Farms: Starving For Total War - Turnip Winter 1916 I THE GREAT WAR Special
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While 1916 still looked good for the Central Powers militarily, the civilian population at home, especially in the cities, was starving to death. The British Naval Blockade, harvest failure, a desolate supply situation and the demands of the army created a situation in which the people were forced to eat turnips, a crop usually reserved for farm animals. » HOW CAN I SUPPORT YOUR CHANNEL? You can support us by sharing our videos with your friends and spreading the word about our work.You can also support us financially on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thegreatwar You can also buy our merchandise in our online shop: http://shop.spreadshirt.de/thegreatwar/ Patreon is a platform for creators like us, that enables us to get monthly financial support from the community in exchange for cool perks. » WHERE CAN I GET MORE INFORMATION ABOUT WORLD WAR I AND WHERE ELSE CAN I FIND YOU? We’re offering background knowledge, news, a glimpse behind the scenes and much more on: reddit: http://bit.ly/TheGreatSubReddit Facebook: http://bit.ly/WW1FB Twitter: http://bit.ly/WW1Series Instagram: http://bit.ly/ZpMYPL » CAN I EMBED YOUR VIDEOS ON MY WEBSITE? Of course, you can embed our videos on your website. We are happy if you show our channel to your friends, fellow students, classmates, professors, teachers or neighbours. Or just share our videos on Facebook, Twitter, Reddit etc. We are also happy to get your feedback, criticism or ideas in the comments. If you have interesting historical questions, just post them and we will answer in our OUT OF THE TRENCHES videos. You can find a selection of answers to the most frequently asked questions here: http://bit.ly/OOtrenches » CAN I SHOW YOUR VIDEOS IN CLASS? Of course! Tell your teachers or professors about our channel and our videos. We’re happy if we can contribute with our videos. If you are a teacher and have questions about our show, you can get in contact with us on one of our social media presences. » WHAT ARE YOUR SOURCES? Videos: British Pathé Pictures: Mostly Picture Alliance Background Map: http://d-maps.com/carte.php?num_car=6030&lang=en Literature (excerpt): Gilbert, Martin. The First World War. A Complete History, Holt Paperbacks, 2004. Hart, Peter. The Great War. A Combat History of the First World War, Oxford University Press, 2013. Hart, Peter. The Great War. 1914-1918, Profile Books, 2013. Stone, Norman. World War One. A Short History, Penguin, 2008. Keegan, John. The First World War, Vintage, 2000. Hastings, Max. Catastrophe 1914. Europe Goes To War, Knopf, 2013. Hirschfeld, Gerhard. Enzyklopädie Erster Weltkrieg, Schöningh Paderborn, 2004 Michalka, Wolfgang. Der Erste Weltkrieg. Wirkung, Wahrnehmung, Analyse, Seehamer Verlag GmbH, 2000 Leonhard, Jörn. Die Büchse der Pandora: Geschichte des Ersten Weltkrieges, C.H. Beck, 2014 If you want to buy some of the books we use or recommend during our show, check out our Amazon Store: http://bit.ly/AmazonTGW NOTE: This store uses affiliate links which grant us a commission if you buy a product there. » WHAT IS “THE GREAT WAR” PROJECT? THE GREAT WAR covers the events exactly 100 years ago: The story of World War I in realtime. Featuring: The unique archive material of British Pathé. Indy Neidell takes you on a journey into the past to show you what really happened and how it all could spiral into more than four years of dire war. Subscribe to our channel and don’t miss our new episodes every Thursday. » WHO IS REPLYING TO MY COMMENTS? AND WHO IS BEHIND THIS PROJECT? Most of the comments are written by our social media manager Florian. He is posting links, facts and backstage material on our social media channels. But from time to time, Indy reads and answers comments with his personal account, too. The Team responsible for THE GREAT WAR is even bigger: - CREDITS - Presented by : Indiana Neidell Written by: Indiana Neidell Director: Toni Steller & Florian Wittig Director of Photography: Toni Steller Sound: Toni Steller Mixing, Mastering & Sound Design: www.above-zero.com Editing: Julian Zahn Motion Design: Philipp Appelt Research by: Indiana Neidell Fact checking: Markus Linke The Great War Theme composed by Karim Theilgaard: http://bit.ly/karimyt A Mediakraft Networks Original Channel Based on a concept by Spartacus Olsson Author: Indiana Neidell Visual Concept: Astrid Deinhard-Olsson & David van Stephold Executive Producer: Spartacus Olsson Producer: Toni Steller & Florian Wittig Social Media Manager: Florian Wittig Contains licenced Material by British Pathé All rights reserved - © Mediakraft Networks GmbH, 2016
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starving for Total War? They really do love strategy games.
