All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) is an incredibly sad film :( First time watching reaction
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'as if the government is not sending food to the soldiers'
do you know how out of touch and insensitive you sound 80 percent of the time? i hope no veterans or soldiers watch this
they leave half the dogtag on so their bodies can be identified in the morgue and get a 'proper' burial.
This is not a film, it’s an EXPERIENCE
When he said he couldn't feel his fingers - the water and muck was cold - his hands got numb
The dog tags - you take the part that snaps off so you can get the info collected and passed to command, that he is dead, but the other part remains on the body for ID when buried
My grandfather was a American veteran of WW1 and served in France. He lived until 1976. His two sons served in WWII and both survived.
Didn't some soldiers of the first fight in the second?
Possibly. Let's say you were 20 when WW1 ended (1918) it's just 21 years to WW2. So you would be 41. Maybe and officer then. @@Tiger0408
Brits lost that on the first day of The Somme@@paultaylor9498
@@Tiger0408 A few, but it was uncommon. The youngest soldiers during WWI would have been in their 40s during WWII. People of that age would only have been recruited later in the war as a last resort. They certainly wouldn’t have been the first choice.
Fascinating. I'm from the other side of the world (Bulgaria), and have the same story in my family. My great-great grandpa served and survived both Balkan Wars, then went into WW1 and survived that as well. He lived into the late 1960s, I think. His son also served in WW2, when the Bolsheviks overthrowed our government and committed troops to the pursue of the retreating Wermacht. He survived WW2 and died in 2011.
My great grandfather was a Scottish soldier, he served in WW1, not sure exactly where, then he went on to serve in WW2 as well. One good thing to come from it all is that he met my great grandmother during the war, who was a nurse.
Both halfs of the German dogtag have all informations about the soldier on them. One half goes back to the war ministry and the other half remains around the neck of the dead soldier. On that way the body keeps it's identity. Even when the dead soldier is later on exhumed and buried elsewhere and is getting a proper gravestone.
It was supposed to be the War To End All Wars ... it was the worst form of warfare we've come up with and it seems like we've forgotten how bad it can be 😢💔😭
And instead all it did was set up an even more devastating conflict barely 20 years later
Hitler: Lol no. Observe!
I'm French, my great grand father was in the war. There was a family story that he had been injured the day before the end of the war, and we recently got hold of his military record, and it ended up being true. He was conscripted with the first wave of mobilisation, served the whole war and was badly injured to the face the 10 November 1918. He survived but had to get facial surgery. Didn't get to meet the man sadly.
What a masterpiece - Edward Berger has conquered the last bastion for Germany, this masterpiece received so many Oscars as all German films in the last 80 years together. Arrived on the throne of the film world in Hollywood. Proud for Erich Maria Remarque, Edward Berger and Malte Grunert historical legacy for us Germans.
8:55 Half of it is taken to register the casualty, half of it is left with the body for later identification. There's a set of the soldier's data on both halves.
German Dog tags still look like that while American ones come in pairs, for the same reason.
Im a career guy in the Army, and the little moments where you force yourself to be happy with your friends are the moments that stay with you forever. We always say that false motivation is better than no motivation. Those are the moments you would do anything to go back to, even if that means going back to the muck and the mire or the desert. To be in that moment with your Army-issued brothers is incredible; you are in the exact right place at the exact right time with the exact right people.
this movie always brought this quote to mind:
A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own.
Thomas Mann
With all the war movies that Mary is doing, we really need to see a Band of Brothers reaction! Only 10 episodes and one of the highest rated series of all time (like 97% on Rotten Tomatoes)!
She ain't got time for all them episodes
That & Pacific
band of brothers is a highly overated cowboy show not more
realism is nowhere to be seen in that one
@@tavish4699 lol
facts@@m_v__m_v
@9:00 - the purpose of the dog tag is dual: ensuring the body is identified and ensuring the soldier's death is registered. When body is easily retrievable - like the ones lying in your own trench - these two purposes are essentially one and the same, but imagine an attack through the jungle or sth, where the tag is the only thing compatriots of the fallen soldier can take with them. The collected tags are sent via unit command to parent unit command and so on - and after the war, or when circumstances become such it is possible, somebody with all the tags will look for the bodies with matching tag still on them. To this purpose, modern dog tags are two separate pieces of metal on two separate chains - but what you can see in this movie is an earlier solution, single piece of metal with a groove machined into it, half of which remains by the body, and half is broken off to send to appropriate military administration branch.
