Mud & Blood: Battle of Passchendaele | Animated History

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[@v1hyperness]

Silliness.

[@KostaskaraaKaraa]

No

[@GlorifiedIdiot-lg8wh]

Yes

[@KostaskaraaKaraa]

@@GlorifiedIdiot-lg8wh me dont wanna ):

[@DrDemented9885]

💯

[@sonnyjim5268]

"By the time the town was captured, it had lost all strategic significance". That sums up most of WW1.

[@user-fr6tt6hb7k]

Город потерял стратегическое значение - любимая отговорка Украинских политиков.

[@thefrenchbaguette919]

​@@user-fr6tt6hb7kIt's true in most situations when all that remains of a city is rubble defending it has little benefit in addition if fortifications have been made in rear defending a destroyed city is useless

[@Chosen_Ash]

@@thefrenchbaguette919the land is worthless to russia anyways

[@user-fr6tt6hb7k]

@@thefrenchbaguette919 да ,но надо учитывать что перед каждым началом обороны города украинцы говорят ,что этот город сломит русских, уничтожит их армию.А по итогу ВСУ получают по полной программе и отходят с огромными потерями,а наши войска с меньшими потерями в город заходят.А также нужно учитывать что каждый город это дороги , ЖД пути и даже после штурма они не потеряют свое значение в войне.

[@chloeholmes4641]

​​@@user-fr6tt6hb7k tell me vatnik. How's the kharkiv offensive doing? Last I heard vovchansk is still not in total russian control!
How many soldiers does it take to "liberate" a settlment that sued to house tens of thousands that now has no strategic value whatsoever?
Facts don't care about your feelings. Stop reiterating peso propaganda from Scott Ritter! 🤮

[@lampshadehitman6771]

One side of my family is German, and the other is English. My family on both sides fought on the western front. Little did they know 90 years later, they would go from fighting one another to joining arms in marriage.

[@Cosmo-hw1cd]

Coincidence,one side of my family is German other is English

[@lampshadehitman6771]

Must be common i guess​@@Cosmo-hw1cd

[@somkeshav4143]

WW2 must have been awkward then

[@lampshadehitman6771]

@somkeshav4143 most of my German family left during or after ww1. I'd rather be blissfully unaware of what the young German men who stayed did during the second world war.

[@somkeshav4143]

@@lampshadehitman6771 valid opinion

[@TristanOlea-Rivera]

“The British army had lost its spirit of optimism. All that remained was a deadly sense of depression among the officers and men.”-Phillip Gibbs a war journalist at passchendal

[@Stokie.Mount007]

By 1917, Britain literally carried the heaviest weight on the WF. And by 1917, most of the men deployed were 16-19yo.

[@Hunter-tn7og]

@@Stokie.Mount007 What do you mean they carried the heaviest weight?

[@jonataspereira1691]

@@Hunter-tn7og That they did most of the fighting between 1917 and 1918, which is true, they deployed the largest number of divisions and soldiers. 4.5 million in all.

[@urmum3773]

@@Hunter-tn7ogcry

[@Hunter-tn7og]

@@jonataspereira1691
You're completely wrong, both of those categories go to France. France had close to 30 more divisions of men than Britain did and was also involved in some of the heaviest fighting of 1917 and 1918. French divisions had to be sent north to pad out the British lines during the German offensive in the spring of 1918 for example. As well France had the largest amount of men on the western front when the armistice was signed even though Britain had been transferring troops away from the front with the Ottomans to the western front through most of 1918

[@mylastaccountgotdeletedtha6936]

It’s weird how WW1 had a more apocalyptic vibe than any war prior or since.

[@melancholymelon5316]

Definitely. Probably cause of how long the battles were in ww1. While ww2 was devastating, the battles weren't as dragged out most of the time, whereas in ww1 areas were shelled for months and years without much advance.

[@bloodyair269]

Modern weapons used with old school tactics

[@RyujinNoKami]

Because of technological shock with how deadly weapons have become while military doctrines have been practically stuck many decades back causing unnecessary loss of human life due to barely effective strategies and tactics

[@garretrasmussen5253]

Ever heard of the Iran Iraq war ?

