World War I Every Day using Google Earth

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The First World War from start to finish.
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- • The voice of Henry Her...
- • David Lloyd George - S...
- • U.S. ENTERS WORLD WAR ...
- • 1917 Lenin Proclaims...
- • Lenin's speech: The ta...
- • Bollettino della Vitto...
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[@mapsinanutshell]

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[@britishladgrellox]

9 LIKES?

[@TooillfromLumbagLUMBAGO]

Just seeing the soldier numbers decrease and increase while in a stand still for like a year is utterly terrifying.

[@SweetPotatoNotFound2]

Decreasing dosen’t only mean casualties. It could mean them withdrawing troops to fight somewhere else (example when russia agreed for peace).

[@ihatesovietderp2268]

@@SweetPotatoNotFound2 that or troops rotation

[@jonathanhill2703]

Frequently it means different data sets that don't jive with each other. Don't put too much stock in specific numbers.

[@danf7411]

I saw this pic of some french soldiers pretending to be scared shortly before the war started. Those guys had no idea what was waiting for them.

[@PipoZePoulp]

Demobilisation for the sowing and the harvest. Agriculture was barely mecanized.

[@cuberrt]

Can we just acknowledge for a moment how close this war was to a German victory?

[@mattc9598]

Austrian Victory* Germany didn't start a thing, they were bound by agreement to defend Austria, which meant invading Russia, which also meant invading France or else the French would take advantage and invade Germany But yes if the US had no joined in the last 6 months of the war, the world would be a lot different. WW2 wouldn't have happened, Finland probably would not exist, the USSR and US may not have become the world powers they became...

[@lucca3113]

@@mattc9598 not true. the only reason why the UK and US joined the war was because of germany (the schlieffen plan and the zimmerman telegram). austria caused the war, germany its escalation. so it isn't right to say germany was just an innocent little puppy who "didn't start a thing".

[@randomguy2023]

@Matt C to be fair Austria-Hungry was pretty trash in WW1, so it’s often overlooked.

[@luxhistoriae1172]

Yep, but france hold it even after russia surrendered

[@imperiodobrasilball8395]

@@mattc9598 Wrong, the Austrians started the war, but Germany became the main protagonist of the war, exerting the most important fronts and participating in the most memorable battles, while Austria-Hungary did not have the same participation that the German Empire had. If the Central Powers had won, World War II would probably have occurred anyway, the main defeated countries (France, Russia and the United Kingdom) would be humiliated and totalitarian governments (similar to fascism or communism) would emerge promising to bring those countries glory from back and defeat their enemies (it would be the "Axis" of this alternate reality), causing a new war, an alternate World War II.

[@borjanvasiljevic3743]

My grand grandpa fought in the war. By his stories, it's easy to understand how devastating this war was. He was a Serbian soldier and had to retreat trough Albania during winter together with the king and what was left of the army. The winter combined with the mountains in Albania killed most of what was left of the army. After they went trough Albania, they crossed the sea to go to a small Greek islands of Korf. After a couple of months the whole army was transferred to the Greek front. After the war, my grand grandpa, like every soldier that showed bravery and survived, received a singed document by the king and the main general in the whole Serbian army and a medal. We still have that document and the medal at my grandpa's house. R.I.P to everyone who died in this terrible war.

[@mariorossi3898]

Many Serbs soldiers were rescued by Italian navy in Albania.

[@borjanvasiljevic3743]

@@mariorossi3898 it was more the french and the italian navy combined

[@mariorossi3898]

@@borjanvasiljevic3743also French but Italian navy was heavily engaged also because closer to Albania.

[@avl3531]

Your great grandfather illegally tresspassed in another country while also commiting war crimes in said country btw.

[@bakimc4722]

@@aksu6528 : You are talking nonsense, Albanian bandits actually attacked the Serbian army during retreat, you were nobody and nothing as you are now.

[@moller2159]

I'm Russian. My great - great - great - grandfather was fighting in the WW1. He was fighting against Austro-Hungery. Austrian soldier could kill him, but he save him. After war they were living together in Austria. He was living in Austria for a 10 years and in 1928 he came back to Russia.

[@maratbeketov180]

Лучше бы не возвращался. Надеюсь "прелести" тех сталинских времен обошли его стороной.

[@wenxuyao5934]

Back to Russia in 1928?

[@moller2159]

@@maratbeketov180 к сожелению, нет. Он был расстрелян в 1931 году

[@moller2159]

@@wenxuyao5934 yeah

[@grin_golt6562]

Зря вернулся

[@HuziharaFushi]

It is always necessary to remember, while studying the history of warfare, that every man who has ever fought and died on the battlefield lived a life just as unique as yours. And to see that the numbers were changing so rapidly on the frontlines with hundreds of men dying each second... really puts into perspective how devastating the First World War was. The horrors of trench warfare scarred an entire generation, leaving millions of men dead and wounded. Lest we forget.

[@ll-nd1cj]

Anime pfp = invalide opinion

[@Nickthebrick8]

@@ll-nd1cj less bait than the average instagram thot

[@PvtRebel]

If not to say this war led to multiple fatal consequences such as revolution in various countries, birth of regimes with radical political ideologies, WW2 etc. 20-th century totally fucked up old way of human life.

[@HuziharaFushi]

@@PvtRebel We can attribute many of the conflicts & problems we suffer today as a result of the consequences of the First World War and its long-term effects over the 20th century. For the first time in human history, we utilised the potential of fully mechanized & industrial warfare, dishing out an untold amount of destruction combined with the new technology of the era. And to think, those who suffered in the First World War had to deal with the turmoil during the post-war period, with a great economic collapse, fueling the rise of dictatorships, extreme-nationalism, and militarism. It is very ironic to see that the "War to End all wars" left so much destruction in its wake that it caused another, even greater war to occur just two decades later. History is one hell of a thing.

