Yes it is sad ! Politicians start wars and our youth have to die and be wounded

very sad indeed, considering the fact that both your father and grandfather had to grow up without a father. you´re the first in 3 generations who fortunately still has his father.

I visited yesterday the cementary and the war place in verdun, after more than 100 year still the smell death there, every person name dead there has a sad story for sure., was feeling sad reading all the names, is your great grandfather buried there in the cementary of Verdun?

I'm the last male in my family, thanks to two world wars and civil war.

@@garyteague4480 There will always be politicians who send the youth off to war to die. It's up to all youths, of both nations, to realise it is all smoke and mirrors and there is no need for violence

Well said. I feel the same. "Here, but now there, gone ..."

They are not gone. They will return. In another life. As for not having to experience what they did, the way shit is going today, you and I may share in their glory or live to see it.

@@lordraptor5042 well said...

@@lordraptor5042 Glory? , more like senseless slaughter.

Lucky? The allied troops were good enough to fight for something they believed worth fighting for. And that belief is still correct today. That they were lied and betrayed to slaughterhouse by the very people who swore an oath to serve them may make classify them as unlucky, but who's to say we will be any luckier? Its not so very different today except the objectives of the indoctrination the populaces are subjected too are far less noble than in 1914. I wouldn't say we are luckier. Its difficult to see on our current trajectory how we can sustain a democratic future and still be subject to rule by the same kind of criminals who sent these poor sods to their untimely end. We will either die on our knees or at make a stand and die standing on our feet against those who pretend to serve but hold us in the deepest contempt. If we are to be called lucky, let's hope we make that fight AND WIN. As for the Germans I have little sympathy for them. They are much the same people in 2022 as they were in 1939 and 1914. They either cannot or will not change. However there is one German in those pictures (dated 1915 I think) staring directly into the camera, who looks as if he knows what his country is and what it will do to him eventually. Its the most haunting visage. Maybe that knowledge meant he was the unluckiest of them all.

you should know by now ..nothing in this life matters...if you thi k it does your trapped.

Amen to that. Well said

@@THEGAME-tz6yu Everything matters it doesn't change if one believes it or not, as everything done leaves an impact on the world and on others and while in a cosmic sense nothing will matter in the end in a small sense every aspect and every waking moment matters solely because the person who withheld said moment cared and because that action will lead into tomorrow. If nothing mattered then it'd be a pointless thing to say, as it doesn't matter if someone thinks it matters because that is their choice to think so or not and because it is also a paradox as saying nothing matters, means someone thinks it matters enough to say it which in turn is pointless due to said notion. Humans are simply incapable of not caring about anything.

Couldn’t agree more!my g grandad died on the Somme,and I’ve said before his remains were never found,so each time I see any film of it,I pretend each and everyone of them is him,and say a little prayer and give thanks for what these heroes sacrificed.

Yep, every single time I look at war photos of any war in the past I just think, those guys had lives they loved someone and someone loved them. God loved them too did they ever make back home?

I wonder if they cried together or talked about a peace. Or tried to come to a peaceful compromise. How do you walk away from a day like that, and say I have to kill these men. Its fuckin wild.

Some of them might have met their great grandfathered who were there

@Hannibal S 33 umm…ok

@Hannibal S 33 I seriously have no idea what you’re talking about

@Hannibal S 33 ok

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Love from Hellas 🇬🇷 lest we forget

Yes there was the almost mythic football match in No-mans' Land at Christmas between the British and German soldiers. The soldiers got together and shook hands smoked together, looked at each others photos of wives, kids, girlfriends, and conversed as best they could. The higher ups made damn sure that this sense of international brotherhood got stamped out pretty quickly. The war could possibly have been over in a few months.

Idk why but I heard morgan freeman while reading this

Um, their faces look normal

Pretentious bot, they have those faces because they had to pose for a long time for the photo.

I wear the poppy year round. It's OK to have a remembrance day but people on both sides fought and died year round. Take a walk through any military cemetery. The date of death is all year round. I walked with my dad through the cemetery in Duran Germany, so he could pay respects to the men he served with, nearly a full company, all in a period of about a week. That was during the battle of the Hurtgen forest.

