@Aguila701 no. They did not go to war for food reserves because they were starving. They were starving because they went to war for stupid reasons when they weren't ready for war
@Aguila701 still political reasons. Being at war requires vastly more food then not being at war. Continuing a war for stakes at the bargaining table is very different from fighting a war to keep from starving. This is starving in order to continue fighting a war for diplomacy sake
@Aguila701 and Austria Hungary signed it's death warrant when it first started war. Go watch the first episodes again where indie outlines just how they were doomed from the outset
Thanks Arch! never heard of him but he is up there with Kress von Kressenstein (even more awesome as Kreß von Kreßenstein) or Svetozar Boroević von Bojna
so I was browsing Wikipedia and came up w/ Austria's "last minister of war" (as was Rudolf.... Wikipedia) Hermann Kövess von Kövessháza also: Friedrich Graf von Beck-Rzikowsky
Fascinating. It's easy top forget the effects of the war on cities as a whole. Vienna was perhaps the most artistic and intellectual of the west's modern cities, and it's collapse into chaos was a tragedy in and of itself.
I cannot express how excited I am. 4 years ago I asked for an intro to A/H for my students and it got asked on the chair of wisdom. I thought it would never happen. This makes me so very very happy.
@@reinhardvanastrea3019 Italy never could win a war alone against Austria! All the wars declared by Italy to Austria were won by Austria. Austria only lost when she had to take up with France & Italy or Prussia & Italy well and WW1... I mean seriously?
Hey Guys. I have followed thie channel for years now and wanted to ask this question before it might shut down: My grand-grandfather served in the Austro-Hungarian army and I have his diary about his time in the Serbian campaign. Is there a site/souce, where I can find where which division of the A-H army moved during the war? As I want to find more information on the route and the battles my grand-grandfather might have served in. Please help if you can and thank you in advance :)
The Kriegsarchiv in Vienna is where everything is kept about the Austrian Empire's armed forces until 1918. The only issue is that the information you want may only be available by reading papers from a box on site. If you know what units your kin served with, you may be able to find a copy of their unit histories which would detail everything as well, but they probably would be in the native language of the unit which could be any one of fourteen depending on who your Great-Grandfather was. Still, go for it. You won't know until you try and the soldiers of the Habsburg Empire deserve to be remembered as much as anyone.
Du solltest auf jeden Fall mit dem Gedanken spielen eine Transkription anfertigen zu lassen (oder direkt mit Militärhistorikern Kontakt aufnehmen)! Derartige Selbstzeugnisse (oder Egodokumente) sind halbwegs gefragt - d.h. nicht wenige werden Dich beneiden!(mein Großvater hat kein Tagebuch geführt als er in Banja-Luka stationiert war, der wollte das Feiern nicht unterbrechen...)
@Laura Eder notice me And I do blame them for the continuation. If they didn't want it go on, they could've just stopped working in the arms factories.
Thank you! Truly glorious. I was expecting there would be no seperate episode on Austria like about the other nations since Austria was basically the heart of the Austro-Hungarian empire, but great to see a very own episode dedicated to it even when it was technically the empire.
Fun fact: Some of my ancestors lived in Austrian Galicia... Brzozow, Poland...I have seen many of the immigration documents...and all that other jazz 😎
You can see how the collapse from the inside out of the AH empire affected the ideas of another AH (Hitler). A lot of national socialist thinking was geared around binding citizens together as one unit because of what the saw as the multiethnic cause of the empire’s weakness and ultimate demise.
Very interesting observation. I’m not sure why Europe and the West are gearing towards this model again. When you’ve got to sing the national anthem in German, Hungarian AND Slovak, there’s a problem lol
Steyr Mannlicher was also the name of the M.95 bolt action rifle adopted by the Dutch army. Later the Dutch weapon factory HEMBRUG would take over production.
It is said that it was created when an Austrian Count returned from battle. His white armour had two bloodred stripes on the upper and lower side. And thats how the Austrian Flag was created.
@@victorbruant389 Because of Austrias Poverty due to the Great Depression. Germany was a rising superpower. So getting annexed seemed like saving. From what Ive heard they all regretted it.
