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So glad finally reactor watches it in original German version instead of cringy dubbing

Just a note but WW1 wasn't started by the Germans. There was basically a tapestry of alliances and guarantees between European nations that compelled them to help a country if it was attacked. After the assassination of Duke Ferdinand Austria-Hungary attacked Serbia who were covered by the UK and France who attacked Austria-Hungary in turn, which was in an alliance with Germany, etc. It was basically just a series of dominos falling. But because Germany lost and they did start WW2, everyone assumes they started WW 1 as well.

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

Another war film from a German perspective "Das Boot" the directors cut, with subtitles. One of the best anti-war films of all time, and the submarine film of all

Nominated for 9 Oscars including Best Picture, but won for Best International Film Best Production Design Best Original Score Best Cinematography.

"500 miles Germans. 500 miles of French. And English, Irish and Scottish men, all fighting for a trench. And when the trench is taken, And many thousands slain, The loser with more slaughter, Retakes the trench again."

The ending reflects how the next war started. Germany was “stabbed in the back” per Nazis.

320 Americans died on the last day of the war. General Pershing was brought before Congress to explain why there were so many casualties (3200) on the last day. His explanation was that he wanted to drive the Germans back into Germany before the war ended. The reason the German army was short food was due to England's blockade of Germany.

There are two different types of reactors, uneducated people that show no respect to the subject matter or a willingness to learn, and people like yourself that add valid comments and start with a base knowledge of one of modern historys most important conflicts, i have a lot of respect for people like that, plus you appear to be a michael crichton fan too so even more respect to you. Great vid and keep up the good work

All that death for a few hundred feet... When we visited the area around Verdun, the scars are still very evident, both on the landscape and in the atmosphere.

Hi Verawak. My great grandfather was an army truck driver in WW1. He rejoined for WW2 as well. Thanks for choosing this movie.

A great movie from the German prospective is Das Boot, which is about a U boat crew during WW2. There are three All Quiet On the Western Front movies. One made in 1930, another in 1979, and the 2022 version. In my opinion the 2022 version is the one most true to the novel. It is the best anti-war war movie there is.

Men that died in or mear the trenches were buried right where they fell, often in shallow graves. It was quite common for these bodies to be unearthed in the next artillery barrage or when digging a mew trench.

I never saw this version, but I did see the ones from 1930 and 1979. I recall from the earlier ones that Paul and his friends did get boot camp training, but the training mostly involved marching in formation and looking polished and presentable. What they truly needed to learn was on the front itself. In the second version, one of them survived, but lost a leg, and it wasn't Kat or Paul.

The book/movie isn't based on and specific actual events, it's however a collection of experiences that were quite common for the soldiers at the time. There's an old saying: "there's no honor in being the last man killed in a war, only irony".

I have great grandparents who fought on both sides of the European Front in WWI. My English G-Grandfather I don't know his role, but my German one was a sharpshooter (soldier/sniper), he was injured defending from an Allied attack and lost his trigger finger, so was moved to duties away from the front lines after he recovered in hospital, and this likely is why he survived. He described resting in hospital, nothing all the casualties which passed through his ward, the one he remembered the most lost both his legs to an explosion and upon regaining consciousness and realising what happened, his hair turned white in a few days. He later lived through the Weimar Republic collapse in the 20s, WWII as a civilian (and German Resistance supporter), and got to see off his daughter, my Grandma, when she married my Granddad and moved to England, before he passed away.

Das Boot next pls! Way to few people that react to it! Of course in German with subtitles

never seen this version before, except through reaction videos on youtube, but there were 2 other versions previous to this. in 1979 and 1930. the 1930 version, dircted by lewis milestone and starring lew ayres is a remarkable achievement and won one of the first oscars for best picture. ("wings" another ww1 drama won the first oscar in 1927.) Erich Maria Remarque's novel is a great read too! another excellent ww1 drama is a film called "Gallipoli" (1981) an Australian world war 1 drama directed by Peter Weir and starring mel gibson in one of his earliest roles.

WOW....This Reaction Video is really great! Thank you for watching it in original German!❤

Everyone should read the book, its the most affective anti-war writing

My last of us friend. Thank you for this watch ma’am! I didn’t read the book but being a veteran myself I watched this film and I believe with everything I have that more reactors should view this film. As it’s very much just as important to see all sides and understand their perspectives as well. Thank you miss Vera and I’m so glad subtitles don’t bother you I noticed that you were kinda like me on my first watch just drawn into the story so much more because of them. Which is a good thing considering the movie I requested is also subtitles and based on a true story. The Intouchables!

