Literally the best continuous footage ive EVER seen of yat years battles. Crazy. I sort of like colorized, but it makes it feel like that happened yesterday. The black and white to me represents the difference in time
I like watching the old black and white footage in it's original speed/state, grainy picture quality and all. But that's not to say that I'm not amazed at how the colorized/restored stuff really brings to life the old footage. It makes the footage from any given time period seem more "real" or something. (even though I already well know it was quite real) It makes it much more profound and relatable. At least that's how I see it personally.
This is the best Somme documentary I've ever seen. I can't even explain how good it was. The stories and narration, as well as the visuals. The Claymation mud sequence blew my mind. Thank you. Take care.
Some great footage and you can get the gist of what the documentary is talking about despite the abysmal English translation - did some cut price AI bot do this?
Haig the butcher I think he was referred too. Whole neighborhoods lost their husbands, fathers and sons. The leadership were still using Napolean tactics against barbed wire, gas and machine guns A complete slaughter. My great grandfather was there with his 3 brothers. Unfortunately, the youngest of them Joseph lost his life after being wounded by a grenade. To look death in the eye must be truly horrific I still think these men and boys must have been so brave. The documentary was great thank you for this.
When Haig said '' one hundred thousand dead and wounded is not such a high number '', that sums up the so called educated intelligent upper class idiots who sent all of these poor young men to be slaughtered , for what ?
How any intelligent general could think that throwing wave after wave of young men across open ground against Maxim guns with overlapping fields of fire hoping to break through is insane. I’ve fired a 8mm Maxim gun. An amazingly deadly machine. Such a waste.
J'ai travaillé dans la somme... je sillonnait les routes avec un camion...j en ai vu des cimetières... certains avaient pas 18 ans.... la folie des hommes...''
Oui c est exact, j ai un grand oncle qui est mort à 18 ans , ses 2 frères ont été gazés dans les tranchés. Ils ont survécu mais sont mort jeunes des séquelles du gaz. Le troisième frère était mon grand père. Il a échappé au massacre de justesse , il avait 17 ans et demi à l armistice. Mais cela ne lui a pas permis d échapper à la seconde guerre mondiale....
One Man sits in a Warm office writing Memoirs and Playing with lives like a game of Chess! Absolutely Sickening No Human has Right to play God in one of the most senseless Wars of All time❤️🙏❤️
il est expliqué plusieurs fois dans le reportage que ce sont des images de reconstitution, certaines ont été filmés 10 ans après avec les anciens soldats..
Ces généraux sont une honte...j'aimerai qu'il soient dégradés et retirés de l'histoire que leurs noms ne soient pas associés à la victoire...se serait un juste retour des choses...pour tous ces braves soldats et officiers de terrain...qui eux ont fait le sacrifice ultime...
"The most senseless offensive of an absurd war" That's an emotional statement and doesn't address the strategic outcomes of the battle and their role in defeating Germany. "They were prohibited from running". No they weren't - there were no orders saying that and a number of divisions took up skirmish formations (see 4 Div) in no man's land. In some sectors there were gains (in the south). ".65,000 men were lost". No, 19,000 were killed. About 40,000 wounded.
@@liberioescriba6158 out of interest with what they had at the time and the situation what would you have done differently that would have made it an outright success? Bare in mind the French picked the place and the time of the battle as the senior partner in the alliance.
Musketier Karl Blenk, 169th Regiment: "When the English started advancing we were very worried; they looked as through they must overrun our trenches. We were very suprised to see them walking, we had never seen that before. I could see them everywhere; there were hundreds. The officers were in front. I noticed one of them walking calmly, carrying a walking stick. When we started firing, we just had to load and reload. They went down in their hundreds. You didn't have to aim, we just fired into them. If only they had run, they would have overwhelmed us." (this quote is included in the documentary too) This is just one of many German testimonials that the first wave was walking. The weeks-long British barrage, the first wave's creeping barrage, and the 60-70 lbs of equipment each infantryman was carrying prohibited the vast majority of the first wave from running. Your example of some divisions taking skirmish formations is very much the exception.
@@ajgorsage8825 “it needs to be reiterated that that their decisions on the best methods to cross no man’s land … were many and various. So in the north the attack brigade of 31 Division moved into no man’s land before zero and lay down ready to rush the German line… some units of 4 Units such as the king’s own regiment started from their own parapets but adopted complex formations led by skirmishes and snipers. In the 29 division … the Lancashire fusiliers rushed forwards from advanced positions already dug in no man’s land. All along the front these large variations are apparent. In X corps the Ulster men formed up close to the German wire and rushed forwards as zero hour. .. in summary for the 80 battalions that went over the top in the first attack on 1 July, 53 crept out into no man’s land close to the German wire before zero then rushed the German lines, whilst ten others rushed the line from their own parapet. This leaves just 17 battalions, 12 of which advanced at a steady pace and five for which no evidence exists”. [Prior and Wilson, “The Somme”, pages 114-115].
El año 1960, con apenas dos años llegué al Somme. Muy cerca de Péronne, hay un Pueblo pequeñito llamado Biaches. Todos los días bajaba al Colegio desde la Maisonnette, que era donde vivía junto a mis Padres. En aquél lugar transcurrió mi infancia. Nunca olvidaré las huellas presentes qué dejo la Guerra, el material bélico esparcido por aquéllos campos, los niños jugábamos con las granadas, obuses, balas, fusiles, etc. Delante de mi casa había una tumba de un Capitán, rodeada de unas cadenas, un casco con unas hojas entre lasadas y una inscripciones. Un año volví a dicho lugar y me encontré que ya no estaba, pregunté pero nadie lo recordaba. Siempre tuve tiempo para ponerle amapolas junto al casco.
