Country that Surrendered the Most in WW1...

Number of prisoners of war held captive by 11 November 1918.
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[@vaultdweller966]

Would be interesting to see these numbers relative to the total number of soldiers involved for each country.

[@me-262gamingluftwaffememin2]

Yeah basically we learned which countries had the most soldiers and were in the war the longest

[@theprinceofcrows8691]

Yeah and the amount who actually surrendered in combat rather than had their nation defeated and ended up in custody as a result of the collapse. It is a long walk home for Austria Hungary, Germany, and Russia and when the government collapses and they have no way home custody is how you survive the war and get back to your family eventually.

[@SonoftheWars]

All I know is my family traveled a world away and suffered just so the EU could spit on their memory.

[@theprinceofcrows8691]

@@me-262gamingluftwaffememin2 And which nations lost the war or had the government collapsed abandoning their soldiers at the front without any way to get back home. I would be more interested to see POWs captured in battles than those who actually ended up in custody for all reasons.

[@theprinceofcrows8691]

@@SonoftheWars The EU is good for things like that. It has taken pride in desecrating the memory of those who sacrificed for them to be where they are today. All that doesn't fit their new agenda goes down the memory chute and is erased from history so they can continue molding the new European gender neutral human being as they have envisioned it.

[@Duke_of_Lorraine]

If you look close enough, you can see Conrad von Hötzendorf taunting Luigi Cadorna that he managed to get the gold medal.

[@Custodes_Veritatus]

Hey I saw you a few years ago on an extra credits video

[@lordjakob7052]

Luigi cadorna (crying) : thats it i am going to start the 13th battle of the isonzo

[@kempergreenk]

@@lordjakob7052 Vittorio Veneto was basically that 13th battle of the Isonzo (but more heavily focused on other sectors). Unfortunately for the Austro-Hungarians, Cadorna was replaced after the disaster at Caporetto. So, the Italians were led by Armando Diaz, who used more effective tactics than just mass infantry charges with artillery on the same positions like Cadorna. Diaz was basically the opposite of Cadorna and is regarded by historians as one of the best WW1 generals.

[@dalimillazan2877]

LoL thats is so good! :D both are probably the worst generals in WW1 :D

[@1CE.]

I knew it was gonna be Austria Hungary lol The Allies didn’t even step foot in the country before they said GG

[@historylegends]

They did, but just the tip

[@rapturex]

Well Serbs kinda did, but our involvement in ww1 is always gonna be underestimated Thanks again History channel :)

[@georgyzhukov6409]

​@@historylegends 😏

[@theprinceofcrows8691]

The "sick old man of Europe". The empire collapsed and it wasn't really a surprise to anyone. This chart is more like who lost the war and had a ton of people stranded in foreign lands with no way to get home, than it is any measure of who surrendered in combat the most. Totally predictable considering the outcome and the way these soldiers were stuck far from home without food, ammo, and any other way to survive short of walking into captivity.

[@jozsefpalkovics8536]

​@@theprinceofcrows8691 italians take prisoners after Hungarian forces got the order to take down weapons. This was the big italian win over hungary what you can learn now from history books.

[@losfromla1480]

It would be good to see this as a per Capita wrt amount of forces deployed.

[@historylegends]

For some countries it’s hard to find the total amount of mobilized military personnel

[@losfromla1480]

@@historylegends it's still important to have with the best info available though. Big/small numbers without context can be misleading. I'm not saying you're being misleading, but I think that's important context.

[@milangrujicic4679]

The Serbs lost 2/3 of their male population. Don't hold me to it, but I believe the Serbs mobilised every single able body and a part of the army even managed to leave the country and later on break through the Thessaloniki front.

[@dpmjole]

@@historylegends you could've done amount of POW's as percentage of country's population

[@XXXTENTAClON227]

@@dpmjole no population is 100% entirely young adult males though …

[@afghaaj]

I mean, even tiny Serbia had a fairly large chunk of those 2,5 million Austria-Hungary POWs (about 200-300k) I can't imagine how much of their POWs were captured by Russians

[@blackpaint9093]

Many by italy at the end of the war but yeah, mostly by russua

[@user-uy8fw5sp4t]

2 000 000 - 2 000 400

[@jacob8725]

@@user-uy8fw5sp4t that’s a shit tonne!!!!

[@zexxx2600]

It took three empires (Austria Hungary, German and bulgarian to nazis even set a foot in taht TINY Serbia...

[@ivann4512]

Tiny Serbia won the first battle for allies and lost like 30% of the population during WW1, so these numbers here mean nothing pulled like this out of context

[@mikjak]

Many Slovaks under Austro-Hungarian flag surrended to Russians because they didn't want to fight for Hungarians against "big Slavic brother", so in the end, Slovaks in Russian trenches fought Slovaks in Hungarian trenchces...

