My great grandfather died in Verdun, shortly after my grandfather was born. My grandfather died in Yugoslavia, shortly after my father was born. My father is the first male in the family since a long time, that has lived beyond his 21. birthday. Isn‘t that a sad fact? 😞 So many life’s ruined…
very sad indeed, considering the fact that both your father and grandfather had to grow up without a father. you´re the first in 3 generations who fortunately still has his father.
I visited yesterday the cementary and the war place in verdun, after more than 100 year still the smell death there, every person name dead there has a sad story for sure., was feeling sad reading all the names, is your great grandfather buried there in the cementary of Verdun?
@@garyteague4480 There will always be politicians who send the youth off to war to die. It's up to all youths, of both nations, to realise it is all smoke and mirrors and there is no need for violence
I always get a odd feeling when seeing photographs of these men and woman that they,like us...,loved,were husbands and fathers and now they have sort of vanished into history...here, but not here....makes me feel humble and lucky to have never had to do what they did...all wars
They are not gone. They will return. In another life. As for not having to experience what they did, the way shit is going today, you and I may share in their glory or live to see it.
Lucky? The allied troops were good enough to fight for something they believed worth fighting for. And that belief is still correct today. That they were lied and betrayed to slaughterhouse by the very people who swore an oath to serve them may make classify them as unlucky, but who's to say we will be any luckier? Its not so very different today except the objectives of the indoctrination the populaces are subjected too are far less noble than in 1914. I wouldn't say we are luckier. Its difficult to see on our current trajectory how we can sustain a democratic future and still be subject to rule by the same kind of criminals who sent these poor sods to their untimely end. We will either die on our knees or at make a stand and die standing on our feet against those who pretend to serve but hold us in the deepest contempt. If we are to be called lucky, let's hope we make that fight AND WIN. As for the Germans I have little sympathy for them. They are much the same people in 2022 as they were in 1939 and 1914. They either cannot or will not change. However there is one German in those pictures (dated 1915 I think) staring directly into the camera, who looks as if he knows what his country is and what it will do to him eventually. Its the most haunting visage. Maybe that knowledge meant he was the unluckiest of them all.
Sad to think how many of these men in these photographs never survived to the end of the War. As a vet it sickens me to think how 18th Century military tactics helped to nearly wipe out an entire generation when it faced 20th weapons and the Generals failed to adapt (not all but too few to matter). I know what a firefight is like but those lasted for hours and in a rare moment almost an entire day, to face what these men did day after day with no end in sight waiting for the bullet or shell that had your name on it must of destroyed them . Those that did make it till the end of the War were absolutely scarred for the rest of their lives and what nightmares they lived with till they met their end, just cruel insanity at its highest level.
@@THEGAME-tz6yu Everything matters it doesn't change if one believes it or not, as everything done leaves an impact on the world and on others and while in a cosmic sense nothing will matter in the end in a small sense every aspect and every waking moment matters solely because the person who withheld said moment cared and because that action will lead into tomorrow. If nothing mattered then it'd be a pointless thing to say, as it doesn't matter if someone thinks it matters because that is their choice to think so or not and because it is also a paradox as saying nothing matters, means someone thinks it matters enough to say it which in turn is pointless due to said notion. Humans are simply incapable of not caring about anything.
Couldn’t agree more!my g grandad died on the Somme,and I’ve said before his remains were never found,so each time I see any film of it,I pretend each and everyone of them is him,and say a little prayer and give thanks for what these heroes sacrificed.
Yep, every single time I look at war photos of any war in the past I just think, those guys had lives they loved someone and someone loved them. God loved them too did they ever make back home?
The picture that gets me always is the 1914 winter truce pic with the British and German troops all stood together. All looking the same and enduring the same hell.
I wonder if they cried together or talked about a peace. Or tried to come to a peaceful compromise. How do you walk away from a day like that, and say I have to kill these men. Its fuckin wild.
The size diameter of that mortar, amazes me they could even lift the shell… also amazes me that all those men died over imperial powers that were more or less one family that couldn’t get along. Wild.
That’s the important thing to keep in mind. Commoners are the ones who die in wars started by elites who reconcile once the war is over. Be Achilles and fight for yourself, not leonidas.
Howitzer moarters. There's 2 of them in Baltimore, captured I guess. Some book mentions the shells where like paint cans end over end through the air. Scary. Center city. Couple of long cannon type looking guns as well. Compliments of Herr Krupp.
my great grandfather was at the dardenelles then the somme died in 1919 to war wounds both his sons fought in ww2 one r.a.f. the other army, "War is murder, organised murder" Pte Harry Patch LEST WE FORGET
I wear the poppy year round. It's OK to have a remembrance day but people on both sides fought and died year round. Take a walk through any military cemetery. The date of death is all year round. I walked with my dad through the cemetery in Duran Germany, so he could pay respects to the men he served with, nearly a full company, all in a period of about a week. That was during the battle of the Hurtgen forest.