Trivia, A soldier who was badly wounded and later was tossed into a pile of men who the medics thought weren't going to live. The soldier was Bernard Montgomery.
My grandad was a regular before the start of ww1 ,was at the somm, and scene all his mates killed, He did years at the front with out going home, he was a Scottish soldier, in 1917 he sead fuck this and went home ,and was called a coward for walking away, 3 years fighting at the front, When he a Was captured AFTER the war was over was sent to Ireland in the black & tans ,and he sead fuck this and went home again This is why we now live in England, as not looking for him there
Oje! waren Sie enttäuscht, keine echten Leichen zu sehen, sondern auch Szenen aus einem preisgekrönten Antikriegsfilm? Sie Ärmster! Ps: scheinbar gibt es da nicht viel zu beleidigen...
Celui qui n'a pas dans ses anciens des morts,portés disparus ou blessés lors de cette 1ère guerre mondiale doit se poser des questions ? Nous avons tous des arrières grands parents morts ,disparus ou blessés lors de cette 1ère guerre mondiale.
Super documentaire, pour une fois que c'est sur la 1er guerre mondiale est non sur la 2e, malgré les apprécier il y en a beaucoup trop par rapport à ceux sur la 1er alors qu'il y en a des choses a dires
Quand on voit ces milliers de douilles d'obus ? C'est fou... Pas étonnant que lorsqu'on prend ca sur la tête matin,midi et soir.. La folie est là. Paix à leurs âmes. 🇨🇵
cette déconnection de la réalité de guerre par ces responsables me rappelle étrangement notre époque remplacer les morts par les pauvres et nous sommes dans une comparaison raisonnable...
Non, vos propos sont immoraux. Vous ne pouvez comparer cela ! Tous ceux qui ont subi la Grande Guerre ont vécu Innommable. Les pauvres comme vous les appelés bénéficie, de la CAF, ASSEDIC, SECURITEE SOCILE, ... Ce n'est pas parfait, mais non ce n'est pas comparable !
La seule immortalité que je constate est celle des dirigeants qui sont coupés de la réalité des peuples dont ils ont la charge. La caf et les assedics ne sont pas un but satisfaisant dans la vie mais le palliatif d un système qui glorifie l incompétence et la vanité des classes dominantes.
Rien à voir. Vous ne pouvez comparer c’est anachronique et la comparaison ne tient pas. Les généraux de 14-18 n’étaient pas déconnectés, ils suivaient les techniques de guerre de napoléonienne avec un matériel nouveau, ils se sont enferrés dans des chiffres qu’ils ne comprenaient pas. Quand à notre époque… Yha plus de conscription, et les pauvres pardon mais quel rapport?
@@marcdelhaye4076 immoraux ? C'est un jugement de valeur çà ! Et d'abord, sur quel fondement ? Et puis, depuis quand une guuerre fait-elle appel au sens moral ?
@anthonyeaton5153 it's called retired army vet. Okay wasn't the stupidest way. Revolutionary War and before was pretty dumb. But it was the way then. Makes no sense to me. Maybe because I'm more modern.
@JordanRohde-xg1oy I know the revolution and before was stupid also. Your right. Back then it was honorable to fight like that. WWI it was insane to me.
If only these poor souls knew what they were gonna go through before they got there they would’ve turned around and gone back home, it was the first time that man had seen anything like this, in a battle of pure carnage.
There was not 500,000 troops sent over the top on July 1st 1916 and 65,000 men were not lost. 125,000 British and Canadian troops with a smaller force of French troops were involved. C19,000 British men were killed with a total 57,000 casualties. One third of the wounded returned duty later in offensive. The French captured a lot of ground. The men could not run due to the weight of their pack. The week long artillery failed to break the wire and dugouts. The reason the battle took place was to relieve the pressure on the French at Verdun who were being ‘bled white’ . The Battle of Verdun was a far a greater slaughter than the Somme. July the 1st was 121st day of the Battle of Verdun which began in February 1916 and ended in November 1916. There was no other way at the time but to carry the fight to the Germans. Your version of this battle is tendentious and at times wrong. Your history is very suspect.
RESPECT À NOS ANCIENS QUI REPOSENT DANS CETTE TERRE DE FRANCE QUILS ONT CULTIVÉ AVANT CETTE BOUCHERIE INCENSEE VOULUE PAR LES VA T'EN GUERRE QUI NY VONT PAS .🇨🇵
In diesem Krieg starben die besten auf beiden Seiten einen Sinnlosen tot wenn man die Friedhöfe sieht mit so vielen jungen Männer die schmerzen und das entsetzten halt noch in unsere Zeit wenn diese Jungs noch reden könnten würden sie uns entgegen Schreien nie wieder Krieg 😖😭😱🥺
Les officiers et les champs de bataille...la carrière ou l'Humanité? La vie est un théâtre mais qui distribue les rôles? Non à la vanité, non aux abus et non à l’insensibilité! Mais qui s'en soucie? En tous cas, je hais les grades car on s'élève avec eux au détriment des autres.
ce qui me degoute,c'est que tous ces generaux qui ont fait assassiner des millions de personne n'ont jamais été condamnés,ont dirai que ca leurs manque a ceux qui se deguise et qui font semblant .
When will nations learn that power and influence do not come from military exploits but from a strong economy and foreign trade. Keep a military to defend your economy and a navy to secure your foreign trade but no more. A strong currency is more powerful than any military might. Invest in infrastructure to spur economic development and make foreign trade your goal.
