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@autodidact5379 ай бұрын
For Canadians the most memorable battle is Vimy Ridge.
@djentspace603010 ай бұрын
I just can't comprehend how someone could first survive something as attritional as this battle and also not completely lose sanity permanently.
@Free-Bodge7910 ай бұрын
That's one of the saddest things about what's happening with our Slavic brothers and sisters at the min. They'd be able to tell you all about it.😔
@Justmemyguy10 ай бұрын
Sadly, some did lose their sanity completely. Even the ones who appeared to be sane from the outside looking in, had lasting psychological effects that never go away. My great grandfather fought in the pacific during ww2. He was a quiet and loving man. Never talked about the conflict except one time for an interview where he briefly talked about it. The true effects that the war had on him didn’t show profoundly until his last year of life. He developed dementia and had a lot of flashbacks. On a few occasions he believed he was still there during the battle of pellelui. It breaks my heart that such a loving and gentle person had to spend the last part of his life stuck in that hell. He didn’t deserve that.
@Free-Bodge7910 ай бұрын
@@Justmemyguy so if you'd lived through that. with your older people. Why would you ever want to send your younger ones. The whole thing is a joke. Especially when your government straight up hates you. ! Mad love to your grand dad . He sounds like a true one. ! 👍💛👊
@Justmemyguy10 ай бұрын
@@Free-Bodge79 Agreed. My grandfather (a Vietnam veteran) tearfully asked me not to join when I was 18 for much the same sentiment. Glad I actually listened to him.
@wesleyblacksher164110 ай бұрын
@@Free-Bodge79the government “officials” sending children to war have no idea what war is like and frankly they don’t care. It won’t be them or their children. I think if they vote for war it’s mandatory their children and grandchildren be on the front line. There would be a lot less war.
@HunterAndre_2110 ай бұрын
My Great Great Grandfather fought in the French army at Verdun and The First and Second Battles of The Marne R.I.P Robert Alexandre André (1889-1980)
@youknow22710 ай бұрын
What their generation went through can't even be put into words Did he ever speak about it?
@HunterAndre_2110 ай бұрын
@@youknow227 he did a bit but you could tell it brought back some hard memories he suffered from nightmares of Verdun for years after WW1 but over the decades after he didn’t mind talking about the war
@youknow22710 ай бұрын
@@HunterAndre_21 Do you think we're headed for WW3?
@Elitesyno9 ай бұрын
My great great grandfather fought as well in the battle of Verdun, but for the Germans, Michael Pralat, he was an officer at the time. My grandmother told me stories of him. He was a giant, very calm and quiet. I always wondered how he managed to survive fighting the full 4 years of this atrocious war, especially Verdun. He didn’t speak much of it, it was too painful for him to talk about it. I’ve always wanted to talk to him and just see how he managed to live through all the horrors
@youknow2279 ай бұрын
@@Elitesyno It doesn't matter if he fought for Germany or England or France What I've realised from stories from then is that they all don't care who wins by the end, just that it ends Harry patch, the last WW1 combat veteran to die said a statement: I looked out of the trenches, and saw two dogs fighting over a a biscuit, both fighting for their lives. And I realised here we were, two civilised nations, in a dirty lousy trench, fighting for what? 18 pence a flipping day
@davidsigalow73499 ай бұрын
Visiting Verdun is the best way to understand the horror that was the Great War. The ominous forts, the trenches, the Ossiuary, the massive graveyards...very sad and profound. The scars of war are still very visible, 100 years later.
