All he had to do was wait 20 years or get shipped to South America the U.S. was doing stuff there well after ww1 ended or fight native Americans since some of them had an uprising in utah in 1923 he would have had plenty of opportunities to show his worth
The German colonial forces in Portuguese Africa didn’t surrender until November 14, three days after the armistice was signed, where general Von Lettow Vorbeck agreed to surrender his to the British by the Chambeshi River. His forces did not surrender completely until November 25, so World War I was still well from being completely over.
Most of that would be due to the difficulty of relaying the stand down orders through Africa and Vorbeck confirming with Berlin that it was not a trick. Also he would have had to round up his forager groups and then march to an agreed point to formalize the surrender. Even with radio or the telegraph he would have had to march to the nearest available communication station.
@@D-Vinko there was a 2 decade period of peace between the wars. Even the occupation of the Rhineland was near entirely bloodless until the Ruhr crisis, which was 16 years into the occupation. It's not a continuous conflict and the argument that it was all one war is dumb
Talking about the end of WW1 I always think of this one short film, "END OF WAR - the final minutes of WWI" and how heartbreaking it was... to think of all those people losing their lifes just minutes before this nightmare was over... it's a real kick in the teeth to be honest... Luckily we learned from that and never did such a foolish thing ever again..............
@@Somespideronline … Re Sarcasm🎟 . Unfortunately, simple sarcasm doesn’t survive well with our contemporary collective take on humor. People have less education and less in common with each other. Therefore, we cannot easily understand innuendo. Even with my secondary school level comment here, my complexity is difficult and probably not acceptable for many.
Yeah. The allies did a real good job at dismantling Germany to a point, where any lunatic with the semblance of a plan could unite the broken country for but one cause. Well. It is as they say. You drive a country to the brink of extinction and it either becomes an economic powerhouse in its own right or it follows the last glimmer of hope to greatness and starts the war that everyone blames them for even today. History is a weird mistress, but I learned even before school that urinating into an outlet and then blaming the outlet for killing me and destroying itself probably won’t let me advance in life. But hey. It’s a good thing we all learned from it. So that no war may ever… Russia? Ah. Those genocidal rapists are back at it again. Have at you!
I'll say the U.S. education system doesn't talk about WW1 hardly AT ALL. And all we were taught about WW2 was "We were the good guys". You have to learn the nuances with personal effort as an adult. I think WW1 almost more than WW2 needs to be taught in depth, considering the Middle East is still a shithole bc the Allies redrew the map, and Versailles set us up for the 20th century to follow.
@@yakamen I graduated high school in the early 2000's. It was only briefly covered in my history class, however I do remember our teacher specifically making sure we understood that the seeds of WW2 started with how WW1 ended, and asked us to explain that in our assignments. Actually that's how I got interested in WW1...for such an important event in world history, I thought it was strange how little attention it received from American society. Nobody ever talked about it when I was growing up but you always heard plenty about WW2, Vietnam and the Civil War. That's what made me interested in it and wanting to learn more, and I never lost interest really.
@@yakamen Funny, I recall pretty much all of those points from my high school history class, as well as the usual revisionist tripe about "The Soviets really won WWII". The wars themselves were barely skimmed over, but the events leading up to them were gone over. Maybe you just didn't pay as much attention as you think you did.
I had a great uncle who died a couple of days after WWI. Remember, not every unit got the information and some battles continued on in small pockets for at least a couple of days after 11.11
"They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.” ~Ernest Hemmingway
Bertold Brecht wrote about that as well, he researched that old saying and found out that the ancient author who wrote it later fled the battlefield when he had to fight. The poem? He wrote about it nearly cost him his high school degree
The last American round was fired by the 155mm howitzer "Calamity Jane" (now in the museum at West Point) and was timed to land at 10:59:59. She belonged to the regiment commanded by - I kid you not - Colonel Peace
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I'm really happy to see this channel grow. From mere few patrons to two dozens right now, videos are breaking barrier of 10k views (should be ten times as much, at least), and lit of supporters is slowly getting crowded :) I've got an idea for next video: Spanish Flu. Especially right now it is interesting topic.
Slow and steady wins the race! I'm very optimistic for 2021 and I'm thankful that you and everyone else are along for the ride. On the topic of topics (ha), I've been purposefully avoiding the Spanish Flu/Bubonic Plague because they've unfortunately become very politically-charged topics as of late. Life is a lot simpler when you write about candles and thermometers!
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The actions of the Canadian Corps on the final day are very illustrative of why you may want to continue pushing until the last minute: On the 11th they captured the city of Mons, meaning that if the fighting were to resume they didn't have to take a city the Germans may have had months to fortify. It also created a bit of an amusing pair of monuments: The monument marking the final advance of the Canadians is within sight of the one marking the place the BEF first engaged the Germans.