This is an excellent move choice for getting the German's perspective of WW1, Vero. It even has very insightful scenes about what was done to make WW2 inevitable.

A Serbian assassinated the arch duke of Austria. Austria declared war on Serbia and Russia, Germany chose to back Austria. Britain then declared war on Germany/Austria.

Looking forward to this one. Glad it won the vote

I've read the book and I love this version too, voted for it and I watch it all the time

30:37 like in 1917(film) “Some men just want the fight…”

The Nazis didn‘t like Remarque‘s novel, because it might deter young people from joining WW2, so they banned it. Partly because they couldn‘t get hold of Remarque (he left Germany before the start of WW2) and partly because she was somewhat anti-Nazi, they executed his sister. I have to admit that I haven‘t read the novel, but I know that the training that you were missing is a big part of the novel. For this movie they also added the whole political part. They also added the last push before the armistice for dramatic effect. From what I‘ve heard, it mainly reuses the character names from the novel, but doesn‘t stick that much to its story. My biggest gripe is that it drops the proper use of the title. When Paul is killed at the end, a short report is sent to HQ, saying: All quiet on the Western front. The series Blackadder Goes Fourth has a lot of interesting takes on WW1. When you read the text in the end, I was reminded of one specific scene. The Field Marshall is shown a miniature of the piece of land they managed to capture the previous day. His question about the scale of the miniature is answered with: 1:1. I also learnt a lot about the atrocities of WW1 in a special from The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones DVDs, specifically the battle of the Somme. British troops, who were not familiar with this kind of warfare, were ordered to support the French at the Somme, but then the Germans attacked Verdun, and the French withdrew all their troops to Verdun. The British shelled the German lines for several days with millions of artillery shells. Thinking that no one is left alive, the troops strolled across no-man‘s-land. But the German lines were much better fortified than assumed, and the Germans killed thousands of British soldiers with machine gun fire almost within minutes. What makes this even more tragic is the fact that the British had so-called pal brigades, where they allowed school mates to join the same unit to increase morale. That way a lot of villages lost almost their whole young male population. J.R.R. Tolkien was the only male of his former school class who survived WW1. I believe the best anti-war movie from the German perspective still is „Das Boot“ (1981). Although it depicts WW2, it is definitely worth checking out. But if you do, you should pick the Director‘s Cut.

Another great WW1 film is Beneath Hill 60. Australian tunnelers were ordered to blow up the hill and in doing so made the largest non nuclear explosion ever. It’s fascinating to watch what they went thru.

It was the first ever job as an actor in front of a camera that the main guy did. Pretty good first job. The conditions of the contracts after WW1 led to WW2.

There are more films from the German perspective I would recommend if you are interested: - The first is "Die Brücke" ("The Bridge") from 1959 about seven boys (all around 16 years old) who were ordered to guard a very unimportant local bridge which was already scheduled for demolition and no serious fighting was expected for it. This order was given to them because they were so eager to go to war and defend their home town that the commanding officer wanted to give them some purpose without getting them in danger to get killed, because of their young age. It is based on a novel about real events that happened in April 1945. - The second is "Das Boot" ("The Boat", btw. "Boot" is pronounced like [Boht], not like the footwear) from 1981 which is also based on a novel written by a former war correspondent who served on several German U-Boats (submarines) in WWII. The novel "Das Boot" is kind of a summary of all the expieriences he made on these missions. Even it is not about a real historical event, the situations that are described in the book (and the film) are quite believable and not just pure fiction. The story tells about the crew of a German U-Boat ordered to patrol the northern Atlantic to find and sink merchant ships carrying supplies from the USA and Canada to Great Britain. German high command was sure that if they can cut off Britains supply lines over the Atlantic it has to surrender eventually. I would recommend the longer Directors Cut version of this film (208 min.) because its focus is more on the characters and you get to know them a bit better than in the theatrical version. The theatrical versions main focus is more action oriented, which really weakens the whole expierience imho.The film was nominated for 6 Academy Awards at the 55th Oscars but lost to "Ghandi" (3), "E.T." (2) and "Missing" (1). Many sailors who actually served on submarines consider this film the most authentic submarine movie ever made. If you plan to watch it, please watch it in the original German version with English subtitles and NOT the dubbed version. Yes, there is an English dubbed version, but it is really horrible.

