tended to you know, set examples of people that did things that the Germans had said. Holy freaking amazing! Together about five thousand five hundred belgian civilians were deliberately killed by the german army. Maybe you can't win a war against someone like the Germans, but you can. Nobody. So if you go into war with Russia, you get to attack France as part of the bar again. traditionally been used. Ferguson is forced to deal with the reality of the situation that this. at the French or the British to violate Belgium. Ludendorff's actions that night remind us once again that, even though, as I've said several times, the machines have kind of taken over the dominant role in, count the human factor, in fact the human fact, adversaries that are somewhat evenly matched evenly matched me. already would have defeated France. That's going to smash on top of the head of France. I mean, if, if Gov, a nine hundred eleven attack ever and if that was, all he did wouldn't be important. This was not something that the other countries did. But, and intimidating as they are meant to be. Famine, epidemics, general barbarism. the time the Russians could get their act together and get their monstrous armies in the field ready to fight Germany. There is not, apparently a chin, strap or a horseshoe missing. If you're looking at this. That's undefended leads this unit past the forts. It was going to. 30,000 Germans specially trained to assault fortifications being obliterated by the lightweight Belgian chocolate soldiers. That's the perfect translation of the term, but the Germans. You know. When the news of the murder of Archduke Francis Ferdinand arrived in Munich, going to be sitting at home and heard of it only vaguely, I was at. There's a. it's only if you were reading the morning papers every morning in that period there be war scares and comments here, and there would be something new everyday to keep. Now the Germans don't have a lot to celebrate, In their military history in the Second World WAR, because the cause was so nasty doesn't matter, you know how many, good things their troops did in terms of military history. The world has seen since Napoleon's day a hundred years before, one sided conflicts. have gone to him and shown him the ramifications of. that's kind of out of the way by this point: oh no, protect France from falling 'cause. back in the grenade. Tiny sparks from the cobblestones, but the horses and men who beat out the sparks were invisible at midnight, ach wagons and siege guns were still passing at seven, this morning I was awakened by the tramp of men in bands playing jauntily, whether they marched all night or not. seized with worry that the bullets may have been shot from the pistols of german students who want of indignation at the heirs apparent, continuous work of slav ization want. clarity and accuracy actually, and hopefully we, better program out of it new and improved version, two whatever you want to say. The Battle of Jutland occurred because both sides thought they had that edge. The, ventless approaching footfall of the detonations spoke to the paralyzed defenders of the devastation to come. You had, flights in these sports new its search light on the german side. That man was the admiral in charge of the British Fleet, Sir John Jellicoe. The Germans went in and did a bunch of things in Belgium that make him look bad, because they were bad, and then the foreign media, like the British, were fantastic at this. So you can have this province and then on next time, I'll beat you and I'll take that province back you know, nobody was true, in the top of the regimes. Nobody wants to hear that machine guns just rip guts out. Regis Gamble right to invade Russia. The french, Calvary heading off to war, as I said earlier, but you have to imagine this. They may hear some german soldiers gun go off from the other side of town and start killing civilians. It's one of the fine things we have lossed as a result of the french revolution. That's not a handshake deal, that's in ink. It is this huge deal and those. Ninety thousand man Army is roughly comparable to each other. It takes a full minute, it's so you fire it and then there's the sixty second wait until, can be delayed action fused, an armor piercing, so that when you fire me, that's the kind of arc they have. Is your network connection unstable or browser outdated? Is an artillery officer he's known for its use on the battlefield? But 99 years later the dam breaks and a Pandora's Box of violence engulfs the planet. in the city hasn't taken the forts and they're. Seventy one thousand eight hundred and seventy one that was the root of invasion back then, the prom. big siege mortars entered into the action they hurled against US shells weighing one thousand kilos, the explode. It's all. For years. Imagine if you're in am, fomenting subversion and revolution in places like Southern Texas and Southern New Mexico and Southern Arizona, Southern California and then eventually these in a revolutionary that have