Ich spreche kein Deutsch, ich brauche einen Übersetzer. Ich hoffe, wer auch immer dies liest, hat einen schönen Tag lol und hallo aus den USA!

My great-grandfather, Kurt Engewald, served in World War one, in the Sachsen army, on the Western Front. He was from Aue, Saxony. He was awarded an Iron Cross (Eisenkreuz), which I have inherited. It is great to see what he would have looked like in uniform.

Großartige Arbeit!! Ich habe mit Tränen in den Augen das Video zu Ende gesehen. 1980 erzählte mir mein Opa einiges aus dem großen Krieg und wie er bei Verdun seinen Jugendfreund durch einen Bauchschuss verlor. Interessiert heute keine Sau. Danke für die Gelegenheit für mich meine verblassten Erinnerungen an meinen Opa Heinrich aufleben zu lassen zu können.

@locutus1630

Жыл бұрын

Nachdem die Neuverfilmung von "Im Westen nichts Neues" so viel Aufmerksamkeit und 4 Oscars abgesahnt hat, glaube ich nicht, dass niemanden der Erste Weltkrieg interessiert.

@andreasjeck636

2 ай бұрын

zumindest nicht die wahren Hintergründe. Weil dazu müsste man lesen und nicht vor der Kinoleinwand sitzen. Aber schön so, dass der Krieg nicht in Vergessenheit gerät@@locutus1630

Finds witzig, dass der 14er viel enthusiastischer erscheint als der 18er, historisch korrektes Reenactment.

@leon2952

Жыл бұрын

Bis Weihnachten wieder Zuhause vs seit vielen Weihnachten nicht mehr Zuhause

@peterswiecki7441

Жыл бұрын

😅as usually with the war for young conscripts

@mathiswolters

Жыл бұрын

Brotbeutelriemen…: f$¥# y#+

@tiagomonteiro130

Жыл бұрын

@@leon2952 Eigentlich durften Soldaten im WK1 auch mal ne Zeit nachhause, bevor sie wieder zur Front mussten, Sturmtruppen durften sogar eine längere Zeit wieder zurück.

@user-eb4gg1io3m

Жыл бұрын

​@@peterswiecki7441 не только молодых. В России сейчас много 40-50 летних мужчин, которые восторженно идут добровольцами на войну. А потом возвращаются в цинковых гробах, или поседевшие, резко постаревшие, потрясенные тем что перенесли на фронте. Всегда вспоминаю Ремарка, когда их вижу...

From a British perspective this was really interesting seeing the German uniforms and how they massively changed over time. Thank you both.

Surprising how much the late WW1 gear looks like the WW2 gear, surprized their was so little change in the interwar period. The popular imagination of the WWI soldier is strongly fixated on that early war uniform, if you showed most folks that late war uniform they would say it was WW2.

@velazquezn

Жыл бұрын

During war everything evolve faster. Logistic change, everything is more pragmatical, things are field tested...

@bryansteele832

Жыл бұрын

U.S soldiers today look no different than they did 20 years ago. So it makes sense for that time as well.

@saarlann

Жыл бұрын

Spot on.

@commissargribb

Жыл бұрын

You're not serious, Are you? 😆

@selAlgorithm

Жыл бұрын

And then you have the British who look more or less the same and the french who only had a color palette change lol.

Es war sehr interessant! In den vier Kriegsjahren haben sich Uniform und Ausrüstung der Soldaten stark verändert. Danke an Philip für diese Geschichte!

@electrofaust2

Жыл бұрын

Erfahrung und Verfügbarkeit von Materialen :)

@michaelrenper796

Жыл бұрын

Nicht nur die Uniform. In vielleicht keinem Krieg der Menschheitsgeschichte (auch nicht im zweiten Weltkrieg) haben sich Taktik und Material so schnell entwickelt wie im Ersten Weltkrieg. Der Krieg begann mit einer Armee die noch so kämpfte wie 1871 und endete mit allen wesentlichen Elementen die wir dann im zweiten Weltkrieg wiedersehen. Selbst Flugzeugträger fanden ihren Anfang im diesem Krieg.

@rwdyeriii

Жыл бұрын

Yes, but it doesn't seem there was much difference in the uniforms between 1918 & 1939.

@jensphiliphohmann1876

Жыл бұрын

@@rwdyeriii Not at the very first sight. This is due to the most peculiar element, the steel helmet which only slightly changed since you can't improve much to an almost perfect form.

