Ludendorff really was all about military. He would visit the Belgian fortresses during his "vacation" to study them in more detail. He was pretty dedicated/obsessed.
@@mr.ramfan8100 id say it was the Kaiserliche Marine who lost the war, they never tried to break the blockade (well they did, once, in four years of war)
So Crown Prince Rupprecht was somewhat comparable to the French Pétain, ensuring that his troops at least had the basic levels of comfort instead of Ludendorff, who did not care for the soldiers' lives of well-being, as long as the war was fought. Incredible how there can be so much division among the command within one army.
not really. the Army attracts all kinds of people. from megalomaniacs, control freaks, over cautious/or ambitious, people with opposite ideas on how limited resources should be spent, even division on what the goals of the war should be
Hey thats so cool. Crown Prince Rupprecht was my Great-Grandfather and a great man. Mein Grossmama Editha Princess von Bayern would tell me about him. She loved him very much. I live in Canada now with my family so my German isn't great but we still managed to get some of the paintings of him and family heirlooms. Its so cool that you are talking about him!
Fun fact. Ludendorff was born April 9, 1865. The very same day Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse.
My 2nd great-grandfather fought in the 3rd Bavarian division in the 6th army with Crown prince Rupprecht. I still have his medals, including a first class Iron Cross. He fought in the battle of the Frontiers, in the Somme, Verdun, Ypres, and the German attempts of 1918. He was wounded but went back to the frontline. Then, after the war he left to Brazil to restart his life with his wife and kids.
Rupprecht had the means to appear more humain, Ludendorff had the skills and the urge to be usefull on all military matters. These two individuals represented the true difference in Germany: the diligent north opposing the self-endulging south. (no need to guess, where my ancestors belonged to)
I came to the same conclusions as Rupprecht about Ludendorff's military capability when the spring offensive started. I have studied a lot of wars but have left WW1 to be studied later in detail as it's so complex.
Dear Indy and team, I've been watching the show for going on 3 years now, and I've been enthralled since then by you're masterful , insightful, and sobering recounting of this war that claimed the lives of so many millions of young men my age. I want to congratulate you all from the bottom of my heart for the nearly 5 years of hard work and dedication you have put in to such a momentous project. My question for out of the trenches is, would you guys ever consider publishing a book on The Great War? It could essentially be an edited collection of your weekly scripts in book form. I think that it would be an incredibly comprehensive yet equally accessible title, that would cover both the most important and well known events of the conflict, as well as the obscure and oft ignore theaters and details that were none that less intriguing and important. Again, thank you for many years of knowledge and entertainment. With Regards. -Max
Great effort from Indy to take care for even the right pronounciation and emphesis of words like "OBERSTE" Heeresleitung which might take quite a lot time to get it done the right way and the excercises for that. It makes the descriptions a lot more vivid or catches a german far more when suddenly the pronounciation switches to native german. He did it for such a long time but this time I recogniced it why it catches me so often when he describes interactions. Well done !
There is a journal entry somewhere about Ludendorff’s sons dead body. If I remember correctly he kept one of the son’s body with him in his office or close by. It was said that it comforted him and he wrote to his wife about it as well. Though I can’t find the journal entry from him, it does paint a picture how much 4 years of war can have on a man who’s been fighting it since day one.
A realist? True. There is no place for emotions in politics, diplomacy and warfare. You have to be pragmatic, methodical, cold and calculated. Rupprecht was a soyboy betacuck.
If you dig deep enough to the mind of any human who has performed acts of cruelty, you will find that rationale to be true in all of them. No one ever believes themselves to be evil
Megas Archon Alexandros Vlahos Idk dude, it was exactly that kind of behavior that caused the German people to revolt. Not sure where you get that idea about Rupprecht from, but from what Indy said his successful command of his men definitely earned him his rank. Cheers mate
Rupprecht seems to have been the only royal commander of this war that actually deserved his rank. Every other royal who held a command in the war was criminally incompetent. Much respect to him, despite his own political leanings
Problem was that he was proven wrong about Russia being too large and powerful to conquer. The problem was the civilian leadership at the top. The Kaiser wasn't strong enough to make the two work together.
a constitutional monarchy in Bavaria with Rupprecht at the head still had great support into the 50s, and told king George that Rupprecht considered Hitler insane lol
So exciting to enter into the minds of great leaders to discover both their glory & their misery... and that a British general & Ludendorff actually met to talk about what people call "war" & they call "work". Cheers Markus for your significant & exciting research !
