"The Battle of Verdun - 100 years after"

Film presents commemorations of battle of Verdun in 2016 year.

[@harryfuentos5503]

Imagine if a time traveler from WWI sees this they will think its another hundred years war

[@joydevsarkar4474]

ANOTHER? ARE THERE OTHER 100 YEARS WAR?

[@harryfuentos5503]

@@joydevsarkar4474 between france and england from 1300s to 1400s

[@2ndcomingofFritz]

That’s exactly what I was thinking lol

[@wendysworker]

Everyone in WW1: **wears camo** Frenchies: Bleu

[@zachbocchino5501]

Bright blue camouflage.

[@sterbi9722]

@@zachbocchino5501 The horizon blue uniforms were still far more practical than the early war uniforms

[@milanalberto9222]

i know it's kinda off topic but does anybody know of a good website to watch new series online ?

[@matteobrayden3276]

@Milan Alberto Flixportal xD

[@milanalberto9222]

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[@DoughBoi_1918]

Am I the only one who thinks late war French uniforms are cool looking?

[@uncle7215]

They're badass

[@DoughBoi_1918]

Yannick Oliveres yee

[@uncle7215]

The long coat and the Adrian helmet look awesome lol

[@yourkipper497]

Yep

[@shayanabrouce686]

Yes

[@luislaplume8261]

My late father's uncle was in the French infantry during World War 1. My ancestors were and are in Paris.😊

[@jackthebassman1]

I have visited the historic city of Verdun many times, the battlefields, forts, cemeteries leave an indelible memory.

[@testijul5691]

2:07 damien !!!! Les répliques du grenier tu nous avai manqué vieu

[@clement4617]

grave

[@JW-zx5dr]

I’d love to own French, German, and British WW1 kit

[@Ethanhagamer]

Same

[@PaulRudd1941]

​@@Ethanhagamer that would be pride personified if I had those 3 kits, Including the rifle and ammunition. But I don't have 30 grand lying around unfortunately.

[@Freebird409]

They're suprisingly cheaper then I tought, about 1.5 - 1.7k for a full uniform and replica rifle

[@JW-zx5dr]

@@Freebird409 Late war French uniform is so cool imo. Just very aesthetically pleasing to me.

[@DahBretagne1940]

J'ai vu Bastien sur la miniature, j'ai cliqué...je suis un homme simple.

[@leonardlallemand5459]

pareil XD

[@gabrieldamato6966]

Verdun My head: ah yes FIRE, FIRE EVERYWHERE

[@RaoulLeDegueu]

les tenues sont superbes, bravo aux reconstituteurs

[@matthewskudzienski4847]

Are they doing reenactment right now

[@jasongotcello]

Verdun, the Stalingrad of ww1

[@Ken_Marinaris]

Stalingrad, the Verdun of WW2 is more accurate.

[@justanormalperson7206]

The French were badass in war

[@lennonhookway]

Bonjour from Las Vegas

[@usbritisharmycavalry9748]

The camouflage of the Germans was greenish that camouflaged well and then they changed it to gray that did not camouflage well with the trenches but with the cloudy sky and the French uniform first, it did not It was good for nothing but the French final uniform was better because it was camouflaged with the clear sky but those who did know about camouflages are the British who camouflaged their uniforms Perfectly with the vegetation and the mud of the trenches the first British uniform was Barron and then they changed it to olive green.

[@Samknstuff]

1) the German uniform was field grey tunic with stone grey trousers for 1915 before switching to field grey trousers as well. 2) the british uniform had remained khaki throughout the war

[@tonybaloney8401]

The french originally had grey-blue uniforms made from white, blue, and red threads, the only reason they ended up using blue uniforms was because the germans were the ones selling them the red dye, so they had to leave the red out

[@generaltica]

Vous reconnaissez Bastien de "Les répliques du Grenier" au milieu à 2:03?

[@leonardlallemand5459]

oui, j'attend toujours qu'il poste d'autre vidéos, ça commence à faire un moment depuis la dernière...

[@generaltica]

@@leonardlallemand5459 c'est vrai...

[@wendoveruncensored3216]

Watching this in 2020 and cringing when the guy open mouth coughs right at his buddy

[@Falkriim]

I love late war French uniforms

[@zachbocchino5501]

Are the ones portraying German soldiers actually Germans or Frenchmen speaking in German. Some of the words I can't understand because they are mumbling to me. In Europe if they actually have German and French reenactors portraying soldiers of their nationality that would make it even better. Gives an authentic feel to it all.

[@SanitysVoid]

When I did re enacting in Penn State USA we had people flying in from other combatant nations so I'd guess there are a few Americans there too.

[@basedkaiser5352]

Most likely Germans, they try to bring real Germans as this commemoration is not only a symbol of remembrance but also a symbol of reconciliation between the two nations.

[@KB-5.Feldartillerie-Regiment]

Who are the ones with the berets?

