Worst Parts of Being a Trench Soldier in WWI

[@TetsuShima]

WW1 being nicknamed as "the War to end all Wars" was probably the best joke ever written

[@maxo6]

@@JOSHSLEGO waay more then 10 wars

[@Roboman1807]

The phrase was coined in 1914. It was believed that if the germans, the Kaiser and its allies could be defeated, agressive foreign policies would cease (the british believed that the germans and its allies were the cause of war). The scale and devastation of WW1 was supposed to dissuade anyone from waging war.

[@MrSimplified]

@@JOSHSLEGO Ukraine = Special Operation ≠ War

[@hans1253]

It was supposed to be...

[@AIDAHAR210]

@@MrSimplified hey Igor, how's the weather in Krasnoyarsk?

[@ciscoperez6879]

Rip to all those fallen soldiers. Fighting a pointless war. The horrors these men had to face. Can’t even imagine it as I type on my smart phone eating breakfast. Be grateful

[@omniexistus]

Always did seem pointless to me compared to other wars. A world war just because of someone getting assassinated? Looks to me that every country was spoiling for a fight.

[@YagizBagdatli]

@@omniexistus yes they were. Why did you think they all joined it?

[@sergiovaldez7893]

@@omniexistus That's exactly how it was, People describe Europe before ww1 as a explosive keg just waiting to be set off. Every country had their own reason for wanting War.

[@nothing_to_read_here]

And thats why man have to many rights and WOmEn nEeDs MoRe RiGhTs

[@tharrinos8650]

For me a Romanian it didn't semm a pointless war. :)))

[@seanparker4495]

There is a lot of stories of WW1 where troops shot their own because they couldn’t see who it was. Because remember it was dark only lit by moonlight.

[@lordbeaverhistory]

Happend often enough in daylight. If an attack fails, and you retreat, your artillery thinks your the enemy and lay down hellfire. If you attack and have success, but your trench doesn't know it or the runner was too slow, your artillery AND the enemy artillery lay down hellfire on you. If you successful defend a trench, but some retreated, the trench is considered fallen and your artillery last down hellfire

[@JV-pu8kx]

This is true of _any_ war. Friendly fire incidents are inevitable, as well as civilian casualties.

[@TheNoobyAnimator]

Your forgetting one war.... Ya know!

[@HBToastedAlmond]

​@@lordbeaverhistory Who is the runner ?

[@lordbeaverhistory]

@@HBToastedAlmond orders between units were Transported by Runners (soldiers running from one trench to the back or to another trench)

[@sussydogwithcheese]

soldier 1: "i ran out of ammo." *soldier 2 gave soldier 1 stones* soldier 2: "go monke mode."

[@UsaKen_PMC]

enemy soldier with trench stick : oonga boonga, you monke, me hooman

[@ABDULQADIR-iy5bu]

🤣🤣🤣😂😂

[@OxygenDestroyer36271]

Soldier 3 : Hold my pistol

[@forggyleturtle6021]

Solider 1: throws pistol

[@HBToastedAlmond]

😂 Let's hope none of you would find themselves in trenched fighting for a country in a senseless war

[@leszczuflams98]

To be precise, they used the trench clubs not because they were out of ammunition, but simply because they were much more effective in close quaters combat inside the trenches than bolt action rifles

[@davidarango4679]

That changed when the US entered the war in 1917. US soldiers began using shotguns when entering enemy trenches. It proved super effective at close quarters to clear out a trench, and extremely deadly at taking out several men at a time in a trench. So deadly in fact, that even Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II protested its use. Saying it was "barbaric" and "ungentlmanly warfare."

[@destinyrpga8118]

​@@davidarango4679also at the end of the war some Germans were already using the first mass produced machine pistols MP18

[@randomdude4360]

Ahem, the worst part of being a trench soldier in WWI IS being a trench soldier in WWI

[@Yeahimman32]

No, the worst part is being a soldier in the war

[@Tree457]

@@Yeahimman32 yeah but WW1 conditions were particularly bad because it was either, die from artillery, get shot going through no man’s land, freezing to death, dying of disease or infection, or actually crossing no man’s land and getting into hand to hand combat

[@xXRealXx]

@@Tree457 how did anyone survive that?

[@Scrub_Lord-en7cq]

Could’ve never said it better

[@HennryHammerhead]

​@@xXRealXx Most didnt.

[@pseudoslide]

At least humanity has gotten past needing to fight pointless wars, right?.... Right??

