Mackensen lived such a long life that he was born as a citizen of the Kingdom of Prussia and died as a citizen of post-Nazi/ Allied-occupied Germany. He witnessed/ participated in the most important moments in German history. From the country's creation to its destruction. When he began his military career muzzleloading flintlock muskets were still used. By the time he died, atomic bombs were the norm.
teh germans forged their own destruction with making their creation a result of winning a war over a neighbouring country. look at highly stable countries as the UK, France or the US whose states were build on the idea of equality.
jehaert Uh, the formation of the US involved the warring with several Native American peoples, not to mention the fact a significant part its economy was based on slave labor. How is this equality? The UK rose to a global power through colonialism, a brutal subjugation of several nations in other continents, not to mention its violent control of Ireland if you for some reason want to disregard the suffering of non Europeans.
You are certainly right. The French Revolution was big mess, too. But the construct of these nations, what people believe it stood for, is completely different from what germany represented. The Magna Carta, the French Revolution, the Bill of Rights, these were concepts created witht the purpose of closing gaps between people, not to drive them further apart. Certainly a lot of the wealth the US has today would have been impossible without fighting and killing Native Americans and enslaving millions of africans, but the basic idea the nation was built upon still was equality, even if it didnt include everyone back then. Germany showed none of these features the people who instituted the state and it's nationalism didn't care for equality, not even among white christian males. as i said they were built on the *idea* of equality, that doesn't mean people were actually equal. it is still a step forward from not caring at all or making your raison d'état warring other nations.
"Last week saw the beginning and end of the _____th Battle of the Izonso, with high Italian casualties and little or no gain." That should be inscribed on Cadorna's tombstone.
Romania is quite an underrated country. It fought all the Central powers, led by "the Mackensen" and "the Falkenhayn". Although they were destined to be defeated sometime, they still managed to save face and gain territory in the end.
"French plans for glory at Verdun" Well they don't have any choice but to play Verdun, since the French will have to wait for a DLC to be in Battlefield One.
Also tell your British Allies that they should put up a better fight in Deutsch-Ostafrika. Even since I told them to 'git gud', hey don't want to talk to me anymore.
In May/June 1917, French General Sarrail even planned an offensive towards southern Greece from Salonica because he was afraid that Greece was about to join the Central Powers and surprise-attack the rear of the Salonica army. The offensive began and his army was just about to capture the city of Larisa in Thessaly when Greece officially joined the war on the Entente's side on July 2nd.
Amazing what demanding the demobilisation of the neutral army, demanding a change of government, replacement of the police force, rounding up people who oppose this, inducing a civil war shelling Athens and blockading food supplies can do to get people to see the right of your cause. Oh and demanding compensation for the effort Greek troops between German and Allies, Neural and no orders to fight. Germans demand surrender, Allies won't allow retreat. Oh lord it is hard to be neutral, when you are b**gered in every way. Not that the Greeks didn't have a lot of factions and machinations but this isn't how neutral is supposed to work.
Greece was not exactly neutral. By that period, a second Government friendly to Entente was established in Thessalonika. When Entente gained control of southern Greece, that Government ruled and named "Lazarus".
@@napoleonnss Stalin apointed Colaborative Finish goverment on Russian side of the border even before he invaded into Karelia ... Entante was in many ways worse than Central Powers were.
I thought Cadorna and Hörzendorf were unreachabale on their Mountain of stupidity (built out of corpses), but it looks like Haig is closing in on them.
As a Frenchman I did not know that France treated Greece so badly in WW1. I kind of understand the motivations behind such behavior, but still, there's no excuse for treating a sovereign/neutral country that way. Sorry Greece.
Wow didn't knew about that. But apparently, it didn't bother them that much because they did it again in 1940 at Mers el Kébir. Even their own allies are not safe from the British...
@@7macfly2 They're weren't "hard decisions", no more than the Schlieffen Plan was. Regardless of what you think of it you cannot say it was a "hard decision"
Very cool video you done ! Greatings from Romania , my grand grand father have fight in the Great battle of Mărășești ,they stop the germans and succede a one of greatest victory in the war
"For" the Isonzo? It seems more like Cadorna is just trying to fight *at* the Isonzo at this point. If he actually does plan on taking it he sure isn't showing it through his actions. Seems more like he has a fetish for watching men die.
Very sneaky as well, what with all that speaking Serbian, wearing Serbian uniforms and equipment, and fighting in Serbia., They were obviously trying to fool people into believing they are Serbian, but they couldn't fool a brilliant man like you
A lot of great generals and future generals participated on the Romanian front...Could you do a special episode about Carl Gustaf Mannerheim? He participated on the Romanian front and will become Field Marshal of Finnland.
joey8062 and after that the russians our "allies" when the bolsheviks reached power they stole our treasure loads and loads of trains departed to russia to be "safe guarded" since the germans reached our capital i bet they were put to good use to bring socialism around the globe
"French have success in the Somme, french taking control of Greece, french preparing an offensive to take back Douamont... It seems like a good week for french forces
In 1916, France was literally carrying the Western front (Verdun + half the allied troops at the Somme), fought on the Balkan theater, fought on the Middle Eastern theater and kept Greece on a tight leash Most people don't know all that and think France only played a minor role and on the West only, because the heavy overrating of the British effort in most media about WW1 happens at the expense of France The new Battlefield game is a great exemple of that The entire campaign is focused on the British Empire while France (and Russia) is completly excluded from the game. Damn, they didnt even bother letting you play a single mission from Central Powers pov...