@engineer gaming That tends to happen when civilians look at the results of wars. Civilians are pretty good at denouncing those eeeeeeeevil military minds for accomplishing what they demanded.
This explains so much as I exacly remember reading a newspaper from 1919 for a school project I randomly ran into an article that mentioned a random German Kriegsmarine Ship flying a red flag, this resulted in the Royal Navy theating to shoot at any German Ships flying a red flag. At first, I assumed it was probably an isolated case that occurred due to people being motivated by the Russian revolution and people in the military just hating the people above them, with the Royal Navy overreacting due to paranoia but no, it seems like it was more widespread then I had thought. Though shame I don't have access to the digital copies of these newspapers right now, maybe I should ask her when I get the chance.
@Bob Luke First of all you don't need to be Anti-semitic, second of all it wasn't a book so try reading what I said first, third, it didn't say Kriegsmarine, I just added that part because that is what I mistakenly thought the Germany navy was called at the time. What's wrong with you? Are you just a Neo-Nazi? Just because I made an accident, doesn't just makes it Jewish Propaganda.
i just discovered this channel and i can say im impressed, everything is very clear said 🤠👯♂️ i know many history channels but they are mostly thought in a really fast way and unclear
@@MDMAx look up his story and WHY he decided to charge the machine gun nest. Cause there is a reason why he did it, and it has more to do with him being recently demoted.
@@MDMAx It says that during the war, he was demoted because he advised a friend against joining the army due to the miserable conditions through a letter that was intercepted, at which point he was demoted and thoroughly mocked and harassed by his fellow soldiers.
2:31 Pushin into Germany would have led to the same thing. A less harsh treaty could have changed history, at least that´s what I think. But awesome Video !
I mean if the Allies could have forced an unconditional surrender they could have made the treaty more harsh (possibly even actually breaking down Germany into smaller nations) which whould have prevented Germany from rising again.
@@ProjectEkerTest33 Pretty sure that would have just caused an explosion in revanchism even greater than in our timeline. Sure the allies could try to suppress this via military occupation but this would have been hardly sustainable and would have been almost impossible to continue during the Great Depression. In my opinion, the most likely result of an even harsher treaty, one breaking Germany up as a nation, would have been the entirety of Germany turning to communism.
@@Jan-rq8mo Hmmmmm I disagree. Divide Germany into smaller nations and let their paths diverge, myabe Bavaria falls to communism and Prussia becomes fascict (which basically happened IRL, look at the Bavarian Communist Republic and then at Prussian militairsm). And whatever other countries become democratic or whatever the hell else. Now the German states may end up going to war with each other over ideology and who gets to reunite the country and the Allies and Soviets would probably end up having lots of proxy wars backing different sides but I think it would have prevented the rise of Nazi Germany, the Nazi's might have still occured but not in the whole of Germany, I'd guess probably in Prussia given its history of militarism.
@@ProjectEkerTest33 You have to remember that it is easy to split a country on paper but it's much more difficult to enforce that split in reality and it's almost impossible to do so in the chaos of the interwar years. The allies didn't even have the resources and support from their own population for something like that. German nationalism was still at its peak in those days and the people would have rallied behind whichever ideology would have allowed them to reunite Germany, which would have been Communism most likely as the Soviet union would present itself as liberator, helping the German people fight against the allied nations.
@@Jan-rq8mo Again I point you to the Bavarian Communist uprising and massive anti-communist feeling in some areas of Germany. I can't see them co-operating. Plus if you make sure to manufacture some territorial disputes, actually goddamn enforce limits on military and industry (the Treaty of Versailles wasn't the problem, the failure to properly enforce it was imo) then keeping them divided and weak wouldn't be that difficult. Germany had only existed as a unified nation for the last 40 years before WW1. I do agree that the Allies lacked popular support to continue the war to force an unconditional surrender and to forcibly make sure the German rump states would have kept the terms. I think that's a shame as it could have prevented WW2 but it is what it is.
IDK why, but this picture made me laugh so hard. Single American storming the Trenches. Tired and hungry Germans: "What`s the Opposite of pss pss pss ?"
My man Gunther really did needlessly risk his life for two yellow bars
he had nothing left to live for after Rachel chose Ross
All he had to do was wait 20 years or get shipped to South America the U.S. was doing stuff there well after ww1 ended or fight native Americans since some of them had an uprising in utah in 1923 he would have had plenty of opportunities to show his worth
I read your comment before I got to that part in the video. For some reason I was hoping it would be something fun like twinkies.