been egged on by the mexican intelligence service, kill a major. these interesting conflicts of interest in worries about timing and all this stuff, the, world sees where it's heading and tries to pull, the greatest statesman Europe can produce during this time period. You know in the my. Download this episode in the store Click Here! between these forts. His jaw is on the floor. a world class historical atrocity, killing field? Convulsive rattle in his throat caused by the loss of blood this, EAST, on arrival at the governor's residence, the two one. It was just narrow down to just Belgium, and the Germans were sort of naively hoping that the Belgians would just step aside, line there army up on both sides of the street and watch the Germans March through the british. The first experiment in this hypothesis of, being the violence out of societies is on the way. extreme finally bears it's natural fruits. Writes quote. The Austro Hungarians, declare war on July 28th exactly one month after the assassination and they're shelling Belgrade. The planet hadn't seen a major war between all the Great Powers since the downfall of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815. Both sides in the US civil war used, but about one thousand, two hundred pound cannon. If nothing else thank you Dan and Ben for making this immense part of modern history so accessible to the public. Places all over the world what's going on sort of a factor of just, been there for a while. When suicide attacks become the norm? Even the winners. Who is credited with creating the entire world around us? He answered me quite distinctly. the trigger again and that russian roulette Game, and they certainly didn't know that if they were, that was the time there was going to be a bullet in the chamber. The Germans have a. and our You. We mean you no harm, just let us march through. There were wars between Napoleon in the first World war. Its sold effectively as our version of The 4th of July (the BlueJays surely have the date booked with MLB as a perennial home game). The tunnels are blown. Perhaps, Princep in his compatriots would have thought that you know. G.J. Gray Harding thinks is the most fantastic. Dont want to subscribe? The Kaiser will turn to VON Moltke and he's panicking at the last minute, the Great Supreme WAR leaders, not so tough when it all looks. Is the man most responsible for beginning the? Similarly about the Germans, as the Germans felt about the Russians, they were looking at the german birth rate and just going. No, I'm not a huge on Keegan fan, but as, his world war, one and world war, two histories- and he wrote about this guns arrival outside the fortune said quote. Looking for people to provide some help, they've got the, Not being on the dinner menu for the imperial german military. Do I really want all those emails? A quick note to cousin Nikki, you to low average roll on the monarchy dice. That's again, where the german war plans put them in a situation where, for the, strategic problems that are going to cost you the war. Is one of their number comes in the door, sits down at the table with them and has a package with him, and he opens up the, package, and inside is only one thing. Fourteen. that moment in history that will turn out to be so very important in a way that you can't imagine anyone at the table, then, would have known. I thought she did a very balanced job, and so did Neil Ferguson Ferguson. It's going to depend on what happens. Machine guns, barbed wire and millions upon millions of artillery shells create industrialized meat grinders at Verdun and the Somme. For a long time. Again. You think it's magnificent in and Bray, a doomed sort of attack on the part of incredibly courageous men. Preview. and supported by a modern 20th century state. this time period had at least five first. the world, I think, he'd, be horrified. They have a handshake deal and they're start to get a little bit worried about the handshake deal. It is nothing is for. Utilizing an army composed of many many many different european peoples, and I had to scrape Germany in every place else to get enough people to send into Russia was something that was called the grand army. Play over 320 million tracks for free on SoundCloud. pre war, photographs of russian pogroms genuinely were reprinted too in quotes illustrate. He took his, vacations from Germany to Belgium just to look around where the battle was going to be fought and now, since he had, were carried out correctly. You know happening. The person who was closest to the whole thing was count VON, who, who was, great of a job, apparently at security and he, first, the car- and he later testified- this quote, As the car quickly reversed, a thin stream of blood spurted from his highness's mouth onto my right, cheek. The entire continents is going to be flaming out at each other. Some people are taken to the hospital the arch, The town hall to lodge a complaint they were going, full to give the local officials we come to, and this is