I can't think of anything worse than an American giving an account of a combined British and French First World War battle where no American was ever involved. The narrator gives a broad account of "English" troops during Somme battles of 1916, when in fact the majority of those young soldiers were Irish, Scots and Welsh who collectively would resent being referred-to as Engish. Only later in the narrative does he include those from the Empire. He also speaks generally about Generals being dismissed ...what generals? I know of no British Generals being dismissed, apart from Lord French who was replaced long before the Somme battles. Perhaps he was referring to French Generals, but that wasn't made clear. The narrator speaks of the "professional" army being "wiped out," which is completely untrue. Certainly it had been largely diminished during its previous two-year battles, but there were enough of these professionals left to guide and train the "New Army" of volunteer conscripts ( men who volunteered prior tothose being conscripted), but that was not mentioned in the narrative. He tells us that in 1917 the Germans pulled back to strengthen their defences (true), leaving "The Allies" to snatch back ground they had lost. What Allies? Clearly he is referring to the Americans who certainly arrived in France in late 1917, but who spent more than six months learning trench warfare from the British before getting directly involved in the fighting. As a homogenous US force, they spent less than four months in the trenches. The only saving grace in this narrative is the fact that, on this one occasion, the Americans were excluded from their role in the First World War - quite rightly in my opinion!
@@OlivierGaffuri-wc2dl You've been reading too many American-produced children's storybooks. Would you like a list of the many British units involved in training the Americans? The Americans had been equipped with the Springfield rifle broached to match the Lee-Enfield .303 ammunition. . Their webbing was made by companies like the Belfast Ropework company - a subsiduary of the Harland & Wolff ship-builders. The same companies also produced every kind of rope and canvas for tents and British-style webbing and backpacks. Their helmets were all the classic British Bodie, and even the necessary candles and bars of soap came from British factories. The French were using the Lebel rifle which was again a different caliber. Wrist watches were unknown when Britain went to war and discovered that fob watches and pocket watches were useless in the conditions, and so the wrist watch was born, with many of them being supplied to officers, and subsequently to American officers. While a few American units were partially trained by the French, in the main it didn't work due the language barrier, and the majority of American soldiers and officers couldn't undertand a word. Most British officers came from high-bred families who sent their sons to progressive schools, and universities like Eton, Cambridge and Oxford where French was taught as a second language. French was also a standard second language taught in all British Grammar schools. When you read the proper history, you will find that in general terms there was no language barrier between the Brits and Americans, so common sense and practicalities made the British an obvious choice for training foreign troops, including the Asian Indian troops of the British-Indian armies who were the very first nation to send troops to aid the British. The very last were the Americans! Many American armchair generals often say that they "Saved the British ass," when in fact the few units sent over became part of a truly joint effort. Half-an-hour before the Armistice came into effect, it was an American General anxious to reap some glory for himself, decided to send a full division over the top and beyond the 11 o' clock deadline. Most of the division was slaughtered in the attack. You can visit their cemetery in France - the harvest of one man out for personal glory!
Not much has happened since. Look at the state of he world today. What did those boys die for back then 110 years ago? For this shithouse we call "modern world"?
@@hughzapretti-boyden9187 Are you defending the commanders ?? Silly ass question lol If you watch the video or know anything about WW1 the Somme was a horrible military blunder for the Brits but why am I responding to a kid with a looney Tunes profile pic
@@hughzapretti-boyden9187 Ok so I get a machine gun you get a bolt action and you have to come across an open field to my entrenched position and you are not allowed to run let’s see what happens you wanna try it ? 🤡
@@LemonHead-sq5ws a lot of waffle from a fountain of knowledge! How would you have removed the germans? It's a very simple question. You're obviously one of the 'Lions led by Donkeys' merchants & when you ask that question all you get back is insults & waffle. Answer the question...
The Germans did not take it all back within in year as you put it. In early 1917 it was the Germans who pulled its forces back by ten miles. In 1917 there were for major Allied offensives.
Questo film non parla della paura di essere fucilati e della mancanza di un esempio rivoluzionario,fino al 7 novembre 1917: dopo lo Chemin des dames si ammutineranno i francesi.
From 52:23 and up for a few seconds, the men are speaking as the camera rolls, I watched a program filmed in the UK where a woman who was some kind of speech interpreter told a man what they were saying to each other and even what part of England they were from. A well-known man who Has that show of digging up WW1 trenches and bones, the whole show. Just forgot the name of it. Somebody will help me out on this, I am sure .lol
En effet, bon exemple. Quand on voit avec quel mépris de la vie, Poutine envoie des masses de jeunes russes se faire massacrer, là aussi pour des gains minimes.
The clip at the start of this documentary where the French soldiers were being mowed down by the barbed wire , looks like a scene taken from the 1930 movie classic ' All Quiet On The Western Front' ....🤔 🇬🇧❤️🇮🇱✝️
All the 26 officers died for nothing but no mention of all the young lives that were lost, unbelievable, it’s like only officers lives counted in this woman’s mind.
Parce qu'on vit dans une société hyper hypocrite où il ne faut pas heurter les faiblards progressistes, ils disent que c'est pour "protéger la jeunesse" alors que les jeunes ont accès en quelques clics à du contenu porno, à des jeux violents, à des clips de rap, des matchs de foot et leurs excès, des séries télé où l'on voit des têtes arrachées, des drogues etc... Et aussi parce que RUclips a des règles bien définies quand il s'agit de "monétiser" les vidéos, c'est à dire quand il s'agit de gagner du fric.
