The High Water Mark of the Germans at Verdun | History Traveler Episode 316

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By mid-summer of 1916, the carnage that had been the Battle of Verdun had reached levels that couldn't have been contemplated by either side. And with the British preparing for an offensive on the Somme, the German army planned to make one last big push to try and secure the fortress city of Verdun. The killing wouldn't stop for another 5 months, but this would be the high water mark for the Germans at Verdun.
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@jackthebassman1 11 месяцев назад

As a devotee and someone who has visited the battlefields many times over the last 25-30 years and studied the Grande Guerre extensively, I would like to compliment you for your superb posts and attention to detail. Thank you once again.

@TheHistoryUnderground 11 месяцев назад

🙏🏼

@leewilson001 11 месяцев назад

Gotta say-I never had a lot of interest in WW1 apart from the Battle of Jutland, but this series has really sparked my interest. This channel along with Mark Felton's channel are the best history related content channels on RU-vid for me.

@TheHistoryUnderground 11 месяцев назад

Awesome! So glad to hear that.

@leewilson001 11 месяцев назад

Next time you are in Europe you should make a stop in Belfast and make a video on the last surviving ship still afloat that took part in the Battle of Jutland- HMS Caroline. Just putting it out there since you are on the WW1 theme 😂

@jacquelinebloom4339 11 месяцев назад

So pleased when you show monuments to thank and honor those who fought and died there. Am glad people show their respect that way and make history live on.

@TheHistoryUnderground 11 месяцев назад

👍🏻

@JustMe-ob1cq 11 месяцев назад

I am a Disabled Veteran with 37 years in the DoD on active duty, and now as a Govt Civilian preparing to retire. I am a military and general history buff, and I know of no other channel providing such amazing insight into the tragic history of the WW1 to include the effects on civilians. I commend you for the amazing productions and educating all of us on these momentous events that shaped Europe and the world ever since. I have added this region to my Bucket List as I want to travel to France, Belgium and other countries to see these places for myself. Thanks for all you do sir.

@craigaust3306 11 месяцев назад

Thank you for your service!

@Peace2U-ec6es 11 месяцев назад

My lucky day! Just made a fresh cup of coffee, set the phone to mute, and a clip from JD just popped up!

@TheHistoryUnderground 11 месяцев назад

Perfect!

@joelmicallef5189 11 месяцев назад

Me too!

@carlsanders4680 11 месяцев назад

Binge watching, on episode 141 now to catch up on what I missed. Been watching for 2 years already. Surprising how much I have missed. You have been busy. I live near Kennesaw Mountain GA. Loved that episode. If you are ever back this way, in Cartersville,GA . 30 minutes north of Kennesaw Mountain. There is Coopers Furnace, still standing where the pig iron was smelted to make the locomotive THE GENERAL. Famous for the great locomotive chase as you know well.

@wayneantoniazzi2706 11 месяцев назад

A great comparison with Col. Strong Vincent! "Right place, right time, right man." Thanks for posting!

@TheHistoryUnderground 11 месяцев назад

👍🏻

@G1D1B2 11 месяцев назад

My grandfather (my mother's father) served during WW1. He never talked about it but I was only seven when he passed so I never got to ask him about it. I have always thought WW1 was overlooked in history class, documentaries and films. I want to try to find out more about my grandfather's time in the war. He was with the 33rd Illinois Infantry, I believe. They had a red cross as their logo. Somewhere we have his gas mask and his iron helmet. Thanks for addressing The Great War.

@wayneantoniazzi2706 11 месяцев назад

Journalist and historian Henry Berry wrote a very fine book in the 1970s called "Make The Kaiser Dance" which was compiled from interviews with American WW1 veterans. Berry put it very succinctly when he said the veterans of WW1 were unfairly pushed into the background by subsequent events like WW2, Korea, Vietnam, the Space Age, and others and the American involvement should be remembered much more than it is. Anyway it's a great book! I've had a copy since it was published and it'll be the closest you'll come to asking your grandfather about the war so try and find a copy of your own!

@glenwitteman2585 11 месяцев назад

A great series. So much to learn and presented like no history teacher ever. Good job, JD. This would make a good class for the young men and women at the military colleges.

@TheHistoryUnderground 11 месяцев назад

Thank you! Hope that people are finding value in it at all levels.