Try playing Verdun if you haven't already. It's an actual historically accurate multiplayer ww1 fps. The developers have a deep respect for history (aside from some very minor inaccuracies, which are totally forgivable imho).
6:32 Fantastic information. Construction of Panama Canal was a f*ck*ng deed of human endurance that excited many imaginations of its time. I have read some books about it. Not surprising that one of its engineers was doing tough tasks in WW1.
Probably allready mentionned, as I just discovered this great channel, but if not I'll say it again. Concerning the lack of water in Fort de Vaux, the bombardments of the fort by the germans artillery caused a leak to the water tank. The final result about Fort the Vaux should have been the same with or without this leak, but just to mention it. Greatings from France.
Could only be used behind the lines though, too big a target. A good example of why it was so hard to break through in WWI, you could dig a trench system faster then you could capture one.
I wish you could do a full episode of more than 1 hour about Verdun. The whole battle is so interesting, both tactically, strategically and doctrinally.
Thank you indy and crew for such a awesome show. I am late to the party but my goodness guy you really did a great job with this whole thing. Cant thank you enough
No not really. The Bulgarians soldiers and officers were, like the Serbs, veterans of the Balkan Wars. There is little that you can do against a massive artillery barrage and a focused attack though. Even steep ridges are not unbeatable as the Bulgarian Army itself proved in the Serbian campaing. Also there is the hatred they have for us and we for them.
Zach P the Serbs were in no position to beat anyone by 1918. The French did it for them. The pattern through history is Serbs getting way ahead of themselves and being cut down to size. Sometimes by Bulgarians, sometimes by Croats and the last one by the US Air Force.
completely aside from the general thrust of the video, that trenching machine at 6:10 is blowing my mind. i've never seen anything like it and it answers my (unasked) question on how they made so many trenches so fast in such uniform dimensions.
We talked about Newfoundland in the Canada special (emphasising that they were not yet part of Canada) - not totally sure we will have complete episode about them.
Your last comment in this video reminds me of the German title (and final line) of All Quiet on the Western Front: "Im Westen Nichts Neues," or, "Nothing New in the West." It really captures the tragic monotony of the Great War.
I would love to see more of that French trench building machine you showed a clip of! Also, could you discuss the ridiculously large artillery such as rail road guns? Maybe a small-to-large comparison of artillery from all sides. #OOTT
Paris guns were discussed in "Battle of Mojkovac & The Biggest Artillery Gun in World War 1." But could you discuss the various sizes, effectiveness, and maybe the different design philosophies of really large guns across the different nations.
Wow! I'm really impressed by the French efforts. Creativity and innovation instead of Napoleonic suicide missions. Seems like at least someone is learning. And that Serbian cloth scheme was pretty smart as well... Well of course there was also Von Mackensen's spearhead artillery and the British tanks were innovative too. Weird how new novel ways to kill each other can appear like gems of enlightenment in this muddy hell.
Haig is becoming quite a considerable candidate for "Idiot of the War". Hotzendorf and Cadorna have to stay on their toes or this new challenger could give them trouble.
Hi, guys, your channel is great! Thank you for this great show! Here's a little question... I read that if Romania would have continued the advance through Transylvania, A-U could have likely collapsed, as the road to the heart of Hungary laid open.... :/
a brilliant episode as always. nice work Flo. and a little bit Indie. Btw how much material and funds did the countries spend on building practice forts. like the one that you mentioned here I havent been able to find any accounting books for the armies
No idea about that. But both sides, especially the Germans though, had a lot of very skilled pioneers and the one thing they had in abundance too was concrete.
I am a big fan of these excellent videos. They must have been so hard to make, depressing I mean. Four years of Europe's slow suicide. It is a fitting tribute to the incalculable sacrifice; Regardless of the financial aspect, it needed to be done and you did it. Immense respect. An everlasting achievement.
If possible in future, could you start showing maps with updated borders of the nations? its quite hard to see where the different lines are, especially in the east.
Archival footage was great in this episode. Is there better quality video from second half of the war, since i don't remember it being this good before?
Thanks for a great site. I visited Verdun a few years ago and was quite impressed (and humbled) by the museum the French have erected there. Could you possibly do a show about the museum and perhaps the monuments such as the "Trench of the Bayonets"? Also, is there a logical reason why the Germans never shelled the "Sacred Road"?
Funny to hear Giemes pass, naturally its not a requirement to spell every stupid local names correctly, but that G Y is one character in hungarian, a weird one obviously :D It sound something like to say fast "dew". Love the channel, keep up the great work!
