The Frozen Secrets Of The Forgotten Alpine WW1 Front | Frozen Secrets
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- Опубліковано 25 вер 2024
- The Alps are is one of the harshest environments on the planet. The mountainous terrain is covered by ice and snow all year round, but due to climate change this ice is melting. This is revealing all manner of frozen secrets, perfectly preserved by the ice.
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I won't be coming home
I won't be going anywhere
I will guard this post forever
Here on the alpine slope, where I did my final stand, I shall remain
Among the ice and snow that binds me to this mountain
A force of nature too strong, sent from above
Where spirits lead the way, the winds will never fade
I was thinking of the same song
At least credit Sabaton for the lyrics. Soldier of heaven is a decent tune.
Isonzo and the Austrian "Ice City"
Sounds like a Sabaton song
@@Bananasplit_XV Soldier Of Heaven is an awesome tune
My great-grandfather was stationed and fought at the Isonzo battles aged 18.
He survived and wrote down his memoirs of this horrific experience and its really a terrible thing to read
Dear lord I’m old. My grandfather was in WW1. The letters he wrote to my grandmother in the Edwardian style is amazing.
Should make a book about of it for people to learn
@@frebnewman6403Then I too am old! I am American, and my grandfather served in both WW, but primarily WWI. He served in Africa and to this day I hold dear photo of him standing in front of a small tent/dwelling of a family of 5 he had to bunk in with! On the back he wrote a note mentioning the family, but his main complaint being they slept with the goats! Which I find ironic since I love & have rescued goats. And yes, they have been in my house! Sorry Granpa! But I hope to find more of these rare family treasures.
@@ThePeasantsCottage My dad was in WW2. Served in the Philippines.
@@frebnewman6403 Mine too. Navy. Liberated Philippines. Leyte Gulf.. all of the Pacific Theater. He remembers a kamikaze pilot coming for their ship, but hit the one next to his. So many stories, but those guys came home, went to work, and rarely talked. Wasn’t until the end of his life he finally revealed so much. Wish I had more time with him.
My great-uncle, Jan, served in the Austro-Hungarian army and was killed in one of the White Friday avalanches in 1916. His body was never recovered.
Jan is een Nederlandse naam?! Jammer van zijn verlies!
@@Zakdoekje - He was my grandfather's big brother and the one who helped him get out of Austria-Hungary to come to America.
@@josephharvat6202It's just so sad how many boys never came home from war. Sorry for your loss
So sad.
@@charliekezzaand still happening in Ukraine!!!
The incredible thing is to know that in our humanity there are still selfless people studying, researching and rescuing the relics of the past and history.
And getting payed for it; how selfless indeed
They get paid plenty. The tax payers have no choice
It's actually more common in the interested areas then the rest of the world, exceptions made
nice
My great grandfather from Switzerland was an alpine ski patroler. This is really neat to see a similar place to where he may have stayed.
As a member of the french speaking community I have to say that the pronunciation of the french names at 45:52 absolutely made my day 😂😂😂
Great doc btw
FRONCEEEEEN AND MARCELAON DOOMOOLOAN 🗣🗣🗣
@Putitinreverseterryohlawd I was trying to place narrators accent. Is it AI generated? So hard to tell these days.
When they mentioned they had not seen that style of eye wear before, that REALLY REALLY makes me wonder just how well educated these people are. Those are goggles for when your outside in the snow so you dont get blinded by the sunlight which reflects off the surface.. Dogsledders wear them.... Eskimos wear them.... anyhow.. still interesting documentary.
Right?! I was dumbfounded by that one too mate. I guess when you live life on Social Media, never open a Book or Educate yourself... This is what you get.
When the television crews are doing their thing, the experts/specialist academics are often expected to act as if they are ignorant of their professions.
This is partly to give a lead into an explanation or a description so is part of the editing process. However, sometimes it is done so that the experts look less than professional for the benefit of the television viewers who may have some specialist knowledge of their own! It promotes both engagement and the ratings!
I think they were referring to a particular model, made to a lower standard than usual.
