Being an ethically Chinese/Korean Japanese POW in WW1: Rather die than being captured Being an ethically Chinese/Korean Japanese POW in WW2: Rather die than being captured
So you really think the Japanese treated the POWs differently between the two wars? Have you done any study into how the Japanese treated POWs in Russo-Japanese War? Do you really think what you've been taught the truth? Do you think the Japanese were so different during the 4 years or so of WW2? It's a war propaganda put out by the winners. I don't know what your political stances are, but use your brains. The fact is, Japan has always been the same. It was never an "evil coldblooded Empire" like you've been taught in your Western (or Korean or Chinese) education system. And don't give me lectures based on the knowledge they teach you at school. If you want to reply, do your own research before you do so.
Viper Zero say that to the pictures of soldiers getting beheaded and malnourished soldiers... and not to forget my people who were put into camps in indonesia...
@Whup TheeDoo Tell me, just why are the soldiers "beheading" the POWs wearing Kuomintang uniforms? Whup TheeDoo, may be you are young, but you have to learn to check again on the materials that are presented to you before you believe it to be what it is. Also, why do you point your hate at the Japanese in particular? The Westerners had been colonizing and basically enslaving and killing us Asians for centuries. Why don't you accuse and criticize them with the same passion?
Viper Zero commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Japanese_shooting_blindfolded_Sikh_prisoners.jpg this picture alone says enough. the japense didnt care at all for asian brother nations. in the end they wanted to expand as every nation had as interest and every nation commited crimes including mine but do you see me denying those?
There is an anecdotic story about the Romanian counterattack, at Marasesti. During the German attack, the Romanians were bathing (the lice was decimating the troops through typhus). They didn't have time to gear up completely, so most of them were fighting in long johns and under shirts (both of them white). That created confusion in German HQ, which thought the Russians are back on the front. Not being able to know what army they are fighting with, the German high command officers failed to continue the attack, paused... and lost the momentum. Which gave the Romanians the advantage, on counterattack.
Regarding German POWs in Japan: Karl Joseph Wilhelm Juchheim operated a bakery in Tsingtao, was captured in 1914 and introduced the Baumkuchen (German pastry) to Japan. He stayed in Japan and founded the Juchheim Company which still exists today and produces pastries.BTW: Any plans for a special about Elsa Brandström?
oh my bad, I just realize japan also in a war during ww1. I mostly though world war 1 mostly fought by european nation and others just mostly involved in supply and etc
@@carval51 it was everywhere, naval battles off the coast of South America, all over Africa, the Middle East, pacific islands, and the Middle East. Countries from Brazil, South Africa, Japan, Australia, Canada and many many more fought as well.
where i'm from in germany almost every village has at least some kind of stonepilar with the names of the soldiers who were killed in WW1 on it, often combined with the war of 1870/71
OldContemptible In my town there is a big stone pillar behind the church with the names of the dead soldiers from 1870/71 and 1914-1918 and very close to my home there is a memorial that looks like two big tombstones with an eagle at the top and the names of the fallen soldiers of 1939-1945. In the city where I go to school there is even a giant statue of a WW1 soldier with a Stahlhelm who is standing on a big grenade with one foot in rememberance of an artillery unit that came from this city.
OldContemptible There absolutely are. Little villages sometimes have a combined stone listing the fallen of both world wars while town cemeteries are more likely to have separate fields for WW1 and WW2 with their own little memorial each. The only thing you won't find for WW2 are heroic statues, for obvious reasons.
Glad to hear there is not so much shame that Germans can't remember the loss of their loved ones in WW2, even in such a dubious war. In my short time in Germany I only saw Franco-Prussian and WW1 memorials, those wars and WW2 are all a chain of sad misadventures.
My grandmother was in one as a child and barely survived thanks to the indonesian natives smuggling some fruit. They would simply starve and work the poeple to death in ww2
WWII POW camps were staffed by Korean soldiers (Korea was annexed by Japan around 1910). 'Justice Bert Röling, who represented the Netherlands at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, noted that "many of the commanders and guards in POW camps were Koreans - the Japanese apparently did not trust them as soldiers - and it is said that they were sometimes far more cruel than the Japanese."[58]''
A Japanese POW camp was uncovered from the jungle in Penang, Malaysia sometime in the 1990s. It was originally a British military base, which the Japanese turned into a prison camp, and now it's the Penang War Museum. You can read a lot of sad stories there.
About war graves (Both wars) in Germany, I was stationed in Germany when I served my time with the Dutch Army. It was in August 1987 that Rudolf Hess died (comitted suicide in de Spandau prison in Berlin) and that we where doing a roadblock exercise when some locals who had to pass that roadblock actually thanked us for keeping an eye on those graves down the road and keeping the neo's away. It's these moments that really gave some color during my stationing there.
A group of Croatian soldiers, serving in the AH Navy, who were captured by the Japanese during the war had a band that was quite popular in the country. In fact, the Croatian song U Boj U Boj is still so popular that Japanese State Choir (could be another group) usually ends its concerts with a performance of it. Croatian ethnic dance and tamburitzan music is very popular too
It's not the Japanese State Choir, but rather a choir from the Kwansei Gakuin University of Kobe. And yes, the rest of the story is true, the locals heard the song being performed by members of the A-H Navy imprisoned there (we don't really know the sailors' nationality, but it's probably safe to say that at least some were Croats), and were sufficiently impressed that they had the sailors teach them the song, and it eventually came to be in the university choir's permanent repertoir, as the most difficult song and the finishing piece, as they sung it in Croatian without actually understanding the language or what they were singing. They actually had no idea what they were singing about right up until the fifties or sixties I believe, when they finally managed to have the song translated, and found out that they were singing the most dramatic aria of a very important Croatian opera, "Nikola Šubić Zrinski", which is about the siege of Sziget. They still teach it and perform it to this day. Here's a link to a Croatian TV report on when the older members of the choir visited Croatia and sung the song in public; ruclips.net/video/gJyxA9szd8E/видео.html
How important was the idea of "gentlemanly" conduct of war to the various participants? Which country or leaders was it most important to? Hi Indy and the gang! You do a terrific job and I love the show and I've been learning so much about the fronts away from Europe. Just became a patreon. I'm intrigued by the idea of particular weapons or tactics being seen as ungentlemanly.
Thanks a lot Indy for enlightening us about the long forgotten famines in the Ottoman Empire which your documentary show as a true by-product of modern wars, and especially the one that hit Lebanon hard, so keep up your greatly appreciated work !