This is in fact the 3rd version of a 1929 German book of the same name (and the first made in the German language). The first 2 released in 1930 and 1979 respectively. I’ve seen all 3, and the 1930 version is the best one IMO. The 1930 version is in fact only the 3rd ever movie to win the Oscar for Best Picture (and the first ever to win both Picture and Director).
i agree. never seen this version before. but the 1930 oscar winning version is unbeatable. Directed by Lewis Milestone and starring Lew Ayres ths early sound film posseses a stark realism and an emotional punch that can't be equaled even with today's special effects.
the book was one of 1000s that were banned by the nazis when they took power in germany in 1933. nazis LOVE WAR. they believe its humanity's natural state. and they didn't want any anti-war sentiment to interfere with their domestic plans for pro-war propaganda and global conquest.
@@cjmacq-vg8um Plus Erich Maria Remarque was Jewish
This story is completely different from the book and other movies. Using the same title is cheap false advertising.
@@jhilal2385 Remarque wasn't Jewish.
The hands on the fence still haunts me
As an Australian you should watch the series ANZAC girls about WW1 nurses who don’t get enough credit and Beneath Hill 60. They do Australia proud.
Beneath Hill 60. What a great movie.
As a history buff from the states I at least, understand and appreciate ALL of the ALLIES of WW2. There's a fair bit of context when it comes to history. LOL
As an American who is always looking for WW1 stuff, ANZAC Girls was great!
My great grandfather was a U.S. Marine in the Battle of Belleau Wood and was close enough to hear Dan Daly when he yelled his famous "Come on you sons of bitches, do you want to live forever" and followed Daly's charge. Somehow got through the battle without a scratch.
Maybe you´ve already heard that this movie was based on the original book from Erich Maria Remarque and we had to read it in class back in the German High School. It´s said that a lot of it is based on his experiences from WW1. There are a few changes from the original story, but they all serve to "demonstrate" how life was back then and how the end of ww1 laid the groundwork for ww2. Thats a point that you said during your intro why there was so "little time between both world wars". In today´s retrospect we understand the politics behind it so much better, because classified documents have been released after 60+ years. For example that that little train wagon at Compiègne where the Germans signed the armistice with Marshall Foch. In WW2 the Nazis made sure to use the exact same wagon and let the French sign under the same circumstances to humiliate them with the same "theres no discussing our demands, you have 72 hours to accept them". Starting the circle of hatred and violence all over again... If you look back on european history its basically conflict and war all over again. one time this one is on top, then the other and and it spins like a wheel... The Rivalism between "the German Empire"(primarily Prussia) and France, was so bad, that the "arrogance the actor of Marshall Foch played" came from a deep hatred for Prussia, which humiliated France back in the last war between Prussia and France (1870/1871), which Prussia and the German states one and basically did the same thing to the last French Emperor Napoleon III.. It´s so sad, that the hatred span generations and was always carried forward from one generation to the next, because "the enemy" humiliated you. And you can always find "one war" that triggered the next until the middle ages, because Prussia used the 1870/1871 War as an "retribution" for what Napoleon did during his conquest of Europe... And i´m sure there are countless other "wars" that were led for the same stupid reasons. The final charge was also an "invention" of this movie, to show how strong militarism was in Imperial Germany and with the Generals. And Matthias Erzberger (the role of Daniel Brühl) was also invented for this movie and is not part of the original story. He is seen today by historians as one of the founding fathers of the german republic. Sadly he(Erzberger) was murdered in 1921 by a group of military extremists that fled the country and returned to Germany in 1933 where the nazis granted them "amnesty", because in their view the german military was "betrayed" by the politicians in ww1 and the brave soldiers were robbed of a victory (some dumb lies sadly die hard)... You can even find american historians that predicted that this "humiliating peace treaty" would spark another war, because Germany had to pass through Poland´s Territory to reach "Eastern Prussia". And preluding to WW2, Germany demanded free passage to these cities and used a false flag operation to start the war with Poland. The Narrative was "we shoot back since 4:45 am, because we were attacked first..." If you look at europeon history, its the same patterns of war and deceit all over again... Let me close this very long post on a "good note". In My opinion, one of the greatest achievements of the 20th century is that Germany and France became from sworn enemies to very close allies. Of course it was hard in the beginning, but the people who started all the exchange programs after ww2 and tried to build bridges between people from differend countries than rather just bomb them achieved something that was thought impossible for generations... and If you want to watch another movie like this one, give "Munich - The Edge of War" a try. it´s also a very interesting take on the time immediatly before ww2.
