Soldier Kamikaze in WW1 (Grenadier's Leap)
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The First World War is renowned for its massive Battles fought on an industrial scale, particularly the grinding stalemate that was the Western front. Places like Verdun, the Somme, and Passendale, have become legendary for their brutality and the fierce fighting which occurred there.
However, one forgotten front of the war occurred much further south, and while it is often overshadowed by the other actions, there were still acts of heroism that should be given some recognition.
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Like video
fine
but you should stop changing video titles for clickbaiting
Yes, fr. @@FlagAnthem
My new book Trench 1915: The Dawn of Modern warfare is out. Set in World War I from a German's perspective. Available at any stores that sell books
Stop putting you donation stuff in start of your videos you can obviously see that nobody cares
i remember reading a quote by a German commander that said:
"Italian soldiers are lions led by sheep"
That was about British soldiers
@@habuger12nah, that was lions led by donkeys.
@@habuger12actually, Australian soldiers in WW1
-the German soldier amazed the world, the Italian Bersagliere amazed the German soldier- Rommel (I'm Italian)
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear." - Mark Twain
Between Cadorna and the lack of supplies, I think Italy’s ability to hold on in WW1 can be credited to the tenacity of the Italian soldiers
yeah but their generals were horrible
like imperial japanese commanders before japan went too hardcore
I remember the Germans during WW2 saying that the italians biggest problem was their leadership
Not to downplay Italian soldiers, but the main reason was probably that their primary opponent, Austria-Hungary, was busy fighting Russia for most of the war.
After the Russians were neutralized in 1917, the 12th battle of the Isonzo, which was the Austrian’s only major offensive on the Isonzo front, was one of the most successful breakthroughs of the war.
@@ottovonbearsmark8876italy barely held on against Austria Hungary a very weak nation fighting on three fronts
@@Chosen_Ash yes, that’s what I’m saying.
The biggest problem Italian soldiers had was Luigi Cadorna
In italy, we invented the term: if you are an idiot you are cadorna.
@@amosdisegni4975 He's THAT hated?
@@Based_Gigachad_001 now not that mutch, but after the ww1 was very comune.
@@Based_Gigachad_001 Yes Cadorna is pretty despised because he caused the death of millions of Soldiers in 1917 at Caporetto
No. There biggest problem was cowardice. The Italian army couldn't and can't fight their way out of a wet paper bag. You can pull bits and pieces here and there but if you know ANYTHING about ww1 or 2 you would know this cherry picking is bullshit.
Italy was extremely competent considering that they fought on the highest montains in all of Europe
I wouldn't exactly say their high command was competent but the individual soldiers were very courageous.
@@xpqzl2551fr Luigi Cardona was extremely incompetent
@xpqzl2551 that is the entire history of the Italian army in the last 100 years
@@vilheim4753to be Fair,even today when the situation became a stallmate,It become a trench war..in these Mountains weren't impossibile using something different from artillery and infantry.. tank were not yet invented and aircraft were too early
@@alessandrogini5283yep, technology breaks stalemate
When there’s no significant new tech, a stalemate happens
Eg. Ukraine
Hey somebody should make a game about the Italian front
it is, isonzo
@@ondrakazik2743 In fact, they are the game creators.
XD
ayyy :P . i imagine you guys are feeling a bit conflicted about these backgrounds being more or less ripped from the game
There's a short campaign featuring the Italian front in BF1
Outside of Luigi Cadorna, the Italians were nightmare for the Austro-Hungarian forces to deal with. They most certainly weren't cowards, but badasses. And not just the Arditi, but all Italian soldiers that fought there were legends.
my grand grandfather
fought against Italians in ww1, he told me other things.
I saw his notes, "heroic" is the last thing I would call them...
I'm sure he told ya that he won the war@@BesoffenerIslamist
Pls... Italians were absolute useless. Even in the end and the Arditi were a joke.
@@BesoffenerIslamisti do wonder what he tought about the alpini, the arditi, the bersaglieri and the sassari
Not really, as an Italian who had relatives who participated in the war I can tell you that despite some heroic episodes, the Italians in the great war were not motivated, They didn't even know where they were going to fight or why. Most just wanted to go home.
Fun fact: The most feared Italian troops in WWI, by the AustroHungarians, was the "Brigata Sassari" (Sardinian Sassari Brigade) that was called by the AustroHungarians "Dimonios" mean "Devils". The AH was running when this Rgt. Was coming around.
Still today the Sassari Brigade keep the "Dimonios" name and Hymn, to remember their heroic acts during WWI.
