It actually nearly worked as they where extremely close to Paris but they made a big mistake which caused a gap and when it was exploited it pushed the Germans all the way back to Belgium
this was the case for my great grandmother (picardie), one of her brothers died of tetanus, another in the mines, crushed between two wagons and his little brother almost got beaten to death by an prussian officer in front of whom he refused to withdraw his cap. believe it, in the next war they all joined the resistance immediately
@@glorck7064 “just lost my foot to trench foot, all my friends are dead, got ptsd, got severe chemical burns in my lungs but hey at least I had the best sausage rolls on earth”
@@Adonnus100 no more than any other. Apart from this officer, the soldiers were correct generally. French parents were wary of it, my great-grandmother told me that a soldier had given the children slices of elderberry jam. It is a common jam in Germany but at the time the Picards believed this plant to be toxic and the parents believed that the soldiers had tried to poison the children. they forbade the children from approaching them. What was hard was the shortages, the requisitions, the fact of being cut off from the country and the umiliation of having to work for the occupier and cant fight for the France. and then as they left the Germans killed the animals, destroy the field, cut the laid and sabotaged the infrastructure. but in a resource war it's a common scorched earth strategy. We could focus on the particular cases where a Human was bad but what was hard was the times. the French occupation after 45 was of the same order, correct with sometimes bad people and others who gave toasts of jam to the children.
@@mutlugameofhalit they put People in con… camps, because they thought they are the superior Race, and then they got their as* whooped from east and West.
@@williamcito29 what im saying is that many ppl forget or did not know that portugal and romania were part of the entente of ww1 just like bulgaria on the central powers
@alhsv9172 You sure that's true? If you've looked at info on ww1, you should know Portugal, Romania, and Bulgaria were about of the war. Romania joining this war is what caused them to get fatter (getting transylvania), also bulgaria is a big reason why serbia even fell in the first place, and Portugal I'm sure is a well known country that did something in this war.
Schlieffen plan by von schlieffen was a brilliant strategy to knock out france in early stages of war but it was an outdated plan and not well thought out for Russian front as they underestimated just how quickly russia can mobilize its forces for battle. Both russian empire and french republic were mobilizing there troops before the war than Germany but still Germany managed to fight a 1v3 while dealing less casualties is not only amazing but just shows how good Prussian militarism was in its golden times.
Plan was meant to be that ALL german forces would be there on the first strike and one front war. It failed cos of two front war. They managed to push to marne tho.
It also failed because they expected Belgium to just let them move through their lands. However Belgium refused, warned France to expand the line and boom. Solid frontline
Not outdated, just everythingrelied on speed, something we can draw parallels from in both wars. Yes, the Blitzkrieg in WW II by Erich von Mannstein was just a Schlieffen plan 2.0 I can explain everything but Sabaton History - Ghost Division does it better
Would you take the risk to have nothing to put against a possible threat ? Imagine Netherlands was pressured to join the war, seing there is no german defence and an allied task force ready to help pushing... Pretty sure that's why they invaded Netherlands during ww2
Ironically, the German Kaiser actually had good relations with the Dutch royal family and didn't want to see them suffer from a German invasion, also Germany needed a place to trade and bypass embargoes and the Dutch was a key trader for Germany.
It wasn’t about the Netherlands in itself but about a possible Entente invasion of Netherlands (like the Entente done against other neutral nations) or the Entente bullying Netherlands into attacking Germany. Which were possibilities. But Germany and the Netherlands did have very good, even brotherly, relations and the UK + France were very much disliked among the Dutch public back then. That’s also why the German Emperor Kaiser Wilhelm the Second moved to the Netherlands after his abdication because he was being protected by the Dutch.
Italy's betrayal was because of Austrians not giving the claimed italian lands, and since entente promised Italy that they will give them therr rightful claims, Italy after londer conference somewhere in end of 1915, Italy joined
Italy didnt betray anyone. They had a pact with the Centrale Powers only if they were attacked: in this case Germany attacked France and Austria attacked Serbia. They hadnt to help.
@@gioilcreatore3547 nah triple alliance of central powers was of these 3 nations, Italy betrayed them only for some land while Germany could have offered them better in France and Tunisia
@@janavnaik5433 go check the sources: Italy didnt betray them, because Italy was obliged to defend Germany and Austria only if they were attacked. In this case, the Central Powers were the invaders and Italy had no obligation to help.
The way mainstream history is taught you’d think it was only the Germans and British on the western front (props to the All Quiet for showing the French as the primary opposition), when France held 75%-80% of the Front tenaciously and even the Belgians held onto their remaining sliver of their country.
German divisions called to fight Russians Russia did so much to save France, they attacked before the mobilization ended, they had weapon and ammo shortages, but they always helped France by attacking Germany when they started offensives, what took German divisions off the French front. The French patrol password in 1914 August-September was Vive La Russie
Just to clarify, it was France that joined the war to help Russia and not the other way around. On the other hand, yes, Russia has done a lot to help France, just as France has done a lot to help Russia.
@@user-js2xn9jv9l And french paid with their blond for the salvation of Russia. This is not the russia who helped the french but the french who helped the russian. But this is true, without Russia the german will win and without France this is the same thing
@@Nicolas-Vive-Le-Christ-Roi По сравнению с тем, что делала Россия для Антанты, Англия и Франция не делала практически ничего. Французы не начали наступление во время «Великого отступления», французы и англичане, не поставляли даже боеприпасы, которых у вас было гораздо больше у России,не была оказана поддержка во время летнего наступления 1917(при чем наступала уже не империя, а республика). Ну и как вишенка, после падения российского государства и окончания войны, единственное чем вы отплатили- это интервенция и оккупация прибрежных регионов (даже белых, которые частично сражались и за ваши интересы вы предпочли оставить на произвол судьбы)
@@Aaron-sl2kx Désolé mais tu a écrit en russe probablement vu que ça m'as l'air d'être du cyrillique alors je ne comprend rien à tout ce que tu a dit et je ne peux pas traduire ton message pour l'instant
There were obviously not that many US soldiers on the frontline. At one point or another, no more than all or part of 23 American divisions were engaged on the frontline. In 1918, the Americans had 53,000 men killed in combat. Mostly inexperienced soldiers led by inexperienced commanders. The French lost 260,000 veterans killed in 1918.
