AMERICAN REACTS TO THE HISTORY OF GERMANY FOR THE FIRST TIME! 🤯

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[@leighpowell1062]

The 1933 election the Nazi party won with 35% of the vote. Unfortunately this would have been less if the Catholic Church in Germany hadn't persuaded the German conservative party not to stand and asked the faithful to vote for them from the pulpit. Also if the Communist party and the Social Democratic party went into coalition then they would have been in Government because collectively they got 52% of the vote. This didn't happen because of the mistrust between them because the SD used the Freicorp in 1919 which led to the murder of Communist leaders Karl Liptnic and Rosa Luxembourg. The anger was justified I think but I wish I could have a time machine and tell the Communists to do what was needed for the greater good

[@mariojakel5544]

its simple 4 States in the US are bigger as germany: Montana, Texas, California and Alaska, but germany has a bigger population as as this 4 States combined

[@brucewayne2558]

The English are Anglo Saxon people.

[@nik-roshansirak3398]

2:30 - you do realise, that miles and square miles are NOT the same thing? :D

[@nik-roshansirak3398]

8:09 - His name was Wilhelm. It's the German version of Wiliam. I don't know why they wrote his name here in the english version...

[@majordisorder73]

William is the English form of Wilhelm

[@theworth123]

Or Wilhelm is the German form of William.

[@12tanuha21]

@@theworth123 Or both are the english and german form of Wiljahelmaz

[@theworth123]

@@12tanuha21 English comes from Greek, Italian, French, German a glorious mix of many European languages, and I thank you all for this...

[@JacKnife3705]

@@theworth123 it does primarily come from german due to it being a germanic language. But after while it gained more and more influence from other languages

[@theworth123]

@@JacKnife3705 Yes, we are chiefly Angles and Saxons with a mix of many other EU tribes.

[@Lena-rm2md]

Prussia doesn't have anything to do with Russia. Its just the English name for Preußen which was one of the states of the German federation. Also if you want to understand anything about German history I would recommend a more in depth video, I understand why you were confused in some parts. For me watching this is actually kind of frustrating because he missed out so many important parts of our history

[@ianprince1698]

that funny letter read it as double s it is from an old germanic script

[@srccde]

It's not only in english that Russia and Prussia seem very similar. In German too, the old expression for "Russen" (engl. russians) was, in fact, "Reußen". Why do you think Russia still owns Kaliningrad... they took it for prestige.

[@12tanuha21]

@@srccde to have a warm harbour at the baltic sea that don't freeze. The Rus are slavic and the Prusai were baltic. Every descendants of the Prusai were forced to move out after 1945.

[@tomaskatinas1796]

But originally Prussia was a Baltic tribe, later colonized by Germans.

[@randomdude4207]

the video summarized the HRE in three sentences...

[@markusschenkl7943]

The US is roughly 3,800,000 square miles, Germany is 138,000 square miles. So the US has 27.5 times the land mass of Germany but "only" 4 times the population. Now wrap your head around that... 😉

[@andreasvogler1875]

Another good comparison: Montana is just a little bit larger than Germany, but Germany has about 75x the population of Montana.

[@Maxi_94]

@@andreasvogler1875 I live in the most sparsely populated German state and it's still almost four times denser populated then Idaho. Now if we look at the Dutch and Belgians that's even more drastic, these guys are stacked.

[@miceatah9359]

@@andreasvogler1875 plus barely any skyscrapers in germany

[@CptSlow89]

Mericans really need to adopt only true metric system

[@RonaldSchneiderGiebenach]

That will not help to understand the concept of Area vs Length is not the same. Of you want to compare two things you can do this by any means, as long as you get the numbers in the same unit.

[@kristena9285]

That video skipped 1000 years of history, from 800 AD (Charlemagne) to 1800.. Confusing.. and William is the anglicized version of Wilhelm..

