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April 15, 2018

Rise of the Nations I BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1918 1 of 2

Filed under: Europe, Germany, History, Russia — Tags: , , , , , — Nicholas @ 06:00

TimeGhost
Published on 14 Apr 2018

After the War to End All Wars, there’s more of two things. More nations and more wars. Wars of independence, civil wars, ethnic wars, ideological wars and just plain old wars. In the first Prelude to the Between 2 Wars series, covering the years 1919-1939 from WWI to WWII chronologically, we look at the rise of nationalism out of the ruins of The Great War. Indy Neidell and Spartacus take you on a historical journey through 20 years of dawn, light, and dusk back into the darkness of war.

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Hosted by: Indy Neidell
Written by: Spartacus Olsson & Indy Neidell
Produced by: Astrid Deinhard
Executive Producers: Bodo Rittenauer, Astrid Deinhard, Indy Neidell, Spartacus Olsson
Camera and Edit by: Spartacus Olsson

A TimeGhost chronological documentary produced by OnLion Entertainment GmbH

From the comments:

TimeGhost
20 hours ago (edited)

PLEASE READ BEFORE YOU COMMENT (AVOIDS REPEATING FEEDBACK): The first episode of Between 2 Wars focuses on what happened after The Great War. Out of respect for those of you that are anxiously waiting for the TGW series finale later this year, we’ve avoided any references to WWI as far as possible. This episode is a prologue to future episodes that go into more detail of the actual events starting in 1919. The episode focuses in broad strokes on the rise of nationalism and the conflict that this creates, as well as the situation in Germany and Russia at the end of 1918. Here some notes on feedback we have already received:

1. We will avoid text and pictures at the same time when Indy speaks in the future.

2. There is an error in the map on the Balkan peninsula, we missed to turn off the country layer for modern Macedonia, this country does not exist at the time as it is part of Serbia, Bulgaria and Greece in 1919. Our apologies. [Iceland is also labelled as “Island”.]

3. Some borders are drawn as the modern countries (e.g. Finland) although this is not correct at the time. This is a conscious decision to avoid an impossible dilemma. As pointed out in the video borders are in a state of flux in 1919, or even more often; just recently created. In cases where there is border contention that is not relevant to the current events of the video we have to choose between the following scenarios: A) Draw the border as one or the other side saw it – leads to controversy that we would like to avoid. B) Draw the contended area in as contended – doing that for one place leads to us having to do that for the rest of the world, we don’t have the capacity for that. C) Accept that we can’t solve this as the basis is not an exact fact base, but political problems that are way out of our program scope. We have tried other solutions, but C was the only one that worked (B would be the right thing to do, but we just can’t afford to invest the time it requires).

4. Some borders are not exactly right even when they are drawn for the events we speak of. This is due to 3. as well, but also because borders shift even within the year we speak of so that it becomes impossible to choose exactly the right line. We try our best to hit the least erroneous approximation, but it won’t always be perfect.

April 13, 2018

The Battle of La Lys – Operation Georgette I THE GREAT WAR Week 194

Filed under: Britain, Europe, Germany, History, Military, WW1 — Tags: , , , , , — Nicholas @ 04:00

The Great War
Published on 12 Apr 2018

A year after the US entry into the war, the German Spring Offensive 1918 continues with operations Archangel and Georgette. The Portuguese Expeditionary Corps has to pay the price while the British manage to orderly retreat.

April 12, 2018

LANDSKNECHTS – most brutal mercenaries of the Renaissance | IT’S HISTORY

Filed under: Europe, Germany, History, Military — Tags: , — Nicholas @ 04:00

IT’S HISTORY
Published on 11 Apr 2018

Today we are going to tell you about The Landsknechts – German mercenaries from the 16th century with a very formidable reputation.