Howdy, Indy and crew! Now that you've answered one of my questions, I have a next one. Many countries fielded units consisting of soldiers of different nations: the British had soldiers from dominions like ANZAC, Austro-Hungarians had Polish Legions, Russians had Latvian Rifles and so on. Did Germany deploy such units? I don't mean troops from colonies, but something like Escadrille Lafayette or General Haller's Third Polish Brigade, aka the Blue Army, serving with the French. And a little tip, my surname is pronounced like "Vatslavik".
Hey DeusGladiorum; What a fantastic question!!! Thumbs up to you dude. And of course thanks to Indy, Flo and the team for the comprehensive answer. Awesome question. Awesome answer AWESOME CHANNEL !
Yeah, it was just the truth and also since when is Paul anything other than a First name? (exept for Friedrich Paulus I have never heard it as a last name)
Howdy Indy. Could you indulge our vanity (and yours) and tell us about your favorite Texans in WWI? Oh, and maybe this is a separate question but could you also tell us more about Colonel House? Thanks as always for the amazing work!
Hey Indy and crew. I was wondering if you could talk about rifle grenades, how they worked, how they were used on the battlefield and how effective they were? Keep up the great work!
3:12 I’m in Perth and there’s some ww1 memorials around, the one I know about is in Armadale down near the traino. And I believe that there’s others around the city and the rest of Australia?
Hey Indy, your Italian fans probably asked you already but are you planning to do a special on the Italian poet, aviator and absolute madman Gabriele D'Annunzio?
Hi all. I worked for a couple of years in Naruto, Tokushima, where a prisoner of war camp mentioned in this video was located. I taught English at Bando Elementary School and the area still has fairly strong links with Germany. A local tourist spot is the Naruto German House and they hold a German festival each October and always employ a German member of staff. The local junior and senior high schools run an exchange programme with the town of Luneburg in Germany too. It was a great place to live and a very curious bit of history to discover so far from my home in the UK - such a different experience than members of my own family's experience of the war. I'm so pleased to see little Naruto get mentioned in my favourite show on RUclips!
Hi indy and team i am working on a book which has short stories about soliders from every major power in the first world war any ways what happened to the black hand and Young Bosnia after the war love the show
I've been to the Hofgarten WWI memorial pictured, in Munich - it was empty, but very clean, and going down into the "tomb" was a very strange experience, even though it's fairly open to the outside - not to mention it was a Sunday and a local dog walkers' club was in the park above :P
...in this war. Try being in one of them in the second world war when they were less concerned about being taken seriously as a serious nation and more about asserting the fact that they were superior to everyone else.
Indy i got a book called Springboks On the Somme which is about South Africa during ww1 and i red that there were south african soldiers fighting in Egypt alongside some of the Anzacs that fought in Gallopili.The UDF and the Anzacs fought against sinussi soldiers
+The Great War Its not the original grave in Berlin. Von Richthofen was originally buried in France and then moved to Berlin. Later he was moved again to his home town. Its also not his "original" grave in Berlin since his tombstone now stands in Wittmund where the squadron named after him is stationed.
Good Morning Indie, Flo and the rest of the crew, you're doing a great job. One subject it would be interesting for you to cover is the "Soldier Poets", this was a key topic in English at school, studying such poets as Seigfried Sassoon and Wilfrid Owen. There seemed to be quite a literary community among British Officers, were there any similar artistic movements in other nations' forces?
You can find A LOT of memorial stones like that in Sudetenland in Czech rep. Basicaly in every village (or where used to be a village). With german names and dedications in german...
Did y’all follow up on the ‘coming to America’ plan? I’d come to basically wherever you guys show up, let us know! Thanks for the three wonderful years of top quality shows and fun interactions.
Hi Indy, I’ve a question for out of the trenches. Last year I inherited an Iron Cross 2nd class from my uncle who collected medals from the Great War. My question is, if ordinary soldiers pinned medals they earned on their uniforms while living in the trenches or charging out into no man’s land, or did they just kept them somewhere safe even sending them to their families back home. Keep up the great show!
it was the custom of many european nations soldiers (france, germany, austrio hungary, russia, romainia, bulgaria )to wear decorations in combat though it wasnt universal. often, if the individual solder could afford, they wore special made copies of the awards and saved the original awarded medal at home or somewhere safe. german regulations about the iron cross 2nd class (EK2) were that thw recipient could wear it suspended in the second buttonhole of their tunic for 24 hours after the award. thereafter ribbon from the award could be sewn in place diagonally in the 2nd buttonhole. if you look closely at wartime pics its easy to spot this practice.
There are a lot of soldiers who earned medals at war but were economically uncompetitive, to say the least, after the war. I remember one story about an illiterate Irish soldier who later had to sell his Victoria Cross to eat and died in poverty anyway. War makes heroes and then there's no war and they're not useful anymore.
You forgot to mention another important PoW from German Tsingtao : Karl Juchheim. He owned a pastry shop in Tsingtao and brought his skills to Japan by introducing the baumkuchen. It still has a big influence nowadays on Japanese taste for German style pastries.
Hello from Puerto Rico again, Indy and crew. I have here a question for Out of The trenches. My great grandfather served in the Panama canal during the 1950s as many Puertorricans did since 1914 as a defence unit. My question is... Where there any German plans to attack the Panama Canal incase the U.S joined the war? It would have not seem imposible, well almost, since German ships where seen in areas of the Caribbean, like in the port of San Juan in 1917, or the Maldives as early as 1914. I doubt they would have done something like the Ottomans did in the Suez canal in 1915 because of the distance and lack of supplies. I hope to see a Puerto Rico special in the future and more amazing videos.
Another German POW in Japan introduced the layered cakes which are now called in Japan 'Baumkucken'. His name is Karl Joseph Wilhelm Juchheim and he as an interesting story as well.
Question for Out of the Trenches: what counters did the Allies have to the German U-Boats? Did the Allies have submarines of their own? Did they use depth charges and the like?
Gday Indy and team of the Great War just a quick question what do you know of an Australian soldier Albert jacka from ww1 love the show keep up the awesome work.
The Great War, will you do an episode about the rising Arabia and the Arab Revolt as a whole? Or will it continue to be covered in regular episodes? Or in an Out or the Trenches?
Hi indy, first I love the show and how you taught me and probably a lot of others about small and big aspects of the great war. My question, did soldiers of any faction had choices in what kind of weapons they could use like the early (light) machineguns and other expiremental weapons. Sorry for any spelling mistakes.
What was the southern end of the western front like? did the trenches just stop politely at the Swiss boarder? (thanks for the patience if you already have covered this topic)
I have a question for OOTT. Did the a soldier fighting in an army in the allies' side receive different rations before and after the United States joined the war?
