There is an anecdote from the Western Front in 1918 of a German officer being run over by a British 'plane - despite having flung himself to the ground. They really did fly that low.
I'm Spanish, and when I read "Galicia" I almost paniked when I couldn't remember the Austrians fighting in my country. Then I remembered. And thought about how stupid I am
@@gainmelk There was an Iberia in thr Caucasus in the time of Romans.en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Iberia vs en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iberian_Peninsula (but Iberica in another language)
someone mistook ww1 with ww2. It's very unlikely for austrians to execute prisoners on mass, especially that this could create retaliation for their POVs.
The spies would be shot on spot. They also carried out genocide against Rusyns (Western Russians), with the help of Ukrainians - for their willingness to remain Rusyns (Ruthenians), not "Ukrainians". Some 150,000 civilians (if not more) were killed. There's a man in the episode who crosses himself in the Orthodox manner, very characteristic moment.
@@regiment589 Not as close as the A-H potential collapse in 1916. They were overrun and started surrendering en mass , but German reinforcements were sent from the western front just in time.
@@Jim-fi4dc Eastern front was secondary for A-H since fall of 1915 so as units of one single army which were destroyed during Brusilov offensive. Also there was never threat of collapse. Keep in mind that A-H border units hold against Romanian invasion till front line units arrived. That was tactical victory for Russians, in the end only speed up the fall of Russian Empire.
@@MaximKretsch after the war, when the German, Russian and Austrian empires collapsed, then the scramble of ground and nationalism begins.. Together with systematic executions
The executions didn't happen. Most Austro-Hungarian soldiers on the Eastern Front were Slavic. Look at Tito for example. Nearly all Croatian batallions were moved either to Italy or the Eastern Front because a large amount of cease fires similar to those of 1914. and even desertions were happening far into 1916. I recommend reading the war diaries of Stjepan Kolander, who witnessed these cease fires happening constantly between Serbs and Croats, which lead to them being replaced with Germanic troops.
here is a brief story about this film I recommend you watch this film mostly this film is the story that a Croatian soldier who was forcibly mobilized in Austro-Hungary wounded on the battlefield was on the Galician front but he somehow survives and takes the jacket of a dead soldier named josip broz tito who it was an officer in the austro-hungarian army later that wounded croat finds a group of croats and Hungarians who are also in the austro-hungarian army and who fled from the russians later other austrian officers come and liquidate all the soldiers who fled the russians only two because the wounded soldier who took the jacket of a dead officer is our military ID card from that officer named josip broz later the Austrian officers find out that he lied and take away his military ID later in the russian attack that wounded soldier is killed and only the officer who took the ID card survives the wounded soldier later learns that 2 more soldiers survived but will later be killed as well later that officer in Russian captivity stands in the trench captured until the Austro-Hungarian army attacks the Russians and then the Russian captain who goes through the film takes the uniform and ID card of that officer and joins the Austro-Hungarian army and the officer as shown is forced to be killed later as shown a Russian soldier or officer (I don't know what he really is) introduces himself as Josip Broz later known as the ruler of Communist Yugoslavia and the mass criminal in this film is about Croats in the First World War and the myth that Josip Broz was actually a killed Croatian officer in Austria to the Hungarian army whose identity was stolen from the steana of a Russian soldier or officer who later ruled after ww2 communist yugoslavia until his death in 1981
Yeah, man! It was because of their humanity that Hungarians and Croats were not captured during World War II on the Soviet front. Go on, storyteller))) A guilty conscience gives itself away)))
I don't think that even modern artillery is that accurate, with intelligent/controlled ammunition, it still offers an accuracy of "somewhere around in the distance of x-meters", doesn't it?
i was actually at the premier of this movie in pula, at the film festival. it's crap pseudohistory. also in the end of the clip you can see a guy with a hitler mustache. he was supposed to actually represent hitler. the authors conveniently forgott that hitler, allthough austrian, was in the german army during ww1. the whole thing is contrived to play at the long standing conspiracy theory that josip broz tito isn't really josip broz tito, but some russian imposter. it is bullshit of the worst kind
I mean I recall 1 moment in my life where a idiotic military pilot flew too low (i was boating with family on a lake that was near a air force base). Can't imagine the yelling they got later on on
I'm Polish and I live in one part of Galicja's lands (today it call Podkarpacie) . My grand-grand father served in Austro-Hungarian army. He didn't come back to home.
My grandparents lived in Galicia. My grandfather, by my calculation, was a little too old to have been conscripted into the Austro-Hungarian army. If not I might not exist. Think of the vast, vast number of children who were never born because of the First World War. Who they might have been, what they and their descendants might have accomplished.
@@jackarcher7495 What was the maximum age for conscription back then ? My paternal grandmother's dad was 37 in the 1920 U.S. Census ( Says Galicia as origin on the form ), which would have made him 31 in 1914... I still don't know WHY or HOW he came to the US .. We think he was in the US just before WW1 started.. but not certain... It's a mystery.
I think the others reconised that one was Austrian that got his uniform stolen and all and knew that the only way out for him in this case was suicide so they gave him the way out and he took it.
@@TheManofthecross stuff like that didn't happen they didn't kill their own soldiers for being captured and they wouldn't kill enemies who surrendered the great majority of time, the scene only makes sense if he is a deserter and if they know it.
@@austro-balkanesemonarchy932 Yes kind of ....In ww1 and ww2 they was very rough with their enemy .....And not in heroic way .. More like .....Butchering serbian children way .....
I don't think these executions reflect true history. In WW1 most sides behaved usually in a correct way with enemy prisoners - there were exceptions, but normally this cruel behaviour was rare.
