All Quiet On The Western Front on Netflix

CFetters_Nacho_Lover

What a horribly depressing movie. Well done but fucking depressing.

YellowSnow

Just started watching. Depressing AF.

Dead guy uniforms ? Christ.

CFetters_Nacho_Lover

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.

RaceBannon

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.

PurpleThrobber

CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:

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.

That's what happens when you have alliances based on power and money.

Like NATO and Ukraine.

TTTTT, I know.

YellowSnow

CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:

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.

The Meuse-Argonne offensive (47 days) remains the deadliest battle the US army ever fought.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meuse–Argonne_offensive

YellowSnow

PurpleThrobber said:

CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:

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.

That's what happens when you have alliances based on power and money.

Like NATO and Ukraine.

TTTTT, I know.

WW1 wasn’t a proxy war.

creepycoug

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.

YellowSnow

creepycoug said:

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.

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.

HFNY

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.

YellowSnow said:

creepycoug said:

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.

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.

whlinder

CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:

I’m thankful I wasn’t born in Europe in the late 1890s.

I really wish I understood how my ancestors knew to GTFO of Germany in that timeframe.