@65U512 10 месяцев назад

Excellent graphics of the movement of the battle lines.

@d.r.4453 11 месяцев назад

My son and I have really enjoyed this series on Verdun. You've taken us to places on the battlefield and introduced us to sights and locations that many of us will never get a chance to see in person. I hope you will consider doing another series on World War I at some point. Well done and safe travels!

@nadewitt-yf6ng 11 месяцев назад

I've been there in 1974/5 while in USAF stationed in Germany. It's not a place to go if you're faint at heart. It tears your heart out. The sites stories and people you talk to. I can't describe all the feelings I had. There is an obvolis memorial that is full. It has a window to look into it to see all the bones of both sides that fought there. These were the unknowns, so a memorial to all.

@gaylewilliamson9183 11 месяцев назад

My favorite History teacher.I learn something new to me every time,wish I. would have had JD as a teacher when I was in school.Thank you👍❤️🇺🇸

@TheHistoryUnderground 11 месяцев назад

Wow, thank you!

@Chiller11 11 месяцев назад

I was lucky to have an inspirational history teacher, James Hill of JFK High School Denver, Co, in the far distant 1960’s.

@markb.7642 11 месяцев назад

I once had the privilege to speak to a WWI vet and the things he described are very similar to what you have brought to us in this series. One has to imagine not only the landscape but the stench of death everywhere it must have been absolutely appalling to witness. Thank you for bringing the stories of what these men endured to us, I could sit and watch the entire series all over again.

@TheHistoryUnderground 11 месяцев назад

Can’t even imagine.

@glenharlow8475 11 месяцев назад

Thank you History Underground for giving a prospective of the French side of the Great War and the WW1. I would like to see Belleu Wood and the Lost Battalion and American positions along the front

@brianduffy4682 11 месяцев назад

Excellent Gettysburg analogy of Clever Dupois to Strong Vincent. Need more maps /split screen perhaps?

@randomunicorn1578 11 месяцев назад

Yet another amazing video, JD. When you go to these places, you seem to tell me about everything I would want to see if I was there. Your voice is perfect for narration. You always make me see a human side of the grounds. Bravo!

@tossman1981ify 11 месяцев назад

Amazing Series! Thank you very much

@markl4670 11 месяцев назад

As a Brit Id like to say that of all the RU-vid Channels I subscribe to, yours is without doubt my favourite. Thankyou for putting in the time and effort for such a brilliant series and Channel.

@oldskoolraver1079 11 месяцев назад

This is your best series so far, Verdun is absolutely fascinating. I hope you make a series about Ypres and the battle of Passendale in the near future!

@williambuttermark5250 11 месяцев назад

Excellent series. I was in Verdun last July with my son USAF. We have to go back. So much to see

@billywalker9223 11 месяцев назад

Been watching your channel for about a week. You present information in a historical objective, instead of being biased. As a student of history, I certainly appreciate your professionalism. I am now subscribed.

@TheHistoryUnderground 11 месяцев назад

Awesome! I appreciate that. Hope that you enjoy the content on the channel. Feel free to share it out with a few others.

@yanzhao7298 11 месяцев назад

Another great job and the wounded lion monument was special. I thought I knew it all. You taught me something.

@petercummings3208 11 месяцев назад

I've followed your channel for a long time, but I can say this Verdun series has been your best. You really turned it up a level in every way.

@TheHistoryUnderground 11 месяцев назад

Thanks! So glad that you’re enjoying it!

@garyhowell8607 11 месяцев назад

This is magnificent documentary making….bravo sir

@gaylewright8270 11 месяцев назад

I was just there with a tour group. J.D., you added so much to what I learned about Verdun! Thanks for your great films and commentary.

@Wreckdiver59 11 месяцев назад

Long day today, but it isn't over until I watch the History Traveler video 👍 Thanks for another great one

@roygarciaazborn64 11 месяцев назад

I'm starting to learn more about WWI thanks to you J.D. Your knowledge of key points in battles of WWI are truly exceptional, your research phenomenal. While many of us know about WWII and the men who fought very little is known about those who fought during WWI at least from my prospective and in doing so we see them for who they were, hero's who fought, defended and died for a cause and their sacrifice should never be forgotten.

@TheHistoryUnderground 11 месяцев назад

Awesome! Thanks!

