WW1 Oversimplified (Part 1) Reaction: A Brief History of World War 1
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- WW1 Oversimplified, a VERY brief history of World War 1. Feel free to elaborate on any events down below!
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you're rapidly becoming one of my favorite channels. I cannot overstate how much i appreciate the "jump right in" approach to the videos; and the addition of your own insights & literary recs is delightful.
"All quiet on the western front" or "Im Westen nichts neues" was part of the school curriculum for me and lots of others here in Germany. We read and discussed it as part of our history class at around 8th grade or so.
We didn’t read it, but they showed us the movie. The remake they did in the ‘70s.
There's a channel called The Great War. It offers a week by week history of the conflict, and the events leading up to it. Also, the book Myths of the Great War by John Mosier offers an interesting view.
I love that series. Very detailed and well-delivered.
I can't think of any series that goes more in-depth to be honest
I've been binge watching your videos. You're a genuine human being. Keep at it and your channel will blow up soon! Sending good vibes to you from Ireland 🌬🤍
Hi Anton, I’m just glad you’re liking the channel so far! Thank you (:
@@NoProtocol The direction your smiley face is facing disturbs me more than it should... (>'-')>
...sounds like a me problem though...
eyes first correct?... someone back me up lol
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I really like this channel because of 3 elements: Going straight to the point, Behave so natural and having knowledge and still wanting to learn.
Edit: Probably you already know him but Sam o'Nella does very interesting and funny videos normally related in some way or an other to history.
Something not mentioned in this is that from Serbia came the best female soldier in history called Milunka Savic who to this day has more commendations than any female soldier in history and she had snuck into the war disguised as her brother.
Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcast series about WW1 is phenomenal (Blueprint for Armageddon), he communicates the horrors so vividly. My favorite history reaction channel is Vlogging Through History, and he's been making his own content lately by visiting WW1 & US Civil War battlefields :)
Second this, Blueprint for Armageddon is amazing. Dan Carlin is a master in painting a picture of the horrifying condition during the war.
I subscribe to Vlogging through history too, he's great.. and Blueprint for Armageddon is probably my favourite from his hardcore history series, though that might be because it was the first i listened to.. Wrath of Khans, Punic Nightmares, Kings of Kings, Death Throes of the Republic and Ghosts of the Osfront are all amazing.
100%
Seconded, thirded, all the numbers
Our lord and saviour, Dan Carlin, may he release another episode soon
For WWI content, The Great War did a series of biographies which man intersect with your book/cultural recommendations. There’s a bio of JRR Tolkien, Otto Dix, etc…
The Great War is a channel I just discovered and am really liking it!
The classic 'roots of WW 1' book is "The Guns of August" by Barbara Tuchman.
I haven’t heard of this yet Fred, thank you!
Great book.
I'd just like to let you know I love your style and how you love to learn and actually listen. It's a breath of fresh air. Most channels that do reactions spend the entire time either talking or pausing to talk and miss 75% of the entire video. Or ask questions which if they would quiet down and listen would be apparent to them. So thank you. Wonderful channel and you seem awesome.
Since you mentioned that you know less about WW1 than about WW2, you might be into the chanel "Extra Credits" and their series on the lead up to WW1 called "The seminal tragedy". It puts WW1 into a context that many may not think about and I thoroughly recommend all episodes for you to watch or possibly even react to.
Been loving the content that you put out btw, keep it up :)
This is a MUCH earlier video from Oversimplified.
His channel is GOLD. His later videos are still arguably oversimplified but go into much more detail than this.
You have quickly become one of my favorite youtubers to watch
I just found your videos, but love them already... So knowledgeable and your general knowledge is on point
Another great source of WWI history is The Guns of August, by Barbara Tuchman.
I highly agree! She definitely gets into the nitty-gritty about how everything went to hell because of egos.
History Dose is excellent. They’re short, beautifully animated and narrated
Hey, no long comment (kinda) :) I see people recommending The Great War channel already, i suggest taking a look at the video they made about Milunka Savic, Serbian war heroine who fought in both Balkan Wars and WW1. I think you will like it, she was a badass who joined the military instead of her brother and made quite the impact. Btw she is the most decorated female of all time! Cheers!