"Is this the best strategy?" Well, it's what they had at the time. WW1 happened at a moment in time when the balance between "fire" and "maneuver" was extremely tipped towards "fire". The relatively recent invention of the machine gun changed warfare in it's core. Before that, mass infantry charges were how you attacked an enemy position pretty much for centuries. Now the defender could throw so much "fire" your way that these tactics resulted in extreme casualties. At the beginning of the war neither side had any way to protect troops from machine gun fire while on the move. Armored vehicles, let alone tanks were not a widely adopted thing yet. Both sides were forced to take cover and dig in. This resulted in the cruel trench warfare we associate with WW1. Tanks only came along later in the war and almost exclusively on the allied side to break that stalemate. We actually see something quite similar in Ukraine these days. The tank and other armored vehicles restored the balance between fire and maneuver for quite a while. In Ukraine however that balance is off again. Drones and other methods of surveillance created a transparent battlefield where it is almost impossible to move without being spotted. And digitalization and fast data transfer means being spotted leads to coming under fire from high precision artillery within minutes. The Russians react to that problem the same way the Germans did in the movie. By throwing bodies at it. So far neither side has come up with a way of restoring the fire-maneuver-balance. That's why this war too has become a bloody stalemate. In the novel and other movie adaptations the training they got is shown. In fact one major character was the drill sergeant who pretty much tortured them. "Be fair to your enemy, or he will hate this peace" That's pretty much what happened. France, who suffered extremely during the war as most of the fighting happened on french soil and just as many young Frenchmen were slaughtered, insisted on an extremely harsh peace treaty that crippled post war Germany. The promise to undo these "shameful" peace terms was a central part of how Hitler later rose to power. The attitude the general shows foreshadows that future. And as others have said: Germany didn't start WW1. It was a war few people on all sides actively wanted but a war nobody on any side actively worked to prevent. It escalated into full war due to a complex system of alliances. When Austria started what was supposed to be a short, very local campaign against a much smaller neighbor this chain of events was set in motion. The first weeks were marked by a huge war euphoria on both sides. Everyone expected the war to be over quickly and of course end with a triumphant victory which would assert the dominance of one's own nation in Europe once and for all. "The war to end all wars" some called it. When it ended and Germany had to give in to these harsh conditions one of them was that in the peace treaty it was officially stated that Germany alone was to blame for the war. It was that part that caused the most outrage in Germany. Because it simply wasn't true. History is written by the victors though, which is why you too knew (or assumed) that Germany started that war. Sorry for the history lessen, I hope I didn't bore you! 😅

Never seen this version, what I watched with you on this reaction, was extremely moving. The worst of the two wars I think just due to the carnage of soldiers for a few yards of earth. My maternal Grandfather (who I never met) was a Stretcher bearer. He must have been 16 or 17 when he signed up, died the year before I was born. They were the ones that had to go out into "No Mans Land" to recover the injured during the lulls between fighting. I don't think they recovered the dead, but I may be wrong. He had mementos given to him by people he saved, including a Paper Knife (Letter Opener) made from a bullet and a piece of shrapnell. I understand he had some things and letters from soldiers from other regiments he saved, like Ghurkas as well. Soldiers from many countries, commonwealth countries, fought with the allies. I know very little about my Paternal Grandfather, he was there, and I think he was injured in some way, physically or mentally, which led to issues. He committed suicide in 1939, I don't know why and my father never talked about him as he was 12 when he died. I can only surmise it had something to do with a new war starting. - 880,000 British soldiers died, 6% of the adult population, 12.5% of those serving, that is just the British - On the other side, 2,037,000 were killed. For nothing. It was supposed to be the war to end all wars! It actually led to massive changes in all the countries affected, but sadly led to the rise of Facism, with Corporal Hitler rising from the German trenches to do what he did. No one really knows how the trench warfare you have just seen really affected his views.

As well as the reality of the combat on the ground, it shows the "class" difference between the Soldiers, often naïve young men who believed what they were first told, and the leaders, of whom their tactics, beliefs and reasons haven't changed in centuries.