@jamesbednar862510 ай бұрын
Awesome video!!! Had the honor of visiting Verdun for a few hours in 1999 when was still in US Army. My headquarters section flew from Fort Riley, Kansas, to Germany to participate in a warfighting exercise. We went early in order to spend a week in the Normandy area to Grafenwohr Germany, but we were supposed to spend 1/2 a day at Verdun. As with normal Army expeditions, we spent longer in the Normandy area on our last day there, so command decided to skip Verdun. Thankfully, the German bus driver that we had was a stickler for the schedule and he refused to listen to command begging him to bypass Verdun. We finally make it to Verdun and picked up the battlefield around Fort Dumont, or close by. Do remember that there was a awesome looking chapel there that was just overpacked with various bones from the French soldiers that died there - though the chapel was closed by the time we arrived, you could still look through the basement windows and see the stacks and stacks of bones. We were able to explore the immediate area on our own for about 1-hour before reloading onto the bus and leaving. Also remember visiting the site of the French trenches where the soldiers were buried alive because of the intensity of the German artillery bombardment - think that was location where those soldiers were only able to be found because of their bayonets attached to their weapons were sticking up out of the dirt. Wished we would have stayed on our original schedule when in Normandy so that we could have arrived at Verdun around noon-time like the original plan but guess that is why I was not in command of the excursion. Anyway, THANKS!!! for the memories!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@19Cronite9210 ай бұрын
I think you mean the "Ossuaire de Douaumont" with the chapel. The bones in the building are actually not only of French soldiers, but also of German soldiers (. In total, there are about 130000 unidentified soldiers in the ossuary. I also assume that by the second place you mean the "Tranchée des Baïonnettes". The French soldiers found here were not buried alive, as the myth goes. This was also confirmed by the lieutenant on duty. The rifles were probably placed next to the fallen as a temporary marker. They were also probably intended to show respect. After the position was conquered by German soldiers, the trench was simply filled in to carry out a kind of burial.
@jamesbednar862510 ай бұрын
Awesome!! Big THANK YOU!!! for the memory corrections. Do now remember the bones in the chapel were of soldiers from both sides. As for the TRENCH - that seems to be the story have read in multiple books about the battle as well, kind of like when the Virgin Mary appeared above a battlefield during the first stages of the war - may not be true but makes for a good story. Again, Big THANKS!!! for the corrections.@@19Cronite92
@jacobmullins36448 ай бұрын
The one battle that needs a movie about it
@aurorathekitty785410 ай бұрын
I find it baffling that the leader's who instigated ww2 saw first hand the horrors of WW1
@rickyclarke17579 ай бұрын
Unfortunately leaders don't mind starting Wars because it isn't them, their family or friends doing the fighting, it will be the ordinary man that will fight wars started by politicians
@aurorathekitty78549 ай бұрын
@@rickyclarke1757 In WW2 pretty much all sides saw people from different classes take up fighting. After that it pretty much fell on the poor.
@jakecollin54999 ай бұрын
@@rickyclarke1757could you not just mindlessly regurgitate the same shit that is posted over and over. We fucking know and you’ve somehow managed to reference one of the few instances where you’re wrong.
@jakecollin54999 ай бұрын
The Germans wanted it because they felt they’d been screwed. France basically shit the bed because the leadership refused to accept what was happening, likely because of WW1 memories. Britain didn’t want it either but Churchill did his thing. Ironically in an effort to show how wrong the Treaty of Versailles was Germany did everything they were trying to say they didn’t do.
@LemonHead-sq5ws8 ай бұрын
Revenge is a powerful motive
@Frank-jg4tq7 ай бұрын
100,000 artillery shells in one hour! That's 27 a second! What the fuck! Imagine hearing that, or being on the receiving end
@Paul-lw7xm3 ай бұрын
Yes, the most terrifying thing is that on the first day of the battle, February 21, 1916, in 24 hours, 1 million shells were fired by the Germans on the French lines.
@Wafflez-Man-YT10 ай бұрын
This video is amazing thank you!!! This seriously shows real footage and explains the battle so well man. LITERALLY that battle was Hell. Just the insane carnage from artillery was so horrific.