Not only after the Great Depression. In late 1918/early 1919, it was the common expectation that German Austria should join the united Germany - after all, all the obstacles that prevented that in the 1860s had been removed. It didn't happen because the Allies prohibited it in the Paris Treaties, but it was not just thing in the 1930s.
@@varana The Pan-German idea was just a thing people suggested when Bismark united Germany. I couldnt find any evidence on why they cheered for it. But as I said, I dont think its because of "German Austria". I believe its because of economics. I just cant imagine anything else. Austrians fricking hate Germans. We only really get along with the Swiss and Bavarians who are culturally simular to us. Its such a dumb term anyway.. Truth is...There isnt a german culture. Its just some dumb idea that started up in the 1800s and completely died after World War 2.
If you want a great insight into the life and mentality of Vienna from 1900-1938 you should read Stefan Zweig's "The world of yesterday". It's a fascinating and at parts utterly insane ride.
That bit about Parliament reminds me of what Billy Crystal said about Russia: "Our countries aren't that different (...) you have the Moscow Circus, we have Congress."
Do you know what will make this channel even more better is that is you make a video every day and more subscribers this channel deserves more subscribers
"If Austria is starving, it shouldn't fight a war" That is true, since in 1914 the Hungarians were the ones who opposed war with Serbia, but later yielded when Austria agreed to not annex any part of Serbia
Austria wanted to rule over the whole Balkan and Serbia wanted the same. There were tensions all over Europe, the conflict would have been just one of many. Germany, Russia and the Allies have turned the regional conflict into a world war.
Bismarck : Austria-Hungary has problems, let's take advantage and push them out of the German state's sphere of influence. Kaiser Wilhelm II: Austria-Hungary is awesome, let's be besties. What do you mean it has problems?
Can you put your scripts in the description? I like watching them, but it's harder to make notes. I'm researching each country's role in causing WW1 for my coursework. Thank you :)
Can you make a video about German Westungarn, which is now called Burgenland in the World War I. I am from Burgenland, so I may can help you with the research.
Love your show so much and all your America and French vids! :) Do a video about the Austrian Secret Police? I know it will be awesome. Also this is my question if I make it to the Chair of Wisdom. Or about secret polices of any nations in WWI?
Great video, but one thing; 1:25 Russian was not one of the languages of the Reichsrat - what you meant to say was Ruthenian, or what the Austrians called the Ukrainian language.
It didn't get mentioned that each nation that made up the Austro-Hungarian Empire had a different railroad gauge, so cargo had to be trans loaded at each border.
I live what used to be the Austrian littoral (Österreichisches Küstenland). The whole region was struck by famine in 1917., in mine hometown people were protesting demanding bread, and still today people remeber the stories of their grandfathers about the famine in 1917. What the swiss observer wrote about Vienna its the same for nearly all cities of the Empire...
4:52 - that is a photo of the 1914. Austro Hungarian troops' atrocities in occupied parts of Serbia. The victims are the citizens of the Kingdom of Serbia and not a minority of the Austro Hungarian Empire.
I always thought that Austria, was an interesting country. Very rich history and culture. One of the places, I would love to visit sometime. Btw,. Steyr-Mannlicher, is still in business. They still manufacturer rifles.
Yes they are and their Styer Aug is an amazing rifle. I use a Styer Aug A3 during competitive shoots as it's insanely accurate and so compact that moving from station to station is a breeze.
Hi indy love your show. I have a question for out of the trenches. I've heard a lot of about oil coal and other natural resources and how they were important to the warring nations, but I want to know what was the importance of sugar during the war? Who were the largest importers of sugar during wwi and who were the largest producers of sugar? I've read that after the war cuba become a major producer of sugar after the first world War. Thanks keep up the great work!
I’ve heard that after Austria stole the food barges from Germany, Ludendorff was super pissed. He even thought of declaring war on Austrio-Hungarian empire
At that time, even that wouldn't have prevented its end. The Empire wasn't dissolved by external powers, it collapsed from within. And those tensions wouldn't have gone away by switching sides.
The food and economic situation could have been saved if those in power had only move for its relief.. for the mess that was the parliament, the monarchy (being the only stable thing) could have intervened and settle things while reforming the empire and stabilizing its holdings.
