefield? There have been none since Gen Sir John Monash was, a man of such great humanity that he stopped the carnage of war, by raising the value of every person under him, by a brilliance and courage and independence that was supremely effective in him, he carried the century, and freedom.
funny how he never seems to get mentioned, Rawlinson conveniently learned since the somme must be all that jewish business what hey
A Great Australian Gen John Monash was
@@patrioticaussiesams8581 ...AREN'T YOU JUST A LITTLE BIASED?!!
@@daleburrell6273 General Monash, ironically the son of Prussian parents, was probably the most distinguished military thinker of the conflict.
@@Tourist1967 His parents obviously thought that much of Prussia that they left it.
All that death and destruction for naught. War is so meaningless.
Quite the best documentary about WW1. Informative, convincing and moving. Not a cliche to be heard.
My grandmother’s youngest brother, Percy, joined the army in 1914. He was killed in action on November 9th 1918. The family were not informed of his death for several weeks. As the war was over , they expected him home at any time, but all they got was a black bordered telegram. Her father and both elder brothers had already been lost on the Lusitania. They were now a family of eleven women with no men left alive.
My great uncle, Percy Reedman, was killed at the first battle of Ypres, 11th November 1914, he was 23, he had left England just 6 weeks before, he is remembered on the Menin Gate, his body was never recovered.
At the going down of the sun, we will remember them.
Young men and women should never go to war, their countries don't love them, their families do.
@@rosesandsongs21 War's a fact of life, thankfully there's real men that our willing and able to sacrifice for their nation.
@@rosesandsongs21 would not want my sons to become killers
The haunting, melancholy poem, "In Flander's Fields," written by Canadian physician/soldier, John McCrae, died in this war. It is beautifully read by the late singer, Leonard Cohen (available on UA-cam).
Lt Col McCrae died of pneumonia in January, 1918.
@@Tourist1967 I paid a visit to his grave a few years ago There is a grave in that cemetery where a British soldier and a German soldier were so entangled in death , they were buried in the same grave
@@johnhealy6676 nm
I've watched just about every doc on WWII, this should be interesting!
Really amazing series
I think that never before or since have human beings withstood conditions like in WW1. Even considering WW2, I don't think the bravery shown by soldiers of both sides in WW1 has ever been eclipsed. With that said, and with no disrespect to the dead, this war was utterly pointless. There weren't any good or bad sides and there wasn't really any kind of ideological aspect to why they were fighting, there was just no reason. All these millions of young men died for nothing.
The empires needed to end and they never go peacefully. Three empires died
The point was to resist the aggression of Germany and the AH Empire - their might is ight attitude. In that, the Entente succeeded if at a terrible cost, but one
over stated by subsequent generations. The death toll of UK servicemen was less than 12% - not the blood bath often portrayed, but clearly a carnage to be laid at the Kaiser's feet. He alone could have stopped it.
...WHY DON'T YOU TELL THAT TO THE PEOPLE IN BELGIUM?!!
Nothing....absolutely nothing...
WW1 was horrific, but every war is horrific. There were battles in WW2 where the death toll was higher than WW1 battles. I'm not so sure being on the front line in modern Iraq or Afghanistan couldn't be every bit as horrific.
As for it being pointless, I don't think they thought that at the time, many volunteered, and it's not how the monuments built in the 1920's show it. It's more an attitude that has grown since the 1960's.
What waste of lives and money wars are! There is never a true winner.
You are wrong. I am a winner. My New Zealand born grandfather volunteered and fought at Gallipoli and after evacuation from there he fought on the Western front at the Somme. While on leave, possibly after being wounded, he met my Scottish born grandmother in Edinburgh, my father was born there and then returned to New Zealand on the first returning troopship. My particular genes would never have got to the assembly point had it not been for World War One. Wars are responsible for many deaths but in my case I owe my existence to WW1.
@@wekapeka3493 ...THAT'S A PRETTY SICK WAY OF LOOKING AT IT-(!)
Excellent history lesson!
There can never be glory in war only death and disaster.
Excellent series overall, Shame episodes 4 & 5 were repeated material from before!
WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO ABOUT IT?!!
Crazy I bought this collection on dvd 14 years ago.
did it have the same sound trac?????
...ARE YOU BRAGGING OR COMPLAINING?!!
@@daleburrell6273 why are you shouting?
