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2:29 at the “incomprehensible” part, I believe he’s saying “Staat und Gedanke“.

Fabricated scenes here and there, and not even that well fabricated either. Re enactment for filming and photography. The troops on the rocky hill terrain were not on combat, since they were not really covering themselves and only one fellow was firing in front of the camera. The street fighting scene was an afterwards played scene too. The rifle was hardly kicking at all, when a white guardist was firing. Blanks…

07:30 mikä talo tietääkö joku?

03:53 ei tolla rengasseoksella tuosta mäestä mennä yli niin että heilahtaa

White army's commander Mannerheim did not want direct german intervention, since he understood that it would render Finland a German vassal, as it did. Finland only got free from the german grip at 11.11.18, when Germany lost the Great war. After that the germanophiles were removed from the governing bodies and Mannerheim was again needed to patch up relations with France and UK.

Thank you for uploading such footage! Small critique but not that important is that the footage is playing slightly faster than it should. I assume this was scanned at 24 frames a second and being played back as such. The footage however might be at a slower frame rate like 18 or 16 frames a second as these were the standard at the time for multiple formats. For me 0.75x speed resolves the issue. Thanks again for uploading!

truly amazing to see this in such a good quality compared to other sources

Interesting how they are using the swedish names of the cities instead of the finnish ones.

Can someone recognize where German troops are leaving. Wikipedia says Danzig but did not found that kind of church towers from Gdanzk..

Thanks! As a Finn, this was very interesting footage to see, and I havent seen it before even I'm interested about history. 👍🏻🇫🇮

I walked at Senaatintori with my dog last saturday , seen at 9.27 . Looks pretty same this day . Execpt last saturday there was a christmas market😅 . Same place seen also at 12.23 from different angle

A highly interesting film since there is very little footage of the Finnish civil war available. Good find!

Battle at Syrjäntaka village was only one where German’s lost. kia 50 After fall of Red Tampere. Refugee’s travelled to East Lahti and from there to Red Russia. Brandestain landed in Loviisa and cut route off in Lahti. Radenstein had 400 and 5000 red’s. 28-29.4.1918. 300 red killed.

The combat value of the Red Guards facing the Germans was close to zero. For example, near Helsinki, the Red Guard of Malmi advanced toward the Germans in a line along the railway embankment, and in the ensuing battle, a German machine gun team fired at the entire Red Guard from an overpass arching over the tracks, mowing them down. The “battle” resembled something like this: ruclips.net/video/CPRh4gw_GmQ/видео.htmlsi=hdMPOD7V3e2Np8Fy&t=61

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Remarks: 00:16 The main German forces to intervene in the Finish Civil War was the Baltic Sea Division, which was raised from troops which were freed after the Brest-Litovsk peace treaty. It consisted mainly of three cavalry regiments and three light infantry battalions, but also had MG, mountain artillery, pioneer and even some attached Air Force troops. All in all, this division had 10,000 men, was commanded by General Rüdiger von der Goltz (1865-1946) and landed at Hanko, ca. 130 km west of Helsinki, on April 3rd, 1918. It then marched on Helsinki and captured the city after a few days of heavy fighting on April 14th, 1918. 01:05 The convoy transporting the German troops to Finland was accompanied by a number of German warships, although I was not able to find out which ships exactly were used for that mission. 02:59 The German troops embarked at Hanko on April 3rd, a port that was already under control of the White Guard troops. 03:23 Helsingfors is the Swedish name of Helsinki, and at that time, it was common to refer to Helsinki by its Swedish name. 04:28 This gun is a 10,5cm leFH 16, a German light field howitzer introduced in mid-1916 as a successor to the old 10,5cm leFH 98/09, which was considered outdated. With a firing range of 8,400 meters regularly, and 9,700 meters with special cartridges, the gun was one of the best light field howitzers when it was introduced. In total, around 14,000 guns were made by Rheinmetall between 1916 and 1918, and they were also used by German second-line troops in WWII. 05:00 The White Guards was a voluntary milita, part of the White Movement, the first independent government of Finland formed in November 1917, and one of the two sides in the Finnish Civil War, fighting against the socialist Red Guards. At the height of the Civil War, their strength was around 80,000 to 90,000 troops. 05:59 The Red Guard were a militia unit of leftist and socialist groups in Finland, first formed in 1905. They belonged to the Finnish Socialist Workers Republic, a self-proclaimed socialist state in Finland, and fought against the White Guard. They had around the same strength as the White Guard, roughly 80,000 to 90,000 troops, and were supported by around 10,000 former Russian Army soldiers. 06:06 Both the Red and White Guards lacked uniforms, so their members would often fight wearing their own, private clothing, as can be seen here. 07:48 These guns are 7,5cm Mountain Gun 13, a German mountain gun produced by Krupp. The German Army actually had no Mountain guns in their inventory, except for some colonial troops in Africa, but Krupp sold their mountain guns to customers all over the world, and between 1890 and 1914, they sold 688 guns to Chile, the Ottoman Empire and Romania. When WWI broke out, the German Army placed an order 72 guns, but they were not used much, because the Skoda Mountain guns were usually judged to be better. 08:34 Helsinki was attacked by German and White Guard troops on April 12th, and was defended by several thousand Red Guard members, although only around 2,000 of them were armed. The battle was fought over individual buildings, and on April 14th, the Germans and White Guards had secured most of the city. The Battle was fought with rather low intensity, and shops, restaurants and public transport continued to operate normally. Many civilians were actively walking around the fighting zones, trying to spectate the fighting. During the fighting, 54 German, 23 White Guard soldiers and around 100 Red Guard soldiers died, a further 400 Red Guard members were executed afterwards. 09:25 On April 14th, a victory parade of German and Finnish troops was held in the city, to celebrate the victory.