[@ZykoYFF]

@@ll-nd1cj Bruh you have an anime pfp too 🤡🤡🤡

[@netherly29]

RIP to everyone died in this atrocious and deadly war caused by incompetent leaders, may they all rest in peace ♥

[@shinigummyl1586]

1million dead for a few kilometers.

[@russia1955]

Glory to Russian soldiers

[@djordjepetrovic3128]

Austro hungarians started this...

[@xhorus88]

@@djordjepetrovic3128 serbian nationalists* + Europe was already heated

[@djordjepetrovic3128]

@@xhorus88 no bro i just Said true.They attacked Serbia for no reasion and 1/3 Our people died there for defending nation

[@jhenin06]

I think it's hard to understand how destroyed was Northern France after World War 1 for foreigners. My family is from a little 200 people village on the Aisne region. My grandmother used to tell me how mentally ill and ravaged and her father came back after the war

[@AwoudeX]

I'm a foreigner and i somewhat understand it. Entire zones in Northern France are still off limits due to the amount of ordnance that hadn't exploded yet still burried in the dirt. On top of that i know the tactics of human wave assaults against machine guns and the constant shelling by artillery. In many ways the fighting was way way worse in WW1 compared to WW2. WW2 being worse because of the deliberate atrocities on civilians going rampant on all sides.

[@exequielalonsocaceresdelar7007]

The thing with WW1 is that, unlike WW2, is so hard to understand the process of collapse of the Central Powers and why they ended up losing just by looking at a map. For most of 1918 the Entente barely controlled France, Italy and few places in southeastern Europe

[@ffarkasm]

The thing is with WW1, that firepower was huge, but mobility/logisitcs was poor. So the participating sides often couldn't really do anything else than hiding in strong defensive positions and shooting each other from distance - often without success. This led to the well known "trench warfare", because both sides knew that leaving the trenches means death, so advancing was incredibly difficult. Both sides soon realized this, so the point of the war would soon become not conquering and occupying lands, but outlasting the enemy in terms of resources. And the Entente powers were much better supplied with that due to much better access to the Atlantic Ocean. So even though the western front was still on French and Belgian land, the Germans ran out of resources and knew that for them the war was over. Especially that all their allies had been eliminated at that point.

[@bruh5992]

The british blockade pretty much fked up the Germans.

[@instrumentsofdestruction5737]

@@bruh5992 The small hat socialists fked up Germany.

[@thiccchungo1041]

Because the Germans were lucky enough that the entente accepted peace before they exploited what would’ve been a total collapse of the German Army

[@lovrom7671]

The simple fact that often gets overlooked is that Central Powers weren't militarily defeated in WWI. Social unrest and war weariness brought about the abdication of both Kaisers.

[@AussieBall_Animations]

Rest in peace to everyone who died in this war, no matter if they were German, French, British, Russian, Austrian, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Romanian, Turkish, American, Aussie, New Zealand or Serbian. RIP

[@Cakeandguts]

Or Turkic, or Greek, Bulgarian, Arab, Belgian, Italian, Austro-Hungarian, Serbian, Romanian, Portuguese, Indian, African, or that one Spanish guy who wanted to get in on the action.

[@megamonsta2]

luxembourgish, czech, slovak, bosnian, serbian, slovene, montenegrin, polish, ukrainian, belarussian, finnish, latvian, lithuanian, estonian, iranian, japanese, canadian, anzac edit: american, albanian

[@hiplsnols4394]

@burek sa mesom because they were the first that came to mind probably

[@NetChalakwan]

@@Cakeandguts or Kurdish, or Persian, or Armenian…

[@adm8849]

and Brian ❤

[@guard6069]

Germany the pro that carries their team, Bulgaria the decent player, AH the noob with P2W and the ottomans, the veteran who hasn't got any better despite having played the game for years

[@Testimony_Of_JTF]

Without AH and the Ottomans Germany would have folded by the end of 1916. The Austrian Hungarians and Ottomans were the ones holding back the Russians. Without them Germany would have faced a severe numerical disatvantage

[@rotsy2207]

The ottomans should be the noob that just started playing😂

[@nope7120]

@Nick Gurr Yes,and? Does it make their ww1 performance any less embarrassing? Its Just makes it even worse.

[@nope7120]

@@Testimony_Of_JTF So the only thing two supposedly Great Powers were capable of was being a punching Bag for Germany.

[@lightgreen3479]

@Nick Gurr And so was Austria 😂 Your argument makes no sense

[@TaeSunWoo]

It’s scary how Earth really decided to have two world wars a couple of decades apart

[@notfound3358]

It was the same war, brought back by the exact same reasons!

[@korkukokusu8311]

We need third

[@SteventheOrigin]

I can't wait for Venus to cause world war 3

[@randomtexanguy9563]

@@korkukokusu8311 Please no.

[@deeerzz]

@@korkukokusu8311 why? U wanna see 40M people die again?

[@utkumazgal8555]

No matter what you do, you won't be more than just a number after 100 years. Rest in peace for all the fallen.

[@georgyzhukov6409]

It's insane. 4 years of stalemate on the western front

[@wertyuiopasd6281]

Mostly French, and brits were doing the work on the whole planet, not just europe. They made the Ottoman Empire collapse as well.

