What a good man Jean-Paul is. You can tell he has such a genuine passion for what he does and has devoted his entire life to teaching others so that all of that history won't be forgotten. Great video
GreenEggsAndSpam i live a few km's from the stibbert museum, it is indeed awesome, it's hard to imagine the technology required to build that kind of armor, and they did it centuries ago
It is people like Jean-Paul that make the world a better place. Not only has he put obvious effort and care into creating a great and wonderful memorial to the war, he also truly cares about the topic and the humanity of it all. As cool as the technical side of the war can be, guns, strategies, technology, it is amazing that we are able to see, through shows such as this, how all these objects connect to real people. Simply wonderful and sobering.
Gentlemen, I must thank you and show my appreciation once again for your GREAT work showing the world such an essential key in our lives which is WW1. I'll be grateful for life!
Out of all the, The Great War, video's I seen, this one is the first one that given me the chill's. Not only what this museum stand for, but also for all the hard work that Jean-Paul have done to set it up, and still working on. Although war i not a good thing, but this guy deserve the up most respect to preserve history for everyone.
I visited several times Jean-Paul's museum! He is such a nice guy! One day I needed some photos (for a school report) of German, French and Americans soldiers, for a reconstitution, he invited me with my dad! It was so cooool! There were a lot of men dressed in soldier as during the Great War! So now, when I need photos, or videos for my channel I go see Jean-Paul at his museum! YOU NEED TO VISIT HIS MUSEUM!
Jean Paul is doing amazing work. My family wants to take a trip to Europe, mostly for the cities like Paris and then into Germany and Bavaria. I would love to convince them to divert here, into the Argonne jus to visit this museum. Jean has the posture of someone who has spent many years looking for artifacts in the ground. So many people in the US and UK make jokes about the French surrendering in WW2, and how they are largely anti-war, but you only need to look into the soil to understand. France was the front-line of the Western Front, and over 100 years later their water is still polluted, their soil is still tainted with heavy metals and unexploded shells. Their casualties were devastating. France was hardly in a position to face the full-force of the Blitz in 1941. Now, they are one of the few western powers uniquely qualified to talk about the devastation and suffering caused by war, not just for soldiers, but for civilians and the generations to follow as well.
Farmers are still finding live WWI shells in their fields. Many countries have active civilian ordinance disposal unit to take care of those shells. Two French ordinance disposal team members were killed while moving a large shell to a bunker for later controlled detonation. This was a couple years ago near Verdun. The men were carrying the shell to a bunker when it detonated. All that was found of them were the soles of their boots. They had been vaporized by the explosion WWI is still claiming victims.
Even modern pharmacy drugs are good for a year at most. At most. Its not just about being sealed from the air. Chemical changes occur slowly within the medicine. They new chemicals could do horrible things to you.
@Indy 3:10 That's the same gun Jean-Paul challenged me to pick up as a young teenager when my class visited his museum during a school trip to Verdun, I'm sure of it! It's funny to see that the tradition is still alive and well after a decade, haha. Small world :)
We went a couple of weeks ago, and the walking tour is fantastic! My boys, 7, 10, and 13, were facinated by the history, the stories, etc. Well worth it. Thank you Jean-Paul for the incredible experience. Sharon from Prague
Wow! Indy and crew, thank you for another perspective on the war. You have a great talent for finding treasures that expose your viewers to the great tragedy but also the equally great way that the common soldier dealt with it, day to day. That is a great museum!
Outstanding. Thank you. What an incredible collection. Thank you Jean-Paul for saving history and thank you The Great War for showing me something I'll probably never get a chance to see even though I would love to. Another outstanding video. I love this series.
Simply amazing museum and fascinating gentleman. You could spend hours listening to him talk of his history knowledge of the region and artifacts he uncovers daily. I can't believe the amount of items left behind. From a young boy he was on a treasure hunt daily. Please have him back on again.
Indy and team, this was written a hundred of times before but: Your effort in exploring the subject "WW1" inspires nothing but huge admiration. We'll all become nostalgic when "the curtain falls". And Jean Paul seems the best stereotype of a Frenchman that one can find. [edit: watched it now - in fact he is a Dutchman!]