[@chadgaming8071]

they are not pointless, but we dont need wars but people fight for freedoms other fight for imperialism and mistimes both sides fight for both

[@tfcshortsnon-official7283]

every war has a purpose. It just may not be a good purpose

[@nothingisgoingtohappen]

War is a cowardly solution to the prospects of peace.

[@Marouane0]

Not until the USA stoppes liberating 3rd world countries

[@tfcshortsnon-official7283]

@@Marouane0 Not pointless just not a good point.

[@FloppyPankake]

Kudos to all those brave men Russian German French British Austrian Italian Ottoman they are the men we need in this world now strong willed hard fighting brave men

[@castleanthrax1833]

An entire generation of young men wiped out in just 4 years.

[@tracy9397]

I’ve done a lot of research on WWI and it was beyond brutal. Most people nowadays wouldn’t survive a week in what they went through.

[@youpickedthewronghousefool7869]

The soldiers in the frontlines barely survived a week themselves

[@TheJoe971]

Week ? Let's talk hours 😅

[@Unusual_Incidents_Units]

Me:Hey Timmy Timmy: hey Me: Timmy do you smell mustard *Drops dead*

[@benb9151]

No

[@TetsuShima]

The paranoia suffered by the soldiers of WW1 was brilliantly depicted in the episode "Yellow", from the tv series "Tales from the Crypt" (although that episode was originally made as part of a movie that served as the pilot for a spin-off that was cancelled), in which a General, played by Kirk Douglas, tries at all costs to stop his son, played by Eric Douglas, from being a coward in the front

[@RWM0]

Tales from the crypt was awesome, I watched it a lot as a kid. Guess you've gave me a reason to go back and watch it again now lol

[@User-sb6er]

Ww1 was truly the most horrific conflict that the world experienced

[@Very_Silly_Individual]

Combat in ww1 was a lot more brutal than in ww2.

[@jskpro-pu1qe]

Exactly even if ww2 caused more deaths

[@ryanc970]

Depends on what part of WW2 you're talking about. Some of it was less brutal then WW1 but trench tactics were still used in the Italian campaign, and the bloodiest battle in history, Stalingrad was fought between the Nazi's and the Soviets and lasted for 5 months. There was also the Bataan death march in the Phillipines and some of the island campaigns in the Pacific like Okinawa and Iwo Jima were such bloodbaths that America decided to use a nuclear weapon rather than invade Japan and go through that again

[@getmoggged]

war itself is brutal

[@psilocybicacid7667]

Medicine was also a lot worse

[@afdalridwan3813]

@João P K Indonesia death toll : 5 Million All of it due to Japan brutality

[@BackYardScience2000]

Can confirm that trench foot is indeed one of the worst things that you can ever experience. Keep your feet dry, folks. You certainly do NOT want to end up with trench foot! Trust me....

[@--TOM--]

"Change your socks!" As our docs would always say

[@farhanaditya2647]

Just curious but... how does it feel?

[@IamYasin144]

​@@farhanaditya2647just imagine youre feet constantly being wet

[@raptor10x]

Fun fact That was on the British and french threnches The German had a good side of the land where the trenches were much better built

[@osmacar5331]

Those issues only effected certain types of trench. The germans made permanent trenches with concrete and living spaces.

[@conangaming2156]

My great grandfather’s brother was in WW1. My great grandfather was in WW2. My grandfather did his national service in the 1950’s. That’s just on my dads side. On my mothers side there’s more after that. On that side, my great grandfather was also in WW2. My mum’s uncle was in Vietnam. So yeah. “The war to end all wars” didn’t end a single thing. That’s just my family, there are millions others all across the planet. With similar experiences. I hope this is relevant.

[@--TOM--]

Yes indeed this is relevant. Not sure if I have any family who served in a world war, but my dad served in the Army for a short time, in the 80s I believe. And one of my uncles served in Afghanistan in the Army National Guard. I know I have extended family who also served in the military but I'm not sure if they went to war. I'm sure you don't care but I myself am serving in the Marine Corps in mech unit and I've already been in a little over a year now.

[@ireneusz-u9i]

The worst that could have happened to a soldier during the First World War? The alps. The front line in the Alps was the soldiers' worst nightmare. Imagine having to pull your cannon up to the neck of a mountain during a blizzard. Staying a month with 4 other people in the mountains during a blizzard. Winter in the Alps killed more soldiers than enemy bullets. Anyway, there were no shots at enemy positions. They were fired in such a way as to trigger a snow avalanche. One avalanche killed almost 10,000 people in 5 minutes. Most are still there today.