[@radelapadat7421]

The same thing happened with Serbians who got captured and/or surrendered to Russians and/or French/UK Eventually they were transported to Serbia to fight on Serbian side.

[@hpeti4533]

Well, the Hungarians had to fight for Austria, kinda, Hungary even tried to refuse declaring war at first, but since the prime minister had little to no say in the matter, in the end, they had no other choice.

[@Tovalokodonc]

Take that rip-off coat-of-arms off your profile picture

[@thesaul9484]

@@Tovalokodonc cope with the loss Mongoltard

[@Tovalokodonc]

@@thesaul9484 Someone is hurt by facts

[@lisamirako1073]

Allies surrendered: 4.036.000 Central Powers surrendered: 3.530.000

[@ohkyle9595]

​@larshildebrandt3835 bro he's talking about world war 1 not the sequel

[@Supidchunt]

⁠@@ohkyle9595you can’t be serious right?

[@yannick245]

Before the armistice, Germany fought all major powers and kept them in bay at land, sea and air. Their troops occupied large territories of Europe and no Entente power had a foot on German soil. It took the _"whole world's"_ effort to take the sword out of her hand.

[@The_Crusader888]

Notice Japan isn’t on the top list

[@willallen6361]

​@@The_Crusader888because they fought in a side theater of the war which the Germans did not care for

[@colonelradec8268]

Fun fact Bulgaria is the only central power which is not in this ranking

[@peepguy3524]

Can’t believe Bulgaria wasn’t in the top 10. I mean they fought in the Balkans and some in the eastern front and had 1/4th of their population in the army. Idk if I’m correct but I believed a lot of Bulgarians during the late war of WW2 when they were losing, I excepted a lot of Bulgarians to surrender to the Entente. Bulgaria is really underrated during WW1

[@atanasstoilov421]

It should be. A lot of the bulgarian soldiers were taken captive on the south front. Some parts of bulgaria (macedonia) was under french occupation and was later transferred to Serbia and greece.

[@peepguy3524]

@@nein236 1.2 million soldiers is still a lot. Especially during the 20th century and in a country that’s in the Balkan’s is pretty surprising.

[@eaturcookiescookie7462]

Holy shit, based Bulgária?!

[@delanovanraalte3646]

@@peepguy3524 bulgaria being germany's most competent ally lol

[@hugovictor4651]

This "statistic" does not take into account the number of soldiers engaged in combat: the Americans logically arrive last because they were the least numerous on the front...

[@Quanbe77]

And only started active duty in front in late august / september 1918 lmao

[@mimioize1634]

that doesn't matter Europeans love surrendering look at the list

[@Halberd1216]

@@mimioize1634 Very silly comment, and very little knowledge of basic maths. Britain and the commonwealth committed over 5 million soldiers to that war and were fighting from the very first weeks until the very last day. Almost all the nations on that list had been fighting for 2 to 3 years before the Americans were forced to actually contribute.

[@mimioize1634]

because America didn't want to fight for pathetic European wars, little UK always begs daddy America for help in war@@Halberd1216

[@laptv2144]

@@mimioize1634 Why are you trying to create a pissing contest in the comments?

[@fabianpillay860]

America was fighting in the back😂 the list shows u who was doing the most fighting

[@Sun-Tzu-]

I know 😂😂 they fought for like 5 months and still had 4,000 surrender.

[@razgriz9146]

Which is a bad thing why, exactly? WWI was by far the single most imbecilic war in recorded history that left all of Europe completely bankrupt, entirely destitute, hopelessly impoverished and severely depopulated all in exchange for literally nothing. The Americans were wise to stay out of such a pointless conflict and let the nations of Europe destroy themselves like the total dumbasses that they were.

[@razgriz9146]

​@@Sun-Tzu- which is still a relatively puny number by any objective standard. In any event, the Americans were one of the only true winners of WWI considering that they walked away from the conflict wealthier, more influential and more powerful than they actually were all while barely suffering any casualties. This is in direct contrast to the rest of the Triple Entente, who were left completely bankrupt, entirely destitute, hopelessly impoverished and severely depopulated by war's end. With virtually nothing to show for it outside of a few pitiful scraps of worthless territory and the right to say "we won" even though they actually lost almost as badly as the defeated Central Powers. Perhaps if the nations of Europe hadn't been such gigantic dumbasses and, I don't know, actually attempted serious diplomacy with the intention of actually ending the war on fair/equitable terms for both sides instead of very stupidly dragging the war out in a vain attempt to achieve an obviously impossible total victory, then they wouldn't have suffered so horribly and needlessly.

