These videos are godly, from the story telling to the animations. Makes me look forward to coming home from school every friday and seeing a new vid :D
German:*invade Russian lines Soldier1:did you hear something? Soldier2:don't scare me Russian soldiers:*roared with a broken voice and counterattacked German's soldiers:*intensive confused screaming
I'm not sure if anybody noticed it, so I would do. 7:10 - Letter Here is a rough translation "Greetings, Anastasia. I am alive and healthy, God willing, soon I will see faces of yours and of our sweet kids. Send me, if you can, dry bread. With love..."
Another fun fact - one Russian soldier who was in Osowiec siege coughed out a lung cancer without him realizing that he had it in the first place, and died in 2001. His family must've been damn proud to have such gigachad for great-grandpa. EDIT, 2 years later: since none of yall wanna see the thread and just wanted to larp as saltmines, the guy was named Alek Darsovich. The story exists only in Russian, so have fun in finding this obscure part of the lore.
This is the only one time someone's body did something good instead of "Oh wow so something called Cancer got past us and is attacking us, wait is that chemotherapy? Fast, constipate this person! Give him convulsions! Block his urinal tract!"
I've heard of this story through sabaton's song. However, seeing it in action with your animation, with names to identify the heroes, really changes the feel! It comes at a good time, for my right shoulder and neck muscles have been in great pain lately. This story inspires me to never give up!
Seeing the title, I thought this was Yarnhub Mystery video. Surprised it was real! Imagine the powerlessness one must feel seeing the chlorine gas approaching, and horrifying sounds of people dying in despair. The internal conflicts as a German advancing, seeing the human tragedy befalling the enemy, lucky it’s them and not us. Then to be revenged by the seemingly undead. So filled with emotions on the extreme from both side. Mastery of Yarnhub story telling has reached terrific heights, love it!
Wow! The courage those men showed while severely poisoned and strength waining. Good job Yarnhub on illustrations and it gets better each new video you drop.
The most underestimate and underrated factor of a soldier, willpower. "Even the weakest tool and can make a different in the hand of the most courageous warrior ."
“Attack of the dead hundred men! Facing and the lead once again, hundred men, charge again, die again!” I love this story! Also the VA and the new heights of animation is looking good! Prost Yarnhub!
For those who are curious about how frightening a gas attack is from the perspective of a WWI soldier in the trenches: Otto Dix was a German soldier who after the war became famous as an artist, with much of his art inspired by his experiences as a soldier. More than once he depicted soldiers during a gas attack, and in his depiction of gas masks, they aesthetically resemble skulls in his art
It doesn’t do it for me, the gas I mean. It just doesn’t sound vary terrifying, it’s slow and easily seen and once you have a gas mask your safe. I’ve looked up Otto dix and I stand by what I said
@@Berserker3624 you would be afraid in the early part of the war when there were no anti gas precautions. And gas attacks weren't always in daylight, so imagine one night it's so late that you can't keep your eyes open,the sentries can't see anything until it's already too close because the darkness, and by the time you smell that chlorine smell your dead already before you realize.
@@Berserker3624 counter point it was commenly delviered with artillery near you. Actually this was first way it was used. Has some limitations with some gases. Many gases could go nearly as fast as the wind. Average sprint speed is 16mph, but not long distance, that's on track, in light weight clothes. Meaning lets say the wind is going 20mph and the gas goes half the speed of wind cause its heavier one. 10mph will still seem fast in the mud. God forbid its 60 mph wind. And yah you can abandon your postion. When the gas disupates your going to be basically doing a game of king of the hill for the trenchs. (Assuming the side which launched the gas doesn't have gas mask) mustard gas was also a blistering agent. Meaning while gas mask will help prevent death....most likely you will be unfit for combat for a time. Meaning if your late enough in the war to have a gas mask your still not 100% safe. While you could try to cover most of youe skin to some effect it will eventually saturate the fabric and start burning or more accurately dissolving.
@@Swampy-ci3np good counter point, yup with latest tidbit of info gas has definitely become bit more terrifying. I’d put it up there with burning to death with how unpleasant it would be to die form it
Man i never heard of this story, and when i saw the Russians marching through the fog, i thought it was a bit exaggerated but it wasnt it was so sinister i had goosebumps all over me
I love the setting of the ‘Dead Men’ as they shamble and stumble towards the Germans. Reminds me of the first time playing the secret COD Zombies level at the end of ‘World at War’, the way that the zombies shuffle and drag their feet as they move, slowly, towards you. Very well done Yarnhub!
Okay, at first I thought this was a joke video given the date (April 1, 2022 - April Fool's Day). But the topic was just too serious to take lightly, so I did a little further research. Indeed, the Germans did conduct a gas attack near Osowiec. And Russian survivors of the gas attack did repel the Germans with bayonets and artillery. Thanks again, Yarnhub, for another well researched, animated, and narrated tidbit of history! Well done!
@@testiclegaming1250 Not everyone who enjoys history is a military historian. Not every military historian is a WW 1 historian. Not every WW 1 historian studied the battles of the Eastern Front. That or the poor guy never listened to Sabaton.
@@testiclegaming1250, I know of the use of chemical weapons in WWI through the viewing of documentaries and reading of several books, both fact and historical fiction. However, given today’s date, I wasn’t sure if this video was truly fact based, or just made up for today. The last few minutes of narration gave me cause to research further, as I stated in my original post.
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@@ELCADAROSA Search for "attack of the hundred dead men" sabaton
"Osowiec then and again Attack of the dead, hundred men Facing the lead once again Hundred men Charge again Die again" Amazing video, you should do one with sabaton like the B-17 video!!
A few facts: the 9th, 10th, 11th companies of the 226 Zemlyansky regiment ceased to exist, since they where in the lowlands. In the 12th company about 40 people remained in the ranks, another 60 were a little further away, closer to the rear. The Germans were pursued by 13th company of the 226 Zemlyansky regiment under the command of Kotlinsky. Friends, thank you for telling people a history) In the history of Russia, as the history of all countries of the world, there are still a lot of glorious moment:) Big greetings from Russia
@@advayvenkat402 Still Polish territory. At this point, I will stress it before they take it as a sign to 'recover it for Mother Russia' Gdansk and Kosovo teach lessons.
Look up Sabaton…they do metal music based on historical events and people. Mostly WW1 and WW2. I am not a metal fan…..but love their music. Look their albums and music up on TH-cam and Apple Music. The song commemorating this is called “Attack of the Dead Man”.
@@equarg I've heard their music, and I too am not a metal fan. But they are good. I first came upon their music with "The Winged Hussars Arrived". 1683 Vienna.
@@howardamey7228 Sabaton has done many other historical things, I have so many favorites I can't tell you all of them. But I am interested into going into a History Major when I go to college. Can you tell me what I should do to ready myself?
@eliasmontoya9354 Good morning. Since history is such a wide topic in terms of time, I would what time period and area you would like to get into. Then read to your hearts content. If possible, visit the areas of your interest. Time and the world are yours. Grab it and run!
"Turmoil at the front Wilhelms forces on the hunt There's a thunder in the east It's an attack of the deceased They've been facing poison gas 7, 000 charge en masse Turn the tide of the attack And force the enemy to turn back" Sing it sabaton fans!
@@pangroszek3498 were other Russian soldiers also Poles?) Vladimir Karpovich Kotlinsky from Pskov. His father was from Belarus, his mother was from Pskov.