Most probably, I think the vast majority of those lads (whether they were German, English, French or whatever nationality) would have been on good terms with each other. Imagine them in a pub, at the end of a hard working day. They would most likely have come together in conversation, have had some beers or wine or harder drinks. Smoking, chatting, gambling, singing or just relaxing. A few of them could have also started an argument, maybe some fists would fly around - but that would have been rather the exception. Most of them would just have had a good time together. Unfortunately, that never happened.
Yes there was the almost mythic football match in No-mans' Land at Christmas between the British and German soldiers. The soldiers got together and shook hands smoked together, looked at each others photos of wives, kids, girlfriends, and conversed as best they could. The higher ups made damn sure that this sense of international brotherhood got stamped out pretty quickly. The war could possibly have been over in a few months.
Yeah, tell them that in a hundred years, London will look like Lahore, and they will be airbrushed out of existence in movies like 1918, replaced by photoshopped faces of multitudinous blacks and sikhs. They'll stop fighting right then and there.
My Grandfather served America in France in the trenches, came home and died a few years later from mustard gas poisoning right before my Dad was born. This was a horrific war.
Magnifique. Deux frères de mon grand-père maternel sont tombés à cette guerre, nous avons conservé leurs lettres du front en famille, lecture poignante......
Les lettres de soldats sont des éléments mémoriels qui doivent être conservés à tout prix ! Merci à votre famille, et surtout à vos grands oncles pour leur sacrifice.
The dead were and are not. Their place knows them no more and is ours today. Yet they were once as real as us, and we shall tomorrow be shadows like them. - Historian G. M. Trevelyan
Only those who are at war desire peace most, Only those after the war cherish peace the most, Only those who have lived in peace for too long will lose consciousness of war and peace.
Didn't matter which side they were on, they all had that "look," that strange, undefinable expression on their faces, a kind of thousand yard stare, a knowledge of death, a sad, hopeless resignation. And every once in a while, there is a look of defiance, a look of true danger. These were men who truly knew their weapons, and more importantly, knew themselves.
I'd say the same, i started off just reading and watching anything ww2 but gradually moved to the great war and its all i study now, being half welsh and german i had relatives on both sides
The tragedy of every conflict is the loss of so many young men, many just boys. They never had a chance to marry, have a family, a career. So many lives cut short.
We all die. The length of life is about quality, purpose and meeting challenges. To die at any point along the trail of life sets the boundary to make sense of life. Many of these men died heroically and purposefully. We are not their judges.
My granddad was killed at 3.45am on Thursday 3rd May 1917 in the attack on Oppy Wood. My dad was 18 months old and had 4 little siblings. I live in the US now where people still glamorize war and dying for the country and dying to protect your pistol from government rules and widowing your wife and orphaning your children and its worth it........ I guess Vietnam didn't get the word out enough...
Some soldiers of some countries fight for something more than usually wars are about, like influence or imperial pride. For the right to exist. Soldiers of my country. Poland.
Sorry for english which is not my native language first of all. "avoidable" maybe not, regarding the mentalities of the time. But as for the "horrible" aspect of this war, definitely yes. I went to Verdun and the surroundings a few years ago. Juste near the ossuairy in Douaumont, a hundred years after the craters of bombs and shells are still very visible. I stumbled across an unexploded german grenade just on the side of the road of one of those annihilated villages. 1 meter ahead was the remnants of a fench trench where I found a button of a soldier's uniform... The most impressive was just a path close to le Mort-Homme and Hill 304. I was walking on this path and, unconciously, noticed something that gave me a feeling of something unusual but I could not point what it was. And I finally realized : it was the color of the soil : it was litteraly a mixture of pebbles and littles stones and metal scraps everywhere, on every centimeter. Litterally, I was walking on iron. One century after. Looking at theses pictures, I also thought of these people who lived and went through this meat grinder. Whoever they were and the camp they were fighting for, they deserve not to be forgotten.
@@silencecn5146 , Well, the German leadership was definitely trigger happy, so as the Austro-Hungarian Empire ( I'm Hungarian) but the English didn't want war because it was bad for business and even the Russian Tzar, Nicholas II had second thoughts but it was too late to call the troops back. What I forgot to mention in my little post is what made possible to mobilize such a huge number of people and supplies was the vast network of railroads thorough out of Europe which did not exist at the time of the Franco-Prussian war.
I think the general lack of deep coverage and intimate knowledge of WW1 is purely down to mass repression. It's too painful to stomach what men just like you or me had to go through. It's such a dark stain on history and it's easier to forget and ignore the sacrifices they made. Most of all, it's just so incomprehensible, every one of these men could've been you or your best friend.
