300,000 prisoners of war in just one week, a massive advance from the Austro-Hungarian front line on the Isonzo to the Tagliamento river, then even to the Piave, the Italian armies in dissolution, the government in Rome considering fleeing to Naples: in October 1917 the army surprised of the Kaiser with massive German support once again the Italian army leadership.
The German-Austrian divisions, using new tactics and with the support of poison gas grenades, pushed deep into the municipality of Karfreit/Carporetto in the northern section of the Isonzo Line. The Italian army quickly slipped into chaos, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers suddenly fled .
In the current episode of History TV on exxpress.at, the well-known author, military expert and director of the Museum of Military History in the Vienna Arsenal, Christian M. Ortner, analyzes these decisive days in October 1917, the deployment, the weapon technology – and also the consequences of the military victory in the south, which not only brought Austria advantages.
Don’t miss this important piece of contemporary history – it is our history, the history of Austria. Click here on eXXpressTV at 20.15, or tune in to Magenta Kabelkanal 170!