[@mylastaccountgotdeletedtha6936]

@@garretrasmussen5253 most people haven’t, but that one also had a lot in common with WW1.

[@NegiTaiMetal011]

"In a foreign field, he lay
Lonely soldier, unknown grave
On his dying words, he prays
Tell the world of Passchendaele
Relive all that he's been through
Last communion of his soul
Rust your bullets with his tears
Let me tell you 'bout his years"
- Paschendale, by Iron Maiden
"Thousands of feet march to the beat
It's an army on the march
Long way from home
Paying the price in young men's lives
Thousands of feet march to the beat
It's an army in despair
Knee-deep in mud
Stuck in the trench with no way out"
- The Price of a Mile, by Sabaton

[@brokenbridge6316]

I love that Sabaton song.

[@terranboot9405]

The historian in me takes history very seriously and with respect but I still hear iron maiden’s guitar rift when I hear paschendale.

[@hebakewolf]

I love that Song. It is a really sorrow song

[@0Zolrender0]

Both awesome songs about an awful battle.

[@hebakewolf]

@@0Zolrender0 yea like Gallipoli or Hearts of Iron

[@ConstantineTheEmperor562]

LETS GO ANOTHER UPLOAD WHILE I EAT A GRILLED CHEESE SANDWICH!

[@dotdarkness]

W

[@Thatmeepgamer]

Toasted cheese sandwiches are the best!

[@EnviroBen]

What type of cheese did you use?

[@Sharklord56]

Toastie

[@Falkriim]

W

[@jammyscouser2583]

October 12th 1917, New Zealands darkest day. 0.1% of the countries entire population was wiped out that morning in those muddy fields

[@woodliceworm4565]

An AB CLass Locomotive - which now runs as a heritage train in NZ- is fully restored, It was originally named Paschendale in respect to the rail employees who, as soldiers lost their lives in that action. Many tourists ask why the name - it is a task to explain it - The train can be seen mostly in the lower North Island, at its base in Paekākāriki The full war history can be found at Te Papa.

[@LeviBarnard-gl8xm]

Erm wut Dur sigma?

[@neilhannan5112]

Everyone forgots how horrifying WW1 was 😢 and everyone focuses on WW2 instead

[@georgefalcon14]

Well WWI was much less covered or shown less in video format in comparison to WWII, also if you mean on YT well it's a USA made app, and the USA was much more involved in WWII, that may be why WWII is much more covered or understood, especially when it comes to the USA

[@1977Yakko]

A lot less footage of WWI. No surviving vets of WWI. Less U.S. involvement in the war as well so less remembered here in the U.S.
When the last WWII vet dies, I wonder how much that war will fall into faded memory as well.

[@neilhannan5112]

Also did you know Toilken the writer of Lord of the Rings was inspired by battle of Somme because he fought in it as a soldier it's reference in the two towers when frodo Sam and gollum travel to marshes the mud and swarm was like during the battle

[@vincentxu4709]

Maybe because the world in ww2 were more involved than ww1

[@Brownducklingg]

If you see videos that describe napoleon's wars it's horrible

[@zetectic7968]

You overlooked the very good Passchendaele: The Story of the Third Battle of Ypres 1917 by Lyn Macdonald with its quote "We died in Hell, some called it Passchendaele"

[@nathansullivan4433]

This is a crazy coincidence for an upload, I was in Passchendaele just a few days ago! I highly recommend WWI enthusiasts visit Ypres, Belgium, as it houses several WWI museums and memorials, including the “In Flanders Fields Museum”, the Last Post, and the Passchendaele Museum for WWI.

[@6Pokefan9Hatt]

bro I think we went on the same trip

[@howiehall4622]

Stupid Flanders.