Nice to see my cousin Rupprecht was less useless than the rest of our family. This more than makes up for your omission of the brief reign of King Mindaugas II of Lithuania, my great-great-grandfather.
@@sithersproductions I am also descended from a pope and an anti-pope - but since all the royals are so inbred all across Europe, once you're related to one of them you're related to the lot.
Hi Indy and the crew! I was told stories of my great grandfather in ww1. He was an officer in the gurkha regiment in the british army. So Indy I was wondering where were gurkha soldiers sationed and what roles did they play?
Watch at 1.25 speed (or higher if you can still enjoy it) and you'll cut your screen time by 20%. Indy looks a little over-caffeinated, but he still sounds great.
Is it too late to ask if there could be a shout out to the Petróczy-Kármán-Žurovec? (Otherwise known as an experimental Austro-Hungarian tethered helicopter/observation platform thingy)
I see you upheld your promise to talk about the nonsense that was the Dolchstoss legend I inquired about...1 1/2 years ago? This war has been going on for too long, but the end is nigh. Thanks for all you guys work.
I think I can see myself liking the Crown Prince. I wonder what if Crown Prince Rupprecht had Ludendorff's job and Ludendorff had Rupprect's job. Would they're opinions be the same or different. I think it would be a really interesting to see something on that. great job.
I have always loved military history.... Then served 8 years active duty in the United States MARINE Corps. One thing has not changed, Being(or getting to be) a General. Is more about politics then any real skill. The sadness is that, the real warriors die for this follie.
"Get logistics right, and you win wars." -Me I'm still bothered by the portrayal of Ludendorff in the recent Wonder Woman movie. Somehow, "enemy soldier" just wasn't enough, they had to make him a (literal) cackling maniac. And sprinkle a nice dose of nazification on to him, to boot.
Well he was a strong supporter of Hitler, and given some of the accounts of the German general staff towards the end, Ludendorff was pretty much out of touch with reality.
Eventually I'll have to see it, but franks I have yet to see an American film about WW1 that doesn't depict the Americans as super soldiers who won the First World War all by themselves.
I recommend Sebastian Haffner " The German Revolution 1918/1919 (9th edition upwards) for Ludendorff‘s more than accidental involvement in the "Back Stab legend" and the following consequences.
There is a new bio of Rupprecht that has come out earlier this year titled " Haig's Enemy" Note Rupprecht commanded the German 6th Army not the 3rd which faced the French for the entire war.
There is still time to do an episode about mannerheim on this channel. If you wait to do it on world war two, his exploits in the great war might be impossible to fit in.
I think the whole “tactically brilliant, operationally poor, and strategically bankrupt” idea of the German army was due to the thinking of the eastern thinkers of the High Command. Ludendorff was definitely out of touch with the reality on the ground and seemed to not care about the bloodshed from the costly offensives. It seemed that Foch was an overall better strategic thinker than Ludendorff. Although you have to keep in mind the total deficit of resources that the Germans had to deal with after 1916, even after the Brest-Litovsk treaty. By 1918, the only way, I think, Germany could have won the war was a negotiated peace without having the grand ambitions of the high command.
Although when he gained power in the OHL, it was to replace Falkenhayn after the disastrous bloodshed at Verdun. He didn't care in other ways than Falkenhayn.
"So be it." Once everyone was agreed to the more brutal schema, they became the-wait for it- "So Be It Union". I'll let myself out . . . through Siberia.
He was not a Prussian aristocrat , his family had middle class origins and had no estate and not from Junkers class. During his career he was more interested in climbing military hierrarchy ladder by merit
There's a question I've always wanted awnsered. Are the stories about the "Wild Deserters" A group of feral deserters of both sides that prowled no mans land true?
Great episode as usual! Can we have a femal bio next time? It's been a while... Prehaps Louise de Bettignies a french spy/information network manager ? ☺
le Beast Tactics are used to win battles in furtherance of the goals of an offensive (or defensive) operation in order to win a campaign. Operations are used in furtherance of the goals of a strategy to win a war. Strategy should come first, otherwise operational and tactical efforts are wasted.