Oversimplified is great for a macro view of history. I really liked The Operations Room for when you want a very detailed look at specific battles in history, the logistics and why battles unfolded as they did.
Hay una historia muy linda dentro de todo ese caos llamada "Christmas Truce" funciona como un alivio en las trincheras demostrando que si existía algo de humanidad. Otro interesante video 👍🏼,espero que estes bien y como siempre mis cordiales saludos.
ur really chill, keep up the good content👍
Hey, thanks (:
Great video! Love the picture on the wall. Very similar to the '27 club'. Saw an amazing black and white photo realistic picture of the 27 club (music stars that all died at 27) about 12 years ago in a bar in Amsterdam. Still got picture of it somewhere on one of my hard drives I took from my iPhone of the time.
I like that you uploaded this in HDR. A pleasant surprise.
Historia Civilis is my personal favourite history channel. It mostly focuses on classical antiquity, but he has done a few post nepoleonic things.
My favorite for specific history would be The Welsh Viking. Jimmy's stuff is well-researched, and well-stated. Easy to follow, and fun
I'm so glad u know about the first world war for someone your age, a lot of young people have no idea that there were two first world wars or even realize that Europe is a continent.
F'ing LOVE this channel.... we jump from geopolitical to MMA in a breath.
You've maybe read it already, but in case you didn't you definitely should read 'the' WW1 book, "Storm of steel" by Ernst Jünger, which could be defined as the other side of the story (as in, the other side of how the war experience was lived by other germans) to Remarque's Western Front one. Penguin books has a very good new translation by Michael Hofmann. Jünger is quite the witness-cum-literary-talent, and does a great job of explaining the human experience of the war which would have led him and part of that generation to come out of it and form that heterogeneous philosophical milieu, the so-called conservative revolution, which ended up being the premise to both the nazi current on one side and that of those who ultimately tried to kill Hitler on the other. Not that the book gets into politics, but it is a rarely detailed firsthand account of how the war was lived by those who weren't broken by trauma, how it existentially changed them and the ethos it generated.
The netflix adaptation of All Quiet on the Western Front is amazing too! Also, Extra Credits History is a good channel. Vids are much shorter though. Particularly their Admiral Yi series about the Imjin War or Japanese invasion of Korea is quite excellent
I've thought about whether if the assassination of the Archduke failed could WW1 been avoided, but I think that a major war was waiting to happen whether it was this or something else that kicked it off.
The conditions were all there. If it hadn't been the assassination that kicked things off, something else would have. Of course, different starting conditions may have led to a different outcome, as given enough time there may have been changes to the diplomatic landscape, the various nations may have been in a better or worse state militarily, or any one of a million little chance events may have influenced things (for example, perhaps Admiral Beatty would have fallen off his ship and drowned later in 1914, and the RN might have actually won at Jutland, or Lenin might have fallen down some stairs and died, thus making the Russian Revolution play out differently)
love it you start right away
Camouflage as a term was originally french, and the French Army was the first to have a designated camouflage unit (established in 1915), but this unit was more about employing artists from the troops to disguise equipment, not uniforms. France started the war with bright blue tunics over bright red pants. While they eventually changed to a faded blue during WWI, they remained the only major player not to wear uniforms with a traditional camouflage color.
I've been to Sarajevo and seen a copy of the Arch Dukes car...There was also an Ostrich involved somewhere (see Black Adder)
1:25 That went from 0 to existential real quick 🎉
Has there ever been a real confirmation that the driver was not somehow in the proverbial "Cahoots" with the spectacularly lucky assassin? Also, why does cahooting sound like so much fun, regardless of the cahooters' agenda? I mean, it really sounds like A LOT of FUN!
I think the Arch Duke getting shot after running into Princeps is mostly a case of incompetence. but whether he was assassinated or not WW1 was bound to happen. When countries militarize they are bound to use that military at some point, and Germany wanted to become an empire like France and Britain but there was not many land left to colonize so it would need to be taken from other empires
it amazes me that franz ended right in front of one the assassins trying to cheer himself up over a failed attempt eating a samwich.
Hey, as usual, your reaction was really cool to watch, espcially the ¨propaganda extravaganza¨ part. By the way, camouflage comes indeed from the same french word :)
You've probably seen it, but there's a really good meme.
"If WW1 was a bar fight"
Brilliant.
