Unfortunately one of my grandfathers was one of these child soldiers of WWI - he signed up at 12 using a relative's birth records but fortunately was discovered after several months during which time he'd managed to survive some of the worst of the opening campaigns of the opening months. But instead of being shipped home they discovered he was apprenticed as a carpenter and an officer in the army actually helped forge birth records that increased his age by a single year - still too young to serve in combat roles but old enough to be placed in a support role with the nascent British army air-force helping fix damaged British planes. in his later years his carpentry skills, particularly in form work used in concrete constructions, would also result in to him being "volunteered" back in to service in WWII despite his age as a defensive works engineer where he saw active duty against the Japanese surviving numerous bombing raids in the north of Australia and South East Asia. So he was one of the few people to see active service in both the opening days of WWI and the closing days of WWII.

@SuperDiablo101

5 жыл бұрын

If he ever talked about it with you in sure he had a lot of great knowledge and stories....he went through a lot of history

@TheRealMarxz

5 жыл бұрын

@@SuperDiablo101 no he almost refused to talk about it the most we got was two things - that his work with the air force in WWI mostly consisted of moping out "blood and brains" from the cockpits before the "real" mechanics got to fixing and that he wished they'd given them more Lewis guns than Bren guns for defense against Japanese bombing raids in WWII as the Bren's bullets grouped too close where as the Lewis guns sprayed a broad enough pattern to get a better chance of a hit on the aircraft when they came in low for strafing runs - he said it wasn't about killing the pilot outright but that Japanese planes were flying at the edge of their endurance and made without much armor or self sealing fuel tanks so a single lucky shot through a fuel tank was as just as likely to cause a lost aircraft and pilot as a shot through the cockpit and the pilot

@ryanruggero9957

5 жыл бұрын

@@TheRealMarxz Interesting story. Not surprised he didn't like to talk about his time there though. Most veterans who have been in or near heavy combat don't care to relive the experiences.

@johnlewis7690

4 жыл бұрын

The Newfoundlander Tommy Ricketts won the VC at age 17.

@jamezkpal2361

4 жыл бұрын

@@ryanruggero9957 My father was a career Navy man. A highly decorated combat engineer. He had many delightful stories from his years in service, but never once talked about his combat experiences. I didnt even know about his decorations until after his death. My mother told me he didnt want to remember these things.

When I was researching my great grandfather's service records during WW2 I found documents where he tried to sign up as an underage soldier under his uncle's name during WW1. He almost got away with it too but his father chased him halfway across the state and dragged him back home. It really makes you think sometimes how things might have changed if people weren't in the right place or the right time.

My great grandfather participated in the Christmas truce, he was a Canadian soldier of Scottish decent. I never met him but my grandmother has told me a lot of what she knows about his service. He ended up living through the war but he lost a friend and at one point took some shrapnel to his leg trying to rescue a fellow soldier from No Mans Land, though he managed to get him back to the trench despite his injury. The shrapnel pulled out of his leg and his medals are on display in the legion of my hometown.

@rockthered8706

5 жыл бұрын

I made a typo. It’s not the end of the world. I made others, just didn’t catch that one.

@jamesmccullough1395

5 жыл бұрын

I as well had a great grandfather that served in WW1 and WW2. He never talked about the war to anyone , even though he came back with battle scars. He was one of the first in New Brunswick to serve. I wish my family knew more.

@rockthered8706

5 жыл бұрын

I’m lucky my grandma kept all his records and he opened up to her about the war near the end of his life.

@colindeutekom7213

4 жыл бұрын

Typo ?

Victoria was not only Wilhelm II’s grandmother, she was also grandmother to Alexandra, Empress of Russia. Her grandson, George V of England was cousin to Nicholas II of Russia on his mother’s side, thus making him first cousins with not only Nicholas and Alexandra, but also Wilhelm.

@TheRealMarxz

5 жыл бұрын

and none of them much liked Little Willie - by all reports from their private letters both George and Nicolas considered Wilhelm to be an annoying, neurotic, and immature blowhard

@alainarchambault2331

5 жыл бұрын

Talk about a family squabble.