As someone living in the american midwest, I can say I'm super envious of living in a place like that, with so much history literally being in your backyard.
In 2013 and 2019 I visited the museum during my" Camino de Santiago" by bicycle. It's the most impressive collection of ww 1 memorablia I have seen and Jean-Paul is a very nice man. When I visited the museum the second time, he recognized me and we had a long and personal conversation. When your in the neighbourhood please visit the museum, it's worth it. Jean-Paul het allerbeste en hopelijk tot een volgende visite, groet, Jos
Jean-Paul's museum is fantastic! Would love to visit it someday. Thanks for making this video. It's one of my favorites in the series, and I've watched them all!
Check out the World War One photos taken by recon pilots at the Imperial War Museum, there are over 140,000 pictures of the battlefield that have been preserved
Ironic that he posted this video today, my brother and I have been visiting Verdun for the past two days. Found a 5 round ammo clip for a German Mauser in an old abandoned trench today. Visiting this museum tomorrow next to the Meus-Argonne American Cemetery. Can't wait now!
This is amazing. I'm so glad that this channel has grown to the extent it has and that Indy and the team continue to produce amazing historical content for everyone.
I don't know that I'll ever get to France, but if I do, I'd like to go to this place and walk with this guy on one of his tours out into the battlefields around the museum. I used to walk around at Ft Lincoln (where Custer was stationed before the Little Bighorn); my Dad had been a Ranger there for a summer (he was a teacher, so he had summers free) and learned a lot about the place, like where they had dumped their trash. So as a kid I used to be able to go out there, and walk around and find pieces of history (nothing significant, just broken plates, bottles from the period, curry brushes etc. related to horse care) and to be able to do something similar with a World War I battlefield would I think, bring it home more than almost anything else. I shared this to my FB feed with this note.
We explore a museum, forgot to take a thumbnail photo so instead you get Indy's face to look at! Also, Video uploaded 5 minutes ago, The Great War commented: 21 hours ago
Loved how Indy advertised the restaurant (looked a bit like he was forced to by the own of the museum) saying that you should pop in for a visit and eat, and a couple of mintues later they talk about how the whole place is filled with contaminated water :D
So I am going to be heading over to France in a year or so, this was an oddly good episode for helping plan in out. I had seen Jean-paul before, but after a brief walk through of the museum it really made me want to go to the museum while checking out the cemetery close by. Thanks for the good work Indy, and team, looking forward to the rest of the series and any other tidbits about the war and the cool places to check out!! P.S. might be a good idea to set up a series of videos for individuals who may want to check out the history in person themselves. While you guys have started the in location videos, which are rad to see, it would be cool to have a recap of the places to go to while there in a quick 2 minute video
So authentic and so touching museum. Respect for Jean-Paul's devoted work since his childhood ! Concerning the exploded shells, a visitor to Lebanon can see such decoration in some homes located in the ex bombarded zones, too. My relatives have exhibited similar ones in their living room as well as transforming the shell casing into vase
I'm Canadian from Dawson Creek B.C. Canada. Growing up I had a friend whose dad went to France as a kid. He had a big collection of stuff he had found while he was over there. He had helmets and all kinds of stuff. I was amazed at all the stuff he had brought back.
canoilers Your friends father probably knew my father then. Post WWII, the vets hung out together .Just like the Vietnam vets found out years later,only someone who has walked the walk can really understand. Dawson Creek 1948 to 1958 was a small community.
The fact that he knows the species of wood each army used and how it affected their lives is amazing. Nobody realy thinks of details like that. I would love to visit the museum someday if I'm ever in France.
Discovering the grave of a soldier younger than yourself can have a life long impact, like a bolt of lightening revelation. My own was on a high school field trip to Washington DC in 1968 where, at Arlington National Cemetery I discovered a newly buried soldier. Here I was a kid who had experience relatively nothing in life facing one who had served his country half way around the world and had made the supreme sacrifice, returning home to his eternal resting place.
