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Germany's defeat in the First World War has been blamed on all kinds of factors or has even been denied outright as part of the stab in the back myth. But why did Germany actually lose?
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Leonard P. Ayers, ed. The war with Germany: a statistical summary. 1919.
Stevenson, David. With Our Backs to the Wall. Victory and Defeat in 1918. 2011.
Stevenson, David. 1914-1918. The History of the First World War. 2012.
Ferguson, Niall. The Pity of War. Explaining World War I. 1999.
Hart, Peter. The Great War 1914-1918. 2013.
Watson, Alexander. Ring of Steel. Germany and Austria Hungary at War. 2014.
Zroka, Ryan. “If Only This War Would End:” German Soldiers in the Last Year of the First World War. PhD Dissertation, University of California San Diego, 2013.
Afflerbach, Holger. Auf Messers Schneide. Wie das Deutsche Reich den Ersten Weltkrieg verlor. 2018.
Tunstall, Grayden. „The Military Collapse of the Central Powers.” encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/the_military_collapse_of_the_central_powers
Goya, Michel. Les Vainqueurs: Comment la France a gagné la Grande Guerre. 2018.
Keegan, John. The First World War. 2000.
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Germany's defeat in the First World War has been blamed on all kinds of factors or has even been denied outright as part of the stab in the back myth. But why did Germany actually lose?
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Patreon: patreon.com/realtimehistory
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Raymond Martin, Konstantin Bredyuk, Lisa Anderson, Brad Durbin, Jeremy K Jones, Murray Godfrey, John Ozment, Stephen Parker, Mavrides, Kristina Colburn, Stefan Jackowski, Cardboard, William Kincade, William Wallace, Daniel L Garza, Chris Daley, Malcolm Swan, Christoph Wolf, Simen Røste, Jim F Barlow, Taylor Allen, Adam Smith, James Giliberto, Albert B. Knapp MD, Tobias Wildenblanck, Richard L Benkin, Marco Kuhnert, Matt Barnes, Ramon Rijkhoek, Jan, Scott Deederly, gsporie, Kekoa, Bruce G. Hearns, Hans Broberg, Fogeltje
» SOURCES
Leonard P. Ayers, ed. The war with Germany: a statistical summary. 1919.
Stevenson, David. With Our Backs to the Wall. Victory and Defeat in 1918. 2011.
Stevenson, David. 1914-1918. The History of the First World War. 2012.
Ferguson, Niall. The Pity of War. Explaining World War I. 1999.
Hart, Peter. The Great War 1914-1918. 2013.
Watson, Alexander. Ring of Steel. Germany and Austria Hungary at War. 2014.
Zroka, Ryan. “If Only This War Would End:” German Soldiers in the Last Year of the First World War. PhD Dissertation, University of California San Diego, 2013.
Afflerbach, Holger. Auf Messers Schneide. Wie das Deutsche Reich den Ersten Weltkrieg verlor. 2018.
Tunstall, Grayden. „The Military Collapse of the Central Powers.” encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/the_military_collapse_of_the_central_powers
Goya, Michel. Les Vainqueurs: Comment la France a gagné la Grande Guerre. 2018.
Keegan, John. The First World War. 2000.
» OUR SISTER CHANNEL
youtube.com/realtimehistory
»CREDITS
Presented by: Jesse Alexander
Written by: Jesse Alexander
Director: Toni Steller & Florian Wittig
Director of Photography: Toni Steller
Sound: Toni Steller
Editing: Toni Steller
Motion Design: Philipp Appelt
Mixing, Mastering & Sound Design: above-zero.com
Research by: Jesse Alexander
Fact checking: Florian Wittig
Channel Design: Yves Thimian
Contains licensed material by getty images and AP Archive
Maps: MapTiler/OpenStreetMap Contributors & GEOlayers3
All rights reserved - Real Time History GmbH 2023