Well, that is difficult to say. We know Canadians almost never took prisoners and Germans therefore also killed them on sight (and still often did so in WW2) while Australians were famous for taking prisoners for interrogation. The cossacks were also famously bot taking prisoners or torturing their enemies but in WW1 their role was limited anyways. Austrian Hungarian troops also behaved really badly against Serbian troops and civilians. Furthermore, in the hectic trenches often surrendering soldiers were shot but accounts of deliberate executions after the fact were indeed rare.
Not in Austro Hungary, they actually are notorious for the public executions they would conduct in the Balkans that they were very proud of and actively spread word of it.
Germany, UK, and France generally followed the Hague Convention in their treatment of POWs. Austria Hungary and Russia did not. Though Germany and Austria Hungary did engage in atrocities against civilians in Belgium and Serbia respectively.
Not bad. The guy with the moustache is not "Hitler," but illustrates the general policy whereby soldiers had to (near) clean shaved for gas masks (Hitler underwent this procedure, prior to the war he had a large "Kaiser"-style moustache). Battlefield atrocities happened on both sides in WW1, no "bullshit" here. It is either Serbian front or Galician front, so something is amiss either in the title or the comments about this clip. I find the film a decent representation of some aspect of WW1 combat, not to mention that Eastern Front in WW1 was almost never represented in film, so kudos to the film-makers.
@@arima272 - As far as I know, the AH leadership was quite lenient towards its soldiers surrendering to the enemy, ie. it didn't demand holding out to the last man.
Tell that to Serbian people in WW1. First documented war crimes in 20th century Europe were commited by Austria. Fact. You had camps where many Serbs died and also killed everyone who was capable for military service because you feared they might rebel. Alongside Bulgarian amd Germans you were responsible for the death of 1.25m out od 4m Serbs. You did horrible things. There were some bright examples of course.
@@cakaekv "first documented war crimes in the 20 th century were commited by austria " seriously? The boer wars , the Balkan wars , the italian-osmanic war, the spanish-american war, the japanese- russian war and the boxer rebellion in china are all wars without documented war crimes in your opinion?
@@ragnarlodrbrok2561 20th century europe! Balkan wars had war crimes but very little against civilians. Look at what AH did in Posavina region in Serbia.
@@ragnarlodrbrok2561 What you reffering at is no more than wiki search as i thought! You didn't even read my comment. War crimes against serbian civilians around Sabac and Posavina region look it up.
Theese executions are ridiculous. I have read a lot of memories of Hungarian soldiers from WW I. Executions were execeptional and never againts the POWs. If you were in uniform that guarateed quite large security. But if you were civilian and weapon was found at you or you did some suspicious thing then probably you were executed . I read some exceptions: Czech soilders escaped from the Austrian army were executed immediately because there were thought deserters. (They escaped in complete regiments with their colonels at the begining of war.) . The script writer read some infos about WW2 and he thoght it wa the same. :-) For example the Austrian-Hungarian POW officers got a quite good money from the Russian state as "salary". They were allowed to go to the town freely in Siberia. It was very very different than the WW2! I don't think think they had theese helmets in 1915. And moustache was complusory in the army!! :-)
The story about the 28th Infantry Regiment from Prague defecting to the Russians without any fight in 1915 is just an Entente propaganda, or to be more precise, a complete lie. At the beginning of the war, most of its officers and soldiers fought valiantly at the Russian front and had enormous casualties; the regiment basically bled to death by the time of the defence of Krakow in late 1914. It had to be constantly reinforced, and the replacements had less and less training - no more than 14 days at the beginning of 1915, and some of the recruits even didnt know how to shoot. As the situation at the Russian front stabilised, the Austro-Hungarian command started counteroffensives in the Carpathians. IR 28 advanced into an unadvantageous position; was not reasonably supplied (large part of its ammunition was still stored in Debrecen); and both the soldiers and their food were freezing. When the Russians counterattacked from several directions, half-frozen, hungry and insufficiently trained Czech soldiers put as much resistance as anyone could expect from men in such conditions. It clearly didn't suffice, the Russians had only several casualties, the Czechs, many more dead and wounded, and the rest fell into captivity. The colonel didn't fall into captivity, though. Austro-Hungaria military tried to blame Czech troops for this failure. As a result, this regiment was disbanded. But its reserve batallion later fought at the Italian front with so much successes that the regiment was raised again. On the other hand, Infantry Regiment Nr. 36 from Mladá Boleslav (Jungbunzlau) was disbaned in 1915 as well, and remained such.
Not only is the editing bad the part where a plane is flying just a metre off the ground looks is stupid as for the bit where prisoners are being excuted is not accurate either no doubt on occasions it would have happened but rarely in ww1 there were atrocities committed in places like Serbia but on the eastern front both the Russians and Austrians took prisoners and treated them as POWs both countries seemed to have stuck as close as possible to the rules of the Geneva convention of the time where possible.
That part with the older man holding up a cross to the sky as a bayonet pierced his back is just so powerful. Like saying, “there is no God to save you in Hell.”
@@mirektobiasz7420 Read carefully einstein. He said INSTEAD of peaked caps or pickelhaube. The original poster is not used to seeing people who are speaking German NOT wear the peaked caps OR the pickelhaube.
@@kingofohio5689 Actually their are published reminisces but not in English...also many were disparaging of Austro-Hungary because those soldiers were now citizens of new nations born from the former Empire....then their were the Communists to avoid as well....