Mes deux arrières Grands pères 😌sont des anciens combattants Français🇫🇷 de la Première Guerre Mondiale 😢😢😢une pensées pour tout les combattants français 🇫🇷et étrangers de la Grande Guerre 😞😞😞😞😞
Might be some person, somewhere, who's 118 years old or so and fought in this war. It just depicts how tens of millions of people all over the globe were impacted by WW1.
on ne peut pas mieux dire. On devrait mettre les dirigeants de toute nation dans une arène avec un couteau, et qu'ils reglent leurs comptes entre eux !
My great-great-grandfather was a Pole under Austro-Hungarian rule. He was conscripted into the Austro-Hungarian Army and fought on the Eastern Front as a sharpshooter. He survived the entire war and returned home. He never wanted to talk about what he had experienced.
Nigdy więcej wojny! Nincs több háború! No more war! Нет больше войны! Kein Krieg mehr! Už žádná válka! Plus de guerre! Няма повече война! ¡No más guerra! Niente più guerra! Nema više rata! Οχι άλλος πόλεμος! Ne plu milito! ☝😠
Amazing photos thankyou for sharing. Sad to think the men and women in these photographs were supposedly fighting a war to end all wars ! I grew up with black and white images so not only do they look old fashioned but in some strange way unreal so the colour of these images brings a more powerful, serious and realistic idea to what was and had gone on . I new and met a few Tommy's from ww1 and I always make a point of remembering them from time to time. Always in my thoughts.
@05:06 this picturee hangs in the house of my coach, who was born in 1940s. His mother was bombed during a air raid in Amsterdam and lost her brother. His grandfather (born in 1850 - 1990) had seen slavery in the Netherlands, which was unlawfull 1863 but went on untill 1873.
"They fought for the motherland." Many of them are heroes. They have the St. George's Cross on their chest, an honorary insignia in the Russian Empire. Read about this award, its history and those who were awarded it are the most worthy of the military.
The picture of the Australian soldier picking lillies was taken near El Arish, Gaza area. He is one of the ANZAC soldiers lead by general Allenby fighting the Turks and pushing towards Damascus.
Some subtitles on the content would have been nice. Unit names, location, ect... But still beautifully done. The War to End All Wars that only spawned more wars.
These are obviously ‘colorized’ using computer software. No color film existed at the time of the ‘Great War’, but I have to say it does add depth to the images. An old adage I remember is, “when you only see an image in black & white, your only seeing half the picture”.
My father was with the American Expedition Forces, he worked as a hospital orderly on evacuation trains. He told me stories, but as a youth I didn’t see glory or metals so I largely ignored.
4:00 Wrong color for the uniforms as these are Scottish troops with souvenirs hats. 2:38 Swiss Border guards and as usual don't fight in wars cause they are smart. Great effort and these projects will get better..
Each of these men had a different life. Fathers, husbands, brothers. Doctors, tradesman, farmers. Most had kids, who they wanted to raise. Instead they had to leave that life and fight in a war. And don't forget the woman. Working hard in the factories, giving their husbands, fathers, brothers and sons the best chance to survive the war. And for what? So that, after nearly a hundred years, we can piss on the liberties they've sacrificed to give us the freedom we enjoy? Stop the fkn clown show. Before we endeavour the same hardships...
Both my grandfathers served in the Canadian Army. Years later they told me that in looking back they realized it was a totally useless conflict that killed millions and was the direct cause of the second war which killed more milions. Both grandfathers sent their sons including my father to fight the same people they had fought but just over 20 years earlier.
Well... yeah. But no-one asked Germany to obstinately violate Belgium neutrality in 1914, nor did they ask them to invade Poland in 1939. In both instances, Germany knew EXACTLY what would happen by decree of written agreements! There is a clear and concise reason why German war guilt is so profound, not withstanding their overall defeat in both conflicts.
@@valor36az thanks, so they have flattened the top down? because when I google Gor blimey hats they have peaks like the guy at the front, they don't look like the flat cap style the others have in the photo.
Without the black and white it makes the photos more real and colourful instead of the dark and Erie feel of the black and white photos and it’s impressive how good these photos look they look like they where taken today and not 100 years ago
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them.
je ne dirais pas ça. quelque soit l'époque on ne peut pas oublier que des jeunes sont morts pour une guerre qu'ils ne voulaient certainement pas faire.
@@Thalarctos. j'avais bien compris, mais je voulais simplement dire que ce n'est pas si loin que ça, meme si cela fait 100 ans. je fais un peu de généalogie, et je suis abasourdi de voir tous les parents lointains qui ne sont jamais revenus si ce n'est avec un laconique message de l'armée "tombé face à l'ennemi".
freedom or die fighting for it. They did it so we can be free people. President Trump said no more useless wars. Peace through strength. Take care of your own people first keep them free and prosperous. No wars started in four years by an American President for the first time in decades. And they despised him for it. NOW in less than a year we have Russia China Iran circling like vultures in the skies looking for war. Weak biden is the cause. They respected Trump because he knew they feared him. The strength and power of America can keep wars away from the world Abraham Accords, the first time in a thousand years a peace deal was done.