[@obi-wankenobi2042]

My great great grandpa knew some soldiers that layed down in the grass rather than the mud just so they have something to warm them up during the night.😢

[@ItzravangerTheFirst]

i feel bad for the soldiers who surived in the trenches with these conditions all the way to the final day of war only to get shot and die, a war is truly the most unfair thing to exist

[@enternamehere4124]

Imagine being a german soldier during WW1 You yust barely survived no man's land and got to the enemy trenches while seeing your friends and brothers die You enter the trench ready to get some revenge And you immidiatly die Because some french guy stuck in the mud found a Big stick

[@UsaKen_PMC]

french soldier : oonga boonga german soldier : hooh haah *ded

[@Longb0w]

I can imagine a French soldier beating a German with a stick, then knowing what he had done, watching in horror as the German was struggling to hold on to his life😔

[@nathancook8903]

Those were the lucky ones. The ones that went through that and found himself in an American trench got a shotgun to the face instead.

[@nokh3382]

@@nathancook8903or if they lost their trenches to the Canadians and surrendered, just to realize that Canadians had a “take no prisoners” policy.

[@tobeslmao]

frenchman: *”Haha, stick go bonk”*

[@applejuice6459]

There wasn't just water in those trenches. It had blood, human waste, and who knows what else.

[@ezekiyam3827]

Rats

[@cashtaylor9804]

I absolutely HATE war 💯

[@gzinom6801]

Clown

[@gzinom6801]

Enjoy minimum wage

[@tailos3795]

@@gzinom6801 ????

[@chadgaming8071]

same

[@BackYardScience2000]

@@tailos3795 just ignore them. They're the clown and they're upset because they'll never be anything in life and they're taking it out on others, like a child. It's sad, really.

[@johnmarston3434]

Honorable mention: the fact that one guy could blow a whistle and it meant that you just run out into the open in the hopes that the guy on the other side wasn’t already focused on you.

[@sumerrana6805]

and in most cases guys in the other side has machine guns

[@Yeahimman32]

@@sumerrana6805 and artillery, snipers, riflemens

[@slft47]

@@Yeahimman32 dont forget mines, grenades, turrets/grenade launchers etc☠️

[@earflapphat]

Props to the soldiers who had to go through this. It was truly a horrible time.

[@michaelshaugobay-hirsch5895]

When he said people beat up each other or clubs I kind of sounds like my classroom when there's 1 gun

[@markbaker5599]

A lot worst happened. People drowned in that mud. They'd fall in and just sink down with the weight of their backpacks. Also it's where the saying "getting cold feet" comes from. Soldiers used to sit all night with their feet in the mud, deliberately giving themselves trenchfoot. They would be sent to medical and avoid going over the top.

[@ezekiyam3827]

watched All quiet on the western part and that one scene where the MC was being drowned on mud makes me think that happened countless time on ww1

[@castleanthrax1833]

The phrase first appeared in an 1878 English translation of the German novel Seed-time and Harvest, when a character leaves the poker table when his luck - and his feet, allegedly - are cold. "So?" said the rector, hotly, for he was determined to retain his winnings, "haven't I as good a right to cold feet as you?29 Nov 2022

[@bundlesofjoe]

This is not how the German trenches were... The allies set their trenches up expecting the war to take a few months, maybe a year or two. The Germans set them up expecting to be holding the line for a VERY long time so their trenches were designed with much more forethought and had very limited issues with mud. It was only on the newest sections where there would be issues with mud and those would be remedied fairly quickly considering the active combat right where the work is being done.

[@exotic5379]

My great grandpa got his leg cut off by a bayonet and still won. ❤fly high😢❤

[@davidarango4679]

They forgot about all the rats that would be a constant presence in the trenches on both sides. They also brought disease with them such as typhus, which was common in the trenches due to all those rats. They would also chew on people while they slept, as well as the rotting corpses of the dead. Both in the trenches and "No Mans Land."

[@FizzyFazzer]

The fact that they mostly had no choice. R.i.p ww1 soldiers and thank you for your service ❤🕊🎈

[@blindingpheonix345]

There was also "shell-shock" which was essentially ptsd from artillery fire.

