We should bring back the Old Prussian language

Kaliningrad should belong to Poland and be reconstruct in old style

Im Jewish and my great grandfather served in the austrian army in ww1. Later on the Jews of austria went thought the holocust. This was the real backstab

I agree that there was no 'stab in the back', but I gave the video a thumbs down because of your gratuitous remark that the Kaiser fled 'like a coward'. Had he not fled, he would probably have ended up like Louis XVI in France. If that didn't happen, he would have been tried as a war criminal & either executed or spent the rest of his life in prison.

what a mess... it clearly shows that with enough nationalists on both sides you inviteably end up in violence, ethnic cleancing and war. dont be so arrogant and think those tendencys are a thing of the past, the russo/ukrainian war clearly demonstrates that the same dangerous thinking is still rampant.

....the National Socialists in East Prussia (region where I was born) seemed to have the only possibility of defending themselves against the bloody Red Bolshevik revolution from its eastern border with the USSR... hence the high support of the Nazis there, who in their propaganda appeared to be the only defenders of property, despite the fact that the region was live not only the people of German nationality......it seems to me that the attack on Poland was not caused by the problems of the German minority in the territory of the Republic of Poland (the Polish minority in the Third Reich also had problems), but by the fact that second Polish Republic stood in the way of the main enemy, which was the USSR for the Nazis... because after the death of Pilsudski, Poland did not want to join the Anti-Committee ( as Slovakia, Romania and Finland did it)... Poland at that time recognized the Anti-Committee as an enemy and thus became Stalin's defender/ally, the Nazis, in order to prepare a base for an attack on the USSR, took over the territory of Poland by force, treating this country as almost equally hostile as the USSR....

Germanys first republic was not a good thing.

Imagine being a communist German in interwar Poland.

The truth why the germans left where progroms attacks and violations of their rights as a minority. Countlesss people were murdered. But we will never talk about that.

0:57 Is that double decked trams? That is awesome!

Tried to fight a two-front war under a naval blockade using a bollocks plan? They shot themselves in the foot.

Anti german propaganda. Fake and gay video

I’m very glad you managed to get that piece in there about German aggression. You shall be spared

What about 109 is that a conspiracy theory too

In mein kampf Hitler talked about when visiting home during the war noticing Jews were pushing defeatism despite having desk jobs while he was on the front lines.

You talk trash about American goulash but you literally come from a country where they eat beans on toast

You hear about this shit all over the world. California, Scotland, and Vorarlberg. People in Vorarlberg still talk about this shit. They kinda think they would be the next Liechtensten What ever...🦤

A major problem with the political landscape of Europe at the time ever since Metternich is that it made the natural gradient among sociocultural regions a zero-sum game for borders. Nations often choosing a maximalist interpretation.

In 1916 Germany had all but won the war. The German submarines had swept all the convoys out of the Atlantic Ocean and Britain had no ammunition for her soldiers and only a one weeks food supply. The French Army had mutinied in Verdun and the Russians were deserting the battlefield in droves and the Italian army had collapsed. Germany offered Britain a white peace to avoid any more bloodshed. Britain in the summer of 1916 was considering this offer seriously. While this was going on the Zionist Rothschilds in Germany who represented the Zionists from Eastern Europe went to the British war cabinet and said you can still win this war if we, the Zionists, bring the United States into the war as your Allie’s and in exchange you promise us Palestine after the war so we can establish a home for the Jewish People. This document is called the Balfour Declaration. The stab in the back is an indisputable fact of history and the yooden paid the price 20 years later

Granted, the history of German-Polish relations is complex and hardly a black and white story. But should you not at least mention that the expulsion of some 20 million Germans after WWII cost an estimated 2 million civilians their lives? (See the work of UN human rights scholar Alfred de Zayas, who calls the postwar expulsion of Germans from all over Eastern Europe one of the largest ethnic cleansings in history). As is so typical for modern German historians, you simply pass over this as if it never occurred.

BERND Höcke 😂😂😂😂😂

Your pronounciation of Polish names is au point,my mate. Instant sub.

I think you can think that Bismarck's skill and dedication to his craft was admirable whilst also acknowledging that he was not a good person and that it was inappropriate to glorify him. I have enjoyed movies and music made by incredibly terrible people, I can enjoy their works without pretending that they did nothing wrong. Also on the subject of paving the way for Hitler while I do think the nationalism he inspired in Germany made it possible for the third Reich to be created, the particular brand of nationalism that the Nazis used was a product of sweeping nationalism that effected Europe as a whole. I think he made Hitlers rise to power possible more through the creation of a unified German state than through the creation of any unique form of nationalism. In addition while I do think that both Bismarck and Hitler had pretty terrible and reactionary political views, I think they differed in how extreme they were. Bismarck in spite of his hatred of the social democrats and socialists, knew that it was rational to create welfare state in order to prevent those groups to break down the Kaisers doors. What he promoted was authoritarian but it was pragmatic form of authoritarianism that was while still evil ultimately understood the concept of restraint. Hitler on the other hand, was far more extreme in his nationalism, Hitler was evil to a degree where he actively went against his interests by declaring war on most countries in Europe. This lack of restraint ultimately did far more damage than Bismarck ever could. To be clear I agree with the idea that Bismarck was a terrible person I just disagree with the conception that Hitler is a direct Ideological descendant of him. I think he made Hitler possible without directly causing him if that makes sense.

I would imagine that General Ludendorff’s morale was high because unlike the common soldier, his uniform was clean, his bed was warm and dry, and his meals were always on time.