My grandfather served both in the first and second world war. Imagine how much his life sucked. The worst I had to „endure“ was staying indoors in the comfort of my own home during the covid lockdowns.
My Great Grandfather volunteered. He got as far as England before they discovered he had lied about his age. He wasn’t 39 he was 49. He was sent home. He had five sons. Four, including my grandfather, were old enough and served on the western front. Great Uncle George lived until age 105. Great uncle John lived to 100. Granddad lived to 97. Great uncle William was killed on 8 Jun 1916, in the Somme. He was 24.
Don't know if you've seen Das Boot, a WW2 movie about a German Submarine and its crew. It too has English subtitles.
Some statistics that are truly disturbing. The last day of WW1 saw over 2000 death. The last man to die in WW1 was John Gunther, an American, who literally died as the guns fell silent. Even though the cease fire was to take effect at 11 am on November 11th, it had been announced to the troops by 9:30 am. Still 350 Americans died that last day. When General John Pershing was asked in a Congressional hear why there were over 3000 casualties that last day, his answer was that he wanted to push the Germans back into Germany. The last scene in the movie where the Germans were told to attack was very realistic and took place on both sides.
Nominated for 9 Oscars including Best Picture, but won for:
Best International Film
Best Original Score
Best Production Design
Best Cinematography.
My great grandfather made it back twice
If you really want to see a traumatizing anti-war movie, you should watch the Russian film COME AND SEE (1985).
My great grandpa fought in the U.S. Army. He was gassed in France in 1917. He survived but had health issues for the rest of his life.
Even though they are similar, I would highly suggest watching the original as well, 1930. It is the very first film version, and some part of if weren't included in the remake such as the haunting scene involving a French soldier and barbed wire. Whilst the remake did so much right, I feel like the original feels more organic and heartfelt as it was closer to the time.
Being an Aussie you should watch an old (1981) Mel Gibson WW I movie called Gallipoli. It's about some Australian soldiers involvement in the Gallipoli campaign. This was the first Mel Gibson movie I ever saw, I think you'd like it even though you should have your kleenex ready for your tears.
Oh yes, excellent choice. The last twenty minutes of that movie are riveting and the music during those twenty minutes and the credits is both beautiful and heartbreaking. What a movie.
It’s a brutal, exhausting, and raw reminder of the evil humanity is capable of inflicting upon each other, and it couldn’t be more timely.
Mary, did you ever hear of the Christmas truce of 1914? Christmas Eve 1914, the first 4 months of the war, the soldiers on both sides declared a Christmas cease fire. Solders, German, French, and British got out of their trenches sang Christmas Carols and exchanged gifts. After Christmas, they went back to their trenches but warned each other of artillery barrages and deliberately fired over each other's heads. When the upper brass found out they issued orders that such fraternizing would be severely punished.
You know, for us French, the 14/18 war was one of the most terrible. Yet France has known no century without war from the time of Julius Caesar to now. Suffice it to say that the population is accustomed, so to speak, to war. But that of 1914 was really a shock of dread and horror. imagine that for a small country like France. It has lost more than a million and a half of men
Hello there, i'm from Germany and my great grandfather was an infantryman at the western front in WW1. He survived it!
One of my great-grandfathers was a WW1 vet who was severely wounded and almost completely blinded in a gas attack. Both his sons served in WW2 fighting in the Pacific. My Grandfather's brother was a turret gunner on a flying fortress and was also badly wounded in a crash but both survived the war.
Kudos, to your family, man. My great great grandpa also survived in WW1 (and the Balkan Wars) on the Bulgarian side. He lived until the late 1960s. His son fought in WW2 and died in 2011.
My maternal grandfather was born in 1896. The poor guy had to fight on the Eastern front in both wars. In 1943 he was taken prisoner by the Soviets. In 1950 he came home from a labor camp. My other grandfather was also captured on the Eastern Front. He was in a Siberian labor camp from 1944 to 1950.
Great film and very powerful. If you liked this then i recommend Paths of Glory....another great anti war film and an early work from Stanley Kubrick. Also as terrible as the potential mass destruction nuclear weapons possess they are the ultimate deterrence that has prevented a 3rd World War.