[@megatwingo]

-The name of the Emperor was Wilhelm. Not William. The name William means Wilhelm in English. In fact: The English name William comes from the Germanic name Wilhelm. - All the Tribes, who invaded Britain and the Roman Empire were Germanic tribes. The Vandals, The Goth's, the Angles, The Saxons etc...were ALL Germanic tribes. All of them originated in the Scandinavian area. -This video isn't very detailed. It missed the very important Franco-Prussian war that led to the founding of the first, unified German Empire. - The French are in large parts (but not completely) Germanic in nature. The name France comes from the German tribe of the Franken (what means "the free ones"). - Charlemagne is called "Karl der Große" in Germany and was King of the Germanic tribe of the Franks (Franken). His Empire was the Empire of the Franks. In German: Reich der Franken or Frankenreich. France is still called Frankreich in the German language. - The holocaust didn't cost 17 million lives. As far as I know It cost the lives of six million Jews and round about one million other victims (called "undesirables" by the Nazis) their lives. The total victim number is below 10 million people. I think, the maker of this oversimplified history video mistook the number of dead people of WWI for the victim numbers of the holocaust. - The total number of dead people of WWII in Europe (without the victims of Asia) is about 40 million, as far as I know. It depends on, WHO is counting and what is included into the counting and what is counted seperate. There is a much reacted to video about those victim numbers of WWII existing. - The people of the 16hundreds and 17hundreds years were no barbarians. Far from it. - Prussia has nothing to do with Russia. The name Prussia came from the baltic-sea-coast tribe of the Pruzzen. They were conquered by German knights in the framework of one of the first crusades against pagan tribes (by the crusader knights of the western christian German states). The religious German Teutonic Order State, that was founded on the old areas of the Pruzzen-tribe...was then called Prussia (Preußen) by the German conquerors.

[@zamani3535]

Thank you for this! I was so frustrated!

[@megatwingo]

@@Patrick-on2ty No. They were called the Pruzzen. With a double "z". Search for it on Google.

[@megatwingo]

@@Patrick-on2ty I'm a German. We don't pronunce the "z" like an "s". That is a difference to the way the "z" is pronunced by English speakers. The German "z" is pronunced like a sharp "ts" sound. The double "z" isn't sounding like a "ß" or a double "s". The people of the Pruzzen are pronunced in German like "Prutsen". Only in the later name of the state Preußen this was changed to a "ß".

[@indreduobaite13]

Prussia has nothing to do with Russia

[@schlaumensch]

Watching this video hurt.

[@MadeInGermany81]

William is the english version of "Wilhelm".

[@94Lich]

This dude's pronunciation should be considered a crime

[@norberthuber1747]

You should know that an area is measured in square miles (or square kilometers) but not just in miles (or kilometers). Thus transforming 300k square kilometers in miles doesn't make much sense.

[@justacat2]

8:58 democracy went after ww1, then hitler came in and became a dictator, then hitler lost, then germany became a democracy again

[@ralfeicher8179]

William was the emporer of the German Empire (1871-1888) and a bit longer king of Prussia (1861-1888) - please do not confuse the kingdom of Prussia (capital Berlin) with the Russian empire (capital St.Petersburg/Moskau)

[@santaclaus0815]

Fun fact: Wilhelm ll was cousin to the Russian tsar and the king of England (when ww 1 broke out).

[@Suikevrije]

@@santaclaus0815 et ce genre de mélange a permis la fin de la monarchie en europe. elle était devenu l'ombre d'elle même. un pays se doit d'avoir SON élite, SON sang noble et surtout SA famille royale.

[@nessi1378]

Yeah, its willhelm, william is just the english word for willhelm cause ya'll just need your extra sausage (;

[@HafdirTasare]

14:50 I think to understand this, one must go waaaaaaaaay deeper into Hitler's "vision" for germany. To make it short, at the End, he thought that, "if Germany can not defend itself against their enemy, it is to weak and deserves to go down" I think everyone can imagine what a wicked mind has come up with this...

[@tommcewan7936]

"To us, a royal family is just the Kardsahians." As a Brit I have to say, thanks for a great belly laugh! 🙂 As for "why did WWI happen," well, that's potentially a *very* long answer, but the short version is that by the end of the 19th century *all* the major European powers had been competing with other for a couple of hundred years to build overseas empires, and eventually they ran out of space to expand because they'd basically invaded everywhere else that *could* be invaded (the last big phase of this rapid expansion was literally called the "Scramble for Africa"); in the process they built up huge militaries and transitioned to heavily industrialised capitalist economies, which *needed* to keep expanding in order not to financially collapse. With no room left to grow overseas, and a pressing economic need to keep expanding, quite simply, the European nations fell back into squabbling with each other directly back on their home turfs (which is what they had *always* done, before they got distracted by empire-building on other continents), and - through a complex system of secret mutual-defence treaties - that all then snowballed into the biggest war there had ever been.

