They not. You take a state like the Achaemenid Persians, you're, the one who fought the Spartans at Thermopylae and all that the Persians. Sometimes you had shells that you could shoot, into the air that would illuminate the night sky and you have to imagine bunches of those shells going off. Where the romance of warfare you Wichita, and strong in human culture was probably at its height. End quote. They tell the Belgians you to let him through the Belgians, say no. pray, your majesty, to send help as soon as possible, He is given many proofs of your previous goodwill and we, Will find an echo in your generous love, heart and quote disturbs, send. Writes quote. Theres never been a human experience like itand it changes a generation. Scrobble, find and rediscover music with a Last.fm account, Do you know a YouTube video for this track? Half of hte Cast of Blueprint for Armageddon in One Photo. because the mounds of bodies become places. This whole. A german start, Policy of frightful messes it was called, I'm not sure. Do you think they might have been seeing in their minds? All. They have an understanding with France, there was a lot of talk in Britain about do we or don't we get involved in this whole thing. Blueprint for Armageddon IV (2:58:48). The execute, squads were not, as were the action groups of Hitler's Holocaust specially. That looks like it. And that something would come back to haunt the Germans in ways that they almost seem ignorant of again in a week or did Hitler earlier about propaganda. well is fired in a four thousand foot arc. organize terror groups put together by a bunch of young kids. And now the situation in Austria boils over and the. Ive been comparing this period to an historical estuary, where one generation and another generation sort of minglethe Old World and the New World. How many times do assassins in a failed assassination attempt getting. WARNING Very intense subject matter. policy begins to be heavily influenced by the german Kaiser the emperor. What's important is what is the, People on the ground affected by this think was happening. Machine guns, barbed wire and millions upon millions of artillery shells create industrialized meat grinders at Verdun and the Somme. The very mocked, a big heavy, hitter knockout artist and they go around and it's just boom it's over in one round sometimes, and you stand up and it's thrilling an incredible, but in a, someone hits them back and or or beat them up a little. Is it if it only takes your opponent fifteen days to do the same thing this, strange the ability to negotiate your way out of this situation? If you don't take the forts around a place like Lee, Asher or name. advancing german armies executed civilians, including women and priests. The Russians are shocking. And if it takes you thirty days to get your reservists in uniform to the mustering point to the battlefield before they're ready to fight how, the deal. Nine hundred and sixty five for infantry, Two thousand nine hundred and sixty for cavalry, one hundred and fifteen for artillery and supply wagons six thousand, ten in all group in one hundred and forty trains and an equal number again for their supplies from the. It's a function of modern civilization. This entire series is a great take on those four years when the world hacked out its first steps on the scary path to where we collectively find ourselves today. They were looking. Germany throws everything into a last series of stupendous attacks in the West while hoping to avoid getting burned by a fire in the East they helped fan. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. come and even better demonstration than the machine gunfire mowing down those boards, in charging. do be like jumping off a cliff in the dark. Current leader, this current Kaiser Kaiser, just like czar in Russia, where they have an art, autocratic, Kane, the 20th century, sounds anachronistic, doesn't it, part of this old world that had existed forever. Regis Gamble right to invade Russia. After a shell detonated, you know the magazine in the entire four hundred and twenty in a giant explosion. the nicest you can be, even if it's horribly brutal, to make the knockout as quick as it is so fun, in this case is basically saying yeah, it's a it's, well, but in the end this is going to save lives going to use. Sometimes, when you're trying to create a new world, you have to other. You know we're capable and they could deal with it and they were very efficient, logistically and everything for their time period, but, teen times that amount. So what had been, that didn't really, you know, appeal to the God is changing because of Belgium. Even now have they you talk about a misstep, combatants, with more respect? It doesn't matter how much effort they put into defense, they can't win, You know the Belgians, totally unprepared for warfare lose only a little bit faster than the Belgians obsessively prepared for warfare they put, trust in these international agreements. What's more that. All we're doing is bringing back traditional prussian martial practices that, Unbelievably efficient precision, drilling and all that those are rushing qualities that go back to Frederick the great and it freaked out, a lot of the countries in Europe. He took his, vacations from Germany to Belgium just to look around where the battle was going to be fought and now, since he had, were carried out correctly. He wasn't trying. There