@donrobertson4940

5 жыл бұрын

And George wouldn't let Nikky kip on his couch, so Nikky and family got caught by the bolshevics and murdered. Awkward

@anujkhanna2428

4 жыл бұрын

One family lead to the two biggest catastrophe this world have ever seen and yet that family holds a position of power and is even respected.Salute to the level of hypocrisy of WHITE Europeans,Even hell do not deserve you guys.

@Parents_of_Twins

4 жыл бұрын

Ahh the joys of royal inbreeding.

Soooo, the male tanks had difficulties due to the length of their barrels... Well done keeping a straight face Simon.

@markpeters3057

3 жыл бұрын

P

Thank you for arrow denoting location of said mustache

@ConzoPlays

4 жыл бұрын

lmao

@seriouslyfunny11

4 жыл бұрын

anything for more clicks!

@dond6801

3 жыл бұрын

Facts, the arrow helped stop me from looking for it all day

@GrrMeister

3 жыл бұрын

*It was a copy of Charlie Chaplin's in The Great Dictator*

@miavanauwelaer115

3 жыл бұрын

Funny david

Recently found your channel while searching for Top 10’s and I’ve enjoyed everything I’ve watched. Keep up the great work.

WW2 is considered an outcome of WW1. In fact you can trace the results of each war that's happened since back to WW1. We're still fighting WW1 today. Instead of the Great War, they should rename it the Forever War.

@speedy01247

5 жыл бұрын

well you can also trace WW1 to previous wars before that, so by your logic those wars should also be included with WW1 just being a massive event during the forever war. (I cannot fully remember, but only like 200 years of human history as far as we know have been without any war)

@HyperionaSilverleaf

5 жыл бұрын

Prior to WW1 there were many previous 'world wars' in Europe that lead to WW1 and 2, but people seem to have forgotten that.

@margueritejohnson6407

5 жыл бұрын

The punitive conditions of the Treaty of Versailles played a significant part in Germany’s decision to rearm and, maybe, have vengeance.

@Optidorf

5 жыл бұрын

As said by others, you can trace WW1 back to other wars as well. The Franco-Prussian War in 1870 and 1871 had a big influence on WW1 and that war can be traced back to the Napoleonic wars and those wars can be traced back to... You get the idea :-)

@jakedoc4610

5 жыл бұрын

you can trace it back to win the dinosaurs got hit by a meteor if you want to take it that far.

Very well done! My compliments to you and your team.

People should see the documentary "They Shall Not Grow Old." Great movie about WW1.

@fine93

5 жыл бұрын

Give a link

@dawnmorris3718

5 жыл бұрын

Keep checking....it has been brought back a few times in my area.

@abramporras7877

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the recommendation I've never heard of it but I will watch it 😊

@gc6096

5 жыл бұрын

Ok thanks for the recommendation have a nice day to whoever this comment.

@USS_Grey_Ghost

5 жыл бұрын

Same

Nothing new in regards to information but your top 10s are always fantastic. Cheers!

Very informative! Thanks

It's kinda true I know damn near everything about WW2 because of all the documentaries, TV, Movies & very little about WW1

@bgroks1

5 жыл бұрын

MotorCityOctane if you’d like to learn more, might I suggest a channel titled “The Great War”.

@gc6096

5 жыл бұрын

Same here but with ww1 there was a documentary of ww1, and there's a youtube channel that is dedicated to ww1 it's called the Great War. On a weekly basis they covered what happened during the week from 100 years. It's been awhile since I last saw it so I don't know if it's still going on. Also there another channel called Extra Credits they covered history, and videos games they covered the Christmas Truce of ww1 and how ww1 came to be. Well I hope this info will help you and I wish to whoever is reading this to have a nice day and stay awesome. :)

@michealflaithbheartaigh4139

5 жыл бұрын

At a guess do you happen to be from the US by any chance ? If so then it might explain it given the role of the US in the WW2 compared to WW1

@motorcityoctane6713

5 жыл бұрын

@@michealflaithbheartaigh4139 Yeah I'm from the States, I think you might be 100% right. When I think back even our school books had little about WW1 but tons of info on WW2 because of out involvement & the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Great observation!!!