You confuse the Granatieri di Sardegna with the 151th and 152nd Sassari Regiments
@@thecommentaryking Yiu're right, it was a refuse. It was indeed the Sassari Brigade, where their actual Hymn is Dimonios.
Well done Simple History,well done. As an Italian i'm proud that we got a video about the tales of heroism of the Arditi(The bold ones) and the soldiers of my country 🫡
The Asiago War Memorial is a World War I memorial located in the town of Asiago in the Province of Vicenza in the Veneto region of northeast Italy. Surrounded by mountains that were the site of several World War I battles, the monument houses the remains of over 50,000 Italian and Austro-Hungarian soldiers and is a popular destination for travelers to the region. In Italian the memorial is typically called Sacrario Militare di Asiago or Sacrario Militare del Leiten. Leiten is the name of the hill on which the memorial sits.
Honestly, "Grenadier's Leap" sounds more badass than Kamikaze that just means "Divine Wind" and more awesome because you actualy have to do the self destructing yourself instead of having a machine do it
Finally! Many falsehoods have been told about Italian soldiers. They fought with immense courage on the Alpine front. Only the ignorant speak the opposite.
they also betrayed their alliance and fought primarily to extend their own borders
They are Traitors.
@@RunningWithRosesThe French did as well and the British
@@RunningWithRoses your point is?
@@OscarOSullivan not in ww1
The Arditi are some of the bravest Italian soldiers of ww1
Historically speaking, Italians have been great soldiers when under competent leadership.
De verdad??? Muy buenos en otras cosas, pero como soldados???? Que te den....🤣
@@manueldelafuente9806el español más inteligente
Absolutely! I feel like you could say that for any soldier defending their homeland
99% of all militaries.
They are only successful based on the equipment they are given.
It's time To defeat the Italian reputation of cowardice once and for all. For all people still saying that the Italians are cowards then study the military history of Italy in both world wars . Anyway. Thanks for making this video Simple History.
Italians performance in both world war is embarrassing. They side with the axis and central powers thinking it would be an easy victory but then betrayed them when things turns the other way..
@@lespaulguitarist921. Italians in WWI did great. Foghting alone an Empire, the A/H one. Only when Germany assisted the A/H Empire with reinforcements, the Italians lose some battles (but fighting 1 vs 2 nations).
And no, until the last phases of WWI there was no help of French or English, that was having their issue in the western front at Verdun and Somme.
2. WWII. Italy was dragged in that war without any economy or bellic industry, coming from WWI efforts and immediately after the Spanish Franco's war (where Italy was foughting and spending the few resources they had to stand at Franco's army side). Still with no resources and with an outdated equipment the Italians was standing for years vs the whole world.
And go to read the histories of Teseo Tesei or Rosario Randazzo. Or what the Italians did at the Izbushenski Battle. Then come again here to write your chit chat.
3. Italy betrayed no one, nor in WWI and neither in WWII. But to know that you should have a brain and have studied history.
@@lespaulguitarist92 Italian army in both world wars were good they were just unprepared and the italian army was very disorganized in both world wars but never weak.
@@christiancaspillo8584cowards? maybe.
traitors? for sure!
They're not cowards, just back stabbers.
As a BF1 player, I'm pretty familiar with the Italian front of WW1. The Italy maps are some of my favourite in the game
I would say something similar. I used to play a lot of Isonzo when it came out, and all the battlefields shown seem familiar.
that is because they faithfully reconstructed them, they spent time on the Alps to map the frontlines
@@FlagAnthemhmmm.. nah they never did this these maps are completly different nothing similar to reality you seriously think Monte Grappa and Dolomites were that small like in Bf1?
@@FlagAnthem The game developers really did their homework
@@oliversherman2414 No, they didn't. The Grappa map is modeled after a completely different mountain.
My great grandfather Serafino was in the Alpine trenches and had won a golden medal and silver medal for bravery around 1916 in a year after our war began
La patria non ha dimenticato i soldati morti de l'Italia!
Viva la Patria Italiana!
My 6 year old loves this channel and super proud of his Italian heritage. He's going to love this video!
How about a video about the Arditi??
The great war has a video about it
I get the feeling the SH team know about or have played the WW1 game series (Verdun, Tannenberg, and more recently Isonzo). If not, y'all would love it.
They litterally used isonzo maps as backgrounds for videos lmao
Gotta love the references to the game "isonzo" part of the "ww1 game series"
I recognised the dolomiti map lmao
Italian soldiers faced the same trench warfare as those on the western front, but on snow and ice covered mountains. Forza Italia, sempre! 🇮🇹
@zizleh33 Wtf are you referring to? Italy defeated Austria Hungary in WWI. It also defeated the Ottomans a few years prior.
