Nov 13, 2022 5:50 PM
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NomDeImguerre
TIL minutes were shorter in the past.
gis4gif
We are all just cannon fodder
RoamingEast
you still would have been hearing explosions for the next several minutes. the flight time of artillery shells and all
Lostarchitorture
"Silent Night" by Stanley Weintraub is a really good book about it. Highly recommend it if you want to read more about this day in history.
bytemypixel
I was born on 11/11 at 11am.
VibratingNipples
that was the first tweet in years
sgnight13
I really hope that last shot didn't kill anyone. That would suck so hard.
beigepurple
I've heard many of those sounds as movie sound effects
WOOPWOOPthatsthesoundofthepolice
yeah the whole 'recording' was canned movie and game sounds
saranwrapslap
I believe the graphic is real but the sounds are quite high quality for 1918. Listen to any recording from the 1910’s and compare it.
Huor
Ya know, they could have fucking stopped the killing earlier than 11:11. Maybe spared some goddamn lives?
jwillustrat
and then the birds start shooting their mouths.
4vie
... I.... some, if not most of the explosion sounds don't sound real... I'm not doubting it is real, it's just... All the times you've heard
these sounds in games or cartoons....
ILogInToUpvote
That bird at the end was like "wtf just happened?"
ParryLost
Poo-tee-weet?
Hypothesist
the Common reed bunting like to watch war. its a weird bird
Lifk
It just made me realize that war must have been rough to wild animal too.
chewtoy9696
That bird is dead
castamir
Those of us who know birds can't live more than 104 years already knew that.
I only have 2 brain cells to rub together, the third one (dedicated to bird facts) died 103 years ago
LaughingMan2Gig
Strongly recommend All Quiet on the Western Front on Netflix
Chieftan
I just watched this the other night. Very powerful.
PileOfWalthers
So that poor ole ostrich died for nothing. Also, Germans celebrate the start of carnival season at 11/11 11:11. No-one mentions the war.
ThatUNielsen0
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tGxAYeeyoIc
AtsaMattaForMe
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DewkNukem
Ernst Jünger - Storm of Steel is the best depiction of World War 1. An absolute must read.
Rasdwa
nah, he is a war glorying bastard. AQOTWF or bust.
BestJackalope
All Quiet On The Westwern Front has this in it and it really makes you feel the senselessness and stupidity of war. Needless death...
Hairarse
“Listen Frank, The chances of that bush being a sniper are about the same as me being the last guy killed in WW2” - Raymond J. Bowman
hawaiianflwr
Imagine that guy who fired the last shot of WWI.
kilgoth1
I'm surprised and happy a recording even exists. Another side of war that people need to see/hear to understand that war is bad.
All quiet on the western fronts last scene with they guy drawing the bird being shot REALLY makes sense here.
Txernobog
That was just in the Western Front. The East was... another stuff.
SortaSordid
Damn it! I said cease fire Tom! Cease fucking fire!
aslowgiantfart
It would suck to get killed a minute before the war ended
grillertommyd1
Spoiler alert: Don't watch the new "All Quiet on the Western Front" on Netflix
hawkesnightmare
Let me introduce you to Henry Gunther. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Gunther
C141Clay
Oof.
etcnotect
Totally his own fault though
WeaponizedJerk
Lmao as if the birds would come out singing a fucking minute after they stopped firing.
jonassoe
But can anyone tell me why they kept trying to kill each other when they knew that the war would be over in literally a minute?
TossABabyYodaToYourWitcher
I guess anything could happen, maybe someone gets assassinated during treaty signings. I wouldn't keep fighting though
UncleRat
Orders.
LjubljanaJeNajlepseMestoNaSvetu
11. 11. At 11 isnt peace is armestice, they were hostling for possition still, it wanst to be the deffinet end of war
RexFury
high scores
Catchtwentytw0
Because every winner knows you fight until the final bell rings
“I’m not doing that you can go fuck yourselves” - unknown soldier (after being told all leftover munitions will be carried out by hand)
torangutanklaus
Orders. Why risk consequences in peacetime for not following your order to continue firing until 11:00 sharp?
freshthrowaway1138
This is why the Generals on both sides should have been shot at the end. Bastards felt no risk and sacrificed the young.