@@snazzyshark20 yes if only he'd used his psychic powers and planned ahead.
He was the ultimate douchbag tool: a meaningless pawn to throw into the last game to call it a day.
The German colonial forces in Portuguese Africa didn’t surrender until November 14, three days after the armistice was signed, where general Von Lettow Vorbeck agreed to surrender his to the British by the Chambeshi River. His forces did not surrender completely until November 25, so World War I was still well from being completely over.
Most of that would be due to the difficulty of relaying the stand down orders through Africa and Vorbeck confirming with Berlin that it was not a trick. Also he would have had to round up his forager groups and then march to an agreed point to formalize the surrender. Even with radio or the telegraph he would have had to march to the nearest available communication station.
World War 3: starts
General Hans von Ribbenstrasse: Africa calls me
The last casualties of the war were probably German sailors shot during the scuttling of the German fleet at Scarpa flow.
If you argue based on the fighting, you'll have 1 continuous war that goes from 1910 to 1946.
@@D-Vinko there was a 2 decade period of peace between the wars. Even the occupation of the Rhineland was near entirely bloodless until the Ruhr crisis, which was 16 years into the occupation. It's not a continuous conflict and the argument that it was all one war is dumb
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A hidden gem! This channel has quality videos from two years ago! If this channel doesn’t blow up soon I’m gonna cry
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“He was promoted posthumously, for what that’s worth.”
Well, that influenced any widow or dependents penchant at least.
This is WW1, no 2 🙁
@@blenderbanana there were no penchants in WWI?
@@Jessie_Helms I was wrong, I just assumed they were less generous; but I can't find anything to suggest that.
I'm glad they did it.
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Talking about the end of WW1 I always think of this one short film, "END OF WAR - the final minutes of WWI" and how heartbreaking it was... to think of all those people losing their lifes just minutes before this nightmare was over... it's a real kick in the teeth to be honest...
Luckily we learned from that and never did such a foolish thing ever again..............
"Luckily we learned from that and never did such a foolish thing ever again."
Then explain WW2
@@Somespideronline That was sarcasm.
@@Ruosteinenknight How the hell does someone miss that man?
@@Somespideronline … Re Sarcasm🎟 . Unfortunately, simple sarcasm doesn’t survive well with our contemporary collective take on humor. People have less education and less in common with each other. Therefore, we cannot easily understand innuendo. Even with my secondary school level comment here, my complexity is difficult and probably not acceptable for many.
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As a German, we covered the end of WW1 in depth. Given that we had a revolution and such.
Yeah. The allies did a real good job at dismantling Germany to a point, where any lunatic with the semblance of a plan could unite the broken country for but one cause.
Well. It is as they say. You drive a country to the brink of extinction and it either becomes an economic powerhouse in its own right or it follows the last glimmer of hope to greatness and starts the war that everyone blames them for even today.
History is a weird mistress, but I learned even before school that urinating into an outlet and then blaming the outlet for killing me and destroying itself probably won’t let me advance in life.
But hey. It’s a good thing we all learned from it.
So that no war may ever… Russia?
Ah. Those genocidal rapists are back at it again. Have at you!
I'll say the U.S. education system doesn't talk about WW1 hardly AT ALL. And all we were taught about WW2 was "We were the good guys". You have to learn the nuances with personal effort as an adult. I think WW1 almost more than WW2 needs to be taught in depth, considering the Middle East is still a shithole bc the Allies redrew the map, and Versailles set us up for the 20th century to follow.
@@yakamen I graduated high school in the early 2000's. It was only briefly covered in my history class, however I do remember our teacher specifically making sure we understood that the seeds of WW2 started with how WW1 ended, and asked us to explain that in our assignments. Actually that's how I got interested in WW1...for such an important event in world history, I thought it was strange how little attention it received from American society. Nobody ever talked about it when I was growing up but you always heard plenty about WW2, Vietnam and the Civil War. That's what made me interested in it and wanting to learn more, and I never lost interest really.
Here in the UK we barely learn about WW1 at all, let alone the ending
@@yakamen Funny, I recall pretty much all of those points from my high school history class, as well as the usual revisionist tripe about "The Soviets really won WWII". The wars themselves were barely skimmed over, but the events leading up to them were gone over.
Maybe you just didn't pay as much attention as you think you did.
I had a great uncle who died a couple of days after WWI. Remember, not every unit got the information and some battles continued on in small pockets for at least a couple of days after 11.11
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"Sir, the armistice will take place in 24 hours"
"We will go home then. Make the lagguage as light as possible"
"Alrighty mighty, OPEN FIRE"
"They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.”
