Trench Systems (Cross Section) 

General Yeah ikr

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Germany: *Still loses*

its not all nice to the germans, near the end german were on starvation rations.

Well yeah

I wonder how many defected to Germany because the amenities were better

@@mwbgaming28 many...

@@fxllenhorrors3668 and how many defected back during WW2 lmao

Yeah

@@mwbgaming28 many.........

Wait is that a trip wire

STEP BACK!

*BOOM*

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croissants are austrian

@@hockeymichael0912 theres always one....

hockeymichael 09 Hans: “You mean ze _Austrian_ croissants, Kommandant Fritz?” Fritz: “Ja, ze _Australian_ croissants. Meine liedblingsart!” Hans: “... Why are you my superior?”

@@hockeymichael0912 such a party pooper

*HANS BRING ZE SCHNITZEL!*

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John Hammond: We have a T-Rex

we have internet

Jack Sparrow: I’ve got a jar of dirt

Cody. You get a like just for that

lmao

Dank memes r Dank well played

Dan that's good

I assume you got this idea from Justin Y. His comment is right above yours and you replied to his. And both include rats inside the trenches.

Dank memes:exist Normies: it’s free -real estate- memes to ruin

But what happens when the opposing forces take over those beautiful trenches ! You go back to square one and half to start digging again. Major problem in ww1 was to get out of this style of military planning. The weapons had advanced a great deal however the way they fought was still an old way of doing battle. It took all sides a long time to realize they could no longer put thousands of soldiers in a straight line and have them simply march toward eachother until close enough to open fire.

@@thegt3clickcrash329 also I'm still surprised that they could even live on those trenches, how come the artillery didn't get them? Surely at some point they knew exactly where the enemy entrenches are

TheWeeaboo If you think about it if the Germans won WW1, we wouldn’t have WW2 cause Hitler’s rise to power was mostly due to the German’s unrest after the unfair terms they dealt with. So really I kinda wish the Germans won then. WW2, not so much.

@@zombies4evadude24 To think WWI was caused because something happened between two countries and due to weird written treaties, allies of those two countries had to get involved because of it when it should have been something that was handled between just those two.

@TheWeeaboo no one would be speaking german if they had won WW1. Were they speaking french or english after? No they went back to doing what they were before the war, but with a ton of shame which eventually led them to fascism. And who died and who lived in WW1 had nothing to do with anything other than luck. You could have an army of arnold schwarzeneggers circa '84 but if their objective is to charge at a trench lined with barbed wire and mounted machine guns while they get bombarded with mortars, armed with only a single shot rifle, you can expect to lose most of your men. That was quite the elaborate setup just to be able to bring up what a "fat society" we live in

Welp, here comes German memes.

Englishmen: We have a couple trenches here and there, we sleep on the floor. Germans: We live in a society

That One Irish Guy q Ol

Germans: Trench (iced out💎)

😂😂 well done m8

Wraithweave So the allied were blinded by the sun?

yes

Wraithweave it was rather foggy and things like that during ww1

Wraithweave (me seeing your thumbnail) what the? where did that fly come from? **constantly smacking screen** dafuq?

I dead felt like a bug was on my screen

Immortal Heavy Vietnam: *tree*

Isis: hey look a cave

Underground Hotels: Trivago

but Russia still murdered Germany

@@zhangyulun2683 you do know that russian pulled out of ww1

if only Obi-Wan had trained them

Basically if Anaking just threw his lightsaber at Obi1 instead of jumping.

jbond5150 which would be tactical errors... lol!

@@zts99 shhh logic only hurts these idiots

@jbond5150 I read this in a German accent lol

iZozxX :P not butter I can't put it on objective toast

RUSH BUTTER CYKA BLYAT

XD

go go go we're being bombed at objective butter

We have lost the sector... RETREAT!

Yes. But that's not a flowerpot. That is a wine bottle with a flower in it.

@@garypulliam3740 well ya gotta improvise sometimes

Comrade Traviski “oh hi fritz” “Oh hallo Johnson”

"Soooo" "How is the war going?"

@@PretzlcoatlTheFirst Germans, 1916: Oh hi Mark 1 tank

They would start a war

I do believe this did happend.

*wheezes*

Please stop believing it was germans vs british!