I remember watching these as a kid before I would go off to junior high school in the mid 2000’s it was on the military channel here in the United States. The intro is just as powerful to me now, as it was then. Thanks for the share. Nostalgia
"Those that start the wars should have to physically fight them themselves " ...leave the innocent be...
Maybe the best WWI documentary I have watched
You should watch Apocalypse world war 1
No doubt, a great series of documentaries. Yet, I beg to differ from some of the conclusions. It is said that "the war has achieved its goals, to contain Austro-Hungarian and German militarism" (and aggression). In which way was building a global Empire like both the French and British had been doing for centuries, establishing themselves as great European powers, not "militaristic" and not "aggressive"? This was militarism and aggression of a different kind, securing resources and control over peoples. The axis powers were much less active on that front, and the rivalry among European powers had a lot to do with the extent and importance of the respective powers. In addition, most historians agree that nobody (including Austria and Germany) wanted a global war. It just turned out to become one through a string of unfortunate events and strange and unstable coalitions. So also from this perspective, speaking about "aggression of the axis powers" is getting it pretty wrong.
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...I'D SAY, IT WAS CLOSE ENOUGH-!!!
On the 4 of August 1914 Germany declared war on France. At that time the Germans had an army more than twice the size in men and armaments than both the French and British armies put together. In order to avoid the French fortifications along the French-German border, the Germans ignored Belgium’s neutrality and invaded Belgium in order to attack the French Army from the north. Belgium's ports were then closed to the British. German control of Belgium and her ports was seen as a very serious threat to Great Britain as Britain knew that their little island would be next. Please don't ever forget, that It was not until after Germany’s declaration of war on France that Great Britain declared war on Germany. Was any one else to blame for the first world war? I think not.
@@rascallyrabbit717 Irrelevant to the topic here. Take your TDS lies elsewhere and tell it to someone who cares, fool.
sorry but you achieved your Empire only by military force.
Excellent!
So sad about the shell shocked fellas. WAR sucks!
Treaty of Versailles was like robbing a corpse. Shameful, disgraceful, dishonorable for allies.
allies and victor's justice. Name more iconic duo.
Watching + learning
from NSW Australia.
hello from bristish columbia canada...my granddad was in the great war
@@ronmailloux9370 ...MY GRANDDAD JUST MISSED IT.
I'm a British expatriate living in Germany 🇩🇪. The great grandfather of a mate here was a heavy machine gunner & the great grandfather of a mate back in the UK was a heavy machine gunner. Lucky they never met.
I love watching these , I love history !
I do as well, very entertaining & informative.🏫
I still can’t believe the Kaiser was allowed to exile in Holland.
45:38...I'd say: "YOU GAVE ENOUGH!!!"
Excellent.
Lieutenant General John Monash developed and implement the combined military forces plan attributed in this episode to Sir Douglas Haig . King George the V of England Nighted Monash in the field after the initial victory . This is a great series but such a key fact in the march to victory should have be validated before it was released , you should in fact dub over and correct the error
thank you from the bottom of our hearts , we the free today
Field Marshall Hindenburg said that the "War was greater than our strength". The Right Wing Prussian Military blamed Erzberger for the "Stab in the back" but he questioned the Terms of the Armistice. He wired Hindenburg asking if he should ask for better Terms. Hindenburg told him to sign the Armistice so they would have a cease fire before the Allies could enter Germany. Erzberger was blamed after the war and assassinated in 1921.
“The Germans won’t admit they were beaten” - some spicy foreboding right there.
A very good documentary, slightly marred, at least in this UA-cam version, by the background music being too loud. I saw this series on television and I don't remember that being a problem, so it must be something to do with how it has been uploaded.
At the same time this was going on, my grandfather, an Irish patriot, was imprisoned and tortured by the Brits. While they portrayed themselves as defenders of freedom, what were they doing in Ireland?
I grew up under the illusion that the western world is mostly based on the concept of rationalism and fairness. It took me a couple of decades to get rid of this naive concept, but I keep using it as a baseline for a more idealistic vision.
Lately, I was researching the NI conflict. I found that a vast majority of documentaries picture the IRA (and consequently the whole of the catholic/Irish side) as the terrorists. Only a handful of pieces even try to put both sides in a proper perspective. The way how WW1 is evaluated feels much the same. In short, it's the victors writing history.
And how often do you turn your thoughts to the people from Britain who were sold as slaves in Dublin's slave market?