Hey guys! You mentioned that the Japanese treated their POWs pretty well. Why did the treatment change so much for WW2? It might be beyond of the scope of your channel but I got really curious. Keep up the good work!
Hi Indy, I'm a big fan of ur channel and a student of ww1 and international relations. I wonder if there are any up coming major commemoration or celebration of the armistice in Europe this year? 2018 is the 100th anniversary of the armistice and I'm looking forward to visit one such commemoration if there are any. Thanks!
Flo, Indy, crew, your podcast would make a lovely live stage interview for the fans (imo) get some experts and chit-chat about an older topic much like Neil DeGrasse Tyson's StarTalk radio
Hey Indy!Great work!I was wondering if you would ever cover the Doiran battles on 1916 and 1917,but it doesnt seem so.Even though the bulgarian defenders were vastly outnumbered they won those fights.Would love it if you do such an episode :)
I have a question for OOTT. I live in ireland and I went into the local Protestant Church to have a look around. I noticed a war memorial dedicated to the congregation of that church that died in WW1. it numbered around 30 men. The population of Protestants in that part of the west of Ireland at the time was about 2-3% of the population of the county so this amounted to most of the male population of the church. I was wondering was there many towns and villages in the waring nations that had nearly all its male population killed in the war. I do know that it was an issue in pals betallions in the UK.
Greetings Indy and team!! I have enjoyed all of your videos and I have a question that maybe you all could answer or even do another video on!! I lived in Europe for 21 years and I have seen a great majority of western and some of eastern Europe. I have traveled alot in the Alsace/Lorraine regions of France and it is common to see cemeteries in France with the dates and years 1914-1918 and 1939-1945 on many of them. I know that the Alsace Lorraine regions belonged to Germany during World War 1 but still many French people still have left the cemeteries as is to remember those who died (which I feel is a noble thing to do)!! But my question is this; what happened to the German cemeteries in places like Silesia and Pomerania? I have been to those regions as well and I found none!! Could you perhaps cover this subject in a future video please?
Hi Indy love the show I have a question for the war in the Alps. During the Christmas holiday I went to a world war 1 museum, I then found a photo of a crashed airplane buried in the snow how and why would they use planes in sub 0 temperatures (Talking about winter here). Many thanks Amir.
I have a question for out of the trench.after you charge to death what happens if you try to go back to the trenches,or if you refuse to go out of the trench,whatis the punishments?nice job.
Question for out of the trenches: How was the situation for german and austria-hungarian pows in russia and how were they returned to their homelands after russia left the war?
Hi Indy and Crew! I have a question for Out if the Trenches. I was wondering with all these famines and foos shortages, were there many examples of cannibalism? Thanks and keep up the great work!
BTW, Beethoven No.9 performed by the German POW at Naruto Camp was the very first performance of the magnificent symphony in Japan. "139 Days until the 100th anniversary of the first performance of the Ninth Symphony in Asia" www.city.naruto.tokushima.jp/contents/daiku/english/index.html
I have visited the Naruto camp: This is one of the least known aspects of the great war - even very few Japanese are aware of this episode of civility, chivalry and ultimately cultural exchange as it was eclipsed by Japan's shameful treatment of POWs in WW2. Even today, Japanese school children carry their books in "rucksacks" to school; love to eat Baumkuchen; and fill entire stadiums for Beethoven's 9th Symphony sing-along events.
@Tom Burchill Well, thank you Tom! By the way, just for your information, the Japanese were basically quite consistent in their treatment of POWs from the Samurai days all the way through to WW2. Have you considered the possibility of a "systematic propaganda" put out by the "winners of war" demonizing the Japanese during WW2? Have you heard of the War Guilt Information Program (WGIP) that was put in place by the GHQ of the post-war occupation government? Towards the end of the war, one commander of a POW camp ordered his staff soldiers to give up their food in order to feed the prisoners, however, he was accused in the International Military Tribunal for the Far East for "discriminating the prisoners by not feeding them appropriately" and was executed. That's how "shameful" Japan's treatment of POWs in WW2 was basically. Do you honestly think that the ethnic properties of a nations people can just change so drastically over night? or in a course of few decades? from a proud Samuari nation in the pre-WW1 days to a lawless cold-blooded evil murderers in WW2? And once particular war is over, just go back to the nation that it was before the war? Including its military? Again, just over night? That's rubbish! Come on. It's a war propaganda. You've been conned. Japan hasn't changed. It was always the same. During the Samurai days, before WW2, during WW2, and after WW2. I can look straight in your eyes and say to you, that if you study the facts of what really did occur, you'll find out that the Japanese didn't treat the POWs in WW2 as you think. At least they didn't roundup the surrendering enemy soldiers in batches and mortar them down with machine guns like the Americans did in the Philippines. "Japanese Navy saved lives of British Navy in WW II" ruclips.net/video/wWYz_AQAzbQ/видео.html I can in fact provide you with many facts to back it up, but I won't go into that now because this comment is already getting too long. There are many, many episodes (and facts!) to prove that, with records and testimonies from both sides of the war, as well as the local residents of the Asian countries. Some, I've heard myself with my own ears from the elderly people of the South East Asian countries. Anyway, thank you again, hope you had a great time here if you were here in Japan as a visitor, or if you are a resident, see you sometime.
Viper Zero having heard what the Japanese did to POWs in WW2 from the mouth of somebody who was captured by them and ended up in Changi then I have to say that the Japanese in WW2 are as black as the history books paint them. This man was my Vicar and yes as Christian he had forgiven them for what they had done to him and those he tried to protect.
Yes! I'm glad someone mentioned this. The Japanese loved it, and it's become a Christmas tradition in Japan. You can hear more performances of B-9 in Japan during the month of December, than all the rest of the year in all the countries of the world. They have filled stadiums with people singing Ode to Joy in German. There are videos of it on RUclips.
Regarding what you said on the red Barron. I'm not sure that is correct, his original burial place was in the Somme at the Fricourt German cemetery. Berlin was his second burial place, not original.
It's even more complicated: the "original" grave was, off course, located in France. His remains were then transferred to Berlin's Invaliden cemetery, which was levelled to the ground as part of the Berlin wall's death strip in the 1970s. His family managed to exhume the grave and the "real" grave of Richthofen is now located in Wiesbaden. Only in 2009 a memorial plate was placed at his former grave in Berlin.
