Could WW1 Have Been Stopped Before It Began?

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  @restishistorypod · 1 year ago · pinned

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  @alexs_toy_barn · 1 year ago (edited)

  The Kaiser is the patron saint of this podcast, he&apos;s in like literally every episode, he&apos;s such a comic figure, at least before his exile.

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  @JabbtheHut4653 · 1 year ago

  Bill, a great uncle of mine, who was born in 1899, fought on the Somme in 1917 - after the main Somme offensives. &nbsp;Before he left home his family held a party for him. &nbsp;His brother, my grandfather, described it as a wake - no one thought they would ever see him again. &nbsp;In fact he survived &amp; lived until he was 93! &nbsp;When I spoke to him in the 1980s he cried when recounting his experience - the first time he had ever said anything about it. &nbsp;He told me that he had no idea what the War was about. &nbsp;Years later after Bill had passed - I spoke to my grandfather who was a tough old boy, he cried uncontrollably when he recalled the party &amp; how it felt to say goodbye.

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• KA

  @kanonierable · 1 year ago

  My grandmothers elder sister was born right in the midst of a giant military exercise of the German army that took place ten years r so before the beginning of WWI. But when word reached the Kaiser Wilhelm II. who was present in a village nearby, that there was a woman lying in heavy labor, he immediately gave order to halt the entire manoeuver and the big guns who had been busy shooting the whole day all went quiet, hundreds of thousands of officers and men stopped in their tracks, laid down their weapons, to patiently wait in silence. It was not until the message came in, that everything at last had gone well with that childbirth, and positive confirmation was given to the emperor, that both the mother and the newborn baby were in good health and in safe condition, with all the necessairy care for them at hand, that the military exercise was allowed to continue. <br>In honor of this personal intervention on behalf of an ordinairy German woman, who was the wife of a veterinarian, the baby girl was given the name Wilhelmine and I am happy to tell you and the world of this act of personal kindness towards a member of my family by the German Emperor Wilhelm II. May he rest in peace.

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• KA

  @kaa-roy · 10 months ago (edited)

  As a Hungarian, I have to admit that pronouncing the name of Count László Szőgyény-Marich de Magyar-Szőgyén et Szolgaegyháza, Austro-Hungarian ambassador to Germany, &nbsp;is not easy. If you ever need help with Hungarian names, let me know. I am always there for you :-)

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• KA

  @karlkarlos3545 · 1 year ago

  &quot;Is there a spa?&quot; I was saying it at the exact same time.

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• NI

  @nigeh5326 · 1 year ago

  Brilliant quote<br>‘It’s not that there are too few facts available but that there are too many’<br>Also works for the world of the internet and social media we now live in sadly 😔

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  @OldillWill · 1 year ago

  The two of you look exactly like I’ve imagined, after the hundreds of hours of listening to you while working outside in the east coast Canadian weather. You two have gotten me through a lot of long days! Thank you very much, enjoying the longer episodes and series lately! The Longer the Better it gets! Thank you fellas

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  @bob_the_bomb4508 · 1 year ago

  Easy. Someone could have fed Archie Duke. Then he wouldn’t have needed to shoot the ostrich if he wasn’t hungry.

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  @HessitheOriginal · 3 months ago

  As a German living close to one of those german spa towns (Bad Kissingen, World Heritage Site) I am deeply outraged at how you portray them. We only had 2 assassination attempts (Sissi and Bismarck each once), both unsuccessful.

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• PL

  @plaguebenji · 7 months ago

  The two of you are the most likable history youtubers. Thank you for giving me so many hours of thoughtful history lessons of items I have not gone that deep into.

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• DA

  @danielgregg2530 · 1 year ago

  It&apos;s so nice to see an adult history conversation on Youtube for a change.

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