@@kronstadt9634 Same to you . and a quick search for the truth helps you to see for yourself, and not just on far left ideology sites either. Those tend to be completely biased and do not allow anyone to have a different opinion and actually cancel and vilify you if you do not agree, and get into lock step with them.
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My great grandfather died in Verdun, shortly after my grandfather was born. My grandfather died in Yugoslavia, shortly after my father was born. My father is the first male in the family since a long time, that has lived beyond his 21. birthday. Isn‘t that a sad fact? 😞 So many life’s ruined…
Yes it is sad ! Politicians start wars and our youth have to die and be wounded
very sad indeed, considering the fact that both your father and grandfather had to grow up without a father. you´re the first in 3 generations who fortunately still has his father.
I visited yesterday the cementary and the war place in verdun, after more than 100 year still the smell death there, every person name dead there has a sad story for sure., was feeling sad reading all the names, is your great grandfather buried there in the cementary of Verdun?
I'm the last male in my family, thanks to two world wars and civil war.
@@garyteague4480 There will always be politicians who send the youth off to war to die. It's up to all youths, of both nations, to realise it is all smoke and mirrors and there is no need for violence
I always get a odd feeling when seeing photographs of these men and woman that they,like us...,loved,were husbands and fathers and now they have sort of vanished into history...here, but not here....makes me feel humble and lucky to have never had to do what they did...all wars
Well said. I feel the same.
"Here, but now there, gone ..."
They are not gone. They will return.
In another life. As for not having to experience what they did, the way shit is going today, you and I may share in their glory or live to see it.
@@lordraptor5042 well said...
@@lordraptor5042 Glory? , more like senseless slaughter.
Lucky?
The allied troops were good enough to fight for something they believed worth fighting for. And that belief is still correct today.
That they were lied and betrayed to slaughterhouse by the very people who swore an oath to serve them may make classify them as unlucky, but who's to say we will be any luckier?
Its not so very different today except the objectives of the indoctrination the populaces are subjected too are far less noble than in 1914.
I wouldn't say we are luckier. Its difficult to see on our current trajectory how we can sustain a democratic future and still be subject to rule by the same kind of criminals who sent these poor sods to their untimely end.
We will either die on our knees or at make a stand and die standing on our feet against those who pretend to serve but hold us in the deepest contempt. If we are to be called lucky, let's hope we make that fight AND WIN.
As for the Germans I have little sympathy for them. They are much the same people in 2022 as they were in 1939 and 1914. They either cannot or will not change.
However there is one German in those pictures (dated 1915 I think) staring directly into the camera, who looks as if he knows what his country is and what it will do to him eventually. Its the most haunting visage.
Maybe that knowledge meant he was the unluckiest of them all.
Sad to think how many of these men in these photographs never survived to the end of the War. As a vet it sickens me to think how 18th Century military tactics helped to nearly wipe out an entire generation when it faced 20th weapons and the Generals failed to adapt (not all but too few to matter). I know what a firefight is like but those lasted for hours and in a rare moment almost an entire day, to face what these men did day after day with no end in sight waiting for the bullet or shell that had your name on it must of destroyed them . Those that did make it till the end of the War were absolutely scarred for the rest of their lives and what nightmares they lived with till they met their end, just cruel insanity at its highest level.
you should know by now ..nothing in this life matters...if you thi k it does your trapped.
Amen to that. Well said
@@THEGAME-tz6yu Everything matters it doesn't change if one believes it or not, as everything done leaves an impact on the world and on others and while in a cosmic sense nothing will matter in the end in a small sense every aspect and every waking moment matters solely because the person who withheld said moment cared and because that action will lead into tomorrow. If nothing mattered then it'd be a pointless thing to say, as it doesn't matter if someone thinks it matters because that is their choice to think so or not and because it is also a paradox as saying nothing matters, means someone thinks it matters enough to say it which in turn is pointless due to said notion. Humans are simply incapable of not caring about anything.
Couldn’t agree more!my g grandad died on the Somme,and I’ve said before his remains were never found,so each time I see any film of it,I pretend each and everyone of them is him,and say a little prayer and give thanks for what these heroes sacrificed.
Makes me sad to think how many of those young lads never made it home and those that did were scarred for life
Yep, every single time I look at war photos of any war in the past I just think, those guys had lives they loved someone and someone loved them. God loved them too did they ever make back home?
The picture that gets me always is the 1914 winter truce pic with the British and German troops all stood together. All looking the same and enduring the same hell.
I wonder if they cried together or talked about a peace. Or tried to come to a peaceful compromise. How do you walk away from a day like that, and say I have to kill these men. Its fuckin wild.