@snipingflute4346

Жыл бұрын

Nearing the late XIX Century and into the XX Century, a Great War was of a becoming reality. The steadfast gears of innovation rotated upon the shafts of adaptation so fast, they often required replacements to maintain the machine’s momentum. Welcome to industrial warfare.

A most professional presentation. Danke Philip.

As a Brit I've always preferred the latter German helmets and grenades over the British. Lots of people say the helmets don't matter because they "don't stop bullets" and whilst it's true they won't stop a rifle round under most circumstances, they can and did at longer ranges and obtuse angles. Then there's also blunt force trauma, shrapnel, ricochets and flak. Simply the latter German helmets actually are helmets and they protect the entire dome of the head far better than the British and honestly the German helmets are just so good! Grenades I'd prefer the Germans for the distance and accuracy, most soldiers wouldn't get them and often a soldier would only get one and it was expected to be used during the assault so when it's none-none and sometimes one the practicalities of them being bigger and heavier to carry around all day become something of a null issue. Gewehr and Lee-Enfield though mmm the latter is more versatile in just about every way although the former is longer and does have an absolutely insane muzzle velocity.

Mir ist beim erklären ein Fehler unterlaufen. Die Granate ist natür die M17 Handgranate. Verzeiht mir den Versprecher. :)

@markusweger1267

Жыл бұрын

Kann passieren 🫡

@dirkboch128

Жыл бұрын

Sowas geht gar nicht. Wie kann das passieren?

Ich finde eure ,ja direkte praktische Darstellung in den Videos herausragend. Super. Weiter so. Geschichte original und nicht verwässert. Einfach gut

Was ihr euch für eine Arbeit macht. Klasse!

Einfach nur geil. Da wird einem unsere Geschichte sehr gut rübergebracht.

@andreasfasterding2309

Жыл бұрын

Was ist am töten und verstümmeln geil? Tolle Geschichte

Excellent video guys. I find all things about the Great War fascinating. I’m just glad that our countries now live in a time of peace and we can share the historical folly of our ancestors with mutual interest and respect. Danke

You notice both soldiers different attitudes and body language. The fresh 1914 soldier is proud and has strong morale. While by 1918 the Germans are losing and desperate and the 1918 soldier seems upset, tired and doesn’t seem to care as much

Hervorragend! Danke für die Erklärung und den Vergleich.

Thanks for the most informative 12min of my time! The evolution of these uniforms are incredible.

It's very interesting to watch how the uniform went from a designer's outfit to a war suit in just 4 years

@horace9341

Жыл бұрын

Things do tend to evolve quickly during wartime. The Great War was a time of vast change on both sides mainly due to casualties. Part of the reason the Germans changed headgear was because the spike of the Pickelhaube would give away a soldier’s position to enemy snipers and that it offered little protection from shrapnel. The British also were largely unprotected in that area before they adopted the steel helmet. This vastly decreased unnecessary casualties. Basically everything had to evolve to suit the type of warfare that had drastically changed from forming lines and squares in open combat to trench warfare. It’s all interesting stuff and I could ramble on, but I will spare you that lol.

@IR-xy3ij

Жыл бұрын

It exactly followed the state of Germany throughout the course of the war

@kennarajora6532

Жыл бұрын

@@horace9341 don't spare us that, I'd enjoy it if you went on.

@tootsownhorn5874

Жыл бұрын

They started the war with a mindset of honorable shootouts. Rows of gentlemen in a grassy field, merely 150 meters apart and volley shooting at the command of an officer. Flutes, drums and flag bearers. Instead, they created a literal hell on earth. Waterlogged trenches serpentined through mangled trees and villages amongst an ocean of mud, corpses, craters, gas, and thousands of kilometers of barbed wire.

@MaMa-uj4pp

Жыл бұрын

@@tootsownhorn5874 : absolute true!! The first industrial war of machines! Both sides could not image at the beginning how much power to kill and destroy they had created by themselves… The human mind couldn’t follow the technical improvement that fast- a literal hell on earth 🔥🩸🪦

Wieder ein schön informativer Beitrag über eine Zeit die doch in der allgemeinen Erinnerung immer mehr in Vergessen gerät. Bitte mehr davon!

@PLWReview

Жыл бұрын

Danke für das Lob!

Excellent production 👏🏻 👌🏼...Your level of authenticity is most impressive...