@@CoherentChimp OK fair point, but I bet there were way less than a million and I bet they did not starve to death, Still did not answer my question at all
@@mattosullivan9687 Was it an actual fact that Britain declared war on Germany following their invasion of Belgium?
If you do acknowledge that Britain did declare war to uphold Belgian sovereignty, would you also agree that they were indeed defending Belgian (and subsequently French) freedoms, and not merely portraying themselves as doing so?
If you don't agree that Britain was upholding Belgium's, and France's, right to freedom, then could you explain why not?
I accept that Britain did suppress freedoms in Ireland, but I do not see why that should exclude the country from defending freedom in continental Europe.
Bankers' wars never end well. They're usually just prelude to the next bankers' war. Business opportunities, after all, don't create themselves.
@JKItsMeAlGore you write like someone's whose knowledge of history comes entirely from what the presenters told you on the BBC.
@JKItsMeAlGore I'm not really sure what your point is either.
Season 2 is gonna be insane
Very interesting, I never realised how many fronts this war was fought on. What is really sad that for all the wars and the massive loss of life both of the young and not so young we haven't learnt anything, WHY we cannot live in Peace and Harmony together is it too much to ask? So Very Sad.
there were some admirable moustaches back then.
This mini series could have been so much better without all of the Audio quality issues and the repeats. It's a shame they didn't redo it.
...well, "ya can't please EVERYBODY!!!'
Hi at 41.32 what is the name of the music? Anyone know? Thanks
One of the best WW1 Great War series. Love to see more of it.
Twoo of my Great Uncles fighted the Anzak,the British in Gallipoli Canakkale Battlefield.
I never knew them but my Grand Father told me much about them. To all the fallen RIP.
A lot of wrong or misplaced comments in the documentary to be honest but it is still educational I guess....
The council of four certainly blew it, in hindsight
....THAT'S FOR DOGGONE SURE-!!!
The iron-fisted treaty terms made sense at the time. Now we know better; post-WW2 reconstruction of Japan and Germany are success stories.
If there were a world war today, certainly involving China, Russia, and the US, would the winner have the restraint and wisdom to rebuild the defeated? Or, because the aim is global supremacy and cultural extermination, would there be absolutely no limit to the viciousness?
@@googiegress7459 ...YOU NEED TO REMEMBER THAT AMERICANS ARE NOT THE SAME KIND OF PEOPLE THAT THEY WERE BACK THEN: THIS COUNTRY HAS GONE DOWN THE TOILET(!)
@@daleburrell6273 Also true.
@@googiegress7459 ...I'M SAD TO SAY.
My granduncle died on 27th April 1918 in Villers Bretonneux and is buried at the Villers Bretonneux military cemetery.
Lose a leg, an arm or eyesight, you’re going to sell pencils on the street for a living. Why fight these idiotic wars?
this does a huge discredit to luddendorf. It is not that he obvied the technologicy race, the central powers had far less resources avaliable. They exploited instead their best resource, their capable man power but wasnt enough.
I think Luddendorf was overrated, especially by the start of 1918. At his best he was just a competent general, and by the time of this documentary he was far from that.
EVL was a master on the attack as was Patton or N.B. Forrest. What he lacked, in my opinion, was an operational sense.
17:41 how did leafy with a moustache predict ww2?
This is about the time my grandfather got into it. This was just a feud between Queen Victoria’s grandchildren.
I've heard so many say our leaders led us to victory.They bled us to victory !!
Basil Rathbone, J.R.R. Tolkien, Arnold Ridley, Bernard Law Montgomery, Agatha Christie, I could go on. Read Richard Van Emden's amazing book Famous.
You didn't mention my Uncle Lawrence KiA Belgium 1915
all the suffering means is an incredibly small % of world population got immensely wealthy & powerful over the deaths of millions of serfs
You mean they got the stock market crash. A huge percentage of the worlds immensely wealthy became much smaller 10 years after this war. Only a handful left.
@@d1agram4 YOU WANT THE TRUTH WATCH EVERYTHING IS A RICH MANS TRICK.
@@MasterWitchDoctor link please
WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO ABOUT IT?!!
And got an excuse to push globalism on us, which they had tried many times before unsuccessfully.
Nimrod...always gets me.
The one time they ignored Keynes...
I wonder how ashamed these brave men would be of our cowardice during this global scamdemic in 2020.
They dealt with the Spanish Flu towards the end and after the war. I think they would have said: "Don't take any chances." 20 to 50 million dead. Including many soldiers who had survived the war.