Indiana Neidell ... You guys must really be working 24x7. My idea was rather for something "after the armistice" next year. Some sort of "best of battles" after the regular episodes are over in case you guys want to keep working on the project. May the day this channel stops never come :(
Hi Indy! I'd like to know if soldiers of one or the other side had commited injurious acts against the prisoners, such as taunts, humiliations or agressions. Because I've always seen ww1 prisoners being helped by the enemy. Keep the great work!
WHOA! min 1:26 the Samurai codex of treating your defeated enemy with respect....What the hell change between the 2 World Wars? Japanese treated prisoners with vehement disrespect in WW2. Can you point me in the right direction(terminology) such I can research. Thanks.
You've done a special on Shell Shock (now known as PTSD) during the war. However, what about the similar but medical distinct "conversion disorder" (which is often called "Hysterical blindness/paralysis/etc") during the war. Was conversion disorder treated any differently PTSD/"shell shock"? Did anyone understand it was a distinct disorder?
Hey Indy we often hear about the big three and their goals at Versailles, however what where the goals of the Germans, Austrians, and Ottomans. I understand why they joined the war but as a nation what where their goals of a peace if a peace where to come. Thank you and this may stray in the way of alternate history. Although, I am sure their are documents outlining what each nation wanted for example the ottomans may want the British out of Arabia etc.. Keep up the great work
The remembrance is often decided by where you Live, and when it was built. Many memorials ment for WW1/Franco-Prussian War were modified to incorporate WW2 after 45. But you can clearly distinguish when they where built. For example, where I Live, it was built after WW2. The memorial is a simple slab of concrete with the names of everyone from the town who died in WW1/WW2. When I drive to my Grandmother, I have to pass through a village with a memorial built in 1921, later they just added more nameplates. The memorial itself is a pillar with a picture of archangel Micheal on it, with a big Iron Cross at the Top and the words "Gott mit Uns !" At the Bottom. And the One where my Grandmother lives was built in 1934 . That One is a 3m high statue of a german soldier, surrounded by archways with the names of the fallen on them. As for state-built memorials, the only One that includes ww1 I know about that was built after 45 is the "Ehrenmal des deutschen Heeres" in the Fortress Ehrenbreitstein in Koblenz, which is dedicated to the fallen of the German army in WW1 & WW2 and was built by the Bundeswehr in the 60s, I think. Its pretty simplistic, just a white niche in One of the outer walls, with a Iron Cross at the outside and a statue of a young dead soldier with a Stahlhelm lying on the ground, surrounded by Metal oakleafs and the years 1914-1918 and 1939-1945.
Hi İndy and team i have a guestion for out of trenches. How was the communication between French And English generals were translators a lot in use and how was the communication in high command. Could Philippe Petain or Ferdinand Foch speak fluently English or could Haig speak French. Did it plague the Allied army like Austria-Hungary's situation
Dear Indi I like your work and say hi to your friends in the Great War. I want to know more about the famine in madina city in the western Arabian Peninsula. And did the ottoman Fakhri Pasha really deported the locals against there well during the siege and take the Islamic Effects to Istanbul. your friend ( Hokash)
Hello TGW crew Its true that Manfred von Richthofen was (re)buried ad Invalidenfriedhof Cemetery in Berlin after WW1. Bud in 1975 his remains were relocated to the Richthofen's family grave at Südfriedhof in Wiesbaden.
Hello Indy and crew! I have a question for out of the trenches; not sure if you've covered this before, but, being a Latino, I've always been curious what role, if any, did Latino and Hispanic-Americans play in the First World War? Were white and black Latinos broken up into segregated units as the rest of the American Army was? Were there any notable figures with Latin ancestry? Thanks for the great work, and here's to 1918!
As I have asked over and over again, perhaps for an Out of the Aether or Into the Abyss, can we get something on American Propoganda going into World War One? I know about Wilson's "Four Minute Men' and I'm curious to hear one read by Indy. Thanks.
Many German POW's elected to stay in Japan after the war and live out their lives there. Many opened beer halls which I believe a few are still in business to this day, run by their descendants.
Being a Japanese POW in WW1: Rather that than fight
Being a Japanese POW in WW2: Rather fight than that
Being an ethically Chinese/Korean Japanese POW in WW1: Rather die than being captured
Being an ethically Chinese/Korean Japanese POW in WW2: Rather die than being captured
So you really think the Japanese treated the POWs differently between the two wars?
Have you done any study into how the Japanese treated POWs in Russo-Japanese War?
Do you really think what you've been taught the truth?
Do you think the Japanese were so different during the 4 years or so of WW2?
It's a war propaganda put out by the winners.
I don't know what your political stances are, but use your brains.
The fact is, Japan has always been the same.
It was never an "evil coldblooded Empire" like you've been taught in your Western (or Korean or Chinese) education system.
And don't give me lectures based on the knowledge they teach you at school.
If you want to reply, do your own research before you do so.
Viper Zero say that to the pictures of soldiers getting beheaded and malnourished soldiers... and not to forget my people who were put into camps in indonesia...
@Whup TheeDoo
Tell me, just why are the soldiers "beheading" the POWs wearing Kuomintang uniforms?
Whup TheeDoo, may be you are young, but you have to learn to check again on the materials that are presented to you before you believe it to be what it is.
Also, why do you point your hate at the Japanese in particular?
The Westerners had been colonizing and basically enslaving and killing us Asians for centuries. Why don't you accuse and criticize them with the same passion?
Viper Zero commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Japanese_shooting_blindfolded_Sikh_prisoners.jpg this picture alone says enough. the japense didnt care at all for asian brother nations. in the end they wanted to expand as every nation had as interest and every nation commited crimes including mine but do you see me denying those?
This channel deserves far more subscribers considering the effort and quality in all their videos
German Empire Shut it Wilhelm it was your fault, Bismarck knew the day would come
Me?... Blame the Austrians.
German Empire Franz Ferdinand died by a Assassin also you could have stayed neutral when Austria wanted revenge
So could have Russia. blame them instead.
I love TGW comment section because of nerds like you guys! Greetings from mauritius!
There is an anecdotic story about the Romanian counterattack, at Marasesti. During the German attack, the Romanians were bathing (the lice was decimating the troops through typhus). They didn't have time to gear up completely, so most of them were fighting in long johns and under shirts (both of them white). That created confusion in German HQ, which thought the Russians are back on the front. Not being able to know what army they are fighting with, the German high command officers failed to continue the attack, paused... and lost the momentum. Which gave the Romanians the advantage, on counterattack.
Nu imi vine sa cred cat de bine sti istoria din țara Românească...bravo.