Austria to Hungary: "We're starving, send us more food! " Hungary to Austria: "If Austria is starving, it shouldn't fight a war!". Quite true! Reminds me of this situation from a few years ago... California to Texas: "We don't have enough electricity and are on rolling blackouts, you need to send us more power even if it means going on rolling blackouts yourself..." Texas to California: "Nope! Try actually building power plants in your own state instead of blocking them all and then looking for someone else to solve your problems you created; or do everybody else a favor and just fall into the ocean already!!" Later! OL J R
This comment really aged terribly.....or it actually aged amazingly, depending on how you look at it. Texas failed its own people in the winter of 2021due to it's poor infrastructure, so it had to beg other states for help. I guess the lesson we can all take from this is that maybe people should work together for a better goal rather than have petty arguments.
@@AsiaMinor12 yeah we're being overrun by people escaping that hellhole California that's overburdening our power grid... That and libtards wanting to build nothing but windmills and solar that were both useless when we needed power the most. My comment stands...
I love your videos! And that you rock the woolen suit vest. Is that a nod to the time period? Would the men of the WWI-era have donned a vest like that when they were off-duty?
Can we get a commentary on the new recolored, and remastered footage that Peter Jackson, The Imperial War Museum, and others have put together for the new documentary, They Shall Not Grow Old?
Hey there INDY! and crew! i have a question about MONTENEGRO? i know you said in 1 episode that they didnt have much of a sea port . BUT i wonder if the allies could have tried to make a landing there and had the Montenegrans secretly build a landing port before austria invaded and then they could have let Greese stay nutral... PLZ ANSWER ME BACK>>>> IM A HUGE FAN AND SUPPORTER OF YOU GUYS!!! SO SAD ITS COMING TO AN END >>>BUT glad the war ended before more lives were lost.
The quote of the Swiss observers was quite similar to American observers in the same year in Beirut. One French observer wrote in 1916 "The sun of Syria would be pleasant if it did not shine on so many horrors." Father Eugène Sarloutte (1880-1944), French Catholic priest in Lebanon
Goodday indy it is some years before the great war but would it be possible to do a episode about the russo japan war from 1905 i could send photos of maps of a battlefield have to look up wich one
You should have mentioned Karl Krauss on the issue of atrocities. Die letzten Tage der Menschheit is the harshest and most harrowing critique of modernity in general and the war in particular I have ever read. For example there us a description of a train full of Czech soldiers an route to the Italian front being gassed ...
My mom and brother were sent to Holland and Germany temporarily around 1914 ages 7 & 9 because no food. She didn’t talk about it much, how can I find out how that worked? Government policies or what? They lived in Vienna, her dad fought in the war.
The German majority in AHE was too small to release the non German part of their empire and have them founding their own free indepandent states. They needed them to still play a major power role in Europe. But already before WW1 the time of big monarcy houses ruling land here and there were already over and replaced by national states.
Interesting is his statement about the Austrians enduring the war sacrifices by dreaming of the empires return to imperial glory. Is there an empire that once it began to totter returned to glory under the same style of government? The Roman? Persian? Egyptian? Ottoman?
France? At its height of empire after WWI even though technically a republic, it was 2nd only in size to the British Empire. But in 1940 it was completely defeated, partially occupied by the Germans and the rest a German puppet state (Vichy). After being liberated by Britain, USA and the Free French, France gradually saw it’s colonies demand independence. When it did not give in, it suffered in horrendous wars in Vietnam and Algeria. It’s ‘empire’ now consists of a few bits here and there basically 11 island and French Guiana. Yet it is a republic again as it was at it’s height in 1920. The 5th Republic--they are now 4 ahead of the US!
@@DesertAres I'm just going by how long France has lasted as a continuous administrative entity as well as a major power in Europe. They've had many revolutions, but they've stayed France that whole time.
That’s true, but after the quick fall of the 2nd empire (my favorite period) they grew as a republican empire (like some other country we know) and never ruled by an actual empire or court.
Please make a video on the creation of European freemasonry in 1717 that led to the implementation of the Hegallian dialectic in our political illusional system of democracy we are stuck with today, especially the role of what was left/became of the Teutonic knights, Knights Templars etc.
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Me: I’m hungry...