Hitler was in german army not austrain second EVERYBODY shaved like that because of the regulations in order to be able to use gas masks. They even explained that in the movie in case someone had question like you.
I don't know as much as I should about the Eastern Front in WW1, but didn't the Germans have to continually bail out the Austrians when they bit off more than they could chew?
The movie is croatian (not austrian or russian) and the title is Josef. Josef je hrvatski cjelovečernji ratni igrani film iz 2011. godine koji je režirao Stanislav Tomić. Prikazuje ratni put hrvatskog vojnika u Austro-ugarskoj vojsci tijekom Prvog svjetskog rata na Galicijskom bojištu.
The Austrian army did not conduct "kopfschuetze graben" during WWI. There were hangings of spy's however and usually Slavic Habsburg soldiers hanging Slavic civilians.
@@Boifeicasempre Depends on the time this takes place. Germany would send all of the other Central Powers (Mostly Austro-Hungaria, but also some to Bulgaria and the Ottomans) stahlhelms in 1917. If this was before 1917, however (I don't know; never seen the movie), then they may perfectly well be Berndorfer helmets. But, no yeah; the Stahlhelm was a universal Central Powers helmet like the Adrian/Brodie was for the Entente.
Hello. Where can I watch this film in full in English or Russian? Is it possible to find torrents on it? Please help me. I would really like to translate this film into Russian. So that Russian-speaking people can get acquainted with the products of the Austrian cinema.
Everything after Gorlice-Tarnów Offensive was great! Nothing bad would ever Happen the Great Austro- Hungarian Empire ever again. The Hapsburg's are still happy to be running the Empire today!
Signora, per favore :l'Austria - Ungheria soffriva già la fame a fine estate 1914. E TUTTO IL Potere era nelle mani dei Militari, secondo le norme del 1912. Per ogni infrazione un civile finiva davanti a una Corte Marziale. Morte, Miseria, Fame, Disperazione:questa era la realtà, anche in Italia.
they did, just wasnt a continuous series of fortifications and trenches from swiss border to belgian coast like western front, many forest, bogs and wild areas without trenchess on eastern front
they made a mistake while filming this, first, airplanes weren't used in such way and that extensively in 1915. and our soldiers didn't have M17 helmets (17 stands for 1917.)
It is not too realistic. In WWI more POW had been taken than execution except for spies but they used fire squad. Brutality came later with the Russian civil war. WWII was a different story.
Mostly rubbish, unrealistic and pretentious, but the worst of all was the idiotic episode of prisoner execution, unthinkable in a highly civilized arm forces of Austro-Hungary.
@@vidanristic Austria-Hungary could not advance independently after the defeat in 1914. The Russians retreated in 1915 due to the German army's breakthrough in the Gorlovo area. In 1916, during the "Brusilovsky breakthrough", the army of Austria-Hungary was again almost destroyed and only German divisions saved it.
@@apo5895 In 1917, hundreds of thousands of people died of starvation in Germany. It was clear to everyone that the "Central powers" would not survive 1917. The Russian Empire has already sewn a dress uniform for the victory parade in Berlin. In the summer of 1917, the last offensive against Germany and Austria-Hungary was to begin. The Entente's superiority was absolute. But there was one problem. England and France promised Russia Constantinople and access to the Mediterranean sea. Russia was to receive all Polish lands. The army of the Russian Empire was to become the strongest in Europe. England and France could not allow such a strengthening of Russia. They understood that they had enough strength to finish off the "Central powers" without Russia. Austria-Hungary was no longer anything of itself, and Germany mobilized its last forces. British agents organized the overthrow of Nicholas ll in February 1917. Then the provisional government handed over power to the Bolsheviks, some of whom were British and some German agents. The Bolsheviks destroyed the army and surrendered territories to Germany. Germany was able to move the army to the West and get food from Russian territories. This allowed the "Central powers" to hold out until 1918. But they were doomed. Russia was so cunningly framed by the allies and plunged into civil war. Everyone in Russia knows this now. But foreigners still believe in Soviet fairy tales about the "people's revolution" of 1917 and the defeat of Russia.
these war crimes were committed sometimes, but the funny part is, most of the time it wasn’t Austrians , it was the Slavs doing it, Royalist Croats and Bosnians despised Serbs and just some regular Croats and Bosnians, a Croatian home-guard division was named the devil division for the amount of crimes they committed on the Serb front and to there perspective the Russians backing the Serbs made them just as guilty.
It seems that Austrians had drones in WW1 making theese trenches completely redundant... every shell landing inside of a trench, theese russians would be better off in open...
They recognised the Austrian prisoner as their own, but I am guessing they gave him the option of taking his own life because they considered him a traitor for something which took place before he was captured. I'd like to watch this film.
Normally not, but if they captured slavic or romanian desertors, they usually punished their treason with hanging up on the first trees. They didn't spend any ammunitions for them. The other reason for executing was if they found some "doom-doom" ammo with them.
@@ChickenDelivering Well, why? Do you like how the germans are portrayed as evil in a historically unfitting way? (Thinking of the executions after the trench is captured for example)
And the Croatian (thus royal Hungarian) soldiers speak German to each other. Actually in the Austro-Hungarian army each regiment had its specific command language, depending on from where the vast majority of the soldiers came.
That plane flyover told me just about everything I needed to know about this movie...
As to exactly the airplane did to attack those people!?. Lol
There is an anecdote from the Western Front in 1918 of a German officer being run over by a British 'plane - despite having flung himself to the ground. They really did fly that low.
it often looked like this - slow reconnaissance planes, artillery reconnaissance planes or other planes had a speed of about 120km / h
Ulfcytel but they were in trenches and thers no space for a plane in a trench
@@rmc_reenacting He wasn't in a trench at the time. I believe it was during an attack.
