Eastern Front of WW1 animated: 1915
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- The campaign on the Eastern front in 1915:
1:47 - Second battle of the Masurian lakes
4:00 - The battle of the Carpathians
8:27 - Gorlice-Tarnów offensive
12:56 - The Great retreat
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Sources:
С.Г. Нелипович, Русский фронт первой мировой войны: потери сторон 1915
Der Weltkrieg 1914 bis 1918
Österreich-Ungarns letzter Krieg 1914 - 1918
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List of medal recipients for the capture of Przemysl:
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I love the fact you added railways. It shows how crucial they were.
They always do because they are.
Tactics win battles. Logistics win wars.
The hardest part about attacking Przemysl was making the soldiers understand what you were talking about when giving orders.
This comment is even funnier when you are a Pole, the name of Przemyśl can be translated from Polish as 're-think' (imperative form)
You see this is a common joke about the Austrian Army that it struggled with miscommunication, but it really did not. K.u.K. regiments were of specific areas and recruited locally, so the German speaking regiments spoke German and were led by Germans. The Czech regiments same thing but entirely Czech. And when it came to the higher echelons of command such as brigade/division command, the staff officers there all spoke German mostly fluently. Low ranking soldiers weren't commanded by someone they didn't understand.
@@tricksor6589 I think he was referring to the Russian army, which was known for having Russian officers leading men who did not speak Russian either well, or at all. Greg did say attacking Przemysl not defending.
@@tricksor6589 "Vorwärts" ist Ungarisch und Deutsch!
@@thecombatwombat7652 A multinational army, in service to an ancient state lead by an aristocrat, who refuses modernization and tries to preserve his empire fighting against a multinational army, in service to an ancient state lead by an aristocrat, who refuses modernization and tries to preserve his empire.
Eastern front of ww1 is so interesting and overlooked. Tannenberg is a great FPS game based on the eastern front, it’s historically accurate and I highly recommend it to those interested in this era
too bad it's
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There’s at least a 2/3 full server every day which is all you need.
@@BloodySnow8that’s true low key low player base…
Interesting
While in many aspects it is historically accurate, I find it funny how Bulgarians and Romanians can fight in East Prussia. And units from 1914 can fight units from 1918.
The KD ratio of the central powers is insane
German and Austrian quality, son
Its bias info
@@ChobeVelyashalol
@@LoLMasterManiacMostly German, really
It's 99 years later and Russia's tactics for solving any military problem is still to throw more bodies at it.
We are so back.
Edit: Damn y'all really started an argument with my comment in 7 hours about a war not even mentioned in this video...
Slava Russia
@@ChobeVelyashago parrot propaganda somewhere else please. This is a history channel
@@endo4137
What’s wrong with supporting a side historically? do you have a problem with people who like Russia?
Ambatukaahhhhh😫😫
@@rhysnichols8608 Yes
It always blows my mind how every side of the war already had millions of casualties by the end of 1915 and the war was nowhere near over.
And now in modern war Ukraine loses 31000 soldiers in 2 years and its deemed staggering losses
@historygeektv4194 well, Ukraine isn't an empire
@@talknight2 It's population now is the same as Frances was in 1914?
@@historygeektv4194 nice joke beliving those numbers, my dude. I guess hastily ordered half a million men to be asap recruited to fill the gaps in the front was just out of goodness of Zelensky's heart.
@dimas3829 I believe the nujmber is roughly around 31,000 Killed. Zelenksy is probably speaking the truth or very close to it. Mobilising 500 000 men is also support services and logistics as Ukrain ehas suffered with that, And also Rasining fresh forces as Russia will probably launch a new offensive
Great to see you continuing this series, it's such an overlooked part of WW1, and shows that the classic idea of immobile trench warfare from the western front didn't describe the whole.
The number of losses for both sides is so astonishing
Yeah like they make like an offensive and both sides have like half a million caluties thats insane.
@@slender-grip-lebanon-taller
“Think what it means to send thousand me and thousands of men to their deaths” - Czar Nikolas II
numbers
@@E.Wolfdale souls
A small percentage of them were actually killed though.
I love how you clearly explain wars like this, it helps me understand the campaigns more.
Keep going through these masterpeices!
I LOVE EASTORY ANIMATED MAPS!!