@@pangroszek3498 Yes, because Russia is a multinational country. in the same trenches there could be Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Kazakhs, Kirghiz, Lithuanians, Poles, Mongols, Tuvans, Bashkirs, Chechens, Georgians, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, etc.
it's a spooky. terrifying and valiant story, "The Attack of the Dead Men" also love how No men's land has more details now and get a father sense of distance with the shots too the gas wounds are great too(just detail enough to not be too disturbing as described)
I recall another video describing the gas wounds as "men coughing out chunks of their lungs" Sooo yeah, those trenches must've been rather gory. Imagine being stabbed with a bayonet by a dying russian as he coughs up blood.
When the gas meets moisture it turned to acid, hence the eyes go first. Chemotherapy treatments comes from the effects studied on soldiers who suffered mustard gas attacks in WW1.
World of Tanks Russia did an incredible live action story of this event. I'd highly recommend it. It's heart-breaking and will bring tears to your eyes. It's in Russian, but there's English subtitles. It's one of the best made war videos I've even seen.
Neither can I. These men were half dead or dying. Their contorted legs could barely hold their own weight. Every breath set their lungs on fire. The only thing holding their bodies together was anger.
08:24 Small nitpick. Army stretchers aren't carried this way. Both of the bearers walk in the same direction facing forward. Excellent job. I really enjoy these and recommend them to everybody I know.
An take into account the gas which would probably have effected his health a bit as well (slightly similar my Great Grandfather suffered from poisonous gasses from the Great War an pasted away in the early 50's as well, They served apart of the Scottish Black Guard). A lot of men suffered from the gas after being subjected to it even post war for decades after.
This one honestly feels like the best one so far in terms of atmosphere. They captured the horrific scene pretty dang good with the fog and stumbling Russians, imo
I love this particular story in WW1. Would definitely make a nice horror story only it wasn't made up. Yarnhub never disappoints. That being said, now let me say: "And that's when the dead men are marching again"
it does not matter the side any soldier fought on, the only fact that are real stories from real people make it scarier than any fictional horror story
Still hoping there might be a coming video of Wojtek, the Polish war bear and unit mascot from WWII that while under heavy Italian fire during the battle for Italy, carried the ammo boxes for his artillery unit and ultimately quite literally turned the tide of the battle. It’s why to this day, their shoulder patch shows him standing on his hind legs carrying an artillery shell. They found him as an abandoned cub and raised him literally as “one of the guys” and would wrestle with him, even. Incredibly, footage of it all still exists. But I would love to see the story truly get the spotlight it deserves, as it’s so largely forgotten.
@@BlackdragonTheShadow my hope is YarnHub might make a video, I should say. Wojtek was a Syrian bear cub bought by the Polish artillery after the Russians formed them up out of their gulags when Hitler invaded, and they came across him in Iran when a boy sold him to them. He became their mascot and was known to smoke cigarettes and drink beer with the soldiers as well as wrestle with the bravest of them as he grew up… though, he often left them a little bruised and clothes torn… after all, in the end, he weighed 500 pounds. When a thief tried to rob them one night, he woke up and though just did his normal friendly routine, he scared the guy so senseless he surrendered to the soldiers after screaming like a little girl so loudly, they probably thought the thief was a little girl at first-if you know what I mean. When the soldiers came under British control (and thankfully out of Stalin’s) in Israel in 1943 and were shipped to Italy, they were not allowed to take mascots, so they responded by making him a fully documented soldier so they could take him with them. He was known by then to be just as bad as the other boys, drinking beer and flirting with the Italian ladies, and at Monte Castillo (forgive my spelling and autoINcorrect) he started mimicking the other soldiers and began picking up the crates full of artillery shells, carrying them to the guns while walking in his back legs. In minutes, they had taught to carry one under each arm and with his help they were able to stop a German advance that without, they may not have had enough shells fast enough to fire. It literally “turned the battle” as the legend goes, and was promoted to corporal. It was after this, the Polish Artillery made their logo an image of Wojtek carrying a big artillery shell on their shoulder patches and painted on the doors of their trucks. He became too big to ride shotgun anymore, so they got their hands on one of those tank chassis built into a tank recovery vehicle, used to move damaged tanks and things, and turned that into his personal valet to transport him between camps, and it’s said he loved riding in the open top like a big old dog sticking his head out the window of a car. After the war, he retired to a zoo in Scotland where even 20 years later, among all the thousands of voices calling his name, TV appearances, and so on: he would recognize the voices of his fellow Polish brothers and would stop, sit, and flap his lips begging for a beer or cigarette as they used to do. Apparently, tobacco was like candy for him. He died in 1963 at the age of 22, which is standard for Syrian Brown Bears which live 20-25 years in the wild. It’s a story so unique, I just hope beyond hope YarnHub makes a video about Wojtek… and if I knew how to, I’d send Sabaton a daily email request to write a song about him: Poland’s Bear Soldier.
@@buckduane1991 I read somewhere that some of those polish veterans he served with actually tried to climb the fence at the zoo to get in and wrestle with him once again
The idea of zombies don't scare many people nowadays because of movies and video games revolving the undead but imagine being the German army. The only story you've heard of involving the undead was Count Dracula and you believe it to be nothing more than just a story to get a quick spook. Then you're stationed to fight in Osowiec the bodies before you are dead, or are they? Then just before you maybe those undead stories weren't just stories, the corpse ahead of you is stumbling to you and many more twisted bloodied mangled bodies are headed your direction. I won't lie, for a lack of a better of way to say it, I'd shit myself.
A few numbers to help show how incredible this was - The German army brought 7,000 men to bear, whereas Osowiec Fortress was defended by only 900. The barrage and the gas combined killed about 800. So this means that the countercharge comprised only 100 heavily wounded men, who were outnumbered a staggering 70 to 1, and yet they won the battle. When the Germans fled, they were far too disorgsnised to file back through the paths in the wire traps they had cut, so a lot of the died from running into their own barbed wire and being shot by the five remaining Russian big guns that hadn't been knocked out by the German artillery barrage.
Completely false. The initial gas managed to kill roughly only over 250 soldiers. The German placement against the fortress that was in the frontline numbered a little over 300 only, because they were heavily relying on the gas to work. While the Russian achievement is great, let’s stick to the actual facts.
@@wake6000 Hey look, I appreciate your efforts to be condescending but not only was I not *not* attempting to stick to the facts like you seem to be implying, I'm actually correct. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_of_the_Dead_Men
I'll admit I thought this was a April fools and had a hard time trying to believe it. The only reason for that is the amount of courage, sheer will to live and destroy the enemy those soldiers had after having thier skin and lungs burn inside out...its unlike anything I've ever seen in the history books. Just true men of Steel, absolute heros. Thanks yarnhub!
Would not call it courage, just mostly hatered and desperation. Those on the backlines got least amount of the gas hence in better condition. Troops were mostly uneducated country folk at the time, so just usage of gas was wunderweapon and they had no idea what side effects there could be, so bodies rising up all blooded and charging them was enough to scare some of the Germans to run, but not all so it turned into another countercharge. I think from what i have heard about it, it was not that special event, just grown out of proportions, possibly was used as propaganda by Russians and recently Sabaton grew attention to it.
@@Hellsong89it was all over the news that time when it happened although there is quite a lot of propaganda you have like dozens of different stories from i think this one is one most of accurate since everyone says no one survived meanwhile some did this would be good movie ngl i mean russians did 20 min short movie about it but they didnt make it accurate that much they never showed polish soldiers meanwhile they nearly made half of garrison and they just showed germans running away meanwhile some stayed and held the line
Turmoil at the front Wilhelms forces on the hunt There's a thunder in the east It's an attack of the deceased They've been facing poison gas 7, 000 charge en masse Turn the tide of the attack And force the enemy to turn back......
На востоке гром План Вильгельма обречён Опьянённые войной Решив, что будет лёгкий бой Немцы выпустили газ Сотни душ прибрав за раз Но увидели бойцы Как вдруг восстали мертвецы!