Nice use of Isonzo (video game) maps for backgrounds.
I'm italo-argentinian, my great grandfather Antonio spend three months on the frontlines untill he fell very ill and almost die in a field hospital, when recover was passed to second line. Told stories of areas where you had to step on dead soldiers because there was no free ground. I was little when he died but remember him well, a small and funny but very tough man.
You are Italian, "argentina" doesn't exist and never has.
@@OverlordGrizzaka Surely you jest? It has been hundreds of years since the white man appeared in the SA and caused much events. It would be calling local Argentinians as Spanish, something that may or may not be received with irrational amounts of disdain.
@@OverlordGrizzaka If Argentina doesn't exists, then no country in the american continent exists.
@@bigchungus5065 Argentine culture and way of be in general, "la argentinidad", is much more close to italian culture than spanish. Argentina is considered the second Italy by a lot of argentinians and italians. In fact, Italy helped us in secret during the Malvinas War.
@@me.ne.frego. Ah yes, Islas Malvinas, the correct name for the island famous for the Thatcher incident. Didn't know of the significant Italian influence, reminds me how Pope Francis despite being from Argentina also has Italian descent.
I've always liked SH's videos, a lot of the history talked about I never had a clue about. Keep up the great work mate!
I really need to look-into my great grandfather. He was apart of the italian front of WWI, and i think he was a heavy machine gunner too! but i forget
The Battle of Asiago or the Südtirol Offensive, nicknamed Strafexpedition by the Austro-Hungarian forces, was a major counteroffensive launched by the Austro-Hungarians on the territory of Vicentine Alps in the Italian Front on 15 May 1916, during World War I. It was an "unexpected" attack that took place near Asiago in the province of Vicenza after the Fifth Battle of the Isonzo.
Commemorating this battle and the soldiers killed in World War I is the Asiago War Memorial.
Reminder that new isonzo maps and dlcs drop today
This channel has come a long way and it makes me happy. Looking at the animation differences before 100k subs to now is night and day!
Never stop teaching random people of the internet please 🙏
3:40 That's the catholic king's coat of arms from 1475. Search for "Armorial of spanish monarchs in italy". I think it might be out of place here
I mean Italians were never cowards they just unbelievably incompetent high commands in both World Wars with the lights of Cadorna
The Mechanized Brigade "Granatieri di Sardegna" is a mechanized infantry brigade of the Italian Army, based in Rome and central Italy. The brigade fields one of the oldest regiments of the Army and is one of the guard regiments of the President of Italy. The name of the unit dates back to the Kingdom of Sardinia and not the eponymous Mediterranean island of Sardinia. The brigade is part of the Division "Acqui".
Personally, this was one of your best videos. I knew a little bit about the fighting in the Italian Alps but not much. Great job
There’s a monument for the Alpini (Italian mountain troops) overlooking lake Como, it read, “in the century after their creation, in memory to the fallen of all wars”
I love how you guys used a lot of the backgrounds from the game I so so which is a ww1 game set in the italian front from the top of mount marmolada fighting in glaciers to fighting in caperetto attacking or defending gorizia whilst blowing up bridges when retreating! So this is really well made!
That strange hat is used by Alpini troups ( mountain soldiers )
Not sure it's the right niche but if anyone's brutally interested in hard-core Italian warfare (especially Medieval) I strongly recommend Schwerpunkt's relative videos series
This originally said “Do not say the Italians were cowards”
very interesting video, despite having lived in Italy and knowing a lot about this war I had never heard of it
Italy in WW1 Was pretty Underrated in terms of History.
Underrated? They literally stormed 12 times one river and almost lose to Austro-Hungarians fighting on 4 fronts
Yes!!! Thank you for the WW1 Content thank you so much!!!
the Italians are underated
Your videos are great you have taught me a lot
Little known fact, in ww2 Italian commandos teams managed to infiltrate an rn port completely undetected (twice), the first time with manned torpedos underwater at night, and 2nd in broad daylight using pt boats. They managed to sink 1 heavy cruiser, heavily damage another, and damage 2 battleships to put them out of service for ast least 1 week to a month
Another little know fact: the commander of that frogmans of the Flottiglia X-MAS) was Teseo Tesei. He and another Frogman leaded a manned torpedo under a british ship, but the timer of the bomb wasn't working, so both Teseo Tesei and his comrade decided to manually activate the bomb under the ship, sacrifying themselves.
Finally someone who knows the story
Nice Isonzo references, Great video
"We've been Hotzendorfed!" - Indy Neidell
We are talking about a young nation between gigants❤🇮🇹
Funny you made this video this week cause at this moment The multiplayer game 'WWI Isonzo' is free to play on Steam.