Indy, please make a video on French West Africa and another video on French Indochina. Please do so before your channel ends. Please respond to my comment.
Every time I watch this show it reminds me of the great Martin war a documentary about aliens it would be cool if you guys would like to do a Halloween special about it.
I just thought of a question. I wonder how much wargaming assisted both sides of the war, and in what way, in their planning and preparation for offensives and the responses to them?
Hm, so Ludendorff was a "savant", with interest and talent for war but nothing else? If he remembered all those details from memory to write a book ... mindblowing. But this could also explain why he could be so ignorant of human casualties: he would just not even see it.
Question for out of the trenches; did the Russians have ANY competent officers except for Brusilov? You'd think with an army that size there must of been at least some half way descent Generals or at least officers
I think the competent officers are overshadowed by the incompetence of the highest leadership. Even very capable underlings can have a hard time saving the day from the useless aristocrats in charge.
Ludendorf was from a Junker family. They were not nobility, but they were landed gentry. They were not poor farmers, but well-off landowners who managed their estates. They dominated the Prussian military. He pretty much personified the attitude of a whole class of Prussian society. I think the Junkers are worth mentioning in this video.
Imagine your a Dutch guard and out of nowhere the crown prince stands before you with his luggage, asking if he could apply for asylum in The Netherlands.
Hey Indy, Could you please do an episode about China as well. China also participated in the Great War in the Ally's side and provided overall 200,000 labours in both west and east front. The sacrifice of them should not be forgotten as well.
Ludendorff really was all about military. He would visit the Belgian fortresses during his "vacation" to study them in more detail. He was pretty dedicated/obsessed.
thats the thing that separtes military geniuses and ordinary officers
The glorious defeat of the wermacht was, basically, his doing...
@@mr.ramfan8100 id say it was the Kaiserliche Marine who lost the war, they never tried to break the blockade (well they did, once, in four years of war)
That's what It takes to be at the top.
hey now, we can’t judge when we’re the nerds who watch ww1 content for fun
So Crown Prince Rupprecht was somewhat comparable to the French Pétain, ensuring that his troops at least had the basic levels of comfort instead of Ludendorff, who did not care for the soldiers' lives of well-being, as long as the war was fought. Incredible how there can be so much division among the command within one army.
not really. the Army attracts all kinds of people. from megalomaniacs, control freaks, over cautious/or ambitious, people with opposite ideas on how limited resources should be spent, even division on what the goals of the war should be
@@zeppelinboys your comment was so generalising it's entirely useless 😂
I seem to recall that the British preferred the Bavarians to the Prussians, and that the Bavarians didn't much like the Prussians either!
Hey thats so cool. Crown Prince Rupprecht was my Great-Grandfather and a great man. Mein Grossmama Editha Princess von Bayern would tell me about him. She loved him very much. I live in Canada now with my family so my German isn't great but we still managed to get some of the paintings of him and family heirlooms. Its so cool that you are talking about him!
And equally, it was cool that those of us that don't know that much about him, got to hear about him.
Have you ever visited Germany and Bavaria?
That’s so cool
yeah I have many times to visit my relatives. Many of them still have estates. My Uncle Franz is Duke of Bavaria although he has no actual power.
@@schimertp
Wow, that's some awesome family history! Thanks for the reply. 👍
Fun fact. Ludendorff was born April 9, 1865. The very same day Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse.
LMMFAO
I thought that was a lie for a second. No, that is actual facts. Wow.
I'll be damned! Thank you for that...
@@mr.ramfan8100 I'll second that
One bozo passing the torch to another
My 2nd great-grandfather fought in the 3rd Bavarian division in the 6th army with Crown prince Rupprecht. I still have his medals, including a first class Iron Cross. He fought in the battle of the Frontiers, in the Somme, Verdun, Ypres, and the German attempts of 1918. He was wounded but went back to the frontline. Then, after the war he left to Brazil to restart his life with his wife and kids.
Knocking on the door with ....a pommel! What luck the fort didn’t collapse after being ended so rightly.
CAP198462
Wrong channel.. or maybe not, I guess everyone’s heard that meme.
