[18+] WW1 Combat Footage in Colour - Tribute

Most of the footage in this video is gathered from the two documentaries called ”Apocalypse now” and ”The World Wars in Colour”. All credits go to the fantastic makers. This video was originally uploaded from the channel “the world wars in color“ until it was removed for an unknown reason. At that time it had just over 1 000 000 views and great discussions such as people trying to identify certain soldiers in the video to know about their fate. WW1 was a catastrophical, absolutely pointless tragedy. It started for no real reason other than countries showing loyalty to their allies and didn’t solve anything at all. All that came out of it was that it paved the road for WW2... The warfare of WW1 was uniquely brutal. As modern weapons had never been used before in a war of this great scale no one really knew what to expect or how to use them. The development of mobility was behind the technology of destruction leading to both sides not being able to push through the enemy lin