Still can't believe how many important historic events happened on the Eastern front in just the one year of 1915, which the history channels never mentioned for some reason!! With this just being the tip of the Ice Berg this episode could have been much longer if any of the major events were elaborated on further and the many turning points expanded on, but those are videos for another day.
I'm sure nothing happened in 1916 - 1917 and it was very quiet on the "Eastern Front"........!!!
1916-1917 saw indeed the least action and for this reason they will be rolled into a single episode.
Well, the Great War channel does cover it in pretty good detail, albeit when they began their channel back in 2014, they lacked the experienced staff necessary to make good maps like this one, thus you had to listen to Indy's narrator and follow it along a map of your own. By the time their maps improved in the second half of their coverage of 1916, they were able to cover the Brusilov Offensive and the invasion of Romania in pretty good detail, but there would not be the same amount of action going on in the Eastern front for the remainder of the war.
Eastern Front WW1 is very underrated by historians
by american and british historians
Not at all. Just learn a europian language not spoken in America or the British Iles.
Eastern Front historians are very underrated by Western Front historians
@@rorronator1 by any. We in Russia barely studied it in school or university; most of people there won't even name a single battle of the Eastern Front, other than maybe (maybe!) Brusilov's offensive.
I had a book from my grandpa, which was written in the time of the Nazi regime. It was about the battle of Tannenberg (east prussia). For propaganda reasons it was mentioned a lot during those times, because there have been great success on the eastern front.
Also colonel general Hindenburg fought this battle. Tannenberg was already a well known place, as 1410 a polish-lithuanian army beat the knigts of the teutonic order. Hindenburg later became field marshal and Reichspräsident after the war.
Despite he was already old at the beginn of WWI (he retired in 1911 and came back for the war) and "sleept well" in his own words during the battle of Tannenberg, he was a political legend in Germany.
Another famous eastern front General was August von Mackensen, a hussar general. The black hussar uniform and their insignia skull and crossbones later inspired the SS-Uniform.
Thank you so much for your great coverage of WW1. It's really good how you look at the forces concentrations for the offensives but they don't paint the whole picture. I'm not sure if it would be possible but could you also show the artillery advantage of the opposing sides as well as the manpower? Especially in WW1 the two main components of how strong your army was were men and big guns. The Central Powers' artillery advantage was the main reason of success in 1915 and the Brusilov offensive was so succesful because Russia had sorted out its ammunition production. A good source for these numbers is (as always) the Great War by Indy Neidell.
Your Indy Neidell is a biased clown
This channel illustrates the story of conflicts bettter than any documentary with talking heads could. I've learned about WWI and II all my life. But I have a vastly greater understanding of the Eastern Front of WWI after this vid. I've been a huge fan since the WWII Eastern Front series... and I haven't been let down yet. Essential viewing for historians.
Your pronounciation of Przemyśl is top notch
I can't even read, like can't even pronounciate this damn name so i highly respect him for pronouncing it so many times
@@nicolasiiiletzar7984 Polish ortography is reletively simple, you just dont know it.
I find it weird how the ž is unvoiced do to following P.
I simply pronounce 'rz' as thin Swedish 'sj'. Sounds exactly the same.
@@francisdec1615 rz is the polish diagraph for the ž sound. Ive no idea what a swedish sj is supposed to sound like they write jag and say ja.
Fascinting as I knew little of this part of WW1.
Your description - as always - was great.
And your renders are truly outstanding, imho.
Thank you for perking up my Sunday.
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Love this channel to bits. So grateful for all of your hard work.
every eastory post makes my day
I like how you explained the role of terrain in these operations. Not a lot of people truly appreciate how important terrain is to military operations.
Thanks! I’m always looking to understand this immense conflict better. It’s crazy how much land was swapping ownership and how many people became casualties!
Again, great work! Thank you for this valuable addition to the story of the eastern front in WW1.
Incredible history documentary yet again! Thank you.
What utterly senseless carnage. We at least get the benefit of learning from history because of it, yet there are many who seem to want to return to this world today.
Your military map animations are the best!
Excellent video! It was about time that someone detailed the Eastern Front in WW1 in English. Thank you!
This perfect summary of the war is a godsend. Thank you Eastory!
The battles in early 1915, 1:47, 2nd battle of Masurian Lakes were BRUTAL and influenced the entire rest of the war on the eastern front
Crazy how under represented WW1 is in movies or really teaching. Videos like this are awesome to breakdown with an all senses used teaching if I had videos like this when I was in elementary or high school…even college, I would have done so much better digesting info learned.