In the scene with the little boy in the forest shooting the soldier. The egg is just an excuse. Tell you that in the east of France everything was almost destroyed. As a Frenchman, I was even surprised to see civilians so close to the front. Already imagined that barely 40 years ago there was the Franco-Prussian War which gave birth to Germany as a country. . The French civilians had a hatred against the Germans that had been barbaric towards the population in the war of 1870. In just 40 years, hatred is still present
My grandfather was a World War I veteran He was German. I also am German which makes this movie. Very cool.
Sadly the subtitles are pretty bad and often give a completly wrong translation - I wonder why Netflix did this ? Like in one of the scenes we seen in your vid where Paul was asking the random soldier ( the one who told him that the war is over) "Are there any sergeants left" ?. He actually said " Wo ist das Lazarett ?" which correctly translates into " Where is the (military) hospital ?". There are many instances which completly change the subtext of the scenes. Strange decision ... Anyway great reaction !
It's because the English subtitles are dubtitles. They just transcribed the English dub.
never seen this version before. but the 1930 oscar winning version is unbeatable. Directed by Lewis Milestone and starring Lew Ayres ths early sound film posseses a stark realism and an emotional punch that can't be equaled even with today's special effects.
the book was one of 1000s that were banned by the nazis when they took power in germany in 1933. nazis LOVE WAR. they believe its humanity's natural state. and they didn't want any anti-war sentiment to interfere with their domestic plans for pro-war propaganda and global conquest.
Im glad you watched it German and not dubbed. Unlike the hollywood ending here, in the record books in history it says on the last day that all charges were e'ntant ( ww1 allies) and not German/Austro Hungarian.
I saw an eerie photograph once of a WW1 soldier's bedroom before he went to the Western front and he had a uniform hung up from the napoleonic war. I find this particularly eerie because although we call the great war WW1 the napoleonic war was seen as the war to end all war's which ended in 1815, exactly a hundred years later a boy with a napoleonic uniform is getting ready to go die the same way
My great great Grandfather was shot in the head after leaving the trenches at the battle of the Somme. He survived two days before succumbing to his injuries.
Stalingrad 1993. Also harrowingly terrific. Das Boot as well.
These boys, on both sides, were forced to endure the most horrific war the world had ever seen. And the worst part is, twenty years later, they had to watch their sons do it all over again.
Im french and i know the story about only two of my ancestors who fought in ww1, one survived and the other one died at the age of 20 in 1915 he was the older brother of my great grandfather, the scene were the frech soldier got stabbed was hard to watch for me, i imagine my ancestors slowly dying in a shell crater with blood filling their lungs while thinking about their parents, siblings, wives or childrens...
My grandfather was a medic in WW1. He lost a lung to chlorine gas.
My maternal Grandfather was a stretcher bearer. He must have joined up in 1916 or 1917 The war ended in 1918. He survived the war but he died the year before I was born. My Paternal Grandfather must have also been there, but I know nothing about him. The family never talked about him, my father especially. My dad was 12 when his father took his own life in 1939. I can't help wonder if what he had seen in WW1 affected him so much he could not face another war. Now my father is 96 and has dementia. He is the last of the people that knew his dad and what happened, so now I will never know. Dad joined up in 1944, all he can remember now is feeling scared all the time, that is all he can remember about WW2
Thank you for watching the German original version. The actors were amazing and i feel the english dub just didn't capture it well enough as the German actors did
Son: Daddy, what did YOU do in the Great War?
Dad:(Feelings of guilt for not fighting in the war)
My brother, like many other people think of war as a political or economic thing. “Oh no, Ukraine and Russia are at war! Gas prices are going up.” All quiet on the western front is one of those movies that emphasizes how pointless war is, and focuses on pointless loss of human life, instead of other war movies that are about brotherhood, honor, etc. I showed him this film, to try and make him think about war differently, and my god it worked. I think that everyone on the planet needs to watch this movie, and really take in the message that it sends. Too often do people not care or don’t understand what war really is.
I had a great grandfather who served in ww1 (American) when he was 18. He never spoke about his experience to anyone but his wife, my great grandmother, who kept it a secret to her dying day. I never met him, i only know from my dad that he was an abusive authority figure who loved the girls, even the young ones, a bit too much.
At least 1 of my relatives was in World War 1. He had a wonderful time serving on ships going around the world sending postcards home. He joined underage at 15 and was in a band.