The Lost Battalion is also a spectacular WW1 movie

You should watch Flags of Our Fathers, then Letters From Iwo Jima. Both directed by Clint Eastwood. Flags told from the USA perspective, Iwo Jima told from the Japanese perspective. Same timeframe told from different POVs. Letters From Iwo Jima is better in my opinion, and it made Ken Watanabe more a Hollywood name. One of his best role amongst Memoirs of a Geisha and Last Samurai.

the poster that paul sees while hes dying at 34:26 is imo a great encapsulation of the movies anti-war message and the ending text about the front only moving a few hundred meters. paul sees the poster realizing its the same trench they were holding earlier in the movie. so many lives lost fighting over this tiny stretch of land. every death in world war 1, not just the last battle, was a "pointless casualty"

All Quiet on the Western Front has always been the English title but the German title of the film is the actual title of the 1929 novel: Im Westen nichts Neues (In the West, nothing is new). There have been two other versions of this film, the original 1930 film and, the one made in 1979. What this film does not show is when the protagonist, Paul Bäumer, when he is furloughed back home, he confronts his former schoolmaster, for being responsible for sending off his classmates to the War that ultimately gets most of them killed. There was an illusion that the Great War would be over in weeks but in reality, it devolved into brutal trench warfare and went on for years. The other main difference is that the previous films, there is no climatic battle at the end. As in the book, Paul is shot by a sniper just seconds before the Armistice comes into effect. His death is even more tragic than in this iteration of the story.

if you are interested in stuff from the German perspective try the mini-series "Generation War"

Paul never said a word to that kid at the end but he fought so hard to protect him. Turning his head so he wouldn't see the men getting executed and then fighting off two French soldiers to save his life.

My grandfather and his brother - my Great-Uncle Swen, served in WWI - Grandpa with the US Navy, and Swen for the US Army. Grandpa suffered a broken back (non-paralyzing, thank God) when his ship was hit with a torpedo. Great-Uncle Swen was Killed in Action in France on November 4, 1918...exactly one week before the armistice. People died throughout the war, but it seems especially tragic for those who made it so close to surviving the war.

This is what exactly happened during World War One, they use to get these thing called something I forget but their feet would like become moldy and spongey

The end is not dramatising. These people had no choice, quite simply, as Kat put it, they are a pair of boots with a rifle. Orders are orders in these conflicts. Quite a few soldiers died even after 11 o'clock during the actual war, not realising the war had come to an end. Another accuracy is the state of the German supplies in 1918, many of them resorted to eating rats and insects. Germany was unable to import food due to a British naval blockade preventing so, hoping to starve Germany into submission. It worked to a brutal effect. This film is a masterpiece and depicts the time period really well. The war is summed up with the ending, pointless chaos. It is however, an extremely interesting point of time. Thanks for the video! It was great!!

Soilders are 17 to 18 even in the USA that’s when they say you can die for your country

Dieser Film ist so real und emotional. Ich habe selbst Familie im 2.WK verloren. For me as a german very emotional and tragedy

The original All Quiet no the Western Front (1930) won an Oscar for best picture and this remake won an Oscar for best international film. Great reaction Vero thank you excellent👍👍👍👍

Anything WW1 is a horror movie. There is a doco I think on YT about the last men killed from different nations. It's sad because the paperwork had been signed hours earlier. But on a lighter note - TWO subtle Futurama references? I guess there is similarities between the General and Zapp Brannigan in sending wave after wave of his own men at killbots.

38:40 Austria did. They fired the first shots 3 days before germany.

have not seen this one yet, bit burned out on warmovies, but def on my list.

In the book they actually get lots of training. But it’s still not enough. Wish they would have included that in the movie

There is a great documentary on the First World War, "The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century", nine parts, available on KZfaq...

The last man to died in WW1 was Private Henry Gunther, a German-American who wanted to prove his loyalty to the country his parents had immigrated to. He was charging a German machine gun nest when he was hit in the head by a bullet. The Germans tried to wave him off but he kept shooting at them. Witnesses said that the guns fell silent as hos body hit the ground. In my opinion, his death was caused by overly ambitious generals and Henry's comrades that talked behind his back saying he was a German sympatheticer.

You got the two main themes of the movie and book right as I predicted. 1. Child soldiers. 2. The futility/brutality of war. That is why I suggested you watch Sabaton HISTORY In Flanders Fields and 1916. Both of those are not music videos. They 15-to-20-minute ish videos where a historian talks about it for the 1st 1/2, the 2nd half is talking about why the band chose to do that song. Anyone that sees this comment and has seen the movie should really check them out. Flanders Fields is about the last day of war and WW1 poetry from soldiers, and 1916 is about WW1 child soldiers. Make sure when you put in HISTORY or might just get the music video. Keep tissues close by though. Fair warning.