[@miguelpadeiro762]

The British Royal family isn't much different with people crying over a decades old affair and using it to conspire a murder plot and others having a popular-rule mentality to monarchism "Omg Henry is my king", "Camila is not my Queen"

[@tyronevaldez-kruger5313]

Also Germany is blamed to have started WWI which is a semi truth told by the winners of the war. The semi truth included the Treaty of Versailles that angered a failed arts student with a weird moustache who then actually caused WWII

[@peterweiss123]

@@tyronevaldez-kruger5313 true

[@leurunner4764]

WW1 was started by Austria-Hungary, yet Germany was forced to accept war guilt anyways. They were also punished as if they started the war, so it's no surprise they felt a little vengeful.

[@onlyagermanguy]

Im very sure i lost braincells watching this

[@All_in_one007.]

10:31 ww1 happened after Austrian Hungarian Arch Duke Ferdinand was assassinated by a Serb Royalist in Sarajevo Bosnia Austria Hungary being a close ally to Germany was the start of it all.

[@henningbartels6245]

that was the occasion to declare war - not the reason for the war. always try to differenciate between occasion and reason - this also applies for conflicts today.

[@hannesmayer3716]

3:16 "Iranian influence" They are refering to the Sarmatians. Those people lived in eastern Europe and spoke an Iranian languange, that is related to the language of nowaday Iran. But this relation is very distant and millenia old.

[@patrickt4533]

Aryans?

[@calandula4099]

These „iranic tribes" the germanic tribes encountered in the east, weren't iranians or people from what is today known as iran or persia. They were an indo-iranian speaking group from central asia, more closely related to the europeans than persians.

[@RaoulKunz1]

Ahem - *Prussia* was *never* part of or associated (other than diplomatic) with *Russia* - Prussia (*Borussia* in Latin) was a German state founded by the *Knights of the Teutonic Order* going Protestant and running their own state. The *Holy Roman Emperor* (for the most time just "The Roman Emperor" which confuses a lot of people not familiar with German history) was a *voted* monarch, yes *voted into office* , granted, by the *Prince Electors* but still a voted position. The *German Empire* was not a absolutist thing, but a constitutional monarchy with every German State being somewhat independent and the *Prussian* King as it's President but *called* Emperor for tradition sake. Oh and Prussian Kings had just three names... "Friedrich", "Wilhelm" and... "Friedrich-Wilhelm" 🤣. The *Weimar Republic* after the war was technically *still* "The German Empire" as it was during the NSDAP ("the Nazi Party") dictatorship - and *technically* Hitler was not "the dictator", he held a combined position of "Führer" (meaning just "leader") *and* "Reichskanzler" (chancellor) and *Führer* was just a different name for "Reichspräsident" ("Imperial President"). Another important note is , yes *6 Million Jews* are *horrible* numbers, but it's commonly mentioned that *6 Million* died in the Holocaust (Greek for the "Great Burnt Offering") and it's correct but it is *dwarfed* by the fact that a further *20-odd Million* Russians, Poles, Religious Opponents of the NSDAP, German Democrats, German Socialists, memntally challenged and other undesirables where killed - that's *26+ deaths not including any military deaths* And the Eastern Part of Germany (actually "middle Germany" since the east went to Poland which in turn had to relocate West.. Stalin hated Poland...) Was under Soviet controle in the Cold War and thus a communist dictatorship, the *GDR* until the Iron Curtain came down in 1989/1990. German has been a Power at the turning point of Europe for ages and in roughly 50% of cases it screwed Germany or the World over though in other Fields Germany has been hugely beneficent for the World...😅 Best regards from a former History Teacher and Student of German History in Germany Raoul G. Kunz

[@johndoe-cv8pr]

Germany has always been a major power, and a world power Germany has always been beneficial for Germany and the world at large. Germany is a great nation and the Germans are a great people. May the Germans continue to grow in strength and prosperity and obtain even greater success.