is not, apparently a chin, strap or a horseshoe missing. In both case, those countries were the reason Britain got dragged into the conflict before, Second World WAR Britain Head going tried to stop. Need help? This show picks up where Dan's Thor's Angels show left off. I mean no one had any idea, show a bunch of dead civilians and say this is what the Germans are doing. And you know how do you grow into your own man with that guy hanging over your shoulder? Listening to the show you just heard, fifteen thousand. Barbara Tuchman has a passage in her book which she quotes. Dan Carlin is an American podcaster, political commentator and amateur historian. This isn't no one thousand eight hundred and ten, the fur helmet of the hussars and on the fur helmet is a skull, remind you a little bit of the SS forces in the Second World WAR, but it shows you that all of this predated you know with, Nazis did the Nazis were just updating a lot of classic german traditions and in a lot of cases, perverting them and staining them with blackness and everything. The largest of the guns that are on the way from Berlin to Belgium, The largest of them weighs three hundred thousand pounds. Hardcore History 53 - Blueprint for Armageddon IV - Dan Carlin the conflict where you can't hide it anymore, and even though this, Elgin officer looks at this german assault on his food is something akin to the charge of the Light brigade, the famous doomed charge of that British Cavalry during the crimean war. The british situation was fundamentally different. Here's how it works. I thought she did a very balanced job, and so did Neil Ferguson Ferguson. Now we're going to stand aside and, sign that the Germans are wrong about this is that the bridges are blown up when they get to them. The british royal family is kind of turned off by William and all William wants is kind of their love and approval and to be like them, it's funny. He adds great depth of emotion, emphasis on the importance of certain actions and will not let you gloss over the facts of "Man's inhumanity to Man". The pub, building shall be turned into barracks. To try to see you know what you could, The Crimean WAR breaks out in the 1850s between Russia and, There's a war, obviously between the United States and Spain, that, the turn of the century going into the nineteen. You are, and have been, my go to podcast since Ghosts of the Ostfront was released. forward our people there supported by the guns at this wonderful system, and then you throw more troops out. Right into the hands of the French. Is that it's relatively young, it's a new country. The world has seen since Napoleon's day a hundred years before, one sided conflicts. desire for retribution that comes with that and then, very shortly after an assassin is captured. There's never been a human experience like it and it changes a generation. You know. They were during this time period. Aug 17 2014 235 mins 4k 2 0. he rose through the ranks. John F Kennedy assassination, for example, And imagine that, in addition to Lee Harvey Oswald up at the Texas School Book Depository, you have a, another assassin on the grassy knoll is has sometimes been suggested and that, in this JFK assassination attempt. It flowed gray and ghost like then as dusk came in Caymanas, thousands of horses, hooves and thousands of iron boots continue to tramp forward they. 'cause we're going to go to war with the Russians if they don't demobilize. The Germans aren't sure about that when they come into Belgium, they're kind of, in the belgian army is either just going to stand aside. We have listening, but that's going to be. You know again. Can you create a hole through bodies if you shoot through them with a machine gun long enough, or do we send out people to risk their lives to create holes in the bodies that we can shoot through? become to inter in that time period. The Frank, prussian. If we were ranking groups from nineteen fourteen would probably call terrorist groups like, called the black hand, and these groups had ties sometimes to the serbian intelligence service. Hatched in an obscure cafe in the capital of Old Serbia have led to the independence of the New Yugoslavia. They don't, really wrong way to be organized. Play over 320 million tracks for free on SoundCloud. Responsible for all the terrible events that might happen. If, in addition to the human species, what's about to happen, is the first dose of shock therapy to see if we can be. Millions of men in dozens of armies vie in the most deadly and complex opening moves of any conflict in world history. We dont have an album for this track yet. We figure, the assassin is working with the intelligence service for most, that outrageous, a thing to consider when you. There were wars between Napoleon in the first World war. Divisions are still use, of course, in militaries today and if you want to think about, fifteen thousand men in a division is a kind of a rough size. The friendship we're going to act in accordance with our interest on the German, that will listen if you, stay out of this war. It was a fantastic army. You know, again to get to the boxing character Richard. J, Sodomy of little children, end quote, but. What is the. That would be considered quite a blow. End quote: it's a fantastic army, natural efficiency that is stereo typically german, is a, two to military science during a time period, where military science really does become science, it's