How terrifying it must be for German soldiers to encounter Russian ZOMBIES in WW1. Very scary to be alive if u were an attacking German soldier. Love this channel from India.
I’m glad you guys did this story as it is one of my most favorite stories from the Great War and this has to be the best video on this event that I have ever seen
"Hans?" "Ja?" "We deployed ze chlorine gas into their trenches, ja?" "..Ja?" "And zey are dead, ja?" "What? Of course zey are dead, Frederick." "They are moving."
Imagine this: You are Hans, a fresh recruit, straight out of Hamburg. You are ready for combat. Your first battle, Osowiec, a Russian fortress. You watch as a cloud of green gas descends upon the fort. You wait in your gas mask, among your friends. You feel sorry for the poor Russians in there. Stop it. A soldier cannot feel sorry. After 10 minutes, all 12 battalions are ordered forward. You walk, sidestepping barbed wire, dead bodies, and craters. Suddenly, your battalion stops. There is a movement in the gas cloud. What could possibly still be living? Silhouettes of humans. You see it too. Your friends whisper in confusion. You, too, are confused. As they get closer, you hear war cries. In Russian. You brace for battle. Did they get reinforcements? Did they have gas masks after all? However, as it gets closer, your blood runs cold. Your mouth drops open, and you sweat. "Heilige Scheiße..." you whisper, in utter horror, as these, are no reinforcements. These, are the fort's Russian defenders, half gassed to death. They wear no masks. Bloodshot eyes, mouths crying curses in Russian, stopped by only chokes of blood. They charge, firing their guns. You wildly look around you screaming at the top of your lungs filling with gas to bank courage in your friends. But you see Lieutenant get stabbed by a bayonet. The Russian screams a guttural war cry, spewing blood from his own neck. You turn, with many others, trying to flee. Forget the Kaiser. Forget the Fatherland. You must survive. Get back to Hamburg. You run, dropping your gun. Dear God, what would your squadron leader say?! Clearly it's "AHHHHH!!!!" as a bayonet takes him from behind. His death rattle banks you with adrenaline to run. You yelp, a scared little lamb, as you run harder for 3 seconds. But your leg snags on a wire. You land on your face in the dirt. Your leg bleeds profusely. You try to get up, but someone stands on your sleeve. You turn around and look at your death. Your heart skips three beats. A Russian. His face is red, blood streaming down his cheeks, wrinkled from the gas. You plead for mercy, but it's no use. He doesn't understand German, as if he was in the mood to spare even indeed. The Russian lifts his bayonet. It's rusty from the gas. stab noise Your blue eyes bulge. The Russian twists the bayonet in your stomach. Your blood spills. A crimson river out of your liver. In your last moments, you think of your family, your old father, your girl. Her sweet face. You will never see her again. The world fades away, and the last thing you see is your Russian opponent rips the bayonet out of your stomach, flexes his weapon, to stab your older brother Heinrich who is desperately fending off two aggressive Russians. The general screams to retreat, the syllables barely out of his throat before 3 bullets take him as the Russians burst forward... An unstoppable force. You hear the screams of your fallen, the begging for mercy, a man stepping over you screaming. "ANCESTORS SAVE ME!" he yelps. He slips on a body and falls in a foxhole. But loudest of all, is the scream of the damned. The 100 damned who rose again to fight... Your fingers tremble around your spilling arteries... The noon sky fades... You belch even more blood as a man steps on you desperate to run away from the slaughter... The mud splashes as men run and blinds you..... Your senses go.... The smell of blood... the taste of mud... the wetness of your bloody entrails... your sight seeing the wide eyes of your friends run... friends who you thought would never ever leave you... You watch the army rout in blurred vision... Death is not peaceful as your hearing goes... their war cries lull you to darkness.
I like how you used the eyewitness account in his language with the translation, really grounds the story as actual history instead of just a scary-tale.
Holy crap that animation I thought I never see something that good most TH-camrs stick to basics but you seem to go above and beyond keep it up I mean just the birds animation was awesome
You make another greatest video yarnhub and i really love how you made the blood on the eyes, it just perfect and awesome at the same time. And yes i always do enjoyed watching your video.
Germans: Why do I hear WAW theme boss music- *WAW zombie round theme music plays and the 2 round begins* Polish sapper and Russian commander: *FETCH ME THEIR SOULS-*
In April 2007, I survived a Chlorine gas attack in Ramadi, Iraq. I have scar tissue in my lungs and trachea, which gives me asthma-like symptoms whenever I get worked-up. I know I'm lucky, but many Iraqi civilians weren't. We had pro-masks, which failed, but were still able to mitigate the damage with wet rags tied over our faces. It's a terrible fate. I still see the twisted faces of the corpses that didn't make it in my dreams.
these are stories that are not taught or forgotten..Thank you for bringing them out for all of us to learn about..Ret.USN Chief Petty Officer Deleon Steven L.
God you gotta think about it from the perspective of the germans though. Something like this: Its been months, this one russian fort is practically singlehandedly slowing your advance, you just watched your old boss get sacked for not taking the fort and the new one orders a new weapon to be used: Gas. you watch as this strange green fog creeps towards the russian trenches. Then the screaming starts, grown men screaming in fear as they know their dead already, then even more unnervingly, the screaming dies. The silence is the most unnatural thing you've ever seen after the constant background orchestra of guns and bombs. Your Sergeant orders you to go over the top, and after beating a few to get the rest moving, your over and in *NO-MANS-LAND* you should be dead already, cut down by russian machine guns and rifles. But all you can hear is the deep silence. So you and your buddies go over this pockmarked land of shell holes and swampy mud. You get right up to the first lines of wire, and still nothing. You watch Otto cut the barbed wire without the danger and it scares you, because thats how it should be, thats how all this should have gone: with you mercifully dying three steps from your own trench as the enemy fought tooth and nail like they've always done for the past couple of weeks or so. You arrive at the first trench, and hell awaits you. Corpses everywhere, all of them in poses of agony and fear, these men knew they where dying and died slowly and in pain: the soldiers worst nightmare. This isnt how war should be, this isnt how a battle should go, its even farther than the cruel reality you consoled yourself with the moment you got into your first battle, its worse. Then you see him, a single survivor. clad in the muddy and now bloodsoaked uniform of the enemy. This, creature, lays there coughing and writhing in pain. As you get closer you see it roll its head over to the side, pull its bloodied cloth down from its face, and spit blood onto the mud next to it. **You see fleshy chunks in the blood.** You can't look away as Claus bayonets' the thing in the chest. As it dies you see gratitude in its bloodshot eyes, it wants to die. You move onto the 2nd line of trenches and its more of the horrible, bloody same. More Death, more corpses, no one survived in this one. Either they died clutching these piss soaked rags to their mouths, or they died in corners and half out of the trench trying to escape the death. You hear Corporal Holger comment that we were going to just walk into the fort and take it. No one replies. The air carries a faint trace of the choking death you unleashed upon these poor souls, and even that sets fire to your throat and makes you cough harder than you have ever coughed before. To think that these men had worse just a few minutes ago. As you come up to the reserve trench you hear it, the call for a halt and to ready for enemy contact. Bringing up your rifle you peer into the haze, and what you see sends ice sliding down your spine. Its the vague shape of a person, getting up from the mud and stumbling towards you. That is not possible, it cant be, they're all dead! And yet here this impossible thing stands, and now stumbles towards you. You hear gasps of shock from around you and you also see that the shambling figure is no longer alone. Around it all along the trenches other rise up seemingly from the grave and begin that unsteady shuffle towards you and your friends. What emerges out of the green tinged fog is the stuff of nightmares. These are dead men. They have to be! the fronts of their uniforms are caked in their own blood, their eyes no longer have white in them, only red. Some have skin bubbling like a pot of water. Others are actively spitting up palm sized chunks of flesh! A ragged moaning roar soars from the trenches and then you know, you know. Hans says it best, "God save us, the dead have risen!" Next thing you know, your hands are empty, your half way over the no-mans land, and your the only one whos gotten this far. Behind you, you can hear them, the dead men. The burbling ragged shouts from their blood soaked lips sings in wrenched harmony with your friend's terrified screaming. Once the noise dies down, your commander finds you in the deepest parts of the dugouts used to shelter against artillery. Your in a little cubby hole you've dug with your own hands, and now with bloody tips you clutch your crucifix, muttering and babbling the lords prayer over and over. Your sent home for 'battle fatigue' along with whatever is left of your unit.