Hello Indy and comrades, excellent work you have been doing here, keep it up! One question though. Did Cadorna ever consider attacking north through Tyrol and breaching into either Bavaria or Vienna from there? I imagine they would have little troops in Bavaria and if I recall, Munich was an industrial city at the time(correct me if I am wrong, but as it is deep within C.P. territory, it would seem like a safe position). I cannot claim that I would do things better than Cadorna(but it's Cadorna so those claims would not be completely false xD), but he had experienced mountain troops, numerical advantage and could use artillery to cause avalanches to disturb the Austrian positions in the mountains(unorthodox, but one avalanche can completely shut down a mountain of troops). The only real advantage Austrians had in the area was Borojević's defensive expertise, but that could only last so long for the army he was commanding with its poor conditions. Once again, great job you are doing and hopefully we will see this question on OOTT. Thank you for reading and have a nice day!
Hey Indy and Crew, First off, thanks for the amazing show! I have a question for OotT: Were Guards units such as the British Coldstream / Grenadier Guards, the Russian Pavlov Grenadiers, the Prussian Leib Regiment etc. equipped and trained differently from ordinary soldiers? Also, were they used as simple frontline trench troops like everyone else, or as shock / breakthrough specialists? Thanks and greetings from Freiburg, Germany - keep up the fantastic work!
i really love the show, watch every episode. with that said the great war had as will your great show. so i was wondering if you guys had plans for more programs after 2018?
I personally hate it when all the credits for the battles in Dobrudja goes to Mackensen. The Bulgarian army did extraordinary things under the command of generals like Stefan Toshev for example.
Митко Шатровски I think it's a miracle that countries like Bulgaria,Romania, Czech rep , the small ones still exist. don't get upset by that , the victors make the history.
Hey Indy, love the show and all the effort you guys keep putting in it. Do you know of any examples of soldiers, either among the Allies or the CP, who were there from day one, participated in most of the major battles and survived the entire war ?
Well that too, but at the same time,. with all this slaughter it just seems difficult to imagine anyone pulling front-line duty for 4 years and surviving.
Rodion Malinovsky (who would later became a Soviet Marshall and Defense Minister) smuggled himself onto a troop train when war broke out (he was 15 at that time), fought throughout the most vicious battles of the Eastern Front, joined the Russian Expeditionary Force and fought in France as well to the very end of the war, then returned to Russia to fight the Civil war. You cannot get any more war than that.
Im somewhat new to this channel, so Im just wondering if you have already discussed the french plan in the war to have Elan, as I dont really understand it and it's a meme on Verdun the game
Can "The Great War" channel or anyone suggest good music WW1 related to listen to while I read "all quiet on the western front? Awesome channel either way.
I'm just going to assume another battle of the Isonzo has started and ended with tens of thousands of casualties on both sides with little to no gain for the Italians unless you state otherwise.
Pieter Batenburg was the comment you made supposed to be funny? I dont think war is supposed to be funny. Unless im really stupid, which is possible since im 12 and from Serbia.
can you point me to thew referance or exactly were nere Stainville the preperations were made, just curius to se if it left some traces to se on satelite maps ( a full scale replica fort should do that)
I don't get it...why don't the links for their earlier videos show up on screen anymore? Does this have something to do with UA-cam's new policy about advertising?
Hey Indy, Flo, and the rest the crew!! I have a question about the "solders disease" this being well into the second year of combat and many casualty's already convalescing has the effects of mass addiction started to have negative impact on society or is it only after the war that the effect the mass addictions start to be noticed? I kind of figured junkies + war = worse, but being that war is so terrible did the junkies go unnoticed? Also I'm not sure if I have that right, I know it's ether the U.S. civil war that addiction becomes known has the "army's disease" or if it's visa versa with "solders disease". I'm just wondering because I know this is around the start of the time when mind altering substances (drug's) start to become demonized in a social context and I was wondering if it started more around the 'temperance movement' or if it was seen for the problem it would become during the war? Thank you guys for keeping this up, I really wish there were more history shows in the same vain as this (no pun intended). I remember watching during my youth on PBS a show they made look like it was from medieval times that was a news/history show but it much more broad in the timelines. Do you guys plan on doing more series based on other conflicts or time periods? Keep up the awesome work, I would give on patreon but I'm poor but I want you to know, I pause my ad blockers when I watch this show so I can support it in some small way, let me know if there's something more I can do!
It's sad how much effort was being put into taking less than a couple square miles of land. Tons of shells. 600+ artillery guns. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers. So much material and men. To try and take one fort. One fort. How did anyone at this point believe they would win.
I wonder what is the week to week political situation in the warring countries. How are decisions taken? Are they discussing in the parliaments? How much are the generals pressed for results? How do they agree who is to lead the armies? Although I like the channel so far, I feel that politics have been neglected. For example you say, "the French, established sensorship", but who decided to go ahead and do it? Greetings.
Well, we could of course include that. But then we would need to have 20 minute episodes which we don't have the budget or production capacities for. We usually talk about politics in the country specials and during winter.