Que horror mas abominable y que salvajismo tan cruel. Sera posible que aprendamos hasta que casi nos exterminos. Que asco y que ho qué asco qué horror qué asco qué horror será posible que no aprendamos será posible será posible que sigamos igual
To hard to rap my poor head around. Sending men to their death's in the tens of thousands. How can this be military doctrine there's no logic to this type of warfare sorry there is if you want to get rid of people. That sounds absurd but it's what happened on both sides. Please someone tell me how and why field Marshals and General's taught that walking into machineguns with nothing to protect themselves with was a good idea, please please someone help me understand. ✌️☘️
In historical terms, at this time in history wars were faught in the same way as it had been for centuries, men fighting in lines with single shot weapons, unfortunately the tactics of war didn't keep pace with the modern weapons, it was during WWI that tactics started changing, Hitler understood this and it served him well at the beginning of WWII.
Was more involved than just walking into machine gun fire. The Germans at mons in 1914 were mown down by rifle fire out past 500 yards or more in many cases. The artillery barrage on the somme was essentially wortless it achieved very little over 7 days. The small feild guns against fortifications did little damage and the allies did not have enough large motars and heavy guns to actually cause much damage.
@@matthewcharles5867 still, no one has answered my original question. You keeping telling me about other issues and their why's, but not my question. What's wrong with you people, asleep. 🤔
@@deeppurple883 the logic of warfare is very simple you kill the opponent or he kills you. For some stupid reason people seem to think there has to be some bigger meaning behind it all. There isn't. It's one of the reasons people who have witnessed combat have so many problems when they try to fit back into society. Ptsd is not something new there's accounts of it in Roman and Greek literature.
Za bitwę nad Sommą gen.Haig i jego współpracownicy powinni być zdegradowani do stopnia szeregowca, pozbawieni szlachetstwa i postawieni przed trybunałem narodowym za śmierć tysięcy żołnierzy😢
The English had a tradition of assigning command, not on ability, but to whomever from the ruling elite was next in line.. Judging by their recent run of prime ministers the practice continues. No doubt in their armed forces also.
I am dismayed after seeing this presentation. ...not original footage and incorrect facts in narrative. Bad editing, an example of this is the showing of Hawthorn explosion(7.20 on the 1st) then a cut to ceremony at Lochnager Crater as if they were one and the same!!!! Very biased one sided presentation too. I hope anyone watching this can see or read more balanced views of The Somme.
Literally the best continuous footage ive EVER seen of yat years battles. Crazy. I sort of like colorized, but it makes it feel like that happened yesterday. The black and white to me represents the difference in time
A lot of the information in this film is false and the footage was taken from a movie. Any footage of WW1 aside from Ariel is a reenactment
I like watching the old black and white footage in it's original speed/state, grainy picture quality and all. But that's not to say that I'm not amazed at how the colorized/restored stuff really brings to life the old footage. It makes the footage from any given time period seem more "real" or something. (even though I already well know it was quite real) It makes it much more profound and relatable. At least that's how I see it personally.
It’s a mish mash of real and movie shots.
I only speak English and Spanish but I’m gonna take a wild guess that the channel means our history
Good guess bro 🤣
Quand je pense que l’on a glorifié ces généraux français qui ont amené leurs hommes à l’abattoir.
This is the best Somme documentary I've ever seen. I can't even explain how good it was. The stories and narration, as well as the visuals. The Claymation mud sequence blew my mind.
Thank you. Take care.
Most of the footage comes Pachendale and especially from the film ''All quiet on the western front'' and has barely any Somme footage !!
wanker
@@HoratioPercivalClackerbarrel Who cares , they're just trying to give you an idea. They probably don't have alot of footage to begin with.
@@jeffmclean9411 I Care. I have loads of real Somme Footage, so yes I care !
Half of what is said is wrong or made up.
Magnifique documentaire
Très bon documentaire
A brilliant put together informative documentary.
Great footage.
Merci !
j'adore ce type de documentaire historique je m'abonne
Some great footage and you can get the gist of what the documentary is talking about despite the abysmal English translation - did some cut price AI bot do this?
Very good video, this! 👏🏼😎
Haig the butcher I think he was referred too.
Whole neighborhoods lost their husbands, fathers and sons.
The leadership were still using Napolean tactics against barbed wire, gas and machine guns
A complete slaughter.
My great grandfather was there with his 3 brothers.
Unfortunately, the youngest of them Joseph lost his life after being wounded by a grenade.
To look death in the eye must be truly horrific I still think these men and boys must have been so brave.
The documentary was great thank you for this.
When Haig said '' one hundred thousand dead and wounded is not such a high number '', that sums up the so called educated intelligent upper class idiots who sent all of these poor young men to be slaughtered , for what ?
Bellissimo documentario, forse il più realistico che abbia mai visto. Poveri ragazzi, vittime della follia umana.
세계평화를 기원합니다.......
How any intelligent general could think that throwing wave after wave of young men across open ground against Maxim guns with overlapping fields of fire hoping to break through is insane. I’ve fired a 8mm Maxim gun. An amazingly deadly machine. Such a waste.
J'ai travaillé dans la somme... je sillonnait les routes avec un camion...j en ai vu des cimetières... certains avaient pas 18 ans.... la folie des hommes...''
Oui c est exact, j ai un grand oncle qui est mort à 18 ans , ses 2 frères ont été gazés dans les tranchés. Ils ont survécu mais sont mort jeunes des séquelles du gaz. Le troisième frère était mon grand père. Il a échappé au massacre de justesse , il avait 17 ans et demi à l armistice. Mais cela ne lui a pas permis d échapper à la seconde guerre mondiale....
Man, those poor kids. Such incompetence. I can’t believe Hague was ok with losing 50k men.
One Man sits in a Warm office writing Memoirs and Playing with lives like a game of Chess! Absolutely Sickening No Human has Right to play God in one of the most senseless Wars of All time❤️🙏❤️
What you referred to as "this movie" was All Quiet on the Western Front. Some people may not realise that and think that it's real footage.
il est expliqué plusieurs fois dans le reportage que ce sont des images de reconstitution, certaines ont été filmés 10 ans après avec les anciens soldats..
well he did mention that.