I guess it depends the country, WW1 here in France is a big thing, maybe even bigger than WW2.
I like the different variations of your pronunciation of Przemysl.
I am surprised how quickly it was for you to make part 2
The video in question features a captivating animation that has greatly contributed to my admiration of the Eastory channel. The video can be described as being intriguingly dynamic, with the animation being the standout feature of the content. The quality of the animation is impressive, and it managed to command my full attention throughout.
It's almost unbelievable how the central powers could attack strongholds and fortified positions while numerically inferior and still manage not only to advance, but even with less casualties
Germans only. Because they had better quality of troops and artillery. Also Russia in 1915 suffered deficit of ammunition and guns, Russian industry wasn't military focused yet.
Railways helped a lot. They could quickly concentrate critical numerical advantage and push. That time there was no long range artillery, missiles and aviation that could stop that concentration.
Because of defensive stance Russia lost initiative. Lack of munitions didn't help either.
In 1914 Russia had initiative and could prevent enemy concentration by constant threat to make a breakthrough.
That’s because the Germans has the Krupp works that allowed their divisions to have a massive advantage in heavy artillery.
@@alexzero3736 The Germans had many more artillery pieces per division than any other army, until the British and French equalised in 1916.
I can’t see how you come to any conclusion that German soldiers were better than Russian soldiers though. Russians were generally far physically tougher.
@@borisnikator7060 The video about 1914 sums up how Russia blew it. Rennenkampf’s silly petty huff with Samsonov, poor coordination and communication between the two, and Samsonov not coding his communications.
❤ Sunday just got better.
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This series has made the Eastern Front so much clearer for me! Would love to read some of your sources.
I've been looking forward to it for a long time!
Every single time you said Przemysl I could hear the frustration😂 also, amazing animation and rip to all the innocent lives lost
Apreciate your work
The regular updates to troop strength on both sides, and the greater detail overall, are a big improvement over older videos, and I would love to see some of the older ones re-worked to this standard.
Another great work of yours!
Despite the previous fuck ups and Italy's entry to the war, Austria-Hungary performed rather well in 1915 starting from Spring. No wonder they felt confident enough to deprioritise the East and concentrate most of their excess strength against Italy at Asiago. It was a hasty decision though and they had to pay a huge price for that.
If it weren't for the disasters of 1914 and the Winter offensive, the Austrians may have hurt the Russians much worse in 1915.
The austrians perform better only because of the german reinforcements
Austria Hungary is underrated in this war. They fought on 3 fronts and held their ground while outnumber in Italy, managed to hold the Balkan front with Bulgarian help and had some good victories in the east, The Germans did most of the effective work but the Hapsburg armies played their part. And they did all this despite of some serious manpower, logistics and industry problems and some low quality high ranking officers AND having to deal with 13 languages
@@rhysnichols8608are you guys watching the same videos as me? They in 1915 failed to push back Russia without German help and suffered more casualties than the Russians in the winter Carpathian offensives.
They also failed to invade Serbia
Actually Austria-Hungary failed many, many times in WW1.
They were most useless Central Powers army. Bulgaria was far more effective ally.@@rhysnichols8608
Banger just dropped, like those artillery shells.
Man WW1 was such a slow paced war compared to WW2! Watching the 1941 eastern front video after this one really shows that well. Tanks and WW2 planes really made war much more offensive sided.
I like this format. For the next video, please add the names of the offensives and battles, so we could get a better overview.
For example:
7th-28th Feb - Winter Battle of the Masurian Lakes
16th Feb-20th Mar - Winter battle in the Carpathians
2nd May-13th July - Gorlice-Tarnów offensive
13th July-19th Sep - The Great Retreat
14th July-27th Aug - Bug-Narew Offensive
27 Aug-15 Oct - Rovno offensive
Oh I fully support this comment
On the screen in the video or in the description?
@@Eastory
I personally think you should state the name of the offensive, “this is known as the winter battle of masurian lakes” for instance. Or just put the word on screen
@@Eastory hey thanks for responding.
On screen would be nice, if it fits.
Yesterday I was thinking about the second part lol, great video
Excellent work as usual
Thank you for compiling such a great overview.