I like Rupprecht more, just he's more human than Ludendorff.
Yeah that's odd , a Crown Prince caring more for the common soldiers than the commoner General.
@@MrShaneVicious, Yeah, some people just have more solidarity than others.
I really like the name Rupprecht!
Rupprecht had the means to appear more humain, Ludendorff had the skills and the urge to be usefull on all military matters. These two individuals represented the true difference in Germany:
the diligent north opposing the self-endulging south.
(no need to guess, where my ancestors belonged to)
Ludendorff sounds like the type of dour militarist that plagued Germany for the entire 20th century.
I came to the same conclusions as Rupprecht about Ludendorff's military capability when the spring offensive started. I have studied a lot of wars but have left WW1 to be studied later in detail as it's so complex.
"Ludendorff had no friends."
I'm not surprised.
Is a video about Kaiser Karl I of Austria Hungary planned? I would really appreciate it since so little is ever mentioned about him.
would be great
Sadly so little time remains. As I write: the war is over in 4 days
Dear Indy and team,
I've been watching the show for going on 3 years now, and I've been enthralled since then by you're masterful , insightful, and sobering recounting of this war that claimed the lives of so many millions of young men my age. I want to congratulate you all from the bottom of my heart for the nearly 5 years of hard work and dedication you have put in to such a momentous project. My question for out of the trenches is, would you guys ever consider publishing a book on The Great War? It could essentially be an edited collection of your weekly scripts in book form. I think that it would be an incredibly comprehensive yet equally accessible title, that would cover both the most important and well known events of the conflict, as well as the obscure and oft ignore theaters and details that were none that less intriguing and important. Again, thank you for many years of knowledge and entertainment.
With Regards.
-Max
Great effort from Indy to take care for even the right pronounciation and emphesis of words like "OBERSTE" Heeresleitung which might take quite a lot time to get it done the right way and the excercises for that. It makes the descriptions a lot more vivid or catches a german far more when suddenly the pronounciation switches to native german. He did it for such a long time but this time I recogniced it why it catches me so often when he describes interactions.
Well done !
Just rewatching the entire series again because why not
Indiana Jones indeed
Well, it's a great show but how long will that take?
Long
Rick Lolkema so far I’m in Spring of 1915, I’m binge watching The Great War
And How long has that taken?
There is a journal entry somewhere about Ludendorff’s sons dead body. If I remember correctly he kept one of the son’s body with him in his office or close by. It was said that it comforted him and he wrote to his wife about it as well. Though I can’t find the journal entry from him, it does paint a picture how much 4 years of war can have on a man who’s been fighting it since day one.
Ludendorff was one of those people who do bad things not out of malice, but out of willingness to do whatever is they think is necessary.
In principle, there's barely any difference. Cruelty out of malice or cruelty out of pragmatism is still just cruelty.
He is still doing bad things, regardless of his rationalization.
A realist? True. There is no place for emotions in politics, diplomacy and warfare. You have to be pragmatic, methodical, cold and calculated. Rupprecht was a soyboy betacuck.
If you dig deep enough to the mind of any human who has performed acts of cruelty, you will find that rationale to be true in all of them. No one ever believes themselves to be evil
Megas Archon Alexandros Vlahos Idk dude, it was exactly that kind of behavior that caused the German people to revolt. Not sure where you get that idea about Rupprecht from, but from what Indy said his successful command of his men definitely earned him his rank. Cheers mate
My favourite general is Indy Neidell.
I'm positive I didn't read that the way it was intended - there's a typo there, right?
@@warriorcrab1319, YEP, lol
3:34 damn Luddendorf reminds me of Flo. I now kinda want to see Flo cosplay as Luddendorf with moustache.
😂😂😂
Ludendorff went with the flow and reincarnated as Flo!
Markus Linke sans beard as Kaiser Karl I
Rupprecht seems to have been the only royal commander of this war that actually deserved his rank. Every other royal who held a command in the war was criminally incompetent. Much respect to him, despite his own political leanings
Problem was that he was proven wrong about Russia being too large and powerful to conquer. The problem was the civilian leadership at the top. The Kaiser wasn't strong enough to make the two work together.
weren't the only other 2 the Crown prince and Albert of Wurttemberg?
