Because movies about a morally gray conflict with nebulous actors doesn't play as well with general audiences as defeating literally Hitler. But I 100% agree.
Ludendorff was the German dictator by the end of the war and he was a card carrying Nazi. Hitler, Goring, every Nazi general were on one side. Nothing gray about it.
Where it's morally gray is that WWI was more or less a powder keg of large imperial powers that that was set off by an assassination. Britain, France, and Germany were all competing for their own Imperial prestige. Fighting a war in a trench in France to maintain that prestige over a dead royal is fair to call morally dubious. If anything it was a clash of modern and old, with the allies representing the "modern" world, and the entente representing the old world.
Now the consequences of the war were not. WWII and the Nazis being the biggest. Can't disagree there.
The first chance the huns had to start the war they'd already decided on in 1912. I think it's been pretty conclusively proven that the old idea that Germany wasn't trying to start the war is bullshit and comes from them hiding incriminating documents after they lost.
Don't get it twisted, I'm no fan of the eternal Prussian and its compulsion to destroy Europe. There's a reason the Brits refused to ally themselves with the Kiser. They wanted a war, and Kaiser Wilhelm was a larping weirdo. But no one in the conflict were good boys. Austria and Russia were autocratic states. The Ottomans were carcass state. Britain and France were busy taking up the white man's burden. And America was selling to everyone.
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The only thing that's "morally grey" about WW1 is commies weren't forced to ally with us. If Hitler never broke his alliance with Stalin they'd call WW2 morally grey.
I think the tank is the clearest sign of this. You went from non existent, to pondering machine gun heavy infantry tanks, to late Sherman's in just under 30 years. The design changes are insane and you can even see the early tank doctrine present in some of the bongs and frogs efforts at infantry tanks.
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At the end of the war the Americans wrote a big report about everything they had learned. The part about armor was really prescient. They said sometimes tanks would try to break through and rampage through the enemy's rear area but it never worked because they would break down or run out of fuel. But they said someday if you had more reliable tanks and a radio that could fit inside one this would be a good idea. Which is very much how the krauts were successful early in WW2.
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some of it looks like it might be destroyed but others look like they are whole and were just designed that way. like some 1800s cannon shit! GET WITH THE TIMES! THE 1800S WAS LIKE A DECADE AGO GEEZ!
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swag as frick +1 cookie
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@A how does Egypt teach WWI?
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"muh ottoman muh caliphate reeeeeeee"
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Crazy how many ww2 movies there are considering ww1 was way more kino
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Because movies about a morally gray conflict with nebulous actors doesn't play as well with general audiences as defeating literally Hitler. But I 100% agree.
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Ludendorff was the German dictator by the end of the war and he was a card carrying Nazi. Hitler, Goring, every Nazi general were on one side. Nothing gray about it.
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Nooooo, France was asking too be invaded when they withdrew their troops from the German border in an act of good-faith deescalation.
It's morally gray because they had the temerity too fight back after Germany invaded.
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Germans are rats.
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Where it's morally gray is that WWI was more or less a powder keg of large imperial powers that that was set off by an assassination. Britain, France, and Germany were all competing for their own Imperial prestige. Fighting a war in a trench in France to maintain that prestige over a dead royal is fair to call morally dubious. If anything it was a clash of modern and old, with the allies representing the "modern" world, and the entente representing the old world.
Now the consequences of the war were not. WWII and the Nazis being the biggest. Can't disagree there.
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The first chance the huns had to start the war they'd already decided on in 1912. I think it's been pretty conclusively proven that the old idea that Germany wasn't trying to start the war is bullshit and comes from them hiding incriminating documents after they lost.
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Don't get it twisted, I'm no fan of the eternal Prussian and its compulsion to destroy Europe. There's a reason the Brits refused to ally themselves with the Kiser. They wanted a war, and Kaiser Wilhelm was a larping weirdo. But no one in the conflict were good boys. Austria and Russia were autocratic states. The Ottomans were carcass state. Britain and France were busy taking up the white man's burden. And America was selling to everyone.
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It's those gotdang Hugo Boss uniforms
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WWI German Uniform wasn't that different from early WWII. Both used the Fieldgrau which many people thought was marvelous at the time camo-wise.
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The only thing that's "morally grey" about WW1 is commies weren't forced to ally with us. If Hitler never broke his alliance with Stalin they'd call WW2 morally grey.
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because ww1 was just white people killing white people
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Tons of nigs and jeets in late war bong/baguette armies
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look at that stubby butt artillery
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It's always weird to see how much smaller it is than in ww2. And with wooden wheels. A heck of a lot changed in those 20 years.
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I think the tank is the clearest sign of this. You went from non existent, to pondering machine gun heavy infantry tanks, to late Sherman's in just under 30 years. The design changes are insane and you can even see the early tank doctrine present in some of the bongs and frogs efforts at infantry tanks.
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mfw you're not landshipmaxxing in 1937
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Imagine having less than 3 turrets. Like how do you fit 18 machine guns that way?
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At the end of the war the Americans wrote a big report about everything they had learned. The part about armor was really prescient. They said sometimes tanks would try to break through and rampage through the enemy's rear area but it never worked because they would break down or run out of fuel. But they said someday if you had more reliable tanks and a radio that could fit inside one this would be a good idea. Which is very much how the krauts were successful early in WW2.
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some of it looks like it might be destroyed but others look like they are whole and were just designed that way. like some 1800s cannon shit! GET WITH THE TIMES! THE 1800S WAS LIKE A DECADE AGO GEEZ!
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wwe> ww2 >ww1
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Snapshots:
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