Parabéns por trazer o contexto dos significados e contextos por trás dos uniformes do exército alemão! Parabéns pelo canal!!

Thank peter,greetings from Ireland, 50thousand irishmen died during that terrible war." WE FOUGHT FOR NEITHER KING NOR KAISER BUT IRELAND. Great presentation.

Fascinating! I didn't even realize this was something I'd want to know! Thank you!

Danke. Sehr interessant. hatte immer gedacht, die Farbunterschiede zw. Hose und Oben etc. wären Nachlässigkeiten in neuzeitlichen Filmen/Dokus. Aber scheint so gewesen zu sein. Zumal alte Filme in s/w. Deprimierend die Vereinfachung der Ausrüstung am Mann, denn der Soldat stirbt eh schnell , anonym und in Massen ...

Das war ein super Intro! Eure Videos sind einfach super!

Ein großartiger Vergleich.Danke.

Wieder mal super informativ! 👍🏼 Besonders interessant fände ich auch mal ein Video über Soldaten der K und K Armee.

Wieder ein klasse Video, bei dem man perfekt sehen kann, wie sie innerhalb von vier Jahren vom 19ten ins 20 Jahrhundert katapultiert wurden! Vielen Dank und Grüße an das ganze Team...👍👋😉...Wolle...

@booblik7108

Жыл бұрын

Подготовились к 1 сентября

It was really interesting to see REAL German military uniform modernizing. Greeting, thanks and respect from Belarus.

Sehr Interessanter und guter Beitrag, Anmerkung zu der Standard Bewaffnung für die Infantriesten war das "Gewehr '98" ,wobei die Berittenen Truppen und die Artelleriesten das kürzeren Modell "Karabiner '98" trugen.

на самом деле, весьма познавательное видео, многие привыкли ассоциироваться с войной разного вида оружия, но мало кто хочет сказать о не менее важной вещи, как форма

@andreynikolaev5275

Жыл бұрын

Да по мимо прочего что упомянули что кр98 был основным оружием. А то любят показывать особенно в последнее время... Немцы (германцы) иду все поголовно с мп40....

@Vadim_Lev

Жыл бұрын

@@andreynikolaev5275 ну это уже во Вторую мировую. а в Первую немцы максимально эпично выглядели в 1918 году, особенно штурмовики: с пистолетами Люгер и Маузер, первыми пистолетами-пулеметами МП.18, укороченными винтовками 98AZ, пулеметами МГ-08/15, все обвешанные гранатами. Да, ещё у них были огнемёты и первые противотанковые ружья

Wow, richtig gutes Video! Gerne mehr davon.

Der Peter macht seine Sache wirklich immer gut, also kein Grund so mürrisch zu schauen Peter!

Richtig Gut die Idee mit der Gegenüberstellung und vergleich. Da kann man es besser aufnehme und als wen es nur erwähnt wird. Danke!

Herzlichen Dank für das tolle und interessante Video. Hilft mir bei einem Charakter, den ich gerade spiele. Und überhaupt als Informationsquelle.

Thank you very much for your hard work. This video was very informative thank you

I just liked at the beginning how the first soldier came in all professional and the second one looked like he was tired of it all.

@kiereluurs1243

Жыл бұрын

He was tired of being a numb mannequin.

@planderlinde1969

Жыл бұрын

The second one has been fighting on the western front for years he is a little on edge lol

Thank you, very informative.

Sehr interessant, vielen dank :)

Excellent video, very interesting and extremely well informed. Thank you.

Vielen dank fur das super video.

Ausgezeichnet! Ich liebe Präzision und Liebe zum Detail. Vielen Dank aus Amerika!

Muchas gracias, muy buena e ilustrativa su publicacion!!

Fantastische Arbeit

Thank you for the English subtitles! I’m curious why some Germans later on preferred putees to their boots? It seems putees are very annoying to put on and it seems like it could get unraveled easily like if stuck on barbwire.

@MusketierPeter

Жыл бұрын

There are definitely pros and cons. But the jack boots often times got stuck in the mud. Dirt and rocks could enter the boot. Putees are also good in keeping your legs warm, while it gets pretty cold in jack boots.