become the age of the bean counters and efficiency experts. So this guy, this staff officer, who has, dead, general five or six thousand men in the dark. That night is a precursor to what we can expect from him later on and. It is guaranteed by the greatest powers of the age. anybody who'd actually been present when the thinkers who dealt with the doomsday device explained, what the doomsday device did understood that, the trigger on this thing was pulled. This is a great account of the great war, and the best part is free, Its very easy to find out any matter on net as compared to books, as I found this post at this site. actually rural. This is the point in the, take over the political process in a way that makes it impossible, politicians and the diplomats to do what they need to do to potentially stop this conflict. the French had a different kind of society, one that was supposed to be run by the very you know: low born people. The, eight shells made no impression on the forts and the belgian guns poured a hail of fire on the german troops. Also, it's a political reasons. Subscribe to the show and get . Nowadays we have these. The second world war. now imagine he does it again and then duplicated again, Enough times to where you got one point two one point three, The french revolution is when that really starts. would have found a way to avert in what ended. Is an artillery officer he's known for its use on the battlefield? This is an unofficial transcript meant for reference. within that nine hundred and fifty or so our window, the time, the german smash their way through those forts. He means London, which is in a terrible state of depression, and paralysis, is for the time being, all against english intervention. In the 21st century now we've had a long time to absorb the ideas of 20th century, big and and how it's a legitimate aspect of war, and one of the things you do is. a year or two after the conflict, and so he's right in the middle of the moment. All these other things little HOLLAND to them looks like they've. It actually fluctuates in different, militaries and whatnot, but just think fifteen thousand men a fish. 1. You know now when you look back on. He neutralized Russia. By continuing to browse or closing this banner, you consent to our. That will happen. They were always worried about being encircled will look at them on a map. He writes and childlike about german diplomacy mean why. The romance was incredible this, is the era where that romance runs into reality, in a way that you just can't pretend I mean guys like, William Tecumseh Sherman, the civil war general for the? You had to assume that the French would come in at some time, and the only thing you had a plan to deal with was to attack the french first. Belgium, like a shooting war breaks out between a couple of, thing, one of the gangsters does is turn to the side and kills an innocent bystander because they're standing in their way, that's a little like what this is portrayed as by you know. the same time issues this ultimatum to the Belgians saying: listen, we just need to use your country to get to France. You want to believe it's a hot button issue, none the less. 30,000 Germans specially trained to assault fortifications being obliterated by the lightweight Belgian chocolate soldiers. Winston Churchill said that there was only one man on either side of the First World War who could lose the war in an afternoon. What's bearing down on the small british forces landed on the continent, and this french force who. Serb nationalists and the Serbs are very, very patriotic, even today, even more so back in nineteen. He answered me quite distinctly. Because if someone really knows what to do with it and does good things with it, you kind of say to yourself on the other, a bit of a roll of the dice, isn't it as often as you get one of those people you get somebody who's, evil or cruel or insane some people, history of rolled very badly on the dice far too many times, but it creates good hardcore history work. Germany's name was mud and now that she had condemned herself out of her own mouth, no rumor of beastial outrage was too vile to be believed. begin. But here's the thing, the charge of the light brigade. basin entire defense strategy on. Old this world is that is marching into the twentieth century. We ask, go to dancarlin dot com for information on how to donate, to the show get their first assist with the mostest I, during the editing process. A belgian officer who was there quote, They made no attempt at deploying a belgian officer described it later, came on line after line almost shoulder to shoulder. Blueprint for Armageddon series not shown in rss feed. Well, those are almost does really, generations. if you imagine it magnified thousands of times. Chal, of the old states in their traditional wisdom. Only one result absolutely certain. With no end in sight. Austro Hungarian, against Serbia, maybe before this was the most egregious, but that was, Connection to events I mean the serbian government had maybe been involved in this assassination. and when he got it, you know which the russian aristocracy didn't want to do, for the same reason that the european leaders everywhere didn't want to do it. Blueprint for Armageddon IV - Listen - Dan Carlin's - Chartable The Americans are coming, but will the war be over by the time they get there? We're cousins were both Anglo Saxons were the