[@HafdirTasare]

16:19 what is very confusing here, is that the "Berlin Wall" on this picture, is surrounding West Germany and not East germany 😂

[@HafdirTasare]

08:08 If you have not noticed yet, English Speakers tend to transform german royal names into their english equivalent. So he was not realy William I he was Wilhelm I

[@JakobFischer60]

There were many kingdoms in Germany and one emperor. He was elected by 6 electorates and had to be crowned by the pope in the time of the holy roman empire (Germany and Italy aka first Reich) but latter was elected by the german kings. After Prussia won the war against France, the prussian king suggested to create a german empire (second Deutsches Reich) and become emperor. The kings of Swabia and Bavaria couldn't refuse and he was elected. His german name is Wilhelm I, not William. The "third" Reich was named by the nazis and it also called by them "the 1000 years Reich" which both was false.

[@njschnieber]

5:02 oh you misunderstood something. That not (yet) the englisch and frenc. That's the names of the germanic tribes. Parts of the Jutes, Angel and Saxons concord what the Romans left of the Celtic British and then become the British of the vikings series. The Franks concord what the Romans left of the Celtic Gallus (Antin Celtic French) and founded the dynasty that Charlemagne came from (and William the concord, who then again concord Britain)

[@mayfielcl]

United-States Land area -> 3,531,905 sq mi Germany Land area -> 137,847 sq mi Also british english people are germanic !!

[@davidjackson9680]

German to old English which then turned into modern English

[@PeterBuwen]

"William" is the english name for german "Wilhelm". This king's name was Wilhelm - english speakers call him William.

[@frankmaeder4358]

I understand your confusion about the Holy Roman Empire, even many Europeans and also Germans are confused there. There is a saying that the holy roman empire HRE was, in fact, neither holy, nor roman nor an empire. it started all out with charlemagne, who, as sort of King of the Franks, wanted to be above other kings and princeps in Europe, so he looked that he got crowned emperor by the pope in Rome. He thus regarded himself as the successor of the emperors of ancient Rome, though he actually ruled Francia. later kings of then only eastern and mit Francia looked also for being crowned by the pope, to be risen above the kings of France, England and tsar of Russia. in the following, emperors of the HRE were either Germans - mostly Prussians - or Habsburgs. as Habsburgs, they were either Austrians or Spanish (like Charles V). Your questioning about German language is also good question. there were many dialects spoken - as they still are - but there was no central, universal language. Until Martin Luther translated the Bible into a German dialect, which as a follow-up became sort of national language, taught and understood throughout the realm.

[@HellBrYnger]

the "Fränkisch" are not french. Franconian. different people, hated the actual french.

[@floriangramsch9036]

2:35 well there is i difference between measuring a surface and adistance. That’s 137846,965 Squaremiles btw. Ps: u should really adapt the metric system. America and only two third world countries still use the imperial. Even the US military nasa and every other scientist uses the metric system so…

[@markokeusgen]

well, in fact the english royal family as well some others, are actually german(german ancestors)

[@whisped8145]

7:50 The funny thing about this split is that it is almost exactly along the 2000 year older Germanic vs Celtic line.

[@somebody5304]

William is just the english wersion of " Wilhelm "

[@NicosLeben]

2:14 You converted this wrongly. You need to convert square kilometers into square miles, and not kilometers into miles. That's a huge difference. The correct result is 137846 mi².

[@Mangosarethebest111]

10:29 Ww1 Was caused in Sarajevo when a assasian killed the following King of austria-hungary and germany and austria-hungary declared war on serbia with that serbias allies declared war on the central powers

[@andreasrehn7454]

When converting SQUARE km TO SQUARE miles, you have to use the squared ratio.... 1 mi = 1.6 km;1 mi^2 =( 1.6 km)^2 = 2.56 km^2... For better accurancy use 1.609 and 2.5900 I used 1.6 and 2.56, as we all know the square of 16 is 256...so it makes it more obvious, what we are actually doing.

[@JakobFischer60]

WW1 started because all european countries wanted to fight and become more power than others. There was militarism everywhere and everybody was eager to go to war. The german and the russian emperor tried to stop it in the last moment, but the could not stop their generals which already had mobilized their troops. Only afterwards people understood that it was a bad idea for everybody.