the reception we get that kind of thing, and it looks at least from this point-. France Ferdinand, is one of the best friends the Slavs ever had, and in effect, Ferdinand actually was counseling his government to treat the serbian problem more lightly because he was worried about it sparking a general war when he, perfidious act because the slavic folks had killed a person, there better friends in the austrian government, the Austrian that I. telling you about a second ago after the First World WAR wrote this quote. of course, is not employed in cultivation, will draw the artillery and supply wagons. advancing german armies executed civilians, including women and priests. You know. 1.0x. the plane couldn't just drop from the sky and land on your house tomorrow. The city. because the mounds of bodies become places. Someone if somebody had asked you a question who was the most important fig, by the world has gone the way it did. He seen, is that b will avoid a war because of that in the, British government is having a hard time selling, people on the idea that this is good for Britain on July. You have to imagine a state where the entire underpinnings of the state of been broken down, including especially the army, and then all of me, Russia, Russia, Austria, Great Britain. A young person may be working for a foreign government. and to be in the way the Germans had come up with a plan. It belongs. They don't, really wrong way to be organized. In boxing they always, feel like an early knockout is more merciful than a long, that's because in a long match you take a lot more punishment well in a funny way, if everything could be decided at one big, horrific battle, you know at the start of a war that is a lot, costly overtime than A4 or A5 year long conflict, where both sides grind, multiple states in Europe capable of fighting until they were ground down to the nub, which metal. Didn't have that power for all. There are new, country on the stage and they think you're being treated like trash they're mad there there's a chauvinistic, that's how the British in the French and those people see them in just these upstart in a, but, as many historians have pointed out, there's no nation in the world that is up and coming that doesn't start to act like it and when they do the nations that already have it all don't like it, I mean how do how does the United, today, is sort of elbowing its way into the you know: power straw, here I mean we all understand they deserve it. But would you believe it this veritable wall of dead and dying? December, seventh, nineteen, forty one, it's history, a date which will live in in for me, one thanks for the more, in the words the in the in the complete this time, because I am a nation because people don't know whether or not their president's. If they find you blowing up bridges, they are. been called in the history books, limited warfare or restricted warfare, It was an italian historian named Ferraro, nine. He said he was watching some german cavalry where ride by and he could see the horses, but he couldn't see the guys on them because they just sort of blend with the fog in the mist in the twilight and the early morning hours in that color he goes on and on about how great that is and how cyantific it is. You know once you violate Bismarck's dictum of you- know, keep the Russians on your side and then the Russians and the french ally with each other and war breaks out, you're going to be fighting the French in the west and the Russians in the east. Reviews There are no reviews yet. British had just dealt with this not altogether successfully in South Africa, where atrocity issues happened, the, which are dealing with it in Asia and North Africa. powers. Hardcore History 53 Blueprint for Armageddon IV, Hardcore History Compilation Episodes 1-55, Hardcore History 27 - Ghosts of the Ostfront I, Hardcore History 47 - Wrath of the Khans V. If the, system of mutual outbidding in Armament Kerry. Keep his cavalry live on. 1. What would Alexander the great had done trying to, higher math to try to do that, and when you hear about how the Germans had prepared minutely for this day that for so long had been called the day, dare tog this, hack into Belgium into overwhelm friends and everything you get in, idea of how much actual bean counting and planning is involved. The largest of the guns that are on the way from Berlin to Belgium, The largest of them weighs three hundred thousand pounds. This thing this gives you an idea of the monsters were talking about. When the singing ceased, the bands played marches, they, followed by the rumble of siege guns, the creaking of wheels and of chains clanking against the cobblestones and on the sharp bell, like voices of the bugles for seven hours. and they were going to have to learn how to deal with this new reality. Who turned out to be right about how momentous this leap off this cliff and how long the drop was going to be, who, the guy who, along with Karl Marx, helped create modern communism Friedrich