.~*the island*~. => ~♥ アニメ王女の島♥~ => Topic started by: litt on August 20, 2014, 03:11:23 PM
Title: WWI thread
Post by: litt on August 20, 2014, 03:11:23 PM
As 2014 marks the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the Great War let's have a thread about it, pictures, info, propaganda you learned at school To start things off here is the good kaiser (http://bilder.antiksalzburg.at/bildergalerie/Kaiserhaus/Kaiserhaus/3448_FranzJoseph.jpg) (http://austria-forum.org/attach/Wissenssammlungen/Biographien/Franz_Joseph_I./FJ_1.jpg) (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Wien_Schoenbrunn_Rueckseite.jpg/800px-Wien_Schoenbrunn_Rueckseite.jpg) (http://img.welt.de/img/history/crop105982847/7726937581-ci3x2l-w900/Kaiser-Franz-Joseph-Familienbild-1888.jpg) mandatory anthem
Title: Re: WWI thread
Post by: Ming on August 20, 2014, 03:25:29 PM
Kaiser is the best title for a ruler ever. It just sounds so regal and powerful.
Title: Re: WWI thread
Post by: litt on August 20, 2014, 03:46:23 PM
Dragutin Dimitrijević AKA Apis (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Dragutin_dimitrijevic_apis.jpg) This motherfucker was the dude orchestrating the Black Hand which was behind the killing of Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in 1914. Although the killing marked the occassion, it was not the cause for the war, with Europe having been drifting to war far before that. To understand just how deep this guy went, in 1903 he helped organise and participated in a coup against the reigning Obrenovic dynasty in Serbia, which had been feuding with the Karadordevic dynasty for a long time. They didn't just want to kill king Alexander, they wanted to ravage his corpse. The Italian worker at the palace who had to discard with the corpse noted that the king had many bayonet, gunshot and axe wounds, a lot after the king and queen had been killed by the initial hail of bullets. A bit over the top. With the overthrow successful, Apis was proclaimed a saviour of the fatherland and maintained a military post. Apis, a south Slav nationalist, became the head of the Black Hand group and sponsored their activities, using them to achieve his ends of causing turmoil in Austria-Hungary. He was successful and managed to escape punishment until 1917 when the Serbian Prime Minister decided he should be offed. As a result of his scheming, the July Crisis occurred and Europe went to war. Serbia would become occupied by Austria-Hungary although it offered gallant resistance, owing more to the stupid deployment strategy of Austrian field marshal Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf.
Title: Re: WWI thread
Post by: murasa on August 20, 2014, 03:58:25 PM
(http://puu.sh/b0NWt/43f64b6e2f.jpg)
I am a little bit of a WWI otaku myself
Title: Re: WWI thread
Post by: Royalkitten on August 20, 2014, 04:08:22 PM
mustard gas is bad!! :sweatdrop:
Title: Re: WWI thread
Post by: Momona on August 20, 2014, 04:08:50 PM
They should make a WWI and II Musou game.
Title: Re: WWI thread
Post by: murasa on August 20, 2014, 04:18:40 PM
Title: Re: WWI thread
Post by: litt on August 20, 2014, 04:27:53 PM
Nice images. Is this a picture book? When I get back home I will upload pictures I took from the Austrian Military Museum. Very cool museum for a history otaku. Here are some pictures that wiki has from the museum. Franz Josef's uniforms (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dd/Uniformen_Kaiser_Franz_Joseph_im_HGM.jpg) This room was my favourite. You have the car that Franz Ferdinand was riding in when he was killed. Also shown is the uniform he was wearing on the day. You can see where the bullets hit and you can also see where surgeons attempted to cut into the clothes to extract them. (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d9/HGM_Sarajevoraum.jpg) Here are some Austro-Hungarian uniforms. (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/91/HGM_KuK_Uniformen.jpg) And some artillery! (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/HGM_Artillerie_Erster_Weltkrieg.jpg)
Title: Re: WWI thread
Post by: murasa on August 20, 2014, 04:41:50 PM
It has a lot of cool illustrations to go with the stories of how soldiers got the iron cross. The version I have is from 1916.
I wish I could visit European war museums :sad:
Title: Re: WWI thread
Post by: Hiro on August 20, 2014, 10:29:30 PM
the reich will rise again
Title: Re: WWI thread
Post by: Raz on August 20, 2014, 11:39:20 PM
Honestly I think WWI was incredibly retarded and nothing but a waste of good lives. Sure there was some really neat weapon tech advancement, but overall so many people died for nothing, and it was directly responsible for WW2. At least WW2 happened for good reasons.
Title: Re: WWI thread
Post by: Hiro on August 20, 2014, 11:54:01 PM
yeah fuck kikes im with raz on this one
Title: Re: WWI thread
Post by: Royalkitten on August 20, 2014, 11:57:14 PM
Title: Re: WWI thread
Post by: murasa on August 21, 2014, 12:30:43 AM
(http://puu.sh/b1noV/f60adf4452.jpg)
WW1 had a really bad outcome
Title: Re: WWI thread
Post by: litt on August 21, 2014, 02:03:01 AM
WWI was dumb but I like studying it more than WWII. WWII is overdone and WWI is more tragic in the sense of states fighting. There isn't a clear black and white like in WWII which is used by historians and media to draw on the senses of readers and people. I also think that WWI's outcome is overshadowed by WWII but extremely important. The breakup of Austria-Hungary and the creation of Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, the growth of Romania and the shrinking of Hungary which are still major issues today, not to mention the rebirth of Poland. The USSR was allowed to be created and to exist because of WWI and many Arab states gained "independence" from the Ottomans only to find new colonisers in Britain and France. Despite being fought in a smaller area than WWII, it changed the world more than any war before it.
(http://www.dw.de/image/0,,17582349_303,00.jpg)
Title: Re: WWI thread
Post by: McJongJing on January 15, 2017, 03:32:19 AM
Bump What if we won at Gallipoli?
Title: Re: WWI thread
Post by: landshark on January 15, 2017, 07:48:01 AM
idk
Title: Re: WWI thread
Post by: Kami_sama on January 15, 2017, 08:12:55 AM
Well it would have probably been the downfall of the Turk I guess.
on the subject there's a channel who covers WWI week per week, one week at a time. Each week they put out an episode of what happened exactly 100 years ago. It's really interesting.