If only this effort, set attention and character preparation were combined with some actual knowledge of what WW1 was like.
at first he was going one way, then came in clutch, and pulled that reverse card
I'm Spanish, and when I read "Galicia" I almost paniked when I couldn't remember the Austrians fighting in my country. Then I remembered. And thought about how stupid I am
There’s two Albanias, two Galicias, two Arads cities, a few Freiburgs, a few Ottawas, etc in the World
@@gainmelk There are two Brests too, one Brest in France, and another in Belarus
And two Georgia's
There's a Moscow in Michigan.
@@gainmelk There was an Iberia in thr Caucasus in the time of Romans.en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Iberia vs en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iberian_Peninsula (but Iberica in another language)
someone mistook ww1 with ww2. It's very unlikely for austrians to execute prisoners on mass, especially that this could create retaliation for their POVs.
I mean they executed innocent Serbs by the dozen, I’m sure they wouldn’t have a problem with offing a couple prisoners
@@nicholascernatescu6685 austrians had a special relationship with serbs, far more beatiful than the one with russians, but i agree with you
The spies would be shot on spot. They also carried out genocide against Rusyns (Western Russians), with the help of Ukrainians - for their willingness to remain Rusyns (Ruthenians), not "Ukrainians". Some 150,000 civilians (if not more) were killed. There's a man in the episode who crosses himself in the Orthodox manner, very characteristic moment.
@@rachidmasimov4132 thats a lie but ok
Dunno, but Austrians was pioneered in making concentration camps
Wtf, every shell hits, plane 1 meter over ground, execution of prisoners... where was the historian an this movie?
And this is fake, Austrian army was destroyed by Russians, and these are not Russians soldiers, this is a piece of propaganda.
@csikkeszmen ifj Germany carried Austria Hungary, without Germany Russia would have crushed them.
@@NoAimLoser2 Russia was stopped in december 1914. Without A-H 2nd Army sent to Silesia Germany would collapsed at the eastern front in october 1914.
@@regiment589 Not as close as the A-H potential collapse in 1916. They were overrun and started surrendering en mass , but German reinforcements were sent from the western front just in time.
@@Jim-fi4dc Eastern front was secondary for A-H since fall of 1915 so as units of one single army which were destroyed during Brusilov offensive. Also there was never threat of collapse. Keep in mind that A-H border units hold against Romanian invasion till front line units arrived. That was tactical victory for Russians, in the end only speed up the fall of Russian Empire.
Don't believe the executions of the soldiers. It has happend, but like this, no this systematic.. Most of the Austrians were slavic too
totally agree they didn't execute prisoners
History is bloody.. Sad that communism destroyed a lot in Russia and Eastern Europe.
That makes executions more likely, not less likely.
@Marko Boxing we are brothers. EUROPEAN BROTHERHOOD.
@@MaximKretsch after the war, when the German, Russian and Austrian empires collapsed, then the scramble of ground and nationalism begins.. Together with systematic executions
Did anyone even notice that the guy was showing them a soviet gas mask from the 60s ?
Based on the hats that they are wearing this is 1917 and just recently had the first gasmask ever been invented
He's like "look.. from the future.. 😬"
The executions didn't happen. Most Austro-Hungarian soldiers on the Eastern Front were Slavic. Look at Tito for example. Nearly all Croatian batallions were moved either to Italy or the Eastern Front because a large amount of cease fires similar to those of 1914. and even desertions were happening far into 1916. I recommend reading the war diaries of Stjepan Kolander, who witnessed these cease fires happening constantly between Serbs and Croats, which lead to them being replaced with Germanic troops.
here is a brief story about this film I recommend you watch this film mostly this film is the story that a Croatian soldier who was forcibly mobilized in Austro-Hungary wounded on the battlefield was on the Galician front but he somehow survives and takes the jacket of a dead soldier named josip broz tito who it was an officer in the austro-hungarian army later that wounded croat finds a group of croats and Hungarians who are also in the austro-hungarian army and who fled from the russians later other austrian officers come and liquidate all the soldiers who fled the russians only two because the wounded soldier who took the jacket of a dead officer is our military ID card from that officer named josip broz later the Austrian officers find out that he lied and take away his military ID later in the russian attack that wounded soldier is killed and only the officer who took the ID card survives the wounded soldier later learns that 2 more soldiers survived but will later be killed as well later that officer in Russian captivity stands in the trench captured until the Austro-Hungarian army attacks the Russians and then the Russian captain who goes through the film takes the uniform and ID card of that officer and joins the Austro-Hungarian army and the officer as shown is forced to be killed later as shown a Russian soldier or officer (I don't know what he really is) introduces himself as Josip Broz later known as the ruler of Communist Yugoslavia and the mass criminal in this film is about Croats in the First World War and the myth that Josip Broz was actually a killed Croatian officer in Austria to the Hungarian army whose identity was stolen from the steana of a Russian soldier or officer who later ruled after ww2 communist yugoslavia until his death in 1981
@@listopadni7782 My god, redact better please
Yes, “the good soldier Švejk.”
Yeah, man! It was because of their humanity that Hungarians and Croats were not captured during World War II on the Soviet front. Go on, storyteller)))
A guilty conscience gives itself away)))
Executions did happen with traitors and defectors who got caught fighting for the other side.