@IJustWantToUseMyName

4 жыл бұрын

MotorCityOctane I don’t know how old you are, but when I was in junior high & high school (mid- to late- 1980’s) many of the teachers had actually served in WWII as young men. So not only did the history books have more on WWII, the classes were taught from personal experience. Our history teacher served on one front during WWII, then when he got sick one day, the principle took over the class and we heard his experiences from a different part of the war. It was both fascinating and heartbreaking to listen to their experiences and viewpoints. They were very willing to answer questions, and their voices and body language spoke more sometimes than their words.

Thank you for the information. I really appreciate it.

I have an old family photo of a great-great uncle that he sent as a postcard to his parents - on the back, it reads: "I'm the boy who's going to get the Kaiser". He didn't come home.

@surlygirly1926

5 жыл бұрын

That's so touching ... great spirit.

The life of Kaiser Wilhelm 2 was downright tragic. Forced upon German royalty, despite not wanting this stature. Then abandoned by everyone in the monarchy, other then his sister. Then suspicions of loyalty, despite him being oringinally forced upon Germany. Only to finally be stripped of his position/title. His life was far from easy.

Thank you for making these videos ^_^

There is so much more to WW1 than I ever knew, I want to know more. Fantastic video.

very interesting being that i just saw the doc " They Shall Not Grow Old". some of what you said (especially the gas and under aged) were mentioned in the film. Thanks for spreading the knowledge.

@zenseijay2428

2 жыл бұрын

It's brilliant, isn't it. =)

😀 I see you used a clip,of the Christmas Truce from They Shall not grow Old......a wonderfully put together documentary....

My Grandfather on my Dad's side of the family fought in the first world war, at the time of enlistment he had just turned fifteen!! When his mother found out where he had gone she wrote to the MOD and he was returned home from France, about two weeks after arriving back home he ran away again and enlisted under a different name in a different town, he again was sent to France. When his mother found out what he had done she said "If he's stupid enough to do it again then he can bloody well stay there"! He was injured as a result of a gas attack and was medically discharged, I'm not sure what type of gas it was but it damaged his lungs severely, an injury that ultimately saved his life as the platoon he was with was later almost completely wiped out.

I love your spectacles Whistler.

Another series called 'Hitler: The Rise of Evil' also showed him finding the mustache after he entered politics, when it was suggested he needed a gimmick.

@cianmurtagh468

5 жыл бұрын

Think the title says it all. Definately a terrible person but people overexaggerate small things in order to sell the 100s of hilter books that come out every year.

@connorthompson8376

5 жыл бұрын

@@cianmurtagh468 Maybe. I can't say which is more accurate. Might have just been fashion. Charlie chaplain had that mustache long before Hitler.

@robertwyness2464

3 жыл бұрын

Don't forget the horse riding crop phase....that's some funny pictures

Sting's song "Children's Crusade" from his Dream of the Blue Turtles album dealt with the contrast of underage soldiers in WW I fighting and dying on the front lines while their elders commanded them from safer positions.

With your number 6, about gasses, I expected a note about Fritz Haber. As far as crazy facts go, the Haber process helped both saving the world from famine and kill millions (?) of people. The man himself was a monster.

I'm pretty sure that the Motörhead song 1916 is about the last point! It's a haunting song.

With the treatment of Jewish German veterans it should be noted that many Black American veterans were also treated horribly, including lynchings, when they returned home

@RowanWarren78

5 жыл бұрын

Truth

@HyperionaSilverleaf

5 жыл бұрын

History is full of nasty scars, sadly.