[@Sun-Tzu-]

@@razgriz9146 By that logic China won WW1 as well because they didn't suffer any casualties.

[@Sun-Tzu-]

@@razgriz9146 And what America invading Afghanistan was an intelligent war?

[@ultras_fino_alla_morte]

Perfect Italian pronunciation

[@joey8062]

French

[@Voidz3r]

​@@joey8062Italian

[@MARK-gp9hb]

not really

[@LEONWAX]

@@joey8062Italian and Spanish are leagues above French

[@fxtymz1123]

Italy is “italya” in Turkish

[@helderferreira5106]

Os soldados do Corpo Expedicionário Portugues e o Exercito colonial nunca serão esquecidos 🇵🇹🇵🇹

[@joaopedrosena3061]

Saudações do Brasil, caro parente lusitano 🇧🇷🤝🇵🇹

[@Henry30472]

PORTUGAL CARALHO!!!❤❤❤❤🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹

[@nobodyknowswhy]

❤❤

[@tonywhitby8602]

England and Portugal are the oldest allied country on the planet. ❤

[@capncake8837]

Bulgaria’s population of four million sent a whole one million men to fight and didn’t make it onto this list. Good job to them. They also eventually got back Southern Dobruja, which they lost after WW1, but regained after WW2.

[@Bracus.Reghusk]

No they lost south debrouja in the second balkan war back in 1913

[@dzoninet]

They had 90k prisoners just after they capitulated and 1000s more before of that.

[@JrRandom]

Those who surrendered were no cowards. But respect to the soldiers that fought till the last men.

[@Weedwizard600]

Greece always has

[@CatotheE]

Agreed.

[@CatotheE]

@@Weedwizard600 No country has, but the Greeks have had great stands against the odds throughout history.

[@AbdullahiHussien-bj2zb]

If You were in their postion would you not surrender,Surrending is not being a coward its just saving you life

[@MazdaRX7007]

Depends, if you were fighting against the japanese, you might be better off dying than surrendering.

[@LanTHruster]

You forgot to mention that Russian army was the largest force in WWI with the total of 12,000,000 men

[@youmad7068]

Yes but they had internal issues resulting in civil war

[@Da...]

And they fought in the civil war at the same time

[@Kauto36]

With 12 thousand guns between them and 5 pairs of socks.

[@saucyinnit8799]

Yes however they had Poor equipment and some didn’t even have some. However 12 million soldiers is a feat.

[@kalajari1749]

​@@Kauto36Lmao no

[@just_a_turtle_chad]

Ukraine nowadays be like: We didn't surrender, we tactical, operationally, and strategically evacuated.

[@huitzi-quetzal1422]

The army always avances foward, but sometimes it advances in the other way.

[@davidogundipe808]

Well they have media support 🤷‍♂️

[@Randomguy.01]

Nono Ukrainian soldiers most of them already died at the start of the war then Nato "volonteur" soldiers with the best Nato generals in strategies and some other Ukrainian civilians with the most quality and strategic weapons of human history. Russia is agaist Nato that have quantity and most importantly quality of weapons and soldiers.

[@Eadric_The_Wild]

​@@Randomguy.01 You are mentally ill.

[@SomeDude1000]

Cope moment

[@amandrastamanow7267]

Дватцатый век это самый худший век в истории России.

[@dovakhindurakhin2340]

Так закалялась сталь?

[@enitivy]

​@@dovakhindurakhin234080 миллионов жизней, чтоб закалить сталь?

[@dovakhindurakhin2340]

@@enitivy откуда такие цифры? 😂😂😂

[@enitivy]

@@dovakhindurakhin2340 30 млн - голоды и эпидемии, другие 30 млн - великая отечественная война и ещё 20 млн - первая мировая и гражданская войны

[@YoutubeWriter._.]

Россия совершила много ошибок, помимо злодеяний своих правителей. Это было следствием

[@cronoxonix]

Austria-Hungary: *starts the war* Austria-Hungary also: *surrender the most*

[@svetozarboroevicvonbojna4702]

Austro Hungaria, Has a reasonable reason to start a war Germany, because some Serbian guy shot a Austrian archduke we can now invade Belgium Also Who had the largest front, Austro Hungaria Who sent a lot of there heavy artillery to the Germans, Austro Hungarian Who didn’t (indiscriminately) demolish the homes of millions on there fronts Who had a smaller army Yeah I think they were licked from the start

[@kareemshivers3534]

Russians bro Russians

[@TDK874]

@@svetozarboroevicvonbojna4702who had the most INSTABILITY?

