German, hire that will be blamed for everything. two one thousand nine hundred and fourteen style technology were automobiles, aren't even very old. begin. I've always thought, for example, that, somewhat random, that millions of people going about their lives in their own ways with trend, forces, acting upon them and people in important positions, making decisions and all this together creates a dynamic. It is guaranteed by the greatest powers of the age. if you imagine it magnified thousands of times. Who would have thought that the time that principled it? It's a severe society, especially you know the Prussia. The french, Calvary heading off to war, as I said earlier, but you have to imagine 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. The frame, Foreign minister will sit down and discuss. 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. Need help? you could have used a historical xerox machine to duplicate that world conquering army, ten. Nothing could have arrested it because something had been arresting. . I have to be assembled and put together then, when they, fire. I mean that's Cray. Well, I mean at one point in the story: the Kaiser will ask one of his military leaders to do something that is ridiculous. If we were ranking groups from nineteen fourteen would probably call terrorist groups like, called the black hand, and these groups had ties sometimes to the serbian intelligence service. They lost it in. Will consider Gavrilo Princip a heroic figure. Bosnia, Herzegovina and. 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. We have an advantage now we won't have later in the friend, felt. If nothing else thank you Dan and Ben for making this immense part of modern history so accessible to the public. The Germans attack four of these belgian forts now, between the forts, the Belgians quickly put some infantry and there are a couple of machine guns around and whatnot in the Germans. Need help? Also, it's a political reasons. But 99 years later the dam breaks and a Pandora's Box of violence engulfs the planet. comment. giant historical game of russian roulette a trigger that have been, several times already with nothing. You know a champion like Muhammad Ali or MIKE Tyson, fighting a person, something like the wars between the United States and Spain or, Cuba and the Philippines, which is a rising soon to be first class power against a declining soon to be third class power, or these. End quote, he then goes on to describe the uniforms, which are pretty much, same color. They don't fire flat, something they fire way up in the air, and then it drops right on top of these fords. That means you get yet another in the same ruler in your dynasty's made for fun. If France falls, you get the situation you had in the Second World WAR in, Forty were all of a sudden. When does it get too real? down rebellions by their population. The, eight shells made no impression on the forts and the belgian guns poured a hail of fire on the german troops. The only problem with modern staying power is, killing, can go on longer. Stream 50-Blueprint-for-Armageddon-I-Hardcore-History-Dan-Carlin.mp3 by User 262838654 on desktop and mobile. Nonetheless always seeking to improve, and hopefully with the update to this, show. And blood has always been one of those things where, when, see it in living. Responsible for all the terrible events that might happen. Together they will shift the momentum in the Pacific theater and usher in the era of modern naval and amphibious warfare. Where are those people right now, when the Belgians need them all they see or the german army marching through and burning things and perhaps shooting people? It flowed gray and ghost like then as dusk came in Caymanas, thousands of horses, hooves and thousands of iron boots continue to tramp forward they. web pages suppose polls were the decision makers in this conflict into the future. Jeff Teach wrote after the fact quote, A tiny clipping from a newspaper mailed without comment from a secret band of terrorists in Zagreb, a cap. The Russians were dealing with it in Central Asia. There are fantastically technologically sophisticated forts all through this one hundred and twenty mile border between Germany and France, with interlocking fields of fire, Did the Germans can't defeat that they did in eighteen? Their opponent. and supported by a modern 20th century state. Buy from Apple Music. When you start putting, It doesn't matter that they're practically incompetent that their lives are wasted, that they're turned into cannon fodder as Napoleon who will inherit this. 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. He'd been planning this battle. Track your ranks and reviews from Spotify, Apple Podcasts and more. He was one of these logical insanity, guys somebody asked him once you know what, the most humane way to carry out war is, and he, brutal, as you want make it quick. Can suicidal bravery and fanatical determination make up for material, industrial and numerical insufficiency? End quote. It's not mechanized, like the Second World WAR, everybody's using horses, even, Chiefs of wheat being sized down. Dan Carlin's Hardcore History. That's the only thing they care about cuts and it doesn't work to have banned, offense is well, the French would say yes well, it doesn't work, for the French and that's why we have a great military. Basically,. During this time period it might, International incidents which could have led to war previously didn't, but