Fall of the German Empire (Hundred Days Offensive) - Armchair Historian Reaction

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The American forces did take disproportionately large losses throughout the German campaign and later during the offensive, with a number of French veterans commenting that they still fought with the suicidal levels of overconfidence that had been drummed out of everyone else by then.

Despite the misconceptions, In 1918, France was recognized by all as the best army in the world: the most powerful, the most innovative, the best commanded. The German Spring offensive of 1918 strongly shakes the British army, then led by Douglas Haig. On March 21, more than 60,000 British soldiers are captured. The haemorrhage is stopped only by the sending of French troops of reserve. Attacked in turn, the French hold the shock, and are able to lead a counter-attack, developed by Foch. This Second Battle of the Marne marks the return to mobile warfare. The French lead the operations (60 divisions engaged for 6 Americans, 4 British and 2 Italians). They show themselves capable of coordinating complex maneuvers at various points on the front. Completely overwhelmed, the Germans lost 856,000 men (killed, wounded, prisoners) between March and July 1918. From then on, the Kaiser's army would only retreat. This decisive success results from the remarkable evolution of the French Army since 1914. After the dismissals of Joffre and Nivelle, the troops are commanded by the two best French strategists: the timer Pétain, and the fiery Foch. The latter was named "Generalissimo of the allies" to better coordinate operations after the British collapse in Flanders. Petain and Foch do not appreciate each other, but together they design the doctrine of "repeated shocks" along the entire length of the front, relying on the mass motorization of the French Army. The fleet of French trucks is then twice as large as that of the Germans, which makes it possible to compensate for the numerical inferiority. More than 1600 trucks are towed by motorized vehicles, and almost none on the German side. Tanks are used in very large numbers: 800 in August 1918 alone), in coordination with the infantry and the air force. With 3,800 modern aircraft, French aviation is the world's number one. The air division, an autonomous force of 600 bombers and fighters, has no equivalent in terms of power. In 1918, it shot down 637 enemy planes and 125 balloons, ensuring control of the skies to the allies. The French Airmen are constantly innovating: Bombing of convoys, Depots of saboteurs, drops of food to isolated units. This superiority could only be applied thanks to its industrial and technological excellence, which exceeded that of Germany in 1918. A real feat, while the most industrial regions of France have been occupied by the enemy since 1914. Production is such that France can almost fully equip its Serbian, Greek, Romanian and American allies. France is also ahead in terms of communications, logistics and medical care. The German Strategists had bet everything on the mass of Artillery and an elite infantry (Sturmtruppen), but they proved incapable of countering the French mobility.

9:05 no, not at all. During the spring offensive, there were more french soldiers involved than british ones... even if the germans targeted the british. If you read the german correspondance, you can see they thought the english army was the weak spot and England was giving a lot of ressources to France, especially coal as north of France was the main source of coal for the french but it was occupied by the germans. They know if they beat England, France would be out of natural ressources. For the germans, just as for the french, it was the time to end 1000 years of wars since the death of Charlemagne. The german spring offensive and the hundred-days offensive were both do-or-die offensives

Huh. There is 720p and 1440p options but no 1080p version o this video. Never seen that before.

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Thank you, a great video with well informed interrupts providing greater context, appreciate it.