@@vstr4276Also, I think they are referring to the alpine front and the war in general, not the model in general.
All these disappearing artifacts, are very important reasons to get a large number of archaeologists up there to recover them from the retreating glaciers. Climate change is a natural, cyclical event played out over and over over millions of years. Welcome to Earth! All this notion of saving artifacts for the future archaeologists, and leaving them in the ground, is ridiculous - hence, thousands of artifacts are lost every year by this idealistic viewpoint. I've studied history and archeology for years on my own, because I love it so very much. I wish I had majored in it in college instead of the path I took. My father wanted me to have a business background, and since he was paying the bills, that's the direction I went.. I'm jealous of all of these archaeologists who get out there and do it in the field. These alpine archaeologists are doing a phenomenal job getting this stuff out of there. Kudos to them!
Unfortunately we have a shortage of archaeologists and more importantly a shortage of funds. People need to press their governments to fund archaeological research. All research costs money. Researchers have bills to pay too.
I think he was talking about the man made climate change of the last ≈200 years
@@korbinianarnold6919
How about the not man made climate change of the last few billion years... huh.
There is a book , A Soldier of the Great War, by mark Helprin which goes into some detail from the viewpoint of an Italian alpine trooper . There is also the song Soldier of Heaven by Sabaton.
Thanks for this detailed documentary
The first war in military history to have taken place in the mountains? Alexander the Great begs to differ.
Yeah, that's true. But I think they ignored it or they refer to the modern style of war
Hannibal of Carthage also protests.
War and battle are 2 different things tho
There are some songs about these men, even the metal band Sabaton has one (Soldier of Heaven)
If you want to know the songs about them, visit north Italy or south Austria.
There are the songs about them, and the real thing.
Don't take everything from the media as true.
When the History documentaries about Otzi were the first time I heard about the WWI Soldiers having a War there. Then the wonderful Sabaton music Video, Soldiers of Heaven sent me to the Sabaton History channel which did a special on exactly this area and the research they did prior to making the Video. I really recommend that channel to explain the research behind their WWI and II Music.
@@wandapease-gi8yo they actually have received an ACADEMIC award for that channel
I watched the whole thing waiting for them to thaw out the ice cabin with the clickbait thumbnail. Some of this was interesting but they need to bring back viewable dislikes.
Google return YT dislikes. Your'e welcome.
@@macdaniel6029 thanks 🤙
Totally agree. Thanks for the heads up. I'm not watching it. I'll leave with a Thumbs down and unsubscribed. 😊
All the people who died in wars are a waste for human progression,can u imagine how many of those killed soldiers could have been scientific or great doctors or just people with skills to help big time other humans,
All these young men having several children.... wed be heavily overpopuöated by now.
@@angelinapatt5589 you do realize that the entire population of earth could fit and live in the state of Texas, and each person would have their own 1/2 acre to live on right? The world is nowhere close to overpopulation.
Why are we not over populated with bears dears elk? Fish? Monkeys? Rabbit,rats?
And it continues Humans killing humans over religion over money over and over. And over, it's a shame we can't figure it out
Those snow goggles remind me of the ones like the Inut use
Although I'm not happy about the glaciers receding and snow caps melting, it is surely exciting to know that we will soon see what is under the ice!
"Michl, i hob do wos! Schaut aus wie a Schüdl."
"Wos steht'n drauf?"
"Die Königsspitze... liest... Kronen Zeitung."
That’s absolutely so precious generational looking over the past of their loved ones ❤x
Today, we should remind these horrors well ....
Напомните,почитайте учебники литературы.
The blurring is not needed
You cant handle the truth.
Pisses me off when they do that.
FUCK CENSORSHIP! ✌🏻🙂
It is necessary because of youtube policy
fascinating stuff!! The dominance of the alpine terrain in Europe back then was huge. Big time competition before the war. Freedom of the hills I guess.
22:12 that's an exciting find :D
How intresting. I was literally just on that mountain in Italy some days ago and visited the moseleum and then I get this in my recomendeations.
Cover your camera and microphone with a little piece of tape and you will find that the feed changes dramatically.