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Прошло каких то 30 лет и как все измерилось..тут 25 лет с 2000 го одно и то же ..ну смартфоны и гибриды не в счет.

Remarks: 00:15 „In Wehr und Waffen“(roughly translates to „In defense and up in arms”) was the name of a 1911 book with 240 pages and many illustrations and photos about Germanys Army and Navy, which became quite famous in Germany, as the military played an important role in the society back then. I assume this name is a reference to that book, although I’m not 100% sure. 00:28 I wasn’t able to identify the planes in the background, if anyone knows, let me know in the comments! 00:43 This was a standard paper for incoming telegraph messages, where details such as the station, time and number of message would be noted down, and then the message itself. 01:03 These messages were encrypted, so what is written down here is the encrypted message, which, of course, doesn’t make much sense without deciphering it. 03:03 Since actual locomotives were rare in wartime, many supply trains were powered by a truck that was converted to be used on railway tracks. 04:11 These guns are French Canon de 75, a 75mm field gun. Introduced in the French Army in 1897, large quantities of these guns were captured by German troops during the first two years of the war, and initially used on the frontlines. But once Germany ramped up artillery production and produced enough modern field guns, these older/captured guns were given to rear units, and often used as improvised AA-guns. This gun sits on an improvised wooden mount, allowing a 360° traverse. 04:31 This soldier is setting a time fuse. Setting the fuse to the right setting was important, because if the time was set to short, the grenade would explode before hitting the plane, and if it was set to long, the grenade would simply penetrate the plane and explodes afterwards, without causing much damage. Ideally, the fuse is set so that the grenade explodes while being close to the plane for maximum effect. 04:45 These planes are most likely Albatros D.V, a German fighter airplane and the last fighter plane from Albatros to see service with the German Air Force during WWI. Developed from the Albatros D. III. in April 1917, the D.V entered service in May 1917, but the plane was considered slow, had a bad maneuverability and was exhausting to fly, even fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen complained about the machine. This cause Albatros to create an updated version, the D.Va, which had stronger wings, and a better engine, a 170hp Mercedes D.IIIaü engine. This version went into production in August 1917. In total, 900 D.V and 1012 D.Va were built during the war, making it the most produced German fighter plane during the later phase of WWI. 04:54 This plane is a famous Fokker Dr I, made by Dutch Fokker company. Developed in April and July 1917, and the first 20 prototypes were ordered in August 1917. It was also the plane where Manfred von Richthofen achieved his last 19 kills. While it only had a comparably weak 110 hp engine, its thick engines made it very maneuverable and it had an amazing climbing speed, Richthofen called it “maneuverable like devils and climbs like apes”. Untill May 1918, 420 planes were made. 05:40 This is an MG 08/15, an improvised version of the MG08, the standard German MG during WWI. It was the most produced German MG during WWI, with 130,000 made between 1915 and 1918, when it was replaced by the light MG 08/18. As shown here, many were also used for air defense. 06:32 I believe that this shot down plane is a French Breguet 14 bomber. Introduced in May 1917, it had a 263, later 300hp Renault V12 engine, and until December 1918, around 5,300 were made. The plane proved to be very successful, and was exported to a lot of countries including Belgium, Brazil, Portugal, Poland etc. When production stopped in 1928, another 2,500 have been made, so the total production number was around 7,800 planes.