[@BangerNr1]

William is the Name used by english peaple,Here in Germany he is called Wilhelm

[@srccde]

8:45 Napoleon also crowned himself *Emperor* of the French.

[@floriiii8548]

You should take a further look on the time between 49-90 (West and East Germany)!

[@guyvandurme7228]

William iss the translation of Whilelm (in german)

[@kitthey4963]

357,000km² is arround 137,838 sq mile, usa is 3,800,000 sq mile so its 27.57 times bigger. And yes, we have a queen in Germany, last year when i was riding with my horse to work, i listened to a speech of her in the radio.

[@dineblyton9129]

Oh man this Vid. is waaaayyyy too short. There happened so much more important stuff.

[@DrProvidence]

The German emperors after 1871 are related to the British royalty who are descendents from Germans.

[@wilhelmbaur]

Yep, and the Russian ones, and the ones In the Netherlands, and Poland, and basically every other country that had a monarcy, royalties seem keen on Inbreeding.

[@Vagabund92]

Prussia has nothing to do with Russia except the English have similar Names for both. Classic european names are adaptable. French Guillome goes to England and become William the conquerer, he meats a Dutchman and calls himself Willem, the Dutchman goes to Germany and tells them about that French dude Wilhelm or Wilm. Same for John, Frederick etc.

[@julioverne579]

HIS NAME WASNT WILLIAM! HIS NAME WAS WILHELM!

[@Dylan-yt3mv]

The Vikings were after Bronze age around 800 AD

[@johgu92]

In the Middle Ages

[@wilhelmbaur]

Well, the Nordic people were mainly tribal as they were very far away from southern Europe and the middle east (The places which were most affected by the bronze age) so the Nordic bronze age was when the Nordic people's started using bronze tools and weapons. Side note: The video says Nordic, not viking, a Viking usually means Nordic, while Nordic mainly just means people who are descended from or live in the area of Scandinavia, so It could be much earlier than 800 AD

[@guyvandurme7228]

htiler promised to "make Germany great again"... does sit refer to something you know ?

[@DSP16569]

And he changed the meaning of "Germany above all" (In the US this would be "USA No. 1")- Something that never could be a slogan to win an election.

[@mariopohland1863]

He was killed by British and Soviet Spys because they cannot let this happen and dont want a peaceful solution ...

[@tomassostilton3507]

prussia and russia are two different thing, also the first prussia emperor was called Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig,. william translated in english.

[@baronbrummbar8691]

no such thing as prussian emperor

[@gerhardadler3418]

I got a headache watching this ^^

[@FavourInternational]

Go take an Ibuprofen then instead of commenting loser.

[@gerhardadler3418]

@@FavourInternational Sorry, taking drugs when something sucks is maybe your way of doing things, but nothing i would do. When you can't take criticism you shouldn't put yourself out ther, because your lack of knowledge is mind blowing. You can't even repeat what someone said 10 seconds ago.

[@Anonymous-uw4sr]

@@FavourInternational Chill.

[@DontKnow-hr5my]

8:03 he was called Wilhelm... no idea why they called him William

[@beastofchaospureanarchie]

8:28 William ist the english Version of Willhelm

[@florianpetzmann8912]

William is just a translation the real name is Wilhelm

[@notyourbusiness2074]

in ww2 Between 1939 and 1945 there were 60 to 72 million fatalities.

[@dineblyton9129]

Fun fact, many monarchies base/based on german nobles. Like the windsors aka the queen of england, or even some of the old russian emperors.

[@emiliajojo5703]

Greater german solution basically includes the austrian empire

[@theoswithme]

1. Germany's land area is about the size of Montana. 2. The Anglos, Saxons, Goths, Franks, Alemanni, Swabian, etc. are Germanic Tribes.

[@whisped8145]

16:19 Because East Germany was ruled by Socialists. As its Architect, Walter Ulbricht said: "It must look democratic, but we must have it all in our hands!" East Germany was a prison. Like North Korea is today. Through... North Korea is amped up to 13.