Bcuz it WAS germans vs British :)

@Vequio Ourax But didn't the germans fight the british?

@@gmatsue84 multiple other nations joined in the fighting to. The most memorable was the Brits vs the Germans.

Welp. . .

Justin Curry this is why I love germans.

Well while the Jerries were making electric lighting systems, wine cellars and comfortable living areas we Brits were making tanks and advancing battlefield tactics. I’d still rather be in a Jerry trench though.

False. The British were working on tanks, it was the Germans that advanced battlefield tactics. Common history that Germans focused too much on Infantry Tactics, while the British focused on mechanized warfare more.

Then the Germans got impatient and started to attack again. Thus the Kiaserschlat the offensive that was supposed to give them victory sealed their fate as the vanquashed.

AwesomeDude333 and shockwave from the explosion as well

I have never even heard of the theory suggested in the video, and suspect it is incorrect/something they saw in an article and presumed was correct. However you’ve got to let them make mistakes as they consistently put out good and informative videos for less advanced/knowledgeable people.

What they said was absolutely correct. The staggering and cornering on trench systems prevented Gas, Shrapnel, and enemy infantry from quickly killing all soldiers on the line rather than just those in that section

Aristichus they didn’t say that, they said it was so soldiers couldn’t shoot straight down the line

okay, and that's true, so whats your point? Just cause you haven't heard of zig-zag trenches doesn't mean they are "fake" or not historical. I can tell you it is 100% correct. It was so effective that it was replicated in wars to come. In the US infantry guide it even mentions that trenches should never be constructed in a manner that allows the enemy a sight-line of more than 15 meters if possible.

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Lol both the wars were lost if the US did not intervene.

@@siddharthkumar2138 You got any proof for that?

@@siddharthkumar2138 Despite the fact that in ww1, the British had created tanks which could cross trenches and were way ahead of german techology. Also, D-day was planned way before us intervention. The Americans just tagged along and then claimed that they did all of the work.

@501st Legion Canada is the one supplying directly to the UK at that time.

Probably not seeing as the whole do not kill and turn the other cheek thing

@@NameHere2243 I personally believe god is very smart, and he doesn’t judge based on an objective rule. He knows our souls and what’s in them, and he’ll judge them knowing there was a war

@@dumbgenious1960 yeh but the nazis probably don't deserve to go. neither the allies because of numerous war crimes. so do they still go?

@@NameHere2243 this was ww1? No nazis (yet)

@@NameHere2243 I’m not gonna judge them but god will. Keep in mind nazis we’re just world war 2 soldiers that came from Germany which they couldn’t conteol

You would also pick up the side that didn't get enough supplies like food and the side where you could be put to a job that would net you with a summary execution if you were captured.

The Government loss the war not the soldiers.

Stabbed in the back?! Didn't you get the memo that that myth is fake and it was military that failed to win the war?

I keep seeing you everywhere

Zuzu can't win a war when you got a retarded ally everytime who helps the enemy more by exposing fronts

Wait a minute...

yep :)

Maybe the Germans should have focused more on winning instead of trenches, since they lost twice.

salty Alex

You'd think they'd realise, given how the first world war developed over time...

Is that JoJo reference?

I think its a doom reference

@@Uragan00829 I think is a doom eternal reference

You fools, it’s a Mario reference

@@GooserMan I apologize my foolishness, I't obviously Mario reference. Will you forgive me?

2021: still taking notes

You mean, Polish-Czech War of 2020?

2022: *INTENSELY TAKING NOTES.*

WELL, it would actually force the charging soldiers to take different sides

France

USAball russia

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You’re talking about Wonder Woman of course

Amateur Historian 2 seconds later everyone gets killed by machine guns 💀☠️💀

How was this comment 5 days ago if the video was posted 10 min ago

Juan Tobar They support the channel by donating. In return these donors get early access to the videos. Think of it like a pre-alpha for video games.

I don’t get it

Juan Tobar patrons get to watch videos earlier

Interesting fact

Glad someone mentioned this

But those effect also have problems getting around corners so the zig-zag was useful there too.