@@jakubwojtek1039 Why would I? Do you think that everyone who was in this fortress was polish? And only Kotlinsky was russian? The majority of russian imperial army were russians, and poles in this battle were a small part. Stop appropriating other nations victories / achievements for your own
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Yo yarnhub can you do about the first female Chinook pilot, relative of mine that I didn't know much about at all because they lived in America
Hi yarnhub! Just wanted to say, I love your vids! The quality keeps getting better and better!
These videos are godly, from the story telling to the animations. Makes me look forward to coming home from school every friday and seeing a new vid :D
Good.
Don't forget making Sargent York
Russian private: **dies to gas attack**
Russian officer: did I give you permission to die
Russian private: **self revived** sorry comrade
Bruh moment
The germans: the hell is that
These Russians probably: your free trial of dieing has ended.
Germans : Scheiße !!!
Not comrade, but "Your honor".
German Soldier: “That was easy enough.”
“Corpse”: “What was easy enough?”
German Soldier: “What?”
“Corpse”: “What?”
@Irfan wazeer Dude shut up
@Irfan wazeer I did not get anything
_Something's wrong, I can feel it_
@@pq6251 Its a bot. Ignore.
German:*invade Russian lines
Soldier1:did you hear something?
Soldier2:don't scare me
Russian soldiers:*roared with a broken voice and counterattacked
German's soldiers:*intensive confused screaming
Albert: "Look like the gas are working."
Ulrich: "Albert, something moving up ahead."
Hans: "Why we heard a boss music?"
*Sabaton music
a random soilder "guess i'll die then"
Phase 2 chucklefucks
"It sounds... Swedish?"
I just heard a faint eary FETCH ME THEre SOULSssssssssssssss
You asked an actual Polish person to read the text in 7:43. I'm amazed.
Panie Misza, wspaniale Panu wyszło.
Is the speech in Polish?
@@tentothepowerof10 yes
@@tentothepowerof10 yes
I'm not sure if anybody noticed it, so I would do.
7:10 - Letter
Here is a rough translation
"Greetings, Anastasia.
I am alive and healthy, God willing, soon I will see faces of yours and of our sweet kids. Send me, if you can, dry bread.
With love..."
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He was certainly alive and healthy
That is sad.
Seemed healthy alright
bro you are my google translator
Another fun fact - one Russian soldier who was in Osowiec siege coughed out a lung cancer without him realizing that he had it in the first place, and died in 2001. His family must've been damn proud to have such gigachad for great-grandpa.
EDIT, 2 years later: since none of yall wanna see the thread and just wanted to larp as saltmines, the guy was named Alek Darsovich. The story exists only in Russian, so have fun in finding this obscure part of the lore.
Now this is one of the most impressive war tales I have ever heard, having cancer and chlorine poisoning but then living for over 100 years
@@andrygugli1928 yeah
@@andrygugli1928 And living longer than the Soviet Union
@@Truenofan86 saw its rise and demise
This is the only one time someone's body did something good instead of
"Oh wow so something called Cancer got past us and is attacking us, wait is that chemotherapy? Fast, constipate this person! Give him convulsions! Block his urinal tract!"
I've heard of this story through sabaton's song. However, seeing it in action with your animation, with names to identify the heroes, really changes the feel! It comes at a good time, for my right shoulder and neck muscles have been in great pain lately. This story inspires me to never give up!
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Same
I occasionally get that too. Any tips?
OSOWEIC, AND THEN AGAIN, ATTACK OF THE DEAD HUNDRED MEN, FACING THE LEAD ONCE AGAIN, HUNDRED MEN, CHARGE AGAIN, DIE AGAIN
You can search Attack Of The Dead Men
The animations just get better and better! Awsome show y’all!
Obv
Yeah but there are obvious animation errors though.
@@nostradamusofgames5508 the crow
Except the birds
@@nostradamusofgames5508 still its really good comparing for his early videos
4:36 " Ghosts, stalk them" is easily one of the creepiest lines ever said, the narration in this is very well done.
German soldier: I think they're dead
Russian soldier: nah, I'm gonna fight a bit more
russian soldier :nah id win
Russian soldier: I know your dead!
There is an accident with the gas causing temporary death Keyword temporary
@@huseinhadisaputro866had a feeling someone would comment this
this gives me PvZ vibes ngl
If the animation keeps improving at this rate, we might not be able to tell if Yarnhub's animation is live action or not in a few years.
The movement wad kinda rough compared to previous episodes to be honest, but the storytelling definitely compensated for that.
@@PinkStratovolcano I noticed that too, especially the scene where the soldier ran towards the dying commander.
@@jhypyro probs was started early but had to do a sponsored one first and fast for cash
Yeah, we’re getting there
Согласен
Seeing the title, I thought this was Yarnhub Mystery video. Surprised it was real! Imagine the powerlessness one must feel seeing the chlorine gas approaching, and horrifying sounds of people dying in despair. The internal conflicts as a German advancing, seeing the human tragedy befalling the enemy, lucky it’s them and not us. Then to be revenged by the seemingly undead. So filled with emotions on the extreme from both side. Mastery of Yarnhub story telling has reached terrific heights, love it!
U haven’t heard the atack of the dead man ?
thou needs sabaton
Sabaton is coming
@@someoneyoullknow4077 nice Russian propaganda
@@claas.relotius Sabaton is a band
Wow! The courage those men showed while severely poisoned and strength waining. Good job Yarnhub on illustrations and it gets better each new video you drop.
The most underestimate and underrated factor of a soldier, willpower.
"Even the weakest tool and can make a different in the hand of the most courageous warrior ."
@@スガル they were literally to angry to die
@@killermushroom4579 like the Sith Lord Darth scion
They had the self control to give. Themselves the adrenaline rush of kilos worth of meth, intresting@@killermushroom4579
Amongst the thing to fear
The sea during a storm
A night with no moon
The anger of a gentle man
And the rage of a man with nothing Left to lose
They took “YOU DONT HAVE PERMISSION TO DIE!” to heart
Спите бойцы, вечная память вам
Нерукотворный встал к небесам славы нетленный храм
CCCP
@@WernerLabuschagne-iy7gw Attack the d point
Although I’m American, I’m sorry to what happened to all of your comrades of everything during those years of war, both past and present.
@@Maximus2629thanks brother, we appreciate it! we too
“Attack of the dead hundred men! Facing and the lead once again, hundred men, charge again, die again!”
I love this story! Also the VA and the new heights of animation is looking good! Prost Yarnhub!
Turmoil at the front¨
@@criwel7949 Wilhem's forces on the hunt⚡
@@antonioljubicic9420 опьянённые войной, решив, что будет лёгкий бой
@General Purpose it's an attack of deceased
@@antonioljubicic9420 They’ve been facing poison gas
For those who are curious about how frightening a gas attack is from the perspective of a WWI soldier in the trenches:
Otto Dix was a German soldier who after the war became famous as an artist, with much of his art inspired by his experiences as a soldier.