I expected to see these artifacts supposedly uncovered. A spoon, parts of snow goggles. Mostly just beautiful scenery. Yes, we are told how soldiers lived in these awful conditions though.
WW1 newspapers still covered with WW1 poop,...too much info.
Well, they also had their opinions about the the media ;)
And hes touching it with his bare hands while they say it can also contain the spanish flu...
I'm glad to see a lot of people in the comments debunking a lot of myths and out right lies this documentary is telling.
The channel must have removed them... I don't see anyone correcting the facts.
you mean the climate scam claims?
What’s the point when you can’t see half of the footage? I’m no ghoul, but I don’t even know what I’m supposed to think when I can’t see the subject of the camera shot.
I'm trying to figure out the point of it, period. With as screwed up as this world is becoming, what good will knowing how ppl lived centuries ago, when it may not matter within the next few years anyway. So much money waisted..........
Americans will let you see graphic violence in glorious pornographic details in violent "adventure" films, but archaeological remains? Nah, you are not able to handle that.
Don't you all know anything about UA-cam? They cancel you if you use certain words and photos. I thought you were young enough to know that. 😊 @AndyJarman
@@AndyJarmanby the way, it has nothing to do with nationality. It is youtube.
@@angrymike2423Don't you all know anything about UA-cam? They cancel you if you use certain words and photos. I thought you were young enough to know that. 😊
Sorry "Germany plunged the world into the war?" Nope, that is what uniformed people still believe because it was written in the Versaille Treaty. I'm not denying that Germany bears its part of the responsibility for the war but that oversimplification is just plain wrong.
If they don’t vote for war credits does the war happen?
Germany did no more than Britain in entering the First World War. An allied nation was at war and was joined because of international alliances/agreements.
What does it matter who started the war? The dead are still dead and we have learned absolutely nothing. We are still fighting and killing each other, so the who and why obviously makes no difference 😢
Buuhhahh, what a freaking Ostrich, head in the sand , Bismarck after Unification knew The Germans needed expansion for Industrial capacity,WW1, the Nazis played on German hurts and poverty after the Treaty , The Treaty was unequal, but The French and British Lost whole generation of men, The Nazis, played on this...
@@juliabade5776 It obviously still does to these people any many like them that still spew lies and propaganda long after the fact. If they purport to be an historian then they should stop with spreading lies. Saying things like he did just perpetuates the lies and no one learns anything and the same mistakes will be created over and over all just because a small few with power can look like the good guys and paint the other guy as bad.
If he lived 5,300 years ago why was he buried? I guess it was warmer back then compared to what we were told
UA-cam, why treat viewers like children and censor and blur out images? Not cool.
If you are going to blur things out why even post the video!!!
You do realize UA-cam doesn't allow some things on here? SMH
The same thought I had 🤔 the thumbnail pic shows more 😂😂😂
Because most of the video is still watchable. Stop being such a killjoy and let the rest of us watch in peace
Think someone with a almost 20 year old account would know how strict guidelines got in the last decade.
Blame UA-cam.
Great documentary, as i know every single place in Switzerland you've shown us... fascinating as I'd never expected those stories if I've been there
37:00 Those weren't fired from a machinegun. If they were, they would have a dent on the neck of the casing when it got ejected.
What type of dent?
depends on the gun.....
Wrong. I found allot casings, only the ones that were fired from a very strong blast have those dents
@@rickkerts3802 It depends upon the gun really and how its expended.
Is always nice and appreciated comments like this from people who knows about this details
I didn't have a single blurred image in the video so I am guessing it depends on the guidelines in your country... not the the creators fault if it is blurred
Neither did i here in Saskatchewan Canada 🇨🇦
2:25 Serbia let the Conflict escalete. Germany was dragged into the War, just like Russia, France, England and the USA.
Yes they lie to this day about the true ancestral things of the beginning of the war .
Tucker box 😂 i would say the black goop was a binder for the arrow head's,both stored together.