Epic History TV is my favourite history channel on youtube
The Dan Carlin episodes your speaking of is a series called blueprint for Armageddon, which is worth checking out for Rasputin alone. A good book would be ‘storm of steel’ by Ernst Jünger another German perspective, however is non-fictional
Thanks for another great video and reaction. *Salutes*
Thanks for watching!
I laughed when you said Dan Carlin has "some" videos WW! related. His WWI series is like 24 hours long. It's great.
Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie were killed by Gavrilo Princip, a 23 - year old Serbian student from Bosnia and Herzegovina who was a member of a movement called Young Bosnia - a revolutionary - socialist group who were fighting against the Austrian - Hungarian oppresion. He was sentenced for 12 years I think, but died in prison from tuberculosis. Pretty interesting life he had, even though it was a short one. Looking forward to the second part of this video.
Also, Balkan has a very turbulent history, there were so many damn wars over here, I think you'd be interested.
1:25 my favourite Story I heard about this is, that the bomb was missing due to a Time-Traveler intervening with the Assassin to prevent the Event from happening.
The 2nd (successful) Attempt was itself by a Time-Traveler to ensure, the alternate Future of Franz Ferdinand surviving will never happen as it's worse than everything that literally happend afterwards. Well... that keeps you thinkin' o_o
Not really additional information, but another series that goes way deeper into the insane circumstances of the start of the Great War is the "Seminal Tragedy", a five parter by the channel Extra Credit. Would appeciate you taking a look at that.
"The Guns of August" Barbara Tuchman. John F. Kennedy thought this book should be mandatory reading for all world leaders.
The Hisotry Guy is my favourite history channel. It's well researched and very well told, not too Anglocentric and nice length of video's.
I’m not familiar with this one yet! Thank you (:
@@NoProtocol It's a bit of a hidden gem. The reason I know it's well researched is because after having seen a few I stumbled on the episode "Dutch ships of the Golden Age". I am Dutch and I know a bit about that age. He doesn't fall in the trap of taking English propaganda of that time for a fact, I could identify only one mistake, and he told quite a bit I didn't know yet.
It does encompass time after WW1, but "Achtung, Panzer" by Heinz Guderian is an interesting read on the rise of tank warfare that started in and around WW1
I like how he just ignores Luxembourg’s existence
I don't know where camouflage first came about, but I recall watching a drama about British soldiers deployed to Portugal to help fight a guerilla war against Napoleon in Iberia. It even stared Sean Bean in the lead. IIRC the costume department make it look like they started using green fabrics instead of the typical red coats.
I would like to recommend any video from the Kings and Generals youtube channel. They have a vast repertoire of history content covering various eras with very well made videos. I like their series about the Hundred Years War and the Crusades.
Extra Credit has a 4 video series that goes further into build up to the war.
World War 1:The Seminal Tragedy
The great war was amazing, albeit horrific. I remember the TH-cam Channel "The Great War" had a series running from the start of the 100 year anniversary week by week until the end.
Incredible.
Should check out, sabaton bite and resist. Nice historical song about Belgium resisting Germany. They actually just did a whole album about WWI.
I subscribed because i felt that you are sincerely on a quest for total truth. I am the same way. I enjoy your content and ideals a lot. If you want the total and true history of the world and the world wars, I would suggest a series titled "Total Onslaught" by Professor Walter Veith. I think you would gain a tremendous amount of knowledge from this series. Thank you for all that you are doing.
In case it isn't as well known on the other side of the pond, *Dulce et Decorum est* is a poem most English people will have read, until at least the turn of the millennium. Siegfried Sassoon is probably another poet that formed part of that blunt introduction to War Poetry that remained for generations as an integral part of the curriculum.
Love you are breathtaking and soo calm and intelligent. How do you retain such a large amount of information? Do you have any tips or techniques? Perhaps a book I could read with techniques for retention?
she's got that ivy league vibe
I’m not sure how to answer this! First, very kind of you but I just like history so I learn what I can about it for fun. Yet, if we were to speak about AI, cosmology, marine life or any of the millions of other things I don’t know about or don’t find as interesting, I think my retention wouldn’t be anything to note. That being said, Atomic Habits by James Clear is a cool book that gets into systematic learning (:
I heard that it started when a bloke called Archie Duke shot an ostrich 'cause he was hungry.