😔🙏thank you...I hope they all are in a better place now @@user-js4zx1lr2u

And look at the size of the wrench they used !

What struck me most about that image was not the size of the trench mortar, but he age of the crew, they all look like teenagers.

That’s the important thing to keep in mind. Commoners are the ones who die in wars started by elites who reconcile once the war is over. Be Achilles and fight for yourself, not leonidas.

Howitzer moarters. There's 2 of them in Baltimore, captured I guess. Some book mentions the shells where like paint cans end over end through the air. Scary. Center city. Couple of long cannon type looking guns as well. Compliments of Herr Krupp.

25cm sMW. Shells weighed a little over 100lbs or a little over 200lbs depending on the type and had a tendency to explode in the tube.

2:09 battlefield 1

my great grandfather had mustard poisoning too in Verdun

And for nothing.

Yeah, tell them that in a hundred years, London will look like Lahore, and they will be airbrushed out of existence in movies like 1918, replaced by photoshopped faces of multitudinous blacks and sikhs. They'll stop fighting right then and there.

@@Pteromandias And the same elite who funded this war would fund more wars and create the very worse tyranny imaginable for all men.

They knew this at the time, very sad.

And you couldn't even give them the respect to type out the whole word properly

Les lettres de soldats sont des éléments mémoriels qui doivent être conservés à tout prix ! Merci à votre famille, et surtout à vos grands oncles pour leur sacrifice.

Protecting your pistol from government rule still matters.

Some soldiers of some countries fight for something more than usually wars are about, like influence or imperial pride. For the right to exist. Soldiers of my country. Poland.

Enriched and a career will be made by another who is at the top and organizes the slaughter of peoples. Its name is Capitalism.

@@rambalcohet5494 It has many names. 'Capitalism' is just one of them.

We all die. The length of life is about quality, purpose and meeting challenges. To die at any point along the trail of life sets the boundary to make sense of life. Many of these men died heroically and purposefully. We are not their judges.

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I'd say the same, i started off just reading and watching anything ww2 but gradually moved to the great war and its all i study now, being half welsh and german i had relatives on both sides

Although not the deadliest, I would agree with you.

The tragedy of this war like all others feels like it was only yesterday.

Who wrote the piece of music? I would be grateful to know it is very poignant and moving.

Hi Dean, Ross Bugden did the music. You can find it here kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jqmiY8Wk082aYI0.html&ab_channel=RossBugden

Wonderful thank you so much for the reply

@@deanburn3400 You're welcome sir

Sorry for english which is not my native language first of all. "avoidable" maybe not, regarding the mentalities of the time. But as for the "horrible" aspect of this war, definitely yes. I went to Verdun and the surroundings a few years ago. Juste near the ossuairy in Douaumont, a hundred years after the craters of bombs and shells are still very visible. I stumbled across an unexploded german grenade just on the side of the road of one of those annihilated villages. 1 meter ahead was the remnants of a fench trench where I found a button of a soldier's uniform... The most impressive was just a path close to le Mort-Homme and Hill 304. I was walking on this path and, unconciously, noticed something that gave me a feeling of something unusual but I could not point what it was. And I finally realized : it was the color of the soil : it was litteraly a mixture of pebbles and littles stones and metal scraps everywhere, on every centimeter. Litterally, I was walking on iron. One century after. Looking at theses pictures, I also thought of these people who lived and went through this meat grinder. Whoever they were and the camp they were fighting for, they deserve not to be forgotten.

@@silencecn5146 , Well, the German leadership was definitely trigger happy, so as the Austro-Hungarian Empire ( I'm Hungarian) but the English didn't want war because it was bad for business and even the Russian Tzar, Nicholas II had second thoughts but it was too late to call the troops back. What I forgot to mention in my little post is what made possible to mobilize such a huge number of people and supplies was the vast network of railroads thorough out of Europe which did not exist at the time of the Franco-Prussian war.

c'est ce que j'ai pensé

What do you mean, there are thousands of book covering WW1 and multiple series with original footage.

