Doomed Youth: the Germans at Vimy Ridge 1917 | Jesse Alexander
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- Опубліковано 27 гру 2023
- The Battle of Vimy Ridge is one of the most prominent events of the First World War in Canadian public memory, in the experience of British visitors to the Western Front, and for the local French community. In Germany, it is virtually unknown, despite the fact that tens of thousands of German troops fought and died to hold the ridge in conditions no less terrible than those of the Canadians and British.
The German experience at Vimy Ridge does not figure prominently in our public memory of the battle, but post-war German literature provides us a glimpse into the hellish experience of the men of the Gruppe Vimy in April 1917. Public historian Jesse Alexander will take us through the other side side of the hill, in the words of the men from Bavaria and Prussia - largely forgotten today - who were on the receiving end of one of the most famous battles of the war.
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Congratulations to Jesse Alexander, a hard working scholar producing great content I use in my classroom.
Thank you.
Absolutely superb.
Thanks.
Always love seeing Jesse Alexander talking about WWI and historic events in general, loved the Franco Prussian War Series!
Thanks!
Fascinating talk, thank you Mr. Alexander and the WFA 👍
Hey! Cool to see Jesse here on this program!
:)
Wow, Jesse Alexander? A Real Time History and WFA cross over episode.
Indeed!
I greatly admire Jesse#s grasp of foreign languages; his German pronounciation is flawless. His approach to history is very balanced
Actions at Vimy date back to 1915 when the French and Germans fought there. My grandfather (8th London Post Office Rifles) was captured there on 21st May 1916 when the Germans launched a successful local offensive to remove a salient held by the British.
Great presentation and talk. Top stuff
fascinating talk i for one know so little about german experience , organisation and tactics in WW1 and this was incredibly interesting
Brilliant presentation. Thanks.
Great insight, thanks for doing this.
Great discussion 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍
Great stuff 👍
Indy and Jesse . Both terrific
quite interesting thank you! first time i hear of a "fast paced" ww1 story!
Thank you for an Excellent presentation. In relation to the photos of the German prisoners: it is useful to recall the likely way these photos came to be. It might be likely these were almost random German prisoners pulled suddenly from a concentration of German prisoners and told to sit down, compose themselves, and have their pictures taken. The photographs reflect that moment perhaps. It doesn't seem like some German prisoner photos where young or undersized and "not perfect" men were picked to be photographed for propaganda purposes.
I already thought Jesse was an excellent historian. His support to Ukraine proves the significance of history is not lost on him.
Glad you appreciate that.
The German machine gun teams were the first to feel allied troop anger when engaged in the trenches I am sure.
But the Germans who were surrendering thought they were surrendering to BRITISH troops, therefore you cannot say these Germans were unfounded to think they would be shot because these troops were Canadian!
One Grandfather was British, the other Bavarian, I suspect that the latter became a POW at Vimy Ridge.
Jesse: I can tell you are speaking German most of the time, and as your talk continues, you become more of a Hosier.
:)
Hey take off, he's a hoser dude.
Australians were the first to breakthrough the Hindenburg Lines . The British gave us no Artillery support ....huge losses occurred due to this failure of the British ....
I’d blame the Germans for your losses if I were you, and get the anti English racist chips off your shoulders.
I hear denial.
Canadians were British. The King said we.need X number of troops from Canada, and Canada was required to provide X number of troops.
That's.the only reason Canadians were there.
And they were drunk. They gave you rum to get enough courage to go over the top.