[@istandwithisraeI]

@@svetozarboroevicvonbojna4702they invaded Belgium to get around French defenses after France declared war

[@macadelic2492]

@@svetozarboroevicvonbojna4702all because they asked Germany for help. Why didn’t they just handlenit themselves?

[@unbritishguy1724]

bulgaria: ya we did good

[@yxmichaelxyyxmichaelxy3074]

Americans: 'Bloody French love to surrender! Pussies!' Facts: The French have more battlefield victories than any other country in history. 😎

[@silasmerzenich]

Being proud on being from france is funny 😂 Btw your "facts" are not true

[@yxmichaelxyyxmichaelxy3074]

@@silasmerzenich 'According to historian Niall Ferguson, France is the most successful military power in history.' 😎

[@lebourguignon350]

​@@silasmerzenich yes these facts are true, France is top 1 and UK is just behind

[@moritzl4024]

@@yxmichaelxyyxmichaelxy3074Nah that was debunked a thousand times. Those number came from all the small and big battles Napoleon won (who wasn’t even a French by blood, but an Italian)

[@tigerland4328]

On land possibly but not if you include sea battles and air battles

[@thatguy1132]

The problem in the video is that it's based on people, not the total surrender count as the US could've surrendered more battles but had fewer people caputred. Plus, in WW1, french were known to fight until they literally could not. Just look at verdun.

[@matthartman7062]

I have a lot of respect for any soldier who wears the uniform and serves his country, regardless of what country that may be. Friend or foe…

[@landonmosur9935]

Never have I heard truer words, amen to that brother

[@a_casual_Briton]

So true, it’s a shame western AND EASTERN media say that one side is bad. People should stand up and not putting shit on countries soldiers like Russia, Ukraine, Palestine and Israel. Blame the governments and their radical ideas, not the soldiers or people

[@AG26498]

Except in WW2. F*ck Germany and Japan of WW2 era.

[@IdioticDEREK]

Is it just me or leaders of ww1 countries only cared about how stylish uniforms of soldiers would look like instead of how protective they are?

[@a_casual_Briton]

@@IdioticDEREK omg now that I think of it, it does look like they tried to make it fancy

[@edrgrg7640]

🇧🇬theres a reason its “freedom or death”

[@unknown12367]

That's what Greece says, not Bulgaria

[@edrgrg7640]

@@unknown12367 look at the bulgarian liberation flag mate

[@flyingcursor]

I thought Russia surrendered more than Austria-Hungary. I was wrong.

[@jmgonzales7701]

Same i was shocked because russians always surrendered.

[@Snack2829]

​@@jmgonzales7701Stalingrad protectors wouldn't agree with you 😊 Slavic is known as a less surrendering people along with Scandinavians due to religion specialities.

[@jmgonzales7701]

@@Snack2829 soviet union had the most people surrendering in ww2.

[@Snack2829]

@jmgonzales7701 % of participants? It all matters in % from participants. It may be 2k out of 2k or 2k out of 1 mil. Also USSR had most number of KIA: around 27 millions.

[@Snack2829]

@jmgonzales7701 basically what u saying sounds like "China has more boys than other countries". Yes, because they have also huge amount of people. And % of boys probably won't be that shocking.

[@TheTrooper1878]

Wait, Bulgaria had an army of around 800K men as far as ai know? You are saying none of them surrendered?

[@ympkilla]

It is because of Doiran. We surrendered to the Allies, but only after the war. Still, 900K Bulgarians were mobilized, of which 300K casualties - the highest per capita loss of any country.

[@hanz9206]

That's because we are fukcing giga Chads

[@TheTrooper1878]

@@hanz9206 True

[@acknodbikes5051]

@@hanz9206 Giga Chads from russia

[@WERTYUIO821]

​@@hanz9206 Bulgaria was fighting against Greece, Romania, Serbia and Russia on the side of the Ottomans and Austria-Hungary... .

[@DacusMalus1600]

Nice video, that would be much more representative if the number of total troops and the time in the war were to be taken into account. Basically something like a surrender rate. Because without it, the myth of the heroic American stands tall! Take in to account these factors, and create something like a surrender rate of soldiers, and the picture is completely different!

[@xenotypos]

Not really, the picture would still be incomplete as some soldiers fought for years, others for weeks. The US would be advantaged as they only fought toward the very end, when the allies finally had a big advantage. So they were only participating in large numbers when Germany was retreating. The US army in total in WW1 was rather large (not as much as the top nations, but still millions), the defining factor is just WHEN they fought and how long.

[@davidguy9197]

how? the heroic American is a myth? Wow, that's pissing me off!