~Ernest Hemmingway
"Amongus" - Sun Tzu
Dulce et decorum est
@@markdolan8507 Pro patria mori
Bertold Brecht wrote about that as well, he researched that old saying and found out that the ancient author who wrote it later fled the battlefield when he had to fight. The poem? He wrote about it nearly cost him his high school degree
@@sejanus855 its by General Smedley Butler in the 1930s wtf are you on about
The last American round was fired by the 155mm howitzer "Calamity Jane" (now in the museum at West Point) and was timed to land at 10:59:59. She belonged to the regiment commanded by - I kid you not - Colonel Peace
I don't typically comment on many videos, but I just have to say I love the content that comes out of this channel. Every time a new video comes out I'm amazed you don't have more subs. If any channel deserves it, it's this one!
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Apologies! This holiday break was reinvigorating and now we can resume our little operation at full speed.
@@SideQuestYT Hope you had a good holidays. And keep up the good work
@@SideQuestYT could you do a video on Luxenburg? The strongest supet power ever? Have you seen the massive empire?
I'm really happy to see this channel grow. From mere few patrons to two dozens right now, videos are breaking barrier of 10k views (should be ten times as much, at least), and lit of supporters is slowly getting crowded :)
I've got an idea for next video: Spanish Flu. Especially right now it is interesting topic.
Slow and steady wins the race! I'm very optimistic for 2021 and I'm thankful that you and everyone else are along for the ride. On the topic of topics (ha), I've been purposefully avoiding the Spanish Flu/Bubonic Plague because they've unfortunately become very politically-charged topics as of late. Life is a lot simpler when you write about candles and thermometers!
Just found this show in an ad. I have to say that I love your work and am excited to see what you have to offer in the future.
First video I ever watched on this chanel! Love it already. I love history and this is an amazing place to learn more about history and the worth in its lessons.
This video was great! The history was extremely good and the animation was amazing!
Fun fact: Germany surrendered 1 day after Romania rejoined WW1
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And why are we hoisting belgian flags?
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530k is a few thousand ?
@@daftwulli6145 probably at the time of uploading it had a few thousand views, but now this channel
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4:53 Well my dear friends, *DONT GO TO WAR*
2022: *AND I TOOK THAT PERSONALLY*
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The actions of the Canadian Corps on the final day are very illustrative of why you may want to continue pushing until the last minute: On the 11th they captured the city of Mons, meaning that if the fighting were to resume they didn't have to take a city the Germans may have had months to fortify.
It also created a bit of an amusing pair of monuments: The monument marking the final advance of the Canadians is within sight of the one marking the place the BEF first engaged the Germans.
@engineer gaming That tends to happen when civilians look at the results of wars.
Civilians are pretty good at denouncing those eeeeeeeevil military minds for accomplishing what they demanded.
@@stevenschnepp576 to the military you are as disposable as they get unless you are high ranking
4:32 ... I saw what you did there! 😂
"Don't go to war! Don't start a war!"
Well that aged like milk.
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definitely subbed; I see this channel really going places if you keep up the quality work mate. I've seen it a' many times in m'years on the tube.
Ah another great video.
This explains so much as I exacly remember reading a newspaper from 1919 for a school project I randomly ran into an article that mentioned a random German Kriegsmarine Ship flying a red flag, this resulted in the Royal Navy theating to shoot at any German Ships flying a red flag.
At first, I assumed it was probably an isolated case that occurred due to people being motivated by the Russian revolution and people in the military just hating the people above them, with the Royal Navy overreacting due to paranoia but no, it seems like it was more widespread then I had thought.
Though shame I don't have access to the digital copies of these newspapers right now, maybe I should ask her when I get the chance.
The english crown dreaded the soviets right off the start. So much that prince Philip had tried supporting Hitler during the 30s
Many people forget that Germany had a full blown Civil War going on in 1918-1919
@Bob Luke First of all you don't need to be Anti-semitic, second of all it wasn't a book so try reading what I said first, third, it didn't say Kriegsmarine, I just added that part because that is what I mistakenly thought the Germany navy was called at the time.
What's wrong with you?
Are you just a Neo-Nazi?
Just because I made an accident, doesn't just makes it Jewish Propaganda.
Boy, that escalated quickly...
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Dude you need to be up there with oversimplified and simple history
Many of them saw the end of a war, some never did, only the end of their lives...........
Britian out there colonalizing bridges last minute.
Nice video man. Love your art style btw
i just discovered this channel and i can say im impressed, everything is very clear said 🤠👯♂️
i know many history channels but they are mostly thought in a really fast way and unclear
Why is this channel so underrated?