“We’ve looked at your content carefully, and have confirmed that age restrictions are still appropriate. We know it may be disappointing, but it’s important that we keep the TH-cam community protected.”
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Courage has no home but in the heart . Damn fine fighters .
Your voice is a good narrations voice. Thank you.
Monte Cengio is a mountain in the Asiago plateau, within the Vicentine Alps, in Veneto, northeastern Italy. It has an elevation of 1,354 metres and is located on the southwestern edge of the plateau, in the territory of Cogollo del Cengio.
The mountain was heavily contested during the Battle of Asiago in the First World War; the Grenadiers of Sardinia distinguished themselves in the fighting, suffering heavy losses. Over 10,000 soldiers were killed, wounded or missing on Monte Cengio between May and June 1916. A rocky spur overlooking a ravine, near the top of the mountain, became known as salto del granatiere after some grenadiers, who had been surrounded there and had run out of ammunition, grabbed some of the Austro-Hungarian attackers and jumped off the cliff along with them. In 1967 Monte Cengio was declared "sacred to the Fatherland" and proclaimed a monumental area. Wartime galleries and roads are part of the monumental area and are visited by hikers.
4:06 damn...
Look at the poor dog
First the arditi and now this! Italians soldiers really had balls of iron.
There is a game about ww1 italian front, it's called Isonzo, and it's a really good game
yeah and I also noticed the backgrounds in the video. looks exactly like the maps I played in the game
@@danielukaegbu7807 i noticed that too, it's a shame he didn't mention it
Thanks!
Good video thank you
3:45 that looks more like Francoist Spain coat of arms than Habsburg.
Fun to see maps from Isonzo in Simple History's artstyle
What about the Italian Arditi (who are/Were the Stormtroopers of the Italian Army)
talk about canada's war crimes please
Also non war ones
They're descendants of the Romans and the Legion, I mean and they invented pasta, no cowards do that.
question for you How do you make your videos like what Software thing do you use to make those characters
The madness in cartoon style. An action in veile.
I can't help but notice that several of these scenes are directly traced from the indie video game 'Isonzo', based off this front.
5:02 Both of these locations in succession are from thr 'Dolomiti' and 'Grappa' maps respectively, which are very recognizable points if you've played this game considering they are major objectives
9:30 is also traced from the final objective of the 'Dolomiti' map
I have couple timestamp videos of these exact locations as they appear ingame
For example, here is Dolomiti's final objective: th-cam.com/video/QJeJnoAL6ws/w-d-xo.html
And here we can see a specific sabotage objective from Grappa:
th-cam.com/video/QJeJnoAL6ws/w-d-xo.html
While these locations are obviously based off the same front that this video is talking about, the fact that several props, light shading, and perspective angles are in the same exact places evidently show how copied this is, with no obvious credit to Blackmill Games, the indie development lead of Isonzo
Who gives AF? I mean, really??
@@greggrace967We'll have to wait and see, since the video literally just came out.
Otherwise, this counts as plagiarism and could go somewhere if noticed, especially due to lack of credit
@@theluiginoidperson1097 Who cares though? Cartoons in a informative video that look slightly like some places from an old video games- that doesn’t matter
I think somebody must’ve played Isonzo recently…
i especially love the WWI animations
Thanks
Good video.
Nice vid
I think your Patreon link is not in your description in this video
Can you make a video about the chaos that followed the end of the first world war in Hungary? I think it is interesting, and not much people know about it. 🇭🇺🇭🇺🇭🇺
Bty-
We 💕 you Chris
This channel is amazing
💕
Can you do lesser known armies in WW1?
Crazy how Italy managed to actually put up a decent performance in WW1 for years and totally flopped as soon as it entered WW2.
*I think that's not what Kamikaze meant, I was expecting planes. (It's called Divine Wind for a reason.)*
Begging you to do a video giving the Austro-Hungarians justice
5:05 is that a famouse house from a picture during the war or did u guys directly took this from the isonzo game? x)
If you are referring to the one with the writing "Tutti eroi! O ll Piave o tutti accoppati" ([We are] all heroes! [we hold] The Piave or we all die) I don't think that it is the same. That looks more like the Locatelli refuge on the forcella di Toblin. It would not make sense to represent that house in the strafexpedition as it was near the Piave river during the offensive that took place there in 1918. Also that house is in a plain while this one is on the muntains
I feel Austro Hungarian bravery, loyalty, mercy, and tactical genius has been scuffed by the German Army, yet still, Austro Hungarian held one of the largest fronts in modern history, with less industry, man power, war crimes, and fell due to a single idiot general (Hodzeldorf) and a emperor who was to merciful to his enemy and people to rule.