Austria: Wanna make a dual monarchy?
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@@johnanth why?
Noooooo
"If Austria is starving, it shouldn't fight a war"
OH SH**!!
also, what everyone else was thinking at the beginning
"It'll be over by Christmas!"
@Hungary #1 That's no excuse to let people starve.
@Aguila701 no. They did not go to war for food reserves because they were starving. They were starving because they went to war for stupid reasons when they weren't ready for war
@Aguila701 still political reasons. Being at war requires vastly more food then not being at war. Continuing a war for stakes at the bargaining table is very different from fighting a war to keep from starving. This is starving in order to continue fighting a war for diplomacy sake
@Aguila701 and Austria Hungary signed it's death warrant when it first started war. Go watch the first episodes again where indie outlines just how they were doomed from the outset
I still think it's a shame you never mentioned the epicly named Austro-Hungarian general Rudolf Stöger-Steiner von Steinstätten in the show!
That is a pretty epic name
What about High General Hotzenplotz?
Meh, that's nothing compared to Hans Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein.
Thanks Arch! never heard of him but he is up there with Kress von Kressenstein (even more awesome as Kreß von Kreßenstein)
or Svetozar Boroević von Bojna
so I was browsing Wikipedia and came up w/ Austria's "last minister of war" (as was Rudolf.... Wikipedia)
Hermann Kövess von Kövessháza
also: Friedrich Graf von Beck-Rzikowsky
Fascinating. It's easy top forget the effects of the war on cities as a whole. Vienna was perhaps the most artistic and intellectual of the west's modern cities, and it's collapse into chaos was a tragedy in and of itself.
I cannot express how excited I am. 4 years ago I asked for an intro to A/H for my students and it got asked on the chair of wisdom. I thought it would never happen. This makes me so very very happy.
Thank you, Austria, for Komissar Rex
Never forget
I used to watch that show here in Australia when I was a kid
still going
Wurstsemmel
And Mozart
Austria-hungry one my favorite defunct Empires
Yep. So interesting
Austria must be hungry
@@caydenl.4878
Austria is Hungary for Turkey! 😜
Stares in Byzantine O_O
They should have put an entry fee for their parliament. They could have financed the entire war with tickets sales
Addtion revenue for tourism and increase in GDP for those who look in the eyes of economy.
just went looking for a new video, perfect timing.
@Aggressive Tubesock I can quit TH-cam anytime
Thanks for doing my country🇦🇹😀
LoL
Latvia flag
You know you are weak when you lose to Italy
@@reinhardvanastrea3019 Italy never could win a war alone against Austria!
All the wars declared by Italy to Austria were won by Austria.
Austria only lost when she had to take up with
France & Italy
or
Prussia & Italy
well and WW1... I mean seriously?
Thank you to end your country
Erik the Red this is Latvian flag not Lithuanian flag
Hey Guys. I have followed thie channel for years now and wanted to ask this question before it might shut down:
My grand-grandfather served in the Austro-Hungarian army and I have his diary about his time in the Serbian campaign. Is there a site/souce, where I can find where which division of the A-H army moved during the war? As I want to find more information on the route and the battles my grand-grandfather might have served in.
Please help if you can and thank you in advance :)
Have you tried the military history museum in Vienna?
Heeresgeschichtliches Museum in Wien
The Kriegsarchiv in Vienna is where everything is kept about the Austrian Empire's armed forces until 1918. The only issue is that the information you want may only be available by reading papers from a box on site.
If you know what units your kin served with, you may be able to find a copy of their unit histories which would detail everything as well, but they probably would be in the native language of the unit which could be any one of fourteen depending on who your Great-Grandfather was. Still, go for it. You won't know until you try and the soldiers of the Habsburg Empire deserve to be remembered as much as anyone.
thanks for your answers :D
Du solltest auf jeden Fall mit dem Gedanken spielen eine Transkription anfertigen zu lassen (oder direkt mit Militärhistorikern Kontakt aufnehmen)! Derartige Selbstzeugnisse (oder Egodokumente) sind halbwegs gefragt - d.h. nicht wenige werden Dich beneiden!(mein Großvater hat kein Tagebuch geführt als er in Banja-Luka stationiert war, der wollte das Feiern nicht unterbrechen...)