@dwaynekoblitz6032 11 месяцев назад

Very powerful!! This is the history that just enthralls me. I could watch you make these videos forever. So sight specific with absolute truthful content. The details!!! Thank you for making these types of videos. God bless all of our brave service members around the world.

@annabourassa9223 11 месяцев назад

I enjoy learning from and watching these videos so much that I asked my husband for a DVD series of all of these videos for Christmas. I'm not even sure if there is such a thing but how cool would that be!

@wildcolonialman 11 месяцев назад

Fabulous effort.

@mpol12 11 месяцев назад

Exellent video, like the ohters of the Verdun serie. This battle was a nightmare. And only visiting the place, walking trough the forest among trenches etc gives a idea of what it was. Not far on the left bank of the Meuse, you can visit Vaucquois hill, few kilometers on the west. Vicious mines battle there.

@larryburwell8550 11 месяцев назад

well JD just a great job of presenting this battle and the history behind it. most i personally didnt know at all. so thanks again for the great history lessons you present. i really appreciate it. this had to be Hell for both sides. i cant even imagine even with your descriptions and great photography. thanks Buddy. Larry

@thomashudgins996 11 месяцев назад

Once again I say you are a hell of a filmmaker. Great job on this one! Thanks!

@garywayne6083 11 месяцев назад

Well done! I have studied all of this a lot over the years but never have been able to visit. Thank you for bringing me there.

@bethann0808 11 месяцев назад

I'm totally astonished at the level of preservation that is still there over 100 years later. The ground is still chewed up from artillery and the stone buildings are still present, although it looks like they are starting to fall apart. Someone is taking care that the whole area isn't overrun by trees and bushes and there are paths for you to walk on. To me, it is totally amazing.

@chriskelly6218 11 месяцев назад

Another first class presentation. Thank you. I am thoroughly enjoying your informative but relaxed style. Looking forward to discovering more of your excellent work.

@pauldouglas3084 11 месяцев назад

Really enjoyed the video mate

@MrEaglesfan40 11 месяцев назад

Great video JD, its been a fantastic series you don’t hardly ever hear about WW1 Thank you

@raiskis1 11 месяцев назад

Loved the Vredun series.

@jefferyfowler7860 11 месяцев назад

Outstanding video JD. I'm always amazed how you keep your channels more on the educational side. 👍 👍 👍

@daviddoran3673 11 месяцев назад

I visited Fleury 20 years ago....id go again in a heartbeat...

@cleverusername9369 11 месяцев назад

WWI was never my biggest historical interest, usually really into the Civil War and the Pacific Theater of WWII, but this outstanding Verdun series by JD has inspired me into going down long and fascinating (and often horrifying) rabbit holes about the Great War. Been watching some excellent movies and documentaries, want to shout out "1917" and Peter Jackson's "They Shall Not Grow Old," what a couple of masterpieces.

@daviddoran3673 11 месяцев назад

As you walk through the Verdun woods and hills you quickly get used to seeing bunker entrances..hand grenades...rifle parts...unexploded shells etc....

@FilipDePreter 11 месяцев назад

Well doen JD. Great series.

@71gavinhall 11 месяцев назад

Love your work, always looking forward to your upcoming episode.

@rodeastell3615 11 месяцев назад

Great series and excellent episode. I've 'studied' the battle of Verdun quite a bit but you add a whole new layer to the story. You really flesh it out and the combatants etc. seem so much more real.

@bradbalderson8172 11 месяцев назад

JD I have to tell you this has been one of your best series to date and the Great War is one to be studied and talked about. My great uncle Francis Callihan was in France and was lucky enough to make it back to Ohio when it was over over there.

@HatCreekMan57 11 месяцев назад

Great video. Thanks!

@stephenrrose 11 месяцев назад

Great Video JD, this is a great series! Always learning from you! Thank you for keeping history alive!!!!

@honker3282 11 месяцев назад

Another excellent episode in an outstanding series on Verdun. The paths and signage are greatly improved since I was there in the 1980s ! The best book on the battle has got to be "The Price Of Glory" by Alistair Horne. He states that a few German soldiers actually reached the glacis of Fort Souville and became the only German attackers to see the city of Verdun with their own eyes.