Amazing museum had the pleasure to visit it last weekend during my tour around verdun but still many things to see in that region you did a great job always happy to see a new video from you
I really like how he tries to return the dogtags and other personal belongings to the families, it must mean a lot to the families when they receive the things
What a fascinating looking museum, it seems so authentic and real, most displays today hide artefacts behind glass cases and barriers but I bet you really feel connected with history there.
"He survived the war, But he really didn't survive it" Great expression.
swagalicios it's an expression that he survived the war physically but not mentally. I think that's what he meant lol
noel peinado He knows that
noel peinado Ya I don't think he was being sarcastic 😂
Ja of the Cob I know but just to clear up cause you know the internet...
"all gave some, some gave all"
Yes, the thumbnail is clickbait, we forgot to take a proper thumbnail photo during the shoot.
+th e class
you shall be forgiven. this time.
The Great War The day i turned up there on our way to Verdun, it was closed, due to unforseen circumstances. we were gutted.
Truely, it's the most beautiful clickbait ever seen.
I must admit, Insane Indy is why I clicked.
Thank you to Jean-Paul for preserving all those artifacts and doing such a fine job of displaying them and sharing with the sweaty masses.
What a good man Jean-Paul is. You can tell he has such a genuine passion for what he does and has devoted his entire life to teaching others so that all of that history won't be forgotten. Great video
His intentions/message are MUCH DEEPER, but you have to pay attention...
@@brentfarvors192
What are his deep intentions?
@@TheAurelianProject To stop poor men fighting the wars for the rich...
It's amazing what you can accomplish if you devote your whole life to one thing. This dude ended up with a museum.
GreenEggsAndSpam i live a few km's from the stibbert museum, it is indeed awesome, it's hard to imagine the technology required to build that kind of armor, and they did it centuries ago
It's NOT about his "museum", as much as it it is the MESSAGE. The 19 year old kid, left to rot unknown in a field, should be the first "hint"...
The world needs more people like mr. Jean Paul.
Digging up rusty relics is one of the coolest jobs there is.
+Lance Tennenbaum don't forget you need to get permission
The Great War unless it's your land then you just have to turn in any explosives
Basically why I got my archaeology degree. :)
It is strictly forbidden in some places in France. But no need to dig to find stuff...
It is people like Jean-Paul that make the world a better place. Not only has he put obvious effort and care into creating a great and wonderful memorial to the war, he also truly cares about the topic and the humanity of it all. As cool as the technical side of the war can be, guns, strategies, technology, it is amazing that we are able to see, through shows such as this, how all these objects connect to real people. Simply wonderful and sobering.
I take my hat off to people like Jean Paul. After so many years and still trying to make things right for relatives of those lost in that war.
Should tell you EVERYTHING, right there..."War Pigs"
Gentlemen, I must thank you and show my appreciation once again for your GREAT work showing the world such an essential key in our lives which is WW1. I'll be grateful for life!
That's the most serious I've ever seen Indy. And I've been here since 1914.
I know. I expected him to look a little more like a kid in a candy store.
I didnt know this channel has been going for over 100 years.
It followed the end of the Napoleonic Wars when it began.
Out of all the, The Great War, video's I seen, this one is the first one that given me the chill's. Not only what this museum stand for, but also for all the hard work that Jean-Paul have done to set it up, and still working on. Although war i not a good thing, but this guy deserve the up most respect to preserve history for everyone.
I visited several times Jean-Paul's museum! He is such a nice guy! One day I needed some photos (for a school report) of German, French and Americans soldiers, for a reconstitution, he invited me with my dad! It was so cooool! There were a lot of men dressed in soldier as during the Great War! So now, when I need photos, or videos for my channel I go see Jean-Paul at his museum!
YOU NEED TO VISIT HIS MUSEUM!
What a great man, actually finding out who these people were and contacting their families, a true historian
Jean-paul what you have achieved over forty years is a window to the past that we all should never forget. A important contribution. Thanks.
Jean-Paul is doing an excellent work, I would say. Props for this fine gentleman.
Returning the dog-tags/identities to the families - incredible respect to him. I would've shook his hand.
Very moving. Jean Paul has a true dedication and makes the war feel more human and personal!