The artillery is so unrealistically pin point on the trenches, just annoying
Will Girvan who the fuck cares
Exactly : and soldiers arrived in 10 seconds later,... There is anything of sense in this video
@@kazimierzmalewicz3604 well you commented you dumb fuck
Ha i thought that immediately as well, I was like dang that's bloody accurate.. hahaha
Mountain artillery can be taken apart and carried on the backs of mules on narrow mountain paths. If a truck can go there, guns can be towed there.
That artillery was pinpoint. Direct hits every time.
I don't think that even modern artillery is that accurate, with intelligent/controlled ammunition, it still offers an accuracy of "somewhere around in the distance of x-meters", doesn't it?
@@Haamre Not really, with guided artillery you will hit whitin one meter of your precise target at any range.
they have aim bot
i was actually at the premier of this movie in pula, at the film festival. it's crap pseudohistory. also in the end of the clip you can see a guy with a hitler mustache. he was supposed to actually represent hitler. the authors conveniently forgott that hitler, allthough austrian, was in the german army during ww1. the whole thing is contrived to play at the long standing conspiracy theory that josip broz tito isn't really josip broz tito, but some russian imposter. it is bullshit of the worst kind
Oh ... thank you for your Explanation!
You know that in romanian language pula means dick
@@romaniacountryball Croatia is pula state :D
And the gas mask in the end of the movie is a Soviet GP-5 gas mask that wasn't made until the 1960s. That honestly made me really mad.
@@aldyn4106 well the movie Pearl Harbour showed Oliver Hazzard Perry frigates....... in 1941!... gimme a f... break LMFAO!
That plane attacking the trench line was about as realistic as Sharknado.
the Austrian-Hungarian army had 85 pilots, and 39 operable aircraft, you nincompoop
@@walterweiss7124 Wow you're dense huh? He didn't say there were no planes just that it was very unrealistic in the movie ;)
Kinda
I mean I recall 1 moment in my life where a idiotic military pilot flew too low (i was boating with family on a lake that was near a air force base). Can't imagine the yelling they got later on on
Wow, that artillery is incredibly accurate. First rounds too!
lol
I'm Polish and I live in one part of Galicja's lands (today it call Podkarpacie) . My grand-grand father served in Austro-Hungarian army. He didn't come back to home.
My grandparents lived in Galicia. My grandfather, by my calculation, was a little too old to have been conscripted into the Austro-Hungarian army. If not I might not exist. Think of the vast, vast number of children who were never born because of the First World War. Who they might have been, what they and their descendants might have accomplished.
@@jackarcher7495
What was the maximum age for conscription back then ? My paternal grandmother's dad was 37 in the 1920 U.S. Census ( Says Galicia as origin on the form ), which would have made him 31 in 1914... I still don't know WHY or HOW he came to the US .. We think he was in the US just before WW1 started.. but not certain... It's a mystery.
@@waterlec8718 In Austria you could be conscripted to the Landsturm up until 55 years old.
May he rest in peace, I am sorry brother.
Cost of trying to colonise Bosnia and put Serbia to it's knees costed Austro-Hungarians their empire 🙂
WTF? Why didn't the Austrian POW say anything??? lol
I think the others reconised that one was Austrian that got his uniform stolen and all and knew that the only way out for him in this case was suicide so they gave him the way out and he took it.
@@TheManofthecross stuff like that didn't happen they didn't kill their own soldiers for being captured and they wouldn't kill enemies who surrendered the great majority of time, the scene only makes sense if he is a deserter and if they know it.
@@alexmag342 I see. so did they know that he was a desterter or a legit pow? that is the question.
@FIVE DOLLARS The Soviets also didn't look kindly on Soviet POWs that they liberated. Most of them ended up in Siberia.
@FIVE DOLLARS And Soviet NKVA under Stalin executes officers and soldiers in the Great Prague in the Thirties.
Croatia was in Austria-Hungary in this time, isn't it?
Yes
But is Croatia bin not good cointry or good country?
@@austro-balkanesemonarchy932 I didn't think nothing bad about it.
@@АнтониоМарлевски No no. I didnt think what you think. But when Croatia was in ww1. Does Croatia bin a bad Country?
@@austro-balkanesemonarchy932 Yes kind of ....In ww1 and ww2 they was very rough with their enemy .....And not in heroic way .. More like .....Butchering serbian children way .....
I don't think these executions reflect true history. In WW1 most sides behaved usually in a correct way with enemy prisoners - there were exceptions, but normally this cruel behaviour was rare.
Well, that is difficult to say.
We know Canadians almost never took prisoners and Germans therefore also killed them on sight (and still often did so in WW2) while Australians were famous for taking prisoners for interrogation.
The cossacks were also famously bot taking prisoners or torturing their enemies but in WW1 their role was limited anyways.
Austrian Hungarian troops also behaved really badly against Serbian troops and civilians.
Furthermore, in the hectic trenches often surrendering soldiers were shot but accounts of deliberate executions after the fact were indeed rare.
@@bingobongo1615 Australians were inclined to kill machine gun crews who fired till the last moment and then threw their hands up.
Not in Austro Hungary, they actually are notorious for the public executions they would conduct in the Balkans that they were very proud of and actively spread word of it.
@@bingobongo1615 yeah right lmao
Germany, UK, and France generally followed the Hague Convention in their treatment of POWs. Austria Hungary and Russia did not. Though Germany and Austria Hungary did engage in atrocities against civilians in Belgium and Serbia respectively.