Excellent documentary
Really enjoyed watching
👌🙏🫡❤️
Gullible!
a lot of fortifications were even cut into the glaciers. At Mt. Marmolada there is a nice museum showing life in the ice caves. I have hiked a lot in Sud-Tirol and the area is full of WW1 fortifications. As they said, you can easily find spent cartridge cases and other things as you wander around. The Military cemetery at Brunico is primarily WW1 veterans but does contain graves of WW2 German soldiers
Fed up with blurred images, switched off.
THIS IS JUST AMAZING FOOTAGE MAN thanks for this its amazing
My grandfather is buried in the Italian Alps where he died, was in the Austro- Hungarian mountain troop, he was 28...Andl
Just what climate change is. Should be called climate cycle. Finding artifacts now after thawing. Which means that’s the level of snow and ice was in 1914-15 then snow and ice buildup over the years and now melting back to where it was back then
Just remember, what is 'uncovered' today from WW1 wasn't buried 110 years ago.
I‘m a Swiss person and it‘s really funny hearing swissgerman translated into English !
I came here expecting ww1 information.
What do you expect from jewish entertainment?
Half of this documentary as about something else... glad I'm not the only one who is buggered about this.
same. who really cares about some ancients lunch box.
Sooooo... If they get exposed from melting ice... That would mean it was built when there was no ice...
Yes 👍👍
You know snow has fallen, compacted, and become ice in glaciers since then? Right? Do you know how glaciers form? Did you skip school?
@@pennywood5653you are completely missing the point…
一種経験！軽視を取得せよ😊
My exact thought.😅😅😅😅 soo what you're saying is... the ice melts and freezes. Ahhh global warming. 😅😅😅
So the glacier is melting (due to climate change) but it is revealing things from the past. Ergo glaciers come and go.
Yep 👍👍
especially when they reveal vegetation, as they often do, the manmade climate change is a bit questionable.
Glaciers flow. They are not static. Things on the glacier are buried under fresh snow and "submerge" after some time. But now, less snow falls and more melts. Therefor things emerge.
😂
This is an intense and dishonest oversimplification of what is being presented in passing in this video and what is occurring in the Alps today. Man made climate change is extremely real and its impacts in the Alps is well recorded not just in the speeding of glacial melt but in a stark shift in the height, intensity and frequency of snow fall and caps on the mountains.
If you believe you can simply pump endless amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere with no consequences, you are a child.
I'm as much of an archeology nut as the next guy, but I'm trying to wrap my head around scraping someone's sh*t off of a newspaper they used to wipe with 100 years ago...😅
They can find out what people were eating at the time. A lot of bottle collectors dig up old outhouses.
And with their bare hands no less...
@@Nate-bn5kk so that they can collect the spanish flu intact
Watching from Mackinac Island Michigan
Unfortunately for the treaty at the end of WWI , blamed it all on Germany when in fact it was started by Austria-Hungry. The Versailles treaty was the prime cause of the second war, and the growth of the Nazis and hitler .
Hopefully we can do as much archeology on sites such as this before the refreeze cycles kicks back on. Since that ice levels were that low in ww1, yet there infinitely less green house gasses then.
Her downfall was helped when she claimed $30,000 in victim compensation.
One of the always overlooked lessons from Otzi is that the planet was a lot warmer 4 to 5000 years ago, and had just started a period of cooling. So we have survived periods of 'global warming' or 'climate change' before. At this time, we are still uncertain how much of our present change is 'man made', which is why people are screaming about 'climate change', and not 'man-made climate change'.
This does not, in any way, excuse us dumping the byproducts of civilization into our environment. Nature should be the decider of our climate, not man. Whether dumped on the ground, into the water, or into the air. We are, and continue, to reduce these compounds. But, it answers the question of "Will the Earth survive?". Of course, We survived it with far less technologically advanced process 5,000 years ago. It should be easier to do it now. And that gives me a laugh..... As if. We are, as a whole, a lot dumber these days.
My grandpa brother went MIA there.He was in Austrian army
All this ice melting learns us about the past!!!
While being a sign of a grim future at the same time….