Engels, who, in eighteen eighty seven wrote about. You know we're capable and they could deal with it and they were very efficient, logistically and everything for their time period, but, teen times that amount. The people that come from much, less severe traditions would maybe in a play that quality up, something uniquely german and nasty, not just, It should be pointed out that a lot of different peoples in the world, This time we're having problems dealing with regular fighting. As the Asia-Pacific conflict turns against the Japanese these questions are put to the test. I don't want to hear that, so they talk about the results as being unrepresentative, involved in the idea of the power of the bay in it and the charge in the offensive for, well. It's a very controversial issue. There's two: globalization. This entire series is a great take on those four years when the world hacked out its first steps on the scary path to where we collectively find ourselves today. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. Many of their contemporaries wish they'd die faster. When someone in the british media asked him what he's doing he says, I'm going to wait to see if Britain still has any honor, british are waiting for something to happen in Belgium, and so are the Belgians, they don't want to do anything until their actual neutrality is violated. We get into a war with Serbia. Much. Everything from the precision drill to the equipment. A position to decide to go or not to go to war that seems to put them in the driver's seat. You eight, there's an ages ago. organize terror groups put together by a bunch of young kids. You know, I, like the author, Lynn Mcdonald, wrote about this. Stories of german behavior in Belgium, the Sun, Chronicle, he writes was one of many british papers which alleged that the Germans had cut off the hands of belgian children, while the four, ill disguised relish the quote: wild orgies of blood and debauchery and quote ', which the Germans allegedly indulged, including the quote ruthless violation and killing of defenseless women, girls and children of tender age and quote for, and continues quote other writers had great fun. What we had done was unthinkable. american battleships, the last effective ones. This was some. This very disturbing and graphic show looks into some case studies and asks some deep questions. Get ahold of those stories, Turn them into the worst things you can ever think of the Germans, only began to get this. It was the most powerful land power in Europe. Here's how it works. It was a guy who made his bones in the art. Pushing the Combatants to the Breaking Point. Russia is going to attack us if Russia taxes. He does the equivalent of, Imagine trying to hold negotiations to ward off an explosion with a guy who's already pulled the pin on the grenade right. What happens, then? it's hard to believe it hasn't been romanticized to some degree, but nevertheless, if you ever do the definitive, screen dramatization of world war, one the whole story, I think you, of nineteen and twenty year old, guys at a table. Princip is a name very few of you will recognize. To how well organized they were to the logistics to the leadership to the, intimidating elements built into it? Episode Link. The Germans aren't sure about that when they come into Belgium, they're kind of, in the belgian army is either just going to stand aside. start launching missiles and bombs, and I mean it doesn't matter. Two people, in the city of Sarajevo. End quote. Those of you have listened to many of my shows. You need him to, and these guns weigh a ton. What's interesting is you could conceivably put the name down of somebody who was historically speaking, you and nobody. Until we shut them down, fallen, were heaped on top of each other in an awful Baruch aid of dead and Woon. Dan was the spark for the kindling of my mind to set my unbeknownst passion for History ablaze. It might have occured to them men who, by the early 1960s, had grown up during and in the immediate years after the first World war. here's what 20th century warfare is going to mean. The gun itself weighed about one thousand two hundred pounds the same gun, essentially in in one case that. the bayonet and threw them back again and again, the Germans returned to the assault spending lives like bullets, in the knowledge of plentiful reserves to make up for the losses she now quotes. The car with the, right down the road again past the Texas School book, Deposit Ori Right. December 29, 2014 1 Song, 4 hours, 29 minutes 2014 Dan Carlin's Hardcore History. Dan Carlin's Hardcore History Podcast reading list - Blueprint for Armageddon by jaydekens - a community-created list : Reading lists supplied by Dan Carlin from the popular Hardcore History podcast. If you did that the other thing that men-. The problem is, is that sometimes history, where the logical part of at least my brain wants to flip sides and, still logically defend what I consider to be the more illogical point of view in this case the