WW1 tanks were terrible, and they got stuck all the time and broke down. But it was way better to have them than not have them, because they got through barbed wire and gave a small piece of cover for infantry. Tanks were partially responsible for some of our biggest gains in the war along certain parts of the front, not that it mattered much in the end. I would rather be sent into no man's land than try to get one of those things across a river.
The Lenin thing is great, but it also backfired in a big way. Communism started to spread to German soldiers on the eastern front while all the Lenin stuff was going on in Russia. When the Russians left the war, those soldiers were reassigned to the western front and it spread there too, which caused a big dip morale and the willingness to keep on fighting.
Or rather it took the English rather long to figure out how to fight properly. Just like the Yanks btw who wouldn't take any advice from allies when they joined.
I think the all around famine under the German population had more to do with deteriorating morale then "communist propaganda" under German soldiers relocating from the eastern front.
Or rather it took the English rather long to figure out how to fight properly.
Only sort of true. The British Expeditionary Force we sent over to France at the beginning of the war were all Boer War veterans. We only had 80,000 of them to send over at the beginning of the war but they were great. The recruits sent over after that first wave were nowhere near as good, and it took a long time for them to improve. The original BEF was almost completely wiped out by the end of the war.
Still would have been the best outcome for Ger. They would probably have gained territory instead of losing so much.
I seem to remember tanks where of little use versus heavily entrenched terrain. Especially since many frontlines where rivercrossings.
The German's lenin play was genius.