German Spring Offensive + handling most of of the line + Hundred days offensive. Americans were there AFTER the Spring and came on masse during Summer when Germany pretty much had to hold on to their gains with nothing.
Hundred days offensive; French casualties, 531,000. American forces mainly were in reserve and had a few actions when they arrived on the front, which started in July. British troops captured more men and material than both the French and American forces combined in the hundred day breakthrough as they did most of the offensive fighting.@@eduardovictorfurlaneto805
I think italy Made a strategic mistake siding with the Entente. They barely gained anything in the war and seeing how Close Germany came to winning the war, they would have provably tipped the tides in favour of Germany. A second Front in southern france might have proven crucial in the war.
But the question is what they would have gained by joining with Germany. If I recall correctly they would only have gotten a pretty small part of the Austrian territory they wanted, while the Allies offered all of it
@@hanneswiggenhorn2023 They probably would have gained Tunisia, Djibouti, Somalia, and parts of southern France + concessions from Austria. Which is technically more land than they got from the Allies.
@@Finnbobjimbob ottomans did well considering, and sure i am certain germany would hold the frontline in the East without milions of austro-hungarian troops just like that xd. Sure command staff of Austria hungary wasn't great but the manpower helped a lot.
Maybe not as deadly as the eastern front of WW2, but just imagine seeing TENS OF THOUSANDS of dead bodies in a few meter stretch. That was basically this entire front, millions of bodies laying dead somewhere within a 20-50 mile thick line.
The USA only had a minor contribution to the war, for sure they lost thousands of men, but France and Britain would have won alone. The USA just made them gain a few months
@@fudjutsian_manNo after the collapse of Russia Germany send many Troops on the Western Front. Without the US Germany would sooner or later won the war.
@@fudjutsian_man The US had a MAJOR contribution to the war, just not militaristically compared to France or Britain. The US's major contribution was military supplies and money, which directly fueled into the roaring 20s when the allied countries had to pay the US back. And the US didn't lose just thousands, they lost almost 120k.
@@WarDyl3 I am going to calculate the number of soldiers from Western Front countries who fought against German allies on other fronts. Austro-Hungarian in Italy: 896,000 Italians 48,000 English 32,000 French people Ottomans in the Middle East: 2,550,000 English 100,000 French people 15,000 Italians Austro-Hungarians, Ottomans and Bulgarians in the Balkans: 404,000 English 350,000+ French people 144,000 Italians In total, if I don't count all the countries that have no connection with the Western Front, Bulgaria, the Ottoman Empire and Austria-Hungary retained approximately 4,539,000 soldiers from Western Front countries on their fronts. The Germans were fighting (in the west) against approximately: 7,935,000 French people 5,400,000 English 2,200,000 Americans 380,000 Belgians therefore 15,835,000 soldiers (13,635,000 if we remove the Americans since they arrived at the end of the war) Yes, the German allies were not as powerful as Germany but they retained almost a third of the western soldiers on other fronts which must have helped the Germans enormously.
@@Laroca948 era toda europa prácticamente, habían tropas inglesas,rusas, portuguesas y belgas. Ya con las de USA se sabía qué Alemania no tenía ninguna posibilidad.
Just to clarify, it was France that joined the war to help Russia and not the other way around. On the other hand, yes, Russia has done a lot to help France, just as France has done a lot to help Russia.
That was beacause belgiang want to go to the netherlands for safety and not pay high taxes to germans and germany tries to stop that by defending the borders with troops
@@rien2gamingagacki411 But what you say makes sense in the Belgium - Netherlands border. To avoid what you are referring to in the Belgium conquered territory. I directly mean the Germany - Netherlands border. Or maybe, could Belgium people from conquered territory 'freely' move to Germany and later to Netherlands to get that safety & to pay less taxes?
@@user-pc7wk4rl6e I read about it yesterday, I had no idea about this unit! I was referring to an "alternative hypothesis" video regarding a British secret service plan to trick the Germans into thinking there were hundreds of thousands of Cossack in Britain. very little known.
They aren't. Americans absolutely poured into the front line in 1918. Also it probably does look like more than you think because the American flags are moved last and cover up the others.
@@sadfrog15 im talking over the homefronts these fronts hadnt to do anything with germany the germany were able to hold 3 super powers at the same time + their colonies and a navalblockade for several years.
@@sadfrog15This is true, but what kicked Turkey out of the war was French and British taking Istanbul. Precondition for that was breaking of Macedonian front and kicking Bulgaria and AH from the war
@@sariunan but how did they get there Germany blocks all access through sea and Austria blocks access through land the only way that could possibly work is if Russian troops sailed through the Arctic ocean which would be very costly
@@some_random_asian_guy The Suez Canal was never taken by the Ottomans let alone by 1916-1917. Also, they could’ve just gone around Africa, and avoided german u-boats
So the French managed to hold most of the front until the Americans came in the end of 1917. And American French bashers keep saying the French had lost WWI! Maybe they wouldn't have won withour the Americans but so as the Brits in WWII and no one says the latter lost WWII!