[@bunkerkorpf1440]

@@wertyuiopasd6281 French and UK also made Bulgaria and A-H collapse in the Balkans, that's also why Germany had no chance. That, and the italians finally breaking AH, and France/UK empire finally breaking western front

[@minikalicansu291]

​@@wertyuiopasd6281 they made the ottoman empire collapse but they got defeated by the same country some years later

[@Sanskari_atheist_aryan]

​@@wertyuiopasd6281Brits had many outside forces including Canada, India, Australia and many more

[@mrgopnik5964]

The fact that the war ended without mainland Germany being invaded is impressive

[@thomascatty379]

It was the biggest mistake the Allies made, not invading Germany, it gave the sentiment to the Germans that they never lost WW1, that they were stabbed in the back by the Revolution

[@instrumentsofdestruction5737]

@@thomascatty379 Well they kinda were. They could have regrouped behind the Rhine and that would have been a tremendous barrier for the Allies to overcome.

[@wertyuiopasd6281]

It should have been invaded. The US helped the germans in the worse way. If French made a parade in Berlin like old time sake, WW2 wouldn't have happened. The US robbed the French mainly, and the brits of their victory.

[@thiccchungo1041]

@@instrumentsofdestruction5737 the German army was in no state to fight, having expended its reserves and taking lethal damage. Had the Entente not made the horrible mistake of accepting the Nov 11 armistice the Grand Offensive would’ve had no problem liberating Belgium and invading Germany proper, then the German people would see for themselves what it truly meant to suffer from war, something they missed in our history and was a large part of the rise of the “stabbed in the back” mythos of Nazi germany

[@georgameise1684]

@@thiccchungo1041 Imagine thinking the Germans didn't suffer greatly in ww1 and Weimar. What are you even talking about.

[@glaciatedluxray2849]

The fact that the central powers did this good is honestly surprising when you consider these things 1.)The central powers had only 4 countries, whereas the Allies had over 12, plus the British commonwealth. That means each central power had to fight an average of 3 countries. 2.)The central powers were at a geographical disadvantage, with Germany fighting France and Belgium on its west, Russia on its east, and its territories abroad. Austria-Hungary fighting Russia and Romania on its east, and Serbia and Montenegro on its south. Bulgaria fighting Serbia to its west, Romania to its north and Greece to its south. And the Ottoman Empire fighting the Greeks from the west, Russians from the north, and the British from the east. 3.)The central powers had their own issues. Germany was pretty good, but Austria-Hungary was massively ethnically divided, Bulgaria was fairly tiny, and the Ottoman Empire had been losing land for decades by that point. To think that the Central had all of this and still kept the war at a stalemate for 4 years and nearly won

[@Leantenant]

And now try to understand how was hard to hold such long front for Russia. From Baltic to Caspian sea. It's damn tough.

[@Slowhobolicker]

focusing on number of countries doesn't even make sense, it's the size of them , gdp, population and manpower that count. Germany, Ottoman Empire and Austria - Hungary were massive, huge population centers. The Central Powers had a lot more manpower vs the Allies. They underperformed.

[@glaciatedluxray2849]

@@HVAC04 that’s true, I never thought about it that way

[@chinesetaxevader]

@@Slowhobolicker well thats some bs the entante was not leading in men power i mean they had russia hello? in fact the central powers held a disadvantage in almost every important categorie especially in the long run. saying the centralpowers underperformed is a really interesting take

[@declangaming24]

​@@chinesetaxevaderthe allies /entente had massive empires UK and France had lots of manpower at there disposal from the dominions or colonies Belgium nearly fell while most of its remnants regrouped with the allies or defended ypres. Germany's empire had some colonies in africa a city in China not much Austria Hungary had a big empire and a street in China

[@johnlouizgamer]

Man respect the germans for having a enemies side to side and still handle it.

[@wintersnoob]

Germany caused both world wars, no respect at all for the prussian old goats.

[@marsakn268]

Fun fact: Great Britain accused Germany of violating Belgium's neutrality, but entente were the ones who violated Greece's neutrality by militarizing Macedonia. That's why you see Northern Greece in blue but southern neutral. Greece joined officially the war in 1917.

[@joonamikkonen_]

Britain has always been double-standarded hypocritic moron. Always blaming others while she occupied a quarter of planet. Yup.

[@gahdhsh623]

what has violating belgium neutrality to do with salonica front? serbian army moved to greece, they were there fighiting to liberate serbia and would do the same in any way because it was already occupied. it was done with french help yes but they would do it anyway so why wouldn't they help their allies?

[@marsakn268]

@@gahdhsh623 Greece was neutral until 1917. In 1916 the country was split in two states, the Athenian one and the Salonican one. The allies were constantly asking from Greeks to join but they were disagreeing for that matter. However, when the split of the state was done, British ans French militarised Macedonia and started war operations against the Bulgarians who had also violated Greek neutrality and occupied Eastern Macedonia despite the annexation of the aeria from Greece in 1913. The fact that Serbia was a Greek ally and was occupied by central power does not legalise the fact that British and French army put leg in Greek soil despite the official neutrality of the state, which was an act of raw intervention.

[@gahdhsh623]

@@marsakn268 i know what you are saying but if serbia is attacked and its army goes to greece who provides them with food and allows them to wait for their allies and if serbia is a french and british ally then we could say that greece wasn't neutral since then, it was obvious what is going on... you are probably right but i don't see that clear correlation

[@anthonymanderson7671]

@@joonamikkonen_ true though

[@B1lly_]

"And suddenly everyone's got pretty eager to *BEAT* each other up." - Sir Oversimplified

[@Scout-Club]

Your map animation is by far the best that I have seen. Truly something new u created here. I wish I make my videos to be like yours

[@budspencer8073]

Serbia lost 1/3 of its population. They were attaked from nearly all sides by so many countries and they were extreamly outnumbered. They even had to retreat. And yet they hearts and spirits were so high that they reached freedom again. True warriors

[@gahdhsh623]

it was finished where it all started :D

[@budspencer8073]

@@gahdhsh623 lol

[@1CE.]