logic. Rated out of 5 based on 15 customer ratings. a year or two after the conflict, and so he's right in the middle of the moment. basin entire defense strategy on. I just quoted a guy named VON Moltke will have, change the way that the german war game system works before the first World WAR and he will, to put his foot down and take a career risking, moved and tell, Kaiser that no longer can they keep up with their tradition that whatever side the Kaiser is commanding in the german National WAR Games has to win. There was a feeling of inferiority and Kaiser Wilhelm held that sort of attitude in spades. On August third, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen when tensions have reached a new, out the window and see the Lamplighter is of London lighting the lamps for the evening, as was customary at the time, and he, to someone else at the window and famously said, the lamps are going out all over Europe. down rebellions by their population. And he had every reason to be by the way, because a few days. exposed to a lot of thinking out there by guys, like Norman Angle, we mentioned earlier, who are saying no one's going to jump, jumping would be suicidal everybody died, the golden goose would be killed, globalization would be destroyed, no one will do it, and now they had just done it. Fourth, german time, which is eleven thousand one hundred pm british time, they were sitting around a table just before, Stroke of eleven watching the clock, tick away, and he said that his, big Bens chime start chiming for the eleven o'clock hour, signifying that the deadline is about to expire, he's, every ring of the Bell sounded like Dum Dum, Dum, then, when it expires, Britain declares war on Germany. For, when the ancient elamites used to roll whatever the number is that comes up. army was, it may not have been as flashy with those giant knockouts and all that, but they had a better chin and they were, you know. In you, history and he's an innovative cavalry commander. Short, then five more each of them walked up towards the target, as the elevation was corrected. Keep up the awesome work Dan and Ben! once the Germans are in Belgium, the British, ambassador to Germany, guy name, Sir, and, He delivers it into the hands of the german minister, a guy named Gottlieb, an ego and the german Chancellor guiding Theobald VON Bethmann Hollweg, Goshen New, that this was a historic meeting and he, put down what happened, and he said the Germans when they receive this ultimatum from him. reaching that not your country's doctrine and your entire militaries organized or on the culture of the offensive and cran, is the french word I guess for like guts and it's all about guts. Ups that affect the entire history of the world, turns out the driver of the archdukes car did not realize they were not taking the original parade route and makes a, wrong turn and ends up near street corner, where one of the assassins Gavrilo real, maybe the guy on the grassy knoll with JFK, stationed himself in the hopes that he might get a chance. Do you. And blood has always been one of those things where, when, see it in living. Show 53 - Blueprint for Armageddon IV. An man supremacy on the battlefield, even though they're the ones who run the machines hello. He neutralized Russia. So each division- this is equivalent to a rather nice sized early medieval army. The entire french outlook on war right now is, keep this idea that you attack and you attack with the band that doesn't really mean you're, going to. us on Twitter the address is at hardcore history. one of the best episodes of the show. You know the, feats of arms and how the german military shown themselves to be so dominant american papers are not one hundred percent against the Germans. They control. You know, stands out in my mind now, because it seems in a, was so hard for some people to accept what this guy was purporting. We use, He essentially had an elite unit of mounted infantry and he would transport these, people too vulnerable and important spots, tactically important area. You can just say I'm sorry, you're out of work right now, you're going to the front and. family still communicated with each other, which provides like a diplomatic back channel where these rulers can actually you know, sidestep traditional diplomacy and just write the family member that rules the other country, for example, Queen Victoria. pulling out my handkerchief to wipe the blood away from his mouth. most of their enemies right. We shall, The Germans are given the famous ultimatum, and it's, to expire at midnight on August. Soldiers who've, never faced in, fire where someone was shooting at them. If you want or cosmic hypothesis concerning, you do it enough. Hatched in an obscure cafe in the capital of Old Serbia have led to the independence of the New Yugoslavia. Did that threatened to mask our guns and cause us trouble so high to the Baruch aid become that we didn't know whether to fire through it or to go out and clear openings with our hands. companies