Then he was 21 when WW1 started and he was sent over, he died within 1 month of the war starting during the Retreat from Mons. He was herded into a barn within some other British men and burned alive.
my great grandfather joined the british expeditionary force before world war 1 started. He then surved from the first battle at the mons in 1914, all the way until 1917 when he was taken prisoner. He survived numerous battles and advances over no mans land, and his time as a prisoner of war in a German Camp. He returned home in 1919, some months after the war had ended, but stayed in the British Army. In 1939, when Britain was called to war again, he had rose to the rank of Regimental sergeant major, (WO2), and went over to france to fight once again. After the evacuation of dunkirk, he retired from service as he was at this point almost 50 years old. He's the only grandfather we know details of who fought in the war, though we do know my other great grandfather also served. But details of his service are unknown.
A lot of young European - English, German, etc - men saw the start of the Great War as an adventure. After the stories of honor and duty and chivalry on the battlefield, many of these youths were eager for a taste. I imagine that most of them were excited to get to wear a uniform, thinking of all the pomp and ceremony and parades in which they'd get to show off their uniforms.
The reality of war, on the other hand, was the wake up call for them - particularly those posted to the Western Front, and subject to trench warfare. Trench foot, skin diseases, poison gas, machine guns, getting strafed by aircraft, artillery barrages, rats feasting on corpses of their friends. What most of them presumed would have been a short adventure dragged on for years, all the while newer and more efficient methods of killing were advanced.
An entire generation of youths were lost to this war.
The original movie from 1930 was much more a different ending. Let me explain.
The end of the movie had Paul (the main character as usual) in the front lines. All of his friends had passed away, including his friend named Kat, so basically it's pretty pointless. While on the lines, he sees a butterfly, and goes out to touch it. He couldn't reach it, so he stands up to reach it instead. He then gets shot by a French soldier before he could touch it. I cried.
The kid at the end was the kid who was saved by paul, a new paul basically
My Great, Great Grandfather was sent home from WWI. Cpl J Piggot. He was the sole survivor from his unit on 3 separate occasions and after the third time no other unit wanted him as they saw him as a symbol of bad luck. His war lasted from 1914 - 1917. 1st Ypres, Somme and 2nd Ypres. All four of his male children were killed in WWII.
My grandad's dad was a ww1 soldier & survived...but my actual grandad was born, during the blitz
That general just didn't care about the lives, he just wanted achievements for himself whatever the cost.
To your question at 18:03, my grandfather survived the whole thing. He joined the Royal Scots Fusiliers in 1914. When he got out, he was convinced that the world was ending.
My Great-grandad and his two brothers were soldiers in the 1st Battalion Irish Guards in WW1 and fought in France from the beginning of the war. My Great-grandad survived the war but his two brothers had both been killed by November 1914, they were both 20 years old.
My family still has some of my Great-grandad's kit including a plate from a hotel in Ypres that he used so he could eat like an officer.
18:13 my uncle didn’t serve in ww1 but he was an army mechanic in the Vietnam war all he told anyone was that he peeled potatoes for two years but my aunt told the real stories on fixing trucks under fire and occasionally lending hands to fix motorcycles and scooters of the mama sans that were at the bases
I'm German and My Great Grandfather (born 1889) was lucky to have been gassed during Verdun in 1916 because that made him unable to continue fighting and therefor he not only survived WWI but also managed to survive WWII without having to serve because of his French Gas Disabilities.
Anyway, He lived until 1996 so i got to know him because i'm born in the mid 1980s.
And he remained a Hunter but i remember one time during New Years Eve, one of our Neighbors went all out on Fireworks including using some questionable Polish or Czech "Böller" as we called them. And when that went off my then 105 year old Grandpa like 5 minutes after Midnight suddenly started shaking, threw up over our Table and then slowly get off his chair and very slowly move his old frail body under the Dinner Table, shaking uncontrollably and we were unable to talk to him until the next Morning.
Meaning he was 105 years old and sat under that Table shaking from around 00:10am to 6-7:00am in the Morning.
This experience was the Reason why i decided to become a Historian here in Germany and of course join the Military myself (having basic was mandatory when i turned 18) and i ended up serving 6 years including in Combat.
I now focus on PTSD and other combat-related Psychological Issues.
My other Relatives, especially my German WW2 Veteran Grandfathers and Granduncles helped me a lot with my Research as they mostly spent a ton of time in anti-partisan warfare and Eastern Front Combat.
Just thought i share that because to this day, having been to Afghanistan myself 2 times i can say that PTSD and Combat in both WWI and WWII was far worse on the Psychology of a Soldier than what us Soldiers experience nowadays.