[@nathansullivan4433]

@@6Pokefan9Hatt Damn, that’s crazy lol! I’m actually in Normandy right now, but I’m heading back to the States soon

[@rydekk-4644]

Y'know as a Belgian and living in the region, I still find it hard at times to think about the horrors of that time, especially when I drive through the- now peaceful- areas around the city.
Even to this day, farmers and building crews find unexploded ordenance, weapons and small-arms munitions, the occasional human remain... Watching these kind of videos, I just wonder what the point of it all was. My deepest gratitude to those who fought for my country back in 1914-18 & 1939-45.

[@howiehall4622]

Wars are usually pointless sadly.

[@TrueMortalGaming]

if you find, lets say, a WW1 era German rifle are you required to turn it in or are you allowed to keep it?

[@Jadeerai738]

@@TrueMortalGamingprobably not.

[@TrueMortalGaming]

@@Jadeerai738 lamee

[@Jadeerai738]

@@TrueMortalGaming lmao

[@lucianoosorio5942]

“I caught my teeth in the trenches of the Somme, you larped your Santa Claus butt through Vietnam!” JRR Tolkien

[@mikehicks1282]

Ah yes, you too are cultured

[@clark1048]

"And it's hard for me to take criticism on clothes. From a dude who sends a raven to say "hi" to his toes!"

[@georgefalcon14]

Sorry to be that guy, but it's "Cut my teeth."

[@willy-yum5820]

EPIC RAP BATTLES OF HIIISSSSTORY!!

[@kevinhekers2380]

Who's next you decide ​@@willy-yum5820

[@teatanks6481]

My great great grandfather was killed during the offensive at Ypres, visited the cemetery he was buried at. Somewhat surreal to stand where he died over a hundred years later.

[@chinook-pg7eb]

There is a map in battlefield one based on this battle. It was part of the apocalypse DLC and looks amazingly horrific with mud, gas, fire and craters everywhere

[@Gunther_The_Brave]

Yeah it’s quite scary

[@methheadtrucker4124]

Also don’t forget the livens projector

[@lLIBER4TORl]

Is that the nightime one with the red glow?

[@jackthorton10]

Yes

[@BigJoe2.0]

That map was one of the worst ones due to its difficulty. Between hard to see enemies due to terrain and poison gas it definitely wasn't fun lol

[@ColeckZz]

"And then the rain began" is how every important Belgian battle starts. Or even the non-important ones

[@vulture6302]

I am only here today as my 18 year old great-great-grandfather slipped over and was on the ground as the men around him were cut down by machine gun fire at passchendaele. He laid in a ditch for 2 days and eventually snuck back to his lines under a rainstorm at night.
The more tragic thing is he would go on to lose 2 of his sons in WW2.

[@Ami-jc2oo]

That's sad that he lost 2 of his sons. I hope he had a good life afterwards.

[@yesman1345]

Who remembers the flash game Mud and Blood?

[@stepanokhrimenko9189]

Urb has been notified

[@OscarTheOwl07]

wow, that brings back memories.

[@fishbinky]

That game is hard asf

[@Aguywholikesplaguedoctors]

Damn the nostalgia. Makes me happy that urb remastered both games and put on steam :D

[@flyingsquirrell6953]

I remember warfare 1917. Truly the Ypres experiance

[@MrSwaws]

Its allways good when the armchair historian uploads a new video

[@vincentxu4709]

Fr🗿

[@oliversherman2414]

My great great uncle fought and died in this battle. He was a private in the British army and served in Flanders. One day he got wounded during the fighting and was taken to a frontline hospital tent for treatment. Unfortunately for him and everyone in that tent, a rogue German artillery shell hit the tent square on. The tent was destroyed and everyone inside was instantly killed

[@daehr9399]

Griffin, I have been an amateur historian of WW1 since I was 19. I'm now 31. This is elating to FINALLY see an Armchair History video on Passchendaele.

[@b1646717]

" We all had such a good time that we agreed to meet again in 25 years and bring our kids!"