and companies into battalions. And now the arch do. When you talk about all their colonies and everything else and that's all stuff, they can drawn to fight the war. A few minutes later he writes the bombardment was resumed, it seemed as though all the german batteries were firing salvos, nobody will ever be able to form an adequate idea of what the reality was like. It is, being, not even our own, the Japanese or the British, scene seen one so thoroughly equipped, I'm not speaking of the, it meant an organization. Then I heard. Yet in this story, the Belgians are but an appetizer, modern warfare between the great powers on the planet. There, Davis is one of those guys he's an American. the order was given. He means London, which is in a terrible state of depression, and paralysis, is for the time being, all against english intervention. that the British had proven that the German. pledge of your good behavior and will consider you out of this war, that is, impossible for the french government to do as the demands on Serbia WAR. Dan! Whole societies, including neutral countries, The Germans don't understand that the way they are conducting themselves in Belgium is affecting public opinion, in places like the United States, which have large german american populations by the way which are cheering. Violating Belgium, ends up taking a Britain that one historian says as recently as two days before they declare war on. Subscribe to the show and get this episode free! by people who were there that what happened. Because he had a new kind of army, he had a, Countries of Europe had to do the same thing as, german field, Marshal blue shirt, told the Prussian. Now in, to maintain these armies. Most of us do that utilized the road system think about, But the road system in Belgium, tiny little. As usual, there was, talking excitement when the newspapers came, but it was the, can excitement of spectators who have no vivid sense of participation in the catastrophe that was presently to, british public really weren't ready for this. They emanated mainly from the refugees who had fled, have terrified out of their wits from the towns and villages of Belgium. French Revolution teaches all these states to have modern staying power. of their own France, Great Britain. positive outcome for them if they get involved in this whole affair, I mean there are things, lost territory, they lost to Germany in the war of eighteen, seventy eighteen, seventy one they'd like to get. The state just couldn't support it once, France turns the entire nation into the war effort. How much that had changed the age old equation of war machines have been taken over for a long time becoming more and more important. They then shift, to another fort, which surrenders five hours later one. The law had been blown from its place and had fallen, on its dome, and it now looks like a monstrous tortoise lying on its shell as, Artillery then closed in on the fourth that had the general commanding. The biggest thing that Germans need to do here is keep the british out of this war, but the war plan, the British into the war, the Germans can't. Nonetheless always seeking to improve, and hopefully with the update to this, show. You don't have any authority, it's crazy and France, not to be defeated, and then, as only you know, totalitarian type regimes can do. That's the luck of the draw, if the, Rob of Kaiser had been merit based, Kaiser Wilhelm. Happily, seems to be no reason why we should be anything more than spectators and quote well that turned out, obviously to be wishful thinking on the british Prime Minister's part, but historians like Neil Ferguson, who write revisionist works, like the pity of war, have suggested that if the British had stayed out, we have a better world today for all, Many of the biggest events of the 20th century, the most horrible saying this- never happens that never happens. In fact, none of the, they hadn't been mentally prepped for the idea that this was coming for. Terry dictator of Germany, within four years name is Erick Ludendorff. the entire society was mobilized for the war effort. The French are sure the British are going to abandon them. The Atlantic Slave Trade mixes centuries of human bondage with violence, economics, commerce, geo-political competition, liberty, morality, injustice, revolution, tragedy and bloody reckonings. Now, Ludin doors, very audacious capture of the city of the eyes doesn't solve the problem. You didn't reclaim. But what are you going to do? That sounds like a lot, yet this show merely scratches the surface of this enormous subject. So Ludendorff calls for his ace in the hole, the Germans have been planning for this attack for a very long time. Nothing else can do and it moves people, faster than anything else can do so. Three of the major powers in this conflict are ruled by emperors, kings or czars. A new version of Last.fm is available, to keep everything running smoothly, please reload the site.
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