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Remarks: 00:29 This is basically a simplified map of the Battle of Cambrai. The black solid line shows the frontlines before the British advance, it is marked “2nd German Army before November 30th”. This is actually wrong, the attack started 10 days earlier, on November 20th, I believe this was intentionally written wrong to make the battle seem less significant(?). The dotted line shows the British advance until November 30th, before the German counterattack, it reads “Breakthrough of the English”. And the arrows on the left and right have “German counterattack” written on them, although it should be noted that the Germans counterattacked not only from the flanks, but also frontally. 01:07 As written in the intro, the British fielded a total of 476 tanks, out of which 378 were combat tanks (the other 98 were supply/repair tanks). Out of these 378, 350 were operational and were used on the first day of the attack. The Germans actually only captured around 70 tanks, although the exact number is a bit difficult to access, because many of the tanks captured were already destroyed. Around 40 of the Mark IV tanks captured during the battles were in running conditions and re-used by the Germans. 01:17 Fontaine-Notre-Dame is a small town before Cambrai and was the scene of intense fighting during the battle. Initially captured by the British, a German counter-attack recaptured the city, but on November 27th, the British did another costly attack on the city, capturing it in fierce street fighting, but had to redraw again in the face of another German counterattack. Of the 700 British soldiers who captured the town, only around 150 returned to their lines. 01:26 These tanks are British Mark IV tanks, the most numerous built British tank of WWI. A development of the Mark I tank, it had a crew of 8, up to 12mm of armor and a 105hp engine. It weighed 28 tons and had a top speed of 4kmh. Three variants were built, a “male” variant with two 57mm guns and three Lewis light MGs, a “female” variant with only five Lewis light MGs, and an unarmed “Tank Tender” supply variant. 595 Males, 420 Females and 205 Tenders were built between May 1917 and late 1918. It was intended to be replaced by the Mark V from July 1918 onwards, but that didn’t fully happen for the rest of the war. The Germans captured about 40 Mark IVs during the Cambrai battle. 02:19 Fritz Leu, a Sergeant of the Motor Troops, managed to recover a British mark IV tanks from No Mans Land near Fontaine-Notre-Dame on the morning of November 22nd, 1917, making him the first German soldier in history to drive a tank. 02:26 The tank in the background is a Mark IV of the female variant, only armed with machine guns and no cannon. 02:40 Camouflage nets were already used for years at this point to camouflage positions, artillery etc. against enemy air reconnaissance. 03:08 Many destroyed/damaged British tanks which were beyond repair were stripped down, the weapons, engine and other workable parts were sent back to Germany and the metal was used for scraps. 03:58 This tank in the background is most likely an unarmed supply/repair variant, as it has no visible guns. 08:01 These small entry hatches were typical of the female and unarmed variants. 08:10 Many of the captured tanks were sent back to Berlin for testing to evaluate them and help the Germans with their own tank designs. 11:57 The main armament of the Mark IV tank, the 57mm gun, can be seen here.