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Question for Out of the Trenches: Was there any real fear for a German invasion of the British Isles? If not, why? If so, what did the British government do it dissuade the public from acting on this fear?
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"The granaries are empty!"
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Would be great to get some examples of typical Great War turnip diet recepies, like you did with he Maconochi Stew in November two years ago. I believe many followers could benefit from it now after the holidays...
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Am I the only one who saw "Trump Winter" in the title?
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Yeah, it was pretty stupid for Germany and Austria to even start a war when they had to import so much foodstuff.
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This episode is probably one that I was most looking forward to. First it shows that there is no black and white or good and bad in war, there are only necessities. And this is where the end of the war begins. Unrestricted submarine warfare, will it succeed before it draws in the Americans?
And a spoiler alert. Those men arrested in the food and antiwar riots over the next two years will be conscripted into the army and sent to the front to replace those lost in the Kaiser's offensive.
One last note on the war on civilians. A quote from General Curtis Lemay and the fire bombing of Japanese cities. "We better hope that we win this war, or we'll all be tried as war criminals."
In 2017; May we all be safe. May we all have enough food in our bellies, may we have shoes for our feet, and a place that we can call home. -
A better option to the unrestricted sub war would have been to go back to the pre 1914 borders and get out of the war !!
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My great grandfather was a US "Dough-boy" in WWI and was in the Battle of the Argonne. My Uncles and Grandmother (His Daughter) spent the evening of XMas looking at pictures of him during and after the war that they have saved on ancestry.com.
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look for the bare necessities, the simple bare necessities...
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Interesting and, at the same time, sad video. Thanks.
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Delicious turnips, I think. Watched this video so many times it's all I can remember.
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I've been watching this series since 2015, when I caught up, I watched them from the 2014 to present day, now I've watched them all. It is mind-blowing. Every single nation went for a war that they thought would end in a month or so. Then it dragged on and on and on and on.
For more than one and a half year for now, the armies have been in a breaking point, only to be saved by last minute. Great attack that could finally end the blooly meatgrinder of the war is miraculously stopped. Unexpected surprise attack that could stop the war and famine flanks the enemy, only to be halted by inpassable terrain or weather. Every single time this inhuman and un-understandable mass-massacre finds an excuse to continue.
First I watched these videos in understanding of what the generals and marshals did; They had every reason to take their actions under the knowledge and recon they had. Then a staggering amount of casualties. Then an even more staggering amount of casualties. First it was literally shocking, after a time, it became something you could no longer comprehend. 40 000 casualties A DAY and it was considered a minor amount of casualties. The current wars during 5 years span barely produce 10% of that during the whole multi-year duration.
Every single person affected by this war 100 years ago now is now dying. The lucky ones are the ones who get a bullet in the forehead, be it for being shot by the enemy (who would most likely later suffer the same fate) or the execution squad (for trying to get out of this madness). The unlucky ones are the ones who are first permanently crippled and shellshocked, left to beg for the remainer of their life on winter streets of dying capitals, finally given their final resting place either by freezing, starving or beaten to death by thugs who wanted their boots.
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I wonder how much poor nutrition contribute to the flu epidemic?
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what about situation in Italy?
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5 years ago, Norway did run out of butter. #NeverForget https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_butter_crisis
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My grandparents, born in 1910, 1911, 1912 and 1914 respectively, grew up on stories of starving children in Europe.
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great episode. well done!
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I was distracted by the 'War on Christmas: Santa vs. Mongol Horde, Total War: Santa Invasion Mod Gameplay' video.
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turnip christmas? somewhere there is an exceptionally smelly tommy named baldrick who is as happy as a person who has a very special reason to be happy.