@Chris-Nico 11 месяцев назад

Excellent video 👍 I’m always curious why in all WWI photos, videos, etc isn’t there any vegetation ??

@Kylorenz710 11 месяцев назад

Great stuff, love the Verdun series!! keep em coming!!

@Kiwi_Bayer 11 месяцев назад

Heya! Are you still around Verdun or this region? I came acoss your video of Verdun looking for some more info to go and visit. Guess looking at the footage this must have been alot earlier cos' its been raining here for the past 4 weeks non-stop. Amazing series though! This region is absolutely astonishing with remnants of the past.

@michellewhyatt4438 11 месяцев назад

My grandfather was in the battle of the somme he was shot there. Love you my precious grandad love and miss you r.i.p

@criaan 11 месяцев назад

Really koving this series.

@timvanacker5129 11 месяцев назад

Again you made a video that got all of my, and certainly a lot of others, attention. You make war history so understandable for everyone

@PaulA-sy1xl 11 месяцев назад

When I was last in Verdun there was a really great fort actually inside the town called The Citidelle with Disney styled automated cars that take you around and show various holographic images of various characters who were stationed at the fort during the war.

@curtishicks7813 11 месяцев назад

The wounded lion in the video is very interesting and powerful meaning

@GhostofSicklesleg 11 месяцев назад

Loving the WW1 content JD! Keep up the great work

@NDB469 11 месяцев назад

Great content thank you

@scottcamp7385 11 месяцев назад

Wonderful series

@1psychofan 11 месяцев назад

Imagine switching side 16 times? Crazy!!!! Poor civilians!!!

@camdodge9891 11 месяцев назад

JD yet again epic video thank you & JD Will you make a Battle of the Somme Series that would be incredible love your content JD

@Chiller11 11 месяцев назад

The wounded lion is an affecting monument much like the previously seen image of death uttering, “ You shall not pass.” The images from Verdun and later from the Somme of the barren landscapes filled with mud, water filled shell craters and the bodies of dead men and horses all belie the glory of war.

@wayneantoniazzi2706 11 месяцев назад

Indeed. I don't know if JD's got a video coming on the Douamont Ossuary but if he does and when it's shown we'll get a good look at what the "glory" of war is all about. The only glory comes from brave (but terrified) men seeing their duty and doing it, no matter what.

@74charger44 11 месяцев назад

Thanks J.D.

@prowrestlingisart6742 11 месяцев назад

JD 316 says...I just provided another episode of great content

@TheHistoryUnderground 11 месяцев назад

👊🏻

@robertvirtue 11 месяцев назад

Excellent

@joemabry9643 11 месяцев назад

Thank you.

@jimcronin2043 11 месяцев назад

An aside the was briefly mentioned in the video is that the Somme offensive was launched for the purpose of relieving pressure on the Verdun front at the insistence of the French. Haig (British commander) didn't want to do it but felt compelled and complied. He was later castigated for the stunning British losses somewhat unfairly since the operation was not his idea in the first place.

@Rekkit_71 11 месяцев назад

Casemate “Pamart” developed during the war by Commandant Pamart in service at Fort Génicourt. It’s the family name of my wife btw but I don’t know if the commandant Pamart is a relative or not as it is a relatively current name in the northern part of France.

@frankmarullo228 11 месяцев назад

Late in watching JD. Thank you Frank from montana......

@TheHistoryUnderground 11 месяцев назад

Hope that you enjoyed it!

@frankmarullo228 11 месяцев назад

@@TheHistoryUnderground JD. I enjoy and look forward to every one of your video's my friend. FRANK FROM MONTANA...

@rogerjohnson8707 11 месяцев назад

If I recall correctly, I seem to remember there were large parcels of battlefield off limits because of the use of poison gas that contaminates the soil today.

@pigpaul 11 месяцев назад

Awesome!

@donnievick6770 11 месяцев назад

What's a good book to read on WWI? I know very little of it, aside from Churchill's role.

@TheHistoryUnderground 11 месяцев назад

The Guns of August is a good one to go deep into how the whole the started. Also like The Somme by Peter Hart.

@dlghenderson2837 11 месяцев назад

I wonder if you can ever feel the presence of the souls of the many unfortunate young men who perished there. I'm sure they would approve of your work.

