WW1 In The Alps: The High-Altitude Battle For The Dolomites | The Great Underground War

WW1 In The Alps: The High-Altitude Battle For The Dolomites | The Great Underground War | Timeline

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8 ай бұрын

A personal account of the tragic battles that unfolded amid the sharp gullies and ravines of the Dolomites, requiring men to perform the nearly impossible: excavate and tunnel through solid granite in freezing weather.
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@TheBarbcon1 8 ай бұрын

My grandfather fought as an Alpini and was a Captain of a machine gun regiment. He captured a Astian soldier and they ended up being friends for the rest of their lives.

@ruusteriv 6 ай бұрын

If you know more, I'd like to hear more

@SeatSniffer1944 Ай бұрын

I could not even imagine how tough it had to have been hauling artillery pieces and gear up these mountains had to have been a really rough life

@benediktmorak4409 8 ай бұрын

and as sad as it is, more soldiers died from other causes, frozen to death, killed in rock falls, killed in avalanches, man made ones or snow brought down by shelling, than from the actual fighting.

@kingmichealthefirstofroman2278 25 күн бұрын

Many of them can finally come home now and finally get rest

@jonathonmcglew4992 8 ай бұрын

Finally the right video

@barnabybones2393 8 ай бұрын

You know it. I think they use AI or maybe Kindergartners

@mohammedsaysrashid3587 8 ай бұрын

Thank you (Timeline )channel & ( history Hit)network page...for sharing this attractive video about mountaineers fought during WW1.. those super difficulty attacks occurred between Austrians and Italians...

@stigrabbid589 8 ай бұрын

Sabaton made a song about this conflict called Soldier of Heaven, specifically dedicated to the soldiers who died due to avalanches on a day called White Friday. Many of them are still up there over 100 years later.

@rickcs7050 8 ай бұрын

I won't be coming home I won't be going avnywhere I will guard this post forever

@fabiodeoliveiraribeiro1602 8 ай бұрын

A small mountain war geographically separated from the immense trench warfare on the plains. In one the border of Italy would be decided, in the other the political fate of France, Germany, Belgium and Russia was at stake. Due to the geographical characteristic, warfare in the mountains did not allow large, useless frontal assaults against machine gun nests. On the European plain, these assaults caused a huge number of casualties. The soldiers who risked their lives in the Dolomites made a greater effort, especially in winter. Were they more likely to survive the war than those who fought at Tannenberg, Verdun, Somme, Ypres?

@Divano-qw2sb 5 ай бұрын

It really depends. The assaults on the isonzo front were quite similar to the ones on the western front while the white war was more characterized by smaller and better trained units doing smaller operations. While on the Isonzo front the risk was getting shelled by austrian artillery while being blocked by 100s of meters of barbed wire in front of Gorizia in the white war the deadliest enemy were cold and avalanches.

@jpmtlhead39 8 ай бұрын

Its almost Unbelivable the conditions that this Man had endure and fight at the same time . Thousands died in Avalanches provoque by the shelling of the slopes packed with fresh Snow. What an Horrible place to sleep,eat,pass time but above all to Fight and Die. Those mountains are beautiful,but miserable to live for months on end. This part of WW1 is not very "knowed" ,but was dirty,freezing and Deadly like in any other front. This one a little bit worse because of the lousy Weather and Terrain. Those where very Brave Man who fought on that beautiful but unforgiven Cold mountains.

@neilstern7108 8 ай бұрын

I have been in the mountains and I just can't believe how tough they had to be.

@dtaylor10chuckufarle 8 ай бұрын

They were badasses, each and every man. We stand on the shoulders of giants. ☧

@robertrakestraw6386 8 ай бұрын

Excellent....thank you

@fetus2280 8 ай бұрын

An "Expert" in Trench warfare doesnt recognize a Chimney? Yikes.

@fordisfurious 8 ай бұрын

Didn’t you try to publish this a week or so ago and it was the wrong video?