now are because the leadership sucks. That the, You can see in living? or point with them, and I could tell when I listen to it during editing, I'm just going on. Stream 50-Blueprint-for-Armageddon-I-Hardcore-History-Dan-Carlin (1).mp3 by Raymie Roberts on desktop and mobile. The planet hadn't seen a major war between all the Great Powers since the downfall of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815. you have an instant great power on the world stage. And mechanization that can be brought to bear, stating when used against tribal peoples and nations, that, things going to show what a tiny little army of chocolate soldiers is, what the Germans thought they were going to face, a tiny little armia chocolate soldiers can do to the greatest army in the world because of the deadly, the interesting sort of sub themes of this whole upcoming conflict is how long it takes some, old, to absorb the lessons that are being taught in this conflict. The United Nations set free from austrian domination and quote. Machine guns, barbed wire and millions upon millions of artillery shells create industrialized meat grinders at Verdun and the Somme. What we had done was unthinkable. German uniforms are feldgrau, I guess is the proper way to, outside, but basically it's just a gray, but, this time period, most nations had only relatively recently gone away from gaudy colorful clothing. If you dont think the Battle of Jutland was a big deal, imagine if the British had decisively lost it. can generals in this whole period. The Frank, prussian. The belgian defense is that the. 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. Seven hundred and ten of the casualties belonged to the Newfoundland Regiment (68 answered roll call that morning). Easily my favorite series (and the first one I listened too of Dan's as it was coming out). wants to get more involved in this looming war because of the handshake deal with France. We use cookies to enhance your experience, analyze site traffic, and serve tailored ads. Although the Entente press wildly exaggerated what went on in Belgium, there is no question that the german army did commit atrocities there in one thousand, nine hundred and fourteen, according to evidence from the diaries of german soldiers, another reliable sources. The great powers fought each other in Europe hundred years before. place that auto VON Bismarck, it famously said, was not worth the bones of a single pomeranian grenadier. Under a single king they created the greatest empire the world had ever seen. 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. Now on August. Now think about that. The second one did most of the time too. I thought she did a very balanced job, and so did Neil Ferguson Ferguson. The wonderful world of science and engineering is going to, Take over the battlefields of this upcoming conflict in a way that has never happened before and this, happened to me most symbolizes in this early part of the war, you know your example of here's. There, Davis is one of those guys he's an American. 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. I mean it just seemed like the world was arming itself, It was just going to explode and it was these militarists who are responsible and people who look at, Nazi Germany and who are, I know, people who are enthralled by the Verm Oct and the precision marching in the uniforms in this whole sort of, militaristic, fascist attitude that the Nazis portrayed, and I was trying to tell them that the Nazis didn't invent this, that the, regular german Marshall attitudes. So he says, one way or another. It happens since Napoleon since Waterloo. From Germany's point of view, the first thing. You shoot a few of these people that snipe at your troops and then they stopped doing it. It issued do it in injustice, no. Croatia to their comrades in Belgrade was the torch which set the world afire with war in nineteen. People signed papers and ok the next day as of tomorrow. was coming on the anniversary of this historic defeat, their nose in the fact that Sarajevo is still held by a big non slavic empire and they're going to make France Ferdinand pay for that, And in the remarkably similar situation to the Kennedy assassination, for his motorcade is published ahead of time, going to be arriving and going down the main boulevards in an open car with his wife, multiple assassins line themselves up at very, intervals along the parade route and plan to kill the, too many other Serbs in the crowd nearby, the first few assassins, so the first few assassins don't try to make a run at him, eventually. with the military affairs at this time. 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. All these powers in Europe Attack France at the same time and you're stuck with I mean, like, a bit of your army leftover, the artillery stayed with the people, so the old french artillery was good, but you've got this mishmash of an army with officers. second chance to go after their target, and we sometimes for, because it's such a monumental historical moment that this is, terrorist attack, and it was quite upsetting, to your witness or live through part of what, x. All these Germans, marching on France, great train troops, who've, never been in combat, except against Belgians they're, going to run into a british colonial force. Machine guns, barbed wire and millions upon millions of artillery shells create industrialized meat grinders at Verdun and the Somme. and stay out of the work as they don't have a heart alliance with anyone. The german army moved into the city a smoothly and as compactly as of the empire state Express, there were no holds no open places, no stragglers. Belgium wasn't that, but it was some. decided to go to Sarajevo and watch military maneuvers, which happened to Cohen. These are essentially naval guns in size. already would have defeated France. Didn't have that power for all. Famine, epidemics, general barbarism. With the anniversary of the most emotionally important heart wrenching. 