@kennethhigdon115910 ай бұрын
Descend into darkness 303 days below the sun Fields of Verdun And the battle has begun Nowhere to run Father and son Fall one by one Under the gun
@D3m0n1c4t10 ай бұрын
yoo sabaton
@jamesquinney66867 ай бұрын
And the judgement has begun
@LiamTate-b1v10 күн бұрын
The Somme was much worse lasted half as long as verdun and saw double the casualties the first day saw 3 months worth off casualties suffered in Verdun
@brodybouillion17507 ай бұрын
The men that fought this war were of a different breed
@kostasvrionis78110 ай бұрын
Καλώς ήρθατε στην πόλη της ειρήνης στο Verdun αυτό γράφει όταν μπαίνεις στην πόλη γιατί ζούσα 2 χρόνια εκεί. Πήγαμε εκεί που έγινε η μάχη..πραγματικά πολύ σκληρά γεγονότα
@patolt16289 ай бұрын
5:00: Verdun meaning "green nol or something I couldn't understand": where did you find that? I'm French and, as far as I know, the name of Verdun comes from the Celts who created an oppidum (a fortified village) at least 100 years BC named Verodunum which gave Verdun later on, meaning "big hill" (in Celtic language). Nothing to do with anything green.
@noodle6934Күн бұрын
A knoll is a hill
@patolt1628Күн бұрын
@@noodle6934 OK for the knoll, thank you for this clarification. I was in fact reacting to what I understood as the suggestion that Verdun was related to "something green" since "vert" is the French word for green. It's indeed related to a big hill on top of which a fortified village can be built, and not to the color green which is irrelevant.
@oneshotme10 ай бұрын
I very much enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up
@fenecrusader9 ай бұрын
Great Video 👍🏻
@erickollman44418 ай бұрын
My great grandfather was killed in this battle (on the German side), after his unit had completed their rotation and were headed back to the rear for rest and refit. Somehow artillery ranged on them and blew them apart as they were heading back to the supposed "safety" of the rear. War is hell.
@dakotas872710 ай бұрын
For us Canucks it's Vimy Ridge....
@patkennedy26209 ай бұрын
I visited there a few months ago. It’s so tasteful, just left as the area was so you can see how the land was convulsed & assaulted, & some remaining woods left. It is an amazing place, with dignity, peace & reflection. The monument is appropriate, with class & dignity. For me, it far surpassed the masculinity of the Tiepval monument which I had been really looking forward to. Best wishes. Pat
@byron86579 ай бұрын
For us Filipinos its the Battle of Bataan and Corrigedor island in 1941 against the Empire of Japan in World War Two
@LemonHead-sq5ws8 ай бұрын
Who cares
@Mountain_bonker8 ай бұрын
@@LemonHead-sq5wsstfu many ppl do
@ilyakoryavov38978 ай бұрын
Probably a few million people more than about your opinion
@russellbelian1847 ай бұрын
It is history and recent history as well.
@AdVd-us9cr6 ай бұрын
More than 100 years ago who cares not the youth of today 😮
@joelcowan895010 ай бұрын
Very well done.
@mdog1070Ай бұрын
Just thinking about this battle makes me feel lucky to work 6 double shifts a week in a busy restaurant. I can’t even imagine the horror, there is no words to describe a scenario like that.
@alanbooker19552 ай бұрын
Great video, thanks.
@tonymaiorano27492 ай бұрын
Verdun is the saddest place I have ever visited.
@zillsburyy110 ай бұрын
the war to end all wars...............
@suckyourdeadnan480510 ай бұрын
Accept it just paved the way for an even bigger war
@jacobmullins36448 ай бұрын
Yea it didn't do as it's name says
@vjbd27574 ай бұрын
It ended nothing
@923763 ай бұрын
Toured the Verdun battlefield several years ago. They’re still finding live munitions; marked off by bright paint until they can move them.