Ces généraux sont une honte...j'aimerai qu'il soient dégradés et retirés de l'histoire que leurs noms ne soient pas associés à la victoire...se serait un juste retour des choses...pour tous ces braves soldats et officiers de terrain...qui eux ont fait le sacrifice ultime...
Meinen Sohn geb ich nicht her.....ich möchte einfach nur in Frieden leben wie alle anderen Menschen auch.....
"The most senseless offensive of an absurd war"
That's an emotional statement and doesn't address the strategic outcomes of the battle and their role in defeating Germany.
"They were prohibited from running".
No they weren't - there were no orders saying that and a number of divisions took up skirmish formations (see 4 Div) in no man's land. In some sectors there were gains (in the south).
".65,000 men were lost".
No, 19,000 were killed. About 40,000 wounded.
are you a pro-war descendant of one of those incompetent generals??
@@liberioescriba6158 out of interest with what they had at the time and the situation what would you have done differently that would have made it an outright success? Bare in mind the French picked the place and the time of the battle as the senior partner in the alliance.
Musketier Karl Blenk, 169th Regiment: "When the English started advancing we were very worried; they looked as through they must overrun our trenches. We were very suprised to see them walking, we had never seen that before. I could see them everywhere; there were hundreds. The officers were in front. I noticed one of them walking calmly, carrying a walking stick. When we started firing, we just had to load and reload. They went down in their hundreds. You didn't have to aim, we just fired into them. If only they had run, they would have overwhelmed us." (this quote is included in the documentary too)
This is just one of many German testimonials that the first wave was walking. The weeks-long British barrage, the first wave's creeping barrage, and the 60-70 lbs of equipment each infantryman was carrying prohibited the vast majority of the first wave from running. Your example of some divisions taking skirmish formations is very much the exception.
@@ajgorsage8825 Yes, in front of him. But as I’ve explained, in various parts of the line they adopted various formations and approaches.
@@ajgorsage8825 “it needs to be reiterated that that their decisions on the best methods to cross no man’s land … were many and various. So in the north the attack brigade of 31 Division moved into no man’s land before zero and lay down ready to rush the German line… some units of 4 Units such as the king’s own regiment started from their own parapets but adopted complex formations led by skirmishes and snipers. In the 29 division … the Lancashire fusiliers rushed forwards from advanced positions already dug in no man’s land. All along the front these large variations are apparent. In X corps the Ulster men formed up close to the German wire and rushed forwards as zero hour. .. in summary for the 80 battalions that went over the top in the first attack on 1 July, 53 crept out into no man’s land close to the German wire before zero then rushed the German lines, whilst ten others rushed the line from their own parapet. This leaves just 17 battalions, 12 of which advanced at a steady pace and five for which no evidence exists”.
[Prior and Wilson, “The Somme”, pages 114-115].
El año 1960, con apenas dos años llegué al Somme. Muy cerca de Péronne, hay un Pueblo pequeñito llamado Biaches. Todos los días bajaba al Colegio desde la Maisonnette, que era donde vivía junto a mis Padres. En aquél lugar transcurrió mi infancia. Nunca olvidaré las huellas presentes qué dejo la Guerra, el material bélico esparcido por aquéllos campos, los niños jugábamos con las granadas, obuses, balas, fusiles, etc. Delante de mi casa había una tumba de un Capitán, rodeada de unas cadenas, un casco con unas hojas entre lasadas y una inscripciones. Un año volví a dicho lugar y me encontré que ya no estaba, pregunté pero nadie lo recordaba. Siempre tuve tiempo para ponerle amapolas junto al casco.
Trivia, A soldier who was badly wounded and later was tossed into a pile of men who the medics thought weren't going to live. The soldier was Bernard Montgomery.
My grandad was a regular before the start of ww1 ,was at the somm, and scene all his mates killed,
He did years at the front with out going home, he was a Scottish soldier, in 1917 he sead fuck this and went home ,and was called a coward for walking away, 3 years fighting at the front,
When he a
Was captured AFTER the war was over was sent
to Ireland in the black & tans ,and he sead fuck this and went home again
This is why we now live in England, as not looking for him there
There is footage here.from "All Quiet on the Western Front" 1930 Hollywood movie. Please don't insult our intelligence.
well he did mention that.
@boxlabsbut it's not real footage from the actual war, it's a reenactment, so still fake
Oje! waren Sie enttäuscht, keine echten Leichen zu sehen, sondern auch Szenen aus einem preisgekrönten Antikriegsfilm? Sie Ärmster!
Ps: scheinbar gibt es da nicht viel zu beleidigen...
Celui qui n'a pas dans ses anciens des morts,portés disparus ou blessés lors de cette 1ère guerre mondiale doit se poser des questions ? Nous avons tous des arrières grands parents morts ,disparus ou blessés lors de cette 1ère guerre mondiale.
Super documentaire, pour une fois que c'est sur la 1er guerre mondiale est non sur la 2e, malgré les apprécier il y en a beaucoup trop par rapport à ceux sur la 1er alors qu'il y en a des choses a dires
Quand on voit ces milliers de douilles d'obus ? C'est fou... Pas étonnant que lorsqu'on prend ca sur la tête matin,midi et soir.. La folie est là. Paix à leurs âmes. 🇨🇵
Les Anglais en avaient tiré plus d'un million en 1 semaine avant la bataille. Et autant au fil des semaines.
Why is in Minute 1:30 Movie Material from all quit on the Western Front from 1930 ?
cette déconnection de la réalité de guerre par ces responsables me rappelle étrangement notre époque remplacer les morts par les pauvres et nous sommes dans une comparaison raisonnable...
