Blockade: How the 10th Cruiser Squadron won the war | Graham Kemp

During the First World War the 10th Cruiser Squadron operated the Northern Patrol, checking trade routes to Germany. This talk looks at the Allied Blockade of 1914-19 and tells how the Allies defeated Germany by economic warfare. The ultimate weapon in this was the 10th Cruiser Squadron.
By time of the Armistice, the German nation was falling apart and central Europe was facing the worst famine since the 17th century. Then came the worst atrocity committed by the allies in the war; it was quietly overlooked in the official histories that followed.
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[@PaulfromChicago]

I'm a simple man. I see a video on the 10th Cruiser Squadron. I click on it. Edit. Wow. Dr. Kemp understands this subject more than any person I've ever heard. I wish he offered classes.

[@niallfitzpatrick6568]

I love your comments 😂

[@thomasvandevelde8157]

Please bring this man more if possible! Another great one! Regards, Thomas

[@TonyBongo869]

A profound story that I need time to contemplate

[@tobijug]

An excellent talk. Stuff that is never really covered, or known either. A lot by me to be honest so many thanks Graham, most informative.

[@shoofly529]

Agree, very informative.

[@MegaBloggs1]

very good well researched

[@rikterandersson3568]

Absolutely loved the speakers U-Boat video a while back. It was just extremely informative. Looking forward to this!

[@thomasvandevelde8157]

That was a very good one too!

[@kyle-7107]

I knew the blockage was used as leverage at Versailles, but had no idea it was this devastating. This makes Hitlers obsession with Lebensraum (living space) a lot more clear.

[@shopjompoo4798]

1:06:29 really interesting comparison by professor

[@Kernowcornwall]

I had no idea about this and tge awake of the starvation, absolutely brilliant and shocking presentation. Superb.

[@niallfitzpatrick6568]

HMS Hawke was the cruiser which put a hole in the Olympic, sister ship to the Titanic, in Southampton, if i recall it correctly. That collision meant the Olympic went back to Harland and Wolff in Belfast for repairs, thereby holding up the maiden voyage of the Titanic until April 1912, and we all know what happened afterwards...

[@El_Chompo]

Excellent channel for resting and listening. Real life lore is almost good for that but he never pauses when speaking and eventually it's very abrasive to listen to.

[@IndianaDel1]

Very Interesting. Thank you.

[@rikterandersson3568]

Watched it all, incredible watch! It elevated works like ''ring of steel'' that has come out in later years and gave it a great british spin.

[@westerncherokeewireless642]

WFA continues to hit home runs. Great job to all.

[@EXO9X8]

I’m a simple man I see a video with Dr Kemp I click like. So Churchill was right all along but it wasn’t the Americans it was an American

[@mbloy613]

So Germany went to war with the suppliers of most of her food and raw materials, can anyone see a flaw with that?

[@guybishop61]

Fantastic lecture, the world has erased this part of history....

[@flashgordon6670]

If the Germans hadn’t built up their surface fleet, prior to the Great War and used all the materials and manpower for their land forces then they would’ve won the war. And they could’ve got the food they needed, from farming in Eastern Europe, Russia and Turkey. They just didn’t plan things ahead properly.

[@ibpopp]

Thank you so much, Professor Kemp, for such an illuminating--but also disturbing--lecture that illuminates a major cause of the German resentment that helped fuel the rise of the NSDAP.

[@chrislusk3497]

I didn't know about the missed opportunity for peace in 1916. How much could have been averted if that peace plan had succeeded?

[@nickhomyak6128]

Thank You! Understood the Blockade lasted even longer into 1922?

[@christopherhahn6728]

The Germans starved their own people. The food they had went to the German Army to continue the war instead of to their civilians. They should have known that victory was impossible after 1914. Unfortunately, Tannenburg and Gorlice-Tarnow gave them false hope.

[@mbspoobah]

Wow. And yet somehow the Kaiser escaped accountability on all of this. It was my understanding, countered by this video, that all the peace initiatives from Germany included a "good good" clause where boundaries would be established where they were at that time, not where they were pre-war. Meaning Germany would retain portions of northern France. Perhaps that is deliberate misinformation.

[@nickhomyak6128]

Did not the Blockade against Germany until at least 1920?

[@alanlawson4180]

The malnutrition of children and the lack of fertility in 1917/18/19 must surely have had an impact on the manpower available 20 years later - when young, fit men of 20 - 23 were much in demand...

[@trevorfuller1078]

What about Admiral John Fisher’s & Sir Julian Foster’s Baltic Strategy & Plan to follow the same principles as had been enacted twice previously, one hundred years before during the Napoleonic Wars when the Royal Navy blockaded the Skaggerak & captured the Danish Fleet at anchor in Copenhagen? Perhaps, if the British had encouraged the Danes to join the war or actions against Germany prior to the war by stating that in the event of an outbreak of war between Britain & her Allies & Germany, then subsequently, in any resulting peace negotiations that they would support the notion of Germany yielding the provinces/states of Schleswig & Holstein back to Denmark that they had lost in 1866 to Prussia in Bismarck’s wars of German unification, which then in 1910-14 still nettled the Danes! The Royal Navy could have swept away the mines & the British Army, Royal Marines & the Royal Naval Division could have landed forces on the two (2) main Danish islands of Fyn & Sjaelland to support the Danish Forces & protect the seat of their government! In the meantime a powerful section of Lord Jellicoe’s Grand Fleet based at Scapa Flow, would pass through the Kattegat into the Baltic & blockade Kiel & bottle up the German High Seas Fleet there in port, while other squadrons of RN ships would blockade & interdict shipments of Swedish Iron Ore, Steel, Timber & Foodstuffs that the German War Economy desperately depended upon to function!I Fisher estimated that once an effective blockade of Swedish ports was put into place, then within four (4) to five (5) months the German Government would have been forced to sue for peace talks as by then all effective German war production would have ceased! This plan despite some obvious disadvantages & problems in 1914-18 would have still been feasible because no country at the time had refined or advance-developed “air power” at the time to be effectively able to attack, bomb or torpedo a blockading enemy battle fleet on a large scale that later occurred in WW2 at Taranto & at Pearl Harbor! The Baltic is also a fairly shallow & restricted sea area, not a place where submarines (Specifically here, German U-Boats!) can easily operate on a wide scale without running the risk of being detected & destroyed! The Russians could have also assisted the British navy here in joint operations & potential landings on the North German/Pomeranian Coast by British & Russian military forces could have opened up another front only a mere 100 miles from Berlin!! This would have likely been a better plan & outcome than the actual debacle that Churchill forced on the British & their Allies at Gallipoli in 1915!

[@kidmohair8151]

isn't war glorious.