@TheOGThalia10 ай бұрын
Can you tell us more about the infamous no man’s land
@markymark357210 ай бұрын
The German plan for Verdun was to bleed the French army dry in a battle of attrition. What they didn't anticipate was that thanks to the horrific human meatgrinder that Verdun became for both sides, the German army was bled dry too, with total casualties as high as 400,000 men
@helmuthvonmoltke55189 ай бұрын
That's not really correct. The real objective was to quickly take Verdun and the surrounding fort's so that the German army can march onto Paris again and simultaneously strengthen its defensive position in the rear. The battle of attrition myth was an excuse made up by Falkenhayn to save face after the war.
@tonyhawk948 ай бұрын
"The bleed France white" narrative was a justification invented by Falkenhayn to justify his colossal blunder. In reality the Germans lost as many men for a net gain of nothing...
@marcoschaper17377 ай бұрын
@@helmuthvonmoltke5518that's right, no serious historian follows the " bleed the french army white " argument anymore. I think it's not just the days the germans had to wait, it was also to attack on just one bank of the meuse, what gave the french the opportunity to use theire guns to stop the germans
@OlivierGaffuri-wc2dl3 ай бұрын
This myth has been debunked.
@diegomaugeri40384 ай бұрын
I'm from Italy, and I was a teenager when the holding of hands between Kohl and Mitterrand was televised in the evening news. Moments like that were the real birth of the European Union. Political and human moments when the historical memory of the insane massacres of WWI and WWII were the driving force to finally put in place political and economic tools to prevent war in Europe from ever happening again. All the idiots who are now against the EU as a political entity don't know how lucky and privileged they have been to have enjoyed such a long stretch of prosperous peace. Their grandparents didn't, their parents didn't. And those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.
@francescocomunale81957 ай бұрын
Imagine... a average of 200.000 shells every single day for 303 days
@ImThatGuyGoddi9 ай бұрын
Imagine if gopro was a thing back then
@deadmau566618 ай бұрын
Verdun and fort de vaux were just insanity
@peterwoodhouse323910 ай бұрын
Trenches from the North sea to the Mediterranean? where abouts on the Mediterranean coast?
@RobertsArchives10 ай бұрын
While not connected, there were trenchlines in the Mediterranean from 1916-1918. Following the failed British-French disaster at Gallipoli and the need to assist the Serb & Montenegrins in the Balkans, the Entente opened up a frontline in Greece, also referred to as The Macedonian Front. Mutliple offensives were launched on the front, the most well known is the Monastir Offensive. Greece eventually declared war on the Central Powers in 1917.
@matthewjohnathanwarburton83429 ай бұрын
The klowns who made this documentary have no idea what they are talking about. The trenches never even touched the Swiss Border...and the Somme marked the Canadians? What the hell is he talking about?!
@wladislawnowozhilow34036 ай бұрын
Why cameramen are staying outside of the trenches and filming everything from the top, seconds before the offense whistle. How do they always survive??
@marksantiago98416 ай бұрын
Well they don’t have to survive. Maybe some of them were killed yet the cameras were still intact and is probably being used by another person
@LanceStoddard6 ай бұрын
Not to subtract from Verdun, but weren't there more casualties at the Somme?
@LanceStoddard6 ай бұрын
@user-gy5zy6bh3u Yeah, there were a lot of French troops there.
@maximilianodelrio6 ай бұрын
I think so, but it's not really tht far off
@AndrewC.McPherson-xf5zw4 ай бұрын
Unreal man.
@PROJEKT_R3D10 ай бұрын
Isn't there an area that is used as an artillery site that's considered the only "ongoing WW1 battle"? If I'm not mistaken, battlefield 1 represents it as Prise de Tahure? Its known as the battle that never ends because it's always being bombed, even if it's drills
@CaptScrotes8 ай бұрын
Ain't nobody coming back from Verdun in one piece.
