The First World War Shackled to a Corpse (Season 1, Episode 5)
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TV Episode | 51 min | Documentary, History, War

The First World War

Shackled to a Corpse (Season 1, Episode 5)

TV-PG

TV Episode | 51 min | Documentary, History, War

The war on the Eastern Front was racial; Slav verses Teuton. It was highly mobile, fought across brutal terrain from the Urais to the Alps. It initiated many horros of twentieth century warfare: chemical weapons, mass expulsions of ...See moreThe war on the Eastern Front was racial; Slav verses Teuton. It was highly mobile, fought across brutal terrain from the Urais to the Alps. It initiated many horros of twentieth century warfare: chemical weapons, mass expulsions of civilians, the persecution of Jews. The Italian front with Austro-Hungary was perhaps the bitterest of all. Soldiers lived and fought for years in the hardhest environments, enduring avalanches and frost-bite as well as relentless enemy action. Mistrust and contempt increasingly threatened alliances. Germany shored up her ally Austria-Hungary, feeling herself "shackled to a corpse", which Austria-Hungary saw Germany as her "secret enemy". Written by Anonymous See less

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11 cast members

Name	Known for
Ferdinand Self - Tsar of Bulgaria (archive footage) Self - Tsar of Bulgaria (archive footage) See fewer
Friederich Karl Self - Archduke of Austria-Hungary (archive footage) Self - Archduke of Austria-Hungary (archive footage) See fewer
Kaiser Wilhelm II Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Gewalt gegen Recht (1920)
Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer
Hermann Göring Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Wunder des Fliegens: Der Film eines deutschen Fliegers (1935)
Adolf Hitler Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Triumph of the Will (1935)
Jonathan Lewis Narrator Narrator See fewer	Stalin (1990)
Erik Ludendorff Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer
King Ferdinand of Romania Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Hearst-Pathé News, No. 71 (1917)
Queen Marie of Romania Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Le lys de la vie (1920)
Paul von Hindenburg Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Deutschland erwacht - Ein Dokument von der Wiedergeburt Deutschlands (1933)