@borjesvensson8661

Жыл бұрын

I always understood it was a cost/material issue. The boots required much more leather and high quality at that. On top of that germany apparantly got a lot of their leather from south america before the war and one of the first things the german state did when adopting to a war economy was downprioritising animal farming in favor of using the grain and vegetables directly as human food. This was efective but not popular among the soldiers and led to a even bigger shortage of leather. Well fitting jackboots are exelent but laced short boots would be easier to get to fit okay even if not perfect.

@CommissarBooks

Жыл бұрын

I think also that it needs to be considered, how often do you need your feet dry and warm and how often do you traverse barbed wire etc. Often comfort was more of a day to day issue over combat.

@borjesvensson8661

Жыл бұрын

@@CommissarBooks i always thought jackboots would be a real advantage in the mud as they are at least semi watertight up to the knee. I have only tried the finnish "lappish" boots with a beak but they are otherwise a similar construction and do not get cold if worn with wool pants. (But you have to get ones big enough in the foot. As the shaft is so high dirt getting in is not a big problem. But mine fit snuggly around my fat legs. They are a bit stiff to walk in also. I only remember reading about german soldiers in both world wars beeing chuffed that they did not get a proper soldiers stylish jackboots and tried to get hold of them in all manners of ways. But that might not be how it actually was? On a tactical level the shift to low boots made sence certainley though

@jussieronen3707

Жыл бұрын

@@MusketierPeter I'm fairly certain that proper leather jackboots are warmer than a piece of cloth wrapped around your legs

Hallo Nachbarn von der anderen Seite der Oder und Lausitzer Neiße. Ich hatte drei Jahre lang Deutsch in der High School, aber leider habe ich mich nicht selbst beworben. Moderne Technologie übersetzt Ihre Worte und ich kann viel von Ihrem historischen Material lernen.

Very good, enjoyable, and informative video! Thank you for making this. 👍 Sehr schönes, unterhaltsames und informatives Video! Vielen Dank, dass Sie das gemacht haben.

1918 German soldier and 1939 German soldier comparison would be also nice to see.

A very interesting and informative video, it's amazing how uniforms change either for practical use or to make production more efficient.

really cool video. this looks like it would have been a ton of work to assemble. thanks for making it visible to us.

Wie immer super erklärt, Philipp hat eine sehr angenehme Stimme 👍

great video. thankyou. I love the drystone wall with a roof on it, and hedge to top it all; keep up the good work!

outstanding work and thanks for the english subtitle by the way

Very helpful. Thank you.

Кто сделал субтитры на русском, огромное вам спасибо! Было интересно!

Wow ! Wonderful video. Thank you so much.

A great video. Thanks for the English subtitles.

Excellent video. I'm very interested in WW1, as like many Getman families it is fascinating & tragic to research family history in this terrible war. It's quite interesting the colours & differences, the old colourful imperialist uniforms made a quick exit because of the way armies were kitted out. Like the French Blue / Red that cost them so much in 1914, things stand out in war, but the field grey certainly made a difference. Simple & effective.

Very interesting. Thank you for this video.

Hammermäßig top gemacht! 👍👍👍

Great video, and thanks for the English subtitles! I would love to know where I could see patterns or examples of the boots worn in your video.

This is fantastic! I especially appreciate seeing these in full color, which was never seen in my history textbooks. Any chance you can do this for the other countries? People made a lot of changes to EVERYTHING over the course of the first world war.

@waynemasters8673

Жыл бұрын

Ant chance you could fill the Food Banks in the other countries with expired slop as well?

Thank you, I enjoyed the video.

mal wieder vielen vielen lieben dank an philipp und peter für dieses sehr gelungene video!

Super video, Kamrade

Thank you . That was very interesting.

Good summary. Interesting how fast the changes were put into effect. I guess the "field testing" was done in live combat!

@MusketierPeter

Жыл бұрын

It was. The first M16 helmets we're given to the "Sturmabteilung Nr. 5 (Rohr)" for testing. The feedback was good, so the helmets were mass produced.

@andrewlong6438

Жыл бұрын

Very informative video. Thank you. Interesting to see the movement from decorative uniform to something practical and easy to produce.

A very interesting presentation, thank you

Sehre Interessen, Danke!

Excellent video. Thankyou.

Dies war eine hervorragende Präsentation. Danke, meine Herren, und danke für die englischen Untertitel. Ich habe lange kein Deutsch gelernt.

@PLWReview

Жыл бұрын

Bitte sehr!

Excellent presentation.

Thank you for an interesting Video .

Excellent work; Very informative video! Thank you very much.