Good to see enough time between the photo's so you can actually study them and no watermarks plastered all over. Well done.
We are as close in time to these men, as they were to the battle of Waterloo…. About a hundred-ish years…. Wow….
Some of them might have met their great grandfathered who were there
@Hannibal S 33 umm…ok
@Hannibal S 33 I seriously have no idea what you’re talking about
@Hannibal S 33 ok
Excellent observation.👍🐕🦺
The size diameter of that mortar, amazes me they could even lift the shell… also amazes me that all those men died over imperial powers that were more or less one family that couldn’t get along. Wild.
And look at the size of the wrench they used !
What struck me most about that image was not the size of the trench mortar, but he age of the crew, they all look like teenagers.
That’s the important thing to keep in mind. Commoners are the ones who die in wars started by elites who reconcile once the war is over. Be Achilles and fight for yourself, not leonidas.
Howitzer moarters.
There's 2 of them in Baltimore, captured I guess. Some book mentions the shells where like paint cans end over end through the air. Scary. Center city. Couple of long cannon type looking guns as well. Compliments of Herr Krupp.
25cm sMW. Shells weighed a little over 100lbs or a little over 200lbs depending on the type and had a tendency to explode in the tube.
my great grandfather was at the dardenelles then the somme died in 1919 to war wounds both his sons fought in ww2 one r.a.f. the other army, "War is murder, organised murder" Pte Harry Patch LEST WE FORGET
Love from Hellas 🇬🇷 lest we forget
I appreciate very much that some people take their time to remember all these soldiers who lost their lifes in this brutal war
I wear the poppy year round. It's OK to have a remembrance day but people on both sides fought and died year round. Take a walk through any military cemetery. The date of death is all year round. I walked with my dad through the cemetery in Duran Germany, so he could pay respects to the men he served with, nearly a full company, all in a period of about a week. That was during the battle of the Hurtgen forest.
😔🙏thank you...I hope they all are in a better place now @@user-js4zx1lr2u
Most probably, I think the vast majority of those lads (whether they were German, English, French or whatever nationality) would have been on good terms with each other. Imagine them in a pub, at the end of a hard working day. They would most likely have come together in conversation, have had some beers or wine or harder drinks. Smoking, chatting, gambling, singing or just relaxing. A few of them could have also started an argument, maybe some fists would fly around - but that would have been rather the exception. Most of them would just have had a good time together. Unfortunately, that never happened.
Yes there was the almost mythic football match in No-mans' Land at Christmas between the British and German soldiers. The soldiers got together and shook hands smoked together, looked at each others photos of wives, kids, girlfriends, and conversed as best they could. The higher ups made damn sure that this sense of international brotherhood got stamped out pretty quickly. The war could possibly have been over in a few months.
I wish i could go back and time and tell these men and boys what the world will be like 100 years from then. They were fighting their brothers.
And for nothing.
Yeah, tell them that in a hundred years, London will look like Lahore, and they will be airbrushed out of existence in movies like 1918, replaced by photoshopped faces of multitudinous blacks and sikhs. They'll stop fighting right then and there.
@@Pteromandias And the same elite who funded this war would fund more wars and create the very worse tyranny imaginable for all men.
They knew this at the time, very sad.
“when you go home, tell them of us and say, for your tmrw we gave our today."
I felt that💔
And you couldn't even give them the respect to type out the whole word properly
My Grandfather served America in France in the trenches, came home and died a few years later from mustard gas poisoning right before my Dad was born. This was a horrific war.
2:09 battlefield 1
my great grandfather had mustard poisoning too in Verdun
You really get a sense of how young most of them were that endured this.
Magnifique. Deux frères de mon grand-père maternel sont tombés à cette guerre, nous avons conservé leurs lettres du front en famille, lecture poignante......
Les lettres de soldats sont des éléments mémoriels qui doivent être conservés à tout prix ! Merci à votre famille, et surtout à vos grands oncles pour leur sacrifice.
The dead were and are not. Their place knows them no more and is ours today. Yet they were once as real as us, and we shall tomorrow be shadows like them.
- Historian G. M. Trevelyan
Only those who are at war desire peace most,
Only those after the war cherish peace the most,
Only those who have lived in peace for too long will lose consciousness of war and peace.
Didn't matter which side they were on, they all had that "look," that strange, undefinable expression on their faces, a kind of thousand yard stare, a knowledge of death, a sad, hopeless resignation. And every once in a while, there is a look of defiance, a look of true danger. These were men who truly knew their weapons, and more importantly, knew themselves.
Idk why but I heard morgan freeman while reading this
Um, their faces look normal
Pretentious bot, they have those faces because they had to pose for a long time for the photo.