Interestingly enough, the blast wave is not lethal even relatively close range if there is a barrier behind you and the blast. If the barrier holds the blast wave will not get you. I believe they tested this theory in myth busters. You have to consider what blast wave actually is. It is a wave of force, a compression of air traveling at high speed, something physical, so to speak. It cant just go through hard objects and destroy something behind without going around the object or destroying the object itself!

*British realized the germans has flammenwerfer*

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Germans: use mustard gas against the allies The allies: * grabs shotguns* parry this you filthy casual

@@pearlyyubtub Germans: Don't worry, if we sit back here long enough, that shotgun fellow might be blown to bits.

@@nepnepguythegreatestofall6032 *bayonet rushes and stabs the german before unloading all 6 rounds* oops

GovernorJET it’s August

Annonomuys Doge yeah but people in the southern hemisphere are in winter, even if it still is hot, therefore they are still in school.

What do your tests ask ? Weird Jobs in History ?!

No. About WW1 and Experiences in the trenches / How they were set up etc

GovernorJET so you happened to have a test right after this was uploaded about trench systems?

@@TheLordrain12 What's for dinner? Fried lice You mean fried rice? No lice Lice were common in trenches

its a joke from horrible histories

Well it is better than Baldrick's Rat au Van

Lol i remember watching that in third grade

Lordrain12 Fried rice is a dish. Lice are little insects. I’ll let you figure out the rest

Not really, it was highly simplistic and detailed only the defensive lines of the first half of the war. It also missed the fact that in most places there were actually THREE trench Lines, each made up of the lines detailed. By late war the defenses had changed, the front line was little more than a series of defensive listening and watch posts designed to do nothing more than slow the enemy down and bunch them up in the Battle Zone behind. The Battlezone was dominated by an interlinked series of strongpoints and defensive positions often anchored on bunkers, which created interlocking fields of fire. It was a system based on defence in depth and was often 12 - 20 MILES deep..... You cannot cover the defensive intricacies of the trench systems in WWI with a simple 3 and a half minute video.....

@@alganhar1 Sure its highly simplistic cuz its simple history.

@@alganhar1, hints the name....simple history

So are my bawls

@@alganhar1 You missed the point of this channel.

What source did you use for that bit of information

Smart dudes.

With rats

@@1tems only in british

@@discotech6178 and germans

Mostly in british

@@discotech6178 say that again but slowly

being on the eastern front in WWII walking for days just to eventually freeze to death.

or being on the pacific front where you are walking through jungles and have to watch out for traps and ambushes by the Japanese defenders and in alot of cases watched as civilians threw themselves and their children off cliffs to "escape" the Americans (really hurts moral when the American soldiers were thinking they were liberators who would get praised like the Americans in France and Italy were)

Eastern front wased a mess. The thing wased so ugly that the USRR havent enought weaponds for everbody. But they neede better nunbers to have one advantage over the germans, so some soldiers only recived amo and they would take the guna from the ones that died. The thing wased so precarius that they sended women to the front ( something very rare in that time ).

ale Solís I think D day was worst knowing you were walking into incoming fire.

Matthew Donnelly Stalingrad wased very worst than D day. Just see the numbers 20 milions russians died in the war. This is more than any other country. They would often not evaciate the citys so the soldiers would fight knowing that failing would mean that ther woman and children would be in the hand of the nazis.

Lol

Lol your comment has 69 likes lets leave it that way.

99likes welp no 100likes:)

Cool

@TheWeeaboo Debatable.

TheWeeaboo A7V thicc

@TheWeeaboo not really first years if war Soviets were far ahead of the Germans. French were in ww1 and my nation still was having fun with French in building tanks for not this war. I think British tanks Valentine and Matilda were good. In the end if the war Germans were ahead on tanks. Americans had tank advantage in 1942 43 against most of the axis but in 1944 they Russians had better tanks while americans were trying to modernize their tanks which they did quite good but wasnt enough compared to germans.

Andrew Fishburn nah

Germans: Turn bullets around to penetrate tanks British: Wait, that's not how it works

Jesus Christ I just got here and now ur here

You son of a bitch

Light mike knight calm down

Good dinner

Justin Y. Weeaboo

In the stickiest situation since Sticky the stick insect got stuck on a sticky bun.

@@szithaanu9934 wibble

Now where’s George?

Not an underground hotel, multiple underground hotels

Yes.