@King_George_VI

5 жыл бұрын

Indeed, many Black Americans were blown away by how much better they were treated by the British and French and a small number actually chose to stay in or return to France after the war, unwilling to continue to live in Jim Crow America.

@robtyler4832

5 жыл бұрын

Is that seriously true? That's discusting!

@michealflaithbheartaigh4139

5 жыл бұрын

Many Jews of Central Europe viewed Germany as a liberator given the treatment they received at the hands of the Russians compared to the well established Jewish community within Germany ..... The cruel irony

TopTenz things @TopTenz still gets wrong:- 1) The last "queen of England" was Elizabeth I. Since the union of the crowns(1603) and the act of union(1706/7), the monarch has been the king/queen of Great Britain (& Ireland, then N.Ireland) and the various parts of the commonwealth who still have her as head of state.

What you missed was the Japanese were also harsly spurned at the end of WW1 which pushed them against the allies.

Also noteworthy is that Franz Ferdinand hated wrinkles on his suit and wanted it perfect so when he was shot he could have been saved if he let the doctors cut the uniform open and prevent WWI

it's crazy when you look at WW1 and how it changed the world and how it affected the countries of today

@michealflaithbheartaigh4139

5 жыл бұрын

Definitely ....the entire middle east conflict and the Yugoslav civil wars are testament to that

My grandfather fought in WW II at age 15 by using the birth certificate of an older brother who had died shortly after birth. His name was Charles, but all his military records say William and had him four years older than his actual age. We had a heck of time getting the records cleared up when he passed away and wanted to be buried in a Veteran's Cemetery.

The Christmas Truce was pretty awesome. It’s just too sad that the Governments involved didn’t embrace it.

@michealflaithbheartaigh4139

5 жыл бұрын

You can't have the working class on both sides realising they are killing people just like them for the agenda of the upper classes on both sides

Mr. Whistler just fed the homeless individuals around his town.He noticed one homeless person was getting some static from a town person and Mr. Whistler was having none of it.This "person" now goes by the name of "human pretzel"

0:30 - N°10 - Kaiser Wilhelm II was the Queen of England’s Grandson 1:25 - N°9 - Japan and Italy Sided with the Allied Powers 2:35 - N°8 - Urine Soaked Handkerchiefs Mitigated Gas 3:45 - N°7 - Jewish Germans Proved Loyalty & Got Betrayed 5:05 - N°6 - The Christmas Truce 6:15 - N°5 - British Tanks were Gendered 7:20 - N°4 - Hitler’s Mustache Explained 8:30 - N°3 - Germany Tried to Provoke a Mexican Attack on the USA 9:35 - N°2 - Chinese Labor Corps Deployed in Europe 10:45 - N°1 - Child Soldiers Fought for Britain

I was told about The Soccer match on the field of battle during world war I in school as a kid

It would be more correct to say that Queen Victoria was mostly German than saying Kaiser Wilhelm was half English.

@MarcMagma

5 жыл бұрын

Scandinavians came there later so it ain't all Anglo-Saxon.

@TheRealMarxz

5 жыл бұрын

​@Joseph Rabozzibut where are the Germans from?… in all seriousness though the English are a bit of a hodge podge of various northern European people, even the late comer (in relative terms) Normans were a mix of Franks and Scandinavians

@HyperionaSilverleaf

5 жыл бұрын

@Joseph Rabozzi the Celts were there thousands of years before any nation had a name in Europe. They spanned most if not all European tribes and came through what would be known as Greece. The Anglo-saxons, Norse, and the Normans would later come to roost.

@bigjack5426

5 жыл бұрын

@@MarcMagma Scandinavian originally came from Germanic tribes as well.

@pabmusic1

5 жыл бұрын

@Joseph Rabozzi Sort of true, but 1600 years in the past, so not particularly relevant. Actually, the Angles, Saxons and Jutes came from Frisland and Scleswig-Holstein - northern Germany and southern Denmark. And of course there were many Norsemen too.