Non, vos propos sont immoraux. Vous ne pouvez comparer cela ! Tous ceux qui ont subi la Grande Guerre ont vécu Innommable. Les pauvres comme vous les appelés bénéficie, de la CAF, ASSEDIC, SECURITEE SOCILE, ... Ce n'est pas parfait, mais non ce n'est pas comparable !
Et puis quoi encore ! @@marcdelhaye4076
La seule immortalité que je constate est celle des dirigeants qui sont coupés de la réalité des peuples dont ils ont la charge. La caf et les assedics ne sont pas un but satisfaisant dans la vie mais le palliatif d un système qui glorifie l incompétence et la vanité des classes dominantes.
Rien à voir. Vous ne pouvez comparer c’est anachronique et la comparaison ne tient pas. Les généraux de 14-18 n’étaient pas déconnectés, ils suivaient les techniques de guerre de napoléonienne avec un matériel nouveau, ils se sont enferrés dans des chiffres qu’ils ne comprenaient pas. Quand à notre époque… Yha plus de conscription, et les pauvres pardon mais quel rapport?
@@marcdelhaye4076 immoraux ? C'est un jugement de valeur çà ! Et d'abord, sur quel fondement ? Et puis, depuis quand une guuerre fait-elle appel au sens moral ?
Why are there so many unnatural pauses between segments of dialogue?
Merci pour cet splendide film
WWI was the stupidest way to fight a war.
Which military college did you attend.
@anthonyeaton5153 it's called retired army vet. Okay wasn't the stupidest way. Revolutionary War and before was pretty dumb. But it was the way then. Makes no sense to me. Maybe because I'm more modern.
Definitely dumb way to fight for sure .🤤🤣 but I( believe) it was seen as a honorable, bravery thing. Not sure though .
@JordanRohde-xg1oy I know the revolution and before was stupid also. Your right. Back then it was honorable to fight like that. WWI it was insane to me.
Human being is stupidest creature on Earth 🌎
On croit qu’on fait la guerre pour la Patrie, mais c’est surtout pour les industriels...sinon magnifique reportage ! J’ai apprécié
I'm so sorry that it's a dispute between relatives, the Franconians were once German, it seems to me.
Do some of the "action" clips come from the 1930's film "All Quiet On the Western Front"??
If only these poor souls knew what they were gonna go through before they got there they would’ve turned around and gone back home, it was the first time that man had seen anything like this, in a battle of pure carnage.
The British population supported WW1 from start to the finish and the resolve of the British army never wavered.
La traducción automática tiene muchos defectos. Es mejor que la traduzcan o subtitulen apropiadamente en castellano.
Poveri uomini quanta vita sprecata😢
There was not 500,000 troops sent over the top on July 1st 1916 and 65,000 men were not lost.
125,000 British and Canadian troops with a smaller force of French troops were involved. C19,000 British men were killed with a total 57,000 casualties. One third of the wounded returned duty later in offensive. The French captured a lot of ground. The men could not run due to the weight of their pack. The week long artillery failed to break the wire and dugouts.
The reason the battle took place was to relieve the pressure on the French at Verdun who were being ‘bled white’ . The Battle of Verdun was a far a greater slaughter than the Somme. July the 1st was 121st day of the Battle of Verdun which began in February 1916 and ended in November 1916.
There was no other way at the time but to carry the fight to the Germans.
Your version of this battle is tendentious and at times wrong. Your history is very suspect.
nur 19.000 tot? na, dann ist ja alles in Ordnung...
confused. How much of this is reconstruction? Or is this all real? It looks real as hell and recognizable footage
RESPECT À NOS ANCIENS QUI REPOSENT DANS CETTE TERRE DE FRANCE QUILS ONT CULTIVÉ AVANT CETTE BOUCHERIE INCENSEE VOULUE PAR LES VA T'EN GUERRE QUI NY VONT PAS .🇨🇵
In diesem Krieg starben die besten auf beiden Seiten einen Sinnlosen tot wenn man die Friedhöfe sieht mit so vielen jungen Männer die schmerzen und das entsetzten halt noch in unsere Zeit wenn diese Jungs noch reden könnten würden sie uns entgegen Schreien nie wieder Krieg 😖😭😱🥺
It's total insanity how the generals could do this.
Tell us how it might have been done differently. All who say that this was wrong etc never offer an alternative.
Good footage but lazy and incorrect narration.
Plus showing footage of All Quiet on the Western Front.
@@anthonyeaton5153and a ai generated thumbnail
Des Héros d'un autre temps...
Great documentary, but the AI translation is terrible.
"An army led by chefs. "
De la pub pour de la bière dans un tel document est indigne.
Les pubs sont ciblés, j'ai eu des pubs d'outillage bosch j'ai trouvé ca de très drole
JEDE Werbung ist unverschämt...
Been there in 2016 I was on the extreme left of the battlefield
My grandfather was in the Battle in Verdun. Germany side. EK 2
Les officiers et les champs de bataille...la carrière ou l'Humanité? La vie est un théâtre mais qui distribue les rôles?
Non à la vanité, non aux abus et non à l’insensibilité!
Mais qui s'en soucie?
En tous cas, je hais les grades car on s'élève avec eux au détriment des autres.
WAR IS OLD MEN TALKING AND YOUNG MEN DIEING.
Just goes to show.....you win Somme,and you lose Somme
pour l'enrichissement de quelques industriels et quelques politiques corrompus
We bleed our best for the beast.😢
Référencement
The answer to your question is, ashes load of good men died.