Yeah actually kinda was they could have won had they umm idk not attacked Russia in the dead of winter or idk push their lines as quick as they had. If they had played a turtle game then results would have been vastly different

I wouldn't say so, since entire Germany had famine at the time.

@@bigmoniesponge food

Little facist needs digestable history to avoid the parts where your ideology get crushed on every continent, every era, huh?

@Rowan Melton yes concentration camps, terrified population and dystopian authoritarianism is not a failure..

Encrypted Wizard capitalist pig

TitoistBoi at least they only fought in small shifts

They don't always in the trenches for months. The soldiers were always rotated

They were rotated but still the conditions were unbearable making disease one of the biggest threats (and death) in trench combat

hello I am a titoist, and I like 15% unemployment

Karim Moop >Yugoslavia had 11th biggest stabdard of living in 70s

Yes, but they also weren't a pleasant place to live in.

Sure can!

Thank you Simple History!

AkselHelp Trans how do you get a rank

AkselHelp Trans they could do a out how he was a bit of a dictator and how he only cared about the 1%! It would really reveal who he actually was instead of the president who freed the slaves.

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Solid Water The guy looks like unshaved Hitler!

Solid Water really kids would be in this war

Jonathan Lee apparently yea watch his child soldiers video

That’s why I love “Simple History” they include other small details in there video!

Good eye!

Uhhhhh this is a WW1 video.

yes

Simple History nice

Simple History..Do karl marx

I was going to ask the same question...

Nice detail. I've watched every series of blackadder a dosen times over. Noticed something very familiar the moment I saw him.

Soul Knight ZUM GRABEN

HOLGER DE RUSSE KOME!

Nein GET TO DA *GERMAN MACHINE GUNS*

FOR THE MUZALAND

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I think so...but plz don't quote me

Heard so mortars don’t completely wipe out an entire section either

On top of that support trenches had a lot more importance than Simple History stated. Often commanders expected to lose the firing trench in the event of a large scale enemy attack. The purpose of the two front trenches was to have the firing trench inflict enough damage that, in the event of a successful enemy attack, the remaining forces would be too exhausted/damaged to hold the trench. At that point they would send the support trench to retake the firing trench and hopefully counterattack against what they believed was now weakened enemy defenses. Sadly, this was cyclic, as the counterattacking forces would face the same problem when they encounter the support forces of the enemy. tl;dr the commanders were kind of fine with losing the firing trench. It's when they lost the support trench that they'd start to sweat.

POOTIS LUKIS QUOTES YOU

They literally said in the video it was so the enemy once in the trench couldn't fully shoot down the trench

Germans at 1940: Nein. It's BLITZKRIEG TIME!

Gsrmans at 1940: Are you sure about that?

*MAGINOT LINE INTENSIFIES*

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Origins

You gotta make sure tho to get the wind staff from their 300 foot long leviathan robots.

Wat?

Don't forget the recording

Lol😂

Wow. You are defeniently tge first person to say this

It’s not really about the shrapnel it’s more about the shockwave the shrapnel is not going to take out a whole line the shockwave tho can

Its both

Thank you

It also creates overlapping lines of site for defense but who is tracking that. Lol

to loose the war despite being superior

They lost on the strategic level. Doesn't mean they were inferior on tactical or even operational level. They were out-manned and outgunned, they had fewer resources overall.

They where starved to death on a national level

Prolly that means to not start a war if you gonna be outmanned and outgunned.

Yep

It a pickaxe with a shovel on the other size Then they draw them using the pick size

Kevineitor199 what are caps?

Justinian I Comment stealer

Zepitoco Games Bruh all the letters are uppercase, “caps”

Zepitoco Games what comment stealer , that is my own comment , I swear to god

Kevineitor199 I want everyone to see this comment , pray for all who lost their lives in the trenches

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Grabenfuss.

Why do I keep seeing you in each comment section now

Becouse you enjoy the same content. ^^

It's a long way to Tipparary...To the sweetest girl I know Goodbye Picadilly Farewell Leicester Square

I know this ww1 brexit song.

Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag and smile, smile, smile

Yusuf Can Çelik indeed

Darling? :)

Good old Edmund

No, I am afraid the line is very chhhhrjkkldjkkkkkk-ckhhhhh-shhhhh...beep-beep.

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