Not bad. The guy with the moustache is not "Hitler," but illustrates the general policy whereby soldiers had to (near) clean shaved for gas masks (Hitler underwent this procedure, prior to the war he had a large "Kaiser"-style moustache). Battlefield atrocities happened on both sides in WW1, no "bullshit" here. It is either Serbian front or Galician front, so something is amiss either in the title or the comments about this clip. I find the film a decent representation of some aspect of WW1 combat, not to mention that Eastern Front in WW1 was almost never represented in film, so kudos to the film-makers.
Why didn't the captured soldier say his uniform was taken?
he still going to be executed, because he's captured by the enemy.
@@arima272 That makes sense but I still think it's sad though
@@arima272 Why would he be punished for being captured? This is the Austro-Hungarian Army not the soviet union
@@Selzthal96 If the British were able to execute their soldiers for cowardice, why not with Austro Hungarian or the best offender, Italian themselves?
@@arima272 - As far as I know, the AH leadership was quite lenient towards its soldiers surrendering to the enemy, ie. it didn't demand holding out to the last man.
What the hell is this video! The only ting with sens (or historical accurancy) are uniforms
We did NOT execute POWs
Tell that to Serbian people in WW1. First documented war crimes in 20th century Europe were commited by Austria. Fact. You had camps where many Serbs died and also killed everyone who was capable for military service because you feared they might rebel. Alongside Bulgarian amd Germans you were responsible for the death of 1.25m out od 4m Serbs. You did horrible things. There were some bright examples of course.
I am not talking about camps here, cause that is what both sides had. I am talking about the men in frontlines
@@cakaekv "first documented war crimes in the 20 th century were commited by austria " seriously? The boer wars , the Balkan wars , the italian-osmanic war, the spanish-american war, the japanese- russian war and the boxer rebellion in china are all wars without documented war crimes in your opinion?
@@ragnarlodrbrok2561 20th century europe! Balkan wars had war crimes but very little against civilians. Look at what AH did in Posavina region in Serbia.
@@ragnarlodrbrok2561 What you reffering at is no more than wiki search as i thought! You didn't even read my comment. War crimes against serbian civilians around Sabac and Posavina region look it up.
Theese executions are ridiculous. I have read a lot of memories of Hungarian soldiers from WW I. Executions were execeptional and never againts the POWs. If you were in uniform that guarateed quite large security. But if you were civilian and weapon was found at you or you did some suspicious thing then probably you were executed . I read some exceptions: Czech soilders escaped from the Austrian army were executed immediately because there were thought deserters. (They escaped in complete regiments with their colonels at the begining of war.) . The script writer read some infos about WW2 and he thoght it wa the same. :-) For example the Austrian-Hungarian POW officers got a quite good money from the Russian state as "salary". They were allowed to go to the town freely in Siberia. It was very very different than the WW2!
I don't think think they had theese helmets in 1915. And moustache was complusory in the army!! :-)
The story about the 28th Infantry Regiment from Prague defecting to the Russians without any fight in 1915 is just an Entente propaganda, or to be more precise, a complete lie. At the beginning of the war, most of its officers and soldiers fought valiantly at the Russian front and had enormous casualties; the regiment basically bled to death by the time of the defence of Krakow in late 1914. It had to be constantly reinforced, and the replacements had less and less training - no more than 14 days at the beginning of 1915, and some of the recruits even didnt know how to shoot. As the situation at the Russian front stabilised, the Austro-Hungarian command started counteroffensives in the Carpathians. IR 28 advanced into an unadvantageous position; was not reasonably supplied (large part of its ammunition was still stored in Debrecen); and both the soldiers and their food were freezing. When the Russians counterattacked from several directions, half-frozen, hungry and insufficiently trained Czech soldiers put as much resistance as anyone could expect from men in such conditions. It clearly didn't suffice, the Russians had only several casualties, the Czechs, many more dead and wounded, and the rest fell into captivity. The colonel didn't fall into captivity, though. Austro-Hungaria military tried to blame Czech troops for this failure. As a result, this regiment was disbanded. But its reserve batallion later fought at the Italian front with so much successes that the regiment was raised again.
On the other hand, Infantry Regiment Nr. 36 from Mladá Boleslav (Jungbunzlau) was disbaned in 1915 as well, and remained such.
Bro the main character is literally the definition of Italy during ww2
The editing of this whole scene is terrible
Not only is the editing bad the part where a plane is flying just a metre off the ground looks is stupid as for the bit where prisoners are being excuted is not accurate either no doubt on occasions it would have happened but rarely in ww1 there were atrocities committed in places like Serbia but on the eastern front both the Russians and Austrians took prisoners and treated them as POWs both countries seemed to have stuck as close as possible to the rules of the Geneva convention of the time where possible.
you wouldn't give a prisoner a gun and he wouldn't shoot himself
They thought he was a desertor
Was looking good until the giant British plane that had Austro-Hungarian markings for some reason flew overhead.
That soldier was quick to save his own life.
A few years later, I bet he became a leading commissar with the Bolsheviks :]
@@markmewordz6860 Is Josip Broz Tito.
Austrian soldiers did not shoot prisoners of war. Who
made this film?!?
Maybe some panslavist idiot...
@@istvancsiszer8229 May be!
In Serbia they did!
What absolute nonsense. Was it made as a school project?
typical exaggerated Russian war film
That part with the older man holding up a cross to the sky as a bayonet pierced his back is just so powerful. Like saying, “there is no God to save you in Hell.”
but there is no god to save him on earth first...lol...every religion says same shiet
Propaganda
1916 Брусиловский прорыв. Австрийская армии была уничтожена как боевае сила.