Mackensen lived such a long life that he was born as a citizen of the Kingdom of Prussia and died as a citizen of post-Nazi/ Allied-occupied Germany. He witnessed/ participated in the most important moments in German history. From the country's creation to its destruction. When he began his military career muzzleloading flintlock muskets were still used. By the time he died, atomic bombs were the norm.
A great long life for a great general and man
The Woolly Eel Nukes were still a new thing by the timw he died
teh germans forged their own destruction with making their creation a result of winning a war over a neighbouring country. look at highly stable countries as the UK, France or the US whose states were build on the idea of equality.
jehaert Uh, the formation of the US involved the warring with several Native American peoples, not to mention the fact a significant part its economy was based on slave labor. How is this equality?
The UK rose to a global power through colonialism, a brutal subjugation of several nations in other continents, not to mention its violent control of Ireland if you for some reason want to disregard the suffering of non Europeans.
You are certainly right. The French Revolution was big mess, too. But the construct of these nations, what people believe it stood for, is completely different from what germany represented. The Magna Carta, the French Revolution, the Bill of Rights, these were concepts created witht the purpose of closing gaps between people, not to drive them further apart. Certainly a lot of the wealth the US has today would have been impossible without fighting and killing Native Americans and enslaving millions of africans, but the basic idea the nation was built upon still was equality, even if it didnt include everyone back then.
Germany showed none of these features the people who instituted the state and it's nationalism didn't care for equality, not even among white christian males.
as i said they were built on the *idea* of equality, that doesn't mean people were actually equal. it is still a step forward from not caring at all or making your raison d'état warring other nations.
"Last week saw the beginning and end of the _____th Battle of the Izonso, with high Italian casualties and little or no gain."
That should be inscribed on Cadorna's tombstone.
Best history joke ever.
it blows my mind how the serbs are still able to fight after everything their country went through up to this point.
Well, they had a build up and had a "recreational period" on Corfu.
because we are tought little efers :D
Ah, mass tourism to greek islands. Times never change.
You fight to defend your country. You fight to avenge your country. You fight until either your enemy is destroyed or you no longer exist.
Romania is quite an underrated country. It fought all the Central powers, led by "the Mackensen" and "the Falkenhayn". Although they were destined to be defeated sometime, they still managed to save face and gain territory in the end.
Imagine if Romania had stayed neutral till Russia fell.
"French plans for glory at Verdun"
Well they don't have any choice but to play Verdun, since the French will have to wait for a DLC to be in Battlefield One.
+Duke of Lorraine It certainly won't be an unreal tournament
Smart move from EA, I mean the french didn't really play a big role in the great war anyways...
top b8 m8
exactly, they just hung out while the war was fought on their land. Maybe threw some old bread at the Germans and shouted jokes from the castles.
Your Mother was a hamster and your Father smelt of elderberries
Don't worry guys, we'll get that fort back.
Also tell your British Allies that they should put up a better fight in Deutsch-Ostafrika. Even since I told them to 'git gud', hey don't want to talk to me anymore.
Philippe Pétain get bent traitor
c'est honteux comme commentaire , mais quand on a pas d’arrière grands-parents impliqués dans cette guerre il facile d'en rire n'est-ce pas...
at this trajectory the entente the will demand all Greece's signs be written in French in 2 weeks
+Christian Weibrecht You are close
In May/June 1917, French General Sarrail even planned an offensive towards southern Greece from Salonica because he was afraid that Greece was about to join the Central Powers and surprise-attack the rear of the Salonica army. The offensive began and his army was just about to capture the city of Larisa in Thessaly when Greece officially joined the war on the Entente's side on July 2nd.
Amazing what
demanding the demobilisation of the neutral army,
demanding a change of government,
replacement of the police force,
rounding up people who oppose this,
inducing a civil war
shelling Athens and blockading food supplies
can do to get people to see the right of your cause.
Oh and demanding compensation for the effort
Greek troops between German and Allies, Neural and no orders to fight. Germans demand surrender, Allies won't allow retreat.
Oh lord it is hard to be neutral, when you are b**gered in every way.
Not that the Greeks didn't have a lot of factions and machinations but this isn't how neutral is supposed to work.
Greece was not exactly neutral. By that period, a second Government friendly to Entente was established in Thessalonika. When Entente gained control of southern Greece, that Government ruled and named "Lazarus".
@@napoleonnss Stalin apointed Colaborative Finish goverment on Russian side of the border even before he invaded into Karelia ...
Entante was in many ways worse than Central Powers were.
I thought Cadorna and Hörzendorf were unreachabale on their Mountain of stupidity (built out of corpses), but it looks like Haig is closing in on them.
Haigs fantasy eventually came true - If I go to the front lines today there is no German army... Well played Douglas.
The LOLbertarian the battle of the Somme was an unexpected success. Haig was planning for them not to have captured the German lines until 2015...
The Germans and the British are still there. In the ground.
Michael Black I thought the commanders didn't like it, when Germans and Allies spend time together.
As a Frenchman I did not know that France treated Greece so badly in WW1. I kind of understand the motivations behind such behavior, but still, there's no excuse for treating a sovereign/neutral country that way. Sorry Greece.
