The First World War: The Massacre of the Innocents (TRIH ep 597, part 4)
1914 · Resource
Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook examine the First Battle of Ypres (October–November 1914) and its brutal consequences. They open by reading a passage from Mein Kampf and use it to introduce how wartime memories and myths—especially the Kindermord/Langemarck story of youths singing into battle—were formed.
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Around 1914
- Russo-Japanese War (1904)
- Presidency of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1923)
- Spanish flu pandemic (1918)
- Mexican Revolution (1910)
- Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910)
- Irish revolutionary period (1912)
- Russian Revolution (1917)
- World War I (1914)
- Founding of the Soviet Union (1922)
- Pop music: the 1920s (1920)