Amazing Johanna studying the far past while carrying a baby that will be part of the near future.
quite moving. thanks for the vdo.
Thanks a lot for sharing 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Pretty sure WW1 started in 1914 NOT 1500BC, what do bronze age archaeological finds have to do with WW1?
Yeah…..I got confused as there is that doc about the frozen Bronze Age man. Didn’t know if they cut & spliced or what? I bounced out at the Bronze Age.
I think I would have been wearing gloves when examining the newspaper used for toilet paper, cold weather preserves things, it might have preserved the poo on the newspaper...
Given the color of the paper, I'd say there's a bit of excrement still there lol!
And a face mask…
"It was so cramped"
Yet theres 2 fully grown adults with enough room to host a yoga class in one room alone. Looks pretty spacious for 12 people.
I thought that too at first, but the letter was describing a different cave: the one the writer stay in.
I love how blame’s start of WW1 on Germany dude Austrian -Hungarian empire started the hostilities which all sides were itching at and now days it feels like history about to make full circle just different actors
Same shit different era. We’ve become warmongers. The military industrial complex is firmly in place.
Well, thats the lie they learned.
Ist halt immer leichter, jemandem alle Schuld zuzuschieben und ein Klischee zu bedienen. Leichter, als sich eventuell der unangenehmen Frage zu stellen, ob man selber nicht auch eine Mitschuld hat🤷♂️
Earth is showing us our history
The shelters from World War I were certainly built on the surface. The same applies to the crashed JU52, which made an emergency landing on the surface. So there was no ice or snow there at the time. The glaciers must have retreated by then. Did they already have a climate problem back then?
You're literally watching them climb over the same trail, surrounded by greenery... What it means is this area of the mountain melts off yearly. No glaciers involved.
Edit: as for the hut full of ice, they say "Glacial retreat is effecting the huts" meaning the hut was partially built on ice.
Actually there were refuges and tunnels built into glaciers. I have some magazines edited in 1923 where an exploration of WWI tunnels had been made. They found tunnels had shifted many meters but they were still there.
Snow + Sun = Accumulative Ice Layers year after year after year.
5:50 "there was once a ladder here to a observation post"
Yet theirs no ladder. No indication it was a ladder, it was a steel pin sticking out of a rock, and then where's the observation post? It just magically disappear?
22:13 Did I hear her say dog sh*t?!?!
The recent experts work was difficult even with helicopter and modern equipment
Shows how hard the soldiers had it during the war…. How on earth they got a canon up there, baffles me
Loved this Doc.!
Good doccie! Super interesting. PS - it's Dumoulin - not Lumoulin : )
Ironically the narrator states that due to "climate change" the ice is melting and uncovering items from history that at one point just over a hundred years ago were not covered by ice. They even had to melt ice to uncover items.
So true. Very few seem to notice, which shows that very few think, or process thought on their own account.
That is very sad, irresponsible and very dangerous for mans existence as independant and morally sound human beings.
I'm so glad to see someone else notice this obvious observation that hardly anyone notices. How did the items get there under the ice in the first place duh it boggles my mind that people hear whatever is being said and not thinking wait a minute....
Yooo like that one battlefield 1 map
Germans made this hell for people!
Why didn't they just boil and drink the snow
Good question…anyone out there know?
To cold, maybe unable to get a fire going, there is also the fact that fires in war are targets and banned.
Fuel needed to melt the snow in the temperature of the hut or bivouac. Choice of using cooking fuel for food, such as it was, or drinking water from snow?
If the stuff is was buried in ice doesn't that mean it got frozen over and now its exposed. Wouldn't that mean it was warmer then got colder and is now warming up again? Sounds almost like a natural cycle to me.
You nailed it, climate change is a hoax to impoverish ordinary people and hand the ruling elites more wealth and power.
Wow, and even more of a 'wow' is that 5 people thought that was too.
Found the American lmao
@@n3k0leinfound the 🐑 who doesn't understand physics 🤣
Ever heard about summer and winter?