same race. You know into some sort of hard agreement for what they're gonna do if this war breaks out in five minutes, because they don't have a heart agreement with the British, they sort of have a soft agreement instead, a signed on the dotted line contract. from the crowd with a bomb really more of a hand. can generals in this whole period. With littlepractical battle experience to guide them, admirals were cautious about exposing their expensive ships unless they thought they had a decisive edge. using the belgian road systems to fall on. the industrial revolution was already almost a generation old in one thousand, eight hundred and fourteen and soon it would begin to fill the last remaining gap. That would have been impossible, one hundred and fifty years before, because. In a very, lettich maneuver, the archduke sees it ducks behind the, thing bounces off the car hits the concrete on the street and the. They took three steps at times. He said he was watching some german cavalry where ride by and he could see the horses, but he couldn't see the guys on them because they just sort of blend with the fog in the mist in the twilight and the early morning hours in that color he goes on and on about how great that is and how cyantific it is. Speeding off, I mean there you go. That sounds like a lot, yet this show merely scratches the surface of this enormous subject. The roman empire, could take punches. You know, I, like the author, Lynn Mcdonald, wrote about this. Of course, we had our losses, but they were slight compared to the carnage we inflicted on our enemies and quote. How do you even get them from one place to another? Violating Belgium, ends up taking a Britain that one historian says as recently as two days before they declare war on. It involved. It was even more of a concern than that. comment. Von Moltke famously said that this, the struggle that would decide the course of history for the next one hundred years and he was, Germany would be on the losing end of two world wars in the 20th century. Class of hot house plants, which can only thrive in an aristocratic and qualitative civilization. This army, he writes, has been on active service for three weeks, and so. When the singing ceased, the bands played marches, they, followed by the rumble of siege guns, the creaking of wheels and of chains clanking against the cobblestones and on the sharp bell, like voices of the bugles for seven hours. So. He woke up to one of his aides and the german officer giving him water those, soldiers, he thought were belgian, were german and they were the first to enter the fort. Someone if somebody had asked you a question who was the most important fig, by the world has gone the way it did. Episode 53 Blueprint for Armageddon IVNow Available! Although the Entente press wildly exaggerated what went on in Belgium, there is no question that the german army did commit atrocities there in one thousand, nine hundred and fourteen, according to evidence from the diaries of german soldiers, another reliable sources. The last thing they wanted to do was give them guns and train them how to use it right, training how to be better street fighters. And Principe comes yet another example in history proving to us that, sometimes when it comes to something like terrorism in this. Show 55 - Blueprint for Armageddon VI. I had no idea that she too was hit and thought that she had simply fainted with fright. On August third, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen when tensions have reached a new, out the window and see the Lamplighter is of London lighting the lamps for the evening, as was customary at the time, and he, to someone else at the window and famously said, the lamps are going out all over Europe. Blueprint for Armageddon I The planet hadn't seen a major war between all the Great Powers since the downfall of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815. Germany is lean. To be to be the highways the german army uses to get from Germany to France. it could not compete with them. You have. country that doesn't exist anymore called Austria, Hungary, very well loved guy named France. Trench warfare begins, and with it, all the murderous efforts on both sides to overcome the static defenses. A light shutter began to run through me at this vengeance of inscrutable destiny. And show them some history books and show them what it happened. The bad guy. This war is going to take us there and it's going to pound the point home till you're, sick of it, After the failure of that german attack on the belgian defenses, the Germans regroup to attack again that same night August, fifth, there, weaknesses who were with the troops describe them as nervous and anxious, and gloomy about the prospects of assaulting. A shell wrecked, the arcade under which the general staff were sheltering all light, extinguished by the force of the explosion and the, officers, ran the risk of asphyxiation by the horrible gases emitted from the shell, firing ceased. The US, Viet Cong guerrillas very difficult to do. And now the german fears of encirclement had become a reality. That never happens if Britain stays out of the war Britain. a world class historical atrocity, killing field? Look at all the signs they they're they're up and coming, but nobody necessarily feels like that person pushing their way in to get their own space is anything other, Elbowing their way in the world power, whether the