Why is sidequest so underrated?
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Lol, "Use all the ammunition. I don't wanna carry that shit back."
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“Don’t start a war!”
Putin: how about no?
There was a good reinactment video about this topic, i will find it in a minute or two and well done to the creator of this video, glad i tapped on it
A very clever, informative, and well-done video. Good job.
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"Fancy surrendering m8?"
"only if I can stay in power"
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I wish you had went into a bit more detail on Henry Gunther. His death and story is an absolute tragedy.
Dude was an average underdeveloped amurican and solo charged a machinegun. I see nothing tragic but an evolution getting rid of the weak.
Might have been a bad way to lose your rank, however you know of him. Imagine being the second to last soldier to die and noone knowing who you were.
@@MDMAx look up his story and WHY he decided to charge the machine gun nest. Cause there is a reason why he did it, and it has more to do with him being recently demoted.
@@MDMAx It says that during the war, he was demoted because he advised a friend against joining the army due to the miserable conditions through a letter that was intercepted, at which point he was demoted and thoroughly mocked and harassed by his fellow soldiers.
@@MDMAx be careful don’t cut yourself on that edge
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SideQuest; Don't start a war!
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2:31 Pushin into Germany would have led to the same thing. A less harsh treaty could have changed history, at least that´s what I think.
But awesome Video !
I mean if the Allies could have forced an unconditional surrender they could have made the treaty more harsh (possibly even actually breaking down Germany into smaller nations) which whould have prevented Germany from rising again.
@@ProjectEkerTest33 Pretty sure that would have just caused an explosion in revanchism even greater than in our timeline. Sure the allies could try to suppress this via military occupation but this would have been hardly sustainable and would have been almost impossible to continue during the Great Depression. In my opinion, the most likely result of an even harsher treaty, one breaking Germany up as a nation, would have been the entirety of Germany turning to communism.
@@Jan-rq8mo Hmmmmm I disagree. Divide Germany into smaller nations and let their paths diverge, myabe Bavaria falls to communism and Prussia becomes fascict (which basically happened IRL, look at the Bavarian Communist Republic and then at Prussian militairsm). And whatever other countries become democratic or whatever the hell else. Now the German states may end up going to war with each other over ideology and who gets to reunite the country and the Allies and Soviets would probably end up having lots of proxy wars backing different sides but I think it would have prevented the rise of Nazi Germany, the Nazi's might have still occured but not in the whole of Germany, I'd guess probably in Prussia given its history of militarism.
@@ProjectEkerTest33 You have to remember that it is easy to split a country on paper but it's much more difficult to enforce that split in reality and it's almost impossible to do so in the chaos of the interwar years. The allies didn't even have the resources and support from their own population for something like that. German nationalism was still at its peak in those days and the people would have rallied behind whichever ideology would have allowed them to reunite Germany, which would have been Communism most likely as the Soviet union would present itself as liberator, helping the German people fight against the allied nations.
@@Jan-rq8mo Again I point you to the Bavarian Communist uprising and massive anti-communist feeling in some areas of Germany. I can't see them co-operating. Plus if you make sure to manufacture some territorial disputes, actually goddamn enforce limits on military and industry (the Treaty of Versailles wasn't the problem, the failure to properly enforce it was imo) then keeping them divided and weak wouldn't be that difficult. Germany had only existed as a unified nation for the last 40 years before WW1. I do agree that the Allies lacked popular support to continue the war to force an unconditional surrender and to forcibly make sure the German rump states would have kept the terms. I think that's a shame as it could have prevented WW2 but it is what it is.
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"Don't go to war! Don't start a war!"
Putin: *how bout i do, anyway?*
Nicely informative video
I've heard of an armistice from Saga of Tanya the Evil. Thank you for explaining exactly what the end of a war looks like.
Tho, Saga of Tanya mixes WW1 situations with WW2 tech and tactics. So a bit ehhh to use as reference
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Surprisingly well done video with an obscurely interesting topic for so few views. TH-cam is strange!
Just found this channel, quite like it. I'll stick around.
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That 1 guy who died at 10:59💀💀💀
I love this so much. This makes the end to All Quiet On The Western Front so much better
he survived all that war just to get sniped in the head a month before armistice. Real shame
IDK why, but this picture made me laugh so hard. Single American storming the Trenches. Tired and hungry Germans: "What`s the Opposite of pss pss pss ?"
Hit's different watching this video today!
If you're interested on more, try watching All quiet on the western front. Its gut wrenching.
*Fun fact: Archduke Franz Ferdinand's (whose assasination sparked WW1) car's license plate reads **_A III 118_*
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