If we all behaved like Baldric the world would be a nicer place.
Extra history has an amazing show about World War I the politics before the war is very interesting
I'd love to see your reaction to extra credits series "The Seminal Tragedy" it's very good. It's about the build up to the war and the diplomatic attempts to stop it.
4:49 No. The French were not the first to use camouflage. If I'm not mistaken the first to employ this technique were the Maroons of the Caribbean, especially Jamaica. The Maroons were escaped slaves who lived in the mountains in hidden communities located in seemingly, humanly inaccessible areas. The colonial armies would go looking for them and often get ambushed because the Maroon fighters would use camouflage to hide in plain sight, plus they knew the forest and mountains better. Eventually the colonists stopped trying to recapture them signed a peace treaty with them - at least that's how the fighting ended in Jamaica. Now it's entirely possible that French colonialists copied the tactic of camouflage from the Maroons and used it in their own armies, thus becoming the first Europeans to employ that technique.
The French were first. You're mistaken
On the opposite of "oversimplified", i think the most dedicated channel about WWI on youtube is "the Great War". It also covers the period between WWI and WWII, which is as important as those two.
I'm sure someone already told you about the amazing channel "Epic History TV", you'll certainly find something interesting, especially if you want to know more about the Napoleonic Wars
4:45 btw most of the military vocabulary in English comes directly from the French language (and so from latin in the first place)
5:01 the French État-major was terrible during WW1 and is also remembered for the crazy "suicide attacks tactic". The main reason was that in memories, the French had lost the Franco-Prussian War in 1870 because the army was too defensive.
omg yes a Reaction to epic history tv napoleon
@@madsandersen5586 she already did that
I recently watched the Neftlix adaptation of "All Quiet on the Western Front", it's not for the faint of heart.
I didn’t know there was one!
Speaking of factual; my grandfather, great aunt and great uncle were in this war, and none of them got hurt. Yeah!
Perhaps the case of Archduke Ferdinand was a case of bad luck or a case of determinism. Or maybe it was a case of the first JFK assassination.
People wouldn't need this kind of oversimplified video if history was actually taught in school. Not reacting woman but, the video that she & we are watching. Books, books, books and more books. Build your own library and put the screens down every once and a while. 👍to your reaction
"Camoufleur" is a French theatrical term for a makeup artist, and the meaning was expanded during WWI to "camouflage." (The unrelated term "camouflet" meant to blow tobacco smoke in someone's face, which makes me wonder, what kind of people needs a precise term for being this kind of obnoxious?)
The French were laggards in camouflage; their army insisted on their colorful "pantalons rouges" as good for morale, even if it made them easy to spot. The Germans and British led the way in the nineteenth century is switching to "Feldgrau" (field gray) and khaki (Hindi for "dust) uniforms. Everyone, including the French, adopted camouflage versus aerial reconnaissance.
2:15 "Germany is all for that" No, not at all. Unfortunately the war was more or less unavoidable at this point. The German point of view was that they didn't want a war but since it was seen as unavoidable to get it over with as soon as possible.
If you are interested in history and the world wars - there are also a few movies that you should watch (mostly fictional, but still): Die Brücke (The Bridge) from 1959, Das Boot (The Boat) from 1981 - this movie is based on a novel written by war correspondant, Lothar-Günther Buchheim, who served on U-boats during the war and included his personal experiences in the book. Other movies include Letters from Iwo Jima and Flags of our Fathers.
I also recommend the swedish Heavy Metal band Sabaton who makes songs about military history and their secondary TH-cam channel Sabaton History where they make videos about the historical events they cover in their songs.
The wrong turn bit just makes me wonder if that part is a lie told to the public, and really it was just the driver who shot them, after taking them away somewhere quiet.
Watching this video from Oversimplified is like looking into a time capsule. The video is pretty good, and you can see that a lot of the elements of his style are there, but it feels more stilted and less developed in his story telling than his later videos. Watching each successive one feels more like a person who knows who they are and has improved more and more.
In your comments of determinism, chech out how the Archduke's cousin died. and what if it's his cousin taking that fateful ride?
Also many of the assassins fled after that failed first attempt.
