Post WW1 pics

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the man the myth the legend

manfred von richtofen

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british medical staff officers

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takin a shit, resuming dump in a few

Reckoning on a kill-ratio of five French poilus (bearded soldiers) for every two Germans, Von Falkenhayn promised to ‘drain France’s life-blood’ and win the war.
A similar numbers game was applied to the weapons he deployed.
More than 1,200 big guns — some with barrels 50ft long — were dragged to the front by horses, set up along a wooded escarpment and aimed at every inch of the French lines.

At 4am on February 21, under a full moon, the first shots were fired by three massive guns, hitting Verdun itself and destroying the railway station.
The rest then joined in, targeting the seven-mile French front line of trenches and fortifications with what one of those on the receiving end described as ‘a gale of flame’.
Shells came crashing out of the fog of smoke and dust, a French officer recorded, ‘and we have to abandon our shelter and go to ground in a deep crater. We are surrounded by wounded and dying men whom we are totally unable to help’.

After nine hours, the barrage ceased and German assault troops rose from their trenches and moved forward across the shattered ground, some armed with a new weapon of horror, the flame-thrower, making its battlefield debut. French trenches burned, with men inside them.
In that first onslaught, the French line was pushed back a mile. Over the next three days, they would be forced to retreat a further three miles. Losses were dreadful.

it might have made sense for the French to concede Verdun at this point, to pull back their depleted but still relatively intact army and regroup in the Forest of Argonne closer to Paris.
But, as Von Falkenhayn had predicted, French pride got the better of military sense.

Reinforcements were piled in — more grist to Von Falkenhayn’s mill. The deadly pattern was set that would prolong this battle from five days to more than 300 and increase the toll of casualties 14-fold.
However, the Germans were beginning to feel the pinch of their rapid advance. The fighting had been so fierce that they had lost as many men as the French — roughly 25,000 apiece at this point — and were losing momentum.
By getting ahead of themselves, they were also losing the protection of their biggest guns, left static at the rear and unable to be moved forward because the ground had been torn up. French counter-attacks, unhampered by artillery bombardment, were increasingly successful.
The battle now settled into trench warfare, the exchanging of mortar fire and a series of vicious encounters to secure vantage points in which machine gunners mowed down advancing enemy soldiers.

Some deaths were even more pointless than others, the result of blunders. Deep inside the captured Fort Douaumont, German soldiers brewed up coffee on a table improvised from boxes of cordite, starting a fire which spread to a store of flame-thrower fuel and then to an ammunition magazine.
The chamber exploded, killing 679 men. With no hope of recovering the bodies from the fire, the area was sealed off and left.
A further 1,800 wounded managed to get away but some of these were shot by their own side as they fled from the fort. With their soot-blackened faces, they were mistaken for African troops fighting for the French.

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pretty sure this is from a movie but it still looks pretty cool

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these are great

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WW1 really was a madman's war. I think it is more fascinating than the sequel desu.

Austrian sniper in the Dolomites, 1917

And the only other WW1 pic I have.

Italian soldiers in the highest trench of the whole war.

the eyes of a man trapped in hell

feels bad man

War is hell.

I agree, it's facinating but really gets me down.

Japanese soldiers in Tsingtao, China

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Ataturk and some Ottoman soldiers at Gallipoli

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Church bells marked for bullet shell and helmet production in germany

Fuck. Pixel is a shit phone

youtube.com/watch?v=k4Pd527GN48

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So we all know that leaving the trench and attempting to cross No Man's Land was a death sentence, but what if you spent the entire war in the trench and never left? What would your chances of survival be?

>What would your chances of survival be?
If you're still at the front, not good. If the artillery doesn't get you and the gas doesn't get you and you don't get sick the trench raiders get you.

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Epic

Does that really count as a WW1 pic?

I think so too. Probably because it's the closest thing to real life steam punk.

Old tactics failing hard in a new era of technology.

Feel sorry for the men too. Wouldn't have been as bad if they were at least trying to accomplish something. Most times they were just going out to be fodder.

Okay settle down Brandon

>dont worry eugene
>the last 6 times we had men walk across these fields slowly in a line didnt work
>the seventh is surely the charm
>well be fine

I remember when I was 16

Post WW1 you say?

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Was there lower amounts of atrocities in WW!? It seems like there wasn't as many genocides, revenge killings etc.

Compared to WW2?
Well, civilians were surely less afflicted
The only two countries that massacred civilians en mass during WW1 were Germany (Rape of Belgium) and the Ottoman Empire (Armenian Genocide).

It was harder to target civilian sectors far behind the lines in world War 1, also the battlefield was far more static for the most part.

Because Germans had honor, while Austrians were bloodthirsty savages.
The Germans buried the Serbian soldiers and made a modest monument commemorating worthy foes.
Austrians started hanging civilians as soon as they crossed the boarder.

Murdering entire towns of Belgians sure was honorable.

Germny dindu nuffin wrogn

Well, Serbs had a much different experience. Austrians slaughtering villages, Bulgarians committing brutal reprisals and deportations.
While Germans paid at least some respect.

Germany slaughtered entire villages for the acts of resistance agents that may not have even contacted the village in question, with no evidence they lined up and shot scores of civilians at a time, and even wiped entire towns off the map.

story?

Those are pictures of the red zone in France,which is still toxic from world war 1, due to the amount of toxic metals and unexploded shells left there, there are places where nothing can grow because of how much arsenic is in the soil, you can also still see the shell holes and trenches because the area is too toxic for human habitation.

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thanks mates

Yep it was intended as a play on words for the multiple meanings of the word post.

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holy shit those masks are spoopy

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