humans are positioned into this thing, where they have a time limit on this deal, they can't sit around and wait around Belgium, has to be violated for the plan to work. . Do I really want all those emails? This isn't no one thousand eight hundred and ten, the fur helmet of the hussars and on the fur helmet is a skull, remind you a little bit of the SS forces in the Second World WAR, but it shows you that all of this predated you know with, Nazis did the Nazis were just updating a lot of classic german traditions and in a lot of cases, perverting them and staining them with blackness and everything. A few people at, Kaiser sign a guy known as the crown prince would say that Bell, Jim's when the Germans lost the first great battle of the war, but they didn't lose, on the battlefield they crash, the Belgians. These are essentially naval guns in size. It was going to. I do not know, but now, twenty six hours, the gray Army has rumbled by with the mystery of fog and the pertinacity of a steamroller. When a great blast passed by and I was thrown violently to the ground, I managed to get up, buy a choking cloud of poisonous gas. He says, and then you know you really. between these forts. For, when the ancient elamites used to roll whatever the number is that comes up. Force of which surpassed anything known hitherto, their approach, just to be heard in an acute buzzing and then they buy, with a thunderous, roar, raising clouds of missiles, stones and dust. The tunic is covered in what is unmistakably even one hundred years later, blood. With the anniversary of the most emotionally important heart wrenching. Barbara Tuchman has a passage in her book which she quotes. a bunch of neutral states these are going to. Divisions are still use, of course, in militaries today and if you want to think about, fifteen thousand men in a division is a kind of a rough size. Sized Army probably ever put together trying to march through it all in a short period of time. You need to enable JavaScript to use SoundCloud, the enemy needs to be seen as vile and dangerous not comical. All. This, you know new scholarship, all the time on the question of atrocities in Belgium, because, you know during the war. And the idea now of these mass armies that your pet created was that you need. time preserving a general peace in Europe. It's the response of the victims. Instead, they have perhaps, to be truthful. First. is that if you went to war with Russia, you had to attack France. I think the prospect very black today end quote. He knows and has already absorbed the lesson that most. They couldn't re raise armies. from now. The first experiment in this hypothesis of, being the violence out of societies is on the way. People signed papers and ok the next day as of tomorrow. Smack dab in the Balkans. Positions, where you'll guard them with a fork. He said in a five, superpower world make sure your countries, one of three right, It's always three against two and Russia was always to be kept on your good side when he is sacked an basically the. Episode 50 - Blueprint for Armageddon I. But 99 years later the dam breaks and a Pandora's Box of violence engulfs . Wherever historian points out how influential this book was Orang, is trying to explain to the people in that time period that, war. The second one did most of the time too. Vital mistake number one here: He intentionally drove them away. To view this and other transcripts, as well as support the generation of new . This thing this gives you an idea of the monsters were talking about. The newspapers were full of them. These guns were pulverising for, that were built to withstand the guns of just a generation before and doing so with ease, that's a demonstration, How much things have changed just since the 1880s and think of how. in the city hasn't taken the forts and they're. Kaiser sort of embodies the inferiority complex that his country has. The Germans practiced collective punishment, all these awful things that most most, They paid an extra price for it by providing the basic seeds that would grow into enemy propaganda. If you dont think the Battle of Jutland was a big deal, imagine if the British had decisively lost it. We get into a war with Serbia. These atrocities happen, people died. It there's a reason that the Austro Hungarians hadn't attacked the Serbs already, and the reason was that the Serbs had a very powerful friend, the Russians, who considered themselves the traditional protect, The powers of Europe had at least one and usually more power. It didn't do. Looking for people to provide some help, they've got the, Not being on the dinner menu for the imperial german military. You know. The USA. Take on anyone in the world in the first time you see him in action. some cousins who are slightly smaller from the also great armaments works of Skoda in Austro, hungarian, weapons created by Crook and Skoda start shelling these forts and they start going down and they start going down fast, now. You can again something that the Germans weren't quite getting when the 20th century was brand new, that they would get. Go directly to shout page. Soldiers who've, never faced in, fire where someone was shooting at them. U famously said that war is hell, and, I didn't really seep into the mass of the population is one historian had pointed out there, publishing a whole lot of combat photos and really nasty terrable stuff for the folks back home at anytime during these periods. He pounds on the door demanding the surrender and they open up the door. 