The Khan of Afghanistan in 1885 was likened by Lord Curzon to one of those warlords of the middle aged constrained by the Industrial Age, a kind of Timur for the Nineteenth Century. A ruthless fellow! It would have been rather amusing if Ludwig had tried to displace him, though I doubt very much he would have succeeded.

Amazing attention to historical perspectives. I love the addition of print media from the era for the same reason

This is one of those instances where I think a war, horrendous as it was, should have gone on for longer. Probably not as far as raising an enemy flag over the Reichstag, but had the Entente ended the war occupying substantial German territory on the left bank of the Rhine, and preferably also a piece of Bavaria (to illustrate the fact that Germany was surrounded), the absurdity of the stab-in-the-back myth would have been obvious to far more Germans. The Weimar Republic would have had more of a chance. And who knows, perhaps private Hitler would have had the chance to be sent back to the front and become just another statistic.

Saying the Kasier fled like a coward is kind of not true. He fled because the army told him to and the democratic government didn’t exactly want him around. Also Germany was dealing with many communist rebels all over the country, who wanted him dead and would have killed him. Even after those rebellions were crushed, he was blocked from returning to Germany. In 1933 the Nazis took power and they also didn’t like him. And by 1941 he was dead.

This is my favorite channel! Keep up the great work!

Not really, but with their "allies" they didn't need any enemies.

Why are there more videos on the Swedish Colonial empire than the Dutch empire

The Herring salad flags both have a British diplomatic flag in its canton. They are both vassal states of Britain.

In fact, the fate of the German minority in Poland was unbearable on a daily basis! On a religious level, the German Protestant Lutheran Church could no longer import even Bibles or hymn books in German, believers having to use the ancients before 1914 even when they crumbled into dust! When a German Pastor gave a banal sermon on a theme like "deliver us from evil" Polish denouncers insinuated that he meant the Poles with "evil" and the Pastor was arrested!

And Barbarossa would never ever really have liked to be in the Kyffhäuser, nor Frederick the II, who obviously would have preferred to be in his castles in Apulia.

7:40 Well today we give away about 1/4rth or even 1/3rd of our income to have a place to sleep in Vienna :D

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Aye indeed conspiracy theorists like you don't pay attention to the facts indeed. The problem with this stereotypical argument is that they actually misunderstand what the stab in the back is all about, it's not that the Germans like Ludendorff believed in an absolute victory like you mentioned but it's the belief that the Socialist revolutions that did happen brought in leadership that would allow for such a brutal armistice, the Germans knew the war was lost but the big shocker was that the new government allowed such a brutal unfair and nation breaking armistice and later the Versailles treaty. The understanding was that the Germans would of fought until a more peaceful armistice would be agreed but with the new socialist government that wasn't allowed so therefore yes the Socialists who rebelled and established a new government at home did stab the back of your average soldier on the front (and as a reminder the German army was still in France before the war ended) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Revolution_of_1918-1919 Also I find your point about antisemitism interesting since you forgot to mention this Rosa Luxembourg- Born and raised in a secular Jewish family Karl Liebknecht-Jewish Kurt Eisner was born in Berlin on 14 May 1867, to Emanuel Eisner and Hedwig Levenstein, both Jewish. Paul Levi was born on 11 March 1883 in Hechingen in Hohenzollern Province to a well-to-do Jewish merchant family. Jan Tyszka, was a Polish-Jewish Toller was born in 1893 into a Jewish family The third child born to Siegfried Seligmann Mühsam, a middle-class Jewish pharmacist, Erich Mühsam was born in Berlin on 6 April 1878. I could go on this isn't even half of the list and you'll get a similar story if you look into the Russian revolution or maybe look into Marxes background too. Make of it as you will there is a strange connection between Jews and Communists and as we can see the Communist jews were the main figures of the revolution. odysee.com/@gregoryconte:2/Prussian-Socialism-Episode-21-The-Stab-in-the-Back-and-Treaty-of-Versailles:c

They literally were though

Germans being salty basically 🤷🏻‍♂️ And a lot of werhaboos and Kaiserboos are salty for the them in this here comments.

Germany could have never won WWI.

POLSKA GUROM Btw your Polish is excellent, always good to see foreigners not butchering our language :)

Nice Video and btw my Family lived in Central Poland for around 300 years, but were forced to leave after WW2

so fascinating

Saying that all the lost architecture in Germany during WW2 was entirely a "direct result German aggression" isn't really fair, since the Brits and Americans didn't need to excessively firebomb the shit out of German cities to win the war, and saying it was a "direct result of German aggression" kind of frees the Brits and Americans from their responsibility for their deliberate strategy of levelling German cites with the ground via the firebombing campaigns. It also takes away Soviets' responsibility for their mismanagement. The unfortunate fate of Königsberg was a direct result of German, British, American and Soviet actions, not just the actions of the Germans.

Wow... germans were always evil. Good that Poles didn't give up ❤

The problem being cowards allowed to run things and not suffer for it. People should be forced to suffer some consequence for their actions and that includes leaders in all fields. Leadership has consequences.

We hope this island can be independent ❤❤ they deserve to control their own land 🎉

Hey, very nice video! May I suggest a future topic? I would love to see a video about Vorpommern/Western Pomerania. I think that this region of my residence may be very interesting in the context of the changes it underwent after World War II, and maybe even in the context of the history of Duchy of Pomerania and the local Gryf dynasty.

Very good looking crown -- kind of Bauhaus...

Overtime the Kaiser became more and more dissatisfied with the Nazi’s especially when KristallNacht happened.