More than once he depicted soldiers during a gas attack, and in his depiction of gas masks, they aesthetically resemble skulls in his art
Atleast he didn’t fail art school
It doesn’t do it for me, the gas I mean. It just doesn’t sound vary terrifying, it’s slow and easily seen and once you have a gas mask your safe. I’ve looked up Otto dix and I stand by what I said
@@Berserker3624 you would be afraid in the early part of the war when there were no anti gas precautions.
And gas attacks weren't always in daylight, so imagine one night it's so late that you can't keep your eyes open,the sentries can't see anything until it's already too close because the darkness, and by the time you smell that chlorine smell your dead already before you realize.
@@Berserker3624 counter point
it was commenly delviered with artillery near you. Actually this was first way it was used. Has some limitations with some gases.
Many gases could go nearly as fast as the wind. Average sprint speed is 16mph, but not long distance, that's on track, in light weight clothes.
Meaning lets say the wind is going 20mph and the gas goes half the speed of wind cause its heavier one. 10mph will still seem fast in the mud. God forbid its 60 mph wind. And yah you can abandon your postion. When the gas disupates your going to be basically doing a game of king of the hill for the trenchs. (Assuming the side which launched the gas doesn't have gas mask)
mustard gas was also a blistering agent. Meaning while gas mask will help prevent death....most likely you will be unfit for combat for a time. Meaning if your late enough in the war to have a gas mask your still not 100% safe. While you could try to cover most of youe skin to some effect it will eventually saturate the fabric and start burning or more accurately dissolving.
@@Swampy-ci3np good counter point, yup with latest tidbit of info gas has definitely become bit more terrifying. I’d put it up there with burning to death with how unpleasant it would be to die form it
Man i never heard of this story, and when i saw the Russians marching through the fog, i thought it was a bit exaggerated but it wasnt it was so sinister i had goosebumps all over me
If your a fan of metal, check out the song of the same name by Sabaton
It was russian army. This guys were Poles, not Russians.
@@Pracaupodstaw bro is it possible for the Poles to be any cooler?
@@TheREPPIX I'm not your "bro". And yes, we have a very "cool" weather now. Lot of snow.
@@Pracaupodstaw em ok I mean as in more awesome
And that’s when the dead men came marching again
They’ve been facing poison gas
7,000 charge of mass
Turn the tide of the attack
Force the enemy to turn back
And thats when, the dead men are Marching again
OSOWEIC AND THEN AGAIN
ATTACK OF THE DEAD HUNDRED MEN
FACING THE LEAD ONCE AGAIN
HUNDRED MEN CHARGE AGAIN DIE AGAIN
I love the setting of the ‘Dead Men’ as they shamble and stumble towards the Germans. Reminds me of the first time playing the secret COD Zombies level at the end of ‘World at War’, the way that the zombies shuffle and drag their feet as they move, slowly, towards you. Very well done Yarnhub!
*Nacht der untoten laugh track plays*
@@FritzTheGerman i heard it in my heard when i read that ffs
Okay, at first I thought this was a joke video given the date (April 1, 2022 - April Fool's Day). But the topic was just too serious to take lightly, so I did a little further research.
Indeed, the Germans did conduct a gas attack near Osowiec. And Russian survivors of the gas attack did repel the Germans with bayonets and artillery.
Thanks again, Yarnhub, for another well researched, animated, and narrated tidbit of history! Well done!
Oh i was very confused too
How did you not know this was a real story?
@@testiclegaming1250 Not everyone who enjoys history is a military historian. Not every military historian is a WW 1 historian. Not every WW 1 historian studied the battles of the Eastern Front. That or the poor guy never listened to Sabaton.
@@testiclegaming1250, I know of the use of chemical weapons in WWI through the viewing of documentaries and reading of several books, both fact and historical fiction.
However, given today’s date, I wasn’t sure if this video was truly fact based, or just made up for today. The last few minutes of narration gave me cause to research further, as I stated in my original post.
@@ELCADAROSA Search for "attack of the hundred dead men" sabaton
"Osowiec then and again
Attack of the dead, hundred men
Facing the lead once again
Hundred men
Charge again
Die again"
Amazing video, you should do one with sabaton like the B-17 video!!
im still waiting on the bismarck video and this one to get the sabaton music video treatment
@@richie_0740 hmmm, Bismarck had already one before. Made by Yarnhub, right?
And that's when the dead men are marching again
Russian soldier: **dies**
Russian Officer: did I tell you to die private?
Russian soldier: **uses totem of undying** no sir
"Ivan, you weren't supposed to die."
"Sorry sir."
"Well come back as a zombie, you idiot!"
A few facts: the 9th, 10th, 11th companies of the 226 Zemlyansky regiment ceased to exist, since they where in the lowlands. In the 12th company about 40 people remained in the ranks, another 60 were a little further away, closer to the rear. The Germans were pursued by 13th company of the 226 Zemlyansky regiment under the command of Kotlinsky.
Friends, thank you for telling people a history)
In the history of Russia, as the history of all countries of the world, there are still a lot of glorious moment:)
Big greetings from Russia
This happened in Polish territory.
@@LathropLdST Russian troops
@@advayvenkat402 Still Polish territory. At this point, I will stress it before they take it as a sign to 'recover it for Mother Russia'
Gdansk and Kosovo teach lessons.
@@LathropLdST the comment has nothing to do with territory, the bravery of the troops is being respected here, nothing more - nothing less.
и тебе привет из России
I could not wait to say:
Turmoil at the front
Wilhelms forces on the hunt There's a thunder in the east It's an attack of the deceased!!!
They`ve been facing poison gas, 7000 charge en masse
They been facing poison gas. seven thousand charge enemas. turn the tide of the attack and force the enemy to turn back!
And THAT'S when the DEAD men are MARCHING again . . .
@@doctorm1a2_abrams74 And Thats when the dead men go marching again
@@toasttoast9955 Osowiec, then and again
I was a History minor in college, but never learned of this battle. I have now. THANK-YOU YARNHUB!
Look up Sabaton…they do metal music based on historical events and people.
Mostly WW1 and WW2.
I am not a metal fan…..but love their music.
Look their albums and music up on TH-cam and Apple Music.
The song commemorating this is called “Attack of the Dead Man”.
@@equarg I've heard their music, and I too am not a metal fan. But they are good. I first came upon their music with "The Winged Hussars Arrived". 1683 Vienna.
@@howardamey7228 Sabaton has done many other historical things, I have so many favorites I can't tell you all of them. But I am interested into going into a History Major when I go to college. Can you tell me what I should do to ready myself?
@eliasmontoya9354 Good morning. Since history is such a wide topic in terms of time, I would what time period and area you would like to get into. Then read to your hearts content. If possible, visit the areas of your interest. Time and the world are yours. Grab it and run!
@@howardamey7228 Thanks!
German soldier sneezes
a Russian soldier: bless you
German soldier: Thank you
German soldier 5 seconds later: wait...
Russian: *Dies*
Death: *FETCH ME THEIR SOULS*
Russian: Okay
"Turmoil at the front
Wilhelms forces on the hunt
There's a thunder in the east
It's an attack of the deceased
They've been facing poison gas
7, 000 charge en masse
Turn the tide of the attack
And force the enemy to turn back"
Sing it sabaton fans!
And that's when the dead men are marching again
@@dimitrijejovanovic5939 Osowiec then and again
Attack of the dead hundred men
Facing the lead once again!
hundred men charge again die again
Russian Soldier: ~Dies~
Russian Commander: Who said you could die? Get up!
Russian Soldier: Yes sir... ~Gets up and grabs rifle~
Russian Commander and a russian soldier were from Poland or in this times probably Ucaraine, but surnames are polish orgin now ad a dots ;).