people that are already there like it or not, make some room here we come that's how the german empire was. and this is another interesting side of the conflict. The Germans attack four of these belgian forts now, between the forts, the Belgians quickly put some infantry and there are a couple of machine guns around and whatnot in the Germans. The crew, three hundred yards away while the gun was fired electronically, quoting, take by the time needed for the shelter traverse. I don't know how many avid civil war buffs American Civil WAR Box. So they capture him very quickly and run him off to be interrogated and. actor French along their mutual border that borders full of forts it's the most. Their goods are crossing borders like crazy. something that hadn't happened in a hundred years in Europe. You'll have rail guns that are that large to same problem, though, how do you get him from place to place they're, so big they're, so heavy the larger? If you screw that up, could be in Berlin having coffee and cigarettes and poking the Kaiser with a stick in a cage by the time. Why is when you have, Hitler to compare someone to all of a sudden. Here is often referred to as one of the great irresponsible responsible gambles and all german history and, the key element in the whole affair was Britain's, Asian to involve itself in the conflict, because one. The other thing that Prinsep did was, find, an opportunity for a lot of these leaders who thought war was coming anyway. Preview. In a, you want a war, then we're going to go to war, Crown crowned heads of Europe attacked France after France went all revolutionary and you have, understand how much of a shock that was historian. It was always a huge gamble, very disorienting, you couldn't see anything now, going to change with this war, and it was going to be a facet of 20th century warfare that we may never see repeated again now that night vision has become a battlefield staple there's, no reason to light up the battlefield in, one side has night vision in the other. Five. You know. You know the, let the Russians mobilize you have this crisis, if they want to have just sending those people home in a month, mobilization doesn't mean war to them, but it does to the Germans because they, day. That the, You can see in living? Dish out really good blows, but they couldn't take very many good blows, most nations in the past could match that's? declares war on France and Belgium. Show 51 - Blueprint for Armageddon II - Listen - Dan Carlin's Hardcore it looks like the whole days been a failure. When these belgian forts are built this, the period where it looks like modern tech is going to make these things like space age like something out of star wars, one of those planetary defenses, and they build these wonderful. The german army moved into the city a smoothly and as compactly as of the empire state Express, there were no holds no open places, no stragglers. Nothing could have arrested it because something had been arresting. This is like steam, punk stuff, because when. He couldn't cut his own food, for example, which is so embarrassing to a guy. Go directly to shout page. 94 votes, 22 comments. crazy and all of a sudden, the French were, on a scale that was unprecedented and to create armies that were enormous, mean looking, Alexander, the great probably the greatest conqueror in all world history, Alex, enter conquers, a very large chunk of the known world and a decent sized chunk of the unknown world. Terranean Forts Barbara Tuchman said like castles. The entire continents is going to be flaming out at each other. before. virtual during his life had famously said. Dan Carlin has the best no-nonsense History Podcast! dismount him and use him as infantry and then use the horses to ski datil out of there before superior force could catch. Text the other guarantors of belgian neutrality and says. To the guy who rated one star you are clearly a moron. Hardcore History 53 Blueprint for Armageddon IV, Hardcore History Compilation Episodes 1-55, Hardcore History 27 - Ghosts of the Ostfront I, Hardcore History 47 - Wrath of the Khans V. We use cookies to enhance your experience, analyze site traffic, and serve tailored ads. Dan Carlin's Hardcore History. Force of which surpassed anything known hitherto, their approach, just to be heard in an acute buzzing and then they buy, with a thunderous, roar, raising clouds of missiles, stones and dust. On August fifth, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen. The United Nations set free from austrian domination and quote. So if you go into war with Russia, you get to attack France as part of the bar again. If you look at a book, you know the, beyond you know about one hundred and fifty years ago. I think Lloyd, George, when he hears big Ben sounding doom, is worried about Britain's financial sector. us on Twitter the address is at hardcore history. of one of the main reasons. If there were a Japanese version of Captain America, this would be his origin story. once the Germans are in Belgium, the British, ambassador to Germany, guy name, Sir, and, He delivers it into the hands of the german minister, a guy named Gottlieb, an ego and the german Chancellor guiding Theobald VON Bethmann Hollweg, Goshen New, that this was a historic meeting and he, put down what happened, and he said the Germans when they receive this ultimatum from him.
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