All the wars are stupid !
ce qui me degoute,c'est que tous ces generaux qui ont fait assassiner des millions de personne n'ont jamais été condamnés,ont dirai que ca leurs manque a ceux qui se deguise et qui font semblant .
Gracias, pero ponen el titular del video en castellano y cuando uno lo abre está en otro idioma
Tiene subtitulada
How the hell did that English General get the job… he told his man they are only allowed to walk to the enemy wtf 😬
When will nations learn that power and influence do not come from military exploits but from a strong economy and foreign trade. Keep a military to defend your economy and a navy to secure your foreign trade but no more. A strong currency is more powerful than any military might. Invest in infrastructure to spur economic development and make foreign trade your goal.
That generation was so naïef to believe everything they all got killed😢
Comment mettre fin à la puissance Européenne acte 1.
Triste sacrifice des citoyens.
I can't think of anything worse than an American giving an account of a combined British and French First World War battle where no American was ever involved. The narrator gives a broad account of "English" troops during Somme battles of 1916, when in fact the majority of those young soldiers were Irish, Scots and Welsh who collectively would resent being referred-to as Engish. Only later in the narrative does he include those from the Empire. He also speaks generally about Generals being dismissed ...what generals? I know of no British Generals being dismissed, apart from Lord French who was replaced long before the Somme battles. Perhaps he was referring to French Generals, but that wasn't made clear.
The narrator speaks of the "professional" army being "wiped out," which is completely untrue. Certainly it had been largely diminished during its previous two-year battles, but there were enough of these professionals left to guide and train the "New Army" of volunteer conscripts ( men who volunteered prior tothose being conscripted), but that was not mentioned in the narrative. He tells us that in 1917 the Germans pulled back to strengthen their defences (true), leaving "The Allies" to snatch back ground they had lost. What Allies? Clearly he is referring to the Americans who certainly arrived in France in late 1917, but who spent more than six months learning trench warfare from the British before getting directly involved in the fighting. As a homogenous US force, they spent less than four months in the trenches.
The only saving grace in this narrative is the fact that, on this one occasion, the Americans were excluded from their role in the First World War - quite rightly in my opinion!
Actually the Americans were essentially trained and equipped by the French, not by the Brits.
@@OlivierGaffuri-wc2dl You've been reading too many American-produced children's storybooks. Would you like a list of the many British units involved in training the Americans? The Americans had been equipped with the Springfield rifle broached to match the Lee-Enfield .303 ammunition. . Their webbing was made by companies like the Belfast Ropework company - a subsiduary of the Harland & Wolff ship-builders. The same companies also produced every kind of rope and canvas for tents and British-style webbing and backpacks. Their helmets were all the classic British Bodie, and even the necessary candles and bars of soap came from British factories. The French were using the Lebel rifle which was again a different caliber. Wrist watches were unknown when Britain went to war and discovered that fob watches and pocket watches were useless in the conditions, and so the wrist watch was born, with many of them being supplied to officers, and subsequently to American officers. While a few American units were partially trained by the French, in the main it didn't work due the language barrier, and the majority of American soldiers and officers couldn't undertand a word. Most British officers came from high-bred families who sent their sons to progressive schools, and universities like Eton, Cambridge and Oxford where French was taught as a second language. French was also a standard second language taught in all British Grammar schools.
When you read the proper history, you will find that in general terms there was no language barrier between the Brits and Americans, so common sense and practicalities made the British an obvious choice for training foreign troops, including the Asian Indian troops of the British-Indian armies who were the very first nation to send troops to aid the British. The very last were the Americans!
Many American armchair generals often say that they "Saved the British ass," when in fact the few units sent over became part of a truly joint effort. Half-an-hour before the Armistice came into effect, it was an American General anxious to reap some glory for himself, decided to send a full division over the top and beyond the 11 o' clock deadline. Most of the division was slaughtered in the attack. You can visit their cemetery in France - the harvest of one man out for personal glory!
The indifference of the high command was sickening. Such asinine orders.
Not much has happened since. Look at the state of he world today. What did those boys die for back then 110 years ago? For this shithouse we call "modern world"?
This film needs a narrator with gravitas. It's hard to take someone who sounds like a 16 year old.
It’s not surprising as it comes over like a schoolboys version of the battle.
lutei nessa batalha matei 1000 soldado alemão .
The incompetence of the British commanders is outrageous they marched their men forward like the other side had muskets !! Instead of machine guns 😵💫
How would you have removed the germans ?
@@hughzapretti-boyden9187 Are you defending the commanders ?? Silly ass question lol If you watch the video or know anything about WW1 the Somme was a horrible military blunder for the Brits but why am I responding to a kid with a looney Tunes profile pic
@@hughzapretti-boyden9187 how would you get laid some day ?
@@hughzapretti-boyden9187 Ok so I get a machine gun you get a bolt action and you have to come across an open field to my entrenched position and you are not allowed to run let’s see what happens you wanna try it ? 🤡
@@LemonHead-sq5ws a lot of waffle from a fountain of knowledge! How would you have removed the germans? It's a very simple question. You're obviously one of the 'Lions led by Donkeys' merchants & when you ask that question all you get back is insults & waffle. Answer the question...
Ridiculous waste of life. A year later the Germans just took it all back. So stupid that battle. 😢😢
The Germans did not take it all back within in year as you put it. In early 1917 it was the Germans who pulled its forces back by ten miles. In 1917 there were for major Allied offensives.
"trenches dug in a zig zag to escape shrapnel" no to reduce heavy shells wiping out troops" this is pathetic
撮影している人には なぜ弾が当たらない？
Questo film non parla della paura di essere fucilati e della mancanza di un esempio rivoluzionario,fino al 7 novembre 1917: dopo lo Chemin des dames si ammutineranno i francesi.