Jean Paul is doing amazing work. My family wants to take a trip to Europe, mostly for the cities like Paris and then into Germany and Bavaria. I would love to convince them to divert here, into the Argonne jus to visit this museum.
Jean has the posture of someone who has spent many years looking for artifacts in the ground. So many people in the US and UK make jokes about the French surrendering in WW2, and how they are largely anti-war, but you only need to look into the soil to understand. France was the front-line of the Western Front, and over 100 years later their water is still polluted, their soil is still tainted with heavy metals and unexploded shells. Their casualties were devastating. France was hardly in a position to face the full-force of the Blitz in 1941. Now, they are one of the few western powers uniquely qualified to talk about the devastation and suffering caused by war, not just for soldiers, but for civilians and the generations to follow as well.
Farmers are still finding live WWI shells in their fields. Many countries have active civilian ordinance disposal unit to take care of those shells.
Two French ordinance disposal team members were killed while moving a large shell to a bunker for later controlled detonation. This was a couple years ago near Verdun. The men were carrying the shell to a bunker when it detonated. All that was found of them were the soles of their boots. They had been vaporized by the explosion
WWI is still claiming victims.
I fail to see how the thumbnail is clickbait, I thought it was just Indy admitting his loyalty to the Kaiser :D
Neidell does sound suspiciously German.
+Steve Lovelace it derives from the word Knödeler
Ich bin der Kaiser und ich will Knödel!
Imperial German bias confirmed. I always knew Indy was a shill for the Kaiser. Unsubbed!
"...Morphin, Cocaine ... everything still in there"
I have the feeling he should not say that too loud
By this point those drugs lost their potency, not to mention being buried and poisoned by lead and copper.
But they are otherwise still good.
Scott Croom not good lol you try to.ise it you will probably get lead poisoning pretty quick.
Even modern pharmacy drugs are good for a year at most. At most. Its not just about being sealed from the air. Chemical changes occur slowly within the medicine. They new chemicals could do horrible things to you.
WHY IS EVERYONE DRIVING SO CRAZY I'M JUST TRYING TO GET HOME IN MY LAMBORGHINI
"He survived the war, but he didn't survived it" Pretty spot-on words right there sir.
Are you being sarcastic?
VoxelGaming no
Sorry, it's just hard to tell through words.
@Indy 3:10 That's the same gun Jean-Paul challenged me to pick up as a young teenager when my class visited his museum during a school trip to Verdun, I'm sure of it! It's funny to see that the tradition is still alive and well after a decade, haha. Small world :)
I love J.P's respect for the animals that perished. So easy to overlook.
Oh lord I know, all the Horses, Cows, Oxen, Pigions, dogs and cats, and think of all the wildlife too.
We went a couple of weeks ago, and the walking tour is fantastic! My boys, 7, 10, and 13, were facinated by the history, the stories, etc. Well worth it. Thank you Jean-Paul for the incredible experience. Sharon from Prague
That museum is absolutely astounding!!!
the thumbnail is enough to win the war
before christmas no less!
Thx to Jean-Paul for caring! Impressive!
Been there today.... a MUST SEE!!! Not only the museum, Jean Paul is a facinating person!
Fantastic work this man has done.
Wow! Indy and crew, thank you for another perspective on the war. You have a great talent for finding treasures that expose your viewers to the great tragedy but also the equally great way that the common soldier dealt with it, day to day. That is a great museum!
Respect for Jean-Paul, nothing more to say.
I love the way he's laid everything out, really adds to the atmosphere of WWI.
Outstanding. Thank you. What an incredible collection. Thank you Jean-Paul for saving history and thank you The Great War for showing me something I'll probably never get a chance to see even though I would love to.
Another outstanding video. I love this series.
Simply amazing museum and fascinating gentleman. You could spend hours listening to him talk of his history knowledge of the region and artifacts he uncovers daily. I can't believe the amount of items left behind. From a young boy he was on a treasure hunt daily. Please have him back on again.
Indy and team, this was written a hundred of times before but: Your effort in exploring the subject "WW1" inspires nothing but huge admiration. We'll all become nostalgic when "the curtain falls". And Jean Paul seems the best stereotype of a Frenchman that one can find.
[edit: watched it now - in fact he is a Dutchman!]
