Posted on 06/30/2021 5:47:13 AM PDT by DFG
Incredible colourised photos from the Battle of the Somme have provided a glimpse into the brave sacrifice of British and Commonwealth troops ahead of tomorrow's 105th anniversary of the start of the horrific carnage.
In one picture, a German prisoner assisted wounded British solders as they made their way to a dressing station after they fought on Bazentin Ridge on July 19, 1916.
Another image showed Australian gunners who stripped off in the summer heat, serving a 9.2 howitzer during the Battle of Pozières which took place during the Battle of the Somme.
The torrential rain of October 1916 which brought an end to the British Somme offensive were brought to life in colour as horses were pictured drawing carriages through the mud.
The series of images were colourised by electrician Royston Leonard from Cardiff who was inspired by the courage of the troops in what was one of the bloodiest battles in human history, leaving a million men dead.
'I got the idea for this set after hearing stories about my grandfather who was there in World War One for almost four years,' said Royston.
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Wilson lied when he said America would not join in the war.
That’s the propaganda we were fed in school, yes. The truth is the Germans were constantly strapped for resources to keep the war going.
The way they treated the Boers was shameful.
And then those oh so poor Belgians, who committed those atrocities in the Congo.
There were no saints over there.
The Committee on Public Information (1917–1919), also known as the CPI or the Creel Committee, was an independent agency of the government of the United States under the Wilson administration created to influence public opinion to support the US in World War I, in particular, the US home front.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_on_Public_Information
Among those who participated in the CPI’s work were:
Edward Bernays, a pioneer in public relations and later theorist of the importance of propaganda to democratic governance.[43] He directed the CPI’s Latin News Service. The CPI’s poor reputation prevented Bernays from handling American publicity at the 1919 Peace Conference as he wanted.
In the 1920s, Joseph Goebbels became an avid admirer of Bernays and his writings – despite the fact that Bernays was a Jew. When Goebbels became the minister of propaganda for the Third Reich, he sought to exploit Bernays’ ideas to the fullest extent possible. For example, he created a “Fuhrer cult” around Adolph Hitler.
Bernays learned that the Nazis were using his work in 1933, from a foreign correspondent for Hearst newspapers. He later recounted in his 1965 autobiography:
Bernays’ quote:
They were using my books as the basis for a destructive campaign against the Jews of Germany. This shocked me, but I knew any human activity can be used for social purposes or misused for antisocial ones.
Yes what a betrayal. Of course in Canada when the British yelled jump we said how high. Being part of the commonwealth and all. But what argument was there really for US involvement, except for the Lusitania matter.
Why not? Germany surpassed the UK industrially and economically during the 1880s. Building a navy surpassing the Royal Navy certainly was within their capabilities. Even one that was slightly smaller than the Royal Navy presented an existential threat to the UK because they could concentrate almost all of it in the North Sea wheras Britain had to spread it out to protect the Empire.
There is no ‘Royal Army’. There is the Royal Air Force and the Royal Navy but the Army serves only by the permission of Parliament and its right to exist has to be renewed every five years due to the Glorious Revolution and the suspicion of the Crown possessing standing armies.
There are various regiments and corps that have the ‘Royal’ prefix in front of them though.
The most disastrous consequence of World War One was the collapse of the Tsarist regime and the rise of the Communists to power under Lenin, with Imperial Germany, in an act of unprecedented shortsidedness, facilitated by allowing Lenin to travel through its territory by sealed train to Petrograd in order to destabilise Russia in 1917.
Because of this, Communist Russia, and later the USSR initiated a progrem of demoralisation and subversion of the west at the cultural, political and economic level as Yuri Bezmenov set out in detail in his lectures and interviews given in the 1980s, and looking at the state of society now riddled as it is with objectively harmful and destructive ideologies that were designed to weaken and demoralise the West, we can see how disastrous it can be to allow evil and subversive ideologies to capture a powerful nation state and use the resources of that state to spread its toxic agenda worldwide.
Well, ther was the Zimmerman telegram....
The attempt to get Mexico to attack the USA? OK, so yes, I agree a response was justified. Not sure wholescale invasion was justifiable considering Wilson was elected to stay out of wars.
That war killed, on average, nearly 10,000 men a day, seven days a week, 52 weeks a year, for over four years.
And this act cost Britain many sympathies all over Europe.
Oh yes.
When it rains, it pours :-(
Yes, and I have no clue why on earth the Entente powers rejected every single peace proposal, first by the Pope in 1915 and later by the Central Powers.
At least I’m happy that many of the alleged German atrocities in Belgium were figments of the British propaganda machine.
Lord Bryce, afaik, avowed after the cessation of hostilities, that his (in)famous “Bryce report” was, for the most part, a propaganda piece.
In 1924 Prime Minister Lloyd George acted very honorably, when he, in a speech in Parliament, apologized to the German nation for the dehumanizing, hateful anti-German propaganda from the Great War.
That, Ladies and Gentlemen, might be one of the reasons why the reports from the extermination camps in WW 2 were, at first, met with incredulity in the West.
All I know is France and England had colonies in the Western Hemisphere at the time, Germany didn’t.
Like I said, the Kaiser was a big talker.
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