Tigersterne
It was an armistice (ceasefire), not surrender. Wasn't sure if the Germans would ultimately agree to peace.
montyman185
Because the other guys were.
smellyhippy
Underrated comment. They started it - it’s like the fuckin playground of the rich using humans as play pieces
Hefelump
Most front line troops didn't know the war was gonna end. They were kept in the dark and kept fighting right up until the last second
Malinut
Some were ordered too, even after 1100. Some were more vengefull and just plain wanted to. Some felt war should continue.
VodkaReindeer
Have you heard of armistices being broken?
JeevesMk2
Imagine if there was one guy in the opposing army who if you didn't kill him he'd be back in 20 years to cause some shenanigans.
monkeyfly
Bruh....
SanshinDojo
mikeatike
Truman was an artillery commander in WWI. He wanted to keep firing right up till the end to get as much promotions as possible.
Puts some light on how WWII ended.
alRakoun
It was a fucking stupid and artificial war.
NapkinBob
Can you clarify what an 'artificial' war is? As opposed to what? A natural occurring one? Genuinely curious what this means.
Reminds me that I hate the phrasing that wars "break out." As if it's just something that happens sometimes and it's nobody's fault.
Use up ammunition. Less stuff to pack away and carry back. Lots of units were firing at nothing just to use up ammo.
RacecarIsRacecarBackwards
Just for some poor farmer to hit a dud with is plow decades later.
NothingPrince
Please be true
PandAnomoly
Quite certain it is. No other reason to stop on the dot.
It’s like clapping, everyone goes like fuck but one guy stops and the clapping ceases immediately with only a few follow up isolated claps
RevolutionOnHerLips
As a former ammo tech, we really appreciated when units used up their ammo rather than return it :D
Irarelypostbutwhenidoitsucks
As a former recce soldier with a crew served weapon... fuck that shit take the ammo I ain't cleaning this damn thing!
UghItssThatGuy
Lol I would just break off chunks of the belts and check them into the bushes as I walked by.
Amnesty bushes!!!
When I was in the German Navy they solved that problem by not having enough ammo to begin with.
skipweasel
The reason it was being recorded in the first place is interesting, too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artillery_sound_ranging#World_War_I
Evilpercy
They are still using something like this in US cities. A company https://www.shotspotter.com/
JohnThatcher
Which has proven to be horribly unreliable, but the good press means they're still used as evidence.
Yup, Detroit just renewed the contract.
zombiebatman
If they didn’t keep shooting until 10:59 they were gonna have to carry all those bullets home
Sanotassard
i wish. that would create a lot fewer construction hazards now. but no they just dug a hole dumped all the ammo inside and left
the piece of film you are looking at is not a sound recording it's seismograph readings. the entire soundtrack is a recreation
This reckons it was sound-ranging as I thought. https://codatocoda.com/blog/making-a-new-world-armistice-soundwave/
ok minor detail sound ranging is not sound recoding it'S a very sensitive seismograph hooked up to pressure chambers
this is the equipment that was used to make that film
That's clearly an acoustic device (a Goertz detector) not a seismic device - that's why it's got horns.
those "horns" channel pressure waves from explosions to pressure chambers that are connected to the needles and generate a paper graph 1/2
teknojo
I hate this. I hate this & it makes me angry. Like that WWI Christmas story, it emphasizes the idiocy of war & our idiocy in continuing it.
DrPepperIsMyGP
Well put.
TK421isAFK
I have heard that most people shooting were just shooting at nothing, kind of celebrating with fireworks, but there were a few 1/2
sociopaths hell-bent on murdering and using guns and ammunition to kill for as long as they could get away with it. 2/2
DaftTechno
https://youtu.be/HPdHkHslFIU
Skizzlesnap
Don’t watch All Quiet On the Western Front then because you’ll be furious. Really is a much watch though.
Ig0rski
One of the best war movies ever made
You need to watch "Alls quite on the western front." 2022.
ShockerSheep
Thank you! My history teacher in highschool looked at me like I grew a second head when I argued this.
Your teacher was an idiot.
They knew the end was coming, what was the point? They could have just stopped but they didn't. We could just stop, but we don't. :(
Cthulhu2121
Because if you stopped shooting early you would have been executed for cowardice
Hurlerontheditch10
I just finished reading All Quiet on the Western Front and that was my takeaway too
LespritDeLescalier22
The new movie on Netflix is pretty good
I've got it lined up for this evening. I heard it was coming so I wanted to read the book first.