[@TheBydgoszczak]

Mountain rifles

[@thekarnyx]

16:09 well that's a stormtrooper

[@oktoberfest4424]

He’s not because he’s wearing bread bag straps, in ww1 in 1918 there was a order to camouflage all helmets, hope that clears it up for you

[@facemcshooty6602]

@@oktoberfest4424 this is supposed to be Verdun, so 1916, not 1918

[@oktoberfest4424]

@@facemcshooty6602 then this is a farb ww1 reenactment, there shouldn’t be any camouflaged helmets

[@Bunny-zn7ke]

@@oktoberfest4424 not really, youre kinda correct but also wrong. cuz actually some stormtroopers wore straps, camo helmets were popular for stormtroops until by 1918 all infantry were ordered to have camo helmet, and when you look at the rifle the bolt is curved, this means its might be a kar98az.

[@oktoberfest4424]

@@Bunny-zn7ke storm troopers didn’t use bread bag straps, or if it happened it was incredibly rare, I see now that he has sturmpioneer boards so he is a stormtrooper, but he’s still a farb

[@hkboi7433]

for those who mock the French's surrender in ww2:

[@patlelion]

Amazing achievement of France and Germany and this should be a model for the world such ennemis became best friends! It s nice to see the French inviting German divizion et pour les français le rester groupir mdr

[@diablo2elitepvpguides405]

im pretty ure 700k didnt die i think it was 700k combined casualities

[@foxysideburns5741]

Oh yeah, did you see them all die?

[@kilroy8263]

Foxy Sideburns yes i did

[@foxysideburns5741]

Lol it’s so weird seeing someone react to a comment I made drunk like a month ago on a video like this

[@ohshiet2766]

900k casualties actually

[@kakashi101able]

That includes both dead and wounded, over 300,000 died. Now you got to remember that this wasn't a 1 day battle. This battle lasted for almost 10 months.

[@camnjacks15]

I like the battle part

[@WOTR695]

This is so fck cool

[@poopsiedoodlesp8506]

I can't find good pickelhaubes that aren't antiques

[@giftinggeezer3149]

Poopsiedoodles :P well what version are you looking for? Saxon, Bavarian, Prussian, cavalry lobster or one of the other versions from ww1 XD For 1 nation Germany had a lot of different pickelhaubes

[@benno._.72]

Gifting Geezer I mean most of them had a cover put over them so for WW1 reenactment it doesn't matter too much. Still gotta agree, there's a damn lot of Pickelhaubes

[@poopsiedoodlesp8506]

@@giftinggeezer3149 I'm mainly interested in Prussian infantry or general staff pickelhaubes. And while I understand that covers were mainly used in WW1. I wouldn't really display them as such. I'm still a novice at this so I've only found like 2 sources for high or medium quality pickelhaubes and both are extremely expensive to the point that it's simply not justifiable for a highschool student. :/

[@giftinggeezer3149]

Poopsiedoodles :P welcome to the club XD but some sites like epic militaria has replica pickelhaubes, unfortunately because it’s in the UK foreign shipping is expensive

[@ewa5621]

Hej Kuba to ja jurek

[@TheBydgoszczak]

Jaki Jurek?

[@bensagal-morris8072]

Verdun was not the biggest clash of the war. The Somme had more casualties and there were battles with more troops involved. It definitely was one of the biggest clashes though.

[@albyalby3843]

The battle on the river of suez too

[@collaborisgaming2190]

@JAG checkmate, the battle of Tannenberg was the biggest clash of the war. at least 2 million Russians were on the attack a quarter of them got killed, captured or routed (Russian second army got obliterated) before the rest turned tail. the Russians also sent another 2 million to Przemyśl (the Tsar wanted to sent all 4 million to Germany but his advisors convinced him Austria was more of a threat) just for reference, Operation Barbarossa in 1941 the Germans only sent a million Troops into the USSR compared to the 4 million Russia invested into the WW1 eastern front Verdun does remain the single longest battle of history and until Stalingrad was the biggest regarding casualties. but Tannenberg had way more troops there (the Germans promptly with 180,000 made mince meat out of them, that was how incompetent Russia was)

[@collaborisgaming2190]

