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Verdun was the limit of what human can endure....the hell.

Thank you for posting your excellent video and for keeping WW1 history alive too so that all generations will never forget what happened at Ypres.

Lately come upon this superb narrative. Many many thanks. As I watched and listened it kept striking me...that if humanity has advanced even an inch since 1914-18, 1939-45....the only ones who'd die now would be the sonsofbitches in the political, commercial, and military sectors who instigate and profit from such INSANITY. How many tens of thousands of lives, how much property, treasure, and goodwill could have been preserved had someone stepped up and blown Putin's head off in 2022 ? Human beings really don't learn much.....

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Going to visit it myself tomorrow, can't wait! Your video is really well made and is going to help me understand a bit me of what was going on those fields 100 years ago...

My father was at Ypres in 1917 and stayed on after the war finished on burial detail. He was with the Labour Corps also West Yorkshire Regiment.

Late coming to this but a very respectful view that I have also witnessed with my Son & Friends to pay respects to the fallen.

Sutch a sad loss of young lives, no matter your nationality, rest in peace

Awesome content, I was just in Ypres a couple of weeks ago. We visited the museum but only got to see Yorkshire Trench and Dugout. I wish I would have visited as many places as you showed in your video but didn't have the time. At about 17:00 I see the cars passing by in a nearby street, it made me think of how life goes on in place where such horrible things happened decades ago. How the earth heals but the scars remain in the form of trenches, bunkers, shells, etc. It was a surreal experience for me, keep up your good work @Nickipedia.

This is very good... Very informative. Something totally elaborate. A 3d graphic transformation, of the actual pictures of the past against the present. That could be cool

Thanks for the information.

It's not the size of the land that should amaze you. You should be stunned by the infinite capacity of ignorance that humans can attain. Then to do it all over again 20 years later. Oh yeah, we humans are dumb

Hi, I live in the Ieper area, came across your video. You did a great job capturing the mood and giving solid information. Thank you for the respect and dedication and for remembering also the Belgian part in the war, often overlooked.

Visiting Ypres was truly one of the most moving experiences of my life… The tragedy of this place is incomprehensible

When visiting war european I always I included the German cemeteries.

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The carnage of WW1 and loss of so many young men will go down in history as one of mankinds most ridiculous follies. What these men were subjected to was beyond imagining. And for what? An Arch Duke in Yougoslavia was killed and the impoverished leadership of our respective nations, gave in to their base instinct of revenge and indignity. They decised to throw all our men into a grave to show them who is the boss! But the men had the last word. They 'fragged' so manny of their leaders, that society changed forever in England. The aristoracy were also decimated. We must learn a lesson from this, that our leadership is often very poor. That we must not be easily coopted to patriotic fervour, nor do its bidding unquestionably. This was an utter failure of leadership, to use loic and reasoning. I once thought we could never repeat this madnesss, but its going on right now in Ukraine, more than a hundred years later. What have we learned? How many must die for the madness of lines on a map and the desires of despots. The insatiable lunacy of one man, Putin, has caused this. And because of our spineless leaders, we allow it to go on, rather than just capture or kill the President Of Russia. Why? Greed ! Someone is making a fortune from seeling weapons, whist subserviant Generals chomp at the bit to try them out. Grow up th lot of you! We are a single planet heaven in an empty galaxy, where life has evolved. And this is how we spend out time! I despair at humanity someto=imes. We can be so astonishingly wonderful and at the same time so fucking barbaric!

Hi, can you tell me about your background regarding to visit and video these war sites ? And to find out all things about them ?

My grand father did 18 mo. in N. France and survived the war obviously or l wouldn’t be commenting lol. Lewis gunner. He said a miracle happened one morning a German gas shell landed in frt. of me and l got my blighty ticket out of there. 46 bn. CEF Very proud of him! 🇨🇦👍

Thank you for this ... especially the research you did to present each area with context . It is difficult to express one's thoughts on the absolute waste of our youth in this awful war. Like every Brit and Commonwealth person, we all have relatives who fell in the Great War. Lest we forget.

I have ancestors who died here (Fort Vaux). The government record literally states “died for France” explained in detail how, took an artillery shell whilst trying to recover a fellow soldier. Couldn’t be more proud of Etienne, France and the whole free world. Freedom truly isn’t free, and I’m very grateful for modern, democratic society. They didn’t die in vain. It’s nice to see some folks pay homage and show proper respect. Especially in this day and age. Great video! Vive La France!