Regarding German POWs in Japan: Karl Joseph Wilhelm Juchheim operated a bakery in Tsingtao, was captured in 1914 and introduced the Baumkuchen (German pastry) to Japan. He stayed in Japan and founded the Juchheim Company which still exists today and produces pastries.BTW: Any plans for a special about Elsa Brandström?
wait, I don't get it. wasn;t german is japan allies?
Spartanunit117 yes in ww2 not in ww1
oh my bad, I just realize japan also in a war during ww1. I mostly though world war 1 mostly fought by european nation and others just mostly involved in supply and etc
Tsingtao is famous for the beer company named after the city. Another German influence.
@@carval51 it was everywhere, naval battles off the coast of South America, all over Africa, the Middle East, pacific islands, and the Middle East. Countries from Brazil, South Africa, Japan, Australia, Canada and many many more fought as well.
where i'm from in germany almost every village has at least some kind of stonepilar with the names of the soldiers who were killed in WW1 on it, often combined with the war of 1870/71
Sad there aren't also pillars for the dead of WW2, it was all equally a sad waste of life.
there is a little chapel on the graveyard in our village with all the names of the dead in WW2, generally the lists of ww2 deaths are a little longer
OldContemptible In my town there is a big stone pillar behind the church with the names of the dead soldiers from 1870/71 and 1914-1918 and very close to my home there is a memorial that looks like two big tombstones with an eagle at the top and the names of the fallen soldiers of 1939-1945.
In the city where I go to school there is even a giant statue of a WW1 soldier with a Stahlhelm who is standing on a big grenade with one foot in rememberance of an artillery unit that came from this city.
OldContemptible There absolutely are. Little villages sometimes have a combined stone listing the fallen of both world wars while town cemeteries are more likely to have separate fields for WW1 and WW2 with their own little memorial each. The only thing you won't find for WW2 are heroic statues, for obvious reasons.
Glad to hear there is not so much shame that Germans can't remember the loss of their loved ones in WW2, even in such a dubious war. In my short time in Germany I only saw Franco-Prussian and WW1 memorials, those wars and WW2 are all a chain of sad misadventures.
"Prison camp of Naruto" I spit out my drink when he said that.
Believe it!
The last time anyone would want to be in a Japanese POW camp
My grandmother was in one as a child and barely survived thanks to the indonesian natives smuggling some fruit. They would simply starve and work the poeple to death in ww2
WWII POW camps were staffed by Korean soldiers (Korea was annexed by Japan around 1910).
'Justice Bert Röling, who represented the Netherlands at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, noted that "many of the commanders and guards in POW camps were Koreans - the Japanese apparently did not trust them as soldiers - and it is said that they were sometimes far more cruel than the Japanese."[58]''
A Japanese POW camp was uncovered from the jungle in Penang, Malaysia sometime in the 1990s. It was originally a British military base, which the Japanese turned into a prison camp, and now it's the Penang War Museum. You can read a lot of sad stories there.
"The prison camp Naruto..."
I'm sorry, the what now?
Lovely. I am born in Marasesti , lived in Marasesti for 26 years
About war graves (Both wars) in Germany, I was stationed in Germany when I served my time with the Dutch Army. It was in August 1987 that Rudolf Hess died (comitted suicide in de Spandau prison in Berlin) and that we where doing a roadblock exercise when some locals who had to pass that roadblock actually thanked us for keeping an eye on those graves down the road and keeping the neo's away.
It's these moments that really gave some color during my stationing there.
A group of Croatian soldiers, serving in the AH Navy, who were captured by the Japanese during the war had a band that was quite popular in the country. In fact, the Croatian song U Boj U Boj is still so popular that Japanese State Choir (could be another group) usually ends its concerts with a performance of it. Croatian ethnic dance and tamburitzan music is very popular too
It's not the Japanese State Choir, but rather a choir from the Kwansei Gakuin University of Kobe. And yes, the rest of the story is true, the locals heard the song being performed by members of the A-H Navy imprisoned there (we don't really know the sailors' nationality, but it's probably safe to say that at least some were Croats), and were sufficiently impressed that they had the sailors teach them the song, and it eventually came to be in the university choir's permanent repertoir, as the most difficult song and the finishing piece, as they sung it in Croatian without actually understanding the language or what they were singing.
They actually had no idea what they were singing about right up until the fifties or sixties I believe, when they finally managed to have the song translated, and found out that they were singing the most dramatic aria of a very important Croatian opera, "Nikola Šubić Zrinski", which is about the siege of Sziget. They still teach it and perform it to this day.
Here's a link to a Croatian TV report on when the older members of the choir visited Croatia and sung the song in public;
ruclips.net/video/gJyxA9szd8E/видео.html
How important was the idea of "gentlemanly" conduct of war to the various participants? Which country or leaders was it most important to?
Hi Indy and the gang! You do a terrific job and I love the show and I've been learning so much about the fronts away from Europe. Just became a patreon. I'm intrigued by the idea of particular weapons or tactics being seen as ungentlemanly.
Thanks a lot Indy for enlightening us about the long forgotten famines in the Ottoman Empire which your documentary show as a true by-product of modern wars, and especially the one that hit Lebanon hard, so keep up your greatly appreciated work !
Have another beer on me, Indy. Best show on youtube.
YAY MARASESTI!!!
In caz ca ti se pare foarte ciudat acest nume “MĂRĂȘEȘTI”,este o locația din Județul Vrancea Romania.
Howdy, Indy and crew! Now that you've answered one of my questions, I have a next one. Many countries fielded units consisting of soldiers of different nations: the British had soldiers from dominions like ANZAC, Austro-Hungarians had Polish Legions, Russians had Latvian Rifles and so on. Did Germany deploy such units? I don't mean troops from colonies, but something like Escadrille Lafayette or General Haller's Third Polish Brigade, aka the Blue Army, serving with the French. And a little tip, my surname is pronounced like "Vatslavik".
Jan Wacławik german had indian troops.
Jan Wacławik i swear i saw a video of qing china of german troops and they were wearing turbans.
Jan Wacławik &
Jan Wacławik There's the African troops that served under Lettow-Vorbeck.
Dear Indy
Do you have a different vest? One vest? Or multiple of the same vest?
Flaming Gaze Production I think that is his best.
Surely you jest.
Hey DeusGladiorum; What a fantastic question!!!
Thumbs up to you dude.
And of course thanks to Indy, Flo and the team for the comprehensive answer.
Awesome question.
Awesome answer
AWESOME CHANNEL !
Ma bucur foarte mult ca încă mai exista cineva ca tine care iubește istoria,in special din Romania,multumesc pentru aceste postări.↪️🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴
The German POWs in Japan was really fascinating.
Funny that Japanese POWs had more respect for Japan and her people than the Paul Brothers.