The longer tank barrels kept digging into the ground when the tanks went down dips

Thanks for pointing out his mustache on the thumbnail. I kept looking at his ear all these years.

the Kaiser had a withered arm

I have read about the Christmas Truce.

You know you've got some crap Engineers when you've got to circumcise your tanks. Lmfao

I always thought that Hitler had a moustache like that because he was a huge Charlie Chaplin fan and really liked the style.

My great grandad fought at age 16, survived both wars and lived a long life, eventually dying of old age

Well done docs presented artfully.

My ancestor and his brother are still honored by the city of Jersey City NJ for being WW1 heroes.

For 6 (the fraternizing around christmas) the involved parties were mostly non-Prussian bataljons at German side. It was only a few decades that Germany was united and Prussia had a strong influence on the German war machine, but this doesn't mean that other German sides were happy with their governance.

My grand uncle lied to serve under Pershing in Mexico about that time. He was 14. He was found out and sent home, though.

My maternal Grandfather and his brother were both among those underage English boys who signed up to fight almost the moment the war began. According to my Mum they didn’t join up out of any particular patriotism or pressure, but more from a desire for three meals a day, a roof over their head and wages to send back to their family. She also said her father suffered from shellshock (PTSD). Nothing spectacularly bad, but he would lash out if something triggered him, and they never knew what would set him off. Unfortunately I never actually met him so it’s all second hand info.

You made it sound as if under age children were encouraged to join up, you made no mention of the fact that any under aged person found out by the military was immediately discharged.

Hitler's mustache would be a cool but albeit controversial band name. I'm going to start a band although I can't even play a radio

@gasmaskerhub2075

5 жыл бұрын

Charlie Chaplin.

I was in Canberra for the 100th remembrance day. I’m ashamed to admit that I didn’t know it was the 100th one, so I didn’t have my camera. The entire Parliament House lawn was a sea of poppies, it was absolutely beautiful. I’m learning more about wars now, but that was still something I’ll never get to do again.

@jackthorton10

5 жыл бұрын

Never say never freind

same but my Papaw was 14 when he went in.....bless your Pops

Was watching this video and t-boned a brand new Audi no lie

I've always made the joke Hitler didn't have a mustache, just really long nose hair.

@donHooligan

2 жыл бұрын

uh-oh i better do some trimming.

@zeusathena26

2 жыл бұрын

@@donHooligan I wonder how many people went to check their nose hair. I wish everyone would check it, & trim it!🤞

Units of the IJN escorted Australian troops to Gallipoli.

Of all of these I would say only the gendered tanks and the Chinese worker facts aren't common knowledge in Germany

@Yourname942

5 жыл бұрын

I thought Nazi/Hitler history was made illegal and/or not taught in Germany

@cianmurtagh468

5 жыл бұрын

@@Yourname942 Kinda Pointless to outlaw parts of history when it was relatively recent and modern germans are direct descendants of those involved on either side plus I dont think WW1 is outlawed there but could be wrong. Also think its just Nazi symbology and agreeing with the ideology thats outlawed not actually learning about it

@donrobertson4940

5 жыл бұрын

Fairly well known in nz too. I guess it's aimed at americans.

Love the show guys but I do gotta say a lot of the anti Wilhelm stuff was British propaganda that can be traced directly to the first world war. They took letters from Wilhelms childhood to try to prove he was an anti English monster when the reality of it is he had a tense relationship with his mother. The Kaiser was prone to gaffes ( not great in a lifelong leader) like all those times in WW1 he spoke genially with English POWs in English. The Kaiser tried to emulate England by making colonies overseas and developing the German navy. As for English Liberalism, the " Liberalism" rejected by Germans was of the economic kind England had what some might call a "regulated free market economy whereas Germany had a welfare state ( free primary education, government funded programs to take care of the sick, old, orphaned etc). As for being socially liberal, more people were enfranchised by Germany than England 22% VS 18% respectively. Germany had a basic freedom of religion, the Kaiser was trying to make himself out to be a friend to muslims. There were around 1 half million Jews In Germany at the time, they had been given full citizenship since the days of Otto Von Bismarcks chancellorship. Compare that to Russia where they had a pogrom to evict Tever and his family . Which BTW Russia had pogroms in 1905 and 1915 because that's just how they handled military defeat. The reality of it is the allies wanted to disassemble the German monarchy at the end of the war ( it was actually a condition of the November armistice that ended the war) and it was one of many factors that led to the rise of Nazism. Rather than admit they made a mistake ousting Wilhelm (like Winston Churchill did) many people decided that Hitler and the Kaiser were one in the same and that's just ridiculous. Hitler was clearly worse by like several orders of magnitude.