It is interesting to mention that most of the advances in 1915 were achieved by or with the help of the German 11th Army. The commander August von Mackensen and his chief of staff Hans von Seeckt had experience fighting against Russians in 1914, and were a very good team.
Thank you for covering this war as well :)
Best wishes from the outskirts of Warsaw :)
I had no idea how fluid the Eastern Front was during WW I. Outstanding work! Can't wait to see what happened in 1916 !
Thank you so muchj for these videos, you are the best channel to learn history in a very good visual front form!
I'd prefer if you kept North at the top of the maps. It gets confusing as the map rotates.
Thanks for the input
@@EastoryAs for my input, I liked the fresh perspective of the rotated map, so feel free to include it again if you feel like it.
I liked the rotated map but I think it could be clearer if a compass rose was always shown when the map doesn't have north at the top.
@@Eastory I like rotations
@@Eastory im straight
Your videos are getting better, better quality, details, animations and information. Congratulations.
maybe a remake of your videos from the eastern front in ww2? More detailed casualties or do you detail the generals of the armies and divisions?
I like the casualty numbers they make it really easy to understand
great content, 100 times better than any documentary.
Will this series continue into 1919 / 1920 following the independence wars of Poland / the baltics? Great video btw.
What about the Ukraine ?
@@avus-kw2f213 Well, its a complicated mess. There were 4 ukraines on the map in 1918.
@@avus-kw2f213i mean, Ukraine was heavily involved, at least in terms of polish conflicts. Besides its hard to say what ukraine was at that time, it was a real mess
@@wlodek7422 which makes a easy to understand map video more important
The only downside to your videos is I actually have to watch them instead of just listening while doing something else :D :D
It's amazing that your doing World War 1 videos now so maybe you can make videos on the western front next?
This is an excellent accompaniment to Buttar's books on the WW1 eastern front.
I honestly think that the eastern front in WW1 is more interesting than any other front
i've been waiting a very long time for a video like this ! blessings upon eastory 🙏
I just discovered your channel and subscribed having an interest in the Eastern front during WW1. I hope in the future you can do videos analysing the battles that took place in this very neglected theatre of war and also cover the struggles between the various forces during the revolution in Russia.
Amazing job and it would be interesting to see a map over warfare in the Baltic sea too
A brilliant video once more! Väga väga hea!
On a constructive note, maybe the background music is a slight bit too low compared to usuals in this video?
I actually think that this is an improvement. Less music means less distraction from the content.
I understand your point, @jangelbrich7056 , but I disagree with your opinion. By hearing the music, after all these excellent videos, now my brain is used to associate it to epicness and awesomeness and thus to Eastory content specifically. I've always thought it was a very fitting choice because it was never covering the comments (of course, that would be bad) but added a notion of permanent tension and suspense which here faded (very very) slightly. Of course that is not an important aspect of the videos anyway.
On another more technically relevant note, I caught five glimpses of flickering units and at one point an entire black video frame for a split second which made me think my monitor had failed.
Evidently, if I make such irrelevant comments, it's because the videos are near perfect anyway, so there is absolutely nothing at all to criticize seriously about them: they are simply the quintessence of perfect (hi)story-telling, and allow people to understand absolutely everything which is being explained, on passionating topics. The mind-blowing amount of time and focus and dedication it takes to generate such videos is worthy of the admiration of every human being on Earth, or should be in my opinion.
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Can't wait for 1916, 1917 and eastern front. It will be fastinating to see all thouse changes of front.
This is awesome!
Im going to re watch Indy's WWI week by week now that I've got an excellent map to reference !
thank you for your animation.
Have you learned how to say Przemesyl yet? LoL. Always a good thing when you post. Thanks for covering this Front. Cheers from Tennessee
how ?
@@NankerPhelge65 I don't think he did. He pronounced it two different ways. Understandable. If I hadn't heard it pronounced multiple times I would screw it up. Cheers
Indy from The Great War had an arc learning how to pronounce it too.
@@pax6833 It's a tricky one for sure.
In 1927 poles when digging up premyslz for steel and iron found collapsed passage into the fort prison where they found one Russian officer a pow from 1915. He died on the following day on malnutrition.
Russia kept making the mistake of activating Germany's trap card, "Superior Railway Lines".
Imagine if, during a modern war, your side lost half a million troops over one winter to cold and disease. How would your side even think of carrying on given such glaringly atrocious supply and logistics failures?
