I did NOT want this to end..! One of the if not the greatest production from History Hit!! Bravo👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

This film was such BS....What a joke..😂

The opening day of Verdun, the Germans fired some one million shells on the French. By the end of the battle there were 700,000 to a million total casualties. The opening day of the Somme the British saw 57,000 casualties. By the end of the battle the British lost 420,000 soldiers, the French close to 200,000, the Germans 450,000 to 650,000. Those numbers are so insane to me. And those are just two of the battles. Absolutely mind boggling and sad.

This war was a disaster for the Entire West. There never should of been a WW1 or a WW2. The treaty of versailles was a horrible idea also considering Germany didn't do anything wrong in ww1

How I hate English spoken with a "German" accent. No need to clown around like this.

more than 3 hours of pure pleasure.

My grandfather did. He served as a medic in the Kaiser's army. He was briefly called by up in WWII but was injured when a troop train was strafed and sat out the rest of the war. My uncles served in WWII on the Russian front. One was killed when he was hit by artillery in 7/41; the other survived the entire war but had a terrible case of PTSD.

I don't think so.

I've ridden on the Jagdpanther a few times when I used to do 116th Panzer grenadier re-enactment

The answer is no, if anyone was curious.

A very interesting video, but can't depart from the usual British perspective, and thus failed to understand and recognize one of the greatest achievements of the Germans when it comes to wartime innovation. The British always think of WW1 history as a series of technical inventions, such as the tank, chemical weapons, submarines, bomber aircraft, as if these were just thrown into the fray without any thought of building a doctrine around them. Perhaps because the British really had no doctrines for new weapons. They just made machines and used them. The greatest German invention was what we call special forces today. The flamethrower, the submachine gun, the Tankgewehr and the Stahlhelm helmet weren't just standalone innovations. They were equipment for a new kind of modern soldier. These soldiers were trained under battlefield conditions at practice ranges, executing simulated attacks. They were running obstacle courses, which was a very new thing, no army had them before WW1. Their members specialized in various tasks, such as demolition, specific heavy weapons, close combat, sharpshooting, and so on. They were allowed to plan their own missions, and weren't ordered around by higher commanders. These specialized units were called Sturmtruppen (storm troops) or Sturmpioniere (storm pioneers). They proved exceptionally successful in breaching enemy lines and taking out fortifications. Their impact was much more significant than of Allied tanks. These ideas were soon copied by the Austro-Hungarian army too. In the battle of Caporetto in 1917, Austro-Hungarian storm troops wreaked havoc among Italian troops, and their success facilitated a major breakthrough of conventional forces. As I heard, the word "caporetto" is still used in Italian for a major unexpected disaster.

I wouldn't like trench foot.

No man I wouldn't

Where the hell is the S tier Pitch Fork????????????

Mind you the austro hungarian army was a lot worse.

No especially in 1918 when things had well and truly gone to pot. Mind you iam not sure I would survive in the french army either.

But how wide, how tall, and how much does the T34 weigh?

If history is any indication, few did.

Not me. I cant comprehend how men survived in these conditions.

I'd recommend the films Beneath Hill 60 and The War Below to anyone intrested in the mining side of WWI

How would I know, when a lot of soldiers who were in the Kaiser's army didn't.

Master race my bottom. Two world wars and one world cup, Rule, Britannia!

One country was as bad as the next , in WW1 . Misery was equally as bad on all sides

Weren't equipped? Really. The Germans were within 1 week of destroying the ability of the R.A.F. to be effective. Just 1 week despite not destroying the English radar. The Germans lost the Battle of Britian due to the stupidity of the German top leaders in fact they lost the war due to the leaders stupidity.

Most people nowadays wouldn't hack it. Theyd die of disease most likely. But if i were born back then? It depends on how patriotic the person is...or stupid. Or both, uncle sams chosen.