Serbia stays strong today True Chad’s together with brother Russia

[@ronnietrek6376]

Russia and Serbia are brothers forever. Stay strong Serbians✊

[@codysmith8639]

@@1CE. eww, Russian orcs can fall in a trench hole with a activated grenade in it.

[@votesus9819]

We’re learning this in history too. Eastern front along with Italy, the Balkans and the Middle east are always underrepresented

[@theboysclips2094]

Or the front in russia maybe cuz it was such an germany victory

[@votesus9819]

@@theboysclips2094 not rlly

[@meme-vw1vi]

@@theboysclips2094 germany did a pro gamer move no doubt about that but also we can’t just overlook the fact the bolsheviks were fighting against russia from within which helped germany really push thru and the exact same thing can be said about the ottoman empire. if someone with no knowledge of history sees that humiliating retreat in iraq and syria they’ll laugh as hard as they can at the military incompetence in face of british invasion but in reality it was the internal conflicts with arab nationalism and turk, and other nationalism rising to overthrow the traditional “caliphate” that lead to that atrocity of a defeat and thus helping the powerful british and americans and the united as a rock french military to really do the central powers dirty-both militarily and economically-especially germany

[@Quarequieus]

Africa is the most underrepresented in WW1.

[@zHydro12]

It is honestly so depressing to see no gains on the western front and the numbers going down like water Great video, though!

[@lucaricci1861]

No, there were gains. It was just twenty meters for 20,000 lives.

[@Camel-from-Arabia]

The same bullshit occured again and again for 3 years on Italian front...

[@lahire4943]

@@lucaricci1861 Trench warfare was actually far less deadly than the war of movement of the first two months and the last 8 months of the Western Front. It's just that people didn't know how to break the deadlock.

[@kyberbricks3781]

Going down like water is not a phrase 💀

[@greg_mca]

@@lahire4943 they tried, but every advancement was met by a counteradvancement that helped negate it. So much change happened specifically because they lines didn't move

[@Zereniti77]

One often overlooked factor in Central Powers defeat is their collapse in the Balkans. It basically opened the door for the Entente armies to march straight up to Wien.

[@stefanovicigor]

Yes, even though Greek King was pro German due wife influence, UK & France hold interests in Greece not to join Asix via Greek premiere.

[@thiccchungo1041]

It was the Entente victory in Macedonia that caused the Austrians and Germans to cowardly recoil out of the war before they got the backdoor-ing of a lifetime, the Balkans are so often slept on in this war because people focus on the west and east but the south was where Bulgaria, Austria, and the Ottomans were knocked out and was crucial for the collapse of Germany

[@DoctorDeath147]

Not just Wien, but Sofia and Constantinople as well. The Allies killed three birds with one stone.

[@testtor2714]

Sorry to let your fantasy down. No Entente soldier marched to Vienna. The armistice of Compiegne ended the war. Nobody attacked or even conquered Vienna.

[@Zereniti77]

@@testtor2714 I never said they marched to Vienna. I said that the collapse of the front made it possible for them to march to Vienna. They did not, as the war ended. It ended because situation for Central Power became untenable, Vienna being defenceless being one of the reasons.

[@markusbradley7730]

writing war stories for a book as a personal hobby, sometimes I come back just to listen to the audio in the background while writing. I've grown really attached to very dated recordings of speeches. Well done on both audio and visuals alike!

[@aaronmarks9366]

Absolutely phenomenal video. Especially the music and audio selections. This gave me chills. Simply outstanding.

[@Ilikeron]

Same

[@Zogerpogger]

It is heartening to see so many comments paying homage to the dead, and recognizing the fact that those numbers we see on the map are millions of cases of PTSD, millions of debilitating injuries, million of people who won't return to their homes, millions more people who will never see loved ones again. We must also remember that there were competant generals in WW1, and the nature of warfare during this time made it incredibly difficult to effect large-scale battlefield successes. All war is terrible, it doesn't matter if 60,000 men died for 1km or 200km. We simply see the horror of war so much more clearly when there aren't large scale manuevers to distract us.

[@user-ht6lj3iu3f]

Perhaps I am a humanist of a slightly different interpretation, but I have my own arguments. Past wars worry me less than present and future ones. The past cannot be influenced, but there is much to learn. The future depends on our actions. The socio-economic prerequisites for the emergence of wars have not disappeared anywhere and have never ceased to operate (since the emergence of civilization). I suspect you have a penchant for constructive thinking, and therefore you have a question about WWI. Why was the US involved in this war?

[@ddc2957]

It’s in the blood, not of Humans, but of all life on Earth. You can’t avoid it. You can’t mitigate it.

[@QWERTY-gp8fd]

@@user-ht6lj3iu3f because past wars already happened. so much time gone that it doesnt matter if they survived ww1 or not. all of them are dead today

[@lad4830]

We never learn from history. It's pointless to look back@@user-ht6lj3iu3f

[@umtoge]

They push. We push. Every once in a while, we push hard enough that the light breaks through the clouds, so the world beyond the war glimmers... Just out of reach. The War is the world. And the World is the war. But behind every gunsight, is a human being. We are those people. We are the Jaded. We are the Naive. We are the Honorable, and the Criminal. We are the bound for Legend, and the Lost to History. We are the Knights of the Sky, the Ghosts in the Desert, and the Rats in the mud. These are our stories.

[@slaviclettuce7937]

It's crazy to see how much land the Central Powers held up until the very end. Really shows that WWI was just about who fell like a sack of bricks first.

[@juliomanuel1885]

It's crazy to know that at one point Austria Hungary was fighting a 3 front war Btw the BF1 music is making me nostalgic 🔥

[@user-ch1qv4qk4z]

I guess if you put it that way, i guess i should not go ahead with my comment to diss Austria for failing to beat even Serbia untill Bulgaria joined. Aint easy to fight 3 fronts all in different directions

[@drejade7119]

@alanpratama5030 More like the British since German is only on mainland.