Once again kudos to one of the best researched and longest running youtube history series.
Thanks for all the effort Indy and team!
Thank you Indy
I know a lot of popular songs on you and your wife
Thank YOU Franz!!
Gott erhältet Franz den Kaiser! 🎶
@@TheCimbrianBull Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser
What! The Austro-Hungarian Empire collapsed? Stop the presses!
Indy is giving spoilers!!!
If you think that's bad, wait until Germany gets partitioned in the sequel!
Or until the Ottoman Empire collapses and the Turks will have to participate in another war to create a Turkish Republic
Chef Mussolini is Austrian collapse really a spoiler at this point?
@@martinmortyry7444 it's a joke m8
This actually makes Austria look like pretty decent folks compared to most other warring countries.
If you exclude the publicized massacres against Serbian civilians...
by your standards everyone was a pretty decent folk country in the great war and you know what? everyone was
oh sure starving its people including its army, massacring minority villages and a farce of government.. yea decent!
By supporting the war, it was the fault of the Austrian people.
@Laura Eder notice me And I do blame them for the continuation. If they didn't want it go on, they could've just stopped working in the arms factories.
I love this channel! so much production value, so much history, so much education!
"My country tis of thee, Austria Hungary, obey your king..."
- Mr. Burns
LOL! 😂 I remember that one!
What! The Archduke is dead and the empire collapsed?
Thank you! Truly glorious. I was expecting there would be no seperate episode on Austria like about the other nations since Austria was basically the heart of the Austro-Hungarian empire, but great to see a very own episode dedicated to it even when it was technically the empire.
No Sudetenland
Fun fact: Some of my ancestors lived in Austrian Galicia... Brzozow, Poland...I have seen many of the immigration documents...and all that other jazz 😎
You can see how the collapse from the inside out of the AH empire affected the ideas of another AH (Hitler). A lot of national socialist thinking was geared around binding citizens together as one unit because of what the saw as the multiethnic cause of the empire’s weakness and ultimate demise.
Very interesting observation. I’m not sure why Europe and the West are gearing towards this model again. When you’ve got to sing the national anthem in German, Hungarian AND Slovak, there’s a problem lol
Steyr Mannlicher was also the name of the M.95 bolt action rifle adopted by the Dutch army. Later the Dutch weapon factory HEMBRUG would take over production.
My great grandmothers beautiful heimatland.🇦🇹
Nice video...Hail the Emperor!!! From Hungary :P
I don't know why but I love the Austria flag.
It is said that it was created when an Austrian Count returned from battle.
His white armour had two bloodred stripes on the upper and lower side. And thats how the Austrian Flag was created.
Are you Latvian by any chance?
@@belisarius6949 Didn't know that, nice fact
@@VersusARCH Nope, I'm from Argentina, half Spanish half Italian.
@@vecters2330 You'll love the Latvian flag too. Check it out ;)
"Nice country you have there Austria. Would be a shame if you got annexed one day." ~Germany
Most Austrians wanted to be a part of Germany after WW1
@@victorbruant389
Because of Austrias Poverty due to the Great Depression. Germany was a rising superpower. So getting annexed seemed like saving.
From what Ive heard they all regretted it.
@Trunk McEight
what
Not only after the Great Depression. In late 1918/early 1919, it was the common expectation that German Austria should join the united Germany - after all, all the obstacles that prevented that in the 1860s had been removed.
It didn't happen because the Allies prohibited it in the Paris Treaties, but it was not just thing in the 1930s.
@@varana
The Pan-German idea was just a thing people suggested when Bismark united Germany.
I couldnt find any evidence on why they cheered for it. But as I said, I dont think its because of "German Austria". I believe its because of economics.
I just cant imagine anything else. Austrians fricking hate Germans. We only really get along with the Swiss and Bavarians who are culturally simular to us.
Its such a dumb term anyway..
Truth is...There isnt a german culture.
Its just some dumb idea that started up in the 1800s and completely died after World War 2.
Thanks for correcting my pronunciation of Steyr.
Very insightful and polished peek into a fascinating and largely little known aspect of the time. Thank you.
I started TGW from the beginning about 8 weeks ago, tonight I have completed all the episodes and am ready for the next release.