Alexander Walker What a burn
Yeah, it was just the truth and also since when is Paul anything other than a First name?
(exept for Friedrich Paulus I have never heard it as a last name)
Logan Paul should be put in a Japanese PoW camp. A WW2 one preferably.
AYYY lmao.
The paul brothers are nothing but something that should have ended up in a tissue.
Howdy Indy. Could you indulge our vanity (and yours) and tell us about your favorite Texans in WWI? Oh, and maybe this is a separate question but could you also tell us more about Colonel House? Thanks as always for the amazing work!
Bravo, Andrei👏👏
Hey Indy and crew. I was wondering if you could talk about rifle grenades, how they worked, how they were used on the battlefield and how effective they were? Keep up the great work!
I HAVE BEEN BLESSED-TRULY BLESSED, BY MACKLEMORE’S UNCLE AND THE GREAT WAR TEAM!!! And he pronounced my name correctly too 👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼
3:12 I’m in Perth and there’s some ww1 memorials around, the one I know about is in Armadale down near the traino.
And I believe that there’s others around the city and the rest of Australia?
Hey Indy, your Italian fans probably asked you already but are you planning to do a special on the Italian poet, aviator and absolute madman Gabriele D'Annunzio?
If that's the case I'm glad, didn't notice this announcement.
Outside one of the bases for Sennelager training area, there is a Second War memorial. a white slab with a huge iron cross with '1939-1945'
Hi all. I worked for a couple of years in Naruto, Tokushima, where a prisoner of war camp mentioned in this video was located. I taught English at Bando Elementary School and the area still has fairly strong links with Germany. A local tourist spot is the Naruto German House and they hold a German festival each October and always employ a German member of staff. The local junior and senior high schools run an exchange programme with the town of Luneburg in Germany too. It was a great place to live and a very curious bit of history to discover so far from my home in the UK - such a different experience than members of my own family's experience of the war. I'm so pleased to see little Naruto get mentioned in my favourite show on RUclips!
Hi indy and team i am working on a book which has short stories about soliders from every major power in the first world war any ways what happened to the black hand and Young Bosnia after the war love the show
I've been to the Hofgarten WWI memorial pictured, in Munich - it was empty, but very clean, and going down into the "tomb" was a very strange experience, even though it's fairly open to the outside - not to mention it was a Sunday and a local dog walkers' club was in the park above :P
Thank you .
I would have loved to be in a Japenese pow camp
...in this war. Try being in one of them in the second world war when they were less concerned about being taken seriously as a serious nation and more about asserting the fact that they were superior to everyone else.
Indy i got a book called Springboks
On the Somme which is about South Africa during ww1 and i red that there were south african soldiers fighting in Egypt alongside some of the Anzacs that fought in Gallopili.The UDF and the Anzacs fought against sinussi soldiers
+The Great War Its not the original grave in Berlin. Von Richthofen was originally buried in France and then moved to Berlin. Later he was moved again to his home town.
Its also not his "original" grave in Berlin since his tombstone now stands in Wittmund where the squadron named after him is stationed.
Good Morning Indie, Flo and the rest of the crew, you're doing a great job. One subject it would be interesting for you to cover is the "Soldier Poets", this was a key topic in English at school, studying such poets as Seigfried Sassoon and Wilfrid Owen. There seemed to be quite a literary community among British Officers, were there any similar artistic movements in other nations' forces?
You can find A LOT of memorial stones like that in Sudetenland in Czech rep. Basicaly in every village (or where used to be a village). With german names and dedications in german...
Do you already know when you will be able to visit Hamburg and meet your loyal fans? ;)
Great work, video and channel by the way!
You should check out the Hohensalzburg Castle in salzburg Austria, they have lots of ww1 artifacts in their museum, it would make a great video
Did y’all follow up on the ‘coming to America’ plan? I’d come to basically wherever you guys show up, let us know! Thanks for the three wonderful years of top quality shows and fun interactions.
Hi Indy, I’ve a question for out of the trenches. Last year I inherited an Iron Cross 2nd class from my uncle who collected medals from the Great War. My question is, if ordinary soldiers pinned medals they earned on their uniforms while living in the trenches or charging out into no man’s land, or did they just kept them somewhere safe even sending them to their families back home. Keep up the great show!
it was the custom of many european nations soldiers (france, germany, austrio hungary, russia, romainia, bulgaria )to wear decorations in combat though it wasnt universal. often, if the individual solder could afford, they wore special made copies of the awards and saved the original awarded medal at home or somewhere safe.
german regulations about the iron cross 2nd class (EK2) were that thw recipient could wear it suspended in the second buttonhole of their tunic for 24 hours after the award. thereafter ribbon from the award could be sewn in place diagonally in the 2nd buttonhole. if you look closely at wartime pics its easy to spot this practice.
There are a lot of soldiers who earned medals at war but were economically uncompetitive, to say the least, after the war. I remember one story about an illiterate Irish soldier who later had to sell his Victoria Cross to eat and died in poverty anyway. War makes heroes and then there's no war and they're not useful anymore.
You forgot to mention another important PoW from German Tsingtao : Karl Juchheim. He owned a pastry shop in Tsingtao and brought his skills to Japan by introducing the baumkuchen. It still has a big influence nowadays on Japanese taste for German style pastries.
Here’s a question for the next out of the trenches episode: what was Egypts role in the war keep up the good work
Hello from Puerto Rico again, Indy and crew. I have here a question for Out of The trenches. My great grandfather served in the Panama canal during the 1950s as many Puertorricans did since 1914 as a defence unit. My question is...
Where there any German plans to attack the Panama Canal incase the U.S joined the war? It would have not seem imposible, well almost, since German ships where seen in areas of the Caribbean, like in the port of San Juan in 1917, or the Maldives as early as 1914. I doubt they would have done something like the Ottomans did in the Suez canal in 1915 because of the distance and lack of supplies.
I hope to see a Puerto Rico special in the future and more amazing videos.
Wish there was a channel like this except about ww2
At Mărășești, my great-grandfather died.
Very nice
Another German POW in Japan introduced the layered cakes which are now called in Japan 'Baumkucken'. His name is Karl Joseph Wilhelm Juchheim and he as an interesting story as well.
Question for Out of the Trenches: what counters did the Allies have to the German U-Boats? Did the Allies have submarines of their own? Did they use depth charges and the like?
He’s got warrants
Gday Indy and team of the Great War just a quick question what do you know of an Australian soldier Albert jacka from ww1 love the show keep up the awesome work.
