WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.670 Hi, I'm Jesse Alexander, and thank you for 00:00:02.670 --> 00:00:06.525 supporting this companion episode of Glory and Defeat. 00:00:06.525 --> 00:00:10.650 The two German victories at Sedan and Metz left them with nearly 00:00:10.650 --> 00:00:14.745 325,000 French soldiers and civilians, WEBVTT 00:00:14.745 --> 00:00:19.185 including 140 generals and four marshals. 00:00:19.185 --> 00:00:23.294 The most pressing problem facing the Germans was how to house, WEBVTT 00:01:42.060 --> 00:01:47.435 Sometimes, German powers were paraded in front of the local population as trophies. 00:01:47.435 --> 00:01:49.340 But once they reach their camps, 00:01:49.340 --> 00:01:54.475 they got the same assistance their French counterparts did in the German states. WEBVTT 00:01:54.475 --> 00:01:58.445 For the prisoners, the war on the battlefield was over, 00:01:58.445 --> 00:02:01.160 but it wasn't over in their minds. WEBVTT 00:02:01.160 --> 00:02:06.750 Clovis Hardy was captured at Metz and ended up in a Bavarian camp. 00:02:07.210 --> 00:02:09.620 "When you are a prisoner, 00:02:09.620 --> 00:02:13.145 you cannot say that the war is finally over. WEBVTT 00:02:13.145 --> 00:02:14.825 The fighting was over, 00:02:14.825 --> 00:02:18.170 but the hatred, the bitterness remained. 00:02:18.170 --> 00:02:21.545 Our hatred was not directed against the Prussians. WEBVTT 00:02:21.545 --> 00:02:24.280 They had done what was expected of them. 00:02:24.280 --> 00:02:28.100 They had fought bravely and emerged victorious from this war. 00:02:28.100 --> 00:02:34.940 No, our hatred was directed against the incompetents who had driven us to our doom, WEBVTT 00:02:34.940 --> 00:02:38.915 who had wasted our lives." 00:02:38.915 --> 00:02:41.975 Thanks again for supporting Glory and Defeat, WEBVTT 00:02:41.975 --> 00:02:44.790 and I'll see you next week. WEBVTT 00:00:23.294 --> 00:00:27.345 feed, and guard such a massive number of people. 00:00:27.345 --> 00:00:30.450 They kept the prisoners in fortress camps or 00:00:30.450 --> 00:00:33.450 hastily built barracks and officers were WEBVTT 00:00:33.450 --> 00:00:37.395 allowed to stay in private rooms on their word of honor. 00:00:37.395 --> 00:00:42.640 The daily food requirements alone were massive, WEBVTT 00:00:42.740 --> 00:00:46.950 225,000 loaves of bread, 00:00:46.950 --> 00:00:49.545 185 head of beef cattle, 00:00:49.545 --> 00:00:51.960 400 strips of bacon, WEBVTT 00:00:51.960 --> 00:00:54.825 540 hundredweight of rice, 00:00:54.825 --> 00:00:58.559 160,000 quarts of brandy, 00:00:58.559 --> 00:01:00.719 40 hundredweight of coffee, 00:01:00.719 --> 00:01:04.350 3,400 wispels of oats, WEBVTT 00:01:04.350 --> 00:01:07.515 6,800 hundredweight of hay, 00:01:07.515 --> 00:01:11.440 and 1,000 shocks of straw. WEBVTT 00:01:11.960 --> 00:01:17.330 Many of the prisoners taken at Metz after the siege are in bad shape, 00:01:17.330 --> 00:01:21.785 but German medical personnel are able to nurse most of them back to health. WEBVTT 00:01:21.785 --> 00:01:24.560 Many Germans were curious to see French troops for 00:01:24.560 --> 00:01:27.200 themselves and there were so many visitors at 00:01:27.200 --> 00:01:29.600 the Ludwigsburg military hospital that 00:01:29.600 --> 00:01:33.635 the authorities issued tickets to control the crowds. WEBVTT 00:01:33.635 --> 00:01:36.680 In spite of the passions unleashed by the war, 00:01:36.680 --> 00:01:42.060 German prisoners in French hands also report that they're generally well treated.