If you want a great insight into the life and mentality of Vienna from 1900-1938 you should read Stefan Zweig's "The world of yesterday".
It's a fascinating and at parts utterly insane ride.
Superb job, Indy and team, on this important story
That bit about Parliament reminds me of what Billy Crystal said about Russia:
"Our countries aren't that different (...) you have the Moscow Circus, we have Congress."
Do you know what will make this channel even more better is that is you make a video every day and more subscribers this channel deserves more subscribers
Another great special. Nice analysis! Thanks!
Austria-Hungary was one of the coolest empires ever to exist and even had a really awesome flag. It's just a shame that it had to dissolve.
I've long awaited this!
Almost can’t believe this channel is at it’s end
"If Austria is starving, it shouldn't fight a war"
That is true, since in 1914 the Hungarians were the ones who opposed war with Serbia, but later yielded when Austria agreed to not annex any part of Serbia
Austria wanted to rule over the whole Balkan and Serbia wanted the same.
There were tensions all over Europe, the conflict would have been just one of many. Germany, Russia and the Allies have turned the regional conflict into a world war.
@Binsr because when they eventually unified it went so well, Yugoslavia was just another failed multicultural country, this time with communism.
I love your channel keep up the great stuff!!
Bismarck : Austria-Hungary has problems, let's take advantage and push them out of the German state's sphere of influence.
Kaiser Wilhelm II: Austria-Hungary is awesome, let's be besties. What do you mean it has problems?
When bismarck pushed it out it was just the austrian empire
Bismarck was actually protecting , Austria after prussian Austria war
First class research and presentation
I have been well informed and well entertained by you and crew. Thanks for your hard work and growing expertise.
And-hi Flo!
Austria: Our people are hungry..
Hungary: No, our people are Hungary.
Austria was Hungary for Turkey!
Austria: Hi Hungary, I'm dad.
Greetings from Vienna!
yes
oh in 7.25 you can see Anker Brot, they are still in business today and they still make bread
weltvonalex that's pretty cool.
Poor Australia
great video!
Can you put your scripts in the description? I like watching them, but it's harder to make notes. I'm researching each country's role in causing WW1 for my coursework. Thank you :)
Could you make a video about CGE Mannerheim in wwi?
time's up
Can you make a video about German Westungarn, which is now called Burgenland in the World War I.
I am from Burgenland, so I may can help you with the research.
Cool vid! I really love history and love you're channel
Why I can't stop listening Falco's song Vienna Calling in my head after seeing this episode ?
Love your show so much and all your America and French vids! :) Do a video about the Austrian Secret Police? I know it will be awesome. Also this is my question if I make it to the Chair of Wisdom. Or about secret polices of any nations in WWI?
Damn I love this channel, sad it's coming to an end soon
I wonder how Conrad was enjoying his retirement this time 100 years ago, or if he had anything planned for his special day in a few weeks!
Colin Wolf he died poor and miserable in Croatia
miserable yes but he died at a german spa in 1925.
Eric Carlson whoops I was thinking of Boroevic
@@morewi no He moved to Germany, and was depresed Austria hungary No more
Yesss! I love these country specific episodes.
Great video, but one thing; 1:25 Russian was not one of the languages of the Reichsrat - what you meant to say was Ruthenian, or what the Austrians called the Ukrainian language.
It didn't get mentioned that each nation that made up the Austro-Hungarian Empire had a different railroad gauge, so cargo had to be trans loaded at each border.
Super Austria, I love the music of Anton aus tirol ;-)
DJ Ötzi!
Anton Anton Anton Anton........... No wars ;-)
I live what used to be the Austrian littoral (Österreichisches Küstenland). The whole region was struck by famine in 1917., in mine hometown people were protesting demanding bread, and still today people remeber the stories of their grandfathers about the famine in 1917. What the swiss observer wrote about Vienna its the same for nearly all cities of the Empire...
Oh Austria :( we couldve been a great constitutional monarchy
Glory to the APR, death to the UFLL Which Kaiser?
We were constitutional since 1861 when Franz Joseph started to draft a constitution. The final constitution was drafted in 1867 and was quite liberal.
Austria would make a great constitutional monarchy. Everything is still there, the only thing missing is a von Hapsburg.