TacticalChungus
...not be 100% accurate to the book.
Not to spoil it, but know that the director chose to take some sizable liberties with the story to drive home the antiwar theme. It will...
aThingWithTheStufAndTheJunk
WWI made everyone hate war. For this and many other reasons. WWII re-legitimized the notion by offering true evil as the enemy. There is 1/
no point to war in the modern age, if there ever really was a point to begin with, except to stop evil. But evil should never be allowed 2/
enough power to begin with.
Carnifici
Polish here, and let me tell you, thank god for first world war~
sjoerdjuuuh
Why? Did poland gain indipendence from germany ?
Poland was partitioned by Russia, Austria-Hungary and Prussia in XVIII century. Each our uprising was destroyed by all of them working 1/2
Because of a General. Which is why we should shoot all Generals/Rulers at the end of a war. Remind them that their lives are at risk.
layinginbedfeelinglikeaquesarito
“But what if they don’t stop shooting when we do?” It’s the question that keeps you shooting
SpacemanOdi
Humans and their dumb rituals. If it's any consolation humanity does seem less keen on war as the decades roll by. I hope it sticks.
OtterlyMagnificent
'That Christmas Story'... Belleau Wood. Christmas Futbol/Soccer game between Axis and Allied forces. Peace for a couple of hours. Until 1/
CrunchyLookingLeaf
There is also a fair amount of evidence that it never happened
I've never seen any evidence AGAINST Belleau Wood's Christmas Peace. I've seen some evidence FOR it though.
someone who thought they were important ordered the killing to start again. But for that time, the soldiers had solved it. They found peace2
Exactly! They should have all just turned around and gone home when ordered to continue.
And I desperately wish they had. Instead we got ...And then the battlefield where heaven stood, was blown to hell again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc3BSQa6k7A (If you need the song link)
NomDeImguerre
TIL minutes were shorter in the past.
gis4gif
We are all just cannon fodder
RoamingEast
you still would have been hearing explosions for the next several minutes. the flight time of artillery shells and all
Lostarchitorture
"Silent Night" by Stanley Weintraub is a really good book about it. Highly recommend it if you want to read more about this day in history.
bytemypixel
I was born on 11/11 at 11am.
VibratingNipples
that was the first tweet in years
sgnight13
I really hope that last shot didn't kill anyone. That would suck so hard.
beigepurple
I've heard many of those sounds as movie sound effects
WOOPWOOPthatsthesoundofthepolice
yeah the whole 'recording' was canned movie and game sounds
saranwrapslap
I believe the graphic is real but the sounds are quite high quality for 1918. Listen to any recording from the 1910’s and compare it.
Huor
Ya know, they could have fucking stopped the killing earlier than 11:11. Maybe spared some goddamn lives?
jwillustrat
and then the birds start shooting their mouths.
4vie
... I.... some, if not most of the explosion sounds don't sound real... I'm not doubting it is real, it's just... All the times you've heard
4vie
these sounds in games or cartoons....
ILogInToUpvote
That bird at the end was like "wtf just happened?"
ParryLost
Poo-tee-weet?
Hypothesist
the Common reed bunting like to watch war. its a weird bird
Lifk
It just made me realize that war must have been rough to wild animal too.
chewtoy9696
That bird is dead
castamir
Those of us who know birds can't live more than 104 years already knew that.
chewtoy9696
I only have 2 brain cells to rub together, the third one (dedicated to bird facts) died 103 years ago
LaughingMan2Gig
Strongly recommend All Quiet on the Western Front on Netflix
Chieftan
I just watched this the other night. Very powerful.
PileOfWalthers
So that poor ole ostrich died for nothing. Also, Germans celebrate the start of carnival season at 11/11 11:11. No-one mentions the war.
ThatUNielsen0
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tGxAYeeyoIc
AtsaMattaForMe
DewkNukem
Ernst Jünger - Storm of Steel is the best depiction of World War 1. An absolute must read.
Rasdwa
nah, he is a war glorying bastard. AQOTWF or bust.
BestJackalope
All Quiet On The Westwern Front has this in it and it really makes you feel the senselessness and stupidity of war. Needless death...
