All Quiet On The Western Front on Netflix

There’s a scene about 30-40 minutes into the movie where a German politician says they’ve lost 40,000 dead in the last “few weeks”. Not casualties which is typically 1 dead to 2-4 wounded just dead.

I’m thankful I wasn’t born in Europe in the late 1890s.
 
I read the book in grade school. That was depressing. Started rooting for the Vietnam war to end

Red Badge of Courage too

TV was Vic Morrow and Combat! and the Rat Patrol and shit.

 
There’s a scene about 30-40 minutes into the movie where a German politician says they’ve lost 40,000 dead in the last “few weeks”. Not casualties which is typically 1 dead to 2-4 wounded just dead.

I’m thankful I wasn’t born in Europe in the late 1890s.
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That's what happens when you have alliances based on power and money.

Like NATO and Ukraine.

TTTTT, I know.

 
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There’s a scene about 30-40 minutes into the movie where a German politician says they’ve lost 40,000 dead in the last “few weeks”. Not casualties which is typically 1 dead to 2-4 wounded just dead.

I’m thankful I wasn’t born in Europe in the late 1890s.
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The Meuse-Argonne offensive (47 days) remains the deadliest battle the US army ever fought.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meuse–Argonne_offensive
 
There’s a scene about 30-40 minutes into the movie where a German politician says they’ve lost 40,000 dead in the last “few weeks”. Not casualties which is typically 1 dead to 2-4 wounded just dead.

I’m thankful I wasn’t born in Europe in the late 1890s.
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That's what happens when you have alliances based on power and money.

Like NATO and Ukraine.

TTTTT, I know.
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WW1 wasn’t a proxy war.
 
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We? forget the first Great War was on every one’s minds as Part II was developing. Explains a lot of the isolationist views in the US and a lot of the English pussy footing before Churchill grabbed them all by short hairs.
 
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We? forget the first Great War was on every one’s minds as Part II was developing. Explains a lot of the isolationist views in the US and a lot of the English pussy footing before Churchill grabbed them all by short hairs.
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Even with Churchill in charge Britain refused to get into huge land battles with the Germans. Basically half their WW2 budget went to Bomber command and area bombing German cities. They weren’t going to repeat the Somme or Ypres.
 
He didn't need to, not after Hitler launching Operation Barbarossa and the USA entering WWII. Plus tanks, better mortars / more accurate artillery, and air power obsoleted trench warfare.

We? forget the first Great War was on every one’s minds as Part II was developing. Explains a lot of the isolationist views in the US and a lot of the English pussy footing before Churchill grabbed them all by short hairs.
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Even with Churchill in charge Britain refused to get into huge land battles with the Germans. Basically half their WW2 budget went to Bomber command and area bombing German cities. They weren’t going to repeat the Somme or Ypres.
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I’m thankful I wasn’t born in Europe in the late 1890s.
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I really wish I understood how my ancestors knew to GTFO of Germany in that timeframe.
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I've heard it told that of my German ancestors who came over in the mid 1800's some did so to avoid conscription into the then Prussian Army. They could see the writing on the wall.

80 to 90 years later Granda Yella was back to kick their ass storming the Charmin Soft defenses of Utah Beach. I agree with @BearsWiin that Utah Beach was nothing special.
 
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I went and looked it up (since one side of my mom's family has this fairly well documented), a big chunk came from Germany between 1870 and 1883. Great-great grandpa fought in the Franco-Prussian war and then basically got on a boat to America. Ended up in Nebraska because he was classy.
 
There’s a scene about 30-40 minutes into the movie where a German politician says they’ve lost 40,000 dead in the last “few weeks”. Not casualties which is typically 1 dead to 2-4 wounded just dead.

I’m thankful I wasn’t born in Europe in the late 1890s.
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That's what happens when you have alliances based on power and money.

Like NATO and Ukraine.

TTTTT, I know.
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Sounds like somebody wants to be surveilled?

Or raided by the FBI.
 
Watched it, the number of dead men in no man's land is staggering.

Just running to die day after day after day, over nothing.

 
Jesus. Watched it today. Didn’t think a movie could depress me this much.
 
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