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Remarks: 01:46 This gun, or rather this gun carriage, is of a 21cm Mörser 10, a heavy howitzer (despite the name mortar, it was not a mortar, but a heavy howitzer) of the German Empire. Designed from 1907 to 1910, it could shoot a 114-kilo heavy projectile up to 9,4000 meters. In July 1914, Germany had 256 of these guns. Despite being replaced by the 21cm Mörser 16 in 1916, it was used until the end of the war. 01:51 This gun is a 7,7cm FK 96 n.A., a modernized version of the 1896 gun from 1904. 5,086 of these guns were made between 1905 and 1916, it was the standard German field artillery of WWI. It was replaced in early 1917 by the 7,7cm FK 16 in early 1917, but remained in service until the end of WWI. 02:21 These guns are also 7,7cm FK 96 n.A. 02:34 This gun is a 21cm Mörser 10 (see entry above). 02:39 This is again the gun carriage for a 21cm Mörser 10. 02:50 While I’m not sure which one exactly, this looks like a gun carriage for a smaller field gun, probably either a 7,7cm or a 10cm gun. 03:00 This gun is again the 7,7cm FK 96 n.A., although this example is damaged and had part of its wheel and barrel destroyed. 03:56 I was not able to identify this gun on the right here. From the way it looks, with the barrel itself high above the carriage and no protective shields, it is probably an older gun, perhaps even from the late 19th century, but I’m not sure which one it is. It maybe is a captured French or British gun. 04:19 This is probably again a 21cm Mörser 10. 05:18 This carriage is that of a 21cm Mörser 99, a German siege mortar designed by Krupp from 1893 to 1898 and officially introduced in July 1899 in the German Army. It fired a shell weighing between 84 and 144 kilos up to 8.3 kilometers. Already outdated by 1914, 48 of these guns were still in service with reserve units, but high losses in the first months of the war and a demand for more heavy guns led to these guns being re-issued to heavy artillery battalions. 05:53 This is probably referring to the recoil cylinder, an important part of the hydraulic recoil mechanism that limits recoils on any modern artillery gun. 06:56 The gun in the background that is being drawn by horse is probably a so called 7,7cm Kanone in Haubitzelafette (7,7cm gun on howitzer carriage), which was the barrle of a 7,7cm FK 96 n.A. (see entry above) mounted on the carriage on the 10,5cm Feldhaubitze 98/09 in an attempt to give the gun more elevation and range; it gave the gun an elevation of +40° and a range of up to 10,600 meters, compared to the standard +15,8° and 8,400 meters of the standard 7cm FK 96 n.A. 07:04 I was sadly not able to identify this gun on the left here. 07:25 These guns are 25cm schwere Minenwerfer (literally: heavy mine launcher). These guns were trench mortars, designed after experiences gained in the Russo-Japanese War. It could fire a 97-kilo normal or a 50-kilo mine shell at up to 75° elevation, with a maximum fire range of 970metres. 1,240 were built between 1910 and 1918. 07:33 These guns are 17cm mittlere Minenwerfer, or medium mine launcher, basically a smaller version of the 25cm gun shown before. The shells it fired were only 50 kilos, giving it a higher range (up to 1,600 meters) than the 25cm variant. 2,361 of these guns were made between 1913 and 1918. Two of these guns were used by the SS Danzig home guard during initial fighting in Danzig in the course of the invasion of Poland in 1939.

Amazing footage, thank you for sharing. Interesting to see the word “Tank” being used instead of “Panzer”. As an aside, the gothic font at the beginning is really difficult to read, perhaps you can consider something different, or the same as used for your WWII series?

The pedestrian casually outpacing the German tank while strolling will never not be funny.