+Bapih The next 8 months will be quite interesting...
Wow didn't knew about that. But apparently, it didn't bother them that much because they did it again in 1940 at Mers el Kébir. Even their own allies are not safe from the British...
This french operation in greece still lead to the fall of bulgaria and austrian empire... Not bad
In war you need to take hard decision
@@7macfly2 They're weren't "hard decisions", no more than the Schlieffen Plan was. Regardless of what you think of it you cannot say it was a "hard decision"
You didn't do it. Don't apologise for something you didn't do.
I really hope someone does something like this for ww2 when the time comes, this is an awesome series.
+Nexather m.reddit.com/r/TheGreatWarChannel/comments/4ksvy2/will_you_guys_ever_do_a_ww2_channel_our_official/?compact=true
@@TheGreatWar hope you dont forget french resistance😛
Romania always fought off the invaders since dacian times, these lands are filled with the blood of our ancestors. Long live Romania.
I love how the Romanians always give invaders 10 times more powerfull, a massive headache.
Hail to Germans
@@phantomus2541hail my D
@@phantomus2541I'm sure you mean austrian painters.
Very cool video you done ! Greatings from Romania , my grand grand father have fight in the Great battle of Mărășești ,they stop the germans and succede a one of greatest victory in the war
5:35 Thomas the tank engine's German cousin, Gustav the railway gun
The Gustav was the 800mm. This was the Big Bertha.
It's a French gun, bro...
VersusARCH Fine. His French cousin Pierre the railway gun.
Sitting here in the Chair of Foolishness, I, Sir Douglass Haig, plan future incursions into German lines.
Sitting up on the high cavalry horse of foolishness, more like.
Sitting here in the Chair of Incompetence, I, Luigi Cadorna, have come to the conclusion that we need another battle for the Isonzo.
"For" the Isonzo? It seems more like Cadorna is just trying to fight *at* the Isonzo at this point. If he actually does plan on taking it he sure isn't showing it through his actions. Seems more like he has a fetish for watching men die.
Sitting here in the Chair of Lunacy, I, Conrade Von Hotzendorf, plans another poorly considered and costly offense against the enemy.
"I believe that if if sacrifice enough plebs, I'll look boss" Haigh..😎
"Hereby, I proclaim the Kingdom of Greece as a fief of the French Republic. You are now colonised."
*Plants Tricolore flag*
*La Marseillaise earrape*
B: It's over Serbs! We have the high ground!
S: YOU UNDERESTIMATE OUR POWER!
VersusARCH "BS"
Fool
Indy, its FIELD MARSHALL August Von Mackensen!!! He was promoted in June 1915
What the Romanians did with the flags was actually pretty smart, good coordination. They actually used their brains.
Very sneaky as well, what with all that speaking Serbian, wearing Serbian uniforms and equipment, and fighting in Serbia.,
They were obviously trying to fool people into believing they are Serbian, but they couldn't fool a brilliant man like you
+Marius Dragoe lol
@@mariusdragoe2888 xd
*YAY* A bit of my Romanian national pride was saved. Thank you Indy!!! :D
You guys should do a special episode about the Arditi, a special stormtrooper-like unit from Italy during WW1.
Who agrees? :D
+ResurgamRoseRangers we filmed the episode two weeks ago. Should be out before winter even.
did they miss all of their shots?
Greetings from Romania!
Greetings from Berlin.
A lot of great generals and future generals participated on the Romanian front...Could you do a special episode about Carl Gustaf Mannerheim? He participated on the Romanian front and will become Field Marshal of Finnland.
He was in russian army?
@@robiagacitei5487 yes, the tsarist army
I just love your way of telling us the story Indy. Thanks again for this exciting regular episode
I cant believe the Romanians had to fight all 4 central powers.
joey8062 and after that the russians our "allies" when the bolsheviks reached power they stole our treasure loads and loads of trains departed to russia to be "safe guarded" since the germans reached our capital i bet they were put to good use to bring socialism around the globe
Up until December the Romanian army (not counting the Russian reinforcements) always had numerical superiority over the CP forces.
Fit me, Central Powers! -Romania, before recieving a pounding until 1917 when they kicked Kraut ass at Marasesti, Marasti and Oituz.
Burning Noodles [RO] what?
Doctor Thrax that is not until 1917, right now Romania is getting owned lol.
"French have success in the Somme, french taking control of Greece, french preparing an offensive to take back Douamont...
It seems like a good week for french forces
In 1916, France was literally carrying the Western front (Verdun + half the allied troops at the Somme), fought on the Balkan theater, fought on the Middle Eastern theater and kept Greece on a tight leash
Most people don't know all that and think France only played a minor role and on the West only, because the heavy overrating of the British effort in most media about WW1 happens at the expense of France
The new Battlefield game is a great exemple of that
The entire campaign is focused on the British Empire while France (and Russia) is completly excluded from the game.
Damn, they didnt even bother letting you play a single mission from Central Powers pov...