From 52:23 and up for a few seconds, the men are speaking as the camera rolls, I watched a program filmed in the UK where a woman who was some kind of speech interpreter told a man what they were saying to each other and even what part of England they were from. A well-known man who Has that show of digging up WW1 trenches and bones, the whole show. Just forgot the name of it. Somebody will help me out on this, I am sure .lol
Because of the class system………..what does it matter to incompetent “Toff” generals if half a million lower classes become casualties!
LIONS LED BY ELITE DONKEYS.
That simply was not the case.
Allor près pour l Ukraine ???
En effet, bon exemple. Quand on voit avec quel mépris de la vie, Poutine envoie des masses de jeunes russes se faire massacrer, là aussi pour des gains minimes.
Ukraine n'est pas la meme chose. Ils ne defendent pas la liberté ou la civilisation. Ils veulent seulement plus d'argent :)
Pas du tt...
Ukraine n'est pas comme 14/18...
fortuitously it wiped out a generation of book reading radical young men... almost as if it were intended,,,
CADÊ O THOMAS SHELBY AI? EU NAO VI 😥 SOMME EM BULT
The clip at the start of this documentary where the French soldiers were being mowed down by the barbed wire , looks like a scene taken from the 1930 movie classic ' All Quiet On The Western Front' ....🤔
🇬🇧❤️🇮🇱✝️
I see there are other clips from that movie too..
Většina těchto mladých mužů nebyla odvážná a nechtěli do války za podělané císaře a krále,ale byl to strach z popravy,kdyby dezertovali.
Stuka
Corsair
Whirlwind
Type 91 torpedo
All the 26 officers died for nothing but no mention of all the young lives that were lost, unbelievable, it’s like only officers lives counted in this woman’s mind.
RUclips de merde qui floues les images d archives pourquoi c est dément !!!
Parceque c'est de la chiasse
Parce qu'on vit dans une société hyper hypocrite où il ne faut pas heurter les faiblards progressistes, ils disent que c'est pour "protéger la jeunesse" alors que les jeunes ont accès en quelques clics à du contenu porno, à des jeux violents, à des clips de rap, des matchs de foot et leurs excès, des séries télé où l'on voit des têtes arrachées, des drogues etc...
Et aussi parce que RUclips a des règles bien définies quand il s'agit de "monétiser" les vidéos, c'est à dire quand il s'agit de gagner du fric.
Where is the French version ?
Que horror mas abominable y que salvajismo tan cruel. Sera posible que aprendamos hasta que casi nos exterminos. Que asco y que ho qué asco qué horror qué asco qué horror será posible que no aprendamos será posible será posible que sigamos igual
So we are all going get up and run in front of all the guns. And hope I don't get hit. Not the way to fight a war.
Worst war by far. Thanks for keeping the footage intact, pixelated shots do not do the dead and wounded proper justification for their sacrifice.
WW11 was much worse than WW1 by far in terms of military deaths and civilian deaths and damage to towns and cities.
"All Quiet on the Western Front"
To hard to rap my poor head around. Sending men to their death's in the tens of thousands. How can this be military doctrine there's no logic to this type of warfare sorry there is if you want to get rid of people. That sounds absurd but it's what happened on both sides. Please someone tell me how and why field Marshals and General's taught that walking into machineguns with nothing to protect themselves with was a good idea, please please someone help me understand. ✌️☘️
In historical terms, at this time in history wars were faught in the same way as it had been for centuries, men fighting in lines with single shot weapons, unfortunately the tactics of war didn't keep pace with the modern weapons, it was during WWI that tactics started changing, Hitler understood this and it served him well at the beginning of WWII.
@@1965Gritcheers, I know the history , my question was why did they think that walking into death was a good idea.🤔✌️
Was more involved than just walking into machine gun fire. The Germans at mons in 1914 were mown down by rifle fire out past 500 yards or more in many cases. The artillery barrage on the somme was essentially wortless it achieved very little over 7 days. The small feild guns against fortifications did little damage and the allies did not have enough large motars and heavy guns to actually cause much damage.
@@matthewcharles5867 still, no one has answered my original question. You keeping telling me about other issues and their why's, but not my question. What's wrong with you people, asleep. 🤔
@@deeppurple883 the logic of warfare is very simple you kill the opponent or he kills you. For some stupid reason people seem to think there has to be some bigger meaning behind it all. There isn't. It's one of the reasons people who have witnessed combat have so many problems when they try to fit back into society. Ptsd is not something new there's accounts of it in Roman and Greek literature.
땡큐 포유 서비스
Human beings, exspendabel. Just like today in Ukraine.✌️☘️
11:16 They didn't see that one coming.
I a fed up with political idiots who send us to meaningless deaths. The real tragedy is that we go willingly, happily, smiling and singing.
Za bitwę nad Sommą gen.Haig i jego współpracownicy powinni być zdegradowani do stopnia szeregowca, pozbawieni szlachetstwa i postawieni przed trybunałem narodowym za śmierć tysięcy żołnierzy😢
The English had a tradition of assigning command, not on ability, but to whomever from the ruling elite was next in line.. Judging by their recent run of prime ministers the practice continues. No doubt in their armed forces also.
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Real images developed from the constitution of the unfilmable time😂 so it's not actual footage it's a recreation why didn't you just say that😂
I am dismayed after seeing this presentation. ...not original footage and incorrect facts in narrative. Bad editing, an example of this is the showing of Hawthorn explosion(7.20 on the 1st) then a cut to ceremony at Lochnager Crater as if they were one and the same!!!! Very biased one sided presentation too. I hope anyone watching this can see or read more balanced views of The Somme.
Aucun des généraux ont été jugé pour leurs méfaits ???