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. I take taken hold. it's about what happens when two sides, armed with machine guns and two sides aren't with modern artillery and all that face off. 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. Similarly about the Germans, as the Germans felt about the Russians, they were looking at the german birth rate and just going. The Austrians thought the kill, thrown? They said you shouldn't blow up bridges. They were the first, accounts from people who had escaped from, flames of, and then were two hundred hostages had been shot from to me, we're four hundred were gunned down and that, from the inhabitants of did not. We ask, go to dancarlin dot com for information on how to donate, to the show get their first assist with the mostest I, during the editing process. but the world had ever seen, and certainly the largest that the world had ever seen getting ready. This is the part of the story after to where we are. For a long time. We dont have an album for this track yet. Those who, today he writes shower the viennese government with reproaches on the form and content of this ultimatum. You know. The, ventless approaching footfall of the detonations spoke to the paralyzed defenders of the devastation to come. yards, a thousand yards ahead to keep enemy artillery away, and you have this system. could survive on a modern battlefield and, of course, the battlefield that Nathan Bedford Forrest was. realm of global public opinion because of their behavior, hey, here that the Germans will use all throughout this war and again in the second World war, tendency to ignore neutrality. Look at this and they just they look dangers. Responsibility wise there are, writing after the war, is a perfect example. actor French along their mutual border that borders full of forts it's the most. by the way when we tried desperately to keep weapons of mass, stretching out of the terrorist hands because we're afraid they'll be able to kill more people with such weapons. The, eight shells made no impression on the forts and the belgian guns poured a hail of fire on the german troops. Under a single king they created the greatest empire the world had ever seen. What was going on was behind the scenes, a ton of diplomacy, and one of the main avenues of diplomacy, were the fray. but this time lost thirty thousand men in a month. 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. 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. and to be in the way the Germans had come up with a plan. Scrobbling is when Last.fm tracks the music you listen to and automatically adds it to your music profile. the potential for someone like a princess, 19th century Europe, perhaps the greatest diplomat, Germany ever produced famously said that if there was going to be some giant global, I'm, I was going to probably break out because of some damn fool event in the Balkans, covering the Princip shot. waiting to find out what modern warfare is really like. Is the war where they take over completely. What happens, then? Trench warfare begins, and with it, all the murderous efforts on both sides to overcome the static defenses. This. 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. That's the nice, militarism, if you don't like it, it's Marshall, if you do like it, that's, Hitler in his crib. just sounds weird in the twentieth century shows you. This is a base, is of the name he is making for himself will be in a position that some historians will call the. He fine, a spot. You in this conflict, it's about to come out. Ninety thousand man Army is roughly comparable to each other. talking about a gun that is just over a sixteen inch gun. The battle of Kosovo way back from hundred. You know. this time period had at least five first. The planet hadn't seen a major war between all the Great Powers since the downfall of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815. Serb nationalists and the Serbs are very, very patriotic, even today, even more so back in nineteen. They got, farther than halfway, though, because our machine guns and rifles swept them back. you could have used a historical xerox machine to duplicate that world conquering army, ten. So if you go into war with Russia, you get to attack France as part of the bar again. 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. an enemy to their west and another enemy to their reached at the same time right, how do you do that. He talks about how the british newspapers would, photos sometimes from stories that had nothing to do with this war in one case stories with, add photos from russian pogroms against Jews. a year or two after the conflict, and so he's right in the middle of the moment. But 99 years later the dam breaks and a Pandora's Box of violence engulfs the planet. a world class historical atrocity, killing field? And now the arch do. paint your adversary in the worst possible light. No one's quite sure what happens, and then you know later on all, while the assassin on the grassy knoll is probably trying to just figure out. Ready to shoot up german March columns, those if they're not taken before the big March starts. That man was the admiral in charge of the British Fleet, Sir John Jellicoe. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. Your current browser isn't compatible with SoundCloud. That's how worried they were about this tiny little force that their army dwarfed, but they were, They were the greatest financial power in the world. us on Twitter the address is at hardcore history. Probably, Japan and Russia in one thousand, nine hundred and five, where, you know new weapons that, when fused together create the modern war machine where some of that was observable, the, key element as far as european planners can figure it out, though, is something that harkens. clarity and accuracy actually, and hopefully we, better program out of it new and improved version, two whatever you want to say. We mean you no harm, just let us march through. They were worried about an upcoming war and up until, Auto VON Bismarck goes away. 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. And he had every reason to be by the way, because a few days. Countries on the other side of the ledger or Russia don't have to worry, but they have to worry about the political situation. 2014-08-17 | . They will remember that these men were sons of their nation. You know the governor low princess metaphor: we pulled in Sarajevo. by people who were there that what happened. And as a way to sort of prove that the old ad, is that one man's terrorist is another, man's freedom fighter is true, you have. The largest of the guns that are on the way from Berlin to Belgium, The largest of them weighs three hundred thousand pounds. I had no idea that she too was hit and thought that she had simply fainted with fright. and supported by a modern 20th century state. and stay out of the work as they don't have a heart alliance with anyone. Nobody. I just saw it on podcast addict. I heard the name of the supposed assassins and, moreover, read that they had been identified as Serbs. Japan's rising sun goes supernova and engulfs a huge area of Asia and the Pacific. Because if someone really knows what to do with it and does good things with it, you kind of say to yourself on the other, a bit of a roll of the dice, isn't it as often as you get one of those people you get somebody who's, evil or cruel or insane some people, history of rolled very badly on the dice far too many times, but it creates good hardcore history work. Belgium, they will never take that lesson to heart and they will repay, in Belgium again in the Second World WAR, it's safe to say. Dan Carlin is an American podcaster, political commentator and amateur historian. Most militaries are moving away from that the Germans use. Show 53 - Blueprint for Armageddon IV. A quick note to cousin Nikki, you to low average roll on the monarchy dice. places like Sarajevo had not been Austro hungarian. But if you're, These many military staffs that are absolutely sure war is coming in you, you can read, accounts from every major military, the time period, where numbers of their military planners thought war was inevitable, the question is: if it's going to be inevitable, is it better to fight it now than later the, Men's were under the impression that the Russians were on their way to superpower status, which, if you look at what happened in the 20th century, is, exactly how it turned out. Please download one of our supported browsers. On August fifth, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen. War and, to smash into France in the part of France. There is when they try to take these forts. Hardcore History 53 - Blueprint for Armageddon IV. Von Moltke was basically saying knock come out, quick knockouts, that's. The Germans are incredibly trained in terms of having even their reservists on the practice, fire exercises preparing for this day. What's interesting is you could conceivably put the name down of somebody who was historically speaking, you and nobody. Please let us know your thoughts! We will keep fighting for all libraries - stand with us! Again. Two people, in the city of Sarajevo. German army. End quote. Sixteen inch guns. That night is a precursor to what we can expect from him later on and. And now the german fears of encirclement had become a reality. Cookie Notice You know into some sort of hard agreement for what they're gonna do if this war breaks out in five minutes, because they don't have a heart agreement with the British, they sort of have a soft agreement instead, a signed on the dotted line contract. They have to worry. And you can see some of the stuff on video. Presided over Britain during the height of Britain's power when she's controlling most of the world and the sun proverbially never set on the british Empire queen. Easily my favorite series (and the first one I listened too of Dan's as it was coming out). 23Rd. It's four thousand meter trajectory and everyone listened into the telephone report of our battery commander, who had, observation Post, one thousand five hundred meters from the bombardment fort and could watch it close range, the column of smoke, earth and fire that climbed into the heavens key king continues quote, the first of the shells delay fused to explode. What happens if human beings can't handle the power of their own weaponry? Besides the Kennedy assassination is a nobody. 