I suppose others held lesser ranks
Crown Prince Wilhelm was a decent commander.
@@MrShaneVicious Also Leopold von Bayern was a great commander.
a constitutional monarchy in Bavaria with Rupprecht at the head still had great support into the 50s, and told king George that Rupprecht considered Hitler insane lol
Finally one video about Ludendorf
And 100 years later most bavarians still like austria more.
And so does the rest of Europe...
Oh, please, please, please join Austria. And take Saxony with you. Nothing would make the rest of Germany more happy.
CSU 35%
@@karlkarlos3545 Bavaria is the most German part of Germany
@@GerackSerack well, Austrian cellars...
Beyond the scope of this channel....but not beyond the scope of Between 2 Wars. ;)
So exciting to enter into the minds of great leaders to discover both their glory & their misery... and that a British general & Ludendorff actually met to talk about what people call "war" & they call "work". Cheers Markus for your significant & exciting research !
For the first time I have some grudging respect for the Crown Prince . I would like to hear more about his career .
Nice to see my cousin Rupprecht was less useless than the rest of our family. This more than makes up for your omission of the brief reign of King Mindaugas II of Lithuania, my great-great-grandfather.
@@sithersproductions I am also descended from a pope and an anti-pope - but since all the royals are so inbred all across Europe, once you're related to one of them you're related to the lot.
Wait he really said that? "Get the tactics right, and you win battles. Get the operational art right, and you win campaigns"
Hi Indy and the crew! I was told stories of my great grandfather in ww1. He was an officer in the gurkha regiment in the british army. So Indy I was wondering where were gurkha soldiers sationed and what roles did they play?
Nice. Just saw a lecture about the Spring Offensives and Ludendorff's lack of operational strategy.
Ludendorff has to be the most powerful Quartermaster General in history.
WHERE ARE THE SUBTITLES?? ARGHHHH..I NEED THEM (I am Deaf...)! Please, I am a loyal Patreon diehard supporter of the TGW :-/ .
Is it still possible to catch up until November 11th if I start in 1914 now?
Player 1 yes I’m doing it. Already on week fifty after six days
only 1 way to find out
@@ICULooking Just have to quit my job, then I have plenty of time ;-)
Player 1 I mean, you don't necessarily have to finish it before the 11th
Watch at 1.25 speed (or higher if you can still enjoy it) and you'll cut your screen time by 20%. Indy looks a little over-caffeinated, but he still sounds great.
Actually, if you dont know Indy, Rupprecht's Chief of Staff was Hermann Von Kuhl
Super vidéo sur le caractère très obtus de Ludendorff ..! Merci , thanks !
Is it too late to ask if there could be a shout out to the Petróczy-Kármán-Žurovec? (Otherwise known as an experimental Austro-Hungarian tethered helicopter/observation platform thingy)
I see you upheld your promise to talk about the nonsense that was the Dolchstoss legend I inquired about...1 1/2 years ago? This war has been going on for too long, but the end is nigh. Thanks for all you guys work.
That shell at 1:32 was absolutely brutal
I think I can see myself liking the Crown Prince. I wonder what if Crown Prince Rupprecht had Ludendorff's job and Ludendorff had Rupprect's job. Would they're opinions be the same or different. I think it would be a really interesting to see something on that. great job.
I have always loved military history....
Then served 8 years active duty in the United States MARINE Corps.
One thing has not changed,
Being(or getting to be) a General. Is more about politics then any real skill.
The sadness is that, the real warriors die for this follie.
yeah but war usually weeds out the bad generals and the cream rises to the top. look at the french rev/napoleonic wars, civil war, wwi, etc
At the low low price of hundreds of thousands of lives.
"Get logistics right, and you win wars." -Me
I'm still bothered by the portrayal of Ludendorff in the recent Wonder Woman movie. Somehow, "enemy soldier" just wasn't enough, they had to make him a (literal) cackling maniac. And sprinkle a nice dose of nazification on to him, to boot.
And the Ludendorff in Wonder Woman looks a lot more like his subordinate Max Hoffmann.
Well he was a strong supporter of Hitler, and given some of the accounts of the German general staff towards the end, Ludendorff was pretty much out of touch with reality.
