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My academic blog with history, primarily military history as the main theme. Please leave a comment that can be relevant and useful for the topic which you find interesting. I am writing in several languages, including English, depending on the theme and the languages of the sources. At the moment I am working as guide at Batteriet Arholma military museum in Stockholm. For further information please contact me on lauvlad89@gmail.com

fredag 1 augusti 2014

Some movies about WWI




BBC documentary showing how the war started, among other things with cavalry charges against infantry, and how the war soon developed into a positional war where even cavalrymen were placed in the trenches. Historians in the documentary are presenting exciting facts about the first trenches, the effect of machine gun and canned food. 










 

Another BBC documentary, this one about the Battle of Somme but with the focus of one vital part of trench warfare - mine warfare. Movie is showing how British military miners were recruited and how their working assignments and places looked like. 








A movie about Stormtroopers called "Stosstrupp". The film was made in 1934 and used as propaganda during the dictatorship of Hitler and Nazi Germany. It was a part of an effort to popularise "heroes" of WWI. Movie shows almost as a training movie how stormtroopers perform their attack actions in trench warfare. 

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