@PLWReview

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Love the difference in enthusiasm. Quality reenactment. A Back home by Christmas VS Santa died in the trenches experience

glückwunsch zu dem tollen video👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Klasse Video und ein super Vergleich der beiden Uniformierungen! Vielen lieben Dank dafür. Einfach super, dass ihr euch dem Thema 1.Wk widmet! Kurze Frage zur Frühkriegsdarstellung: War es auch möglich, dass Soldaten komplett in feldgrauer Uniform ins Feld gezogen sind? Also nicht mit der steingrauen Hose, sondern tatsächlich mit der zur Bluse passenden Hose in Feldgrau mit roter Paspelierung.

@SwordCutlass666

Жыл бұрын

Moin, Ja bei Reserve- oder Landwehrregimentern war das noch üblich. :)

@retrollo

Жыл бұрын

Vielen Dank für deine Antwort! Das hilft mir weiter 🙂

@retrollo

Жыл бұрын

Ich habe gerade nochmal recherchiert und in dem Online-Artikel "A Quick Guide to Prussian Infantry Uniform and Gear Changes 1914-1918​" folgenden Satz entdeckt "The M1907 trowsers (Tuchhosen) were changed in August from field-gray to the M1914 stone-gray due to dye and dyeing problems, as well as field fading problems that kept the trowsers from matching the field-gray of the tunics. (...) But while the change occurred in 1914, they did not have the ability to produce them until the Fall of 1915." Vielleicht ist 1915 auch hier, wie sonst so oft, das "magische" Jahr, was Änderungen am Erscheinungsbild betrifft....

Very interesting, thanks!

Thanks for this. i was very confused with the timelines

Informative!

Excelente e ilustrativo Video. Gracias por los subtítulos en Español. Abrazos.

Спасибо! Хорошее видео.

Sehr gute Darstellung!

Vielen Dank, dass Sie uns die Entwicklung der deutschen Soldatenuniform während des ersten großen Konflikts erklärt haben.

Very good video. Good job. Bravo !

Nice and informative video. I can really see now why the uniform changes were made. Especially the helmet change to the steel helmet. My favorite helmet style by the way.

@horace9341

Жыл бұрын

I think most western armies have based their current helmets on the German Stahlhelm as the shape offers the best protection.

Great historic job for us WWI enthusiasts, man ! Best regards from Vitória, Brazil

Sehr lehrreich.

Das ist ein sehr gutes Video. Die Hosenfarbe war mir nicht bewusst, da ich immer dachte, es sei die gleiche Farbe wie die Tunika.

Sehr informativ und gut gemacht. Erwähnenswert vielleicht, dass es am Anfang des Krieges noch einige Einheiten gab, bei denen es diverse Abweichungen von der „Standard“-Uniform gab. Es dauerte eine Ganze Zeit, bis die Uniformen ziemlich einheitlich waren. Bei den Franzosen war das Bild am Anfang des Krieges sogar noch erheblich bunter. Auch da kam es zur Vereinheitlichung der Armee, aus den Kolonien kommende Truppen wichen optisch aber immer wieder stark von den Standards ab.

Sehr interessant, vor allem da meine beiden Opas auch im WK 1 gedient haben, allerdings bei der Artillerie und den Dragonern.

Gracias por Iliustrar con estos uniformes, bastante didáctico y gracias también por el subtitulado en español. Me hizo recordar la película que acabo de ver: Sin Novedad en el Frente

Tolles Video, bitte mehr davon. 💖👍

@PLWReview

Жыл бұрын

Wird kommen

@snow3691

Жыл бұрын

@@PLWReview Freue mich schon darauf. 👍

@gillgill6386

Жыл бұрын

Marlena Dietrich hat gesagt "Alles scheisse".

Currently reading Ernst Jünger’s “In Stahlgewittern” (Storm of Steel) , so this video was a perfect accompaniment. Thank you.

Thanks gov'nor. This is a very interesting part of the history.

Wieder einmal sehr interessant ... Gruß Swen

Sehr gut. Danke.

Sehr schönes Video, Philipp und Peter sind wie Lolek und Bolek ^^ ..Aber mal einen Flammenwerfer (Pioniere) vorzustellen bzw behandeln wäre auch mal etwas, schließlich hat dieser auch eine große Rolle gespielt.

Molto interessante grazie per il video 👍🏻

great video thanks