I would’ve rather fought in WWII than WWI. Between the trenches and chemical weapons, those guys had it pretty damn rough
I'd say the same, i started off just reading and watching anything ww2 but gradually moved to the great war and its all i study now, being half welsh and german i had relatives on both sides
18th Century tactics and 20th Century technology don't mix well
Of all the miserable wars of man kind i sometimes wonder if this was the most miserable…
Although not the deadliest, I would agree with you.
Some of these guys had great grand kids, and those kids are alive and might be watching this video right now!
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The tragedy of every conflict is the loss of so many young men, many just boys. They never had a chance to marry, have a family, a career. So many lives cut short.
Enriched and a career will be made by another who is at the top and organizes the slaughter of peoples. Its name is Capitalism.
@@rambalcohet5494 It has many names. 'Capitalism' is just one of them.
We all die. The length of life is about quality, purpose and meeting challenges. To die at any point along the trail of life sets the boundary to make sense of life. Many of these men died heroically and purposefully. We are not their judges.
My granddad was killed at 3.45am on Thursday 3rd May 1917 in the attack on Oppy Wood. My dad was 18 months old and had 4 little siblings. I live in the US now where people still glamorize war and dying for the country and dying to protect your pistol from government rules and widowing your wife and orphaning your children and its worth it........ I guess Vietnam didn't get the word out enough...
Protecting your pistol from government rule still matters.
Some soldiers of some countries fight for something more than usually wars are about, like influence or imperial pride. For the right to exist. Soldiers of my country. Poland.
People don't even realize how horrible this war was. And so avoidable.
Sorry for english which is not my native language first of all.
"avoidable" maybe not, regarding the mentalities of the time.
But as for the "horrible" aspect of this war, definitely yes.
I went to Verdun and the surroundings a few years ago. Juste near the ossuairy in Douaumont, a hundred years after the craters of bombs and shells are still very visible. I stumbled across an unexploded german grenade just on the side of the road of one of those annihilated villages. 1 meter ahead was the remnants of a fench trench where I found a button of a soldier's uniform...
The most impressive was just a path close to le Mort-Homme and Hill 304. I was walking on this path and, unconciously, noticed something that gave me a feeling of something unusual but I could not point what it was. And I finally realized : it was the color of the soil : it was litteraly a mixture of pebbles and littles stones and metal scraps everywhere, on every centimeter. Litterally, I was walking on iron. One century after.
Looking at theses pictures, I also thought of these people who lived and went through this meat grinder.
Whoever they were and the camp they were fighting for, they deserve not to be forgotten.
@@silencecn5146 , Well, the German leadership was definitely trigger happy, so as the Austro-Hungarian Empire ( I'm Hungarian) but the English didn't want war because it was bad for business and even the Russian Tzar, Nicholas II had second thoughts but it was too late to call the troops back. What I forgot to mention in my little post is what made possible to mobilize such a huge number of people and supplies was the vast network of railroads thorough out of Europe which did not exist at the time of the Franco-Prussian war.
The haunting sound of the piece of music with the coloured images just brings home the trad
The tragedy of this war like all others feels like it was only yesterday.
Who wrote the piece of music? I would be grateful to know it is very poignant and moving.
Hi Dean, Ross Bugden did the music. You can find it here ruclips.net/video/XCr0bsng60Y/видео.html&ab_channel=RossBugden
Wonderful thank you so much for the reply
@@deanburn3400 You're welcome sir
All are gone, Sleep well .
3:15 Reims and its cathedral (Notre-Dame) in the background...
c'est ce que j'ai pensé
Each person in a photograph had a personality, a character, a family and friends. They are all gone now achieving what????
I think the general lack of deep coverage and intimate knowledge of WW1 is purely down to mass repression.
It's too painful to stomach what men just like you or me had to go through. It's such a dark stain on history and it's easier to forget and ignore the sacrifices they made.
Most of all, it's just so incomprehensible, every one of these men could've been you or your best friend.
What do you mean, there are thousands of book covering WW1 and multiple series with original footage.
Thanks for those cameraman that give us priceless history... Thank from INDIA✅
Everyone so young. Over a hundred years ago.
Most of these men were 18-20 yo. That's too young to die...
@@rarepicturesincolor-theoff1984 Not for ze amigos cho and vicoe
Aayaaaaa
I wonder how many of these men would survive this war, only to live long enough to have to go through this again some 25 years later.
Mes deux arrières Grands pères 😌sont des anciens combattants Français🇫🇷 de la Première Guerre Mondiale 😢😢😢une pensées pour tout les combattants français 🇫🇷et étrangers de la Grande Guerre 😞😞😞😞😞
Une pensée a mon grand père Gustave rentré vivant blessé ,mais traumatisé a vie
The last Solider who witnessed WW1 died in 2009 at the age of 111 years old
Their faces say it all: war is hell.
Check out the Iron Cross on the Feldwebel (Sergeant) @ 10:20. Nice! 👍🐕🦺
Might be some person, somewhere, who's 118 years old or so and fought in this war. It just depicts how tens of millions of people all over the globe were impacted by WW1.
