WWI Part I: Corrections, Questions, and Omissions

Special thanks again to @SirManateee

0:00 Intro
1:07 Omission: Ottoman citizens in the ZMC
1:50 Correction: Churchill was a Liberal MP in the First World War
2:00 Omission: Pro-war conservatives in Greece
2:25 The Seattle Benaroyas
3:06 Overall Jewish opinion on the war
6:08 Cemâl Paşa’s psychopathic plan to take over the Ottoman Empire
7:16 Correction: Trumpeldor [wasn’t] at the Somme
9:20 Thanks to SirManatee
9:42 Jewish “temporary gentlemen” in wartime Prussia
10:25 How widespread was Germany’s “Spirit of 1914?”
10:53 Jews in the Air Force, then and now
11:51 Jews in German-occupied Poland

[patrickrowan]

Correcting your correction with a minor correction: Russia didn’t become a republic in March 1917. The haphazard provisional agreement following the February Revolution was that a new constituent assembly would eventually write a constitution for the Empire under which the tsar’s younger brother may or may not be invited to take the throne as figurehead monarch. Russia wasn’t declared a republic until several weeks before the October Revolution.

[jonyprepperisrael]

you know, when you mentioned how Jews were more representative in the Airforce in both Germany and now in US Airforce, I had a flashback to when you mentioned in the past that Jews and other minorities were more likely to join the light cavalry in the PLC.
Is there any real reason why minorities, and particularly Jews, attracted to those branches of the army?

[Artur_M.]

It's great to hear that you're working with Sir Manatee. I love his videos, especially the ones about Poland. Thanks for the info about the upcoming one!

[EliStettner]

You should consider donating your copy to the internet archive for scanning as an borrowable ebook. They would have to permanently possess the copy however.

[belbrighton]

I love history and your content. For me what elevates your work is the engaging delivery style and the manner of your speech. Bravo 🎉❤

[suleydaman]

Thank you for taking the time to add corrections. No one is perfect, even scholarly works let alone youtube documentaries. Correcting your mistakes is the best we can hope for so I really appreciate your dedication to making correction videos.

[michaireneuszjakubowski]

SirManatee is more than a German Empire consultant, he's done more work ekaborating on the critically endangered Willamovian, which Tymoteusz Król is quire possibly saving it from destruction entirely. According to legend, the Willamovians spoke a language that got more and more influcened as time went by, supposedly so long theuir Flemish roots are few and far between. This is prime study material!

[patria]

7:17 Soghomon Tehlirian, Stepan Dzaghigian, Artashes Gevorgyan, and Petros Ter Poghosyan go :D

[ravendreaming]

Your videos have been so useful for my understanding of history!

[travissutherland]

I greatly appreciate these videos. Your research is so interesting. I’m an American Jew from the west coast (same age as yoi too) and I have had zero real connection to or understanding of Judaism or Jewish history pre ‘48. However, the secular analytical historians lens has made the topic so interesting. I love well researched content and this whole channel has been top notch. Great work. Hope it’s paying the bills ‘'cause YouTube needs more digestible high quality scholarship. Thank you.

[denizalgazi]

Fascinating! For those interested, Michael Weinstein's book *With G-d On Our Side* is about antisemitism at the US military academies. A friend was able to escape the pervasive discrimination whilst at the AFA due to his Anglo surname.

[jacobschwartz]

Mazel Tov, Sam!! Always a good day when you post!

[TheKimels]

Thank you Sam. Love your Chanel ! תודה שמוליק

[Brian-----]

Definitely a fan of Sir Manatee! Happy New Year

[israelilocal]

I remeber watching sirmanatee when he had just 19 subscribers it's great to see you collab

[TavorTur]

Love your videos! Keep up the good work

[therongjr]

Have you thought about putting all of the content from your channel into a book? Of course, thousands of books on Jewish history exist, but your presentation style is very engaging! It makes me uneasy that western education in predominantly Christian spaces mentions MAYBE the siege of Masada (due to Josephus) . . . and then nothing about Jewish history until the Holocaust. If you're lucky, you might hear about the Bar Kokhba revolt, and the Sykes-Picot agreement and Balfour declaration, but there are still 1, 800 missing years there. (Also, the idea that Jewish theology is "Christianity without Jesus" feels fairly prevalent.)

[rapasvi]

You are really posting a lot AND there’s a Taylor swift reference? Girl you rock 🎉

[gabrielrussell]

"Nobody knows anything about the Space Force." The Space Force is actually a very boring, legitimate, and bureaucratic thing.
Basically the US military has a lot of space assets like satellites. The Space Force exists for the sole purpose of having dedicated administrators who specialize in managing them.

[TheZerech]

Could we expect any content about Jews in Austria-Hungary during the war, or at least in other belligerant powers? If Jews in the German military got a video, compared to the much more significant role played by Jews in the Austro-Hungarian military for example, I feel like that could eventually warrant a video.

Edit: also wanted to add so far been very much enjoying this series on WWI. So much interesting, yet underappreciated developments globally, but also especially for Jewish life.