WWI, a thought

[Lazerus]

Originally posted by Hangtime
Surprised you guys missed the French take on WWI warfare.

Mutiny. In May 1917, their entire ARMY refused to fight.. and for the remainder of the war, the Commonwealth and the US carried the brunt of offensive operations.

That's right folks.. France, with the invader on her soil, had entire divisons refuse their orders to assault German Positions, leaving the dirty work to British, Canadian, New Zealand and Australian troops. Took the arrival of US troops a month later, in June; to break the stalemate. French troops were never again used in an Alled offensive. Had the Americans not been in France the following spring the Allies would have folded under the weight of the German offensive (they defeated the Russians the previous fall). The result was the Germans, unable to sustain their very successful Spring 1918 offensive operations against the combined strength and reslove of the Commonwealth and American troops, the Huns would have won the war. [/B]

All just anti-EU propoganda.

You damn Euro-haters can't ever get the revised version of history right.

[cpxxx]

Hangtime that is a serious distortion of the facts. The French army took the brunt of the fighting and the casualities up to that point of the war.

They were badly treated by their own officers, had no home leave, bad food, low pay. Above all they had lost  confidence in their high command and felt they were being sacrificed like sheep by incompetant generals.

Some had spent three years at the front.

They also suffered the highest casualty rate of any army on the Western front. Something  like 75% of French soldiers were killed or wounded during the war.

Just how long would Americans or British put up with that sort of treatment? Not long I can assure you.

Here are two sites I googled as back up to my comments.



Mutiny 1


mutiny 2

The miracle is that they put up with as long as they did.

[straffo]

I know your school system is the worst on this planet
But can't you just document yourself instead of acting like a parrot ?

Originally posted by Zakhal
France and britain got their "revenge" with versailles peace treaty.

No it was not revenge it was reparation
Do you know the amount paid by the German the was inferior to the reparation paid by France for the 1870 war ?

 

Germans got nothing, [/B]

They lost what else can you expect ?

 

 instead they were punished more (like they didnt suffer enough in the war allready).  [/B]

They behaved like attila the hun in north of France and Belgium , robbed destroyed and abused all they can.
Did Germany suffer ?
Certainly but not more than the other in fact they suffered a lot less.

WW1 left them with a lot anger which breeded the WW2.[/B]

Hitler never made anything else than reproducing the schema made before WWI , he just was more successfull.
Nothing related to anger but more an old imperialist plan ... in fact a 100 year plan ...

[cpxxx]

Indeed Straffo,

Germany wasn't invaded and no part of the war was fought on German soil except in the east early in the war. The German army marched home with their rifles.
The Versailles treaty was unfair to some degree. But much of France and Belgium was devastated by German actions. They should have been paid for.