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Frankly in the past I've considered this battle a minor success of Germany mainly thanks to dramatic descriptions of the battle and sad fate of several British battlecruisers. Quite a long time ago I've recognised it as a narrowly missed opportunity to wreck the entire Kaiser's fleet. It is a question of sources and how easy to access sources tend to simplify things to make them exciting. Now the entire arms 'race' between Royal Navy and German Navy seems like another propaganda invention to me. It certainly helped the RN leadership to convince the parliament to spend more money to improve the fleet when GER empire started their loud claims they will be able to face RN, but compared to US, Japanese and even some Italian ideas German surface Navy proved to be mostly a waste of resources.
Fun fact. One of GER pre-drednoughts which survived the battle "Schleswig-Holstein" famously started the 2nd WW firing at Polish outpost in Westerplatte in Free City of Danzig (Gdańsk), which is a well known fact. The little known fact is that its fire was totally ineffective against the Poles because the ship couldn't fire at its target properly and actually caused more damages to the city ruled by the Nazi party at the time. For example one of shells struck a petrol station in the city, but fortunately didn't explode. How GER troops tried to storm the Westerplatte could be a great subject for a comedy.
When it comes to the ship itself the British managed to sink it eventually in December 1944 when RAF airstrike in Gdynia (a city very close to Gdańsk) targeted the warship thanks to data provided by Polish underground and in March 1945 heavily damaged Schleswig-Holstein was finally scuttled.
The History Channel – the arbiter that created Wehraboos and Kaiserboos, trying to spin them into being supermen, while paradoxically, rooting for German imperialism because they were the underdogs, and history loves underdogs. There's a reason why we call the History Channel the "Pseudohistory Channel", it's a sandbox for rent-a-academics to share their fan fictions and headcanons as fact, think of it as the Daily Mail of cable networks.
Before clicks it was subscriptions, before subscriptions it was sales. Media has been dependent on a balance sales and reporting, and after the forming of major media empires the latter became more and more entangled with the former until you get…well the mess we have today. And the sad thing is when historians take just those accounts as actual fact decades and centuries after the fact. And then write books and make a an entire TV Channel around those facts and then…
The "History Channel" has been shit for well over a decade now. Now it's all aliens, conspiracy theories, and bad interpretations of well know naval engagements.
IMO. Jutland was a royal navy strategic victory, because the RN was able to sail the very next day and confront the germans again if need be. Althow germany sunk more ships from the british battle line (and a bazilion DDs and CLs during the night fighting), they had to spend months (and millions) repairing and replenishing its ships. Great video! Also, i've never seen anybody say germany won jutland, but there is people for everyting i gues…
I think we can all agree that the most shocking revelation of this video is the the History Channel is still apparently showing programs on Jutland. Maybe the aliens are the real victors!
Can you do a video about the United States Marine corps 2030 plan and the divestment of many heavy assets that many think as nessary for an expeditionary force
People who know nothing of navies and ships need to shut up and let what actually happened be told, love your series on why the Russian navy sucks, you need to do one on why the Chinese navy sucks as well, lots of ships but no carriers worth a shit, it just makes a lot of sunken ships and dead crews, I'm a former carrier sailor and know we really have little to worry about with them either, that's not a brag, it's a fact… just saying…
I beg you to do Warspites history! Oh the memes, the feats, the legends and the final tragedy. It’s a story to rival USS Enterprise, all the USS Enterprises (including the space ones)
The Kaiserliche Marine honestly never really stood a chance against the Royal Navy by virtue of geography alone. Like the Imperial Russian Navy, the Soviet Navy and the modern Russian Navy, geographical positioning essentially doomed the Kaiserliche Marine to inevitable defeat (though unlike the Tsarist/Soviet/Russian navies, the Germans could at the very least concentrate all of their naval strength in a single location).
Completely and utterly trapped in the North Sea with only the Straits of Dover (my condolences to anyone foolhardy enough to attempt to push through that particular approach) and the approaches to the Norwegian Sea (guarded by Scapa Flow, home of the British Grand Fleet which just so happened to contain the totality of the Royal Navy's combat strength) as potential exits, the Kaiserliche Marine was always facing a hopelessly impossible uphill struggle against the Royal Navy.
Combine this with the Royal Navy's superior strength in numbers, the British Empire's superior shipbuilding capacity and London's rather ingenious diplomatic masterstrokes in the years preceding WWI (i.e the Great Rapprochement with America, the Anglo-Japanese Alliance and assurances from both France and Italy that they would secure the Mediterranean Sea in place of the Royal Navy) that enabled the Royal Navy to concentrate all of its capital ships in Scapa Flow in preparation for war with Imperial Germany and it's no wonder that the Kaiserliche Marine ultimately lost the naval war.
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Frankly in the past I've considered this battle a minor success of Germany mainly thanks to dramatic descriptions of the battle and sad fate of several British battlecruisers. Quite a long time ago I've recognised it as a narrowly missed opportunity to wreck the entire Kaiser's fleet.
