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Big Norm · 12-03-2001, 02:40 PM

The history channel has some really great stuff. Too bad that they think that history battles begin with WW2 and the only European monarchy was British. Actually, the Germans has surpassed the British by 1914. That is one of the things that made WW1 so horrific. Nations had the money and new technology to kill but the generals were still fighting American civil war style with massive attacks against machine guns. On a slow day along the front "only" 40,000 men would die. Austria started the war with 7.5 million able men and ended up with 500,000. In one offensive, over 180,000 humans on each side lost their lives in three days. The French lost 400,000 men in the first month of the war. After I read that, I had nightmares for a while. I kept dreaming of the bodies stacked up like cord wood and a moan coming out of the stacks. Just unbelievable numbers. Then I read that the Russian offensive in WW1 began with only two ambulances.

I got hooked on the program "History vs Hollywood" because of "Saving of Private Ryan". I had just seen the movie at the theater when the history channel had their special on it so everything was fresh in my mind.

Big Norm

12-03-2001, 02:40 PM	#9
Big Norm RIP Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: SE Michigan Posts: 1,864 Thanks: 1 Thanked 6 Times in 5 Posts	Re: Inaccuaracys in film The history channel has some really great stuff. Too bad that they think that history battles begin with WW2 and the only European monarchy was British. Actually, the Germans has surpassed the British by 1914. That is one of the things that made WW1 so horrific. Nations had the money and new technology to kill but the generals were still fighting American civil war style with massive attacks against machine guns. On a slow day along the front "only" 40,000 men would die. Austria started the war with 7.5 million able men and ended up with 500,000. In one offensive, over 180,000 humans on each side lost their lives in three days. The French lost 400,000 men in the first month of the war. After I read that, I had nightmares for a while. I kept dreaming of the bodies stacked up like cord wood and a moan coming out of the stacks. Just unbelievable numbers. Then I read that the Russian offensive in WW1 began with only two ambulances. I got hooked on the program "History vs Hollywood" because of "Saving of Private Ryan". I had just seen the movie at the theater when the history channel had their special on it so everything was fresh in my mind. Big Norm