The Great War with Florian Wittig In Conversation - IT'S HISTORY

Todays guest is Florian Wittig, known best for his work as creative producer of @TheGreatWar and Real Time History.

The Great War is a history YouTube channel and web series which covered the events of World War I week-by-week from July 2014 to November 2018,[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][excessive citations] now focusing on the events that followed it in longer episodes. The series debuted on July 28, 2014. It is currently hosted and written by Jesse Alexander, a Canadian historian. It has been previously hosted by American historian and actor Indy Neidell. The channel produced weekly content that follows the events that occurred one hundred years prior during the war.[9] After the centennial's conclusion, Indy Neidell, the first host and writer of the series, left the project and now presents the World War Two channel.[10] Jesse Alexander was picked to replace Neidell. It currently focuses on World War I's aftermath, abandoning the week-by-week format and focusing on longer, more in-depth documentaries about events that followed it, such as the German Revolution and the Russian Civil War.

Index:
0:00 - Welcome to the great war
00:35 - How did Florian join the great war
04:35 - How has dealing with history content influenced the way you see the world of today?
8:30 - Do believe that historians will feel the times of COVID will be as significant as the great war or WW2?
12:26 - Do you think the people who went through world wars realised how significant the events were?
14:33 - What stories from The Great War stand out in particular?
17:00 - Patriotism in the Austrian Hungarian empire. Were citizens of the Austrian Hungarian empire patriotic?
22:29 - Are there any similarities between the European Union and the Austrian Hungarian empire?
25:20 - Were the the Habsburgs loyal to a nationality?
28:46 - The future of Real time history and the Franco-Prussian War.
31:00 - Will the Great War film more on-location content?
32:02 - Great War stories from the Ukraine road trip
34:15 - How is the second world war taught in German Public schools?
39:23 - Why doesn't Angala Merkel wave the German flag? Are German people patriotic?
47:07 - Do you believe that Europe is at risk of War?

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[dominicscarangelli]

The great War was the most epic history telling I've ever seen

[dominicscarangelli]

Makes me miss watching this as it came out

[bobainsworth]

WW1 much more. Interesting then our history books.

[LiamE]

War in Afghanistan day by day. That'll keep him busy.

[Terinije]

Eh... I think you're vastly overstating what Austria-Hungary was. The Polish lands were among the poorest in all of Europe with regular state-sponsored pogroms in the region, and with significant ethnic tension and repression throughout the empire. I had Polish and Croatian ancestors that fled the empire at the beginning of the 20th Century for that very reason. Even a relatively better off region like the Czechlands were really smarting and wanted out badly. The AH was really only good for Germans, Hungarians, and local elites.