Interesting to see these folks and to know that they are all dead. My grandfather was on a UBoat in the great war. He rarely spoke of it.
La guerre, c'est le massacre de gens qui ne se connaissent pas, au profit de gens qui se connaissent et ne se massacrent pas.
Paul Valery.
Il me semble que c'est d'Anatole 🇫🇷France
on ne peut pas mieux dire. On devrait mettre les dirigeants de toute nation dans une arène avec un couteau, et qu'ils reglent leurs comptes entre eux !
The face..of our grand father
The same look across europe
My great-great-grandfather was a Pole under Austro-Hungarian rule. He was conscripted into the Austro-Hungarian Army and fought on the Eastern Front as a sharpshooter. He survived the entire war and returned home. He never wanted to talk about what he had experienced.
"L'ennemi est bête : il croit que c'est nous l'ennemi, alors que c'est lui !"
Pierre Desproges
Nigdy więcej wojny!
Nincs több háború!
No more war!
Нет больше войны!
Kein Krieg mehr!
Už žádná válka!
Plus de guerre!
Няма повече война!
¡No más guerra!
Niente più guerra!
Nema više rata!
Οχι άλλος πόλεμος!
Ne plu milito!
☝😠
Extraordinaire montage, photos émouvantes, musique qui réflete bien toute la tragédie de la querre.
La vérité de ces photos et les regards de tous ces hommes font froid dans le dos....C'est si loin et rien ne change,même en 2022....
By the end they all looked haunted….. Thanks 🙏 Well done!
Merci a Vous ! Ca paraît immédiatement plus proche de nous en couleurs.
Amazing photos thankyou for sharing.
Sad to think the men and women in these photographs were supposedly fighting a war to end all wars !
I grew up with black and white images so not only do they look old fashioned but in some strange way unreal so the colour of these images brings a more powerful, serious and realistic idea to what was and had gone on . I new and met a few Tommy's from ww1 and I always make a point of remembering them from time to time. Always in my thoughts.
It's a small reminder that humans and animals alike have ALWAYS fought for what they are not freely given.
@05:06 this picturee hangs in the house of my coach, who was born in 1940s. His mother was bombed during a air raid in Amsterdam and lost her brother.
His grandfather (born in 1850 - 1990) had seen slavery in the Netherlands, which was unlawfull 1863 but went on untill 1873.
8:00 All those eyes telling you everything what they seen, what they are feeling and what is expecting them.
"They fought for the motherland." Many of them are heroes. They have the St. George's Cross on their chest, an honorary insignia in the Russian Empire. Read about this award, its history and those who were awarded it are the most worthy of the military.
@@kronstadt9634 Yeah, Im sure that's exactly was on their heads at that moment.
The picture of the Australian soldier picking lillies was taken near El Arish, Gaza area. He is one of the ANZAC soldiers lead by general Allenby fighting the Turks and pushing towards Damascus.
Some subtitles on the content would have been nice. Unit names, location, ect... But still beautifully done. The War to End All Wars that only spawned more wars.
Yes. Any context is better than none.
Their faces are so more alive in colour
These are obviously ‘colorized’ using computer software. No color film existed at the time of the ‘Great War’, but I have to say it does add depth to the images. An old adage I remember is, “when you only see an image in black & white, your only seeing half the picture”.
And they are obviously racist. I saw the movie 1918. Those units were at least 50% black.
same like vietnam war , 19 year old men boys on war
For sure. And some of then are still alive - be sure to get their testimonial before it's too late!
Horrible times I couldn't live like that if it was possible to travel in time though
The war will never end, it is always the same, the poor fighting for the interests of the rich, while they boast of their victories.
Old men lying and young men dying
It feels so weird seeing these dead soldiers 105 years later in these photos
Très belle musique mélancolique ❤❤❤
My father was with the American Expedition Forces, he worked as a hospital orderly on evacuation trains. He told me stories, but as a youth I didn’t see glory or metals so I largely ignored.
4:00 Wrong color for the uniforms as these are Scottish troops with souvenirs hats. 2:38 Swiss Border guards and as usual don't fight in wars cause they are smart. Great effort and these projects will get better..
4.00 yes, i puzzled over that one too but think you're correct
Europe self-destruction, sad
Each of these men had a different life. Fathers, husbands, brothers. Doctors, tradesman, farmers. Most had kids, who they wanted to raise.
Instead they had to leave that life and fight in a war.
And don't forget the woman. Working hard in the factories, giving their husbands, fathers, brothers and sons the best chance to survive the war.
And for what? So that, after nearly a hundred years, we can piss on the liberties they've sacrificed to give us the freedom we enjoy?
Stop the fkn clown show. Before we endeavour the same hardships...
Epic and Dramatic , the music sure is, and adds greatly to the Drama of these excellent, formerly unknown photographs, at least, to me.