Try playing Verdun if you haven't already. It's an actual historically accurate multiplayer ww1 fps. The developers have a deep respect for history (aside from some very minor inaccuracies, which are totally forgivable imho).
Very few games let you play as the "bad" guys.
Much better credit/end of episode sequence!!! Excellent Change!!!
Well, we took the community feedback to heart.
6:32 Fantastic information. Construction of Panama Canal was a f*ck*ng deed of human endurance that excited many imaginations of its time. I have read some books about it. Not surprising that one of its engineers was doing tough tasks in WW1.
It's interesting what men can achieve in these extreme situations.
Ah! You guys managed to fit Indy back in at the end after all! Great!
It was definitely an intense design session.
But it's worth the sweat, so thank you very much!
Probably allready mentionned, as I just discovered this great channel, but if not I'll say it again.
Concerning the lack of water in Fort de Vaux, the bombardments of the fort by the germans artillery caused a leak to the water tank. The final result about Fort the Vaux should have been the same with or without this leak, but just to mention it.
Greatings from France.
The recreation of the fort and its use for training reminds me of tactics used by special forces today
Falkanhayne: "I can't do this by myself, there are too many for me to handle!"
Mackensen: "hold my beer"
Even the trenches were now being dug by machines, truly a mechanized war. Keep up the great work guys!
Could only be used behind the lines though, too big a target. A good example of why it was so hard to break through in WWI, you could dig a trench system faster then you could capture one.
@ 6:00 awesome entrenching machine !
I wish you could do a full episode of more than 1 hour about Verdun. The whole battle is so interesting, both tactically, strategically and doctrinally.
If you combine all our Verdun episodes, you have more than an hour of content.
The Great War I will, awesome news ! Thanks for doing great work and answering our questions
Thank you indy and crew for such a awesome show. I am late to the party but my goodness guy you really did a great job with this whole thing. Cant thank you enough
This channel is amazing! Keep working guys! You are doing a great job!
I guess the Bulgarians underestimated the power of the Serbs - even though they had the high ground.
No not really. The Bulgarians soldiers and officers were, like the Serbs, veterans of the Balkan Wars. There is little that you can do against a massive artillery barrage and a focused attack though. Even steep ridges are not unbeatable as the Bulgarian Army itself proved in the Serbian campaing. Also there is the hatred they have for us and we for them.
The bulgarians havent learned this lesson throughout history. The serbs have eventually always beat the bulgars, this is a repeating pattern.
Zach P the Serbs were in no position to beat anyone by 1918. The French did it for them. The pattern through history is Serbs getting way ahead of themselves and being cut down to size. Sometimes by Bulgarians, sometimes by Croats and the last one by the US Air Force.
lol
read your own history 1885
I was making a Star Wars joke. I assumed that everyone had seen Revenge of the Sith.
Finally caught up! Loving this show as much as ever!
Love this series. The more I learn about WWI the more I am interested in it.
completely aside from the general thrust of the video, that trenching machine at 6:10 is blowing my mind. i've never seen anything like it and it answers my (unasked) question on how they made so many trenches so fast in such uniform dimensions.
Hey!!!! I adore the show! Can u please do a special on Newfoundland? Thank u! And keep up the great work!!!😃
We talked about Newfoundland in the Canada special (emphasising that they were not yet part of Canada) - not totally sure we will have complete episode about them.
Your last comment in this video reminds me of the German title (and final line) of All Quiet on the Western Front: "Im Westen Nichts Neues," or, "Nothing New in the West." It really captures the tragic monotony of the Great War.
I would love to see more of that French trench building machine you showed a clip of! Also, could you discuss the ridiculously large artillery such as rail road guns? Maybe a small-to-large comparison of artillery from all sides. #OOTT
We already talked about railway guns in OOTT
Paris guns were discussed in "Battle of Mojkovac & The Biggest Artillery Gun in World War 1." But could you discuss the various sizes, effectiveness, and maybe the different design philosophies of really large guns across the different nations.
Love the layout at the end!
Wow! I'm really impressed by the French efforts. Creativity and innovation instead of Napoleonic suicide missions. Seems like at least someone is learning. And that Serbian cloth scheme was pretty smart as well... Well of course there was also Von Mackensen's spearhead artillery and the British tanks were innovative too. Weird how new novel ways to kill each other can appear like gems of enlightenment in this muddy hell.
Haig is becoming quite a considerable candidate for "Idiot of the War". Hotzendorf and Cadorna have to stay on their toes or this new challenger could give them trouble.
One guy: Geoffrey Spicer-Simson.
Of course, how I could forgot the great Geoffrey? The competition is very strong and tight nowadays.
The league has gotten more competitive and professional in recent weeks.
Enver Pascha is right up there at the top.
Fabulous to see an episode that is up to your usual standards.
Hi, guys, your channel is great! Thank you for this great show!
Here's a little question...
I read that if Romania would have continued the advance through Transylvania, A-U could have likely collapsed, as the road to the heart of Hungary laid open.... :/
a brilliant episode as always. nice work Flo. and a little bit Indie.
