Post WW1 pics

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German troops man a machine gun at the Vistula River during World War I.

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>>2417176

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>>2417181
the man the myth the legend

manfred von richtofen

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>>2417185
british medical staff officers

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>>2417194
takin a shit, resuming dump in a few

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Reckoning on a kill-ratio of five French poilus (bearded soldiers) for every two Germans, Von Falkenhayn promised to ‘drain France’s life-blood’ and win the war.
A similar numbers game was applied to the weapons he deployed.
More than 1,200 big guns — some with barrels 50ft long — were dragged to the front by horses, set up along a wooded escarpment and aimed at every inch of the French lines.

At 4am on February 21, under a full moon, the first shots were fired by three massive guns, hitting Verdun itself and destroying the railway station.
The rest then joined in, targeting the seven-mile French front line of trenches and fortifications with what one of those on the receiving end described as ‘a gale of flame’.
Shells came crashing out of the fog of smoke and dust, a French officer recorded, ‘and we have to abandon our shelter and go to ground in a deep crater. We are surrounded by wounded and dying men whom we are totally unable to help’.

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>>2417211
After nine hours, the barrage ceased and German assault troops rose from their trenches and moved forward across the shattered ground, some armed with a new weapon of horror, the flame-thrower, making its battlefield debut. French trenches burned, with men inside them.
In that first onslaught, the French line was pushed back a mile. Over the next three days, they would be forced to retreat a further three miles. Losses were dreadful.

it might have made sense for the French to concede Verdun at this point, to pull back their depleted but still relatively intact army and regroup in the Forest of Argonne closer to Paris.
But, as Von Falkenhayn had predicted, French pride got the better of military sense.

Reinforcements were piled in — more grist to Von Falkenhayn’s mill. The deadly pattern was set that would prolong this battle from five days to more than 300 and increase the toll of casualties 14-fold.
However, the Germans were beginning to feel the pinch of their rapid advance. The fighting had been so fierce that they had lost as many men as the French — roughly 25,000 apiece at this point — and were losing momentum.
By getting ahead of themselves, they were also losing the protection of their biggest guns, left static at the rear and unable to be moved forward because the ground had been torn up. French counter-attacks, unhampered by artillery bombardment, were increasingly successful.
The battle now settled into trench warfare, the exchanging of mortar fire and a series of vicious encounters to secure vantage points in which machine gunners mowed down advancing enemy soldiers.

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>>2417232
Some deaths were even more pointless than others, the result of blunders. Deep inside the captured Fort Douaumont, German soldiers brewed up coffee on a table improvised from boxes of cordite, starting a fire which spread to a store of flame-thrower fuel and then to an ammunition magazine.
The chamber exploded, killing 679 men. With no hope of recovering the bodies from the fire, the area was sealed off and left.
A further 1,800 wounded managed to get away but some of these were shot by their own side as they fled from the fort. With their soot-blackened faces, they were mistaken for African troops fighting for the French.

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>>2417281
pretty sure this is from a movie but it still looks pretty cool

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>>2417293
these are great

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WW1 really was a madman's war. I think it is more fascinating than the sequel desu.

Austrian sniper in the Dolomites, 1917

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>>2417308
And the only other WW1 pic I have.

Italian soldiers in the highest trench of the whole war.

>>2417306
the eyes of a man trapped in hell

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feels bad man

>>2417313
War is hell.

>>2417308
I agree, it's facinating but really gets me down.

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Japanese soldiers in Tsingtao, China

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Ataturk and some Ottoman soldiers at Gallipoli

Church bells marked for bullet shell and helmet production in germany

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>>2417404
Fuck. Pixel is a shit phone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4Pd527GN48

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>>2417411

So we all know that leaving the trench and attempting to cross No Man's Land was a death sentence, but what if you spent the entire war in the trench and never left? What would your chances of survival be?

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>>2418680
>What would your chances of survival be?
If you're still at the front, not good. If the artillery doesn't get you and the gas doesn't get you and you don't get sick the trench raiders get you.

>>2417136
>IMG_3255.jpg
Epic

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>>2417170
Does that really count as a WW1 pic?

>>2417308
I think so too. Probably because it's the closest thing to real life steam punk.

Old tactics failing hard in a new era of technology.

Feel sorry for the men too. Wouldn't have been as bad if they were at least trying to accomplish something. Most times they were just going out to be fodder.

>>2417315
Okay settle down Brandon

>>2418757
>dont worry eugene
>the last 6 times we had men walk across these fields slowly in a line didnt work
>the seventh is surely the charm
>well be fine

>>2418757
I remember when I was 16

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Post WW1 you say?