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. It's a function of modern civilization. He even says you can't quite you, Passions in the feelings, you know totally screwing up your impression thing things, but he does talk about how weird the mood was, because all this was happening so fast, and he was talking about the british public cuz, that's where he lived and how, There was almost this disconnect between the fact that the entire world has changed, but it's happening so, last, we haven't changed with it yet, and he writes quote all, Europe still remembers the strange atmosphere of those eventful sunny August days. John F Kennedy assassination, for example, And imagine that, in addition to Lee Harvey Oswald up at the Texas School Book Depository, you have a, another assassin on the grassy knoll is has sometimes been suggested and that, in this JFK assassination attempt. German army. You eight, there's an ages ago. You'll have rail guns that are that large to same problem, though, how do you get him from place to place they're, so big they're, so heavy the larger? 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. Atrocities tend to happen. Paranoid about being encircled, they were being encircled. Parliament to legislate, of Britain has the power then like they have the power now, but that. A price was on our heads today. have the maximum gun, in fact, much more deadly modern versions of the maxim gun that we call machine guns today, no one had ever seen a war where both sides had machine guns. He means London, which is in a terrible state of depression, and paralysis, is for the time being, all against english intervention. virtual during his life had famously said. I wish I. Yeah with every program, although, as has been pointed out to me, I'd still be working on, show number one to get it quite right for you, folks, if they would. Crossland getting them to where you need them to go. Who's already got an inferiority complex. He stops the, print ship is on that street corner, where the motorcade, Car takes a wrong turn and then stops while backing up when he sees his, within an hour before mere feet from him immobile, and slightly below him in an open car and. tions were ready for this and okay with it. The first thing, to keep reminding myself about the german empire during this era. between seeing blood in black and white and blood and colors. They took three steps at times. Lee Harvey Oswald on the pages of the hill. The Americans are coming, but will the war be over by the time they get there? The largest of the guns that are on the way from Berlin to Belgium, The largest of them weighs three hundred thousand pounds. That's going to smash on top of the head of France. 1.0x. The invasion of Belgium does too terrible things. While an odds-maker in Las Vegas would certainly have the British Navy the heavy favorite to defeat their German counterparts in a general fleet battle, the Germans were still perhaps the second most dangerous navy in the world. You know always, and the diff. 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. the crowned heads of Europe, felt about the french Revolution and how destabilizing it was seen. So maybe a little extra protection turn, out, though, that the driver in one of his you know little screw. to the grassy knoll, where it proceeds to stall and stop. It was going to, things to conquer the Serbians before the Russians. Dan Carlin's Hardcore History Podcast reading list - Blueprint for Armageddon by jaydekens - a community-created list : Reading lists supplied . One thing was for sure: the Army for Germany, that is about to enter Belgium. he rose through the ranks. WARNING Very intense subject matter. two people and he did so in a way that almost makes you believe in fate. Great job, Dan! In such a way that the crown's role in the gutter by the dozens and there will be nobody to pick them up, absolute impossibility- differ see how all this will end and who will be the victors in that struggle. smash the potential of France, you didn't have to be mopped up, but she had to be smashed within nine hundred and fifty or so hours. I just set a confederate, Moseley, allegedly legendarily, said by a guy named Nathan, Bedford, Forrest and, controversial figure even today, but that's not unusual among confederate generals and it's not, first is maybe in a class by himself, but he's not, controversy when it comes to acknowledging his military genius he's one of the best. Was to move it fixed times according to a schedule precise down to the number of train axles that would pass over a given bridge within a given time. Are you really going to work with them on the third? You have a very short window of opportunity to avoid the inevitable and that's where Europe finds itself after the, Everybody's worried about the same thing too. What was going on was behind the scenes, a ton of diplomacy, and one of the main avenues of diplomacy, were the fray. for your country. the same time issues this ultimatum to the Belgians saying: listen, we just need to use your country to get to France. Track your ranks and reviews from Spotify, Apple Podcasts and more. Buy from Apple Music. A tiny little neutral nation, that's less than a hundred years old and has never fought a war. force at this kind of level and potency hasn't been on display in anyone's living memory, You're getting a view of a nation at war. A war without mercy begins to develop infusing the whole conflict with a savage vibe. 