[@ghost7344]

Editor here, thank you for watching! Tell us what you liked/disliked about this video, also hope you guys enjoyed the musical choices for this video, I wanted to go down a more cinematic route, encouraging our sound designer to also go down that way since the artists and animators, like always, outdid themselves in this one. Would you like us to go down the cinematic-documentary route(like this video), or a more casual video style?
P.S.: I will take my time to try to respond to every question to this comment.

[@howiehall4622]

Fantastic as usual! I would like to have seen more maps but I'm just a map guy. I would love to see you all do a video on the War of 1812. It's kind of a forgotten war in American history but I think it's interesting that it took place only a couple of decades after US independence. Thanks!

[@giffordsamuelson2163]

I am a fan of the cinematic route. Especially for todays subject. I think it depends on what the video is about, but this is a good fit for you guys

[@6Pokefan9Hatt]

I went to Pashdale not even a week ago. I went to the museum. All I have to say is it was stunning. It had replica trenches and all.

[@6Pokefan9Hatt]

(Was at the Menin Gate Ceremony)

[@spiffygonzales5160]

Could you walk in them?

[@Casmaniac]

Menen

[@Corrello88]

My great Grandfather was killed the night before this battle on his way to the jump off lines he was hit by a shrapnel shell through his forehead , they found his body after he didn't answer roll call, his brother went through Somme and Ypres and other offensives until 1918.

[@Gballer46]

Guadalcanal would be a good episode

[@Losingsince]

I second this

[@gregoryturk1275]

I third this

[@WidgetSkullster-pz6qh]

I find it so impressive how often they pump out these videos considering how incredibly high quality they area. Great Job Armchair team!

[@JahJah-CleverHandle]

“I died in hell, they called it Passchendaele”
- Sassoon

[@Politidoxy]

Sabaton vibes
What’s the price of a mile?

[@goldosprey]

Agreed

[@GarlicPudding]

Iron Maiden did it too

[@justagoofyperson-zd9pb]

It is not allowed to make a video about this battle without at least one sabaton reference in the comments. Thank you, for giving us that reference.

[@Politidoxy]

@@justagoofyperson-zd9pb it's my honor

[@goldosprey]

@@GarlicPudding they indeed did

[@MichalKolac]

The ground became a quagmire.

[@CrisisHedgehog]

we have to don’t really think about the mud of war. But it’s something fucking different…

[@MichalKolac]

@@CrisisHedgehog gigitty

[@sevvythe3rd597]

Hey lois

[@welporajackwelp4899]

Who else but Quagmire

[@ScottSummers-m5l]

As a kid i thought "Passiondale" was a grass, flowers and fruit tree laden fields, hills and streams where pretty ladies wink and blowkisses at relaxing soldiers..
Then i read ahead..😮

[@spiffygonzales5160]

It was.
And then....

[@Shiroya_Rumika]

THERE'S A PRICE OF A MILE!

[@miladeskandari7]

My God this channel has come a long way since a few years ago. Great production quality.

[@Rexzerboi]

Another fine video about WW1!!

[@user-zq4ls1ml4j]

I haven't even watched the video yet and I already know it's gonna be awesome! Ive been binge-watching your channel the last couple days and can only say: Thank you! Absolutely amazing videos you are producing.

[@daehr9399]

0:33 - 0:50 just want to compliment your team on that fade transition shot from those timestamps. That was REALLY well done cinematography. Wow. This is why you have 2.3 million subs!

[@ghost7344]

Thanks! We worked hard on this

[@stoni27]

I love the Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales inspo!

[@charlessaint7926]

Six miles of ground has been won,
Half a million men are gone...

[@anonymous-uf4hg]

The Canadians played just as big of a role as the Brits for taking Pashendale, and then the Brits took all the credit. The poppy was popularised because of a poem made by a cnadian at Pashendale.

[@real514]

Your comment is severely underrated

[@sebdunleavy1608]

the commonwealth contribution is well documented in arguably all accounts of the battle, corroborated by the war memorials for the Canadians and the Anzacs all across France and Belgium. where is your source for the Brits taking all the credit? the very nature of the battle, the absolute destruction it caused would lead few to rush to take credit for it

[@scottwallace5239]

​@sebdunleavy1608 there is no source other than he made it up out of a weird victim complex that seems pervasive online where 'brits' are the boogeyman going around and not giving credit for any of their acts

[@poisonousbadge126]

Keep these vids up! Been here since the beginning, the channel has come so far!