April 7, 2018

Captain Eric ‘Winkle’ Brown discusses Luftwaffe Aircraft

Filed under: Germany, History, Military, Technology, WW2 — Tags: , , , — Nicholas @ 02:00

spottydog4477
Published on 23 Apr 2014

Captain Eric ‘Winkle’ Brown discusses Luftwaffe Aircraft

April 6, 2018

Operation Michael Runs Out Of Breath I THE GREAT WAR Week 193

Filed under: Britain, Germany, History, Military, WW1 — Tags: , , , — Nicholas @ 04:00

The Great War
Published on 5 Apr 2018

Two weeks after the initial success of the German Spring Offensive, Operation Michael loses pace and direction. The German supply situation is dire and when the troops find cattle and food behind the British positions, there is no way for them to ignore that. At the same time, orders for a new German offensive in Flanders are given and the Germans land additional troops in Finland.

April 5, 2018

⚜ | Planes of the Graf Zeppelin – Germany’s Aircraft Carrier of World War 2

Filed under: Germany, History, Military, WW2 — Tags: , — Nicholas @ 02:00

Bismarck – Military Aviation History
Published on 13 Jul 2017

Germany never finished the Graf Zeppelin, an aircraft carrier intended for the Kriegsmarine. But had it done so, these planes would have been part of the likely loadout.

⚜ Sources ⚜

Breyer, Siegfried; Flugzeugträger Graf Zeppelin

Creek, Eddie J.; Junkers Ju 87 – From Dive-bomber to Tank-Buster 1939 – 1945

Griehl, Manfred; Junkers Ju-87 Stuka – Part 1 – the Early Variants A B C and R of the Luftwaffe

Haynes, Messerschmitt Bf 109 – 1935 onwards (all marks)

Radinger, Willy; Messerschmitt Me 109 – Das meistgebaute Jagdflugzeug der Welt,

Nowarra, Die Deutsche Luftruestung 1933 – 1945

Stammer, Dieter; Stuka Junkers Ju-87 – Das erfolgreichste Sturzkampfflugzeug des Zweiten Weltkriegs

Smith, Peter C.; Stuka Volume One Luftwaffe Ju 87 Dive-Bomber Units 1939-1941

April 1, 2018

German Armored Cars in WW1 I THE GREAT WAR On The Road

Filed under: Germany, History, Military, Technology, WW1 — Tags: , , — Nicholas @ 04:00

The Great War
Published on 31 Mar 2018

The German Tank Museum on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/daspanzermuseum

Germany only fielded 20-40 armored cars in World War 1, mostly on the Eastern Front. Not much about their operational history is known but they did play an important role in the German Civil War and the Weimar Republic.

March 28, 2018

Backs To The Wall – All Eyes On Amiens I THE GREAT WAR Week 192

Filed under: Britain, France, Germany, History, Military, WW1 — Tags: , , , , — Nicholas @ 04:00

The Great War
Published on 27 Mar 2018

The German Operation Michael continues this week and after some uncertainty, the Germans put their eyes on Amiens. The city is a vital communications and transport hub for the Entente and so Ferdinand Foch decides to mount a defence in front of the city.

March 27, 2018

German WW1 Prototype Tanks Of 1918 I THE GREAT WAR On The Road

Filed under: Germany, History, Military, Technology — Tags: , , — Nicholas @ 04:00

The Great War
Published on 26 Mar 2018

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The German Tank Museum: https://www.youtube.com/DasPanzermuseum

While the German Army only fielded 20 A7V tanks during World War 1, they understood the potential of the tank and started working on different designs in the last year of the war. Some designs like the LKII almost got deployed while the Sturmpanzerwagen Oberschlesien or the Krupp-Protze never left the prototype stage.

March 26, 2018

Kalashnikov vs Sturmgewehr!

Filed under: Germany, History, Military, Russia, Technology, Weapons, WW2 — Tags: , , — Nicholas @ 02:00

Forgotten Weapons
Published on 17 Sep 2016

http://jamesdjulia.com/item/3024-394/ (MP-44)
http://jamesdjulia.com/item/3020-394/ (Type 56 AK)

The German Sturmgewehr and the Soviet Kalashnikov are widely and rightly considered the two most influential and iconic of the modern military rifles. While the German rifle certainly influenced the Soviet design, the two were designed with different intentions and goals. The Sturmgewehr was an attempt to blend the roles of rifle and light machine gun, while the Kalashnikov was intended to blend the roles of rifle and submachine gun – and yet they both reached largely the same practical reality.