[@mimioize1634]

Americans did save you in WW1 and WW2

[@GrumpyDynamo]

​@@mimioize1634nope french and english in ww1 and the soviets in ww2 did the actual fighting and winning.Americas impact was very less in both wars

[@mimioize1634]

all with American money until churchil started begging daddy America to join the war effort lol@@GrumpyDynamo

[@davidogundipe808]

Now then, it's time to make memes about the Austro-hungaraians.

[@GamingKnight0820]

The thing about is them is that they didn't surrender in a month like the french

[@uncle7215]

@@GamingKnight0820 The French didn't surrender during WWI...

[@GamingKnight0820]

@@uncle7215 ww2... I never said ww1

[@uncle7215]

@@GamingKnight0820 they didn’t surrender in a month in ww2 either

[@GamingKnight0820]

@@uncle7215 the time is roughly a month sooooo

[@SR.Rubber_Ducky]

"Portuguese Slang" we portugueses aren't even mentioned, and when we got mentioned they say we're spanishes Foda-se nós portugues não somos mencionados, e quando somos falam que somos espanhóis.

[@AnthonyRizzuti]

My great grandfather Luigi Rizzuti was part of the Italian 76º Reggimento fanteria infantry division and was deployed to France in the First World War, he was captured by the Germans and put in a POW camp where he almost died of malaria.

[@Nico-iv3wr]

Onore a lui, eroe della patria

[@AnthonyRizzuti]

@@Nico-iv3wr thank you, I never had the opportunity to meet him, but his blood live on in my veins

[@verw719]

Ridiculous. These figures do not mean anything if not compared to the number of soldiers for each country - and the number of KIA

[@gabyspan940]

yes they mean everything, you are probably german/austrian or hungarian

[@nejuokinganezvengiau8975]

They mean the number of soldiers who surrendered lol, you're reading into it too much. It's only an attack on your country if you want it to be.

[@hevnervals]

Germany did pretty well then considering the size of their army, fighting against the whole world

[@rtixboi4193]

Buddy, this is WW1

[@Insanepie]

they hardly fought alone they had one of the biggest countries in Europe on their side with one of the biggest populations....

[@saytam_ar]

@@Insanepie with one of the biggest Instabilities... Germany literaly had to send a big chunk of their forces back to the east because the russians were succesfully invading Austria... Also they needed Bulgaria to open a new fucking front to finally defeat Serbia... Its really funny that the only actually usefull ally of germany was Bulgaria...

[@lahire4943]

Bulgaria is missing there. They lost 77,000 prisoners in the 1918 Vardar offensive alone. Also the number of German prisoners is rather 1,152,000 men per the United States War Department.

[@historylegends]

Good call for Bulgaria 🇧🇬 as for Germans some were captured after the armistice

[@tavi3702]

I'm Austrian and I didn't know this but as the video started I was just thinking "It's gonna be us, isn't it?" Most disappointing performance in ww1

[@thefirstkingdogo1126]

If you thaugth the hole empire German you would have dune a lot beter

[@bogoljubdjordjevic7528]

Hahah and I was like I ashamed of my Serbia 😂😂

[@Duskee]

@@bogoljubdjordjevic7528 brate imali smo 700,000 vojnika tad sto bi se stideo, borili smo se sami sa 20,000 crnogoraca protiv austrougarske koja je imala 2 miliona vojnika

[@piotrkwiecinski6529]

Its because they engaged the most

[@kgius7434]

austria fought in about 3-4 fronts

[@socramzetroc1535]

Let's recall U.S. entered to the last years of the conflict

[@Nieboret]

Remember that US was reason that Entente won this war in 1918. Enter of US forced Germany to make quick offensive (Kaiserschlacht) before few millions of American soldiers will arrive to the continent. The offensive was absolute failure and Entente launched counterattack together with fresh American soldiers, which resulted in collapse of German front, worker strikes and riots in Germany, finally communist revolution and abdication of Emperor Wilhelm II. Entente would won this war even without US, as German industry was already in very bad condition, but Americans entering the war just made it impossible for Germans to win in any way.

[@smal750]

​@@Nieboret not even close 😂😂😂

[@drac0100]

America single-handed Europeans wars. We had finished what euros couldn't do.

[@rarescevei8268]

​@@NieboretNo. Germany tried to break the French before American entry into the war and was defeated. It wasted it's last important resources and tired itself out. With or without the USA, France would have won after a more prolongued period of time. It had also destroyed German strength due to constant attacks with their superior logistics. Germany would have broken sooner or later.