The brutality and stupidity of war.
Tu as entièrement raison.
Incredible pictures. I just wish there was a flag or something indicating the nationality of each photo.
when i was a kid .i was with my grandpa. i was youngest boy to fight in war. i am a teenager now.
mon arrière grand père est porté disparu a l'ouvrage de Thiaumont le 4 juillet 1916, il etait de Bretagne
The war to end all wars...................At least that is what was reported.
Да, это глупость, человечество воюет сколько существует...
Amazing how more they are like you when color is added
Both my grandfathers served in the Canadian Army. Years later they told me that in looking back they realized it was a totally useless conflict that killed millions and was the direct cause of the second war which killed more milions. Both grandfathers sent their sons including my father to fight the same people they had fought but just over 20 years earlier.
Go figure. My uncle survived only the first week of WWII. One of his last letters to my aunt expressed the futility and doom of his position.
Well... yeah. But no-one asked Germany to obstinately violate Belgium neutrality in 1914, nor did they ask them to invade Poland in 1939. In both instances, Germany knew EXACTLY what would happen by decree of written agreements! There is a clear and concise reason why German war guilt is so profound, not withstanding their overall defeat in both conflicts.
You know seen these old pictures In color It's just mind blowing You can only imagine The hell All these men went through
Insane how much has changed and advanced in a century.
What For, what for.
A civilization, to this day, hell bent on self destruction and repeating the mistakes of the past.
Man never learns we are sheep for sure. Just like the Bible says.
What's the regiment in the first photo with the flat cap as part of the uniform? I have never seen that hat before.
Standard issue British Winter cap called Gor Blimey
@@valor36az thanks, so they have flattened the top down? because when I google Gor blimey hats they have peaks like the guy at the front, they don't look like the flat cap style the others have in the photo.
Peaky blinders regs. Tommy Shelby was the sgt mjr and Arthur was his corporal.
Without the black and white it makes the photos more real and colourful instead of the dark and Erie feel of the black and white photos and it’s impressive how good these photos look they look like they where taken today and not 100 years ago
Best thing on entire youtube
Very sad and beautiful series of photos...
1:37 that guy at the far left casually holding a hand grenade, what a vibe
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
Outstanding journey back in to time! Well done! 👍
A lot of obviously posed pictures but remarkable nonetheless
1918 ( 3.19) The city of Ieper / De stad Ieper
It is Reims in 1917. The towers are the Cathedral at Reims.
So many lives wasted & casually thrown away by politicians.
3:48 In Flanders Fields the poppies grow.
Love from France. Respect and peace to our ancestors !
with all the Wars fought, won and lost, makes you wonder ...... was it worth it ?
for those who won probably.
But the cost of "victory" may often be bitter.
Une autre époque...émouvant.
je ne dirais pas ça. quelque soit l'époque on ne peut pas oublier que des jeunes sont morts pour une guerre qu'ils ne voulaient certainement pas faire.
@@simipi2 Je n'ai jamais insinué qu'ils partaient à la guerre avec " la fleur au fusil "...
@@Thalarctos. j'avais bien compris, mais je voulais simplement dire que ce n'est pas si loin que ça, meme si cela fait 100 ans. je fais un peu de généalogie, et je suis abasourdi de voir tous les parents lointains qui ne sont jamais revenus si ce n'est avec un laconique message de l'armée "tombé face à l'ennemi".
How lucky this people that they dont live anymore
Bellissimo video. Perfetta la scelta della musica!
To all: 18th century refers to the 1700's. 19th century refers to the 1800's. 20th century refers to the 1900's. Get it right.
1:24 Landwehr-Infanterie-Regiment 80
The men of Europe, wasted on the battlefield. For what exactly?
freedom or die fighting for it. They did it so we can be free people. President Trump said no more useless wars. Peace through strength. Take care of your own people first keep them free and prosperous. No wars started in four years by an American President for the first time in decades. And they despised him for it. NOW in less than a year we have Russia China Iran circling like vultures in the skies looking for war. Weak biden is the cause. They respected Trump because he knew they feared him. The strength and power of America can keep wars away from the world Abraham Accords, the first time in a thousand years a peace deal was done.
are you all right?
@@kronstadt9634 what makes you think anything I commented was untrue? We saw it with our own eyes. we lived it.. are you all right?
@@55points I won't change your mind, think as you want. But try to see at least a millimeter further than your nose.
@@kronstadt9634 Same to you . and a quick search for the truth helps you to see for yourself, and not just on far left ideology sites either. Those tend to be completely biased and do not allow anyone to have a different opinion and actually cancel and vilify you if you do not agree, and get into lock step with them.
The photo looking through the two arches. Is that Notre-dame Paris, in the background.
Not many smiles on the faces of these brave young men. How cold Europe commit such a monstruous suicide.