@shantishan11728 ай бұрын
This was a great informative video, we must not forget our mistakes in history, but oh god why did u put japanese soldiers in the video cover hahaah
@stephennewton222310 ай бұрын
The concept of bleeding France white seems to be a bit undefined. Not an objective that can be worked on. Also, von Falkenhayn didn't actually say this until after the battle had already bogged down. It sounds like he was covering his....to cover up a mistake.
@tacticalmattfoley7 ай бұрын
It had the desired effect.....France was very close to collapse not long after this. They were executing thousands of their own soldiers for desertion.....there were riots at home and talk of revolution.....France was almost finished when, by a stroke of providence, the US expeditionary force was deployed to the front.....
@sreideur35064 ай бұрын
@@tacticalmattfoleyHow can you rewriting history so much ? Even at the highest of 1917 mutinies (who wasn't to end the war) it didn't have execution by hundred so by thousand.... Verdun was at the start an offensive to split the entente force it was after the disaster than bleed the French army was brough to cover his mistake. And the US weren't truly operationnal after germany was already on the verge of defeat.
@mbaritaud4 ай бұрын
@@tacticalmattfoley
@kylebaddog508410 ай бұрын
Fighting a war for things you don’t agree with on and politics who won’t fight it themselves
@WWeronko8 ай бұрын
Admittedly, you have only so long to give the details in these videos. Nonetheless, I think some particulars on the forts of Verdun should be explored with more vigor. Watching the video, it is hard to ascertain how the Germans got initially stopped and how was French were able to take the initiative. Instead of stock pictures a few maps with force dispositions would have been helpful.
@AndrewC.McPherson-xf5zw4 ай бұрын
Roll the dice early when opponents not on a war footing.
@maartenvandam3447 ай бұрын
The French applied a lesson that the British, alas, only learned during the battle of the Somme, which happened at the same time, roughly. The French rotated their troops at Verdun, pretty much all of the French army fought at Verdun at some point. The British sent entire divisions of relatively recent recruits, who were grouped into batallions consisting of boys from the same area, over the top at the Somme. In the UK, there were many towns and villages who lost ALL of their young men in a single battle. Forty thousand of them on the first day, about 300,000 in all. They started mixing up what was left after that. Spread the grief, so to speak.
@OlivierGaffuri-wc2dl2 ай бұрын
The main lesson the French had learnt and the Brits later learn the hard way at the Somme, it is the lesson of artillery preparation.
@DaiElsan10 ай бұрын
How long was the Battle of Leningrad?
@garyk133410 ай бұрын
WW2
@davidpryle393510 ай бұрын
There wasn’t a continuous battle of Leningrad as such. It would be better described as the siege of Leningrad.
@marksantiago98416 ай бұрын
@@davidpryle3935well at least answer the question. Dai elsan, i think it was at least 2 years. It wasn’t really a large scale battle, but more like bleeding the city dry
@gabespiro890210 ай бұрын
Nice AI, must have been so hard typing in that prompt
@bradybuck1778 ай бұрын
For Candians it's Vimy Ridge and Dieppe.
@levycarlier41393 ай бұрын
For us as Belgians it's the battle of Ypres🇧🇪🪖
@AndrewC.McPherson-xf5zw4 ай бұрын
What a scary scene to be involved in this debocal.
@giuseppersa23917 ай бұрын
All the generals on both sides should have been jailed for life.
@gandigooglegandigoogle72025 ай бұрын
Verdun, the most horrible battle in human history.... "the divisions rotated when they had lost 1/3 of their numbers"...this should not have delighted the soldiers to return to this hell afterwards.
@LastPinster10 ай бұрын
The you find out that they have always been working together..
@theforgotensin9 ай бұрын
For South Africa it was the battle of Delville woods.
@pcgamernw570210 ай бұрын
This documentary is interesting. No background music
@danm72988 ай бұрын
Falkenheim wasn immediately relieved after failing at verdun. He gambled that romania wouldnt join the war untill after the harvest. When romania joined russia before the harvest he was sacked.