[@casperback2stay664]

Why y'all people say that like it's a flex do you not realize that was not our fight is one reason why we come last second off do you not realize that back at home before we ever sent the first person that we only had one hundred and twenty-seven thousand troops and officers total an we was there for 19 months the war was only going on for two years before and the reason why it was later to is because we was going over there to be trained then sent out to fight because once again we didn't have that many soldiers or that much of a military beforehand but we did end up putting a little bit over two million soldiers to fight on that ground and had fifty thousand of them died fighting a fight that wasn't even our problem in the first and now today we are the strongest country in the world and probably one of the newest but I guess that's why y'all hate so much

[@thebigone9781]

Serbia by population is 10times smaller than UK. PS do you know that serbia didn't had to go to war Hitler wanted thruh like with sweden. Likewise in ww1. And who we helped and 1/3 of man population was killed for helping you know who. France and Serbia had one of the best relationships only Frances and Serbian flag Waving at the white house no other country's ever waved at the white house only France and serbia

[@helvosthecreator1920]

And now Ukraine flag waving inside the white house, does that count? 😅

[@dpmjole]

what on earth are you talking about??? the whole war started in the first place because of Serbian expansionist actions

[@biglebowsky6586]

​​@@dpmjole What on earth are you talking about??? War started because AH expansionist actions, nobody forced them to invade Serbia. And before you say it, no Serbian government had nothing to do with assasination, it was Young Bosnia and Balck Hand, later being the enemy of Serbian government. Serbia even tried to warn AH about assasianation but they wouldnt listen. Assasination was just an excuse for AH imperialistic invasion.

[@dpmjole]

@@biglebowsky6586 🤣🤣🤣 of course, and then the marmot puts the chocolate in alu-foil

[@almightymanshadow1002]

​@dpmjole Bruh , people blame Serbia for World War instead of foes that attacked the whole world. If they didn't like the Serbian guy killing their precious, they could just invade Serbia, not the whole world..... Axis were just power hungry and believed they are better than others.

[@Smartness_itself]

Bulgaria strong! 💪🏻🇧🇬

[@mariusmuresan8248]

Austria-Hungary is number one for a reason: most of its population was neither Austrian nor Hungarian- they were forced to fight for the "Empire" and therefore happy to surrender when the first opportunity occurred.

[@Tovalokodonc]

"Forced" 😂😂😂 Ethnicities proportional to their populations didn't even serve as much compared to Hungarians or Austrians. "Forced" when fighting for one's country is a basic duty

[@flpmlks5181]

@@Tovalokodonc yes...forced...like learning your ´´language´´ was forced. erasing...well :D effort to erase our culture, our language, our national identity. all failed monumentally :D how can barbaric nation rule to anyone? even 1000years wasn´t enough to do so...that´s incompetence :D even your horses were ugly.

[@rarescevei8268]

​​@@TovalokodoncThere were many accounts from Romanians in Transylvania who surrendered to Romania in order to fight for them. Same with Slovaks who surrendered to Russia. Also i agree, fighting for your country is basic procedure during armed conflict.

[@ionbrad6753]

@@Tovalokodonc ”fighting for one's country is a basic duty” - true. However, Austria-Hungary was not the country of Slovaks, Romanian, Serbs etc occupied by the 2 ”more equal” nations.

[@ferim.4186]

@@ionbrad6753 And romania was not for country for the bulgarian, gagauzes, csango-hungarians. Serbia was not country the bulgarians, albanians. Russia empire was not country the mass of the not slavic nations. The colonial french, biritish empire was not country the colonial people.

[@tatjanakisse6137]

American troops fought from October 1917 on the Western Front and from July 1918 on the Italian Front. You can't compare like that. The number of fighters, equipment, duration and place of participation must be taken into account.

[@johnzubil2875]

You sound like Inspector Clousou from the Pink Panther movies.

[@Leunatic08]

Canada be like. "What is the meaning of surrender?"🗿🗿🗿

[@user-mv3uv3oo5q]

Canada was a part from Britain at the time and they nearly didn't even fight so i don't see your point

[@Leunatic08]

@@user-mv3uv3oo5q actually Canada was a self governing country for 50 years before that. Do your history bud. I'm Canadian. Also,Canadians rarely surrendered and rarely took prisoners.

[@user-mv3uv3oo5q]

@@Leunatic08 yeah but he said that Britain included its commonwealth as well

[@M22ontop]

Bro had to to have 11 to include the US😂

[@AnkitKumar-pm8ec]

Pakistan surrendered 93k to India in the 1971 war when India divided Pakistan in two halves and created Bangladesh.

[@mahdimenace]

This shit is about WW1. South Asia are excluded.

[@hamasmillitant1]

you should do it per capita/size of army also

[@fedeiltonnodoppiatore5296]

The 600k Italians didnt surrendered they were mostly captured during"disfatta di Caporetto"

[@nyerling5723]

The U.S. was only directly involved in Europe for 3 months near the end of the War 1.

[@bum_fozman7068.]

The U.S. fought in 13 official campaigns in those 3 months. That’s not too surprising to me.