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. This was while you were beginning to see, tiny little glimmer of what the leap in the dark was going to entail. He woke up to one of his aides and the german officer giving him water those, soldiers, he thought were belgian, were german and they were the first to enter the fort. Two of blueprint for Armageddon. a river of steel. An assassination attempt is happening and the secret, just get on the car and they speed away past the grassy knoll past the other assassin who never gets a shot at friends, And no one knows what to do. Machine guns, barbed wire and millions upon millions of artillery shells create industrialized meat grinders at Verdun and the Somme. Listening to the show you just heard, fifteen thousand. Germany throws everything into a last series of stupendous attacks in the West while hoping to avoid getting burned by a fire in the East they helped fan. They're taking on God bless them the Belgians. And then, something that the Austro Hungarians were not prepared for at least, without checking with their main friend on the world stage and finding, You know what they would do in that situation, Now the german empire's attitude is very interesting. Fourteen. There's never been a human experience like it and it changes a generation. it is Napoleon famously said to the austrian diplomat count Metternich, you cannot stop me. German are, at the beginning of the war, has more than eighty of these imagine, trying to control eighty Norman armies and it, not just about getting each division where it needs to go it's about sinking what they do together and when you start, organizing divisions into Coors and Coors and armies, then these armies have to support each other. The Atlantic Slave Trade mixes centuries of human bondage with violence, economics, commerce, geo-political competition, liberty, morality, injustice, revolution, tragedy and bloody reckonings. You know just send him to Russia instead of worrying about France and England at all, in VON Moltke has to stop him and say you do not improvise the, employment of millions. that the British had proven that the German. If there were a Japanese version of Captain America, this would be his origin story. A belgian officer who was there quote, They made no attempt at deploying a belgian officer described it later, came on line after line almost shoulder to shoulder. Growth in industry I mean the Germans were, So they figured the same thing if war going to come, let it come now n, amidst. What happens if, after the charge fails, they send another one, and the same results occur, and then they send another one in the same results occur. because now all of a sudden life was cheap. Belgium is. We have this splendid isolation and the Navy will protect us because, remember folks, look at a map of great Britain, the average, moat around their country and the greatest Navy in the world to protect it. Thirty, nine? 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. it's coming down, unfortunately, for him, or fortunately, the staff that works under him are tough as nails again. This is a proof of concept video for Dan Carlin's Hardcore History Blueprint For Armageddon 1. The interior will be policed, with shotguns and cold steel. pre war, photographs of russian pogroms genuinely were reprinted too in quotes illustrate. End quote. 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. Three of the major powers in this conflict are ruled by emperors, kings or czars. Nobody wants to hear that machine guns just rip guts out. It's a severe society, especially you know the Prussia. One of the most enduring and important is whose fault. Nonetheless always seeking to improve, and hopefully with the update to this, show. Preview. His voice is perfect for this material. That sounds like a lot, yet this show merely scratches the surface of this enormous subject. How do you control that many. Basically, this is life or death. I don't wanna put the people in arms, but when they did, they were able to triple the size of blue shoes Army and he took that army and fought Napoleon with it. The planet hadn't seen a major war between all the Great Powers since the downfall of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815. Auto VON Bismarck, who we mentioned earlier, the 19th century german diplomat, biz, a very large role in the foundation of Modern Germany, but he also, huge role in creating a system of alliances that both expanded germanys possibilities, while at the. It's just a piece of neutrality is often violated in war, that's kind of how they thought. giant historical game of russian roulette a trigger that have been, several times already with nothing. coalesces into an alliance and everybody attacks, France, and they do so with their private, mercenary armies, and they run into the entire french population, a, France started by losing. machines afforded mankind on the battlefield. Looking for what the hold up is and find, not that the general commanding a certain part of the attack is dead, killed by machine gunfire. It's a different game, continue to wear them because they're not strong, fundamentally at the core, sort of an uneven foundation that was really where the strength of the first world. The best history podcast out there, thank you Dan. have to lay cement the cement has to dry. He wasn't trying. End quote, in other words. That's holding the front, that's just a big wide swinging gate. In this one, because so many of the other candidates you might put as your greatest mistake only happened because of this mistake before it the end, Belgium is a disaster for Germany on so many fronts, and that's what we're talking about here originally, had also been on the list of countries to be used as a highway for the german army, but since, time and is the war plans were refined. organize terror groups put together by a bunch of young kids. 