Which do you think was the better system?

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March 23, 2018

Kaiserschlacht – German Spring Offensive 1918 I THE GREAT WAR Week 191

Filed under: Britain, France, Germany, History, Military, WW1 — Tags: , , , — Nicholas @ 06:00

The Great War
Published on 22 Mar 2018

It was all or nothing for the German Army under General Erich Ludendorff now: They unleashed the biggest offensive of the entire war on the Western Front trying to split the British and French Armies, drive the British off the continent and capture Paris.

March 20, 2018

Inside the German A7V WW1 Tank I THE GREAT WAR On The Road

Filed under: Germany, History, Military, Technology, WW1 — Tags: , , — Nicholas @ 04:00

The Great War
Published on 19 Mar 2018

The German Tank Museum: http://daspanzermuseum.de/

We visited the German Tank Museum (in Munster, not Münster) and talked to the director Ralf Raths about the German tanks in World War 1. The only one that saw action was the A7V and will find out how it was designed, how up to 23 men fit inside one of these and what the operational history was.

March 16, 2018

Allied Unified Command On The Horizon I THE GREAT WAR Week 190

Filed under: Germany, History, Military, Russia, WW1 — Tags: , , , , — Nicholas @ 06:00

The Great War
Published on 15 Mar 2018

While Germany is occupying a territory from the Baltics to the Black Sea and planning its huge spring offensive, the Allies are still trying to get behind the idea of a unified command.

The Imperial German Army’s final throw of the dice – Operation Michael, March 1918

Filed under: Britain, France, Germany, History, Military, WW1 — Tags: , , — Nicholas @ 05:00

Victor Davis Hanson summarizes the Central Powers’ brief moment of strength early in 1918:

One hundred years ago this month, all hell broke loose in France. On March 21, 1918, the German army on the Western Front unleashed a series of massive attacks on the exhausted British and French armies.

German General Erich Ludendorff thought he could win World War I with one final blow. He planned to punch holes between the French and British armies. Then he would drive through their trenches to the English Channel, isolating and destroying the British army.

The Germans thought they had no choice but to gamble.

The British naval blockade of Germany after three years had reduced Germany to near famine. More than 200,000 American reinforcement troops were arriving each month in France. (Nearly 2 million would land altogether.) American farms and factories were sending over huge shipments of food and munitions to the Allies.

Yet for a brief moment, the war had suddenly swung in Germany’s favor by March 1918. The German army had just knocked Russia and its new Bolshevik government out of the war. The victory on the Eastern Front freed up nearly 1 million German and Austrian soldiers, who were transferred west.

Germany had refined new rolling artillery barrages. Its dreaded “Stormtroopers” had mastered dispersed advances. The result was a brief window of advantage before the American juggernaut changed the war’s arithmetic.

The Spring Offensive almost worked. Within days, the British army had suffered some 50,000 casualties. Altogether, about a half-million French, British and American troops were killed or wounded during the entire offensive.

But within a month, the Germans were sputtering. They could get neither supplies nor reinforcements to the English Channel. Germany had greedily left 1 million soldiers behind in the east to occupy and annex huge sections of conquered Eastern Europe and western Russia.

The British and French had learned new ways of strategic retreat. By summer of 2018, the Germans were exhausted. In August, the Allies began their own (even bigger) offensive and finally crushed the retreating Germans, ending the war in November 1918.

Click to see full-sized image.

For more information on Operation Michael, sometimes known as “The Kaiser’s Battle”, here’s the Wikipedia entry.

March 13, 2018

German Tactics For 1918 Spring Offensive I THE GREAT WAR Special

Filed under: Germany, History, Military, WW1 — Tags: , , , , , — Nicholas @ 04:00

The Great War
Published on 12 Mar 2018

The German Spring Offensive in 1918, the so called Kaiserschlacht or Operation Michael, was the biggest German offensive of World War 1 and Quartermaster-general Erich Ludendorff prepared his troops for this battle by incorporating everything the German Army had learned in this war until now. Hutier Infiltration Tactics, Georg Bruchmüller’s artillery targeting and more lessons from the Eastern Front mean the Entente was facing a different army than before.

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