@fraseredk743310 ай бұрын
216k wounded not 216.
@ignaciogodoy70952 ай бұрын
Almost a year of battle, thousands soldiers death or wounded, just to cover a few miles
@kevinclift73699 ай бұрын
For Canada it's Vimy Ridge
@Rombizio8 ай бұрын
They were afflicted by desintery, flees, hunger, they had to drink their own urine because there was no potable water around, they were cold, and got bombarded by 1 million shells per day. And they were not allowed to leave. He'll on earth.
@JohnRoberts-wk6rf9 ай бұрын
Mitterand looks like he'd rather be holding hands with the Devil.
@AndrewC.McPherson-xf5zw4 ай бұрын
Open Naval warfare should have been doctrine at start of war. Was enviable. Dont limit oneself when at war..
@tightlines10610 ай бұрын
Imagine the human population if we didn’t have wars we breed like rabbits then we get shot like one
@AndrewC.McPherson-xf5zw4 ай бұрын
Send in Rasputin
@blueguy21289 ай бұрын
There are men who survived the entirety of this battle? 😰
@TheBishop1210 ай бұрын
21:28 lol that was some bullshit
@kathrynclark15859 ай бұрын
What is your source for Americans holding Gettysburg in high esteem? Try the battles in the pacific 🤨
@benquinneyiii794110 ай бұрын
Standard protocol
@gegemgeremie2 ай бұрын
and then they treat us as cowardly, we French
@PeterPArtyka-o5k2 ай бұрын
Viva la france
@bold8108 ай бұрын
War should never be welcome.
@colloquialsoliloquy639110 ай бұрын
Reckon the UK woukd have stayed in the EU ,if they had gone through a Stalingrad ,Berlin or Verdun.
@joshuadoran630710 ай бұрын
Probably 😂
@youknow22710 ай бұрын
We went through the Somme and Passchaendale That wasn't easy
@colloquialsoliloquy639110 ай бұрын
@@youknow227 They weren't sieges in England though.
@youknow22710 ай бұрын
@@colloquialsoliloquy6391 Fair enough, but it left a ginormous mark on the ones who were there
@colloquialsoliloquy639110 ай бұрын
@@youknow227 What word covers Verdun then?
@ms-go8lc9 ай бұрын
For Canadians the battle that means more to us than other nations is vimy ridge, the somme is meaningful but not like viny. Hard to watch the rest when it starts off with an inaccuracy
@chrisholland73679 ай бұрын
For the British it was the battle of the Somme. Probably as a combined battle it was probably Passendale third battle of Ypres 1917 where the British, Canadians, Australians and New Zealand forces fought.
@AndrewC.McPherson-xf5zw4 ай бұрын
Supergrinder
@Wolfen4439 ай бұрын
Do any battles in the Ukraine match the scale of this terrible one?.
@SaraFord-Abruzzi9 ай бұрын
Not even close
@maximilianodelrio6 ай бұрын
Nowhere even near
@sentionaut62708 ай бұрын
…for the Russians: Stalingrad.
@Pirata_Vermelho8 ай бұрын
For the world:
@DonRoyalX8 ай бұрын
@@Pirata_Vermelhothat’s in the future against the aliens brah
@Pirata_Vermelho8 ай бұрын
@@DonRoyalX well reminded.
@jonweeks206010 ай бұрын
Longest battle my ass, I dont recall there being half as many verduns as there were isonzos
@stephennewton222310 ай бұрын
I Isonzo's are usually divided into 12 or so battles.
@Godisgood00710 ай бұрын
Verdun is one gigantic battle that lasted a whole year, Isonzo was a series of *relatively* smaller battles that happened throughout two years
@gregoryriojas168 ай бұрын
Wasn’t that bad I was there
@CurtisWebb-en5kh9 ай бұрын
Utter fn waste of life.For All.
