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1. Regarding the name "la grippe", that's also what we call it in Russian, grip. And that just might be the origin of the term – to grip. An alternative suggestion posits it comes from the Russian word khrip -meaning rasp, like a deathrattle.

2. Herr Zimmerman by his telagram and by sending Lenin to Russia can be said to have lost Germany both world wars.

3. Poision gas probably didn't help.

4. Hello from Spain! In my school we never studied Spanish flu. I, or my parents, had no idea that the first “official” outbreak was in USA. Since Spain didn't enter the war, it is a usually overlooked topic, as is WW1 in general and, for the most part, WW2.

   For context, I will say I was born in the 1990s, and many people from my generation are mostly unaware of anything called ‘Spanish flu’ apart from a sidenote mention for the high casualty numbers (we had a civil war from 1936 to 1939 and a hard dictatorship that lasted for many years after the war, so no much else is covered at school in this time period aside for the events happening in Spain).

   Maybe is worth mentioning that saying “Spanish” in English normally covers Spain and many countries in South America and Central America (‘Spanish’ being roughly translated into ‘Hispanic’ even in Visa stuff if you are going to USA). Anyhow, sorry for the long text, just offering some context from the other end of the Atlantic.

   Also worth mentioning, from a teacher: KEEP UP THE AMAZING WORK WITH THE YT CHANNEL!! %-)

5. My great uncle died from the flu in France. He never made it to the battlefield. I am both grateful and sad for him.

6. I had a great uncle who died of wounds on October 6th 1918, from the during the Meuse-Argonne offensive. His name was Laurie Crowe.

7. Sorry, not sorry. Sabaton reference time!
   Strike at zero hour
   With overwhelming fire power!

8. Your point in comparing the Clamping down on the press to not spread the news of the flu to D Day really falls flat they are not the same. One is a detriment to everyone the other is a detriment to a war effort. Which Germany would still never have won the war because of the soviets.

9. The deaths in healthy people make you wonder if their immune response was so much stronger that it ended up doing more harm than good. Maybe their immune systems response was a scorched earth approach due to encountering a pathogen it's never seen before.

10. VTHism is beautiful

11. La grippe kinda reminds me of how Mexicans call the flu La gripa

12. great video, really enjoyed it! One thing that makes me chuckle is how in every episode they managed to draw the german flag upside-down. idk if it was because of youtube censorship or not but it's kinda funny.

13. About that bit involving D-Day…that kind of happened-Charles de Galle basically screamed that they were going to invade France at Normandy before the invasion happened…but no one took it seriously.

14. La grippe translates to a sneeze or slight cold in spanish, so I can see why they'd shoot it down as a typical thing. However, in Mexican tradition, we always take it seriously because of our setbacks in the medical field

15. BTW: the German word for influenza is Grippe

16. A variation of the name "La grippe" actually became the most common denomination in Latin America. Both Portuguese and Spanish speaks call the desease "gripe" until nowdays

17. Mustard gas was such a horrible thing to use, and considering it could have played a role in the second deadlier wave of the pandemic is even worse.
    SO I thought I'd share something good that's come from it.
    Post war, scientists were studying the effects of mustard gas on the troops and noticed it especially targeted bone marrow and the lymphatic system, and I'm pretty sure it was the way it targetted certain parts of the body that gave scientists the idea that maybe they can have it target cancer cells.
    Tl;dr – Mustard gas is the reason why we have chemotherapy for cancer which has saved millions upon millions of lives.

18. Great video but the way you say Carnegie gets me

19. I didn't know that mustard gas could have an effect on the disease but it doesn't surprise me too much, since mustard gas is composed of chemicals and is unnatural in nature.

20. It shouldn't be understated how contagious and dangerous Measles is as well. It's hard to blame the guy for focusing on that.

21. what does everyone think of Dan Carlins podcast on WW1? Blueprint for Armageddon? also, the german break through was successful, but they had no plan once they made it through. the men were exausted, and they vouldnt get supplies.

22. Its fascinating that we can get such detail and made to feel like we are there watching it happen just by a retelling of events, for me the narration really is the difference between hearing what's being said and experiencing what's being said.

23. drinking a bittburger premium pils while enjoyinng your content!

24. While not an example of the press so much as a Congressperson saying stuff that has fatal consequences in the middle of a war, Congressman Andrew May of Kentucky returned from a 1943 junket at Pearl Harbor bragging about how American submarine captains were unafraid of Japanese ships because Japanese depth charges were set too shallow. While post-war analysis never fully confirmed nor refuted this, the Admiral in charge of the Pacific Submarines claimed that as many as 10 additional submarines were lost from this disclosure.

25. Star Wars story. We were at Disneyland on Rise of the Resistance just after it opened. I was surprised how much the Imperial Officers uniforms do resemble N@zi uniforms. I said that to our group. Some young Karen employee was standing by our group when I said it. She freaked out and said how offensive that was and I needed to never say things like that. I told her to take it up with George Lucas 🙄
    She was so offended. Not my problem she had ZERO clue of the historical influences on the franchise.

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