Certainly, but the depiction was way too much.
Eventually I'll have to see it, but franks I have yet to see an American film about WW1 that doesn't depict the Americans as super soldiers who won the First World War all by themselves.
When Indy says “beyond the scope of this channel”. I take a shot. I am now a hardcore alcoholic.
I recommend Sebastian Haffner " The German Revolution 1918/1919 (9th edition upwards) for Ludendorff‘s more than accidental involvement in the "Back Stab legend" and the following consequences.
There is a new bio of Rupprecht that has come out earlier this year titled " Haig's Enemy" Note Rupprecht commanded the German 6th Army not the 3rd which faced the French for the entire war.
Yes Rupprecht finally ! Can we get an episode for CP Wilhelm ?
There is still time to do an episode about mannerheim on this channel. If you wait to do it on world war two, his exploits in the great war might be impossible to fit in.
I'm surprised that they didn't do Alvin York yet, myself.
@@shrillbert well, they just started bringing the Americans in, there's still time
shrilbert
They did actually talk about Alvin York just recently in the episode about the Lost Battalion.
Yes, but I meant as a Who Did What special.
Is this the guy that saves Christmas?
I came from the timeghost's video and I was looking for that comment😁😁
Next on WHO DID WHAT IN WW1:
Captain Edmund Blackadder, aka The Flanders Pigeon Murderer
I think the whole “tactically brilliant, operationally poor, and strategically bankrupt” idea of the German army was due to the thinking of the eastern thinkers of the High Command. Ludendorff was definitely out of touch with the reality on the ground and seemed to not care about the bloodshed from the costly offensives. It seemed that Foch was an overall better strategic thinker than Ludendorff. Although you have to keep in mind the total deficit of resources that the Germans had to deal with after 1916, even after the Brest-Litovsk treaty. By 1918, the only way, I think, Germany could have won the war was a negotiated peace without having the grand ambitions of the high command.
Although when he gained power in the OHL, it was to replace Falkenhayn after the disastrous bloodshed at Verdun. He didn't care in other ways than Falkenhayn.
Could you tell something about the book in the background, Ludendorff reine .. something something.
It's called "Meine Kriegserrinnerungen, 1914-1918".
It's the book Indy's talking about for a bit, written immediately after his resignation - the title translates to "My War Memories".
What day is it? The date! What yeeeear?!
"Sonofabitch took my pants!"
"Your clothes, give them to me. NOW!"
“Come with me if you want to live”
Does the special for Paul von Hindenburg exist? I don't see anything
Will you be doing a Who did What about Bernard Montgomery?
You guys should review Peter Jackson's 'They Shall Not Grow Old' that came out the 16th
Hoping for a special on Enver Pasha and the Ottoman Sultan soon. Keep up the great work!
This is Great War, not Pacific War Ashigara san
Can someone from the Great War please point me to the show where they talked about Prince Rupprecht and the reindeer please thank you
"So be it." Once everyone was agreed to the more brutal schema, they became the-wait for it- "So Be It Union".
I'll let myself out . . . through Siberia.
Perhaps we could hear about the Beer Hall Putsch on another channel very similar to this one, but focused on World War 2... hmmm
can you buy Ludendorf's book?
In German, yes. Not sure about English.
I honestly feel like this would’ve been better as two episodes.
I thought you said that Mackensen was the best general.
I always wondered why Erich Ludendorff does not have a noble "von" in his name despite being a noble. Has anyone an idea?
He was not a Prussian aristocrat , his family had middle class origins and had no estate and not from Junkers class. During his career he was more interested in climbing military hierrarchy ladder by merit
Ludendorff and Hindenburg had the best bromance ever. Damn shame their friendship soured. RIP
I have family from east Prussia, sad to say it no longer exists! By the way indy is your last name German?
I want to see the monarchs restored one day...
Can u guys do a Scotland special PLEASE
Where was Scotland when WW1?
@Megas Scotland is part of Britain.
Can you do a video about the Revolution 1918 in Karlsruhe in the Home state of Max von Baden
Im wondering if you could do a special for oott on famous generals who lost sons to the war ?? like you mentioned of Lundendorf
Kronprinz Rupperecht was a truly admirable Royal. A man of morals and competence in a burning world
Tactics without strategy is just noise before defeat.
