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    blipvertus
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    I stumbled across this channel by accident. Most videos cover the events that occurred this week, 100 years ago. Obviously they are about to wind down but it’s been fascinating getting a week by week synopsis of the war.

    They also do special features such as this one on a British tank

    https://youtu.be/2MCmKrf91o4

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    #1289082

    elessar2590
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    Brilliant Channel.

    I’ve been watching it weekly since day one and can gaurantee it’s brilliant.

    They’re going to be a key part of the upcoming Youtube WWII Collaboration with lindybeige, candrsenal and the like.

    candrsenal is also a brilliant channel for WWI they cover the firearms used in enormous detail.

    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClq1dvO44aNovUUy0SiSDOQ

    #1289200

    blipvertus
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    Here’s another little gem I came across. This one is about a man who reconstructed his grandfathers airplane.

    This video really captures why WW1 aircraft are so fascinating to me. You can literally see through the wings. These are incredibly fragile aircraft yet men still fought in them.

    https://youtu.be/mbGqz7045hs

    #1289264

    oriskany
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    We have some pretty serious 100-year anniversary content coming out very shortly for the Great War here on OTT / BoW.  Stay tuned.  😀

    #1289286

    torros
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    Look forward to it. We can discuss the war not ending in November 1918

    #1289323

    oriskany
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    Got you covered.  The articles specify “the Armistice that effectively ended World War I”

    We also cover in some detail how the Armistice was only a cease fire that had to be renewed several times, pending the “official” end of the war with the Treaties (plural) at the Paris Peace Conference, of which Versailles was only the “headliner.”  Some of those weren’t ratified until 1923.

    I mean, the war ends in 1945 is you want to get serious about it.

    But the breakups of the Ottoman Empire, Russian Empire, and Austro-Hungarian Empire are all not as neat and tidy as November 11 1918 would have us believe.

    Then again, the article series is about November 11, so that’s what we’re dealing with.

     

    #1289362

    brigadierrist
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    The WWII series World War Two has already started a few weeks ago, same principle as The Great War, only with more – so far planned – collabs and added day to day updates on their instagram.

    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP1AejCL4DA7jYkZAELRhHQ/videos

    First collaboration with The Chieftain has also been released already:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbKAg4SRW_U&list=PLsIk0qF0R1j5lK7Tkeph6XvnS4X8BEcqH

    #1289886

    limburger
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    I doubt any war ends on the date that history says it does … life is never that easy and predictable. You only need to look at current conflicts to see similar problems when determining the ‘end’ of a conflict.

    Heck the ’80 year war’ between Spain and (what eventually would be known as) the Netherlands had periods of ‘peace’ too.
    It kind of makes one wonder if historians will eventually declare WW 1 + WW 2 + the wars that followed as part of a single big war. Or maybe it’s listed as the ‘last war of nations’

    #1289909

    oriskany
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    Actually, they really do, at least some of the time.  Wars like WW1 are ended by treaties that by definition are articles of international law.  People just like being pedantic and academic, confusing subsequent civil violence as official continuation of hostilities, or related or spinoff wars like the Freikorps engagements, Mandate Wars, or Russian Civil War.

    I think what @torros was referring to was the 11 November Armistice stopped the fighting (at least on the Western Front), the actual war itself didn’t end until the Treaty of Versailles (ratified June 1919).  Until then certain war measures (armies in the field, British naval blockade) persisted as the Armistice had to be continued / extended over several times.  Even this didn’t close everything down – the Paris Peace Conference also concluded five other treaties that were actually equally as important / destructive, in the careless way in the disposed of former German, Austro-Hungarian, and Ottoman possessions.  Some of these weren’t formerly ratified until as late as 1923 – and ignited continuing wars and problem areas that kill thousands of people to this day.

    But the series comes out in a little while, I’ll leave off until then.

    I’m sure I’ll have my work cut out for me at that time. 😐

    #1290083

    limburger
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    @oriskany : treaties might work between nations (that recognise them), but they don’t stop the people in the streets from doing awful things to the losers and those they perceived as traitors / collaborators.

    Like how recently the prime minister offered an official apology to the women who had had an affair with German soldiers and were made to suffer for it (they were shaved bald and were the victims of revenge).

    original : https://www.hlsenteret.no/aktuelt/endelig-smk-onsdag-17-10-2018.pdf

    Google translation :

    https://translate.google.com/translate?depth=1&hl=nl&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=no&sp=nmt4&tl=en&u=https://www.hlsenteret.no/aktuelt/endelig-smk-onsdag-17-10-2018.pdf&xid=17259,1500004,15700023,15700124,15700149,15700186,15700191,15700201,15700214

    #1290084

    torros
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    I was.. and it was as Jim said the Treaty of Versailles that ended most of the conflicts in 1919

    #1290087

    oriskany
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    @limburger – what you’re describing is crime, not war.  Again, this is what I was talking about before.

    Thanks, @torros, yeah, we get to this in Part III of the series.

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