As someone living in the american midwest, I can say I'm super envious of living in a place like that, with so much history literally being in your backyard.
man, this dude is a cool dude, really likes showing his museum off
Great stuff I'm glad he let you show his museum
In 2013 and 2019 I visited the museum during my" Camino de Santiago" by bicycle. It's the most impressive collection of ww 1 memorablia I have seen and Jean-Paul is a very nice man. When I visited the museum the second time, he recognized me and we had a long and personal conversation. When your in the neighbourhood please visit the museum, it's worth it.
Jean-Paul het allerbeste en hopelijk tot een volgende visite, groet, Jos
Jean-Paul's museum is fantastic! Would love to visit it someday. Thanks for making this video. It's one of my favorites in the series, and I've watched them all!
Check out the World War One photos taken by recon pilots at the Imperial War Museum, there are over 140,000 pictures of the battlefield that have been preserved
Wow. This museum is a real treasure, and so it is the man behind it!
Ironic that he posted this video today, my brother and I have been visiting Verdun for the past two days. Found a 5 round ammo clip for a German Mauser in an old abandoned trench today. Visiting this museum tomorrow next to the Meus-Argonne American Cemetery. Can't wait now!
Jonathan Emmons I've been in the Vosges last Sunday !
I absolutely love this channel
Such a labor of love.
This place is soooooo cool!
Really amazing museum, background & owner. It was great to see Jean Paul's commitment to returning the items to the original owner's families.
Excellent, guys! Well-done. Wonderful, fascinating. Just added to my future travel list. Very grateful for Jean-Paul's obsession!
This is amazing. I'm so glad that this channel has grown to the extent it has and that Indy and the team continue to produce amazing historical content for everyone.
WW1 helmets are so cool
indeed they are!
Men with taste.
You can clickbait me anytime Indy.
Clickbait made right
Simply put,
Amazing Museum. Best Thumbnail.
no joke, probably the best channel on TH-cam. learned more from here than in School
NICE transition at 4:53 awesome camera work fellas!
I have to vist this museum and meet Jean Paul
Great episode guys!
Marvelous. Thanks for the video and the link. Your station is the best.
Indy and Jean-Paul, thank you so much for this short museum tour, which was amazing and spectacular.
Best TH-cam Channel. Many thanks for the great work.
I don't know that I'll ever get to France, but if I do, I'd like to go to this place and walk with this guy on one of his tours out into the battlefields around the museum. I used to walk around at Ft Lincoln (where Custer was stationed before the Little Bighorn); my Dad had been a Ranger there for a summer (he was a teacher, so he had summers free) and learned a lot about the place, like where they had dumped their trash. So as a kid I used to be able to go out there, and walk around and find pieces of history (nothing significant, just broken plates, bottles from the period, curry brushes etc. related to horse care) and to be able to do something similar with a World War I battlefield would I think, bring it home more than almost anything else. I shared this to my FB feed with this note.
We explore a museum, forgot to take a thumbnail photo so instead you get Indy's face to look at!
Also, Video uploaded 5 minutes ago, The Great War commented: 21 hours ago
+StardustNotHötzendorf magical!
The Great War black hand confirmed
StardustNotHötzendorf scheduled upload
great video
xD
Utterly fascinating. Captivating. Entrancing. Horrifying. What a place. Thank you for sharing.
You guys do such great work!
That is an incredible museum. Thank you for showing us around.
I love the comment about 'photoshopping' the soldiers' pictures.
-Jen
The Great War Exhibition in Wellington, New Zealand is incredible
@Superdude70 it is closed now, was the dominion museum
Fantastic museum, a work of art and labor of love by a collector dedicated to preserving history
This video was really "over the top".
i see what you did there (through trench periscope).
Your comment gave me PTSD.
I heard imaginary whistles after reading your comment.
are they imaginary? really?
I can promise that's where you'll go after a pun that bad my boy !
Thanks for sharing this, Indy and Flo & Co. This is truly a great addition to the series!