Btw how much material and funds did the countries spend on building practice forts. like the one that you mentioned here
I havent been able to find any accounting books for the armies
No idea about that. But both sides, especially the Germans though, had a lot of very skilled pioneers and the one thing they had in abundance too was concrete.
I am a big fan of these excellent videos. They must have been so hard to make, depressing I mean. Four years of Europe's slow suicide. It is a fitting tribute to the incalculable sacrifice; Regardless of the financial aspect, it needed to be done and you did it. Immense respect. An everlasting achievement.
I can't afford the merch, as i'm poor as all hell right now, but I still signed up for the patreon. I love your work.
If possible in future, could you start showing maps with updated borders of the nations? its quite hard to see where the different lines are, especially in the east.
+Lenin Cat's Emissary We are working on that. It costs time and money to set it up properly though
I understand. thank you and keep up the good work!
Archival footage was great in this episode. Is there better quality video from second half of the war, since i don't remember it being this good before?
Yes, it took them a while to figure it out: ua-cam.com/video/LxgpEUL23AY/v-deo.html - but be aware that a lot of it is probably staged.
Thanks for a great site. I visited Verdun a few years ago and was quite impressed (and humbled) by the museum the French have erected there. Could you possibly do a show about the museum and perhaps the monuments such as the "Trench of the Bayonets"? Also, is there a logical reason why the Germans never shelled the "Sacred Road"?
Very Nice End Screen
Another great video by TGW team!
+OllieSportsHD thanks!
Funny to hear Giemes pass, naturally its not a requirement to spell every stupid local names correctly, but that G Y is one character in hungarian, a weird one obviously :D It sound something like to say fast "dew". Love the channel, keep up the great work!
Can you explain that a bit more please? Cannot follow you.
Hello Indy and comrades, excellent work you have been doing here, keep it up! One question though. Did Cadorna ever consider attacking north through Tyrol and breaching into either Bavaria or Vienna from there? I imagine they would have little troops in Bavaria and if I recall, Munich was an industrial city at the time(correct me if I am wrong, but as it is deep within C.P. territory, it would seem like a safe position). I cannot claim that I would do things better than Cadorna(but it's Cadorna so those claims would not be completely false xD), but he had experienced mountain troops, numerical advantage and could use artillery to cause avalanches to disturb the Austrian positions in the mountains(unorthodox, but one avalanche can completely shut down a mountain of troops). The only real advantage Austrians had in the area was Borojević's defensive expertise, but that could only last so long for the army he was commanding with its poor conditions.
Once again, great job you are doing and hopefully we will see this question on OOTT. Thank you for reading and have a nice day!
Hey Indy and Crew,
First off, thanks for the amazing show! I have a question for OotT:
Were Guards units such as the British Coldstream / Grenadier Guards, the Russian Pavlov Grenadiers, the Prussian Leib Regiment etc. equipped and trained differently from ordinary soldiers? Also, were they used as simple frontline trench troops like everyone else, or as shock / breakthrough specialists?
Thanks and greetings from Freiburg, Germany - keep up the fantastic work!
Love the Series Lindy!
its indie
EHAM aviation I thought it was underground?
***** Lindiana Beige?
This isn't Lindybeige, he's super English, but talks about history stuff a lot aswell I guess. This is Indie, like the record label. lol.
Paul Walsh lol.
Did I use that right?
Hey indy love the series its great to watch
Will you do an Romanian weapons or uniform episode?
Weapons are a challenge of course because Othais has to get his hands on them. I mean if you meant a livestream kind of thing.
The Great War yeah that's what I was thinking about !
i really love the show, watch every episode. with that said the great war had as will your great show. so i was wondering if you guys had plans for more programs after 2018?
I personally hate it when all the credits for the battles in Dobrudja goes to Mackensen. The Bulgarian army did extraordinary things under the command of generals like Stefan Toshev for example.
tell that to the great war channel, they don't seem to be interested in the Dobrudja or the Bulgarians.
Митко Шатровски I think it's a miracle that countries like Bulgaria,Romania, Czech rep , the small ones still exist. don't get upset by that , the victors make the history.
Hey Indy, love the show and all the effort you guys keep putting in it. Do you know of any examples of soldiers, either among the Allies or the CP, who were there from day one, participated in most of the major battles and survived the entire war ?
+G36Ghost A lot of them survived. You probably mean without being wounded, right?
Well that too, but at the same time,. with all this slaughter it just seems difficult to imagine anyone pulling front-line duty for 4 years and surviving.
Rodion Malinovsky (who would later became a Soviet Marshall and Defense Minister) smuggled himself onto a troop train when war broke out (he was 15 at that time), fought throughout the most vicious battles of the Eastern Front, joined the Russian Expeditionary Force and fought in France as well to the very end of the war, then returned to Russia to fight the Civil war. You cannot get any more war than that.
Dang o_O. Post WW2 he apparently turned the Red Army into a force to be reckoned with. What a beast. Thanks for the info BTW.
It seems that in the last few weeks Haig was in a very good shape!
at his best.