[@Leavemealone-v3h]

Another banger! keep it up, i love your videos!

[@kristian2497]

OMG! Been waiting for a good doucmentary on this battle (shockingly few on UA-cam). Thank you for your service Griffin 😄

[@cooperchappell8310]

Let's gooo! I was hoping you'd cover this!
EDIT: You should cover the battle of Cambria next.

[@2packrm781]

Thank you Griffin for making another amazing upload on WW1 & this was worth the waiting to watch.

[@AymanKhan]

Really enjoying the new visuals, very striking

[@pheeku6996]

Could you please make a video about the Eastern front of WW1? It's so different from the trenches of the Western front and often overlooked

[@maximilianodelrio]

I was literally just looking up videos about this battle haha

[@spiffygonzales5160]

Ever notice how that seems to be the case?
There all in on it. Historinatti confirmed! 🧐

[@cxcarmic]

Pure coincidence that I was listeninng to Paschendale by Iron Maiden before I saw the notification for this video.

[@GageEsterly-us7xm]

" I died in hell, they called it paschendale"

[@vincentxu4709]

Who said this quote?

[@opinionatortv6457]

​@@vincentxu4709 from a poem by Siegfried Sassoon. Written from the perspective of a soldier who fought and died in Passchendaele

[@gregoryjack5080]

This was an excellent video. I look forward to using it in my classroom. One of my favorite metal bands named Sabaton, wrote two songs about this battle. The songs are titled Price of a Mile and Great War.

[@user-tl5gj9dw4x]

0:56 1:04 Them transitions get me in the mood for technical graphics.

[@ghost7344]

Thanks so much! We worked hard on this

[@Shinyworldwide]

The battle of passchendaele if very close to my aunt. In fact while looking out over her backyard you can see where the german line was and where the british line was.

[@messier-8165]

Cool story, Thanks Armchair!

[@-Nameless-NO]

This is the definition of hell

[@donaldhambright969]

Great presentation...thank you

[@sap_phys]

Thank you for keeping the memory of WW1 alive on your channel. Lots of other history channels have moved on to other subjects, but I can never get enough WW1.

[@Jarod-vg9wq]

The symbolism imagine in this video is Haunting and beautiful.

[@davidguedes5857]

Idk how all of your videos are very fun

[@beaverdam1199]

?

[@2packrm781]

It's because of the animations, the level of depth reading into the history, asking for other ppl's help with making these uploads, & doing check ups with YT viewers on what to upload next.

[@ROMANTIKILLER2]

"Fun" is an interesting choice of words.
But interesting, engaging, and well put together, for sure.

[@Yoo-Kang]

How far our society has gone in warfare. From sticks and stones, to drone warfare. We are truly an interesting species when it comes to survival and war.

[@dragonstarv8154]

“6 miles of ground has been won, half a million men are gone!” -Sabaton

[@StephenMackay-hx1bp]

My Great Grandfather was an infantryman at Passchendaele. He survived but most of his toes didn’t. They were lost to trench foot.
He was transferred to the Labour Corps at the end of 1917.

[@NaviRyan]

Did ancestry dna test mom says her grandma came to Canada from Russia. However the dna test came back 31% Scottish 19% Irish 15% English/north west European, 33% German and 2% Sweden/denmark. What I believe the explanation as to why their is no Russian is mom’s Russian family were most likely Volga Germans who mostly kept to themselves and obviously aren’t in Russia anymore. Mom’s grandmother left during the Bolshevik revolution and could speak German.

[@pieterrogge1970]

I live close to Messines and the Messines ridge. The landscape is still very much showing the scars from the mine-explosions. Also: several mines remain burried and undetonated up until today. Their locations forgotten after 100+ years.