By being hard as fuck
ours not to reason why, ours but to do or die.
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Cringe
I hadn't known my ancestral village was so close to an important eastern front line. It was unfortunately part of the Operation Vistula ethnic cleansing and so there would be nothing for me to see there anymore when it comes to my family, but they were still there at this time and it must have been a terribly hard time for them. (My own ancestors had left some 25-30 years earlier, so they didn't experience it.)
"They outnumber us three to one!"
"Then its an even fight"
~Hindenburg 1915
Actually Russian forces by 1915 were out of ammo. Long war wasn't expected and Russian industry wasn't ready to produce needed amounts up to second half of 1916.
The Russians were literally on that enemies at the gates status in terms of armament. By summer time many replacements arrived at the front severely under trained and without rifles. They literally had to wait until someone with a rifle died. Even then they were also low on ammo.
@@alexzero3736keep crying
@@ct-7822 I was asleep
Russian scout: we have the Germans out numbered about 2-1.
Russian General: 😱😱😱😱
The scale of the casualties is astounding.
Imagine you’re in that battle and you have no gun and everything else
It's quite impressive that Eastern Front had transformation from war of movement to trench warfare to mostly cavalry maneuvers when Russian civil war started, showing how fluid this front compare to western front.
It’s so weird how people only ever talk about the western front even though there is almost no change in the front lines for the whole war when the eastern front has all this action going on
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History is written by the victors. And the peoples of the East have lost.
I've never been more excited, can't wait for another masterpiece! Great videos!
YESSS I couldn't wait for 1915, now we just need 1916, 17, and 18, then we get the complete movie
19 and 20 are quite interesting too!
It's cool, plase, make 1916 part. Many people who make videos of this format usually talk very little about this date. Maybe Naroch operation, Brussilov break, Baranovichi,Kovel ,Romanian operations and Caucazus. Thanks
Drinking game idea: take a shot everytime Eastory says “Przemysl”.
For the Support
Another excellent presentation!!!
Excellent video
Russian army deployments against German army: Anything less than double the German manpower means defeat.
Russian army deployments against Austro-Hungarian army: Lol, we can hold while the enemy has a manpower advantage.
Shackled to a corpse indeed.
Tbf holding a defence while the enemy has a man power advantage is pretty standard. Usually you need a 3:1 advantage when attacking fortified positions. The Hapsburg armies certainly had many failures but they fought well on many occasions too. Shackled to a corpse maybe…..but that corpse provided millions of men and weapons that Germany needed to handle Russia. Without the corpse Germany wouldn’t have held out so long.
@@rhysnichols8608 Without the corpse Germany wouldn't have been at war, least of all with Russia, in the first place either though.
Love the WWI videos!
NICELY DONE.
When the 3rd part is coming?
Literally the only TH-cam channel I subscribe to
It’s the only thing I contribute to on Patreon as well. Only $1 per episode but still.
YES THEN BIG MAN EASTORY OUT WITH ANOTHER BANGER💯💯💢
The losses on both sides are staggering. 2 million on one side, 4 million on the other in just one year.
New Eastory just dropped!
The key battle fought in Eastern Slovakia was the Easter Battle of 1915. As you said, Russians were trying to penetrate deeper into Hungary and take it out completely. The fighting took place west of the village of Výrava. Even now, you can find remnants of zig-zag trenches all over the place. There are also several war cemeteries with hundreds of soldiers that were buried in the forests.
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An excellent video- my only critique? You did not show the borders of all the countries involved I know the borders are different today but showing Prussia Hungry etc would be a big help in seeing the big picture.
strange that strong fortresses were still in use during ww1. kinda like the last war where siegeing cities and such was a thing on such a large scale. was it planes that ruined the reason to build fortifications or was it artillery got more efficent?
Thanks for amazing content. Probably you gonna make videos about Western Front and other fronts 🦊❤
Thank you. A short video of yours is better than most longer videos.
Becoming more specific, I think the script is the most important factor. Probably, that you are multilingual cuts a lot of words and sentences from an English language script. The cradle English speaker with no other language very quickly adds verbiage that doesn't clarify or advance but rather, clouds and fragments the narrative, padding it and weighing it down.
1:55 watching an eastory video in 3d looks weird for some reason
Babe Eastory uploaded another video!!!