And if you wanna question loyalty
My family descends from Slavic peasants, and how they loved there emperor…
Indeed, the entente propaganda has brainwashed many of us. Viribus Unitis.
Do you know any good references for this part of the war? I really don't know much about the Austro-Hungarian part of the war besides what's just common knowledge in America, which isn't much.
@@brycenlanager1216 To put in perspective just how angered most people were at the assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, A man who proposed the triple alliance by putting the Slavic country’s into a state of independence similar to that of Hungary, but back to the point, there were multiple hangings, murders, and harassments started by rioters who began attacking Serbs as retribution for the died Archduke, it didn’t help that the man in charge of governing Bosnia Herzegovina, held the died Franz Ferdinand in his arms at the shooting, but this was not just a governmental response, Catholic, Muslim and Orthodox Croats and Bosnians came to arms, and all the soldiers were Bosnia, which this yes is tragic and I do not justify it, but it should go to prove that Slavs may not have loved Austro Hungarian rule, but they could appreciate that the crown did care about them and wanted to persevere there culture
About time. Thank you for that. Do something about WW2 too. So many stereotypes of italians being cowards, meanwhile it was recorded that many (ex. El alamein) "died on the spot, with hands firm on their machine guns"
Very interesting
Italians are NOT cowards -
They are
PARTISANS !!!
General Cadorna, not Cardona.
You ever realize how much warfare comes down to just being able to throw more lives/equipment at the enemy. Pretty much describes Germany's experience in WW1 as a whole and in the eastern front in WW2
Italy has some of the bravest men in the world, they were just greatly militarily inept
Italy never was or is militarly inept. They simple doesn't had an economy, resources or a bellic industry at the time, as other countries had. To strategically and tactically overcome the enemy.
Abd by the way if Italians where militarly inept in WWI immagine what was AH that lost vs them, also with the German help.
You should credit the game Isonzo for all the pictures.
Ok I wanna hear this guy say “TO ANY AUTOBOTS LIVING AMOUNGST THE STARS… we are here…. We are waiting”
I'm been on monte cengio and i saw fort corbin, i recomend to all if you come in italy to see it.
“Cause all I hear is threats from a brute with no discipline and I’m ruling over you like a boot full of my citizens!” Julius Caesar
Cảm ơn bạn!
Ah yes, the Italian Kamikaze before the Japanese.
ye' true.
5:06 i recognize that map its sasso di sesto
is this the same voice-over guy that did the funny/awesome octopus video back in the day?🐙🦑😂
As an Austrian its always amazing to think of how we were able to hold the italian front, despite being an dying empire and fighting on several fronts with low moral. (I mean big parts of the empire didnt even want to be part of the empire not even all austrians)
Grazie
I'm not saying Italians were cowards. They conquered many people with wine and hospitality.
I appreciate the uncommon dedication for a piece of history that usually is not considere as "importanto history" by the point of view of the normal anglosaxon culture, but there some mistakes, and I sense the usual prospective of real strong anglosaxons winner of all the wars, speking of "mediterraneans " with non so hidden "compassion" instead of an "real historical analysis". "punish expedition" was a name given to the Austrian-ungarina plan only by our ( italian) propaganda ( it works perfectly still). Italian trups were not imprepared, but they were under numbered, and the attak was massive; no italian regiment fled, they fought every austrian advance, manteining and standing in one of the last position. After mount Cengio there waere other defensible places but not good as the Cengio, but, Monte Cengio is not at the begining of the "venetian plane" in ti son "Astico valley" wich was reinforced. You confused the uniforms of "granatieri" ( grenadieres) with "alpini", ( alps mountain soliers). Only aplpini have the black eagle quill on the hat. Tey were the counter part of the austrian "alpen jeger", and as allied commanders ( in both wars) admitted, the alpini were the best montain troops of the wars.
The more i look into WW1, Germany and Austria-Hungary had several instances of near breakthroughs that they had to abandon because of another front being assaulted by another of the Entente Powers. Literally suffering from success.
Are you mentioning the terrible defeat of Caporetto of which the grease head of Badoglio was of the reasons of this terrible defeat? Not happy he signed the armistice with the allies leaving over about 600,000 troops in the Balcainc area and the rest of the army without orders. When the disaster of Caporetto was realised seeing an division in retreat it was the only time the Italian government panicked by ordering the Carabinieri, military police, to shoot anybody retreating. Apparently the ruthless method worked because because the troops realised that it was better to fight the enemy!