@thomasdemay9805

5 жыл бұрын

yea Wilhelms admiration for the Royal Navy and trying to rival it is clear sign he didn't hate the English. Ironically same can be said about Hitler who wanted to emulate the Royal Navy. In twist of fate both leaders of Germany during the World Wars were actually sympathetic to England.

@finalfalcon7368

5 жыл бұрын

@@thomasdemay9805 I know right! It reminds me of how America invaded Panama for smuggling cocaine and Noriega was like " I don't understand we do this all the time! You guys should be cool I just want to emulate you."

@martynborthwick1845

4 жыл бұрын

People know this, its common knowledge. The 'many people deciding Hitler and Wilhelm are one in the same' are like 2 idiots that watched half a documentary and consider it an education lol

My grandfather was in WWII. He was in the 82nd airborne division. He did several tours actually. He had signed up and went to war when he was 16 years old. When he turned 18 he was drafted. He got the letter and went in to talk to his superior officer and told him, "Sir, I have to go home." His superior asked why and he showed him the letter. His superior shook his head and told my grandfather to go back to work, and that he would take care of the letter. LOL Needless to say my grandfather did not go home to come right back.

My great grandfather was a war hero in the first war. He was still sent to dachau. And our family fortune was taken.

Albert Speer is my request for next video!

The Chinese fact was the only surprising one for me

"Associated with rambling hate speech and authoritarianism while being the subject of widespread ridicule" - gee, does that describe any political leader WE know?

@shebbs1

5 жыл бұрын

Yep, Obama! Oh, and all his dictatorial mates.

@galaxyanimal

5 жыл бұрын

What about Kim Jong Un?

@hermaeusmora345

5 жыл бұрын

Obama May Merkel Waters Pelosi Zuckerberg Bezos Soros Macron Etc

@lordgarion514

5 жыл бұрын

@Oscar Trent01 Approval ratings cease to matter when a subset of a population will approve of someone regardless of what they actually do. Which is where America is in politics today. And it's the supporters of both parties doing that for their "side".

@phoneboxchicken4108

3 жыл бұрын

Boris Johnson, a crude comedy character who is a real leader.

I can hardly imagine the hell that must have been the experience of a soldier in WWI. What a stupid and senseless conflict. As well as the one that followed decades later.

@speedy01247

5 жыл бұрын

well there was a logic to it, in the end logically thought processes can lead to illogical ends. Reminds me of JFK when he essentially (along with his soviet counterpart) shot themselves in the foot, both being unwilling to compromise and having strong armed themselves into near war. the I won't back down approach doesn't work if neither side is willing to back down especially both don't want nuclear war. Some times I can only hope our leaders won't follow their path.

You describe countries we normally think of when we think child soldiers and I'm like yeah you already said England

An old man I used to work for as a kid decided to join the RFC at the outbreak of war.. He was 14, so they told him he had to serve an apprenticeship first, which started off with patching the bulletholes on the canvas.. By the end of the war he still hadn't flown, but was a trained mechanic! Oh, when I met him, in 1980 he had a Lee Enfield .303 rifle and about 200 litres of hydrochloric acid, both highly illegal, but not when he got them.. He couldn't hand them in.. So I arranged for my local Sea Cadets to take the rifle, and the acid was distributed amongst the schools in Harlow, in the back of my school bus, with me riding shotgun.. Imagine all of that happening now! No chance!