[@berber1871]

it doesn t make sens to compare number of surrender without caring about the total soldiers, giving a % of a country's soldiers would make more sens. If a country have 1 000 fighters and 100 surrender and another 10 000 fighters and 200 surrender which one would you tell surrender the most?

[@Adwa-1896]

Italy surrendered in 1896 in Ethiopia 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@carlomarini4255]

Only your brain surrended...😂😂😂

[@UnitedUA]

classic Russia surrendering 2.4 million. 😂

[@acknodbikes5051]

what about classic AH? u are bias heck

[@UnitedUA]

@acknodbikes5051 ya I wasn't bias until Russia invaded Ukraine murdering families. I feel like Russia can take a lil bias after all that activity.

[@dpmjole]

​@@UnitedUA are you sure you weren't biased before?? when ukronazis banned russian language in 2014, you weren't biased then??

[@UnitedUA]

@dpmjole nope I was not. We're you?

[@acknodbikes5051]

@@UnitedUA bla bla bla russia so bad... cry baby

[@goldman6506]

Morale has a huge factor on surrender numbers. Russia and austria hungary commoners were very much not for the war. Thats why both states basically collapsed afterwards.

[@kirilld6206]

No it is bullshit. The thing is eastern front was a mobile warfare while western is mostly trench warfare so it explains a lot. Morale was way weaker in italian army with 300k surrendered and only 10k dead at Caporetto. Russian morale was as well as german, best. Serbians fought well but they were heavily outgunned and outnumbered.

[@ethanedwards422]

​@@kirilld6206Russian morale was never really good. Always a lack of food, and what food they did get were rotten. Hell during the later war they started killing their officers and returning home.

[@AG26498]

​@@kirilld6206why was Russia even in WW1? Just helping Serbia is too weak of a reason to me. Nicholas was not bright but he certainly had more ambitions I think

[@schutzanzug6731]

Hungary had 600,000+ dead soldiers and today only has the population of around 9.6 million, so that is really a lot of people. They only surrendered because the complete military defeat and coup

[@felicepompa938]

​@kirilld6206 300k surrendered Because they were overrun by the austrp-german offensive

[@Sun-Tzu-]

I mean, the Russian Empire entirely collapsed into civil war so most of those surrendered soldiers would be defectors making a political move against the Tzar.

[@wadebrunner3724]

itnwas a judeo bolshevik takeover

[@user-user-user-user.]

Damn. I would have guessed France had the most captured or surrendered.

[@SergyMilitaryRankings]

France is one of the most powerful military countries in history

[@luxhistoriae1172]

How the principal winner can have more surrendered?

[@user-user-user-user.]

@@luxhistoriae1172 This is all anecdotal but in the US hundreds of jokes exist about the French willingness to surrender and give up. “Want to buy a French rifle? Only dropped once.”

[@luxhistoriae1172]

@@user-user-user-user. sound dumb as an american school

[@user-user-user-user.]

@@luxhistoriae1172 No

[@niknik1604]

The Turks surrender its Common....

[@CoksadebirTurk2]

not as much as your nation who got easily destroyed, the Turks are respectable enemies in the battlefield "The Turk, who wields the sword with ruthless skill, is a master at healing the wounds of the people he has defeated" - Lord byron maybe read the battle of dardanelles

[@niknik1604]

@@CoksadebirTurk2 Greeks never surrender even in slavery . Who destroyed the ottoman empire? 😉

[@stefanhaken5132]

​@@niknik1604the allies did. The Russians did. Australia, India and from all over the commonwealth did. Ruthless Armenian gangs and Arab gangs in the desert did. The balkan countries we have there now today did. It was not just Greece. Also: The Turks themselves dissolved the Empire as it was on its end.

[@niknik1604]

@@stefanhaken5132 tell me when the greeks sureender ? We lost but we didnt sureender . For example the albanians surrender and became muslims in a blink of an eye . We greeks didnt .

[@stefanhaken5132]

@@niknik1604 the Greeks? Well since you asked: 27th May 1916 at Fort Roupel. Greek IV Corps did surrender to the Bulgarians. Then there came the Greeko-Turkish war and a Peace was signed.

[@Codeman-LX]

People: Ottoman Empire turned into Türkiye Atatürk: Hello, i am the one man who actually stood up agantist 5 armies

[@ferim.4186]

Yes the Atatürk was great man. Unfortunately for us Hungarians, we didn't have Atatürk, and we envy you Turks because of him.