Remarks: 00:00 There actually is no known release date for this movie. 22nd of June 1918 is simply the date this movie passed film censorship, so I assume it got released a few days/weeks after that, in early July 1918. 00:15 As written in the intro, the official name of this movie is “The Battle between Aisne and Marne”. In English and French, this Battle is knowns as “Third Battle of the Aisne”, to distinguish it between the First (September 1914) and Second (April to May 1917) Battles of the Marne. In German, this Battle is known simply as “Battle of the Aisne”, alternatively as “Battle of Soissons and Reims”. The official name was “Blücher and York-Attack”. 00:16 “BUFA” stands for “Bild-und Filmamt“ (Picture and Movie Department), a department of the German Supreme Army Leadership to produce propaganda movies. It was also responsible for taking pictures and footage from the frontlines, distributing movies and footage among soldiers and to foreign countries. Founded on January 30th, 1917. 00:19 This is referring to Crown Prince Wilhelm (1882-1951), the eldest child and heir of Wilhelm II. In August 1914, he was named commander of the 5th Army, although this was more representational, as military inexperienced German nobles like Wilhelm were given an experienced chief of staff (In the case of the 5th Army, that was General Konstantin Schmidt von Knobelsdorf (1860-1936)), who generally commanded the Army. From August 1915 to November 1918, he commanded the Army Group Crown Prince, named after him, which took part in the deadly Battle of Verdun in 1916. The German 7th and 1st Army, the main German forces in the 3rd Battle of the Aisne, belonged to that Army Group. 00:46 This gun is probably a German 15cm Kanone 16, a late war German field gun.It fired 51.4 kilo heavy shells at up 22,000 meters. Officially introduced in August 1916, the first guns reached the frontlines in early 1917; its main role was to fire at individual targets far behind the frontlines. There were two variants produced, one by Krupp and one by Rheinmetall, the Krupp variant was designed to be towed by a truck, the Rheinmetall for a more traditional disassembled towing. I couldn’t find exact production numbers, but in October 1918, the German Army fielded 212 Krupp and 22 Rheinmetall guns. 00:49 The German Army in WWI used far more captured tanks then their own. During WWI, the Germans only produced 20 of their A7V tanks, in comparison, they captured over 200 French and British tanks and used many of these on their own. 00:57 These tanks are British Mark IV tanks, the most numerous built British tank of WWI. A development of the Mark I tank, it had a crew of 8, up to 12mm of armor and a 105hp engine. It weighed 28 tons and had a top speed of 4kmh. Three variants were built, a “male” variant with two 57mm guns and three Lewis light MGs, a “female” variant with only five Lewis light MGs, and an unarmed “Tank Tender” supply variant. 595 Males, 420 Females and 205 Tenders were built between May 1917 and late 1918. It was intended to be replaced by the Mark V from July 1918 onwards, but that didn’t fully happen for the rest of the war. The Germans captured about 50 Mark IVs and used them to form four tank companies that were fully equipped with these captured Mark IVs. 01:49 These are A7Vs, the only tank built by Germany during WWI. Officially named “Sturmpanzerwagen” (Assault armored vehicle), it had 18 to 25 crew members, 5 to 30mm of armor, and was powered by two Daimler Benz 4 cylinder engines with a 100 hp each, giving it a maximum speed of 15kmh on roads and 6,4 kmh cross-country. It was armed with a 5,7cm gun carrying 300 rounds and six 7,9mm MGs for which 36,000 rounds were carried. Only 20 were built in 1916 and the Germans considered it a failure, planning a number of other tanks, which all weren’t finished before the end of the war. The A7V shows how little tank manufacturing the Germans did during the war, as the British alone produced over 2,500 of their Mark I to Mark V tanks variants. During the Third Battle of the Aisne, a few of these were used with some success during an attack on French positions near Soissons. 02:39 Soissons is a small French town in the Northeast of the country. During WWI, it was captured twice by German troops, during the first and third Batlle of the Aisne. The city was heavily destroyed by both German and French artillery fire, over 75% of the buildings were destroyed. 03:03 During WWI, certain villages and cities in Northeast France and in Belgium were heavily destroyed by artillery. This was always based on military factors and/or because the cities got into crossfire, neither the Germans nor the France deliberately shelled cities, which would be a war crime. Nevertheless, both sides regularly claimed that the other side did this, to portray them in a negative light, but it never happened. 03:57 Paissy is a French village in the Aisne regions. It is famous for its large caves, which were once used by villagers to live in. During WWI, these caves were used by the French Army to house troops and supplies. 05:12 These MGs are MG 08/15, a development of the heavy MG08. While the heavier MG08 was used on a tripod and weighed over 50 kilos, the MG08/15 only had a weight of 19,5 kilo and was intended to be carried by soldiers during attacks. It was chambered in 7,92mm Mauser, and with almost 130,000 examples used, was the most produced German MG in WWI. As shown here, it was also used to defend against enemy planes. As dedicated AA-guns were only introduced very late in the war, MGs and rifle fire was often the only defense for both sides against enemy planes. 05:36 Much like in 1914, the Germans reached the Marne River on May 29/30, only 56km away from Paris. However, they ran out of reserves and were unable to continue their attacks, having to go into defensive positions in early June. 06:45 Jumigny is a very small village in Aisne, 29 km northeast of Reims, with only a few dozen inhabitants. 07:19 I am not sure which gun exactly this is, but it is definitely a larger artillery piece, probably over 190mm. 07:51 This gun is a 38cm SK L/45, nicknamed “Max” or “Long Max”. Designed between 1912 and 1914, it was initially intended as a naval gun, but was converted into a land-based railway or stationary gun at the start of WWI. It could fire up to 22,200 meters from rails or up to 47,500m from a stationary emplacement. 8 pieces were produced between 1914 and 1918. 08:29 Although it is implied here that these planes are captured French planes, they actually aren't. They are most likely Halberstadt CL.II, a light, two-seater escort fighter and ground attack plane. Designed in 1917 under the new CL category, meaning light planes under 750 kilos, the CL. II weighs 730 kilos and was powered by a 160hp Mercedes D III six-cylinder engine, giving it a top speed of 175 kmh. It was a good plane and proved itself in aerial combat and for ground attacks. 779 were built between mid-1917 and the end of WWI. These planes, with the white rudder, most likely belonged to Schlasta 2 ( Ground Attack Squadron II), which was stationed in the area during the Third Battle of the Aisne.