The book is ten times better, especially the part where Paul visits his home during leave.

You may want to give the WW1 nursing corp a look with 2 great series The Crimson Field and Anzac Girls. In my opinion they don’t get nearly enough credit.

Nah, this german side but ww1, when the german wasnt really the "bad guy". The ww2 one is "generation war" (3 episodes). And the polish one (since you look polish) is katyn (the movie 2007). The last one might give you broken soul (specially since its based of real specific event). So becareful :O Well, but so far you ve been such a tough girl tho.

The most intense thing about WW1 is that the western front nearly didn't move at all but there were so.much soldiers sent there just to die. I guess the end of the story wants to demonstratw this senseöessness - a parallel zo the ending of "Das Boot". Considering what happened at the front the puctures of German soldiers from 1914 are even more shocking. They were happy to go to the front and there is one foto where they wrote on a train "Ausflug nach Paris" - Trip to Paris. Later the Nazis told that the German doldiers had won the fight but the politicians betrayed them by signing the treaty - one lie of many.

Watching war movies quite hard. Best thing about this video is your pinky cheekbones and lovely mimics

17 you have to have parents permission but 18 you don’t even today

If you want to see feelings and actions before a war, check finnish movies Talvisota (Winterwar), or Tuntematon Sotilas (Unknown soldier). Winterwar takes place in winter -39 to -40, when ussr attecked Finland. Unknown soldier is from continuation war from -41 to -44 when finns attacked to ussr with help of the germans. Would love to see you to react for those, but might be hard to find with english subs. But anyways, keep doing what you do, i like your vids :)

Another anti-war film is Kubrik's "Paths of Glory" (1957) with Mickael Douglas. All the action takes place on the French side but we never see a German enemy in this film but the enemies are omnipresent... the officers... “Contrary to the classic war film, the confrontation does not take place between two enemy camps but between the general officers and the soldiers of the same camp, some at stake for their promotion, others for their lives. ". Besides, we don't see any Germans, because the film partly denounces the war but above all the relations between senior officers and soldiers. This film, inspired by the “Corporals Souain affair”, was censored for a long time and banned in France until 1975. There is a monument a few kilometers from my home in Normandy in the village of Sartilly because most of the 4 soldiers shot were Normans. The wife of one of the executed corporals (Théophile Maupas) was a teatcher and his wife Blanche Maupas fought all her life to rehabilitate her husband.

I have read the book many times and love it. My expectations for the movie were very high and were disappointed. The story was completely changed.

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

"Cold has a voice, it talks to me, sillborn by choice, and it airs no need to hold, old man feels the cold, oh baby don't, 'cause I've been told, stay on these roads,stay on,stay on these roads."

To the point of being "fair" to the losing side / Germans, I understand the mentally of a "Excuse me, wtf". But rationally this was a very clever advise and ignoring it made a perfect foundation for WW2. The argument of who started it is something, but wars start out of "unhappiness" and this gave a lot of material to start another war. Not saying it was easy on the french side making a clever decision in that situation, but it definitely wasn't clever and not at all diplomatic. So yes he basically "teasered" the second world war with that sentence and I think it is one of the most important things if we actually want to live with each other.

The youngest British soldier was a fifteen year old boy who lied about his age in order to join his friends in the pals battalions

Btw the whole political topic was based on real events. Erzberger really existed and what they were basically discussing about was the treaty of versailles, which ultimatley lead to the 2nd WW. They also kinda teased the 2nd world was as Erberger said treat the losing side fair or they will hate you forever -> basically resulted in world war 2. I think what you also always have to keep in mind watching movies from world war 1 that there was no clear good or bad side as obiously in ww2 the Nazis were the evil ones without a doubt. The world was at tension anyway and a war was prone to erupt. The germans didn't fight for any weird idiology and race theory stuff as they did in world war 2. It was merely a war between two alliances. I see this too often that people condemn the germans in world war 1.