I Miss Jahn Trawn SO MUCH Only Real Fans Remember Him 😢😢
#NeverForget
lol, anyone know what happened to him?
that ground eater machine at 6:01.. amazing idea! why not use those all the time in the war... when NOT under fire...
On a more positive note 100 years ago Australia had a referendum on conscription and it was defeated. Some sanity at least.
I know I asked this already but could you do a video of Newcastle upon tyne during the great war
Awesome episode, but can you please show animations of the advncing in the macedonian front
+Sok Tetrapak Working on it. Hopefully ready by mid November
Im somewhat new to this channel, so Im just wondering if you have already discussed the french plan in the war to have Elan, as I dont really understand it and it's a meme on Verdun the game
5:12 I want that hat!
Neutral only matters if you’re armed to the teeth in a highly defensible position.
7:44 the rare French 370mm Filloux mortar, so cool looking but only 10 were made in 1915, a couple were sold to Italy.
Can "The Great War" channel or anyone suggest good music WW1 related to listen to while I read "all quiet on the western front? Awesome channel either way.
This is some irony i got a BF1 ad in the middle of the video lol
So when is the special about August Von Mackenson? The most successful general in the war?
It will come.
I'm just going to assume another battle of the Isonzo has started and ended with tens of thousands of casualties on both sides with little to no gain for the Italians unless you state otherwise.
Another day, another 10.000 dead. Wait. Only 10.000. Yeah. It was a good day. 😂 What a stupid war.
Pieter Batenburg Please no emoji cancer
cid v I hope so too.
Hotzendorf thinks that's not enough, there needs to be 20'000 deaths.
indeed, the most pointless war in history
Pieter Batenburg was the comment you made supposed to be funny? I dont think war is supposed to be funny. Unless im really stupid, which is possible since im 12 and from Serbia.
But is it how you treat neutral that you think is about to join your enemy?
can you point me to thew referance or exactly were nere Stainville the preperations were made, just curius to se if it left some traces to se on satelite maps ( a full scale replica fort should do that)
I see you have been experimenting with the bit in the last couple of vids. I would say this one is better then the last ones.
+bluehairedgirlstudio the bit? You mean the end moderation?
The Great War yes, I couldn't work out what it was called
Thinking of having a Great War special and host a let's play session with fans on battlefield one?
We are still thinking about it, yes.
Was artillery or explosives in general ever used to create new positions for troops to advance to?
And if someone believes that Admiral Du Fournet overdid it, he just got started...
*Venizelos intensifies*
I don't get it...why don't the links for their earlier videos show up on screen anymore? Does this have something to do with UA-cam's new policy about advertising?
It's a new feature called "end screen" which for some reason you are not seeing.
7:38 what kind of cannon is shown on the train here?
were the 400mm guns for a specific target or were they used in battery with all artillery guns of all sizes?
Hey Indy, Flo, and the rest the crew!! I have a question about the "solders disease" this being well into the second year of combat and many casualty's already convalescing has the effects of mass addiction started to have negative impact on society or is it only after the war that the effect the mass addictions start to be noticed? I kind of figured junkies + war = worse, but being that war is so terrible did the junkies go unnoticed? Also I'm not sure if I have that right, I know it's ether the U.S. civil war that addiction becomes known has the "army's disease" or if it's visa versa with "solders disease". I'm just wondering because I know this is around the start of the time when mind altering substances (drug's) start to become demonized in a social context and I was wondering if it started more around the 'temperance movement' or if it was seen for the problem it would become during the war?
Thank you guys for keeping this up, I really wish there were more history shows in the same vain as this (no pun intended). I remember watching during my youth on PBS a show they made look like it was from medieval times that was a news/history show but it much more broad in the timelines. Do you guys plan on doing more series based on other conflicts or time periods? Keep up the awesome work, I would give on patreon but I'm poor but I want you to know, I pause my ad blockers when I watch this show so I can support it in some small way, let me know if there's something more I can do!
It's sad how much effort was being put into taking less than a couple square miles of land. Tons of shells. 600+ artillery guns. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers. So much material and men. To try and take one fort. One fort. How did anyone at this point believe they would win.
when the war ends, do you plan to continue the series going over how wwi effected the society of the 20s across the world?
m.reddit.com/r/TheGreatWarChannel/comments/4ksvy2/will_you_guys_ever_do_a_ww2_channel_our_official/?compact=true
I wonder what is the week to week political situation in the warring countries. How are decisions taken? Are they discussing in the parliaments? How much are the generals pressed for results? How do they agree who is to lead the armies? Although I like the channel so far, I feel that politics have been neglected.
For example you say, "the French, established sensorship", but who decided to go ahead and do it?
Greetings.
Well, we could of course include that. But then we would need to have 20 minute episodes which we don't have the budget or production capacities for. We usually talk about politics in the country specials and during winter.
Hey indy and crew. What is that creepy, new painting in the background there? Where is it from? Who is the painter?
Love the show!
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I finished the Ft. Douamont part in "Valiant Hearts: The Great War" before I watched this episode
Where can you pose a question for Out of the Trenches?
You should do a special episode on Mackenson's hat.