The Decision That Cost Germany the Battle of the Marne

Описание: Why Germany Failed at the Marne examines the moment in September 1914 when the most disciplined army in Europe came closer to victory than ever before — and still failed.

As German forces advanced toward Paris, the Schlieffen Plan appeared to be working. French defenses were collapsing. The government fled the capital. From a distance, the war in the West looked nearly decided.

But war is not decided by momentum alone.

This documentary reconstructs the First Battle of the Marne as a failure of position, coordination, and timing — not courage. Through archival analysis, battlefield movement, and command-level decisions, we examine how German armies advanced too far, lost alignment, and created a fatal gap between their forces.

Rather than focusing on heroics or myths, this film looks at war as a system — railways, orders, formations, and assumptions — and how that system broke down at the decisive moment.

The Battle of the Marne did not end the war.
It transformed it.

What followed was four years of industrialized trench warfare — the very outcome Germany had sought to avoid.

This is not a story of defeat in battle.
It is a story of being out of position.

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