@AdVd-us9crАй бұрын
And anyone who denis that is a lying
@UnknownUser-fe5zu10 ай бұрын
French in WW1: courageous, battle hardened, high moral, determined to win. French in WW2: surrenders in one month.
@thibaultsardet739910 ай бұрын
The leadership gave up, but the soldiers fought hardly. Even in one month, there were testimony of Germans leaders who said the French soldiers were brave in their memoirs, but badly led.
@davidpryle393510 ай бұрын
Yeah, but nobody could stand up to the blitzkrieg, until the Wehrmacht overextended itself in the vastness of the Soviet Union.
@MCFCTheMadHatter9 ай бұрын
@@davidpryle3935But a major contributing factor to that was Mussolini and how his armies were overwhelmed, especially in Northern Africa by the Ethiopian army. Some historians quip that Mussolini was one of the greatest assets the allied forces had because in bailing him out so often, and diverting troops and resources, had Hitler not done that, there was a good chance he would’ve taken Stalingrad and legs swaths of the eastern front, especially modern day Ukraine
@davidpryle39359 ай бұрын
@@MCFCTheMadHatter I don’t think the 2 or 3 German divisions in North Africa would have made that much difference to the 160 divisions on the eastern front, to be honest.
@MCFCTheMadHatter9 ай бұрын
@@davidpryle3935 I may not have been perfectly clear. I don’t mean that 2-3 divisions would’ve allowed Germany to take all of Russia (Soviet Union), I meant that the 2-3 divisions likely would’ve been enough to take Stalingrad AND the food and supplies that kept being diverted away from the eastern front and back to Africa and other areas would’ve greatly aided in taking Stalingrad, as the Germans were so close to the city anyway (outskirts of it before supply line problems and running out of men curtailed taking the objective?) Once you have Stalingrad, that would’ve likely had a crippling effect on Russia - once that main hub/capitol city is taken, it makes it very difficult for the encased country to launch counteroffensives in a lot of cases. Not to mention, it would be a lot easier to then selectively map out other forward objectives while reinforcing what you’ve already taken. But by no means would that difference been able to allow Germany to take all of Russia. So apologies for my lack of clarity. Also, and to your point, Hitler also spread his forward lines to thin and did go against the advice of his general, if my memory is correct They thought it more prudent to concentrate forces on certain targets as opposed to move as a much broader line
@randylahey123210 ай бұрын
Im so sick of this new narrator he ruins wars of the world....bring back the guy that narrated THE BATTLE OF STALLINGRAD
@ghxst0.o10 ай бұрын
womp womp
@skyhigh11548 ай бұрын
Hes narrating fine.
@madashamlet10 ай бұрын
victory in war, obviously not the Frenchman's strong point.
@thierrylofoten44709 ай бұрын
Ah well ! Reread your history lessons if you still have them and you'll realize that your statement is very far from the real facts.
@vguiver5659 ай бұрын
Go learn history
@TheFearsomePredator6 ай бұрын
Well you and history is not the strongest point, but I guess coming from a unloved child it wouldn't be surprising
@OlivierGaffuri-wc2dl3 ай бұрын
That’s the exact opposite. This has always been France’s strong point through history.
@Charles-d4e3b10 ай бұрын
So. No. It’s Waterloo
@brucesnyder6908 ай бұрын
Horrid. Hundreds of thousands killed for nothing. A total waste.
@ConstitutionalConservative17768 ай бұрын
For us regular people, yes it's senseless. Look at it through the eyes of those that want to maintain authority and control. Was but a minor price to pay in their eyes. Black sabbath-war pigs, says all you need to know. Look at what's going on now in the world. Makes sense to me anyway. It's sad that people would rather rule over ashes than to let people live their lives.
@capitaldcolon17959 ай бұрын
"Operation Gericht" doesnt mean Judgment. "Urteil" would mean Judgment. Gericht means "Court or Trial" - just saying 🤓