Это вам не Бали а реальная жизнь

АДСКАЯ ИНДОНЕЗИЯ | Бедность в трущобах, жизнь у вулканов и добр... вот ваше будущее

could you do similar videos on the french, Russian, astro-Hungarian, ottoman and Italians maybe even the Japanese

"No"

This is typical example of why I unsubscribed from History Hit channel .... everything is dumbed down

A mitake @10.00 another disadvantage it only holds 5 rounds in the chamber, it holds 1 round in the chamber.

seems like WW1 content is getting more popular, ever since the war in Ukraine...

Well of course you could ,unless every german died in ww1 1

That German expert was talking a lot of crap

Dan Snow is not an historian. Just a presenter.

Since the Mossie was available from the beginning of the war and could carry almost the bomb load in weight of the heavy bombers why were the heavy bombers really needed? Thousands upon thousands of Mossies could have inflected more accurate bomb damage, at best the German fighters would have only had 1 shot at them or when nothing else was available why not use the Mossie to escort the bombers in and out. Could have been configured as fighters and would have done just as well if not better than the P-38 Just asking.

What always gets me is how naive, even gullible working class men were at that time, falling over themselves to die for the rich who didn't even see them as humans, but simply as a commodity.

Great vid. Thanks.

Thank you, excellent documentary !

I can barely survive right now, never mind in the first world war.

Juno Beach was the second strongest defended beach after Omaha but the Canadians suffered the highest casualty rate per capita. In spite of this the Canadians advanced further inland than any other allied troops on D-Day.

It's videos like this that made KZfaq great - but it will be Ai kills all progress!

Great great grand father served in the us army in the later stages of the war he got shot 3 times on November 9 1918 and got 2 purple harts he then got a 20 dollar pension every month which was enough to pay for his house payment.

I watched a program on Dunkerque where the BEF soldiers expected to booed when arriving in the UK but they were cheered FED and given Tea by steadfast citizens of the UK who were determined (although they didn't know it at the time) to resist till the end when Hitler shot himself in Berlin. And the Nazis were DESTROYED.. It took a lot Blood Sweat and Tears and ginormous losses by the Soviet Union to destroy this monster..

if i was running around with a dozen grenades i'd be so paranoid about them accidentally going off, from the pin being pulled to being hit with a bullet or whatever. A wonderful book to read is Richard Baumgartners 'A Carnival of Hell', which is a compilation of personal accounts from the German side of the Battle of the Somme. honestly a horrifying book! one condensed example: a company is moving up the the most forward front position at night for relief. they eventually stumble upon one shocked man who is working his way back and tells the relief that "his is the only one alive, everyone else is dead", and refuses to stick around to show the officers the postion and GTFO as quick as possible. and sadly that is common in the book. many accounts come from people who were like one or two survivors of battles. insane! and i think it's Jack Sheldons "German Army in 1917", where one of three survivors of the Winterberg Tunnel describes the horrific incident. IIRC there was like two thousand troops buried alive for 6(?) days, slowly dying, many committing suicide. including the author, who knew it was over and grabbed the pistol from the dead man next to him, but passed out when he went to life it to his head to end the suffering. absolutely horrific! the Tunnel was lost until a couple years ago when a guy dug out it's front entrance, informed the French Government about it, and they have done fuck all about it since. including making sure Vandals don't get into it. it's been covered up again, but what's to stop and un-moral person from digging it back up and looting everything down there. it should be excavated, photographed, possibly personal effects attempted to be given back to living relatives, or maybe in museums, the sealed back up with a monument inscribed with the names of the poor souls who met their end there. WTF is up with France?

Enjoyed the video, but I would have like a little more insight into why the British were so slow footed to see what was happening in the Ardennes. The problems with the chain of command, who was really in charge? Didn’t DeGuelle want to fall back and keep fighting? Why was this not done? I has hoping for more than a reading the standard history.

I absolutely love her and her passion for history. I'd be over the moon to have a geek out history dinner with her! I'm also terribly pedantic... isn't chlamys pronounced ˈklaməs with a hard c sound vs the ch?

This is hilarious! ❤