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Remarks: 00:15 The background image is a 1914 postcard that reads “Keep whacking em!”, and depicts a German soldier hitting dogs that have written England, Russia, France and Belgium on them. 00:20 The first line of this song, “There roars a call like a thunder roar” is taken from the famous German patriotic song “Die Wacht am Rhein”. 00:45 After the Austro-Hungarian Archhduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated by Bosnian Serb Gavrilo Princip, anti-Serbian resentments were at its peak in both Germany and Austro-Hungary, with many people considering Serbia a country full of criminals and despicable people. 01:28 This refers to Austria-Hungary, the second “German” Empire.

They were shown even without background orchestra or something?

Remarks: 00:21 Australian troops coming to Europe in late 1914/early 1915 landed in Egypt to be trained. Due to lack of proper facilities, many of these men had to live in tents. I am not 100% sure why these scenes are shown in a German newsreel, considering Australia was at war with Germany. 01:40 The King of Greece at that time was Constantine I (1886-1923) who reigned from March 1913 to June 1917 and again from December 1920 to September 1922. At this point during the war, Greece was still neutral. 02:28 Soldau is a small village in the south of East Prussia, which became part of Poland after WWI. 03:43 This artillery piece is a 8cm FK M.5, a field gun from Austria-Hungary introduced in 1907. It was the standard artillery piece of the Austro-Hungarian Army, three quarters of its artillery were made up of FK M.5 at the outbreak of WWI. 06:03 Otto Weddigen (1882-1915) was a German Navy officer and U-Boat commander during WWI. He joined the German Navy as an officer in 1901, serving on various German vessels stationed in German colonies in China. In October 1908, he switched to the newly formed U-Boat branch, serving as watch officer on several U-Boats, before becoming commander of U-4 in September 1910. In October 1911 he became commander of U-9, one of the most modern U-Boats of the German Navy at that time. On September 22th, 1914, Wedding was on a reconnaissance mission with his U-Boat, when he spotted and sank three British armored cruisers, Aboukir, Hogue and Cressy in only 75 minutes. This was more due to luck then Weddigens skill, something he openly admitted in his report, but nevertheless, this was a huge success and something that was considered impossible for the still very new concept of U-Boats. Weddigen personally received the Iron Cross 2nd and 1st class from Emperor Wilhelm. On October 15th, 1914, he sunk the British cruiser Hawke, for which he was awarded the Pour le Merite as one of the first German Naval officer. After becoming sick and having to give up command of U-9, Weddigen became commander of U-29 in February 1915. In March 1915, he sank four merchant ships in the Irish Sea, but on March 18th, U-29 encountered the British Grand Fleet; U-29 was rammed by the HMS Dreadnought, the U-Boat sunk and all the crew, including Weddigen, died.

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Remarks: 00:56 This is referring to the rationing system in place in WWI, where you couldn’t just buy things like food or clothing, but had to buy it with rationing cards, meaning you could only get new clothes or shoes once every few months. 01:30 During WWI was the first time where women went into the workforce, to replace the men who went to the army. Usually women back then just wore dresses or skirts, but when they started working, switched to pants. 01:58 As mentioned above, food and other items where rationed. But by 1916/17, there was an acute shortage of food, especially meat, and many people went for months with eating only bread and turnips. 02:08 This is referring to various “substitute” products. As many things couldn’t be imported to Germany in WWI due to the Allied sea blockade, most notably coffee beans, many products where replaced with imitations. Coffee substitutes, for example, were made out of various things, such as Malt, Barley or Rye, which obviously tasted way worse than the original. 02:34 Souper, taken from French, means something like a luxurious dinner in German.

Here a suggestion: use a generic classic piano song from before 1914 as background sound in those silent videos.