I agree, the system of government works well and replacing the president with an emperor would add stability and a more experienced head of state.
@@AEIOU05 the later habsburgs where incompetent and weak. a monarchy would be anachronistic and no longer fitting in our modern world.
4:52 - that is a photo of the 1914. Austro Hungarian troops' atrocities in occupied parts of Serbia. The victims are the citizens of the Kingdom of Serbia and not a minority of the Austro Hungarian Empire.
Mistakes can happen. ^^
But im glad you noticed. I wouldnt have noticed that honestly...
Serbs in bosnia and hercegovina were citizens of austria-hungary also in dalmatia croatia.
@@milivojnonkovic4151 Yes, you forgot Vojvodina too, but the ones in the picture being shot wrre not.
I think they're just using it as a visualisation of what they're talking about
Pepetrators were often other slavs from AH...not necessarily Austrians or Hungarians
I always thought that Austria, was an interesting country. Very rich history and culture. One of the places, I would love to visit sometime. Btw,. Steyr-Mannlicher, is still in business. They still manufacturer rifles.
Yes they are and their Styer Aug is an amazing rifle. I use a Styer Aug A3 during competitive shoots as it's insanely accurate and so compact that moving from station to station is a breeze.
Steyr still makes some of the finest rifles in the world. It was true back then and today as well.
1:51 ...köstlich !
Hi indy love your show. I have a question for out of the trenches. I've heard a lot of about oil coal and other natural resources and how they were important to the warring nations, but I want to know what was the importance of sugar during the war? Who were the largest importers of sugar during wwi and who were the largest producers of sugar? I've read that after the war cuba become a major producer of sugar after the first world War. Thanks keep up the great work!
5:49 that awkward moment when you arm you enemies
I’ve heard that after Austria stole the food barges from Germany, Ludendorff was super pissed. He even thought of declaring war on Austrio-Hungarian empire
At that time, even that wouldn't have prevented its end. The Empire wasn't dissolved by external powers, it collapsed from within. And those tensions wouldn't have gone away by switching sides.
The food and economic situation could have been saved if those in power had only move for its relief.. for the mess that was the parliament, the monarchy (being the only stable thing) could have intervened and settle things while reforming the empire and stabilizing its holdings.
I had not known that hunger was so bad in the Austria. Another terrible effect of the Not-So-Great War . . .
Austria to Hungary: "We're starving, send us more food! "
Hungary to Austria: "If Austria is starving, it shouldn't fight a war!".
Quite true! Reminds me of this situation from a few years ago...
California to Texas: "We don't have enough electricity and are on rolling blackouts, you need to send us more power even if it means going on rolling blackouts yourself..."
Texas to California: "Nope! Try actually building power plants in your own state instead of blocking them all and then looking for someone else to solve your problems you created; or do everybody else a favor and just fall into the ocean already!!"
Later! OL J R
This comment really aged terribly.....or it actually aged amazingly, depending on how you look at it. Texas failed its own people in the winter of 2021due to it's poor infrastructure, so it had to beg other states for help. I guess the lesson we can all take from this is that maybe people should work together for a better goal rather than have petty arguments.
@@AsiaMinor12 yeah we're being overrun by people escaping that hellhole California that's overburdening our power grid... That and libtards wanting to build nothing but windmills and solar that were both useless when we needed power the most. My comment stands...
I love your videos! And that you rock the woolen suit vest. Is that a nod to the time period? Would the men of the WWI-era have donned a vest like that when they were off-duty?
Can we get a commentary on the new recolored, and remastered footage that Peter Jackson, The Imperial War Museum, and others have put together for the new documentary, They Shall Not Grow Old?
Hey there INDY! and crew! i have a question about MONTENEGRO? i know you said in 1 episode that they didnt have much of a sea port . BUT i wonder if the allies could have tried to make a landing there and had the Montenegrans secretly build a landing port before austria invaded and then they could have let Greese stay nutral... PLZ ANSWER ME BACK>>>> IM A HUGE FAN AND SUPPORTER OF YOU GUYS!!! SO SAD ITS COMING TO AN END >>>BUT glad the war ended before more lives were lost.