It wasn’t only in the British military that there was under age people serving it happened in all military on both sides of the conflict

WW1 was a terrible war which saw millions dead, this could have all been resolved in another way, with no war. Sadly, WW2 happened because of the 1WW and the harsh treatment to Germany after the *Treaty of Versailles* . History plays a key role in the way we live he today. Who knows what will happen in an alternative 🌎 world.

@godlovesyou1995

5 жыл бұрын

Germany started ww1

@franknordbergno

5 жыл бұрын

@@godlovesyou1995 No, Germany did not start ww 1. Neither Germany, France nor Britian were involved in the first stages. They all got drawn into it because they had signed defence treaties with Austria or Serbia, the two countries that started the fight. Kaiser WIlhelm II wasn't even in Germany when the war started. He was on vacation in Norway when he got the message that Serbia and Austria had gone to war with each other. When he got back to Berlin, it was too late to do anything to stop the conflict from excalating. This doesn't free him from all the blame of course, it's seriously reckless for a state leader to leave office on vacation at a time when a major crisis is brewing. But at least it means that he was not involved in starting the war and that he (foolishly) didn't see it coming. He wasn't much involved in the rest of the war either. He was sidelined by his generals and became a figurehead with no real power.

@godlovesyou1995

5 жыл бұрын

@@franknordbergno Germany had been rapidly seizing colonies and expanding their military, especially their navy. They already had a plan to invade France, the Schlieffen Plan. Also it was them that actually declared war and invaded as soon as they had an excuse.

Let's not forget Victoria & Albert spoke to each other in their first language: German. My great grandfather survived the Somme.

mmm, tastey knowledge

I didn't know the assassination of the archduke Ferdinand's till after high school.

Common misconception. The French were the first to use poison gas not the Germans

@TaySwiss

5 жыл бұрын

And Hitler was actually strongly against using chemical warfare in WW2 because when he was in WW1 he was gassed and was traumatized by the incident. The only way Germany had any chemical or biological warfare during WW2 was because Hitler didn't know about it. Himmler drove some sort of drive to poison farm land with an invasive beetle which was kinda funny because in finding out that it would be impossible to apply during WW2, they affected some of their own farming communities.

My great uncle joined the army during Korea at 17, they didn't check too closely back then. They just needed bodies to fight the North Koreans.

As it happens, I knew 7 out of 10; I did not know #1, #2 and #10.

The gendered tanks were actually a weird hallmark of the trapezoidal tanks, and it continued throughout the war, at the least until the Mk V. Now that's just per a two minute bit of research, a dive that would get more than one's toes wet would probably dig up far more interesting answers, considering how convoluted anything with the UK military tends to be.

Joowwww the boys uit ypres of ieper

As an eagle scout, I would like to point out the story of Lord Baden-Powell.

Old grizzled Drill Sergeant (or what ever the brits called them at the time) "Durn, these recruits keep looking younger and younger, I just must be getting old..." Oh wait...

the war to end all wars

nogales just made an appearance in photograph form of the border.

Thank you all

Interesting little irony-- by most accounts Hitler served courageously in WWI, although he never showed much leadership potential, never rising above corporal. He won two Iron Crosses. He was put in for the second one, a more prestigious version, by his commanding officer, who was Jewish. Yeah, that happened.

a lot of countries let in underage soldiers. in australia, lads as young as 15 lied about their age to get a trip to the old countries. extremely sad that they didn't know the fate that awaited them.

When speaking of the Great War referring to Entente powers as the “Allies”, like we do for WWII, is quite misleading, as the Triple Alliance was: Germany, Austro-Hungary & the Ottoman Empire, NOT the victorious nations.

WWI was really just a family feud that cost countless lives and effectively ended monarchy rule in the western world. Sadly, the rich brats that caused it suffered no repercussions.