The quality of this makes me keep expecting a soldier to find salvation with a product and then talk to the camera about it.
everyone stops fighting "Now let me tell you about Arm and Hammer detergent, great for getting those blood stains out of your officer's coat.
Always weird to see German-speaking officers in French-style kepi headgear instead of peaked caps or pickelhauben. That's Austria for you.
Austria is the failed endeavour of turning Italians into Germans.
Austrians didn't use pickelhaube
@@mirektobiasz7420 Can't you see he said instead
@@fz7091 are you dummy?
@@mirektobiasz7420 Read carefully einstein. He said INSTEAD of peaked caps or pickelhaube. The original poster is not used to seeing people who are speaking German NOT wear the peaked caps OR the pickelhaube.
This was very dangerous, since there were more soldiers of Austria-Hungary in Russian captivity than there were Russian soldiers in Austria-Hungary.
It's false history.
@@drewhunter8558 you never know because stories of each individual soldier werent written
@@kingofohio5689 Actually their are published reminisces but not in English...also many were disparaging of Austro-Hungary because those soldiers were now citizens of new nations born from the former Empire....then their were the Communists to avoid as well....
@@drewhunter8558 Bla-bla-bla. No facts - no any confidence. 🤢
Is it me or the gunshots sound like the rockets from tf2?
3:13 no hat wile you die, OK?
So was that guy who was shaving in the truck supposed to be a young adulf hitler?
Hitler was in german army not austrain second EVERYBODY shaved like that because of the regulations in order to be able to use gas masks. They even explained that in the movie in case someone had question like you.
I don't know as much as I should about the Eastern Front in WW1, but didn't the Germans have to continually bail out the Austrians when they bit off more than they could chew?
Not to mention the gas mask they showed wasn't made until 1962
Welcher Film ist es?
The movie is croatian (not austrian or russian) and the title is Josef.
Josef je hrvatski cjelovečernji ratni igrani film iz 2011. godine koji je režirao Stanislav Tomić. Prikazuje ratni put hrvatskog vojnika u Austro-ugarskoj vojsci tijekom Prvog svjetskog rata na Galicijskom bojištu.
That dude didn't have time to switch uniforms!! Come on!!
The Austrian army did not conduct "kopfschuetze graben" during WWI. There were hangings of spy's however and usually Slavic Habsburg soldiers hanging Slavic civilians.
Anfang der Durchbruchschlacht bei Gorlice-Tarnów (Mai 1915)- ńbrigens_ wo kann man das ganze Film ansehen?
The Austro_Hungarians used the Stalhelm too? Didn't know that.
They were part of the Central powers
@@GalacticPrince0101 ok but i thaught it was specific part of the German gear.
@@Boifeicasempre Depends on the time this takes place. Germany would send all of the other Central Powers (Mostly Austro-Hungaria, but also some to Bulgaria and the Ottomans) stahlhelms in 1917. If this was before 1917, however (I don't know; never seen the movie), then they may perfectly well be Berndorfer helmets. But, no yeah; the Stahlhelm was a universal Central Powers helmet like the Adrian/Brodie was for the Entente.
@@owenbever4689 Austria-Hungary used their own Stahlhelm in 1916 similar to the German once and they bought 498,000 German Stahlhelm aswell in 1916
Very nice 😮 ,but what is the name of this movie and what country makes it ?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_(film)you only had to click "show more" to have found out for yourself :)
Josef, and is croatian movie
Hello. Where can I watch this film in full in English or Russian? Is it possible to find torrents on it? Please help me. I would really like to translate this film into Russian. So that Russian-speaking people can get acquainted with the products of the Austrian cinema.
Croatian movie
Its croatian movie, look on the internet pages
I lost count of the amount of inaccuracies
Everything after Gorlice-Tarnów Offensive was great! Nothing bad would ever Happen the Great Austro- Hungarian Empire ever again. The Hapsburg's are still happy to be running the Empire today!
Signora, per favore :l'Austria - Ungheria soffriva già la fame a fine estate 1914.
E TUTTO IL Potere era nelle mani dei Militari, secondo le norme del 1912.
Per ogni infrazione un civile finiva davanti a una Corte Marziale.
Morte, Miseria, Fame, Disperazione:questa era la realtà, anche in Italia.
At the beginning of WWI Austro-Hungarian soldiers couldn't use Stahlhelm
lol, this is so stupid ;D
No, this good
that plane showed me all i needed to know about the movie to know is a good one
Just asking, eastern fronts didn't really much fight in trench warfare style did they?
Eastern front was holding more than 1/2 of all the Austroo-German troops.
they did, just wasnt a continuous series of fortifications and trenches from swiss border to belgian coast like western front, many forest, bogs and wild areas without trenchess on eastern front
they made a mistake while filming this, first, airplanes weren't used in such way and that extensively in 1915. and our soldiers didn't have M17 helmets (17 stands for 1917.)
Where can I pirate or stream this movie?
It is not too realistic. In WWI more POW had been taken than execution except for spies but they used fire squad. Brutality came later with the Russian civil war. WWII was a different story.
Awful movie, but more realistic than "Fury". LOL.
@Kaiser I did it some years ago. I still feel sick...
What is the movie?
Josef
@@juangabrielmg2467 cool but Josef and how?, is hard to find it
it is a fake movie. In fact , Ausria-Hungary lost all the battles to Russian Empire.
Why nobody see that there wasn't Austrian army it was Austrian-Hungaryan monarchy so the army was Austrien-Hungaryan army
Austro-hungarian army
I'm sure that movie won some awards for "education" and stuff
What’s the name of the movie?
Is 5:00 the explanaiton for Hitler's beard?