[@user-bk7tr1pf1z]

Россия тоже сражалась на 3 фронта

[@cookecountryballs7196]

@Alan Pratama Never knew Germany was fighting Denmark and Switzerland

[@yigit-nh2vn]

@Alan Pratama wermaboo, they didn't fight danish, dutch, swiss etc..

[@peixedacaverna4508]

This is probably your most well made and accurate video you have haver made, congratulations for the amazing work!

[@gegenschau2007]

its a bad video, because, the fronts are not correct and the numbers are wrong too. Its fantasy.

[@peixedacaverna4508]

@@gegenschau2007 With the knowlwedge i have about ww1 i´d say the frontlines are perfectly accurate, tough i have to admit the numbers look a little bit suspecting, specially in the western front.

[@gegenschau2007]

@@peixedacaverna4508 haha, Germany started 2 offensivs twice, at the beginning of the war? In east and west?

[@thereynaldosan7695]

@@gegenschau2007 yes, they did

[@gegenschau2007]

@@thereynaldosan7695 xD

[@The_whales]

It’s fitting how the music being used is from battlefield 1 and that game’s setting IS in ww1, what a prefect pair

[@zhonglisfriedegg7036]

Glad I found your channel on Reddit! I never want to skip your ads lol. You deserve it!

[@drakefair8835]

by far the best depiction i have ever seen of this war on a map

[@italianguy1273]

My great grandfather fought in ww1 on italian front, and in the great battle of Vittorio Veneto he was one of the best soldiers: he received the most important italian military honorary title in great war (knight of Vittorio Veneto) Rest in peace dear hero🕊❤️❤️

[@AbraGamer0364]

how about ww2?

[@LoLMasterManiac]

you got your sh1t wrecked in in the battle of Caporetto, pasta boys

[@Sceptonic]

There were no heroes in WW1. Just disillusioned young men sent to die on a static front

[@MazDezViz]

@@LoLMasterManiac and we beat you in the end 😂

[@Alopex1]

Vittorio Veneto was a pathetic walkover. The Austro-Hungarian Army had completely disintegrated by this point and was incapable of mounting any serious resistance. To call it a "great victory" is frankly like feeling good about punching the shit out of an 80-year-old on crutches. The reason why modern Italians still celebrate Vittorio Veneto as a "great victory" is because it is pretty much the only victory they achieved in the entire war, after having wasted millions of lives in the senseless slaughter at Isonzo and then been overrun at Caporetto, needing the support of British and French troops to stabilise the front on the Piave River. I come from an Italian city, and there is a "Via Vittorio Veneto" as well as a "Piazza Amba Alagi". It always makes me sick to pass those streets/piazzas, because their names tell lies: they project the image of great, heroic victories of the Italian nation, when in reality one was a walkover which was almost impossible to lose, while the other was a genocidal massacre of Ethiopian natives by using, amongst other things, poison gas. And yet modern Italians are oblivious to this. And this is a problem not just in Italy. In Austria, there still exist Conrad-von-Hötzendorf streets. To honour that complete and utter moron is simply beyond me. Fuck nationalism and national pride. It is almost always built on lies, myths and legends which have little to do with the awful, awkward truth.

[@emperoraugustus4047]

From 1:52 even the music implies that a race to see whom can last the longest has begun

[@user-cy4gt8wo4p]

In the 1915 campaign on the Russian front, German troops lost 1 million people (on the French front during this period - 721 thousand people), Austro-Hungarian troops - 1 million 252 thousand people (on the Balkan and Italian fronts during this period - respectively 29 and about 182 thousand people), Turkish troops - up to 100 thousand people . Of the total combat losses of the year, these figures were: 58% for German troops, up to 86% for Austrian troops, up to 30% for Turkish troops. On average, the German Bloc lost over 67% of the people of this campaign on the Russian Front. That is, in 1915, the Russian army inflicted total losses of 2 million 350 thousand people on the enemy's troops - and this year's damage was the heaviest for the enemy coalition in the entire war.

[@FederationMapping]

A 9 Minute video? This is truly incredible!

[@redthing_529]

Your channel is getting better and better. Keep it up

[@shootingmeteor3668]

Love how Russia starts to slowly lose its color at 7:15 to signify its exit from the war

[@SockAccount111]

My great-grandfather fought on the Italian front, during a charge he found himself in a small ditch, then a German (or Austrian, or any other of the nationalities of the AH empire, he couldn't really tell) came out of the reeds as lost as he was, and advanced towards him, greatgranps shouted him to go away and when the latter still kept coming he bayonetted him in the gut, then burst out crying. He was nearly court-martialled because an officer overheard him and accused him of trying to spare an enemy.

[@johnarmstrong472]

That was another horrible front of the war...😢

[@alex90benato]

These things were happening a lot.

[@alex90benato]

At some point both sides knew it was impossible to advance so they were just miss shooting each other and keep themselves in their respective trenches for months

[@prussiaboi707]

Its finally here! I wanted this for 5 months

[@HistoryFeels]

You deserve so many more subs man

[@synergygaming65]

Insane how that western front barely changes throughout the entire war.

[@ItzRetro2019]

The battlefield 1 music just gave me chills the entire time. Loved that game so much😭

[@dancool5233]

1:51 God the switch of music was truly amazing and Awesome.

[@tengriciataturkcu2627]

War is really scary. One of my grandfathers died in Çanakkale. :/ May all those who died rest in peace.

[@zaferbirsin9454]

Sayilar ne anlama geliyor?

[@verdun16]

Love the BF1 music and can we appreciate how the Serbians stopped the Austro-Hungarians for a good while

[@mdza]

They were only outrun when Bulgarians attacked from the east.