Most of these men were 18-20 yo. That's too young to die...

@@rarepicturesincolor-theoff1984 Not for ze amigos cho and vicoe

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Il me semble que c'est d'Anatole 🇫🇷France

on ne peut pas mieux dire. On devrait mettre les dirigeants de toute nation dans une arène avec un couteau, et qu'ils reglent leurs comptes entre eux !

And they are obviously racist. I saw the movie 1918. Those units were at least 50% black.

"They fought for the motherland." Many of them are heroes. They have the St. George's Cross on their chest, an honorary insignia in the Russian Empire. Read about this award, its history and those who were awarded it are the most worthy of the military.

@@kronstadt9634 Yeah, Im sure that's exactly was on their heads at that moment.

Old men lying and young men dying

Go figure. My uncle survived only the first week of WWII. One of his last letters to my aunt expressed the futility and doom of his position.

Well... yeah. But no-one asked Germany to obstinately violate Belgium neutrality in 1914, nor did they ask them to invade Poland in 1939. In both instances, Germany knew EXACTLY what would happen by decree of written agreements! There is a clear and concise reason why German war guilt is so profound, not withstanding their overall defeat in both conflicts.

Man never learns we are sheep for sure. Just like the Bible says.

Yes. Any context is better than none.

For sure. And some of then are still alive - be sure to get their testimonial before it's too late!

4.00 yes, i puzzled over that one too but think you're correct

Standard issue British Winter cap called Gor Blimey

@@valor36az thanks, so they have flattened the top down? because when I google Gor blimey hats they have peaks like the guy at the front, they don't look like the flat cap style the others have in the photo.

Peaky blinders regs. Tommy Shelby was the sgt mjr and Arthur was his corporal.

Tu as entièrement raison.

Да, это глупость, человечество воюет сколько существует...

It is Reims in 1917. The towers are the Cathedral at Reims.

They fought and died for fuck-all.

for those who won probably. But the cost of "victory" may often be bitter.

je ne dirais pas ça. quelque soit l'époque on ne peut pas oublier que des jeunes sont morts pour une guerre qu'ils ne voulaient certainement pas faire.

@@simipi2 Je n'ai jamais insinué qu'ils partaient à la guerre avec " la fleur au fusil "...

@@Thalarctos. j'avais bien compris, mais je voulais simplement dire que ce n'est pas si loin que ça, meme si cela fait 100 ans. je fais un peu de généalogie, et je suis abasourdi de voir tous les parents lointains qui ne sont jamais revenus si ce n'est avec un laconique message de l'armée "tombé face à l'ennemi".

While all war is horrible, World War One was particularly gruesome. It is probable that most if not all of these young soldiers died in the trenches shortly after these photos were taken (speculation, I have no idea in truth). I say this because in WW1, you have brigades of mounted horsemen, wielding sabers, handguns and light rifles, charging down MG nests. Men dying by the literal thousands as they continually charge through razor wire, mines, chemical agents, artillery towards fortified MG nests in a trench that was less than 150 meters from where you started. Automatic firearms meeting rank in file line warfare tactics. In the 17 seconds it may take to sprint that 150 meters, 90% of your battalion is probably dead. For years you will be stuck in a trench, riddled with disease and flesh eating bacteria. Unable to safely take a piss without getting your head blown out, so you piss where you stand and then stay there. In The Battle of Passchendaele, well over a half million casualties. The Battle of the Somme, was even worse. The horrors of World War One are in earnest as we have heard them, it was dark. It was ugly.

Actually, a number of these photos are colour photos taken with the Autochrome process. The French AA gunners at 1:45 is an example.

Let's put you in a trench on the frontline for a few months and see if you feel the same way as you do now from the luxury of your home.

So you're a trench war vet' ? Thanks for your testimony, we naive 21st century people always thought WW1 was hell...glad you talked us into the truth.... ;-)