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Germany’s defeat in the First World War has been blamed on all kinds of factors or has even been denied outright as part of the stab in the back myth. But why did Germany actually lose?
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Because der Klügere gibt nach
Man imagine going through the stuff at 10:00 and people are like "Nah PTSD isn't real, be a man" 🙁
They lost the first because they won the second…………….. Actually they won the second because they lost the first !
Thank you for bringing the hilariously named 'Operation Michael' to my attention
The nation of Clausewitz
1) began with a plan that left absolutely no margin for erred
2) had little to no coherent thought on what the heck they wanted to accomplish but allocated unlimited resources trying to achieve them.
What an irony.
John Travolta look alike.😀 Love the video were interesting.
Slightly annoying that this video twice fails to mention that the british were involved in the 1914 battle of the Marne – very much so in fact.
Glad you mentioned the large effect the somme had on the germans. People have a ridiculously simplistic view of that battle
and this is why some country in some ongoing conflict cannot win . and its not like they are winning anyway peoples quickly get blinded and think that the capture of 3 areas were all victories when literally all of them were retreats that happened 6 to 30 hours prior .
I don't know if you guys are history buffs or not but for those of you who aren’t, Germany, in the previous century – in the early part… they decided to go to war. And who did they choose to go to war with? The world. So you think that would last about five seconds and the world would win, and that would be that. But it was actually close.
Schultz: No matter how are we try we can never win a war
Funny how most people still think Germany started Ww1…
You never see "How Austria-Hungary lost WW1"
Why was Germany the aggressor, in WW I? AI says, "Nationalism, Imperialism, Militarism, Alliances, Assassination, Political, economic, and strategic forces." And when I think about the USA's adventurous military actions in our history, I remember that we are heavily influenced by our German roots. During WW I, Germans were the largest non-English-speaking minority group in the U.S. at the time. The 1910 census counted more than 8 million first- and second-generation German Americans in the population of 92 million. There were still more German-American families that had been in the country longer, many since Colonial times. Many of them held on to German traditions and the German language.
For your information, Serbia decided the end of the war, you watched Lord of the Rings, if you understand
Not Why Germany Lost the First World War, Why Germany and its allies Lost the World Wars. Will İt be Same At the Third World War?
they invaded russia
Stop teaching people false history.. Germany was winning the war. America was rooting for Germany to win the war. And at one point around 1916 wanted to end the war. But the British army did not want to and wanted victory so that's when they went to the Zionist to bring America into the war.. Teach people the truth dammit
Short answer: because the USA came into the place.
How convenient that you didn't mention the US lie that tricked the germans to stop fighting and negotiate a peace.
Please tell the whole story
The US said they're in for a eyesight peace where everyone goes back to its boarders and everything is like 1914. All are guilty for the war.
But just when they stopped fighting suddenly they got betrayed. By declaration the germans became guiltily for the war, got stripped off a lot of german homeland and if they not obey the allies threatened to go back to wear what now was an uneven not to win situation because unlike before now allied troops where deep in the german homeland.
Presenter looks like a mashup of Jake Gyllenhaal and John Travolta
The "Hundred Days" were where the Canadians' and Australians' divisions really shone.
They lost so they could be the bad guys in the sequel
Why did i think that was Joanna violence in the thumbnail
Wild to think if they didn't invade belgium, they would've been one enemy nation short of victory. Would've been an echo of the franco-prussian war again.
balford declaration
The central powers were team rocket of that time period running around with everything collapsing wherever they couldnt put their attention to
Germany's…export of Lenin, to Russia.. to end Russias war efforts how did that end up for them…cost them and Europe everything….
no proper expansion on the brewing domestic revolt, but that would be anti-semitic I guess.
Because they picked a fight with France, Britain, and Russia all at the same time (and later the Americans) whilst yoked to the sinking Austro-Hungarian Empire and the corps of the once mighty Ottoman Empire.
They didn’t lose ww1.
For some goofy reason they surrendered with none of their country occupied while they in fact had their troops in enemy territory.
They didn’t lose ww1.
For some goofy reason they surrendered with none of their country occupied while they in fact had their troops in enemy territory.
Gimme hugs
What the allies did to the central powers post war was disgraceful and has caused problems we face today.
"Only Germany's decisions lay under its control"
Obviously wrong statement
The German High Command and notably Lundedorf and Hindenburg had monopolised the German State right up to the point they insisted 'Berlin' (ie civilian politicians !) approached the Allies and took the future blam for the 'stab in the back' to the German Army. Those two and possibly Zimmerman (Lenin accepted the ‘Kaiser’s millions’ – 40 million marks – a colossal sum of money to fund his revolution once he'd arrived in Russia aboard the German sealed train) have a LOT to answer for…..!
More re education proporgander
Because the USA budded in to make sure they didn't lose all the money that their bankers and Wall St had dumped into Allied victory. It's not rocket science!
Germans could have won. No Uboat campaign which would keep America out. Concentrate on the east and then there would be a draw in the west
The Germans have always been exceptional warriors on the battlefield. I wonder if that is still true today.