[@verdun16]

@@mdza yeah

[@user-rj4gu5oh3k]

Thank you for acknowledging Serbia Serbia actually won the first battle for the Entente being the battle of Cer

[@verdun16]

@@user-rj4gu5oh3k doesn’t surprise me

[@donblockchain7887]

@Nick Gurr yeah, backstabbers

[@m26munk58]

The fact that you get to the point where all numbers just start going down because there’s no one left to join combined with the fact that the western front is just stagnant for like the whole war is horrible

[@il1780]

8:36 very big Germany

[@user-kv3hr5nk5q]

Lol

[@andydufresnefromshawshank5866]

Germany wasn’t the villain, Austria was, they annexed Bosnia when they didn’t need too, they pretty much provoked Serbia into assassinating them, and of course were the first to declare war

[@YourNormalTexan]

Nice vid!

[@JVDAWG1]

Very cool. One minor criticism is having Romania still colored when it was out of the war.

[@user-rm7vi6mz1i]

There is no sense from your Romania, only difficulties were created for the Russians by stretching the front.

[@LyttonAshcroft2001]

It's really shocking to see that most of the movement happened during the first two months of the war. Initially there were cavalry on cavalry clashes, infantry squares, and other such formations you might have seen in Napoleon's time, then trench warfare settled in. I know that in late 1914 through 1915, a common tactic was to send a cavalry charge or an infantry charge against machine gunners and the survivors that made it over there would attempt to capture that trench, which wasn't easy because of the mass of barbed wire entanglements. When the best case scenarios happened, it changed the battle lines by a few hundred feet. But it's really shocking to see how stationary the battle lines were for years. With airplanes and tanks getting better and better, traditional charges became uncommon after 1916.

[@mmartinu327]

Try to watch the video until the end. You will be surprised how the front moved in 1918.

[@NondescriptUsernameUnlocalizab]

Trench warfare will always result when there is high troop density and the "first strike" fails. That's why it is still happening now 100 years later. The Balkan and Eastern Fronts did not really see trench warfare because the troop densities didn't lead to it

[@bdleo300]

It's even more shocking that the Thessaloniki front was actually decisive, its collapse literally caused domino effect to Central Powers.

[@0o.sero.o0]

It's a very good work‼️

[@josephbateman7742]

I find it eerie and chilling that the only way we can describe the loss in a war, in as near a practical sense as possible, we must use the cold empirical science of mathematics, to stand in for human life, and yet at so great a scale as this, even this tool becomes useless, as we cannot truly understand what it tells us.

[@mustang3922]

Although the Second World War left more deaths, I think the first one was worse. Psychologically speaking, the deaths did not stop and only in exchange for a few meters of land, literally.

[@Samgar0359]

This video world war 1

[@hannahdyson7129]

World War l was worse for the fighting men World War ll was worse for the civllians . Rations where common in the UK untill 1952

[@YourAverageZuruben]

This is very cool just liked that other vid I saw about everyday army size in ww2

[@mrgeorge6496]

Congratulations on 100k subscribers

[@kenanhasan9784]

Great work

[@vulcanjoe8258]

Stunning, absolutely stunning.

[@brianu2229]

One important thing I would note about this video, is that the numbers seem to portray "rifle" strength (meaning frontline infantry) rather than total number of combatants, which included artillery, engineers, armored and cavalry divisions, as well as the army logistical tail. On the Western Front at the end of the war, 6.5 million Allied soldiers faced 3.5 million German, of which only fractions were frontline infantry. In this way it is fascinating to watch the numbers of frontline infantry gradually decrease, not just due to casualties but because the armies began to realize that greater numbers in the frontline often just meant greater losses and so began to specialize.

[@mathiaskosch3955]

That could be the reason for these low numbers. But there should be a remark on this - one can get the impression Germany was superior in the west with regard to the number of active soldiers at some time, which it wasn't. I also wonder how to get the numbers of the active personnel, e.g. the english Wiki doesn't even have the absolute numbers of all soldiers 😅

[@nebojsakovacevic3610]

Disgraceful, 62,000 Serbs decided the war.” - German Kaiser Wilhelm.

[@DonAntonio1]

Amazing video! With what program do you animate the map? I find it super entertaining.

[@MinorLife10]

Remember when Frontline stand still it doesn't mean the fight has stopped. It means there is the fiercest combat *right now.*

[@GREYJEY2112]

this is the kind of videos we need more of, imagine one of these videos for napoleonic wars

[@AnonymousFohYOU]

One of my great-great-grandpa’s (maybe more greats, idk) survived the war. He would go on to survive WW2 as well. He was a great man, and served as a Sikh soldier in the British Army. He was deployed at the 2nd Battle of Ypres, and also served during other battles such as Mons, Antwerp, Brussels, and other non-Belgian battles. In WW2 he served mainly in Paris, Normandy, and the Bulge. He also served in the BED (British Expeditionary Force).

[@del3496]

What a hero

[@sakaijin7270]

Must a high ranking officer then according to the age. Probably led at least a battalion or be a member of the staff for larger size units such as division and corps.

[@biba229sos9]

7:19 R.I.P

[@theconversationalelitist6423]

Truly heroes we didn't deserve

[@emilianoiphone]

austria hungary is just germany but without that natio0nalism

[@banger2998]

@@emilianoiphone and far less competent

[@zoltan6451]

@@banger2998 laughable comment

[@zoltan6451]

@@banger2998 Austria hungary fought in 3 fronts italy serbia russia , but you tell me my family is incompetent when we took russia 😂

[@zoltan6451]

@@banger2998 all the empire troops outside our borders and we ended up without anything cause a paper signed in france

[@absolutedegenerat3372]

I’m just amazed how many troops there were 100 years ago

[@dejanperic6770]

Those where ordinary men given a rifle and they needed to fight to survive.