Hairarse
“Listen Frank, The chances of that bush being a sniper are about the same as me being the last guy killed in WW2” - Raymond J. Bowman
hawaiianflwr
Imagine that guy who fired the last shot of WWI.
kilgoth1
I'm surprised and happy a recording even exists. Another side of war that people need to see/hear to understand that war is bad.
kilgoth1
All quiet on the western fronts last scene with they guy drawing the bird being shot REALLY makes sense here.
Txernobog
That was just in the Western Front. The East was... another stuff.
SortaSordid
Damn it! I said cease fire Tom! Cease fucking fire!
aslowgiantfart
It would suck to get killed a minute before the war ended
grillertommyd1
Spoiler alert: Don't watch the new "All Quiet on the Western Front" on Netflix
hawkesnightmare
Let me introduce you to Henry Gunther. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Gunther
C141Clay
Oof.
etcnotect
Totally his own fault though
WeaponizedJerk
Lmao as if the birds would come out singing a fucking minute after they stopped firing.
jonassoe
But can anyone tell me why they kept trying to kill each other when they knew that the war would be over in literally a minute?
TossABabyYodaToYourWitcher
I guess anything could happen, maybe someone gets assassinated during treaty signings. I wouldn't keep fighting though
UncleRat
Orders.
LjubljanaJeNajlepseMestoNaSvetu
11. 11. At 11 isnt peace is armestice, they were hostling for possition still, it wanst to be the deffinet end of war
RexFury
high scores
Catchtwentytw0
Because every winner knows you fight until the final bell rings
Hairarse
“I’m not doing that you can go fuck yourselves” - unknown soldier (after being told all leftover munitions will be carried out by hand)
torangutanklaus
Orders. Why risk consequences in peacetime for not following your order to continue firing until 11:00 sharp?
freshthrowaway1138
This is why the Generals on both sides should have been shot at the end. Bastards felt no risk and sacrificed the young.
Tigersterne
It was an armistice (ceasefire), not surrender. Wasn't sure if the Germans would ultimately agree to peace.
montyman185
Because the other guys were.
smellyhippy
Underrated comment. They started it - it’s like the fuckin playground of the rich using humans as play pieces
Hefelump
Most front line troops didn't know the war was gonna end. They were kept in the dark and kept fighting right up until the last second
Malinut
Some were ordered too, even after 1100. Some were more vengefull and just plain wanted to. Some felt war should continue.
VodkaReindeer
Have you heard of armistices being broken?
JeevesMk2
Imagine if there was one guy in the opposing army who if you didn't kill him he'd be back in 20 years to cause some shenanigans.
monkeyfly
Bruh....
C141Clay
SanshinDojo
mikeatike
Truman was an artillery commander in WWI. He wanted to keep firing right up till the end to get as much promotions as possible.
mikeatike
Puts some light on how WWII ended.
alRakoun
It was a fucking stupid and artificial war.
NapkinBob
Can you clarify what an 'artificial' war is? As opposed to what? A natural occurring one? Genuinely curious what this means.
jonassoe
Reminds me that I hate the phrasing that wars "break out." As if it's just something that happens sometimes and it's nobody's fault.
Cyberball2073
Use up ammunition. Less stuff to pack away and carry back. Lots of units were firing at nothing just to use up ammo.
RacecarIsRacecarBackwards
Just for some poor farmer to hit a dud with is plow decades later.
NothingPrince
Please be true
PandAnomoly
Quite certain it is. No other reason to stop on the dot.
Hairarse
It’s like clapping, everyone goes like fuck but one guy stops and the clapping ceases immediately with only a few follow up isolated claps
RevolutionOnHerLips
As a former ammo tech, we really appreciated when units used up their ammo rather than return it :D
Irarelypostbutwhenidoitsucks
As a former recce soldier with a crew served weapon... fuck that shit take the ammo I ain't cleaning this damn thing!
UghItssThatGuy
Lol I would just break off chunks of the belts and check them into the bushes as I walked by.
Irarelypostbutwhenidoitsucks
Amnesty bushes!!!
RacecarIsRacecarBackwards
When I was in the German Navy they solved that problem by not having enough ammo to begin with.
skipweasel
The reason it was being recorded in the first place is interesting, too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artillery_sound_ranging#World_War_I
Evilpercy
They are still using something like this in US cities. A company https://www.shotspotter.com/
JohnThatcher
Which has proven to be horribly unreliable, but the good press means they're still used as evidence.