Should have mentioned Aurel Popovici's proposal to reform the AH Empire into the United States of Greater Austria, and why it was rejected.
Wasnt that Woodrow Wilsons idea? With the whole Austrian Confederacy?
Belisarius No. Aurel Popovici tried this in 1906.
It was rejected because it was inevitably unrealistic within the political realities of the Empire
Austria did pay whole price. As reparations, Austria accepted Serbian students as own.
Does anyone know the name of the author(s) of the quote at 09:10? Or could anyone provide a link to the source? Would be greatly appreciated!
So you’re telling me Hungary is hungry
Austria was Hungary for Turkey!
The quote of the Swiss observers was quite similar to American observers in the same year in Beirut. One French observer wrote in 1916 "The sun of Syria would be pleasant if it did not shine on so many horrors." Father Eugène Sarloutte (1880-1944), French Catholic priest in Lebanon
"If Austria is starving, they shouldn't fight a war"
Goosebumps there
This the first video I watch after my grandpa’s funeral
If you like this series, be sure to check out Indy's world war two series that is just starting up!
Goodday indy it is some years before the great war but would it be possible to do a episode about the russo japan war from 1905 i could send photos of maps of a battlefield have to look up wich one
i'd like to know more about the seizing of corn ships en route to Germany by the Austrian Home Guard.
Hey The Great War i cant find the video about d'annunzio flying over vienna can you please link the video?
You should have mentioned Karl Krauss on the issue of atrocities. Die letzten Tage der Menschheit is the harshest and most harrowing critique of modernity in general and the war in particular I have ever read. For example there us a description of a train full of Czech soldiers an route to the Italian front being gassed ...
My mom and brother were sent to Holland and Germany temporarily around 1914 ages 7 & 9 because no food. She didn’t talk about it much, how can I find out how that worked? Government policies or what? They lived in Vienna, her dad fought in the war.
Some how the great war ad showed up in this video
The German majority in AHE was too small to release the non German part of their empire and have them founding their own free indepandent states. They needed them to still play a major power role in Europe. But already before WW1 the time of big monarcy houses ruling land here and there were already over and replaced by national states.
oho a Vid about my country. You got me interested
Claims to be Hungarian
Is really from Bhutan
@@luxembourgishempire2826 no u
Please do one for Greece :)
Interesting is his statement about the Austrians enduring the war sacrifices by dreaming of the empires return to imperial glory. Is there an empire that once it began to totter returned to glory under the same style of government? The Roman?
Persian? Egyptian? Ottoman?
France
France? At its height of empire after WWI even though technically a republic, it was 2nd only in size to the British Empire. But in 1940 it was completely defeated, partially occupied by the Germans and the rest a German puppet state (Vichy). After being liberated by Britain, USA and the Free French, France gradually saw it’s colonies demand independence. When it did not give in, it suffered in horrendous wars in Vietnam and Algeria. It’s ‘empire’ now consists of a few bits here and there basically 11 island and French Guiana. Yet it is a republic again as it was at it’s height in 1920. The 5th Republic--they are now 4 ahead of the US!
@@DesertAres I'm just going by how long France has lasted as a continuous administrative entity as well as a major power in Europe. They've had many revolutions, but they've stayed France that whole time.
China
That’s true, but after the quick fall of the 2nd empire (my favorite period) they grew as a republican empire (like some other country we know) and never ruled by an actual empire or court.
Take that last quote and substitute LA or San Francisco for Vienna. Is this where we are heading?
The dissolution of Austria-Hungary is honestly a tragedy and just another black mark left on the world by the war.
Please make a video on the creation of European freemasonry in 1717 that led to the implementation of the Hegallian dialectic in our political illusional system of democracy we are stuck with today, especially the role of what was left/became of the Teutonic knights, Knights Templars etc.
So when do I find this series? Today! I have a lot of video to look at.
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Anyone else hear a doorbell at 5:33?
Why did the monarchy leave as well sure the empire would be gone but could the Hapsburg monarchy survive as the royal house of just Austria.
Weird to think that the empire that stopped the Ottomans from taking over Europe would die fighting with the Ottomans against most of Europe.
I have been at the Austrian Parliament or Reichtag or whatever it is called in 2003 I think. I am 32 years old now.