[@khasidailyfact6371]

...and women these are why we're not the equally the same respectively. We can be equal but not on the same level as men. Like we can be equal in parenthood for the kids but not leadership for the soldiers. We can be equal at home but not at war.

[@KaoriHanako]

Many people where forced to risk there life's just because some countries couldn't agree on something:/ It's just heartbreaking,rip to the fallen soldiers

[@money339]

In WW1 some soldiers made cages that cover them because rats in the trenches would eat their food, their clothes and even bite them

[@gb6710]

All of it was the worst part.

[@datcheesecakeboi6745]

"If not treated it it would have to be amputated" no thats treating it late Not treating it causes death

[@DerektheDalek]

You left out getting eaten by rats as big as dinner plates, according to some accounts.

[@BackYardScience2000]

I can definitely confirm that trench foot is absolutely HORRIFIC! You do not want to even get close to getting trench foot!!!

[@MrPotato-2709]

Soldier: I ran out of bullets Soldier 2: Here have a shovel

[@Anonymous-12]

POV:German trenches: 😁

[@gskul6883]

That is very intense most people today such as me would not be able to deal with that

[@Generic_Game_Makers]

Man they really said ooga booga at the end

[@saigovind3006]

The soldiers living and dying in pathetic conditions while the rulers and politicians living in luxury goving them orders. Sad.

[@RWH_Stu.]

“Öscard get der mustard”

[@jayvonnoelsmith8445]

WW1 the War was crazy

[@ratnik_7]

Also feminists : Men are so lucky when are we gonna be equal men have everything easy 😭😭😭

[@benb9151]

And then there was Private Bob, who told everyone he was not actually a man, but a woman.

[@speedyloc8746]

Bro WWI HAS to be up there in the running for the most inhumane wars ever fought, of course there's the gas, there's the old school tactics that were outdated leading to thousands of soldiers being mowed down by automatic machine guns, the trenches being death traps themselves like how it explains in this video, the introduction of tanks for the first time I couldn't begin to imagine what it was like to be in the shoes of those men, RIP to ALL those brave soldiers

[@inarismessenger703]

I've heard it said that WWI was the more brutal of the two due simply to it being a war where we had not yet completely mastered the rifle but we understood the bomb so it was a picture of mele combat surrounded by explosions that are heating air filled with bullets, sometimes all the way to the sky if there were dog fights overhead. And while not every situation was that exactly it was usually always atleast a cocktail of two or three of those things at a time.

[@castleanthrax1833]

WWI was the 1st war where killing occurred on an industrial scale, due largely to the invention of the machine gun. Commanders didn't modify their tactics and sent wave after wave into a hail of bullets.

[@oitar3185]

Let's be thankful that we didn't have to go through that, just imagine going through that

[@pogman6948]

And the new gen saying they are braver than soldiers ☠️

[@Qwwwis]

They be scared of tiny drop of blood.

[@Soleihere]

No...? Stop making up narratives.

[@toskuxklan711]

This is why this was the worst war they were sent nothing but alcohol so they would stay awake

[@peterlara291]

Trench foot is probably the nastiest thing I ever seen

[@peggymichael8658]

War is the worst thing a man could go through

[@gabe608]

They left out the very serious rat problems. The ate wounded soldiers alive and plus the dead and always went for the soft parts first eyes and your downstairs parts

[@narayanjoshi9346]

प्रथम विश्वयुद्ध में मेरे पूर्वजों से सुनी कहानियों के मुताबिक, सिपाहियों को घायल होने पर सर्जरी करने हेतु एनेस्थीसिया या ड्रेसिंग के लिए दवाई और बैंडेजेस भी पूरे उपलब्ध नहीं थे, भारतीय सिपाहियों को घायल अवस्था में मरने को छोड़कर बाकी सब आगे चले जाते थे

[@Will-dn9dq]

Dad was a Vietnam vet. Told me only way get rid jungle rot feet was get out the jungle.

[@kgfff3036]

Salute to the heroes of ww1 of all countries

[@Kaiser_von_Europa]

This is only on the allies side, the German had more comfortable trench than the allies and they rarely get trench foot

[@pratejprasai9432]

RIP To The Soldiers Who Passed Away In War

[@larrykang2586]

This is exactly what I’m learning in History class rn

[@laurieb3703]

Now do one on Korean war fox holes 😬😔 Dad told me stories and they're horrific

[@jthablaidd]

Germany: *literally uses a gas that makes you choke on your own lung chunks* Also germany: nooo shots guns are too inhumane😢😊

[@Krasko666]

Trench foot was very quickly resolved by potting oil on your feet. I would also like to point out that in some ocassions soldier were shaving using sandpaper

[@originalrenigade]

They are real men.