[@vhallis]

That thumbnail goes hard

[@thefrontlines-hl5td]

Let's go I have loved you making these WW1 videos more often keep up the good work

[@michelvondenhoff9673]

Passchendaele museum in Zonnebeke highly recommended.

[@MichaelWarman]

5:12 I've been to one of those enormous craters. It's a surreal experience. There are trees growing in the crater that don't reach out of it.

[@jacksontaylor290]

One of your best vids right here 💪🏻

[@grilledpanini22]

Great video. The music is also awesome.

[@ghost7344]

Thanks, I wanted to go cinematic on this one!

[@noliebowtie1315]

I actually got the My Heritage kit because Paul Joseph Watson was sponsored by them. I was kinda surprised by my results. For sure worth doing if you don't care about your DNA privacy.

[@nucleja]

the animations are next level in this one! love it!

[@rustyshackleford5269]

My great grandfather was an Engineer in WW1. I wish I knew more about him. Like what battles he saw and things he did. My grandfather was a WW2 vet. I wish I had enlisted. I'm 38 and still look up to my Grandfather as a bad ass. I never got to talk to him about his life. He passed when I was a kid.

[@aLl-soRTs-vw67]

haven’t seen your content in ages, love your videos and the way you animate them, it’s really nice

[@skm4459]

Great episode!

[@gamingledgens2112]

What music was user in this video? Its really good.

[@theawesomeman9821]

Never heard of this battle before.
I learned something new.

[@jarrellfernandez9341]

Was waiting for this one.

[@xangarvey]

I lost several family members in this battle, two of whom (distant uncles) were not formally identified and repatriated until 2018. It was a very sombre day for us, knowing our own kin had suffered such an unspeakable fate.

[@austenfalk6018]

"Hell isn't fire, hell is mud"

[@jayssonjefferson4389]

Great video

[@michalblusk4240]

I find the discord group of yours really amazing, just wanted to say that

[@SteelFlesher]

Yall need to play To The Trenches

[@GratedCheddar-zu3pc]

I remember that one of my great, great Grandfathers fought in Flanders. All that my family knows of what happened is that he went missing.

[@user-wz6jc9wt4l]

PLS do Battel at Jutland

[@stealthfinger]

And then it started to rain. Says it all really.

[@Type_shi]

1.6 million shells fired in 20 days is really crazy holy shi

[@williamgreer9482]

I wrote an article back in 2017 about Passchendaele and the memory of WW1 (I won't post the link b/c I'm not sure its appropriate?). Anyway, I love this video! Really well done.

[@TacticalMetalhead]

Passchendaele is a great song by Iron Maiden

[@DOAIG]

Just a random fun fact, the ANZAC corps used to call Ypres "Wipers" because alot of the troops had trouble pronouncing the name.

[@pokefan-ix7sh]

4:49 fun fact: the explosion can be heard as far away as british isles and a whole of europe (close) and some parts far from europe

[@Tisrok]

"One shell a second for twenty days" Absolutely terrifying. Calling it hell would have been a severe understatement.

[@redhutsgaming3067]

I went to Ypres with my class a year or so ago and there are still unstable tunnels with active explosive under the ground. They can’t disarm them due to the tunnels being overflowed with water.
The remaining trenches and craters are really cool to see but somewhat scary due to the explosives under the ground.

[@SamwiseOutdoors]

Thanks, I'll be looping "Passchendaele" by Iron Maiden for the next six weeks.

[@seanoconnor8843]

I remember some the old boys of the Lancashire Fusiliers who fought at Paschendale

[@EpicJoshua314]

Would love to see a video about the Ice City in the Marmolada Glacier during WW1.

[@UnknownSoulGuy]

6 miles of ground have been won... half a million men are gone...

[@Falkriim]

Great video. Good stuff

[@chart770]

Drowning in mud is some serious nightmare fuel

[@PurpleWhiteVioletBall]

FINALLY NEW VID

[@ChinaBallOfficial]

Another Armchair Historian banger 🔥🔥🔥. No matter how much you hate me Griff, I will always support