@georgesetzer5283

5 жыл бұрын

Not entirely true steve. The ranks of the young English aristocracy were decimated during the war and many of the potential future leaders left their leadership on fields Ypres. Some people have speculated this contributed significantly to the demise of the British Empire

The 'male' tanks had their barrels shortened to make them more functional. Did they call the procedure "circumcision"?

PRIVATE TO GENERAL: " YOU WANT US TO DO WHAT WITH OUR HANDKERCHIEF !!??"

@jackthorton10

5 жыл бұрын

General to Private: “Either that or you go blind and may become burned.” “Do you have a problem Private?”

@tacoheadmakenzie9311

4 жыл бұрын

...and many thanks to the local tavern owners who provided free beer to improve the odds.

Hitler wasn't a socialist. Under Hitler, the party looked squarely to the middle classes and farmers rather than the working class for a political base. Hitler realigned it to ensure that it was an anti-socialist, anti-liberal, authoritarian, pro-business party - particularly after the failed Beerhall Putsch of 1923. The "socialism" in the name National Socialism was a strategically chosen misnomer designed to attract working class votes where possible, but they refused to take the bait. The vast majority voted for the Communist or Social Democratic parties. Hitler was a Fascist.

Those british Child Soldiers shoked me a bit, damn!!!

The father, Prince Albert, of the Kaiser's mother was also German. Albert, as many know was Queen Victoria's husband making Wilhelm quite a bit more German than English

You might have mentioned that the King of England was in fact German-Hanoverians-18th century - Victoria-Albert was a Saxe Coburg Gotha George V married Princess Mary of Teck

@golddragonette7795

4 жыл бұрын

The Hanoverians were invited because they had a blood link to previous British monarchs. Not English, as by that time several Scottish Kings had held both thrones

#1 White Feather

Suggestion: cover the white feather campaign in Britain during WW1 which was responsible for so many of those boys being shamed into volunteering.

@margueritejohnson6407

5 жыл бұрын

willythemailboy2 Simon’s covered the white feather subject in I Found Out Today - or something like that.

@willythemailboy2

5 жыл бұрын

@@margueritejohnson6407 Literally a few hours after I posted that, in fact!

@margueritejohnson6407

5 жыл бұрын

willythemailboy2 What did you think of it? I really wanted to strangle those women, but, to be fair, they didn’t know what hell they were sending the boys to. It was not like today when you can see every bloody detail instantly. By the way, have you ever seen “Oh What a Lovely War”? It’s a completely different take on the subject, filmed almost totally on Brighton Pier, in Sussex. Try it.

@willythemailboy2

5 жыл бұрын

@@margueritejohnson6407 Quite the opposite. They knew *exactly* what they were sending those boys into. There were already casualties coming back - or NOT coming back - and they were still out there shaming children into enlisting. And no, I haven't seen that.

@margueritejohnson6407

5 жыл бұрын

willythemailboy2 You are right, and I still want to strangle them. Patriotism- ugh!

Paul Drake---he wouldn't be orange would he?

What about the story of his sister in law Bridget Hitler, who lived in Liverpool I believe. She said she suggested to trim his mustache, and with everything, he went too far.

Wehhhhld woahhh WANNN.

Mr. Whistler: Thanks again, I did not know about the boy soldiers of Britain. What a shock! Let us hope we can remember history and take a lesson - PEACE! Warmly, Yada, Yada, Yada

Correction: Princess Victoria, daughter of Victoria married Friedrich Wilhelm Nikolaus Karl later Kaiser Frederick III (known in the family as Fritz) - it was a love match and their son was Wilhelm II.

Kaiser Wilhelm II's father was not Wilhelm, he was Frederick III (Friedrich III in German) who reigned for 99 days between the two Wilhelms. He was nicknamed "Fritz". He is sometimes called Friedrich Wilhelm or Frederick William. He's numbered by his position as King of Prussia. Frederick II is of course Frederick the Great. By the way, if the new law of succession to the throne of the UK had been in effect during Victoria's reign, she would have been succeeded by her daughter Victoria then by her grandson...Kaiser Wilhelm II.