Angry sailors or political revolution?
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- Опубликовано: 14 дек 2024
- In this presentation, Tim Mulligan describes how, as Germany descended into chaos at the end of the First World War, a series of mutinies erupted which became increasingly violent.
Tim shines a spotlight onto this little known piece of history which helped to define German politics for a generation, leading to the rise of Hitler in the 1930's.
Recorded at The Western Front Association's East Coast (USA) Branch Fall 2013 WW1 History Symposium.
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This is brilliant and fascinating! Thank you!
I found this very interesting. Thanks for posting it.
32:00 By October 1918, the lessons of Jutland were understood and the defects in British shells which failed to convert capital ships hit into capital ships sunk had been extensively corrected. In addition, the British had always been ready to go another round (some of the crews had been ready to sail straight out the day after Jutland and do it all over again). Given a High Seas Fleet willing to fight (at Jutland all it did well was turn and run), the result would have been a foregone conclusion.
Popular naval opinion is British missed there chance at Jutland and were scarde offby Torpedoboats and drank tea forthe rest of the war.
very touching
Britain's Naval blockade of Europe defeated Germany. It's home front and armies slowly started to collapse. The blockade is one of the main reasons the Allies won.
Nonsense. The blockade's importance was overblown propaganda by the British. It's basically a myth. As Robert Mosier, Professor of History at Loyola University, said about the effectiveness of the blockade - 'it was successful after November 1918'.
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The Blockade is considered one of the key elements in the eventual Allied victory in the war.
The German Board of Public Health in December 1918 claimed that 763,000 German civilians died from starvation and disease caused by the blockade up until the end of December 1918.
The first official accounts of the blockade-written by Professor A. C. Bell and Brigadier-General Sir James E. Edmonds. Bell-who employed German data-argued that the blockade led to revolutionary uprisings in Germany and caused the collapse of the Kaiser′s administration.
It is still accepted that the blockade made a large contribution to the outcome of the war; by 1915, Germany′s imports had already fallen by 55% from their prewar levels and the exports were 53% of what they were in 1914. Apart from leading to shortages in vital raw materials such as coal and non-ferrous metals, the blockade also deprived Germany of supplies of fertiliser that were vital to agriculture. This latter led to staples such as grain, potatoes, meat, and dairy products becoming so scarce by the end of 1916 that many people were obliged to instead consume ersatz products including Kriegsbrot ("war bread") and powdered milk. The food shortages caused looting and riots, not only in Germany, but also in Vienna and Budapest.
The food shortages got so bad that Austria-Hungary hijacked ships on the Danube that were meant to deliver food to Germany.
In December 1918 a German government report estimated that the blockade was responsible for the deaths of 762,796 civilians, the report claimed that this figure did not include deaths due to the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918. The figures for the last six months of 1918 were estimated.
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Jabberwocky.
There are books that deal with this subject:
Mutinies of the German Navy in WW I?
Admiral Hipper An Inconvent Hero?
the latter book I believe points out the Battleship Prinzregent Luipold had a history of being a "bad ship" do to being a dumping ground for troublemakers
I have more. You showed a picture of a German armored car of the Freikorps that had been captured from the Russians for more info go to landships forum. A site that deals with WW I armor