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World War 1. 100 years ago right now

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(it wont be long until he's the ex-Crown Prince)

 

Germans citizens  complain that at a time when railroad cars can’t be found to transport food, the crown prince got a special train to bring opera singers from Munich to his headquarters. Two newspapers have been suppressed for mentioning this.

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In a reply to Pope Benedict’s peace proposals, Germany offers to de-occupy Belgium on condition that German businesses can operate there and that Belgium is divided administratively into Flanders and Walloon. Letting Belgium go doesn’t seem to be conditional on Germany getting its colonies back, which had been mentioned in various trial balloons leaked over the last few weeks.

Former British Prime Minister Asquith denounces the offer as “teeming with nebulous and unctuous generalities.” Nebulous and unctuous generalities are the worst kind.

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a BIG Mutta--fing gun!

 

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A German soldier rubbing down a large shell for the 38cm SK L/45, otherwise known as 'Langer Max'. These long-range guns were originally intended to be naval guns, but it were instead used on land when it became clear to the Germans that they would be more useful there. At first the guns were used in fixed positions, but it took months to prepare the concrete emplacements. So instead the Langer Max was mounted to armoured rail cars, which vastly improved mobility. From rails the 38cm SK L/45 had an effective firing range of 22,200 metres. One of these guns, Batterie Pommern, was captured by the Belgians in Koekelare and still remains in the town's Lange Max Museum.

 

 

 

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those crazy Turks!

Soldiers from the Ottoman Empire with a German 105 mm light field howitzer M98/09, 1917. Throughout much of the war, the Ottomans relied on the German Empire for arms, and typically used German-designed and manufactured 75-mm and 77-mm field guns, grouped in four-gun batteries. The gun pictured below had a maximum range of 6,300 metres.

The Ottomans didn’t only rely on Germany for their guns, however. A detachment of the German army known as the ‘Asien-Korps’ (Asia Corps) was sent to assist the Turks in the form of two expeditions: Pasha I and Pasha II. These expeditions included a range of units, such as infantry battalions, machine gun companies and flying detachments.

German assistance in the Ottoman Army began long before WW1 though. In 1883 a German military mission, led by General Baron Colmar von der Goltz, arrived to train the Ottoman troops, giving rise to the phrase ‘Goltz generation’, which referred to the German-trained Ottoman officers who played an important role in the politics of the Empire in its waning years.

 

 

 

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" 101 years ago today, on 7th October 1916, German submarine U-53 arrived off Newport, Rhode Island to deliver a letter to the German Ambassador. The following day, just outside the three-mile territorial limit, and therefore in international waters, the submarine sank six commercial ships of British, French and Danish origin. "

 

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A German postcard commemorating Bulgaria’s entry into WWI. Bulgaria entered the war on 5th October 1915, 102 years ago today, following the Allies’ refusal to give an offer that met their demands, namely the ceding of certain Serbian and Greek lands to Bulgaria.

Though comparatively smaller than Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria’s entry into the war proved vital for the Central Powers. It meant that Serbia would now have to fight a war on two fronts, and geographically speaking, Bulgaria was perfectly placed to assist in the continuation of the Ottoman war effort.

An estimated 87,500 Bulgarian soldiers died and 152,390 were wounded in WWI, with a further 100,000 civilians dying as a direct result of the conflict.

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  -- in 1916, Prussian War Minister Adolf Wild von Hohenborn initiated the Judenzählung, which roughly translated to ‘Jew Count.’ This was a census of Jewish soldiers serving in the German Army, intended to confirm the unfounded accusations by prominent anti-semites in Germany that Jewish soldiers were deliberately evading front-line military service. The census was aimed to ascertain the number of Jews who were serving behind the front, despite being ‘fit’ for frontline service, as well as how many Jews had been killed in action and how many had been awarded medals for bravery. The anti-semitic circles in the army and the Reichstag at the time claimed that Jews were physically weaker, less patriotic and generally unwilling sacrifice themselves for the good of the Fatherland.

The census failed to confirm any of these allegations to be true, and no evidence Jewish wrongdoing was uncovered. However, the War Ministry opted to keep the census results classified, meaning that despite these anti-semitic claims being effectively disproven, the public were not informed. This perceived treachery on behalf of the German Jews was utilised by the rising anti-semitic movements in the years after the war.

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" During the First World War, over three million tons of food was sent to the British troops in France and Belgium. Propaganda photos such as this one were used to reassure the people back home that the British soldiers were being well fed, and even went as far as to claim that each soldier enjoyed two hot meals a day. This was not true however, and the claim caused an outcry amongst the troops. In reality, the men would have had to subsist on a diet of bully beef, rock-hard biscuits, stale bread and, of course, tea.

Whilst the rations were criticized regularly by the troops, the fact that each of the two million men in the trenches at the height of WWI actually ate, and that none of the soldiers starved to death during the conflict, is a notable achievement.
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An Austro-Hungarian Panzerzug I in Galicia, ca. 1915. The concept of an armoured train dates back to the American Civil War, but they were more widely used and were of better quality in WWI. The Panzerzug I was developed in 1914, and produced during the first two years of the war by Hungarian railway company Magyar Allamvastag (MAV), using one of their own locomotives for the drive. The trains also included a gun car and several infantry cars.

However, the following model (Panzerzug II) was produced in greater numbers during 1916, with 10 models seeing service on the Russian, Italian and Romanian fronts. The typical arrangement for the Panzerzug II was three cars: gun car at the front, locomotive in the middle, infantry machine gun car at the back.

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