@@pangroszek3498 Uh, I’m good. As they were serving the Russian Empire they are Russian Soldiers.
@@pangroszek3498 Like Strzeminski i guess
@@pangroszek3498 were other Russian soldiers also Poles?)
Vladimir Karpovich Kotlinsky from Pskov. His father was from Belarus, his mother was from Pskov.
@@pangroszek3498 Yes, because Russia is a multinational country. in the same trenches there could be Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Kazakhs, Kirghiz, Lithuanians, Poles, Mongols, Tuvans, Bashkirs, Chechens, Georgians, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, etc.
it's a spooky. terrifying and valiant story, "The Attack of the Dead Men"
also love how No men's land has more details now and get a father sense of distance with the shots too
the gas wounds are great too(just detail enough to not be too disturbing as described)
its not no mans land its the dead mans land
I recall another video describing the gas wounds as "men coughing out chunks of their lungs"
Sooo yeah, those trenches must've been rather gory. Imagine being stabbed with a bayonet by a dying russian as he coughs up blood.
When the gas meets moisture it turned to acid, hence the eyes go first. Chemotherapy treatments comes from the effects studied on soldiers who suffered mustard gas attacks in WW1.
German: I think the gas killed them
Russian corpse: What gas?
German: What?
Russian corpse: What?
German: what!
100 chads vs 7000 germans
World of Tanks Russia did an incredible live action story of this event. I'd highly recommend it. It's heart-breaking and will bring tears to your eyes. It's in Russian, but there's English subtitles. It's one of the best made war videos I've even seen.
I have a friend that has a great great grandfather that was part of the charge. I can’t imagine how painful that was.
Your friend great great Grandfather Is a legend may he rest and piece
Neither can I. These men were half dead or dying. Their contorted legs could barely hold their own weight. Every breath set their lungs on fire. The only thing holding their bodies together was anger.
@@jeffcarroll1990shockFaith in the tsar, love for the motherland, hostility to the enemy, and, of course, the order to hold the fortress.
There is a certain menace to hearing the story without heavy metal music playing. Well done as always Yarnhub
And they rose up from the fog, seemingly dead, fueled only by pure will and hatred, and charged.
08:24 Small nitpick. Army stretchers aren't carried this way. Both of the bearers walk in the same direction facing forward. Excellent job. I really enjoy these and recommend them to everybody I know.
It's amazing he survived until 1952, considering he lived in Poland....
An take into account the gas which would probably have effected his health a bit as well (slightly similar my Great Grandfather suffered from poisonous gasses from the Great War an pasted away in the early 50's as well, They served apart of the Scottish Black Guard).
A lot of men suffered from the gas after being subjected to it even post war for decades after.
And the last one died in 2003 that's 82 years after that
One of them lived till 2001.
He survived both World Wars, The Cold War and the Dissolution of the Soviet Union
@@thatexitsignuserok slavic people build different
"Osowiec then and again
Attack of the dead, hundred men"
Facing the lead once again
Hundred men, charge again, die again
@@theunknownwarrior632 "Two combatants spar,
Hindenburg against the Tsar"
@@micman96 moving 12 battalions large into a Russian counter charge
@@theunknownwarrior632 "They'll be fighting for their lives, as their enemy revives"
And that's when the dead men were marching againnnnn
This one honestly feels like the best one so far in terms of atmosphere.
They captured the horrific scene pretty dang good with the fog and stumbling Russians, imo
My great-grandfather died in the First World War from a gas attack. It's just terrible to realize
who was your grandfather
“Rage is a hell of an anesthetic.”
I love this particular story in WW1. Would definitely make a nice horror story only it wasn't made up. Yarnhub never disappoints.
That being said, now let me say: "And that's when the dead men are marching again"
Osowiec then and again
it isnt a made up story, it actually happend
there are multiple pictures of the men that fell to poison
Yep true it actually happened those men were crazy even tho spitting out blood and pieces of their lunges they kept going
@samuel orozco
Attack of the dead, hundred men
it does not matter the side any soldier fought on, the only fact that are real stories from real people make it scarier than any fictional horror story
Still hoping there might be a coming video of Wojtek, the Polish war bear and unit mascot from WWII that while under heavy Italian fire during the battle for Italy, carried the ammo boxes for his artillery unit and ultimately quite literally turned the tide of the battle. It’s why to this day, their shoulder patch shows him standing on his hind legs carrying an artillery shell. They found him as an abandoned cub and raised him literally as “one of the guys” and would wrestle with him, even. Incredibly, footage of it all still exists. But I would love to see the story truly get the spotlight it deserves, as it’s so largely forgotten.
Link it please I need to see this
My brain thought it was a guy then recalibrated and went WAIT WHAT?
@@BlackdragonTheShadow my hope is YarnHub might make a video, I should say. Wojtek was a Syrian bear cub bought by the Polish artillery after the Russians formed them up out of their gulags when Hitler invaded, and they came across him in Iran when a boy sold him to them. He became their mascot and was known to smoke cigarettes and drink beer with the soldiers as well as wrestle with the bravest of them as he grew up… though, he often left them a little bruised and clothes torn… after all, in the end, he weighed 500 pounds. When a thief tried to rob them one night, he woke up and though just did his normal friendly routine, he scared the guy so senseless he surrendered to the soldiers after screaming like a little girl so loudly, they probably thought the thief was a little girl at first-if you know what I mean. When the soldiers came under British control (and thankfully out of Stalin’s) in Israel in 1943 and were shipped to Italy, they were not allowed to take mascots, so they responded by making him a fully documented soldier so they could take him with them. He was known by then to be just as bad as the other boys, drinking beer and flirting with the Italian ladies, and at Monte Castillo (forgive my spelling and autoINcorrect) he started mimicking the other soldiers and began picking up the crates full of artillery shells, carrying them to the guns while walking in his back legs. In minutes, they had taught to carry one under each arm and with his help they were able to stop a German advance that without, they may not have had enough shells fast enough to fire. It literally “turned the battle” as the legend goes, and was promoted to corporal. It was after this, the Polish Artillery made their logo an image of Wojtek carrying a big artillery shell on their shoulder patches and painted on the doors of their trucks. He became too big to ride shotgun anymore, so they got their hands on one of those tank chassis built into a tank recovery vehicle, used to move damaged tanks and things, and turned that into his personal valet to transport him between camps, and it’s said he loved riding in the open top like a big old dog sticking his head out the window of a car. After the war, he retired to a zoo in Scotland where even 20 years later, among all the thousands of voices calling his name, TV appearances, and so on: he would recognize the voices of his fellow Polish brothers and would stop, sit, and flap his lips begging for a beer or cigarette as they used to do. Apparently, tobacco was like candy for him. He died in 1963 at the age of 22, which is standard for Syrian Brown Bears which live 20-25 years in the wild. It’s a story so unique, I just hope beyond hope YarnHub makes a video about Wojtek… and if I knew how to, I’d send Sabaton a daily email request to write a song about him: Poland’s Bear Soldier.
@@buckduane1991 I read somewhere that some of those polish veterans he served with actually tried to climb the fence at the zoo to get in and wrestle with him once again
I don't know if you saw it already, but in Yarnhub's community post they tease a video about Wojtek.
Thank you to cover this war story. It's my favorite war story of WW1.
The idea of zombies don't scare many people nowadays because of movies and video games revolving the undead but imagine being the German army.
The only story you've heard of involving the undead was Count Dracula and you believe it to be nothing more than just a story to get a quick spook. Then you're stationed to fight in Osowiec the bodies before you are dead, or are they? Then just before you maybe those undead stories weren't just stories, the corpse ahead of you is stumbling to you and many more twisted bloodied mangled bodies are headed your direction.
I won't lie, for a lack of a better of way to say it, I'd shit myself.