A real pleasure to find that rare creature an intelligent You Tube broadcaster from the USA who takes an interest in and understands about a world outside the USA. The Oversimplified output can be a little too oversimplified however and for anyone wanting to go deeper into the complexities of the origins of WW1 you can do worse than hear Margaret McMillan’s talks eg to Gresham. College.
"A World Undone" by G. J. Meyer is a good one.
about the end of the video, we have stories in italy about soldiers that were trying to run away from conflict but then got friendly fire by police army as soon as they left trenches....
The diaries from the soldiers are very insightful and tragic.
If you change the butterfly effect of history, awful things still happen, just different awful things, at different awful times, involving different awful people. Humans do awful things.
the irony of it all is that franz ferdinand was the only person in austrian leadership that thought that empire should break up and give indenpendance to serbia
Camouflage was first developed in France in 1914 by artist Lucian-Victor Guirand de Scévola
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
You should read guns of August by Barbara Tuchman.
"Weird History" on youtube covers a wide range of topics
Instead of bad luck or determinism, I would guess the driver intentionally took a "wrong" turn.
WWI was his first video so his editing and animation style is quite a bit more simplistic than his more recent stuff like the Napoleanic Wars or first Punic War.
You can later watch the coinciding Russian Revolution videos from Oversimplified.
you'll love it when the Brits decide to combat the machine guns with the "Slow Walk" as Black Adder said we should have stayed home and shot 50,000 of our own men every week
He forgot to mention that most of the main belligerent rulers were all related, generally cousins, such as between Russia and Germany.
As for books, there is Barbara Tuckmann's "Great War Trilogy," The Proud Tower, The Guns of August, and The Zimmermann Telegram. Likely one of the best one volume books of the war would be the very recent (2018) "Pandora's Box," by Jorn Leonhard (translated in English by Patrick Camiller). Either way you go, I would supplement your reading with Tuckmann's Proud Tower. Fantastic pre-War social and political history, for sure.
I greatly enjoy Unknown5 when it comes to historic things, mostly because they focus on obscure or even macabre.
I’ll check them out right now! Thanks (:
Would be dope to see you react to his First Punic Wars videos. Have a good dayy
Great War book recommendation: The Men I Have Killed by Brigadier General Frank Crozier.
I heard it started when a guy called Archie Duke shot an Ostrich because he was Hungary 😂😂
The Fronts have been locked in trenches, but as you can see in 5:56 there were still plenty of Room to the North so both German & French tried to get north so the could outflank each other. The French and Germans encounterd each other several times and fought but digging trenches and then both armies tried to get further North
The Belgiums had flooded the Yser Canals to slow down and to stop the Germans to outflanking. And to keep the last piece of Belgium free. In those Battles against Germany King Albert the first, took part of it (against his advisers), and his Wife were only a few miles away serving as a Nurse. Because the Belgians flooded Yser, they were also cut of from the French,
This game King Albert the nickname. "The Soldier King" or "The Knight King". He was (not surprising) the only Monarch fighting in War.
Hi. Relatively new subscriber. Just wanted to say your intelligence and eagerness to learn new things is amazing. I bet it would be a great time to sit down and pick your brain for a bit.
Atun-Shei Films is a tremendous history TH-camrs who has done of a lot of focus on both the early colonial/Native wars in the Northeast and also the Civil War and attacking the Lost Cause myth. Highly, highly recommend.
I like your content
When you think about it, it's a miracle that any of us as individuals are alive today. Trace the steps back some 500 years or so, think about all the things that had to go right for you and I to be alive right now. Our ancestors survived wars, pandemics and just harsh conditions, sure many of them died, but not before that one sperm hit the egg, and a child was born. It is crazy that I am here, and I am me, at least I think I am, as an individual with my own thoughts and mind. Why me? The odds go to 1 vs infinity...
This is what happens when I drink on a Monday, but I had the day off so used it.
The French did early on deploy some troops in the initial encounters because new uniforms had not yet been distributed whereas the British with their experience of fighting the Boers already had khaki uniforms. The short summary of the important battle of the Marne is not especially well described.
Read The guns of august by barbara tuchman
You might find the video "How Folk Music Defeated the Soviet Union" interesting. Or any other video on The Singing Revolution for that matter :)
Good video
Fun facts about both WWs... both involves austrians, one shoot and one not shoot in time