The Great War, will you do an episode about the rising Arabia and the Arab Revolt as a whole? Or will it continue to be covered in regular episodes? Or in an Out or the Trenches?
Hi indy, first I love the show and how you taught me and probably a lot of others about small and big aspects of the great war. My question, did soldiers of any faction had choices in what kind of weapons they could use like the early (light) machineguns and other expiremental weapons. Sorry for any spelling mistakes.
I now have an answer for when people ask me which front I'd rather be deployed on. Tsingtao it is!
What was the southern end of the western front like? did the trenches just stop politely at the Swiss boarder? (thanks for the patience if you already have covered this topic)
I have a question for OOTT.
Did the a soldier fighting in an army in the allies' side receive different rations before and after the United States joined the war?
6:12 WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE FIELD OF STUDIES
Hey guys!
You mentioned that the Japanese treated their POWs pretty well. Why did the treatment change so much for WW2? It might be beyond of the scope of your channel but I got really curious.
Keep up the good work!
Hi Indy, I'm a big fan of ur channel and a student of ww1 and international relations. I wonder if there are any up coming major commemoration or celebration of the armistice in Europe this year? 2018 is the 100th anniversary of the armistice and I'm looking forward to visit one such commemoration if there are any. Thanks!
Flo, Indy, crew, your podcast would make a lovely live stage interview for the fans (imo) get some experts and chit-chat about an older topic much like Neil DeGrasse Tyson's StarTalk radio
Hey Indy!Great work!I was wondering if you would ever cover the Doiran battles on 1916 and 1917,but it doesnt seem so.Even though the bulgarian defenders were vastly outnumbered they won those fights.Would love it if you do such an episode :)
uh there are multiple episodes on Dorian
Damn,I will look closer before i type next time,sorry
And on the Japanese thing for Ode to Joy, it was also used in End of Evangelion's infamous final scene.
Hi indy and team
I love the show
I was thinking maybe you can tell us more about fritz haber and his role in the great war please
Thanks
Hani Othman They already did a special episode about him
I must have missed it
Sorry
Again great show
Thanks
I have a question for OOTT. I live in ireland and I went into the local Protestant Church to have a look around. I noticed a war memorial dedicated to the congregation of that church that died in WW1. it numbered around 30 men. The population of Protestants in that part of the west of Ireland at the time was about 2-3% of the population of the county so this amounted to most of the male population of the church. I was wondering was there many towns and villages in the waring nations that had nearly all its male population killed in the war. I do know that it was an issue in pals betallions in the UK.
Tell me more about the Naruto Prison Camp Indy.
Greetings Indy and team!! I have enjoyed all of your videos and I have a question that maybe you all could answer or even do another video on!!
I lived in Europe for 21 years and I have seen a great majority of western and some of eastern Europe. I have traveled alot in the Alsace/Lorraine regions of France and it is common to see cemeteries in France with the dates and years 1914-1918 and 1939-1945 on many of them. I know that the Alsace Lorraine regions belonged to Germany during World War 1 but still many French people still have left the cemeteries as is to remember those who died (which I feel is a noble thing to do)!! But my question is this; what happened to the German cemeteries in places like Silesia and Pomerania? I have been to those regions as well and I found none!! Could you perhaps cover this subject in a future video please?
In reguards the "Violent" artillery barrage, is there such a thing as a "gentle" artillery barrage?
One that misses the target completely?
Hi Indy love the show
I have a question for the war in the Alps.
During the Christmas holiday I went to a world war 1 museum,
I then found a photo of a crashed airplane buried in the snow
how and why would they use planes in sub 0 temperatures
(Talking about winter here).
Many thanks Amir.
You should do a Week-by-Week for the 100 Years War.
I have a question for out of the trench.after you charge to death what happens if you try to go back to the trenches,or if you refuse to go out of the trench,whatis the punishments?nice job.
Question for out of the trenches: How was the situation for german and austria-hungarian pows in russia and how were they returned to their homelands after russia left the war?
I heard that Texan accent come back, haha!
Hi Indy and Crew! I have a question for Out if the Trenches. I was wondering with all these famines and foos shortages, were there many examples of cannibalism? Thanks and keep up the great work!
BTW, Beethoven No.9 performed by the German POW at Naruto Camp was the very first performance of the magnificent symphony in Japan.
"139 Days until the 100th anniversary of the first performance of the Ninth Symphony in Asia"
www.city.naruto.tokushima.jp/contents/daiku/english/index.html
I have visited the Naruto camp: This is one of the least known aspects of the great war - even very few Japanese are aware of this episode of civility, chivalry and ultimately cultural exchange as it was eclipsed by Japan's shameful treatment of POWs in WW2. Even today, Japanese school children carry their books in "rucksacks" to school; love to eat Baumkuchen; and fill entire stadiums for Beethoven's 9th Symphony sing-along events.
@Tom Burchill
Well, thank you Tom!
By the way, just for your information, the Japanese were basically quite consistent in their treatment of POWs from the Samurai days all the way through to WW2.
Have you considered the possibility of a "systematic propaganda" put out by the "winners of war" demonizing the Japanese during WW2?
Have you heard of the War Guilt Information Program (WGIP) that was put in place by the GHQ of the post-war occupation government?
Towards the end of the war, one commander of a POW camp ordered his staff soldiers to give up their food in order to feed the prisoners, however, he was accused in the International Military Tribunal for the Far East for "discriminating the prisoners by not feeding them appropriately" and was executed.
That's how "shameful" Japan's treatment of POWs in WW2 was basically.
Do you honestly think that the ethnic properties of a nations people can just change so drastically over night? or in a course of few decades? from a proud Samuari nation in the pre-WW1 days to a lawless cold-blooded evil murderers in WW2? And once particular war is over, just go back to the nation that it was before the war?
Including its military? Again, just over night?
That's rubbish! Come on. It's a war propaganda. You've been conned.
Japan hasn't changed. It was always the same. During the Samurai days, before WW2, during WW2, and after WW2.
I can look straight in your eyes and say to you, that if you study the facts of what really did occur, you'll find out that the Japanese didn't treat the POWs in WW2 as you think.
At least they didn't roundup the surrendering enemy soldiers in batches and mortar them down with machine guns like the Americans did in the Philippines.
"Japanese Navy saved lives of British Navy in WW II"
ruclips.net/video/wWYz_AQAzbQ/видео.html
I can in fact provide you with many facts to back it up, but I won't go into that now because this comment is already getting too long.
There are many, many episodes (and facts!) to prove that, with records and testimonies from both sides of the war, as well as the local residents of the Asian countries.
Some, I've heard myself with my own ears from the elderly people of the South East Asian countries.