Evilpercy
Yup, Detroit just renewed the contract.
zombiebatman
If they didn’t keep shooting until 10:59 they were gonna have to carry all those bullets home
Sanotassard
i wish. that would create a lot fewer construction hazards now. but no they just dug a hole dumped all the ammo inside and left
zombiebatman
Sanotassard
the piece of film you are looking at is not a sound recording it's seismograph readings. the entire soundtrack is a recreation
skipweasel
This reckons it was sound-ranging as I thought. https://codatocoda.com/blog/making-a-new-world-armistice-soundwave/
Sanotassard
ok minor detail sound ranging is not sound recoding it'S a very sensitive seismograph hooked up to pressure chambers
Sanotassard
skipweasel
That's clearly an acoustic device (a Goertz detector) not a seismic device - that's why it's got horns.
Sanotassard
those "horns" channel pressure waves from explosions to pressure chambers that are connected to the needles and generate a paper graph 1/2
teknojo
I hate this. I hate this & it makes me angry. Like that WWI Christmas story, it emphasizes the idiocy of war & our idiocy in continuing it.
DrPepperIsMyGP
Well put.
TK421isAFK
I have heard that most people shooting were just shooting at nothing, kind of celebrating with fireworks, but there were a few 1/2
TK421isAFK
sociopaths hell-bent on murdering and using guns and ammunition to kill for as long as they could get away with it. 2/2
DaftTechno
https://youtu.be/HPdHkHslFIU
Skizzlesnap
Don’t watch All Quiet On the Western Front then because you’ll be furious. Really is a much watch though.
Ig0rski
One of the best war movies ever made
Evilpercy
You need to watch "Alls quite on the western front." 2022.
ShockerSheep
Thank you! My history teacher in highschool looked at me like I grew a second head when I argued this.
NothingPrince
Your teacher was an idiot.
teknojo
They knew the end was coming, what was the point? They could have just stopped but they didn't. We could just stop, but we don't. :(
Cthulhu2121
Because if you stopped shooting early you would have been executed for cowardice
Hurlerontheditch10
I just finished reading All Quiet on the Western Front and that was my takeaway too
LespritDeLescalier22
The new movie on Netflix is pretty good
Hurlerontheditch10
I've got it lined up for this evening. I heard it was coming so I wanted to read the book first.
TacticalChungus
...not be 100% accurate to the book.
TacticalChungus
Not to spoil it, but know that the director chose to take some sizable liberties with the story to drive home the antiwar theme. It will...
aThingWithTheStufAndTheJunk
WWI made everyone hate war. For this and many other reasons. WWII re-legitimized the notion by offering true evil as the enemy. There is 1/
aThingWithTheStufAndTheJunk
no point to war in the modern age, if there ever really was a point to begin with, except to stop evil. But evil should never be allowed 2/
aThingWithTheStufAndTheJunk
enough power to begin with.
Carnifici
Polish here, and let me tell you, thank god for first world war~
sjoerdjuuuh
Why? Did poland gain indipendence from germany ?
Carnifici
Poland was partitioned by Russia, Austria-Hungary and Prussia in XVIII century. Each our uprising was destroyed by all of them working 1/2
freshthrowaway1138
Because of a General. Which is why we should shoot all Generals/Rulers at the end of a war. Remind them that their lives are at risk.
layinginbedfeelinglikeaquesarito
“But what if they don’t stop shooting when we do?” It’s the question that keeps you shooting
SpacemanOdi
Humans and their dumb rituals. If it's any consolation humanity does seem less keen on war as the decades roll by. I hope it sticks.
OtterlyMagnificent
'That Christmas Story'... Belleau Wood. Christmas Futbol/Soccer game between Axis and Allied forces. Peace for a couple of hours. Until 1/
CrunchyLookingLeaf
There is also a fair amount of evidence that it never happened
OtterlyMagnificent
I've never seen any evidence AGAINST Belleau Wood's Christmas Peace. I've seen some evidence FOR it though.
OtterlyMagnificent
someone who thought they were important ordered the killing to start again. But for that time, the soldiers had solved it. They found peace2
teknojo
Exactly! They should have all just turned around and gone home when ordered to continue.
OtterlyMagnificent
And I desperately wish they had. Instead we got ...And then the battlefield where heaven stood, was blown to hell again.
OtterlyMagnificent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc3BSQa6k7A (If you need the song link)