Aw man Lawrence of Arabia is peak cinema. I'm glad this one is getting a react but man I love LoA so much

Theres many different details & versions but the germans didnt start ww1. There were alot of different factors. Definitely started ww2 tho when they took over all of europe lol.The end result of this war though, the way it ended was what upset hitler and caused the doing of what he went on to do. He felt germany was done dirty after the war & not treated fairly. They lost alot of land and thats why 20 years later he went on to try to take that back but went overboard instead trying to take everything lol

Why would the families of these killed the soldiers want their bodies burned? I’ve never heard anybody say that before.. they’ve never been burned

The 1979 version of All Quiet on the Western Front starred Richard Thomas (John-Boy from The Waltons) as Paul Baumer, Ernest Borgnine as Kat and Donald Pleasence as Kantorek.

"Enemy at the Gates" is a Russian WW2 prospective very good, check it out

Bald ist wieder Weihnachten 🎄⚽🕊️

25:34 The french dude should have listened to him. 21 years later he got the result.

You should do a reaction on the Front Line (Korean War movie)

The best world war I movie by far. I would really like to see your reaction to Downfall. It's also in German and in my opinion, is the best world war II movie ever.

The closest movie I’ve seen relating to the cleanup after the war is The Water Diviner with Russell Crowe. It’s not a bad watch

Thank you for your reaction to a realistic war film. The film and the book on which it is based brutally depict the futility of war and serve as a warning to those of us living today. The film offers viewers no heroes, only victims; Even the survivors continue to suffer. This also applies to the spectators! Apparently, however, humanity is not learning anything, because today in the war in Ukraine we are being persuaded that the fight there is heroic and meaningful!

Cremation was very rare in the early 20th century.

Letters from Iwo Jima is interesting too, from Japanese pov

Over 2000 men died on Nov 11, 1918, the last day of WW 1.

If you want to watch another great WW1 series consider Blackadder goes forth. It is a comedy with Hugh Laurie (Dr House) and Rowan Atkinson (Mr Bean) but it puts the ridiculousness of WW1 across really well

Most of those young guys barely survive the first week. Was not worth Training them with those low survival rates. They were only cannon fodder

The recirculation of clothing hasn't been historically proven, but it is unfortunately possible.

In the original film, you saw them go through training.

"new meat for the grinder" or "frischfleisch für den fleischwolf",

"I don't understand how this would work." Well, good observation. For 4 years, it DIDN'T work. Technology had outpaced tactics (like we see in Ukraine today.) One of the biggest issues was communication. Voice radio was still in it's infancy so armies relied on telephones and couriers to send messages. Once an attack started, the persons LEAST likely to know what was happening were the generals. Thus, the most recurrent theme of WW1 was missed opportunities. New things would be introduced, would succeed wildly but by the time the generals found out, the enemy had reacted and another chance would slip away. Poison gas, tanks, amphibious assaults, combined arms, bombardment combinations of all possible types failed because successes could not be acted on in a timely manner. And in the end, it just came down to exhaustion.

Thx for the reaction, my grandfather lost both his brothers in the WW1, and was a UK medic during WW2 during D-Day, ever spoke about the experience, was a lovely man, still miss him to this day after so many years.

This movie should’ve won Best Picture, lol. Any year other than last year it would’ve been a more serious contender.

The germans makes a greats movies 👏👏

Most of the dead Soldiers (all sides), are still lieing in the ground, in pieces,. With a lot of undetonated bullets and Granades,.. Til today... No one can, t grap them out.. Too dangerous..

Great movie, and like you say, it's nice to see the other sides perspective. I think you would have really enjoyed War Horse.

38:35 this mentality caused ww2

11,000 men died on the last day of World War I, more than on every other day in the war. The American soldier Henry Nicholas John Gunther was the last man who died in World War I. He got shot 10:59 on the 11th of November.

If you can, I suggest Come and See. Russian WWII film. Dosnt hold back on the horror and bleakness, either

At the beginning u had to climb up the ladder or be executed by the officer for disobeying/desertion

All war is pointless, except to satisfy the egos of old men who get the young to fight for them.

They…. They certainly do not burn the bodies of dead soldiers

You should definitely watch Lawrence of Arabia sometime, regardless of the poll

The 2022 version doesn't follow the book in detail and doesn't represent very well the major historical events, it focuses mainly on the characters' personal experiences and drama. This creates difficulties and context issues for people that know almost nothing about WWI history. For example: the book starts in 1915, but this movie starts in 1917 - there were no more volunteers by 1917 (on either side) and only the Kaiser still believed they'll march on Paris... I think the best version of the book is the 1979 movie; in the 2022 version you don't even really understand the movie's title.