@JAG *laughs in Brusilov offensive* Verdun would have been deadlier (if not a German victory to get France out of the war) if the Russians didn't make a good enough distraction to force some German divisions back to the east. Tannenberg had the same effect, many divisions meant for the first battle of the Marne were mustered back to the East (saving the entaunt the French capitol of Paris or making it less likely of a success, since the Miracle of the Marne where trench warfare began was started by the French who dug in desperately, if the germans had more divisions than the miracle would have been more of one or non-existent.) the Salient would have been a disaster for the French upon any successes for the Germans at either of these battles Brusilov offensive was a message to the entaunt that mobile warfare worked. just as it was at caparretto (Isonzo theatre/ A-H vs Italy) for the storm troopers of the central powers (Including Rommel the genius who managed to pioneer infiltration tactics after the battle was over for a last hurrah of 9 miles into enemy lines the Dessert fox who was a fighter in this battle) that was the biggest victory for the entaunt in the entire war, not even the hundred days offensive that broke the Hindenburg line could compare. it was a shame brusilov went back to old tactics and lost all the land gained from German counter attacks and we forget the result of the Eastern front gave the Kaiser the Gaul to expend his best troops in the 1918 spring offensives that was the last chance Germany had for a defensive victory (and to destroy the entaunt's mobile warfare strategy) not to mention it ended with the formation of the USSR. that gave the Germans a lot of land and resources that they could have used against the west in attrition including Ukraine (that would have negated the starvation of the naval blockade) even with US backing the entaunt the Germans weren't crippled until they ran out of troops in the reserves or the socialist revolutions destabilized Germany like it did Russia. Germany started the communist catalyst in Russia to get Russia out of the war in 1917, they brought Lenin from Switzerland back to Russia. many soldiers including Adolf Hitler thought the government betrayed them since they still had the morale to fight. so many of the SS and SA were WW1 Vets in the beginning before the night of the long knives went purging the monarchists from them the Volksturmm also enlisted many veterans. most of the German troops on the western front in 1918 fought in the eastern front at least once. the Eastern front was more survivable and as result more experienced troops came back. the spring offensives in 1918 where German troops from both fronts went on the charge almost broke the entaunt. the US marine Last stand and eventual counter attack at Belau woods saved the war for the west, here the Germans set up positions hidden in the woods not shelled to no-man's land yet, something common on the eastern front. the Marines took care of it but it was a severe challenge. since the Marines and Germans both used Prussian combat doctrine for hundreds of years (frederich von stuben, a Prussian trained the entire US Army during the revolutionary war and it clung to the marine corps until the late 1920s when the marines truly saw the value of hand to hand combat and expanded on it) to the luck of the entaunt the Germans failed to find out that the French army was going to mass munity if put under anymore stress. and the desired division of the French and British armies wasn't achieved due to the US filling in the Holes the eastern front experiences combined with cultural shunning of the Germans after the war with lessons from the trenches combined with new technology and some proxy war testing to invent Blitzkrieg and every other reactionary combat doctrine since then is hard to understate within full understanding a few changes in strategy here and there and Germany would of had a harder time surrendering in WW1. given all the resources gained from operation Faustlag the last major action of the eastern front (taking Russian trains to Russian stations before steamrolling and moving onto the next one, eventually taking all of Ukraine from Russia) the local monarchs put into place along with local pro-central power fighters would have given the Germans even the most basic grain needs for food. no food shortage in Germany means no socialist revolution. all Germany needed to do was not to over-expend it's army and get acquainted with locals in order to pretty much recover from the attritional losses also with the 3 front was reduced to 2 with the Isonzo theater making headway for the Central powers. you bet the central powers were at their finest hour. even past the Ottoman collapse (holding the western front and aiding the ottomans could have done something significant too, ) also crippling the sub front in Greece

[@-Griffin-]

Dont compare two battles with a gigantic difference of size. Verdun was on 20 km²

[@bensagal-morris8072]

@@-Griffin- Ok. That still doesn’t make it the largest battle. It’s the largest relative to size. That much is true. But it’s not the largest in all aspects so it shouldn’t be presented as such.

[@leminhtrinh5926]

Descend into darkness 303 days below the sun

[@emmavandevyver2405]

FIELDS OF VERDUN

[@OfficialDanversSisters]

@@emmavandevyver2405 AND THE BATTLE HAS BEGUN

[@lordhumungus7980]

NOWHERE TO RUN

[@michaelschuler6181]

Also ob in Verdun Kavallerie eingesetzt wurde wage ich zu bezweifeln.

[@jacknakash2677]

As here in the United States a big picnic with guns

[@KoriH-rj6ch]

Especially in texas

[@Mirko_C.]

Hopefully no one of german side have little mustache and get rejected from art school

[@foxysideburns5741]

These soy boys don’t hold a candle to all the badass mustachioed French men you actually see in ww1 footage

[@thehistoadian]

The British have the real Moustaches...

[@NoirChat138]

French were known towards the end of the war as "poilus" due to their long barbs and at the beginning they mostly looked like Parisian dandies

[@NoirChat138]

@@thehistoadian never heard of the Wilhelm Schnurrbart

[@Wojskowy1945]

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[@stevenhearnden6103]

The Germans started it! 😁

[@raseli4066]

Hungary and Austria did

[@WarDyl3]

@@raseli4066 and Serbia and Russia

[@yourkipper497]

I'm surprised they didn't Just Surrender

[@skiteufr]

stop direspecting the memory of hundred thousands of Frenchmen who died in one of the most horrible battle ever fought these jokes are no more funny

[@yourkipper497]

skiteufr shut up nerd

[@skiteufr]

improved bangers and mash you'll tell us your nationality so than we can piss on the graves of your fellow countrymen

[@yourkipper497]

skiteufr sure I'm british

[@yourkipper497]

skiteufr yeaaaaaaa sureeeeee

[@Poshypaws]

Abteilung...Halt...und die marschieren weiter😂😂😂😂😂