World war 1 Documentary

[trubrit2411]

If you are interested in WW1 this is the best Documentary I ever saw.

By the BBC 1964 26 parts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxK-qR14pVg

[stephenfrank]

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Read and seen a lot on WW1, still hard to believe how it all unfolded. Got to be number one on the list of Most Pointless Wars of all Time.

[taz]

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Got a personal interest with my Grandad being up to his neck in it so to speak in 1914-15. Always looking out for new material to read or view, will have a look Tone..thanks

[Dave Burgess]

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Remember clocking that series first time around Tone.

[bob9739]

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Yes a bloody good series that one, I don't think some of the more recent one can ever match it.

[findlay]

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As far as i can make out, the only two groups who benefited from The Great War, were the Zionists, and International banksters. The Zionists got given the rights to Palestine as soon as the Brits kicked out the Ottoman Empire for them, by getting Balfour to sign that poxy agreement in return for Zionist help in getting the US involved on the Allies side, and the banker Schiff financed Lenin, in order to kick the Tsar out and get the banks into Russia, which the Tsar had resisted. After the war, The Bank of International Settlement was started in order to supervise the re payment of Germany's war debt. They cleverly arranged it so that the BIS became, in effect, the Central Banks Central Bank, and which now seems to control pretty much every economy in the world. Our masters, unfortunately. Who says 'old wars' are irrelevant? The Great War also set the scene for what was, in effect, unfinished business, as far as Adolf went !

[trubrit2411]

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The Allies are still fighting that war. It never stopped. Brit Oz and Yanks and Canadians are still dying today from the ramifications of the actions those stupid bastards.

[standinthedoor]

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Baldrick said it all when General Melchett asked him what started WW1, he correctly replied 'someone shot an ostrich called archie duke' or words to that effect, I think the average working class Brit who fought in that war thought about the same. Pity my Kraut Grandad and my Brit Grandad did not see Blackadder, they would probably have pissed themselves laughing, or cried. They figured we should have oput all politicians and generals in to a football ground, given them a blunt knife each, and whoever was still standing at the end was the winner. Why can I still get so f***ing angry over senseless a war which was fought a hundred years ago? Wig

[Don the Mod]

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Saw a good BBC doc saying the wars in Europe started and ended with two bullets. The bullet that Bosnian fukker shot Archie Duke with and only ended with Hitlers bullet.

[Don the Mod]

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Found it.

Pt 1

Pt 2

Pt 3

[bob9739]

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Millions of husbands,sons, and fathers, of all nationalities killed,mutilated. Communities destroyed by the loss of menfolk who went to the front, all because of some twat with a pistol and a grudge. Yes I will concede that the main player nations were jockeying for position before the event occurred, but the assassination excusing the pun was the trigger pulled on the start gun.

[trubrit2411]

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Wig if you watch that Documentary by the BBC it will break your heart. There is a whole episode devoted to The Somme and Ypres, both of which my grandad saw. It must have been fookin' horrific Somebody with an haperth of sense should have stepped in and put a stop to it. The mud of Ypres and Paschendael. Unbelievable. Bloke sez his men used to go with a message and just disappear in the mud.... Gone ! Never seen or heard of again. Swallowed up.

[Dave Burgess]

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Probaby just a name carved on the wall at Tyne Cot War Cemetery or the Menin Gate now Tone, very sad. Me Grandad copped fer a lungfull o Mustard Gas at Paschendael Tone in 1917, blinded him and spent the next 20 years eating iz lungs away until he kippered in 1938.

[bob9739]

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Felt sorry for some of the poor sods who survived it only to die in a Flu epidemic, how tragic is that ?

[standinthedoor]

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Me Brit Grandad used to say, whenever I was feeling crap or just having a whinge 'there are millions of young men buried in France after WW1 who would give everything they ever had just to be able to walk about the places where they were brought up, to see the daylight and sunshine and to simply smell the flowers and to see their loved ones just once more'. He used to urge me not to waste a day but do something every day which I enjoy (I walk over the Pennine Moors and round the lakes daily). The German agreed with him 'ignore the arse-holes you meet who irritate, there are many more good people who wish no harm to anyone, find and treasure them'. Neither of them could understand why lads on both sides did not simply shoot the officers who were tasked with keeping the war going and walk back home to their familiies and peace. Both agreed that when mates got killed it kicked off a 'revenge' mentality so the killing started, and continued. Are we any wiser today? WW2 had to be fought! wig