Remarks: 00:16 Ludwig III. (1845-1921) was the last King of Bavaria, ruling from 1913 to 1918. After his father became Prince Regent of Bavaria in 1886 (the actual Bavarian King, Otto, was deemed insane in 1886) and since there were no other male candidates, it was quickly clear that he would become the next Bavarian king. He was very interested in agriculture, purchasing an estate in 1875 and turning it into an exemplary farm. He was also known for promoting education and Bavarian universities. Due to his interest in agriculture, he was familiar with the living conditions of Bavarian peasants and tried to improve these, making him liked by the common people. In December 1912, after the death of his father, he became Prince Regent of Bavaria, and finally King of Bavaria in November 1913. During WWI, he became more unpopulated, as the ruling class was generally blamed for the worsening situation, including food shortages. In November 1918, with the revolution in Germany outgoing, he abdicated, fleeing to Swiss but returning to Bavaria in April 1920. 01:37 Ernst Heinrich von Saxony (1896-1971) was the youngest son of the last King of Saxony, Friedrich August III (1865-1932). During WWI, he served as an officer in the Saxon Army, initially on the western front, from early 1917 onwards on the Eastern Front in Galicia and Belarus. After WWI, he moved to Munich, where he was critical of Hitler and the Nazis, and for that, was imprisoned in a Concentration Camp in July 1934 for five days, and again arrested by the Gestapo in 1943. After WWII, he moved to Ireland, where he bought an estate in the Westmeath County and died during a visit to Germany in June 1971. This footage here is from a visit to Saxon troops stationed in Finland in August 1918. 03:34 While this may sound stereotypical German, serving beer and other alcohol to frontline troops was a common thing amongst all armies and navies in WWI. 05:57 I was sadly not able to find out what type of plane this is.

These intros in Fraktur are spot on

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Remarks: 00:22 The Empress of Germany at that time was Augusta Viktoria of Schleswig-Holstein (1858-1921), who married Prince Wilhelm of Prussia in February 1881, and thus, when Wilhelm became German Emperor in 1888, she became Empress until the collapse of the German Empire in 1918. The hospital train mentioned here was named after her, as “Auguste Victoria” is the Latin version of her name. 00:53 This is referring to King Ludwig III of Bavaria (1845-1921), who was King between 1913 and 1918, and his birthday was on January 7th. Archduke Franz Salvator of Austria (1866-1939) was the son of Karl Savator from the Toscana branch of the Habsburg dynasty. 01:33 I wasn’t able to find out anything about these two ships or why there are significant, I assume they are just two random ships which were filmed. 02:33 These are simple trenches, typical for the early stage of WWI. The famous complex trench systems took months and sometimes years to construct, and in the early stages of WWI, when the frontlines were still moving a lot, units usually only had a few days or even hours to entrench themselves, resulting in simple dug-out trenches like shown here. 03:38 While planes, initially only used for reconnaissance, but then also for bombing runs, where already common in 1914, dedicated AA-guns were not yet invented, so units usually resolved to use rifle or MG fire to fight enemy planes. It is also extremely rare to actually see fighting scenes in these WWI newsreels, as usually only scenes behind the frontlines/aftermath of fighting were filmed. 03:52 Westende- Bains is a beach section, used as a seaside resort, in Belgium, roughly 40 km west of Bruges. It was basically right on the frontline on the last small piece of land still held by Belgium in WWI, and was therefore heavily shelled during trench warfare. 04:23 The Iron Cross 2nd class, which some of the officer wear, was usually only worn on the day of award and on special occasions, usually only the ribbon was worn, as shown by the officer sitting on the right and the one standing right next to him. 05:01 Ypres was a city in Belgium and the center of fighting in Belgium, three costly battles were fought there between Germany and the Entente in 1914, 1915 and 1917.

It's sung with a distinct Cologne accent, which is no wonder as the singer Ludwig Schmitz was a comedic actor from Cologne.

The incomprehensible word is "fressmagnaten" (gulping magnates)? It is something with "magnaten" meaning industrial bosses. The second one is something about "festungsfrage" (fortification question) but I can't make out the place name

Amazing historical footage. Many thanks for your effort.

Very interesting - I didn't know about merchant submarines. Thank you.

1:14 Genauuuuu! 😂❤️

Very based man.

Kaiser Wilhelm be like "Mein voice is awe-Somme!"

Somewhere in my basement of hell, is among my thousand LP's a selection of 'propaganda jazz' from the Third Reich. Actually, the music is good, but what dialogue there is, like here, a jab at the allies (USA in particular). If I find it I will try to get it to you, or perhaps someone has already done so on YT. If not, it would be worth seeking out for your channel. All the best!