I tried thinking of saying something similar, but you worded it better than I ever could; I, too, would probably run in such a situation.
A few numbers to help show how incredible this was - The German army brought 7,000 men to bear, whereas Osowiec Fortress was defended by only 900. The barrage and the gas combined killed about 800. So this means that the countercharge comprised only 100 heavily wounded men, who were outnumbered a staggering 70 to 1, and yet they won the battle.
When the Germans fled, they were far too disorgsnised to file back through the paths in the wire traps they had cut, so a lot of the died from running into their own barbed wire and being shot by the five remaining Russian big guns that hadn't been knocked out by the German artillery barrage.
Completely false. The initial gas managed to kill roughly only over 250 soldiers. The German placement against the fortress that was in the frontline numbered a little over 300 only, because they were heavily relying on the gas to work.
While the Russian achievement is great, let’s stick to the actual facts.
@@wake6000 Hey look, I appreciate your efforts to be condescending but not only was I not *not* attempting to stick to the facts like you seem to be implying, I'm actually correct.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_of_the_Dead_Men
@@wake6000you are wrong lad. He is right. It was 100 vs 7000 and the Zombie Russians won.
@@alextowers3564he wasn't being condescending at all?
@@SmegmaCartel420 "Let's stick to the actual facts" as though that wasn't something I was doing. It implies I needed reminding to tell the truth.
I like the detail that humanizes the German soldier in the narration reminding us that not all soldiers in war want them.
Your animations are getting absolutely incredible!
Especially for the a 9 min long video
I'll admit I thought this was a April fools and had a hard time trying to believe it. The only reason for that is the amount of courage, sheer will to live and destroy the enemy those soldiers had after having thier skin and lungs burn inside out...its unlike anything I've ever seen in the history books. Just true men of Steel, absolute heros. Thanks yarnhub!
Would not call it courage, just mostly hatered and desperation. Those on the backlines got least amount of the gas hence in better condition. Troops were mostly uneducated country folk at the time, so just usage of gas was wunderweapon and they had no idea what side effects there could be, so bodies rising up all blooded and charging them was enough to scare some of the Germans to run, but not all so it turned into another countercharge. I think from what i have heard about it, it was not that special event, just grown out of proportions, possibly was used as propaganda by Russians and recently Sabaton grew attention to it.
@@Hellsong89it was all over the news that time when it happened although there is quite a lot of propaganda you have like dozens of different stories from i think this one is one most of accurate since everyone says no one survived meanwhile some did this would be good movie ngl i mean russians did 20 min short movie about it but they didnt make it accurate that much they never showed polish soldiers meanwhile they nearly made half of garrison and they just showed germans running away meanwhile some stayed and held the line
Men literally too angry to die.
You forgot to mention the fact that the Germans were so mortified that they trampled their own men and ran through barbed wire to retreat
"That isn't alive. That man is dead." This line is so cold and creepy its amazing
“How much gas did you throw in there, Hans?”
“All that we had, sir.”
“Then why are they still walking towards us?”
4:49 "round 1"
Read that in the voice that appeared in Kordhell's "Fatality" 😎
Nacht
hohhhhhauhhhhhaughhhhhhhhhhh
I love hear Russians voices of persons,also Polish narrator bring tears at eyes. Great work,team!
Turmoil at the front
Wilhelms forces on the hunt
There's a thunder in the east
It's an attack of the deceased
They've been facing poison gas
7, 000 charge en masse
Turn the tide of the attack
And force the enemy to turn back......
Beat me to it
@@Ethan.YT. add on then 😉
And that's when the dead men are marching again
The comment I was looking for 🤟🤟
На востоке гром
План Вильгельма обречён
Опьянённые войной
Решив, что будет лёгкий бой
Немцы выпустили газ
Сотни душ прибрав за раз
Но увидели бойцы
Как вдруг восстали мертвецы!
How terrifying it must be for German soldiers to encounter Russian ZOMBIES in WW1. Very scary to be alive if u were an attacking German soldier.
Love this channel from India.
this is the definition of “ you cannot kill the dead the dead kills you “
"and thats when the dead men start marching again"
And again!
always soothes my heart hearing "died peacefully of old age"
I’m glad you guys did this story as it is one of my most favorite stories from the Great War and this has to be the best video on this event that I have ever seen
"Hans?"
"Ja?"
"We deployed ze chlorine gas into their trenches, ja?"
"..Ja?"
"And zey are dead, ja?"
"What? Of course zey are dead, Frederick."
"They are moving."
Schibe. A-
"War is hell" The most relatable thing I've ever heard
Totally the zombie apocalypse of WW1! Amazing how these animations are made so fast, you’re awesome Yarnhub 👏
Yea ikr
@@East335 bro is not yarnhub
Imagine this:
You are Hans, a fresh recruit, straight out of Hamburg. You are ready for combat. Your first battle, Osowiec, a Russian fortress.
You watch as a cloud of green gas descends upon the fort. You wait in your gas mask, among your friends. You feel sorry for the poor Russians in there. Stop it. A soldier cannot feel sorry. After 10 minutes, all 12 battalions are ordered forward.
You walk, sidestepping barbed wire, dead bodies, and craters. Suddenly, your battalion stops. There is a movement in the gas cloud. What could possibly still be living? Silhouettes of humans. You see it too. Your friends whisper in confusion. You, too, are confused. As they get closer, you hear war cries. In Russian. You brace for battle. Did they get reinforcements? Did they have gas masks after all?
However, as it gets closer, your blood runs cold. Your mouth drops open, and you sweat. "Heilige Scheiße..." you whisper, in utter horror, as these, are no reinforcements. These, are the fort's Russian defenders, half gassed to death. They wear no masks. Bloodshot eyes, mouths crying curses in Russian, stopped by only chokes of blood. They charge, firing their guns.
You wildly look around you screaming at the top of your lungs filling with gas to bank courage in your friends. But you see Lieutenant get stabbed by a bayonet. The Russian screams a guttural war cry, spewing blood from his own neck. You turn, with many others, trying to flee. Forget the Kaiser. Forget the Fatherland. You must survive. Get back to Hamburg. You run, dropping your gun. Dear God, what would your squadron leader say?! Clearly it's "AHHHHH!!!!" as a bayonet takes him from behind. His death rattle banks you with adrenaline to run. You yelp, a scared little lamb, as you run harder for 3 seconds.
But your leg snags on a wire. You land on your face in the dirt. Your leg bleeds profusely. You try to get up, but someone stands on your sleeve. You turn around and look at your death. Your heart skips three beats.
A Russian. His face is red, blood streaming down his cheeks, wrinkled from the gas. You plead for mercy, but it's no use. He doesn't understand German, as if he was in the mood to spare even indeed. The Russian lifts his bayonet. It's rusty from the gas.
stab noise Your blue eyes bulge. The Russian twists the bayonet in your stomach. Your blood spills. A crimson river out of your liver. In your last moments, you think of your family, your old father, your girl. Her sweet face. You will never see her again.
The world fades away, and the last thing you see is your Russian opponent rips the bayonet out of your stomach, flexes his weapon, to stab your older brother Heinrich who is desperately fending off two aggressive Russians. The general screams to retreat, the syllables barely out of his throat before 3 bullets take him as the Russians burst forward... An unstoppable force. You hear the screams of your fallen, the begging for mercy, a man stepping over you screaming. "ANCESTORS SAVE ME!" he yelps. He slips on a body and falls in a foxhole.
But loudest of all, is the scream of the damned. The 100 damned who rose again to fight...
Your fingers tremble around your spilling arteries...
The noon sky fades...
You belch even more blood as a man steps on you desperate to run away from the slaughter...