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>>2418791

Was there lower amounts of atrocities in WW!? It seems like there wasn't as many genocides, revenge killings etc.

>>2418888
Compared to WW2?
Well, civilians were surely less afflicted
The only two countries that massacred civilians en mass during WW1 were Germany (Rape of Belgium) and the Ottoman Empire (Armenian Genocide).

>>2418888
It was harder to target civilian sectors far behind the lines in world War 1, also the battlefield was far more static for the most part.

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>>2418888
Because Germans had honor, while Austrians were bloodthirsty savages.
The Germans buried the Serbian soldiers and made a modest monument commemorating worthy foes.
Austrians started hanging civilians as soon as they crossed the boarder.

>>2418918
Murdering entire towns of Belgians sure was honorable.

>>2418930
Germny dindu nuffin wrogn

>>2418930
Well, Serbs had a much different experience. Austrians slaughtering villages, Bulgarians committing brutal reprisals and deportations.
While Germans paid at least some respect.

>>2418979
Germany slaughtered entire villages for the acts of resistance agents that may not have even contacted the village in question, with no evidence they lined up and shot scores of civilians at a time, and even wiped entire towns off the map.

>>2418795
story?

>>2419173
Those are pictures of the red zone in France,which is still toxic from world war 1, due to the amount of toxic metals and unexploded shells left there, there are places where nothing can grow because of how much arsenic is in the soil, you can also still see the shell holes and trenches because the area is too toxic for human habitation.

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>>2419213
thanks mates

>>2419351
Yep it was intended as a play on words for the multiple meanings of the word post.

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>>2417293

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holy shit those masks are spoopy

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>>2419452

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>>2419457
US troops returning home

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>>2419473
shit woops

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>>2419481
i find that this one makes a good desktop background

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>>2419497
interesting info on gas

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>>2419499

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>>2419504

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>>2419509

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>>2419513

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>>2419517

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>>2419524

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>>2419528

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>>2419535

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>>2419541

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>>2419545
mobile bike powered radios were part of storm troops outfits for "quick" communication on the move

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>>2419550
that one also makes an entertaining background

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>>2419555

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>>2419561

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>>2419565

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>>2419578

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>>2419580

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>>2419583

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>>2419600
and finally, Wilhelm II

/end dump

>>2419603
Thanks Anon

Was he autistic? I mean seriously has he been tested?

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All I have that's even marginally related are these.

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>>2419603
thanks

>>2419788
don't think so but i know he had a deformed left arm due to all the royal inbreeding

>>2419830
>>2419833
nicholas II did nothing wrong

>>2418691
Or snipers

>>2418749
christ...

>>2418862
looks pretty comfy t b h, 10/10 would enlist

>>2418868
How common was it for people wanting to surrender just getting shot? What if they had pistols and knives in their pockets, and were planning to keep the enemy away from the machine guns so the infantry could charge?

>>2418918
not sure if that's completely true, but I remember reading that the German commanders after seizing fort Vaux commemorated the french surrendering garrison for their relentless fighting.

>>2419583
REF? Googling don't turn up nothing

>>2417136
Cool. I've been really curious about WWI lately.

The first World War, the first air war, the first highly industrialized war, and a century ago now - very fascinating.

>>2420254
Russian expeditionary force

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>>2420183
>How common was it for people wanting to surrender just getting shot?
Probably pretty common, especially if they tried to surrender in the heat of battle.

>>2418930
Allied propaganda

Prussia dindu nuffin

>>2417314

This one makes me sad

did any plan in this stupid war achieve its goal or was everything just a meatgrinder that failed miserably

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>>2421902
Well there's no more German Empire, so something worked.

>>2421902
All three Central Powers were dismantled after the war so that objective was achieved. Various ethnic groups also gained states from it as well..

>>2419578
What a peculiar war.

>>2418902
What is Austro-Hungarians killing Serbs?

>>2421902
The Meuse-Argonne offensive succeeded, and resulted in the Americans advancing faster than the Germans could retreat, and Germany had to surrender. Verdun was a success for the Germans during the first months.

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>>2422478

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>>2424011
Could be worse.

>>2425114
I just saw a pic of some guy who probably died horribly getting blown to pieces by artillery, and my first though was "lol manlet"

>>2418749
Fucking brutal...

>>2426011

>WW1 pics

>>2419465
Check these digits

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contributan

>>2418749
Oh god what happened.

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>>2419455
for you

>>2426886
proof germanic autism isn't genetic

>>2417176
I love that you can clearly see the numbers on those ammo boxes were painted by hand by different people.