Yet i would have never known with most WW2 Vets i met that they hat PTSD because it was such a Taboo when the War ended, they managed to put on a Mask and hide it very well.
Prost & Cheers from the Bavarian Alps
Wahnsinns Geschichte, so sie denn stimmt, aber es hört sich so an.
Both of my grand-grandfathers were fighting for Germany in WW1 and survived. One of my grandfathers was fighting in WW2 (without being a nazi).
Thanks for your reaction to a realistic war film. The film, as well as the book on which it is based, relentlessly shows the pointlessness of war and is a warning for those of us alive today. The film offers viewers no heroes, only victims; even the survivors continue to suffer. So do the viewers!
WW2 movies you might find interesting from an intended audience generation perspective are Tom Cruise's "Valkyrie (2008)" and "The Great Escape (1963)". The former is about a real but failed plot among German officers to kill Hitler done in Cruise's action style and the latter is the kind of exciting and inspiring story for young future soldiers when I grew up in the 60s. WW2 was still very current in the zeitgeist then; there were many TV shows and movies of different WW2 settings and tribulations intended to imprint on the public 'see how deep the sacrifice was and could be again'? Your commentary and analysis are mature and getting more so all the time. Good reaction!
All Quiet on the Western Front and Come and See are the only two movies that don't talk about war with propaganda in the middle, they show you what the war actually is.
You should check out Band of Brothers, one of the best mini series.
By 1917 Germany was suffering a severe food shortage that affected both the civilian population and the army. That was due to the british blockade of German ports that effectively killed all oversea trade. That's why the soldiers were so happy about the stolen goose and marveled at the very well stocked french kitchen.
And I think those weren't undies. Just a scarf or something...
18:16
Of my six family members who fought in this war (French Army), four never made it back home. The other two sustained severe wounds.
- OLIVÈRES, François Louis Noël: Private, 224th Infantry Regiment. Wounded in action 8 September 1918 at Nanteuil Wood, blinded in his right eye and suffered a partially disfigured face. Cited for bravery, awarded the médaille militaire, légion d’honneur and croix de guerre with bronze star (I still have his medals and photos)
- MICHAUD, Albert Auguste: Private. 175th Infantry Regiment (army of the orient). Evacuated for malaria on 10 October 1916 at Salonika. Evacuated for wounds sustained on 22 June 1918 at Meurthe-et-Moselle. (I have his military documents and photos)
- MAGNIN, Claudius: Corporal, 97th Infantry Regiment. Killed in action 16 June 1915 at Souchez.
- COLLIN, François Marie Célis: Private, 99th Infantry Régiment. Killed in action 10 June 1917 at Chemin des Dames. (I have his identity tag, wallet which was pierced by shrapnel, photos, letters, and postcards, etc)
- DUNAND, Jules Louis: Private, 31st Battalion of Chasseurs à Pied. Killed in action 17 June 1915 at Notre Dame de Lorette (I have his death card)
- DUNAND, Jean Baptiste: Private, 31st Battalion of Chasseurs à Pied. Died of his wounds at the Solesmes military hospital on 29 June 1915. (I have his death card)
The terms of the November 1918 Armistice, (ceasefire) was fairly simple and straightforward, but this wasn't a final peace treaty, that was signed in June 1919 at Versailles.
Main terms:
1. German troops evacuate occupied Allied territory including the recent German gains in Eastern Europe due to the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Russia in March 1918 within 15 days.
2. German troops to pull back across the Rhine river to allow Allied occupation of the left bank of the Rhineland on the French-German border.
3. All Allied POWs are to be released immediately, but the Naval blockade of German ports is to continue until the final peace treaty is signed.
4. The Germans had to surrender its navy, submarines, aircraft and its locomotives along with heavy weapons such as artillery, mortars and tanks.
Hence why the German army representative Major General Detlof von Winterfeldt was hesitant to sign the armistice.
My great-grandfather survived the 2nd world war, he fought on the eastern front for the kingdom of Romania (at that time we were a kingdom) on the side of the Nazis against the Soviet Union, he was captured together with other Romanian soldiers and sent to forced labor in Siberia, I owe the fact that I am alive to him because at that time my grandfather was not born, he gave birth to him 8 years after the end of the war, so basically if he had not resisted all that time my grandfather would not have been born, automatically neither would my father and neither do I. He died in 1998, 7 years before I was born, I really would have liked to meet him😞
If you think this is tough to watch, I dare you to watch “Come and See”. That is a masterful anti-war film, that shows the real trauma. Apparently it was written by a man who fought in the Belarusian partisans, and he said if he included everything that he saw in real life, people wouldn’t be able to finish the film.
