World War I Every Day using Google Earth

Made using Google Earth.
The First World War from start to finish.

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(Not endorsed by Google, this video is completely made by me. This video is not sponsored by Google.)
This video is for educational purposes.

[TooillfromLumbagLUMBAGO]

Just seeing the soldier numbers decrease and increase while in a stand still for like a year is utterly terrifying.

[Huziharamantics]

It is always necessary to remember, while studying the history of warfare, that every man who has ever fought and died on the battlefield lived a life just as unique as yours. And to see that the numbers were changing so rapidly on the frontlines with hundreds of men dying each second... really puts into perspective how devastating the First World War was. The horrors of trench warfare scarred an entire generation, leaving millions of men dead and wounded. Lest we forget.

[borjanvasiljevic]

My grand grandpa fought in the war. By his stories, it's easy to understand how devastating this war was. He was a Serbian soldier and had to retreat trough Albania during winter together with the king and what was left of the army. The winter combined with the mountains in Albania killed most of what was left of the army. After they went trough Albania, they crossed the sea to go to a small Greek islands of Korf. After a couple of months the whole army was transferred to the Greek front. After the war, my grand grandpa, like every soldier that showed bravery and survived, received a singed document by the king and the main general in the whole Serbian army and a medal. We still have that document and the medal at my grandpa's house.
R.I.P to everyone who died in this terrible war.

[cuberrt]

Can we just acknowledge for a moment how close this war was to a German victory?

[georgyzhukov]

It's insane. 4 years of stalemate on the western front

[exequielalonsocaceresdelar]

The thing with WW1 is that, unlike WW2, is so hard to understand the process of collapse of the Central Powers and why they ended up losing just by looking at a map. For most of 1918 the Entente barely controlled France, Italy and few places in southeastern Europe

[netherly]

RIP to everyone died in this atrocious and deadly war caused by incompetent leaders, may they all rest in peace ♥

[Lugemaster]

It is honestly so depressing to see no gains on the western front and the numbers going down like water

Great video, though!

[utkumazgal]

No matter what you do, you won't be more than just a number after 100 years. Rest in peace for all the fallen.

[Zogerpogger]

It is heartening to see so many comments paying homage to the dead, and recognizing the fact that those numbers we see on the map are millions of cases of PTSD, millions of debilitating injuries, million of people who won't return to their homes, millions more people who will never see loved ones again.
We must also remember that there were competant generals in WW1, and the nature of warfare during this time made it incredibly difficult to effect large-scale battlefield successes. All war is terrible, it doesn't matter if 60, 000 men died for 1km or 200km. We simply see the horror of war so much more clearly when there aren't large scale manuevers to distract us.

[AussieBall_Animations]

Rest in peace to everyone who died in this war, no matter if they were German, French, British, Russian, Austrian, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Romanian, Turkish, American, Aussie, New Zealand or Serbian. RIP

[moller]

I'm Russian. My great - great - great - grandfather was fighting in the WW1. He was fighting against Austro-Hungery. Austrian soldier could kill him, but he save him. After war they were living together in Austria. He was living in Austria for a 10 years and in 1928 he came back to Russia.

[votesus]

We’re learning this in history too. Eastern front along with Italy, the Balkans and the Middle east are always underrepresented

[umtoge]

They push.
We push.
Every once in a while, we push hard enough that the light breaks through the clouds,
so the world beyond the war glimmers... Just out of reach.

The War is the world.
And the World is the war.
But behind every gunsight, is a human being.
We are those people.
We are the Jaded. We are the Naive.
We are the Honorable, and the Criminal.
We are the bound for Legend, and the Lost to History.
We are the Knights of the Sky, the Ghosts in the Desert, and the Rats in the mud.
These are our stories.

[guard]

Germany the pro that carries their team, Bulgaria the decent player, AH the noob with P2W and the ottomans, the veteran who hasn't got any better despite having played the game for years

[Blly_]

"And suddenly everyone's got pretty eager to *BEAT* each other up."
- Sir Oversimplified

[glaciatedluxray]

The fact that the central powers did this good is honestly surprising when you consider these things
1.)The central powers had only 4 countries, whereas the Allies had over 12, plus the British commonwealth. That means each central power had to fight an average of 3 countries.
2.)The central powers were at a geographical disadvantage, with Germany fighting France and Belgium on its west, Russia on its east, and its territories abroad. Austria-Hungary fighting Russia and Romania on its east, and Serbia and Montenegro on its south. Bulgaria fighting Serbia to its west, Romania to its north and Greece to its south. And the Ottoman Empire fighting the Greeks from the west, Russians from the north, and the British from the east.
3.)The central powers had their own issues. Germany was pretty good, but Austria-Hungary was massively ethnically divided, Bulgaria was fairly tiny, and the Ottoman Empire had been losing land for decades by that point.

To think that the Central had all of this and still kept the war at a stalemate for 4 years and nearly won

[mrgopnik]

The fact that the war ended without mainland Germany being invaded is impressive

[peixedacaverna]

This is probably your most well made and accurate video you have haver made, congratulations for the amazing work!

[TaeSunWoo]

It’s scary how Earth really decided to have two world wars a couple of decades apart