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World War 1. 100 years ago right now

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this is the Kaisers dentists book in e-form.  He wrote it after the war was over. (Davis)

is really easy anecdotal reading, you can just  flip to any page and start reading.

Kaiser Wilhelm spoke great English, (his mother was British), and he talked to his Ohio dentist in English most of the time. Apparently American dentists were considered the best in the world at the time, the US was way ahead of Europe in technology. The Kaiser sounds a little bit like Trump.

 

https://archive.org/stream/kaiserasiknowhim00davi#page/116/mode/2up

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100 years ago, the Red Sox held spring training in Arkansas. with Babe Ruth--

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As the Boston ballplayers climbed the Arkansas hills in early 1918, the Great War raged on in Europe. On January 30, Martin reported in the Globe that Red Sox outfielder Jimmy Walsh enlisted as a machinist’s mate in the Navy. In March, Germany launched the Spring Offensive, their last-gasp thrust against the Western Front. By the time April came around, there were 19 players on the Sox roster. The Red Sox were not immune from the war effort as restrictions were put in place that required draft-age men to enlist or find a job in a war-related industry. The baseball season was shortened to September, and the MLB owners had to finagle their way into an extension for the players competing in the World Series. The national anthem was played for the first time at the World Series that year as the Red Sox beat the Cubs, and the war drew to a close in November.

 

Ruth, who was 23 years old in 1918, spent the winter living in a cabin in a pine tree grove splitting firewood, fishing, and shooting targets with his rifle. In early March, he hopped on a train in Boston with catcher Dan Howley, writers, cartoonists, and photographers. The Boston Globe’s Edward Martin reported from spring training, detailing the trip south and the happenings in Hot Springs. The train picked up a few soldiers on leave from Camp Devens and Ruth passed around his cigars on the way to Albany. Team owner Harry Frazee and more players climbed aboard in Albany, but Sox prospect Henry Libel did not.

https://www.boston.com/sports/boston-red-sox/2018/02/20/what-red-sox-spring-training-was-like-100-years-ago

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7 hours ago, Lobo Amor said:

Bump

This tread deserves to remain on the front page.

thanks.

I read a few history blogs. its simple to copy and paste. You can see that the people 100 years ago are just like us today, and we make the same kinds of  mistakes and mis-judgements that they did.

Only the names, technologies,  and places change.

and Russia is a mess...

MOSCOW+IS+BECOME+A+CITY+OF+DESPAIR%253B+>

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the German newspapers lied about everything to their readers for the entire duration of the war.

 

The Cologne Gazettereports” that New York City is now completely surrounded by 1,000 km of barbed wire fencing and that Hoboken is now empty because all the Germans have been forced out.

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On this day 100 years ago, Germany and the Russian Bolshevik Government signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ending hostilities on the Eastern Front. Previously Germany had resumed the war in the East to put pressure on the Bolsheviks to accept the dictated terms.

In under two weeks, the Germans had taken 63,000 prisoners, 2,600 artillery pieces, and 5,000 machine guns. Bolshevik leaders Lenin and Trotsky had no choice but to tell their delegates to sign whatever was offered,...

 

 

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A wounded English soldier is taken prisoner by two German soldiers in 1917. By the end of the war, the Germans had taken approximately 2.4 million POW’s from thirteen nations. According to an official record, the Germans had captured over 170.000 British soldiers and 4456 British officers by 10 October 1918.

Many of the prisoners would end up in forced labour camps in Germany, where they would contribute to the German war effort. In order to do so, many camps were set up in industrial area’s, such as the Ruhr. By August 1916, 90 % of all prisoners in Germany were employed in these working units.

Many were also employed behind the frontlines. The Germans used POW labour companies on the Western Front for maintaining roads and railways, to build and maintain lines of communication and to load and unload supplies.

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German trucks often didn’t have rubber tires due to the British naval blockade. For things like rubber and other raw materials, the German Empire was very dependent on imports. In 1913, they almost imported 100% of their salpeter, petroleum and rubber. Great Britain had, in contrast, the entire rubber production in Southeast Asia under control.

In 1914, Germany bought rubber on the British markets through neutral countries such as The Netherlands. This stopped in October 1914 when the British forbade this practice. The Germans now only had enough rubber for one more year.

Because of this lack of rubber, German trucks had to drive on iron and wooden tires in the last years of the war, which reduced their usability on muddy terrain and decreased the endurance of their motors. Those tires also made the roads impassable after a while for other troops or horses.

 

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Canadian Highlanders reading letters from Scottish friends upon arrival at their camp, 1914. Many Scottish-Canadians fought in the Great War. There were some Scottish-Canadians battalions that were part of the Canadian Expeditionary Forces, such as the 13th Battalion (Royal Highlanders of Canada), the 16 Battalion (Canadian Scottish) and the 48th Highlanders of Canada.

Many also brought Pipers whom would play the bagpipe at the front lines, during marches and even in battle. They were said to be a boost to morale, but critiques imply that they couldn’t be heard in battle due to the sounds of war.

There are many known cases of pipers joining the troops in Battle, such as James (Jimmy) Cleland Richardson, who played for the 16th Battalion. He had permission to play during the Battle of the Ancre Heights in October 1916. His music was said to encourage the troops that much so that they were able to capture a heavily defended position.

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Howard Heinz, the federal food administrator for Pennsylvania and I’m pretty sure one of the baked beans Heinzes, says “We will not be a strictly free people until 10,000 German propagandists in this state have been hanged to telegraph poles and shot full of holes.”

He blames rumors spread by German agents for food conservation not being more effective.

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11 minutes ago, Lester_in_reno said:

Howard Heinz, the federal food administrator for Pennsylvania and I’m pretty sure one of the baked beans Heinzes, says “We will not be a strictly free people until 10,000 German propagandists in this state have been hanged to telegraph poles and shot full of holes.”

He blames rumors spread by German agents for food conservation not being more effective.

And people think the rhetoric now is worse than it’s ever been.

We’re all sitting in the dugout. Thinking we should pitch. How you gonna throw a shutout when all you do is bitch.

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cool 11 and a half minute synopsis about Vlad Lenin And Leon Trotsky.

They both were from comfortable families, and both were higher educated.

They actually thought Germany would be the most likely place for a Communist revolution. As this video shows, they made up their Russian revolution as they went along.

 

 

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you cannot make this stuff up!

 

President Woodrow Wilson orders the removal from the manual for medical advisory boards implementing the draft of these words: “The foreign born, and especially Jews, are more apt to malinger than the native born.” The sentence was included by “inadvertence.”

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Probably already mentioned here...

But if not I highly recommend Dan Carlin's Hardcore History Podcast to any interested in WW1 and other major historical events. His 5 or 6 part WW1 series is amazing. 

 

 

 

 

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