In regards to your comment regarding that only 21 years elapsed between WW1 and WW2, many historians maintain that there was but one World War that included a 21-year armistice embedded within it.
My grandfather survived WWI, but he was mustard gassed which damaged his voice. Two of my grandmonther's cousins didn't make it. They both became snipers: one of them was blown up when the Germans mined under the British trenches and planted a huge bomb there*, and the other was killed in a duel with a German sniper near the end of the war.
*Both sides did this. If you think the horrors you saw in this movie couldn't be turned up a notch, read about the tunnel warfare some time. Literally gave me nightmares as a 40-odd year old, somewhat claustrophobic man, and that was just from a book...
My greatgrandpa fought in ww1 on the russiafront didn’t survived, my grandpa was in ww2 in France and Stalingrad he was a tankcomander and had to surrender because the fuel froze , he survived.
I heard somewhere, most likely in a history class, that when WWI kicked off people cheered. When WWII began, they cried. Most folks already had their perspectives changed on war thanks to the trenches and what came with them.
To answer the question: my great great grandfather and his brother served in France. The latter was killed in the battle of Meuse Argonne.
3 of my Grandma's brothers survived the trenches on the Western Front but I didn't get to meet any of them. They all died down the pits during the 20's
The film is really realistic. I lost my Grandfather in WW2. The WW1 and WW2 was the hell. Greetings from German😮y
Body hung up on trees or lines were pretty real and not uncommon. I saw one from WW1 which says "a soldier who was blasted by a shell in Bois de Avocourt secter, 79th division, dangling from a tree" and recently there was an Ukrainian soldier hung up on a telephone wire, which was shown on Vice news in mid 2010s. 100 years apart. Mankind never learns.
Thank you for watching the subtitled version!
In Germany there are small Monuments in every town. There are Platings with all the Names of the Men from these towns who fought in WW1 and WW2 and fell. In Both Wars, Men from my family, fought and fell in Combat.
The reason they broke the dog tags in half is because both halves had the same information. You leave one with the body to identify it later with the matching tag. We do the same thing now, but we just have 2 tags.
My great grandfather served in the US 2nd Infantry Division in WWI and survived the war. As part of US forces he wasnt there for the long stalemate, back and forth fighting that the British and French had with the Germans. But he was in the battle for Belleau Wood.
Also its weird that the leaders of Britain, Germany and Russian durring WWI were first cousins.
Im German and my Great-Great Grandfather Served in France and lost an eye there it was tough for the whole world at that time
My great great grandfather fought for the Germans on the western front. He died of tuberculosis in 1918.
about your question at 18:20 my great grandpa joined the imperial german army in 1913 and served all the way through 1918 in france and in macedonia and he survived... and deserted on november 1st... 10 days before the war endet cause he saw too much shit... i even got his letters from back then and well... it wasnt easy for him, but he survived and got home to his girlfriend :)
5:55 The training with Sergeant Himmelstoß was deleted in this third movie version. Nobody knows why.
My grandfather was a volunteer fighting for the US army in the Argonne Forest in France (1918) They advanced into the woods and the Germans shelled them. It was near the end of WWI, and at that point both sides usually had the good sense to both pull back when the woods were blown up and filled with gas. The Americans were inexperienced, though, so they followed the orders they had and dug in, not retreating. The stayed in hastily dug trenches for several days, under continual gas and explosive bombardment, living in their gasmasks. They had to soil themselves in their clothing lest they get burned by blister gas. The Germans did finally attack and one bayonetted his brother, my granduncle. Grandfather decapitated the German while his bayonet was stuck using a sharpened shovel like an axe. He was never the same, died of cirrhosis of basically all his internal organs 40 years later. Oh, by the way, when the Germans attacked an hour before the Armistice, you asked "what if the French had the same plan". Well, the Americans did, and thousands of men needlessly died just before 11 am.
i had my grandpa on my fathers side to tell stories, he lost his leg due to a mine, survived, and was sent back home, but he always described it as "die hölle auf erden" = "hell on earth" that was ww2 tho.
“There were 10,944 casualties, of whom 2,738 men died, on the last day of the war.