It is a question of sources and how easy to access sources tend to simplify things to make them exciting.
Now the entire arms 'race' between Royal Navy and German Navy seems like another propaganda invention to me. It certainly helped the RN leadership to convince the parliament to spend more money to improve the fleet when GER empire started their loud claims they will be able to face RN, but compared to US, Japanese and even some Italian ideas German surface Navy proved to be mostly a waste of resources.
Fun fact. One of GER pre-drednoughts which survived the battle "Schleswig-Holstein" famously started the 2nd WW firing at Polish outpost in Westerplatte in Free City of Danzig (Gdańsk), which is a well known fact.
The little known fact is that its fire was totally ineffective against the Poles because the ship couldn't fire at its target properly and actually caused more damages to the city ruled by the Nazi party at the time. For example one of shells struck a petrol station in the city, but fortunately didn't explode. How GER troops tried to storm the Westerplatte could be a great subject for a comedy.
When it comes to the ship itself the British managed to sink it eventually in December 1944 when RAF airstrike in Gdynia (a city very close to Gdańsk) targeted the warship thanks to data provided by Polish underground and in March 1945 heavily damaged Schleswig-Holstein was finally scuttled.
The History Channel – the arbiter that created Wehraboos and Kaiserboos, trying to spin them into being supermen, while paradoxically, rooting for German imperialism because they were the underdogs, and history loves underdogs. There's a reason why we call the History Channel the "Pseudohistory Channel", it's a sandbox for rent-a-academics to share their fan fictions and headcanons as fact, think of it as the Daily Mail of cable networks.
Before clicks it was subscriptions, before subscriptions it was sales. Media has been dependent on a balance sales and reporting, and after the forming of major media empires the latter became more and more entangled with the former until you get…well the mess we have today. And the sad thing is when historians take just those accounts as actual fact decades and centuries after the fact. And then write books and make a an entire TV Channel around those facts and then…
Look all I’m saying is it was Aliens.
Great video
man do i love this video
The "History Channel" has been shit for well over a decade now. Now it's all aliens, conspiracy theories, and bad interpretations of well know naval engagements.
IMO. Jutland was a royal navy strategic victory, because the RN was able to sail the very next day and confront the germans again if need be. Althow germany sunk more ships from the british battle line (and a bazilion DDs and CLs during the night fighting), they had to spend months (and millions) repairing and replenishing its ships. Great video! Also, i've never seen anybody say germany won jutland, but there is people for everyting i gues…
14:40. Yankee grumblings across the pond murmers softly "are you sure about that? "
Sour Loosers , the Britsh are .
Amateur historians: "Germany won Jutland!"
HMS Warspite: "Excuse me."
I think we can all agree that the most shocking revelation of this video is the the History Channel is still apparently showing programs on Jutland. Maybe the aliens are the real victors!
I'd actually recommend model making rather than playing a videogame, but to each his own I guess… 😅
Jutland was just Britain efficiently getting some use out of its older ships before immediately churning out new juggernauts
Can you do a video about the United States Marine corps 2030 plan and the divestment of many heavy assets that many think as nessary for an expeditionary force
People who know nothing of navies and ships need to shut up and let what actually happened be told, love your series on why the Russian navy sucks, you need to do one on why the Chinese navy sucks as well, lots of ships but no carriers worth a shit, it just makes a lot of sunken ships and dead crews, I'm a former carrier sailor and know we really have little to worry about with them either, that's not a brag, it's a fact… just saying…
I beg you to do Warspites history! Oh the memes, the feats, the legends and the final tragedy. It’s a story to rival USS Enterprise, all the USS Enterprises (including the space ones)
Excellent video, as always.
The Kaiserliche Marine honestly never really stood a chance against the Royal Navy by virtue of geography alone. Like the Imperial Russian Navy, the Soviet Navy and the modern Russian Navy, geographical positioning essentially doomed the Kaiserliche Marine to inevitable defeat (though unlike the Tsarist/Soviet/Russian navies, the Germans could at the very least concentrate all of their naval strength in a single location).
Completely and utterly trapped in the North Sea with only the Straits of Dover (my condolences to anyone foolhardy enough to attempt to push through that particular approach) and the approaches to the Norwegian Sea (guarded by Scapa Flow, home of the British Grand Fleet which just so happened to contain the totality of the Royal Navy's combat strength) as potential exits, the Kaiserliche Marine was always facing a hopelessly impossible uphill struggle against the Royal Navy.
Combine this with the Royal Navy's superior strength in numbers, the British Empire's superior shipbuilding capacity and London's rather ingenious diplomatic masterstrokes in the years preceding WWI (i.e the Great Rapprochement with America, the Anglo-Japanese Alliance and assurances from both France and Italy that they would secure the Mediterranean Sea in place of the Royal Navy) that enabled the Royal Navy to concentrate all of its capital ships in Scapa Flow in preparation for war with Imperial Germany and it's no wonder that the Kaiserliche Marine ultimately lost the naval war.