Official World War I Thread: 100th Anniversary

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Why is thekingsmen double posting everything?

 

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If you like to read, "All Quiet on the Western Front" is a must. It's a novel written from the German perspective. Only 300 pages

“We're no longer young men. We've lost any desire to conquer the world. We are refugees. We are fleeing from ourselves. From our lives. We were eighteen years old, and we had just begun to love the world and to love being in it; but we had to shoot at it. The first shell to land went straight for our hearts. We've been cut off from real action, from getting on, from progress. We don't believe in those things any more; we believe in the war.”

 

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The Christmas Truce:

The Christmas truce was a series of widespread, unofficial ceasefires that took place along the Western Front around Christmas 1914, during World War I. Through the week leading up to Christmas, parties of German and British soldiers began to exchange seasonal greetings and songs between their trenches; on occasion, the tension was reduced to the point that individuals would walk across to talk to their opposite numbers bearing gifts. On Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, many soldiers from both sides—as well as, to a lesser degree, from French units—independently ventured into "no man's land", where they mingled, exchanging food and souvenirs. As well as joint burial ceremonies, several meetings ended in carol-singing. Troops from both sides were also friendly enough to play games of football with one another.

 

[tru_m.a.c]

The Christmas Truce:

That's so wild. The balls on the first guy to leave the trench with a gift in hand. He HAD to have shyt himself about 3,4 times.

That man needs a statue whoever he is.

 

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That's so wild. The balls on the first guy to leave the trench with a gift in hand. He HAD to have shyt himself about 3,4 times.

That man needs a statue whoever he is.

Shows the best and worst in humanity.

One day enemies killing one another , the next day just people who want to be happy and enjoy one another in friendship.

Very tragic.

 

[thekingsmen]

Why is thekingsmen double posting everything?

Sorry homie, the coli isn't responding to my computer very well.

 

[thekingsmen]

@Mephistopheles if you are going to be a child then stay in a child's place when grown folks is talking. Removing 10 points because your reason was 'Stfu koonsmen" is the reason why you can never debate me in anything. You scared of me homie. Be a good little kid and stay away from grown man discussions.

 

[Shogun]

It's pretty widely accepted that traditional European imperialism didn't begin to decline until after WW2. One of the many failures of Wilson's 14 Points was the victorious powers' willingness to grant national self-determination only to the peoples of the defeated powers, but not their own. Since the defeated powers only had European empires all it did was create a series of "successor states" in central Europe that soon became food for Hitler/Stalin.

A series of factors after WW2 pushed Europe to decolonize, but its was really just replaced by American or Soviet subversive imperialism.

Also, to say that the assasination caused WW1 is a simplification, but it is the most direct cause.

 

[tru_m.a.c]

And today is officially THE day

 

[tru_m.a.c]

Austria-Hungary's Declaration of War with Serbia, 28 July 1914
The following telegram sent by Count Leopold von Berchtold (Austro-Hungarian Foreign Minister) at 11.10 am to M. N. Pashytch (Serbian Prime Minister and Foreign Minister), who received it at 12.30 pm
Sent by telegram (the first such declaration of war)

Vienna
28 July 1914

The Royal Serbian Government not having answered in a satisfactory manner the note of July 23, 1914, presented by the Austro-Hungarian Minister at Belgrade, the Imperial and Royal Government are themselves compelled to see to the safeguarding of their rights and interests, and, with this object, to have recourse to force of arms.

Austria-Hungary consequently considers herself henceforward in state of war with Serbia.

 

[mbewane]

Austria-Hungary's Declaration of War with Serbia, 28 July 1914
The following telegram sent by Count Leopold von Berchtold (Austro-Hungarian Foreign Minister) at 11.10 am to M. N. Pashytch (Serbian Prime Minister and Foreign Minister), who received it at 12.30 pm
Sent by telegram (the first such declaration of war)

Vienna
28 July 1914

The Royal Serbian Government not having answered in a satisfactory manner the note of July 23, 1914, presented by the Austro-Hungarian Minister at Belgrade, the Imperial and Royal Government are themselves compelled to see to the safeguarding of their rights and interests, and, with this object, to have recourse to force of arms.

Austria-Hungary consequently considers herself henceforward in state of war with Serbia.

I knew that french was the language of diplomacy back then, but this is the first time I see an actual official letter between two countries, neither of which is/was french-speaking