[@jessasnamoi]

Wouldn't be possible to replicate atm..

[@alex90benato]

@@jessasnamoiright now no, but give them 5-10 years these crazy Liberal Democratic leaders we have will do their best to repeat everything all over again

[@atismoke]

The numbers suddenly dropping by the tens of thousands a day with the music at its crescendo sent chills down my spine.

[@dylangtech]

Seeing those numbers really makes you wonder if the world wars together really was the war to end all wars.

[@irenaveksler1935]

The Second World War was the war to end all wars The un was created and most wars stopped happening Only some minor wars besides Russo Ukraine

[@spark5558]

I think some people are starting to forget the horrors of war and want a 3rd instalment nuclear fallout edition

[@user-ch1qv4qk4z]

Its such a shame that after so many deaths and after such a devastating war, people still didnt learn and ended up starting an even more devastating war. And even after that, it ended up being just another war with more wars following after that.

[@colinmerritt7645]

Putin apparently doesn't think so

[@ARCPolus]

@@colinmerritt7645 you mean the US invasions of Vietnam Korea Afghanistan Iraq and Lybia?

[@HochundDeutschyapster]

Correction: romanian signed a peace treaty with central powers also known as treaty of bucharest after the russian withdrawal and romania's seizure of moldova/moldovia. Just after ww1 the entente nullified the treaty of bucharest and romania later declared war on Hungary.

[@shockingbruv8723]

I like how portugal is in the allied side but is completely isolated from the war

[@user-qi5jw2hg1c]

8:07 onwards is perfect. The music denotes the final phase where the Germans had a narrow window to break the western front before too many American troops arrived and before their own internal issues collapsed the Empire. At this stage, all of the major powers were at complete breaking point, and all of the powers knew this was a fight for the survival of their realms. The loser would lose it all. Finally Germany had gotten rid of the nightmare of a 2-front war and was able to release its Eastern troops to the West. It simply was all done too late

[@ScottHendrix-yz3du]

As an American I have become convinced the US should have stayed out of ww 1.

[@user-qi5jw2hg1c]

@@ScottHendrix-yz3du It would have been an interesting scenario.

[@hannahdyson7129]

​@@ScottHendrix-yz3duCan you imagine if the UK and France became the third reich twenty years latter ? World War ll would have still happend but may have had a more bloody outcome

[@bensmith1927]

Music is from the video game Battlefield 1

[@user-qi5jw2hg1c]

@@bensmith1927 I know- soundtrack was one of the few good things about the game lol

[@bubblesxd]

Absolute art. Maybe one of the globe as well?

[@adamramos9924]

Just looking at the axis position in 1917 and I can see how the stab in the back conspiracy was so persuasive

[@Artur-qq1ef6zm1l]

the problem is that these positions do not reflect the real situation at the front and in the economy, and it was not in favor of Germany! even the victory on Russia could not save Germany and it was doomed because in the war of attrition the Entente had a much larger reserve of forces, especially given the huge US army gradually replenishing the ranks of the Entente!

[@user-uw7kq7tu1t]

@@Artur-qq1ef6zm1l но было бы интересно посмотреть чем бы все закончилось если бы Германия перекинула этот миллион солдат с востока, вместо того чтобы абсолютно без толку оккупировать уже вышедшую из войны Россию.

[@Artur-qq1ef6zm1l]

@@user-uw7kq7tu1t закончилось бы тем же самым! экономика Германии даже при условии приобретений была в кризисе армия и народ устали от войны и даже если бы она перебросила все силы на запад что было невозможно это бы не помогло! во Францию стабильно пребывали Американские Войска! США уже тогда были очень сильной и богатой страной и во многом поддерживали огромными кредитами Антанту! за свое короткое участие в войне они успели мобилизовать 4 миллиона и к марту 1918 во Франции уже имели 1 миллион солдат! у Германия была обречена в войне на истощение с этим гигантом единственным ее реальным шансом было быстрое взятие Парижа и выведение Франции из войны в 1914

[@wertyuiopasd6281]

It's utter nonsense. The germans lost the western front against the French mainly, and the brits since Verdun in 1916, massive french victory. Even the german general was fired. No amount of coping, weraboos or hitler conspiracy theories will change the fact. If not for the US criminal decisions, european armies would have paraded in Berlin like it ought to preventing WW2.

[@elitedima9672]

Dang, that's a lot of men being thrown into senseless meat grinder on german-france front with no any progress

[@no-nx3ip]

My great grandfather fought in Gallipoli, I never met him but he was a decorated soldier in one of the most brutal battles of the ottomans

[@tuna708]

Turkish side or British side?

[@no-nx3ip]

@@tuna708 ottoman side

[@bunkerkorpf1440]

@@no-nx3ip so he fought alongside ottoman christians before genociding them?

[@no-nx3ip]

@@bunkerkorpf1440 you must have a very warped view of the ottoman people, he did not fight alongside ottoman christians there were virtually none in gallipolli, there we’re basically no one except muslim turks and a small contingent of muslim arabs defending gallipoli, and most of the massacres that happened in the empire were not related to the average conscript soldiers it was either carried out by the agents of Teşkilât-ı Mahsusa or by lynchmobs again aggravated by Teşkilât-ı Mahsusa. At least know the history before being turkophobic

[@bunkerkorpf1440]

@@no-nx3ip So Sarkis Torossian never existed ? It's turkophobic to talk about Armenian genocide, Assyrian genocide and Pontic Greek genocide ? For me it's just history.

[@pherentha3562]

My great great grandfather was a Serb but fought for Austria Hungarians. They forced him. He died from his brothers in arms instead of fighting with him.