"The incendiary bombs are still dangerous" as they throw them into piles
180K died in the mountains, wow, so sad
Leave it up to women to think tightly fitted panneling on the walls and ceilings is to hide the "looks of wetness." No other advantage at all. Hahahahahha I'm bothered now. So I will go back to rebuilding and remodeling this old house I'm currently working on. While listening to this.
Lab tech is scraping toilet paper from ww1, possibly could have Spanish Flu, and no gloves lol love it
52 minutes long and 50 commercials. Don't bother.
And I'm seeing a lot of comments correcting the narrator about the false info he stated, thanks for the heads up.
What commercials
Think it depends where you live. I don´t know. In the whole i saw only 3 or 4 commercials.
“The eternal ice is melting because of climate change”… 😂 you mean the most recent glaciers we see now that replaced the glaciers that melted ten thousand years ago, which replaced the glaciers that melted about fifty thousand years before that?
how much all these things cost, and at the end the archeologist have only several guessings
Battles of Isonzo my great great grandfather thought there in all 11 battles he fought with Italy
So let me get this straight. It was unfrozen, they built stuff there, then it froze over, then it was unfrozen and you can see it... doesn't sound like cc to me sounds like Earth doing earth things
Exactly. The is no man made climate change.
Oh boi
Excellent production !! I found this very interesting.
Yet another gullible one!
@@Colin-Fenix You care to explain ?
The military were able to get heavy field artillery pieces, ammunition and crews high up on the mountains, but didn't provide enough food to prevent their own soldiers from starving to death or committing suicide through hunger and despair!
These men were literally betrayed by their own well fed and comfortably accommodated superior officers!
That such marvellous locations were soley occupied for the purposes of raining lethal fire down on anyone below, and that decades later, the evidence of the killing still remains is tragic.
Was not the first war to be fought on a mountain in 1512 the Swiss guard was protecting a pope from the Romans and the entire Swiss guard died doing their job so technically a small battle did happen on the Swiss Alps
A soldier commits suicide one day and they bury him the next. My question is where and how? Was his body sent down the mountain to a Cemetary or was he buried under the snow there near the hut?
These stories are PRICELESS ww1 started 110 yrs ago all the veterans have past so we are only left with the stories they told us n theirs diaries n not many books written of the individual soldiers perspectives this history wil be lost for ever if we dont keep them alive by telling them to the generations to come
😎 like this one.
Why the arrow head is in there?
you shoot an arrow, kill the animal. BUT the arrow broke, so it's lodged inside the animal hence why it's "in" the food.. quite literally
How comes the arrowhead intact and no bones of an animal
Wind and sun remove a little ice and it's global warming. Smh.
Fantastic that there is global warming. It’s creating longer grow time for food. Less natural gas needed for heating homes. Less fuel used in snow removal. Global warming is good
And it's natural.
Saying melts from climate change is exposing them is abit questionable. If they were exposed during ww1 and again now. What exactly has changed with climate during that time.
This is an old documentary not new
Made in 1919
The climate on Earth has changed for 4.6 billion years and will continue to do so.
Well said. The fact that we are coming out of an ice age explains the increase. People aren't the cause at all.
Found the Americans lmao
@@n3k0lein Need us to come save you for a third time?
@@n3k0lein Ya the Americans who saved you twice. Looks like we'll have to do it again while you cower in a basement trying to decide your pronouns.
@@n3k0leinembarressing, you nailed it though.
The developing of glaciers is a scientific fact! Things that fall on the glacier will be covered each year from a new layer of snow. Following snow covers snow layer from last year compresses it and so on. The layers move down downwards. Makes no difference if the motors where hot!
I stoped watching when I saw the censored images
Vladimir Harkonnen in that thumbnail
The piece of string or rope for carrying the box?...
good video but the view that germany plunged the worl into ww1 is outdated and undercomplex.
Wait. Climate change melting the ice. But how was it there in the first place?
Ever heard the term “Snowball Earth”? The entire planet was covered in ice for millions of years.
@@christineStill-v3l point being that glaciers come and go naturally. Not subject to two hundred years of human industrialization. Not even close
Gibt es das auch auf Deutsch?