[@shouldntgivename3994]

Yet none of them wanted to be there and vets are some of the most anti-war people out there. Men, yes. Tough, yes. But they were forced to be that way or die in a horrible way

[@jakelly843]

There isn't paranoia. You accept the possibilities, and keep it moving.

[@mrreaper9626]

Oh no,No ammo?GET THE MACES!

[@KATHLEEN-XM772]

Death Korps of Krieg: WE ARE READY TO SERVE!!! *KEEP 'EM FIRING TILL WE SEE THE GLOW OF OUR BARRELS!!!!*

[@comet3969]

“Your difficulty scaling depends on the amount of cuts you have”

[@coolmansz1742]

worst part of trench warfare being in it in the first place

[@dumpsterchild5734]

Yes it's absolutely was the worst way in any combat situation and yes people did froze people that had the worst situations infections were always high

[@arson6022]

You miss main danger part:Dying

[@sinshu5269]

I won't like this to happen to any of my family & friends. I hope we never see a war again🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙂

[@Yeahimman32]

There are many wars happening today that you don't see in the news

[@Cookiefy_]

Potassium.

[@BackYardScience2000]

Yes, Potassium is itself a metal and it reacts explosively with water. I have a video on that if you'd like to see it.

[@slovakperson]

Respect

[@tgeliot]

I read that one could get trench foot even without a wound or infection. The constant cold would reduce blood flow and eventually tissue would just die. But even to this day, that problem isn't fully solved. We still have the affliction that arose during the cold war -- missile toe.

[@castleanthrax1833]

They weren't implying you first need a wound to develop trench foot. The cuts and scrapes were on other parts of their bodies. Their feet were in boots, which protected them against direct injury but kept their feet wet, which is the direct cause of trench foot.

[@tgeliot]

@@castleanthrax1833 Agreed; I didn't mean to imply otherwise.

[@dylancrampton5620]

As someone who had a single infected toenail before, I couldn't possibly imagine trench foot

[@Pilot141]

As is said in remembrance day: every step you took would sink you into the mud, and if you didn’t sink it was because you where standing on a body

[@TheHeathenPunk]

I got trenchfoot a while back when I was hitchhiking.

[@lordbeaverhistory]

I think the English Trenches were the worst part about the Trench Warfare

[@MichaelMcKinnon-jf1yy]

Getting blown apart by an artillery strike is probably worse

[@GARY_THE_TV]

The german trench:Bro the coffee is good are they The brit trench:ok now you have to suffered

[@Medicgames94]

Then, 100 years later, we play video games based off of the war

[@grimmreaper1594]

I was deeply scarred by a picture of trench foot

[@theprancingprussian]

The clubs werent used against each other, when ammo ran out along your sector grenades were used offensivly and defensively with clubs alot better at cqb fighting than a fixed or at times unfixed bayonet

[@blazefn8941]

It just proves being ww2 soldier was way better than ww1

[@ItzWolves_]

Being in any war is horrible but I can kind of see your point

[@MG-gj7pv]

Wars should be fought by the politicians who call for them

[@kaithedragon21]

Especially Passchendaele

[@苾]

Respect for all the soldiers that had to go through this

[@TheBaioken]

Also constant artillery fire wrecks your nerves

[@captainpelmenientertainment]

WWI soldiers used socks covered in oil so their feets don't get cold and get gangrene

[@danielmatheis9600]

Bugs? Mate the rats that try to bite bits of you while sleep is much more worse xD

[@ragnocammello2984]

Certainly the worst conflict (for human conditions) in history

[@nozomi_chan9398]

Those fallen soldiers, they fight to protect their family if i were the soldier i would cry because the loud bomb

[@nozomi_chan9398]

Be greatful, those heroes fight for peace, they sacrifice their lives

[@jsdid]

awesome. i was eating chicken and got to see the trench foot pic.

[@fabuluspotato9815]

Literally everything

[@NickSmith-fe7lp]

"Worst parts of being a trench soldier" 1) everything

[@julz_swag]

Gosh, you never really truly realize how horrible WWI and WWII was

[@thats_one_cool_egg]

Worst parts of being a trench soldier in WWI: Everything