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. Which is protected by this circle of forthright, with man in between all the forts. 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. But 99 years later the dam breaks and a Pandora's Box of violence engulfs . So you can believe the historian with the investigator. Ive been comparing this period to an historical estuary, where one generation and another generation sort of minglethe Old World and the New World. Machine guns, barbed wire and millions upon millions of artillery shells create industrialized meat grinders at Verdun and the Somme. You know, again to get to the boxing character Richard. What are the odds of that kind of kooky Han history can be. Some of these countries are saddled with people, leadership is such an interesting side of this conflict because, I firmly believe, have you had a guy of Auto VON Bismarck's caliber in his, authority in Germany when the first World WAR is on the verge of happening that they could put the pan. Together about five thousand five hundred belgian civilians were deliberately killed by the german army. Rated out of 5 based on 15 customer ratings. At the same time and, german general staff had figured out a way to not just survive that situation, but to win, further constrained the amount of negotiation room you had before the grenade went off, The timing involved, taking advantage of the fact that everyone thought the Russians were going to take forever to mobilize the, ins were seen as a giant somewhat clumsy colossus, less organized than the Germans and the french and people like that, and so. Chal, of the old states in their traditional wisdom. The first experiment in this hypothesis of, being the violence out of societies is on the way. in the minds of the Europeans of this era. Published 03/07/22. You know a president. Responsibility wise there are, writing after the war, is a perfect example. in a line of german advance during this time period was a very day. Wealth had never been grander, and Europe. Across you know mountainsides and country lanes and through fields and pastures, and sometimes they do but most, this is the same way. well is fired in a four thousand foot arc. They they had more staying power. They're, going to wear red, pants and blue jackets, and, I carry sabers in their calvary's, going to have breast plates and horse hair helmets. 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. What's bearing down on the small british forces landed on the continent, and this french force who. They then shift, to another fort, which surrenders five hours later one. time preserving a general peace in Europe. It's also my, in that the Germans are being taught a lesson. 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. Subscribe to the show and get this episode free! I told you earlier one of the key issues, because this war so important to the rest of the 20th century in 21st century history is whose fault at all is, and the British are very concerned during this time period that they be. When he decides to write a book on naval history, Kaiser like Roosevelt Reddit, was enthralled with it made all as you apples read it and then decided he was going to build this fleet to compete with Britain so that they, you know, wouldn't, Now, of course, all the governments in Europe that matter, keys and autocratic governments. I don't think the Germans have recovered from that image. He said that the, government was terrable to a degree just for a word neutrality, a word which in wartime it so often been disregarded just for a scrap of paper, Britain was going to make war on a kindred nation who desired nothing better than to be friends with her all, efforts in that direction had been rendered useless by this last terrible step, as I knew he had devoted himself since is a session to office had tumbled down like a house of cards. I, so it was in placed the bombardment, began. So you know what for a, Can reach with their guns for Tbi can reach with there's two, so they overlap so there's never a place in the. With the prussian king, country begins to demand some of the perks that the other great powers have. 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. that none of the major european powers seem to be. mark, because Bismarcks kind of talking down to him in this kind of running the show and he's an old guy by then and he's much revered. It sounds vaguely like other, recent European colonial conquestsuntil the natives nearly win. Two of blueprint for Armageddon. hundreds of years before this time period. The Germans have a. Many of them could dish it out it. We shall, The Germans are given the famous ultimatum, and it's, to expire at midnight on August. Ferguson is forced to deal with the reality of the situation that this. The Russians are in Berlin, So there's only one thing that Germans can see their way to doing as part of this plan to win the two front.
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