Anyway, thank you again, hope you had a great time here if you were here in Japan as a visitor, or if you are a resident, see you sometime.
Viper Zero having heard what the Japanese did to POWs in WW2 from the mouth of somebody who was captured by them and ended up in Changi then I have to say that the Japanese in WW2 are as black as the history books paint them. This man was my Vicar and yes as Christian he had forgiven them for what they had done to him and those he tried to protect.
Yes! I'm glad someone mentioned this. The Japanese loved it, and it's become a Christmas tradition in Japan. You can hear more performances of B-9 in Japan during the month of December, than all the rest of the year in all the countries of the world. They have filled stadiums with people singing Ode to Joy in German. There are videos of it on RUclips.
Regarding what you said on the red Barron. I'm not sure that is correct, his original burial place was in the Somme at the Fricourt German cemetery. Berlin was his second burial place, not original.
It's even more complicated: the "original" grave was, off course, located in France. His remains were then transferred to Berlin's Invaliden cemetery, which was levelled to the ground as part of the Berlin wall's death strip in the 1970s. His family managed to exhume the grave and the "real" grave of Richthofen is now located in Wiesbaden. Only in 2009 a memorial plate was placed at his former grave in Berlin.
How about doing a series of videos called "battles" - one battle per episode or so featuring tactics, outcome, casualty number, etc?
Indiana Neidell ... You guys must really be working 24x7. My idea was rather for something "after the armistice" next year. Some sort of "best of battles" after the regular episodes are over in case you guys want to keep working on the project. May the day this channel stops never come :(
Well, that would also counteract the idea behind the channel which, among other things, is not to reduce the war into these individual battles.
Just trying to be helpful :)
finally something including Romania !
Indi should really make a audio book
6:50 Alexandru I'll Rescue :)
I'd like to see you do an episode where you list the worst atrocity committed by each major player in the Great War, on all sides.
You need to talk about the Romanian "Brick Bomber" Nicolae Tanase.
Hi Indy! I'd like to know if soldiers of one or the other side had commited injurious acts against the prisoners, such as taunts, humiliations or agressions. Because I've always seen ww1 prisoners being helped by the enemy. Keep the great work!
WHOA! min 1:26 the Samurai codex of treating your defeated enemy with respect....What the hell change between the 2 World Wars? Japanese treated prisoners with vehement disrespect in WW2. Can you point me in the right direction(terminology) such I can research. Thanks.
WW2 Bushido wasn't necessarily authentic.
You've done a special on Shell Shock (now known as PTSD) during the war. However, what about the similar but medical distinct "conversion disorder" (which is often called "Hysterical blindness/paralysis/etc") during the war. Was conversion disorder treated any differently PTSD/"shell shock"? Did anyone understand it was a distinct disorder?
Hey Indy we often hear about the big three and their goals at Versailles, however what where the goals of the Germans, Austrians, and Ottomans. I understand why they joined the war but as a nation what where their goals of a peace if a peace where to come. Thank you and this may stray in the way of alternate history. Although, I am sure their are documents outlining what each nation wanted for example the ottomans may want the British out of Arabia etc.. Keep up the great work
Hey Indy & Team how are you , Can you tell us something about "The Battle of Coronel".
Hey hi indy thanks for Replying my dream comes true 😊.
Hey Indy and Team you guys are awesome and brilliant and I was wondering if any Spanish moved to France to fight the war and why they wanted to fight.
Hello, Indi and Crew! Good job ! What did the United States Navy do in WW1?
The remembrance is often decided by where you Live, and when it was built. Many memorials ment for WW1/Franco-Prussian War were modified to incorporate WW2 after 45. But you can clearly distinguish when they where built. For example, where I Live, it was built after WW2. The memorial is a simple slab of concrete with the names of everyone from the town who died in WW1/WW2. When I drive to my Grandmother, I have to pass through a village with a memorial built in 1921, later they just added more nameplates. The memorial itself is a pillar with a picture of archangel Micheal on it, with a big Iron Cross at the Top and the words "Gott mit Uns !" At the Bottom. And the One where my Grandmother lives was built in 1934 . That One is a 3m high statue of a german soldier, surrounded by archways with the names of the fallen on them.
As for state-built memorials, the only One that includes ww1 I know about that was built after 45 is the "Ehrenmal des deutschen Heeres" in the Fortress Ehrenbreitstein in Koblenz, which is dedicated to the fallen of the German army in WW1 & WW2 and was built by the Bundeswehr in the 60s, I think. Its pretty simplistic, just a white niche in One of the outer walls, with a Iron Cross at the outside and a statue of a young dead soldier with a Stahlhelm lying on the ground, surrounded by Metal oakleafs and the years 1914-1918 and 1939-1945.
Could you talk about Mannerheim? Or you saving him for later once the Red rebellion starts?
Hi İndy and team i have a guestion for out of trenches. How was the communication between French And English generals were translators a lot in use and how was the communication in high command. Could Philippe Petain or Ferdinand Foch speak fluently English or could Haig speak French. Did it plague the Allied army like Austria-Hungary's situation
Dear Indi
I like your work and say hi to your friends in the Great War.
I want to know more about the famine in madina city in the western Arabian Peninsula. And did the ottoman Fakhri Pasha really deported the locals against there well during the siege and take the Islamic Effects to Istanbul. your friend ( Hokash)
Hi , i am from mount lebanon . any questions ?
In Berlin there are parts of the city in which the roads are named after WWI Heroes
There are multiple parts actually.
Could you do an episode on the one Austrian Ace pilot who met the red baron and painted his plane like his? I forget his name
Hello TGW crew
Its true that Manfred von Richthofen was (re)buried ad Invalidenfriedhof Cemetery in Berlin after WW1. Bud in 1975 his remains were relocated to the Richthofen's family grave at Südfriedhof in Wiesbaden.
Hello Indy and crew! I have a question for out of the trenches; not sure if you've covered this before, but, being a Latino, I've always been curious what role, if any, did Latino and Hispanic-Americans play in the First World War? Were white and black Latinos broken up into segregated units as the rest of the American Army was? Were there any notable figures with Latin ancestry? Thanks for the great work, and here's to 1918!
As I have asked over and over again, perhaps for an Out of the Aether or Into the Abyss, can we get something on American Propoganda going into World War One? I know about Wilson's "Four Minute Men' and I'm curious to hear one read by Indy. Thanks.
Crazy (and disturbing) much things changed with the POW camps in twenty years
Many German POW's elected to stay in Japan after the war and live out their lives there. Many opened beer halls which I believe a few are still in business to this day, run by their descendants.