5:29 Intensive crippled hand hiding
There's a question I've always wanted awnsered. Are the stories about the "Wild Deserters" A group of feral deserters of both sides that prowled no mans land true?
Great episode as usual!
Can we have a femal bio next time? It's been a while...
Prehaps Louise de Bettignies a french spy/information network manager ? ☺
2:28 What is the deal with the Pickelhauben with the square tops? Anyone know?
They are typical for uhlans (lancers), a type of cavalry units that were original formed in poland, but were used by almost every army in ww1
Did Ludendorff end up in Hässleholm, the small Swedish town?
What's the exact difference between tactical, operational and strategical?
le Beast Tactics are used to win battles in furtherance of the goals of an offensive (or defensive) operation in order to win a campaign. Operations are used in furtherance of the goals of a strategy to win a war. Strategy should come first, otherwise operational and tactical efforts are wasted.
Indy, please make a video on French West Africa and another video on French Indochina. Please do so before your channel ends. Please respond to my comment.
Are Ludendorff's memoirs worth a read? A lot of generals wrote rather self-serving memoirs.
His are no exception. Always to be taken with a healthy truck load of salt, esp. the parts about 1918 and his fall from power.
Hi flo!
I don't know if someone suggested, for A Who And What in ... Alfred Dreyfus from the Dreyfus Affair?! I know me serviced in WWI.
November 11 is going to be a sad day
Every time I watch this show it reminds me of the great Martin war a documentary about aliens it would be cool if you guys would like to do a Halloween special about it.
I just thought of a question. I wonder how much wargaming assisted both sides of the war, and in what way, in their planning and preparation for offensives and the responses to them?
Wargaming was used by the Prussians/Germans and later adopted by other armies. There's an informative Wikipedia article about it.
Hm, so Ludendorff was a "savant", with interest and talent for war but nothing else? If he remembered all those details from memory to write a book ... mindblowing. But this could also explain why he could be so ignorant of human casualties: he would just not even see it.
those were the days!
Last time i came this early the 6th army was still fighting at stalingrad
Max Hoffman is the man.
Jeez Indie you want some coffee? Still great content but man do you look exhausted
Kind of how one death lead to millions. Lots of empires died wit their legacy but new nations were born form their ashes
1:33 is this real footage. If so rip the guy in close right
Looks more like a propaganda reel.
Question for out of the trenches; did the Russians have ANY competent officers except for Brusilov? You'd think with an army that size there must of been at least some half way descent Generals or at least officers
I think the competent officers are overshadowed by the incompetence of the highest leadership. Even very capable underlings can have a hard time saving the day from the useless aristocrats in charge.
Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich wasn’t half bad. But ofc, he was sacked and the Tsar took personal command of the army. And we all know how that ended
Ludendorf was from a Junker family. They were not nobility, but they were landed gentry. They were not poor farmers, but well-off landowners who managed their estates. They dominated the Prussian military. He pretty much personified the attitude of a whole class of Prussian society. I think the Junkers are worth mentioning in this video.
Imagine your a Dutch guard and out of nowhere the crown prince stands before you with his luggage, asking if he could apply for asylum in The Netherlands.
What happens after ww1 is over
What are the plans for THE GREAT WAR after 11,11,2018?
There is only one plan...
TOTAL GERMAN VICTORY !!!
They are also already doing world war 2. You should check it out.
They're also doing the inter war years. Very interesting.
@@larryclyons damn right it is.
Apparently, Flo is going on a holiday.
Do Sgt Alvin York
If Rupprecht and Ludendorff worked together on the Spring Offensive, Germany would've had a better shot at winning the war.
So in other words, the German High Command cared more about ego than winning.
Hey Indy, Could you please do an episode about China as well. China also participated in the Great War in the Ally's side and provided overall 200,000 labours in both west and east front. The sacrifice of them should not be forgotten as well.
They have covered China before. Just go to the playlists on this channel and find it.
TheCimbrianBull Thanks mate! I have found it that is awesome^_^
Big fan
You see those guys just straight up die at 1:34
That is almost certainly not actual combat footage but reenactment.
oof
They Shall Not Grow Old
Cool