[@happi_happi_happi_yay]

Im sorry for you and your grand father too whos father got killed in the war

[@SK-rw8fz]

If your grandfather was Serb,you are Serb too🙋‍♂️🇷🇸💪

[@CyberPotato123]

serbian propoganda

[@AFT_05G]

Most don’t realize how big of a juggernaut Germany was in this war and carried Central Powers on their arms for 4 years.

[@kkjkkj2584]

Germany was always a juggernaut in every war they have been in. In WW2 the Germans babysit Italy while fighting the Russians on the eastern front. And in WW1 they also carry Austria while fighting on 2 front

[@wertyuiopasd6281]

They had lost in 1916 bruhh. The French and the brits were savages.

[@wertyuiopasd6281]

@@kkjkkj2584 German ball su-cker

[@thenooneman01239]

saying they carried the central powers is bullshit austria had to fight a 3 front war at one point

[@wertyuiopasd6281]

@@thenooneman01239 werhaboos are a pain in the ass. They lost to the French at Verdun and can't admit it even a 100 years later. Being a sore loser isn't good.

[@pie6k]

I like the part where Google Earth fights Russia at 0:50

[@MerkurioBua]

You owe me a kiss for suggesting you to use mask/path animations 🥰

[@TLGyoutube]

Allah (c.c) şehitlerimizden razı olsun. "Bastığın yerleri "toprak" diye geçme tanı, düşün altındaki binlerce kefensiz yatanı." 🇹🇷 Peace at home, peace at world.

[@namesand506]

🇹🇷🤝🏻🇷🇺

[@mrobocop1666]

It's hard to call imperialist capitalist war participants "shahids"

[@umutgezginug]

@@mrobocop1666 who do you call as '' capitalist'' ?

[@someturkishguy8638]

@@namesand506 🇹🇷🇷🇺❤️ in the end, we and the Soviets worked together. We should have been allies if not for the split in religion

[@M.SalihSener]

" Sen şehit oğlusun incitme yazıktır atanı"

[@starryz3296]

Everyone was equally losing, which makes it more sad

[@MK-qh8nq]

I had three family members survive WW1. My great great grandfather on my moms side was a ski patrol soldier in the South Tyrol Dolomites for Austria. He got malaria and he would have flare ups the rest of his life. My great grandfather on my dads side was an artillery man from Slovakia fighting on the Italian front for the Hungarian Army. I also had another great great grandfather on my moms side who fought on the Russian front for Austria. He got captured and was sent prison near Vladivostok (next to North Korea). After the war, the communists freed all the prisoners so he had to walk 11000 kilometers back to Gottschee in modern day Slovenia.

[@doraemon61377]

2:56 a direct land route between ottoman and germany was connected. Meaning easier for germany to send suppliers and advisors to help the turks.

[@syedlam9632]

You never disappoint us

[@keanpaolomiguelcabaero8819]

Overused ahh comment

[@IdiSmol]

Another banger has entered the chat

[@trevorphilips3724]

Now nobody cant say we not have video map for ww1. Amazing work, specialy with gallipoli .thank you

[@chibble3591]

Really interesting to see this map especially towards the end of the war. It looks like the central powers were winning just by looking at the map.

[@mattalden10]

Its impressive how little progress was made with so many people.

[@nicolasberky145]

Germany:the pro who has premium subscription Austria hungary:the noob who just downloaded the game Bulgaria:the pro without premium subscription Ottoman empire:the og noob

[@bigenglishmonkey]

nah the ottomans are the old man who played the first games in the series but cant get used to the new consoles controller.

[@kasadam85]

@@bigenglishmonkey a much better output. Ottomans deserve better

[@jackko90MI]

Really truly enjoyed that video! Too bad the african front was left out of the map, lots of important battles took part there between UK and Ottomans

[@trollaccount3872]

Also yemen ...

[@plumberboy]

You used Battlefield 1 music didn't you? That music gives me chills every time i hear it. Such powerful music for such a world defining moment in history.

[@pierre-christiansinger5763]

Impressive and VERY important work! It gives a clear view of the military developments of the war and also of the most terrible bloodshed, this conflict took. My compliments. Remembering the victims assures, that they are still alive spiritually and did not died in vain, but for the duty of their home country. I´m German but I live in France and in every town are monuments of the residents, so many young men, almost children, that died in the wars of 1870/71, WWI, WWII and the colonial wars. But the lists for WWI French sacrifices are the longest and always makes me sad. It really should not have to be. Only why could nations so close together engage in such a terrible war, like France and Germany. I will never understand that...

[@Inkand-cp6bi]

Austria struggled to defeat Serbia for 2 years, then Bulgaria joins the war and rolls Serbia. That's pretty embarrassing for Austria.

[@gahdhsh623]

It's not embarrassing it's just that Serbia was to tired by then, could not hold another front. They were already fighting for two years as you said. Bulgaria like always in all its glory, stabbed Serbia in the back in darkest times. Nothing special about that.

[@NA-45.]

Fighting spirit of Serb Also austria hungry is messed up with a different ethnicity that's why

[@Mernejet]

@@gahdhsh623 Serbia attacked as first in 1885! So who is the backstabber?

[@PROUNKNOWN]

Very good!

[@daslol23]

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[@YourNormalTexan]

No one cares

[@keanpaolomiguelcabaero8819]

@@YourNormalTexan nO OnE cAReS- 🤡 + 🤓

[@lordroswag4298]

This is Epic

[@KaunitzAlex]

World War I is an event, which is not quite well discussed on any resources. So thanks for more videos on this topic

[@ElonMasks]

Yeah ww1 got overshadowed by ww2

[@lad4830]

Rightfully so, don't you think? @@ElonMasks