RIP Warriors 🫡 Respect always and it's gotta be a amazing feeling to visit battle grounds from history...Also nothing is fun about War at all We need masculine Men in our military again to be honest....God Bless 🦅🇺🇲

Fr Amorth a much-practiced Catholic exorcist requested that people do not call to their departed wanting them back with the living. The reason was not just to do with not involving demons, but that in life we are in a vale of tears, and to let the dead rest in peace. They are free....

Canadians. Many were Brits, Scots, etc

Flammenwerfer means flame thrower, not liquid fire. Still a nice documentary!

Crazy how close they were fighting

Did you see all those French shells and rifles that look as though they were never fired and only droped on the ground once?

Thank you for sharing this video with us! May all of those brave men rest peacefully.

Why doesn’t this have more views

I’m a Canadian ww1 buff and can state confidently November 6th was the capture of passchendael village , November 10th for the ridge.

Very good video. Thank you for posting

This video waa very informative, thanks for this video and your information. Im visiting Verdun this weekend, so im trying to gather some information. Our schools in the Netherlands dont teach us a lot about the first world war. Primarily because our country stayed neutral during this war.

I was there last week. Very impressive and very moving 😟 Btw... The German tombstones are lying flat, because they lost the war on Belgium ground. In Tyne Cot however, there are a few German graves that are standing up ( you can recognize them because there is no arch on the tombstone). The reason that they are standing up and aren't lying flat on Tyne Cot is because this ground belongs to the Common Wealth now.

Hello everyone. Im from Belgium and precisely from Menen, which is not too far from Ieper (Ypres in english). We visited some of these resting fields as i call them with school when i was 8 or 9 years old. It is indeed a big matter to us to acknowledge the heroes who fought to liberate our country. We will never forget them and we will always support their countries. They are our forever allies and friends. May they all rest in peace 🙏🏻❤🕊

I don’t know how people lived in that day and age, but to die in a mud hole in a foreign country must be the epitome of poverty. What a shame for humanity.

Good job

Well that was on another level and a good clear last post to boot. thank you....

My relative was in the 9th BN King's Own Yorkshire L.I (KOYLI) and he died on the 4th October 1917 at Polygon wood while attacking a place called Joist Farm which is one small field away from the wood, apparently the fighting was so bad at this Joist farm that the original plan was for the 9th KOYLI to capture Joist farm and the 10th KOYLI would come up from reserve and using joist farm as their gathering point before attacking a place called reutel just a little down the road 10th KOYLI would end up fighting for Joist farm along with 9th KOYLI as the fighting was still going on when the 10th made it to the front line, His body was never found or so we are lead to believe but he could be buried in an unknown grave due to the many unknown graves from his regiment in the area, however his name is on tyne cott memorial panels

My Grandfather went off to war in 1915 and never returned, my grandmother was pregnant with my father. We do not know where he is buried to this day. Needless to say my father never met his father. My story is just one of thousands of similar stories, i have told the story to my kids and it like all the thousands of others needs to be retold to the generations to come. Lest we forget.

Well done, Great history lesson.. I plan to go to the Somme next summer to tour some areas where my Canadian great-uncle died in 1916 and to the areas of St Mihel and Meuse-Argonne where my grandfather served as a lieutenant in the combat engineers. I went through his WW1 foot locker and it is full of pictures, military orders and has several maps (one is a German topographical battle map of the area near Verdun--crazy level of detail. A friend from France had a grandfather that survived the war. His grandfather had 7 brothers. He was the only one to survive the war and he ended dying in the 1960’s from the effects of being gassed. It wiped out complete generations - the loss of life is incomprehensible.

HISTORY IS REPEATING ITSELF A G A I N !

An excellent tour of the battlefield! Well done!

What a tragedy. I do not know that anyone actually knew what it was all about. Cousins squabbling. One wanted it all, one didn’t want to fight and one who didn’t know what was going on.

It must be nerve racking plowing that corn field. There must be a ton of unexploded ordinance there.

Your video is very excellent. Thank you for respecting those gathered in the Douaumont Ossuary. I was just there, and the sight is terrible. Still, brings home exactly what war is: death and destruction, not glory. I learned a lot about Fort Douaumont and Fort Vaux.

If you like this. Get down to Verdun. That place still looks like point du hoc

Please, no more talks about French Surrender Monkeys....

The moment you played the jew card...yawn ...gone.

The Canadian Expeditionary Force: When you positively absolutely gotta break out the Hammer (and I have to say, you have an uncanny resemblance to Great War era figures Czar Nicholas and King George V)

Very impressive and extremely well done.