@drmarkintexas-400 11 месяцев назад

🤗🏆🙏🇺🇲 Thank you for sharing

@uzhistory 11 месяцев назад

Here's a Fact Alexander's keen interest in exploration led him to the Oracle of Amun in Siwa, Egypt, where he was allegedly recognized as the son of Zeus. This divine validation further fueled his belief in his destined greatness and influenced his leadership style.

@l.r.stewart960 11 месяцев назад

I have been watching reports from Ukraine for over a year now and seen how it has become a trench war. The first thing that came to mind when this happened was WWI of course. I've seen pictures of the Ukrainian battlefields and the artillery strikes and how it looks like a moonscape. Then you put this series up and I've seen the destruction caused by the artillery barrages of WWI and 100 years later the ground is still more torn up than the active battlefields of Ukraine. It is incomprehensible the amount of artillery used during WWI. You can't understand it unless you experienced it and those who have are all dead. To put it in perspective, during the Spring offensive of 1918 the Germans fired 3.5 million shells in 5 hours. The German army fired more rounds in 45 seconds than Ukraine does in a whole day. In 1918 Germany produced 11 million artillery shells a month and Europe today can't produce 1 million in a year. It is no wonder that those villages that died for France were never reoccupied. There was only pieces left of the buildings and you can't even tell where the street was.

@brianprather3261 11 месяцев назад

Wow total hell on earth

@jamesdellaneve9005 11 месяцев назад

Great stuff. I never studied WWI much. Mainly because it was such a pointless war. More information doesn’t make it any less pointless. I always felt bad for the poor bastards who had to go to war. It must have been hard to be motivated in terms of God and country. Certainly compared to WWII.

@jacobplaster7264 11 месяцев назад

Inwould absolutely love to see some American WW1 content, unfortunately im not very well aquainted with that history yet

@burrellbikes4969 11 месяцев назад

Wow - it is HARD to find any monuments to the German soldiers of either WW. @historyunderground: what are you thoughts on the debate around the true German objective? Was it to actually capture Verdun? Or was it, as claimed later by the German high command, to seize the heights around the city and pummel the French as they attempted to come into the area from the low ground. “Bleed the French white”. What are your thoughts?

@robert8321 11 месяцев назад

Haunting. Immersive. Envy is expected and welcome when I watch!

@michaelstraßburger-f6c 11 месяцев назад

Thanks for your very good fotages! I have a personal Question to you, what is the meaning of your Tattoo on your left arm? Adopted, is this right?

@ianc2091 6 месяцев назад

Its a sad place.

@steveg6978 11 месяцев назад

Its kinda sad, these makers and monuments all alone and mostly un-visted these days.

@sarawheeler1696 3 месяца назад

You definitely missed an opportunity by saying port holes instead of eyes. C'mon now, history can be fun too..

@peterals5532 11 месяцев назад

Le 12 juillet 1916 le fort de souville. Dernier Obstacle sur la route de verdun resista victorielusement pendant dix heures aux assauts furieux et repetes de l'enmemi Glore au lieutenant Kleber Dupay et a ses soldats de la 3'th dth 7th r.i (Le Fort de Souville maintenant en ruines et dont l'acces dangereux est intedit se trouve a environ 200 metes oerriere le monnment magniot = July 12, 1916 Fort Souville. Last Obstacle on the road to Verdun victoriously resisted for ten hours the furious and repeated assaults of the enemy Glory to Lieutenant Kleber Dupay and his soldiers of the 3'th dth 7th r.i (The Fort of Souville, now in ruins and to which dangerous access is prohibited, is located about 200 meters behind the Magniot monument ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Elzy3T-BH2U.htmlsi=CwBaRcSkVjctDJ0p&t=939

@stephensdygert7600 10 месяцев назад

Check out Peter Jackson's "They shall never grow old" WW I documentary remastered, colorized footage. Real recorded voices of soldiers in WW I

@TheHistoryUnderground 10 месяцев назад

Love that film.

@jeffsquires6620 11 месяцев назад

The Soldiers of WW1 were extremely brave. It's good that we don't forget their sacrifices.

@wayneantoniazzi2706 11 месяцев назад

You know, we call the veterans of WW2 "The Greatest Generation" but THEY consider the veterans of WW1 the "Greatest Generation." I've known quite a few WW2 vets over the years and the respect they had for the WW1 vets was remarkable.