[@SkillerNurse]

Why Portugal its not in the rank? 😓

[@cobyzammit]

Pretty sure you got Great Britain wrong.. We were the most powerful in WW1

[@aa6dcc]

uk wouldn't be much since they were not big or active on any front relative to the other allies. they were nowhere near as invested in the war as France

[@Fabbe1o]

This is a lie sinse the entirty of denmark surendered 🇩🇰

[@IRELAND783]

I knew French soldiers would be in the top five 💀

[@astrofahrer]

We number 3

[@keene139]

Put the USA at number 1 for entering wars late

[@thomas4315]

We’re number one .lol even more now

[@Ron_swanson_true_libertarian]

I wish you didn't count the commonwealth in the uk numbers 😕 they've always been traitors.

[@Ninjabeback56]

I just scram france💀

[@Shiv3638]

Russia is really surprising to be up there

[@littlewren5775]

I wouldn't call surrender, all these nations man got cut of as some lines changed so quickly what could they do. Weather was massive factor too. Some only had summer uniforms not winter item between,unless found stores and took to keep warm. Broken winter temperatures, the likes many hadn't seen before. Trenches were appalling feet -knee deep water mencouldnt fight. Men now wouldn't stand for what these men were forced to do. Officers behind lines back no nothing what these poor buggers went through. So no hand forced white flag

[@BlueGuY110]

im hungarian

[@darkshadowsparanormalhisto2993]

Hello from Canada its great too know my Country is not on that list .

[@sutty85]

Americans were only in it for 2 years. So that makes sense

[@plavsk]

0:00

[@Emanuel.27]

Why they always don't remeber Bulgaria

[@melihbayleon749]

Bro all men in austro hungary surrendered

[@user-uw6ff8xv3f]

🥇🇦🇹🇭🇺2.5M 🥈🇷🇺2.4M 🥉🇩🇪800k 4.🇮🇹600k 5.🇫🇷540k 6.🇹🇷230k 7.🇬🇧192k 8.🇷🇸174K 9.🇷🇴80K 10.🇧🇪46k 11.🇵🇹7k Your welcome it took me 1 hour to finish this btw:so pls like my comment

[@juanelorriaga2840]

I guessed Russia as number 1 but that’s only cause that have so many troops in waves

[@OnatGG]

My grand grandfather has been captured by british, in palestine. British made him and thousands of other turkish captured soldiers blind. So they wont be able to go back and fight, if they ever get released.

[@dariorichards8278]

Should be noted amerikkka was last to join the war

[@Tianlangyang]

20k Chinese labor die in Europe.

[@hamzPat512]

Wait, what? What does "captured by" have to do with surrendering?

[@cashcosgriff2960]

Keep the truth coming brother your the hands down best on the net for war history But …… French $ Russia suffered the most in thos days

[@jordanhelton2409]

these colors dont run

[@VioletBagpipeSack-xf3ke]

How dumb

[@Ironarmgaming1]

Quattro is spainish not Italian

[@DarkViperGaming]

I thought it was Russia but when he said they were second place I said "Austria-Hungary" let's gooo

[@AsianPainter637]

1. France 2. France 3. France 4. France 5. France 6 to 11. FRRRRRRAAAAAANNNNNZZZEEER 5.

[@JelgioValerio]

Histotically inaccurate. The jokes been over done and isn't funny anymore

[@chongsuhcheong8632]

How bout Malaysia

[@highquality86]

Мы русские все точно знаем что русские не сдаются!

[@LyonTempeteDivine]

Rly ???

[@carrotking8893]

Ruskivite are you ready to be captured?

[@Arrowhead_YT]

My great grand father was a WW1 Veteran Born in 1895 He die In 1921 when my grandfather Born

[@upthebracket26]

next time you feel useless, remember the yanks only sent a few thousand men to France

[@marcomarcanzin5272]

I from Italy

[@TheGeek40]

Americans: french love surrendering Baguette 🥖 Also the frenches in the WW1:

[@juanelorriaga2840]

Americans don’t think that anymore that died out like a generation ago. We respect our French Allie’s without them we wouldn’t be the USA for their help in the Revolutionary war

[@marscaleb]

Okay but what was this as a percentage?

[@user-ot3dg5ki7q]

France

[@centauroii257]

The italians managed to capture 300.000 austro-hungarian prisoners in the final battle of Vittorio Veneto

[@nateworthy530]

Top 11? My man is breaking normal boundaries

[@qitruth4889]

no Germany did not surrender that much hes at the bottom

[@PKOB2]

france

[@peanutwars]

lol and they say the french surrender the most ! The enemy surrendered more !

[@alexalgoso2506]

75,000 U.S surrendered/captured by Japanese in the Philippines

[@SansUndertale657]

wait i thought russian never surrender theres literally 100 russia in world war one 100 vs 7000 germans and Russians win and they didn't surrender they even inhaled poison gas