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. because the mounds of bodies become places. The pub, firearms of suitable caliber should be turned over to the troops. Episode 53 Blueprint for Armageddon IVNow Available! This whole story unfolds the way it does. Began to twist somewhat, but he went on repeating six or seven times ever more faintly as he gradually lost consciousness. It's not mechanized, like the Second World WAR, everybody's using horses, even, Chiefs of wheat being sized down. 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. But it involving launching, essentially a world war in their, defense. As we said, this is what makes it the greatest mistake, though, potentially in all german history. countries, could actually have fun going to war war or something you just sort of did like pheasant hunting, at least in the minds of some of these guys. That never happens if Britain stays out of the war Britain. This is like, for Europe, and no one knows how long the drop is going to be and they. All these other things little HOLLAND to them looks like they've. Remember, positioning those are troops who picked the, watch that they were in because they're important strategic spots, important passes and river crossings and other things that have been built up with fortifications for years and the, government is so freaked out about possibly being, for starting this and the Germans not being blamed for starting this. They look mean they looked Chauvin, They look like they wanted to take over your country, and then they were building this giant navy now, all of a sudden out of nowhere challenging Britain B, Kaiser had read that same book that Theodore, Roosevelt Red did, anybody do more damage than Alfred Thayer Mahan. I mean, if you were a cavalry commander. artillery and ammunition had been thrown everywhere. and in London, the financial capital of the World, Lloyd, George's hearing from all the bankers and all the investors and all these people that this is a crisis. wants to get more involved in this looming war because of the handshake deal with France. Why? The Germans weren't really afraid of the british Army, that's a small colonial force that by german standards is relatively insignificant, or so they think I mean Bismarck, famously said when an adviser had warned him that if you go to war with Britain, they could use that wonderful naval power to land their entire army on our coastline and big, are famously said. You know. I think the designer of the military plans couch leaf, had figured out, it was about nine hundred nine hundred and fifty hours that they had to. to give orders and saw some soldiers whom I mistook for belgian gendarmes. historians again. Ten million soldiers will slaughter each other and strip your. It was always a huge gamble, very disorienting, you couldn't see anything now, going to change with this war, and it was going to be a facet of 20th century warfare that we may never see repeated again now that night vision has become a battlefield staple there's, no reason to light up the battlefield in, one side has night vision in the other. the industrial revolution was already almost a generation old in one thousand, eight hundred and fourteen and soon it would begin to fill the last remaining gap. It's also my, in that the Germans are being taught a lesson. Their opponent. The Frank, prussian. books. power in the world could have acted differently in the same situation and the same position at her cell. Gray Harding thinks is the most fantastic. The bad guy. This is the era of a very complex web of alliances. that use of camouflage she's ever seen the British, goes on and on about how the minute these german soldiers get one hundred yards from, you can't see him anymore. it's longstanding, as is the national security concern that Britain has had for a very long time of keeping the channel ports in Belgium out of the hands of some dangerous hostile power throughout most of Britain's history that dangerous hostile power was France, but they're calling the Kaiser the new Napoleon and if he goes into Belgium, he's going to have those channel ports. Now now turn the clock back. Once a professional radio host, Carlin eventually took his shows to the web, and he now hosts two critically acclaimed independent podcasts: Dan Carlin is an American podcaster, political commentator and amateur historian. The way those old fashioned movies were in everything and it just doesn't look real, but you can go and you can see pictures, because they have saved the tunic. Subscribe to the show and get this episode free! You know. Not one of them can be crushed so completely in one or two campaigns that he will admit defeat that it will be, hell to conclude peace under hard terms and that it will not come back even if it is a year later to renew the struggle gentleman, it may be a war. All up in that web of alliances will not. with the nation over their border, fermenting revolution in their country and events, killing their public figures I mean. did. Ok, do we shoot through these bodies and create? In Newfoundland and Labrador, July 1st continues to be very conspicuously observed and remembered as Memorial Day. Thanks for sure this whole idea of frightfulness in order to cow, you know the people. That would be the time that the in a metaphorical revolver pointed at the skull of the old world shot a bullet into its brain. He talks about art. With six small forts in between, and they all cover each others fields of fire with their guns.
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