The mud splashes as men run and blinds you..... Your senses go.... The smell of blood... the taste of mud... the wetness of your bloody entrails... your sight seeing the wide eyes of your friends run... friends who you thought would never ever leave you... You watch the army rout in blurred vision...
Death is not peaceful as your hearing goes... their war cries lull you to darkness.
Генеально описана паника а за тем и смерть.
DUDE UR AMAZING
That last line gave me chills. You are a profoundly gifted writer.
Underrated comment
Epic one, Yarnhub, as always! Love your videos.
Sabaton has a song about this battle, aptly named the same as the title. Great song, and as usual, great work from Yarnhub!
Much work is put into this videos and it shows! Please keep up the great videos😁
I like how you used the eyewitness account in his language with the translation, really grounds the story as actual history instead of just a scary-tale.
Holy crap that animation I thought I never see something that good most TH-camrs stick to basics but you seem to go above and beyond keep it up I mean just the birds animation was awesome
Soldiers: Permission to die
God: *no*
Soldiers: okay
a war so terrible, not even the dead could escape it
You have improved so much since I started watching you in 2020, thanks for making these
Really love the scenery, background music, animations .. AND CROWS!!
You make another greatest video yarnhub and i really love how you made the blood on the eyes, it just perfect and awesome at the same time.
And yes i always do enjoyed watching your video.
Attack of the dead, hundred men
And that's when the dead men are marching again
Мертв - не значит убит! За Веру, Царя и Отечество!
Soldier: hey what happened to you comrade?
Am dead why?
Soldier: what?! Nobody told you to die GET UP IMMEDIATLY
Germans: Why do I hear WAW theme boss music-
*WAW zombie round theme music plays and the 2 round begins*
Polish sapper and Russian commander: *FETCH ME THEIR SOULS-*
5:14 * Fetch me their souls!*
*RAAAAAAWHHHHHHH*
In April 2007, I survived a Chlorine gas attack in Ramadi, Iraq. I have scar tissue in my lungs and trachea, which gives me asthma-like symptoms whenever I get worked-up. I know I'm lucky, but many Iraqi civilians weren't. We had pro-masks, which failed, but were still able to mitigate the damage with wet rags tied over our faces. It's a terrible fate. I still see the twisted faces of the corpses that didn't make it in my dreams.
Wow,ur one strong man
So many stories that I've never heard. Thank you for this one. Thumbs up ~John
I had heard of the attack of the dead men, but never the details of the event. This was very entertaining and informative!
I also love how the russians speak in this video. An old fashioned way, as it should be in imperial russia
For some reason this made me cry.
these are stories that are not taught or forgotten..Thank you for bringing them out for all of us to learn about..Ret.USN Chief Petty Officer Deleon Steven L.
4:19 This animation is perfect The only thing I wish you could correct is the bayonet on top of the g98 rifle , it should be on the bottom lug c:
the story was awesome, the animations are awesome, I don't even know if I have any negative point!
I enjoyed the video thoroughly.
10/10
Its even voice acted on Russian in background! Its so cool! Love this animation ♥
German soldier: *sneezes*
Russian corpse: bless you
German soldier: thank you.....WAIT A MIN-
"Turmoil at the front
Wilhelms forces on the hunt"
there's a thunder in the east, its an attack of the deceased
@@zoph6241 They've been facing poison gas
7, 000 charge en masse
Can we all take a moment to appreciate the work Yarn is doing to entertain us with this amazing video? Thank you very much!
God you gotta think about it from the perspective of the germans though. Something like this:
Its been months, this one russian fort is practically singlehandedly slowing your advance, you just watched your old boss get sacked for not taking the fort and the new one orders a new weapon to be used: Gas. you watch as this strange green fog creeps towards the russian trenches. Then the screaming starts, grown men screaming in fear as they know their dead already, then even more unnervingly, the screaming dies. The silence is the most unnatural thing you've ever seen after the constant background orchestra of guns and bombs.
Your Sergeant orders you to go over the top, and after beating a few to get the rest moving, your over and in *NO-MANS-LAND* you should be dead already, cut down by russian machine guns and rifles. But all you can hear is the deep silence. So you and your buddies go over this pockmarked land of shell holes and swampy mud. You get right up to the first lines of wire, and still nothing. You watch Otto cut the barbed wire without the danger and it scares you, because thats how it should be, thats how all this should have gone: with you mercifully dying three steps from your own trench as the enemy fought tooth and nail like they've always done for the past couple of weeks or so. You arrive at the first trench, and hell awaits you. Corpses everywhere, all of them in poses of agony and fear, these men knew they where dying and died slowly and in pain: the soldiers worst nightmare. This isnt how war should be, this isnt how a battle should go, its even farther than the cruel reality you consoled yourself with the moment you got into your first battle, its worse.
Then you see him, a single survivor. clad in the muddy and now bloodsoaked uniform of the enemy. This, creature, lays there coughing and writhing in pain. As you get closer you see it roll its head over to the side, pull its bloodied cloth down from its face, and spit blood onto the mud next to it. **You see fleshy chunks in the blood.** You can't look away as Claus bayonets' the thing in the chest. As it dies you see gratitude in its bloodshot eyes, it wants to die. You move onto the 2nd line of trenches and its more of the horrible, bloody same. More Death, more corpses, no one survived in this one. Either they died clutching these piss soaked rags to their mouths, or they died in corners and half out of the trench trying to escape the death. You hear Corporal Holger comment that we were going to just walk into the fort and take it. No one replies.
The air carries a faint trace of the choking death you unleashed upon these poor souls, and even that sets fire to your throat and makes you cough harder than you have ever coughed before. To think that these men had worse just a few minutes ago. As you come up to the reserve trench you hear it, the call for a halt and to ready for enemy contact. Bringing up your rifle you peer into the haze, and what you see sends ice sliding down your spine. Its the vague shape of a person, getting up from the mud and stumbling towards you. That is not possible, it cant be, they're all dead! And yet here this impossible thing stands, and now stumbles towards you. You hear gasps of shock from around you and you also see that the shambling figure is no longer alone. Around it all along the trenches other rise up seemingly from the grave and begin that unsteady shuffle towards you and your friends. What emerges out of the green tinged fog is the stuff of nightmares.
These are dead men. They have to be! the fronts of their uniforms are caked in their own blood, their eyes no longer have white in them, only red. Some have skin bubbling like a pot of water. Others are actively spitting up palm sized chunks of flesh! A ragged moaning roar soars from the trenches and then you know, you know. Hans says it best, "God save us, the dead have risen!"
Next thing you know, your hands are empty, your half way over the no-mans land, and your the only one whos gotten this far. Behind you, you can hear them, the dead men. The burbling ragged shouts from their blood soaked lips sings in wrenched harmony with your friend's terrified screaming. Once the noise dies down, your commander finds you in the deepest parts of the dugouts used to shelter against artillery. Your in a little cubby hole you've dug with your own hands, and now with bloody tips you clutch your crucifix, muttering and babbling the lords prayer over and over. Your sent home for 'battle fatigue' along with whatever is left of your unit.
Yeah, Did You Know, That most Russian Soldiers were also Couging up Chunks of Their OWN LUNGS?
I love your channel keep up the great stuff!
New to your channel. Really loving the videos. Wonderful animations!
Good to know that men from my country was a part of this attack. Glory for Poland!🇵🇱
Większość tych "Rosjan" to byli polacy
Considering Poland belonged to Russia, no
@@jakubwojtek1039 No, in your vet dreams
@@pomiklom2499 w żadnych snach towarzyszu
@@jakubwojtek1039 Why would I? Do you think that everyone who was in this fortress was polish? And only Kotlinsky was russian? The majority of russian imperial army were russians, and poles in this battle were a small part. Stop appropriating other nations victories / achievements for your own