Loved how Indy advertised the restaurant (looked a bit like he was forced to by the own of the museum) saying that you should pop in for a visit and eat, and a couple of mintues later they talk about how the whole place is filled with contaminated water :D
JP also said that their water comes from an uphill source, so they're not using the contaminated groundwater in the area...
Later! OL J R :)
This whole Episode is like the Predator 2 Trophy Room Scene with the music in the background. The obvious implied carnage...
So I am going to be heading over to France in a year or so, this was an oddly good episode for helping plan in out. I had seen Jean-paul before, but after a brief walk through of the museum it really made me want to go to the museum while checking out the cemetery close by.
Thanks for the good work Indy, and team, looking forward to the rest of the series and any other tidbits about the war and the cool places to check out!!
P.S. might be a good idea to set up a series of videos for individuals who may want to check out the history in person themselves. While you guys have started the in location videos, which are rad to see, it would be cool to have a recap of the places to go to while there in a quick 2 minute video
I need to visit this museum!
This is amazing! Really loved the museum and how Jean-Paul and Indy and team presented it to us!
Really fascinating story and the curator is a treasure. I watch a lot of this stuff and really loved this opportunity, thanks!
So authentic and so touching museum. Respect for Jean-Paul's devoted work since his childhood ! Concerning the exploded shells, a visitor to Lebanon can see such decoration in some homes located in the ex bombarded zones, too. My relatives have exhibited similar ones in their living room as well as transforming the shell casing into vase
This museum is awesome! Quite an impressive life work indeed.
I'm Canadian from Dawson Creek B.C. Canada. Growing up I had a friend whose dad went to France as a kid. He had a big collection of stuff he had found while he was over there. He had helmets and all kinds of stuff. I was amazed at all the stuff he had brought back.
canoilers Your friends father probably knew my father then. Post WWII, the vets hung out together .Just like the Vietnam vets found out years later,only someone who has walked the walk can really understand. Dawson Creek 1948 to 1958 was a small community.
The fact that he knows the species of wood each army used and how it affected their lives is amazing. Nobody realy thinks of details like that. I would love to visit the museum someday if I'm ever in France.
Indi, you should bring your crew to the National WW1 Museum here in Kansas City, MO, U.S.A.. It is very impressive.
planning to do so.
Wow fantastic episode.
Oh, man! I wanted to see Indy wearing a stahlhelm :(
Amazing, Great video!
Discovering the grave of a soldier younger than yourself can have a life long impact,
like a bolt of lightening revelation.
My own was on a high school field trip to Washington DC in 1968 where, at Arlington National Cemetery
I discovered a newly buried soldier.
Here I was a kid who had experience relatively nothing in life facing one who had served his country half way around the world and had made the supreme sacrifice, returning home to his eternal resting place.
Incredible collection. Absolutely incredible. I really hope he has it secured properly. It's his life's work.
What a guy
Amazing museum had the pleasure to visit it last weekend during my tour around verdun but still many things to see in that region you did a great job always happy to see a new video from you
Another dutchie! For us beeing neutral, we do have a big interest in the war.
Baron Von Grijffenbourg that would've been kinda akward in ww2 then...
Tim de Boer NEDERLAND JONGUH !
Baron Von GrijffenbourgA TGW special on that subject would be a delight.
TGW did a special on the 'armed neutrality' of the Netherlands.
Paul Alexander
This is such a great series! And how interesting this museum is. Thank you for posting all of this.
I really like how he tries to return the dogtags and other personal belongings to the families, it must mean a lot to the families when they receive the things
thanks for sharing these trips to the battlefields and museums!
Amazing... would love to visit this place. So much to see!
Outstanding episode about an outstanding man. Thank you.
Awesome stuff! I salute this gent and his efforts to preserve the history! Well done good sir, well done!
Prachtige verzameling! Uniek. Geweldig dat je dit hebt gedaan en doet. Ik hoop dat je door deze video nog meer aandacht voor je werk gaat krijgen.
What a fascinating looking museum, it seems so authentic and real, most displays today hide artefacts behind glass cases and barriers but I bet you really feel connected with history there.
This is the most amazing museum I've seen. I have to go there as soon as possible
hey great that you can go to places! I hope they like your series as much as I do.
Wow...outstanding episode. Need more of this