Is that the reason Hitler had that mustache? Because one can wear a gas mask more securely? 😮😂
Liking the Austro-Hungarian empire and the Russian Empire. This is not really common to see them fighting. But somewhat territorial matters.
What is this movie called? It looks good
Josef
Ok thank you
If anyone knows the name of the movie, please tell
Is he in the Russian army at the beginning? Before changing uniform ? @@@@@@@
Austro-Hungarian army didn't shot prisoners of war. That's a russian thing.
guy just did the rocket league team switch
What name is movie pleas ?
How can I see this movie?
Why would you rush out of the dug-out into a bombardment? You built the dug-out for staying in during bombardments.
Imagine just washing her hair and then all sudden bombs just comes be coming down
He's carrying the correct model pistol ..
Mostly rubbish, unrealistic and pretentious, but the worst of all was the idiotic episode of prisoner execution, unthinkable in a highly civilized arm forces of Austro-Hungary.
the flag of the austria hungary is not like that
I do not understand why the Pow doesn't say that they are one of them ????
This is a victory for Austria Hungary.
Austria Hungary lost the battle for Galicia, this is a propaganda movie. Austrian army was nearly destroyed by Russians.
1,5 million soldiers austrian and german army lost in battles of Galicia, russian army lost 500.000 men.
Николай Поляков still Russia lost ww1
@@vidanristic Austria-Hungary could not advance independently after the defeat in 1914. The Russians retreated in 1915 due to the German army's breakthrough in the Gorlovo area. In 1916, during the "Brusilovsky breakthrough", the army of Austria-Hungary was again almost destroyed and only German divisions saved it.
@@apo5895 In 1917, hundreds of thousands of people died of starvation in Germany. It was clear to everyone that the "Central powers" would not survive 1917. The Russian Empire has already sewn a dress uniform for the victory parade in Berlin. In the summer of 1917, the last offensive against Germany and Austria-Hungary was to begin. The Entente's superiority was absolute. But there was one problem. England and France promised Russia Constantinople and access to the Mediterranean sea. Russia was to receive all Polish lands. The army of the Russian Empire was to become the strongest in Europe. England and France could not allow such a strengthening of Russia. They understood that they had enough strength to finish off the "Central powers" without Russia. Austria-Hungary was no longer anything of itself, and Germany mobilized its last forces. British agents organized the overthrow of Nicholas ll in February 1917. Then the provisional government handed over power to the Bolsheviks, some of whom were British and some German agents. The Bolsheviks destroyed the army and surrendered territories to Germany. Germany was able to move the army to the West and get food from Russian territories. This allowed the "Central powers" to hold out until 1918. But they were doomed. Russia was so cunningly framed by the allies and plunged into civil war. Everyone in Russia knows this now. But foreigners still believe in Soviet fairy tales about the "people's revolution" of 1917 and the defeat of Russia.
Does in the end on the truck Josip (the future dictator of Yugoslavia Tito) meet a young Hitler (who was in the German and not the Austrian army)?
Original Josip was an Austrian Sergeant, Hitler was a German Corporal. That beard was quite common in the old days
Tito wasn't a dictator?
This is some silly propoganda. The Hungarians weren't constantly commiting war crimes or something
In the eastern front no, but the Serbian campaign yes, Austrian Hungarians committed war crimes against the serbs
Austrians in WWI didn't act like the Soviets in Katyn in spring 1940!
Slavic propaganda at its finest
ReIcHsRaT
what is that title movie?
Josef
Film name?
Someone confuses Austrians with SS.
It's amazing how war movies are filled with nonsense just for the sake of cheap drama. People wanna see action, not bullshit.
Wait, they spoke Russian? or...
It was a HORRIBLY big mistake of FranzJosef Austrian emperor!
Definitely *No*
He is loser
these war crimes were committed sometimes, but the funny part is, most of the time it wasn’t Austrians , it was the Slavs doing it, Royalist Croats and Bosnians despised Serbs and just some regular Croats and Bosnians, a Croatian home-guard division was named the devil division for the amount of crimes they committed on the Serb front and to there perspective the Russians backing the Serbs made them just as guilty.
Movie name?
It seems that Austrians had drones in WW1 making theese trenches completely redundant... every shell landing inside of a trench, theese russians would be better off in open...
What movie is this
Jozef
3:12 lol. WHAT? That's not II WW, heard about prisoners camps in hinterland? Too much hollywood movies.
They recognised the Austrian prisoner as their own, but I am guessing they gave him the option of taking his own life because they considered him a traitor for something which took place before he was captured. I'd like to watch this film.
They speak like the New Kids guys
Did the Austrian army actually killed prisoners? Just asking
Just Serbs!
Normally not, but if they captured slavic or romanian desertors, they usually punished their treason with hanging up on the first trees. They didn't spend any ammunitions for them. The other reason for executing was if they found some "doom-doom" ammo with them.
@@ХерцеговачкиКорпус and others slavs
It's unfair that the Serbien stole the uniform from the austrian
Rus*
Terrible Movie. Poor camera work and poor costumes.
These are not even problematic about the movie.
Sad:(
@@ChickenDelivering Well, why? Do you like how the germans are portrayed as evil in a historically unfitting way? (Thinking of the executions after the trench is captured for example)
@@fritzderblitz1707 - What Germans?
And the Croatian (thus royal Hungarian) soldiers speak German to each other. Actually in the Austro-Hungarian army each regiment had its specific command language, depending on from where the vast majority of the soldiers came.
Что за херню я сейчас посмотрел?
Бредятина, которой свет не видывал.