@fadeleez 8 ай бұрын

Amazing

@katherinecollins4685 7 ай бұрын

Very interesting documentary

@IverKnackerov 8 ай бұрын

I came here for history around WW1 battles …not an endless family history

@MARKETMAN6789 8 ай бұрын

You don't hear much about the dolomites these days ,I think theve had their day when people talked about them at tea time and in the pub

@spencerchamp 5 ай бұрын

Cadorna really refused to wrap his head around the new rules of war

@daniela.delacruz1559 8 ай бұрын

first comment! Timeline, you rock.

@blueliesmatter2 8 ай бұрын

Blah blah second and not caring when it posted just that it did.

@castleanthrax1833 8 ай бұрын

You must be so proud.

@oldmanotis 8 ай бұрын

Was it just me or in the opening sequence did they play the sound effect of racking a hand gun but they guy on screen was putting a clip into his rifle??

@broom-closet 4 ай бұрын

Isonzo Anyone?

@HalideHelix 3 ай бұрын

Lol I was looking for this

@user-ce7ri3yn9c 8 ай бұрын

The memory and the numbers lost under the most brutal conditions was to be repeated in 1945 with retreating German divisions fighting tooth and nail against advancing American forces and included two young Lieutenants Robert Dole and Daniel Inoway who following severe injuries went on to be elected to the House and Senate from their states. What could possibly have motivated the troups to fight under such conditions and not dessert ??!!

@mhollman8650 7 ай бұрын

belief in their Country. BOTH my grandfathers served in WW2. They were proud of where they came from. Today, they roll over in their graves.

@tgbuckley482 7 ай бұрын

Have you heard of sepp innerkofler? Sepp innerkofler?!?! SEPP INNERKOFLER INNERKOFLER

@user-io6pj8bz8h 2 ай бұрын

They need to change the title of this video, it's a biography

@Scottcurties 7 ай бұрын

This video must have a record number of ads. Almost unwatchable.

@EB-ri6bb 8 ай бұрын

Battlefield 4 iirc had a map just I ike this

@Ukraineaissance2014 8 ай бұрын

If you go to 4:40 i believe that church festures in battlefield 4

@WestSideGorilla1980 8 ай бұрын

My name is DOLOMITE MFR! "im the one that kicked monday into tuesday whipped wensday into Thursday.." Oops wrong Dolomite.😅 "

@user-vg1nc7gx8u 8 ай бұрын

British Officers who worked in their occupied countries, need to be identied if alive. And jailed or given capital punishment.

@danrooc 8 ай бұрын

You need a shrink! 🤣

@Hooibeest2D 8 ай бұрын

Too bad they made the whole region Italian, even though it went to Italy they could have kept the culture and language intact!

@alanbuehler3901 8 ай бұрын

It's still a bilingual region, with German dominating in the Alto Adige region. All the towns have German and Italian names (Brixen/Bressanone, Bozen/Bolzano, etc.). And you'd swear you were in Switzerland, Austria or southern Germany from the buildings and awesome scenery. It's a really beautiful area.

@carlobrotto7132 8 ай бұрын

That's what Italian Republic did after WW2, forget Mussolini and his tyrannic policies . Not only in Sudtirol german people can speak their language, but they even get money from Italian governement for this, not talking of the massive amount of fiscal adv. and financial contributions from Rome that made of this region the 2nd wealthiest in the EU after Bavaria ( pro capita incom).

@Alesxandros 4 ай бұрын

@@alanbuehler3901 still italian land ;)

@phillipsugwas 8 ай бұрын

Best Skiing.Time to give the german speaking areas back to...?

@carlobrotto7132 8 ай бұрын

To whom ? Just educate europe's diplomacy, so italian speaking areas can start counting how much money in war reparations they must pretend from austria for igniting the bloodiest war ever...! But I dont think that the sudtirol schutzen got tired of being mantained fatty and reach by all massive money coming from Italian Republic 😊😊