After the war, there was a deep shame that so many soldiers died on the final day of the war, especially in the hours after the treaty had been signed but had not yet taken effect. In the United States, Congress opened an investigation to find out why and if blame should be placed on the leaders of the American Expeditionary Forces, including John Pershing. In France, many graves of French soldiers who died on 11 November were backdated to 10 November.”
I don’t think you understand how different this war was from prior ones. Everyone (not literally everyone but many people) was happy to go because 1) they were propagandized into believing they should and 2) this was the first real modern war and war before this was not understood to be the brutal and costly thing we know it is today. Everyone went into WW1 with the mentality that it would be similar to prior wars, just on a grander scale. In other words, it would be an adventurous and heroic deed. Nobody thought it would last 4 years and that millions would die around the world because no other war like that had existed beforehand. This is why you see in WW2 many countries were hesitant to confront Hitler, because they remembered WW1 and were much more apprehensive about starting another major global conflict, but before WW1, the world did not have such a terrible conflict to recall.
4:33 Actually if I'm not mistaken they didn't train them, all they did was teach them how to fire whatever weapon they would use in the combat of battle. Then they would just chuck them into the very harsh reality of war (Maybe a little bit of more training but that is all).
My Great Grandfather survived and was even shot down once. He got mugged in Miami in 1925 and was shot and killed for 20 dollars in his wallet.
9:00 half of the dog tag is left on the body so it can still be identified when buried the other half is taken to confirm they are dead for record purposes.
German identity discs (called dog tags in the US) came in two halves. Half would be broken off the dead body and the other half was left with the body to make sure it stayed properly identified for burial details that would collect and bury them.
Because of the British blockade, Germany was suffering severe food shortages at home and the front by 1918. One of the reasons why the last German offensive in April 1918 failed was the fact that the Germans captured abundant British and French food supplies in the Champagne region of France. It took days to restore order after the troops gorged themselves on food and alcohol, by which time the British, French, and Americans had reorganized and counterattacked.
👍😊🇩🇪 Meine Empfehlung an Filmen aus Deutschland: "Das Boot" (1981/Anti-Kriegsfilm),"Die Brücke" (1959/Anti-Kriegsfilm ), "Die Welle" (2008/Drama), "Der bewegte Mann" (1994/Komödie), "Wie die Karnickel" (2002/Komödie), "Der Wixxer" (2004/Teil1/Komödie).
WW1 was from 1914 to 1918, WW2 depending on when you think it starts. The Japanese start the invasion of China in 1933, and ends in September of 1945. Where as in Europe. WW2 starts in September of 1939 to May of 1945.
In WW1 the Allies put a blockade around Germany and their allies. Which caused all sorts of problems for the Germans. Starvation was a real problem for the Germans near the end of the war. There is a famous series of photos. In Berlin of a work horse dropping dead on the street, and civilians coming out to slaughter the animal for whatever meat was left on the horse.
Wasn't aware that you reacted to war/military movies. They are the ultimate horror film, since all humans are capable of succumbing to their inner darkness and doing despicable things. Nor can one rationalize that it's "just a movie" since they portray the inhumanity that really happens. And that's why any war movie that's accurate is anti-war; there's no way one can watch it and think that wars are good - they are, at best, necessary evils. Perhaps you should consider watching Apocalypse Now - one of Francis Ford Coppula's best films; it shows the darkness of man's heart and the futility of war
One sad thing to think about regarding Tjaden (The cutlery guy) is that, as you noted, WWII was not far away, and the Nazis were even closer. In fact, it would only be about 15 years before Hitler was Chancellor. The Nazis had a concept of "useless eaters" which was part of the Nazi Eugenics strategy. They just literally murdered people with mental and physical disabilities. I'm curious if that notion of "useless eater" was around or becoming something thought about during WWI, and if Tjaden had it going through his mind at the end. Even if it wasn't, he probably saved himself a lot of pain and suffering for the short time between his recovery and his likely murder by the Nazis.
I was today years old when I found out this remake even *existed.*
3:56 - Prior to WWI, wars were often fought for (and, at times, even *with)* some honor and seen as a means of attaining glory. However, the slow, grinding, senseless death and aftereffects of chemical warfare soured people's perception of war. Something that was compounded by the art and 1918 influenza pandemic that brought the suffering home. Basically, if the Napoleonic Wars, early Crusades, etc. were a nation's Wolfenstein or Call of Duty, then WWI was the world's Spec Ops: The Line.
7:34 - As someone who saw the original during class in high school, that term couldn't be *more* appropriate...
The German I.D. tags would be broken in half, one half for records. The other would stay with the body.