[@Yashusayn]

Same way as there was north and south Vietnam and is north and south Korea, Imperialism dividing

[@kitiowa]

That video was rather poor. Even for a such a short video it could have been better.

[@njschnieber]

2:43 Germany size ist somewhere between Montana and New Mexico for comparison

[@HafdirTasare]

09:12 In the western world, there is barely a totalitarian Monarchy left. pretty much every european Kingdom (Spain, Britain, Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Norway) are parliamentary Monarchies / constitutional monarchies, where the Royals dont have realy the power, but the government rules in their "Name" The Only Emperor on Earth left is Emperor Naruhito, the Tenno of Japan i think.

[@Favourreacts]

What are your holiday plans this year? 😊

[@ruhiger69]

Hm... What is with that Time between The Romanian and the Prussian?

[@huba3885]

did u know zhat ze computer and ze car are german inventions ?

[@vincentpey3929]

Why was there an east and west germany, you ask? The answer to that is complicated but it can be summed up by "Amerika and Russia had a 40 year long debate known as the Cold War and Germany was one of the many countrys involved in them trying to prove that their respective ideology is superior to the others"

[@ricardohilliger3566]

The germany and the nordic regions are very similar you can see it best at Hitlers definition of an aryan German who is said to have blond hair and blue eyes who looks like that? Exactly most time Nordic people that‘s where the germans come from! For example im 1,86m high and got dark blond hair and blue eyes xD and yes i‘m a german xD

[@deadNightwatchman]

🤦‍♂️

[@Jaozedong-q5h]

Emm, that's how most of the people from central and eastern europe look like as well. I'm guessing that you have yet to leave Germany and have never been abroad?

[@mizudoragonyt1738]

Small fun fact, by the way, and yes, I write a lot of comments, that's clear to me But that's not the point, the funny thing is that, for example, more people with different ethnic groups died in the British army than in the German one, why could that be?

[@MrBenedictus25]

The Word vandalism comes from that Germania tribe

[@d.habubo4585]

Most european royales have a German Heritage. William is the english Name of Wilhelm

[@paulpanter4941]

Germany is roughly as big as montana

[@matshjalmarsson3008]

For size, about the same area as Montana. Deaths in the war was arournd 60 million, the 17 million was in the death camps

[@visual_chris]

square meter is basically a 1m horizontally x 1m vertically

[@Helloguys_c1p]

Actually, 70 million people died in WW2. 40-50 Million people died on the European front

[@Attirbful]

Germany is about half the size of Texas… yet has roundabout a third of the U.S. population!

[@Attirbful]

Honey, his real name was Wilhelm. He is only named William in the video by an English speaker, just like you will call München “Munich” and Deutschland “Germany”…

[@baronbrummbar8691]

you should go over some census data ...... the usa had 3x the population of germany in the 60s now it is more then 4x

[@boerbenlp8659]

You definitely need to learn the difference between square km and square mile vs km and miles :D

[@ShenLong991]

William I of Prussia was named "Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig von Preußen"... so William I. sounds like.... who translates names? World War I (At that time called "The Great War to end all Wars"... yeah, that got old pretty fast) started out of tensions between the multicultural empire of Austria-Hungary. Some Slavic men there where pretty unhappy with everything and wanted to make a statement. After an attempt to kill the son of the emperor during a parade in Sarajevo, which failed. A chance came along, after the driver took a wrong turn at the same day and the unhappy killer about the failed attempt found himself infront of the open hatch car with his target and the wife inside and shot. After that, Austria-Hungary wanted to do something about that and declared war on the Serbians. But the political scene was much more in cover and the various peace treatys and no-attack-treatys resulted in pretty much in a world-wide war... Russia was first to respond and started arming. France did to, but only after a france politic was killed by a france nationalist (no, not nazi, just a france that where unhappy with the non-action of politicians in his land) And Germany knew... if this unfolds they pretty much doing a two-side war... so they wanted to knock out the allys of serbia, so they headed to france because russia in its glory was thought to need much more time and wanted to march through the neutral belgium to get to france, which they didn't want, justifiable. But Germany wanted anyway and just started marching and declaring war on france after the ultimatum. Belgium was unhappy with the crossing of the border by german army and declared war on germany. Now everything unfolds, Great Brittain also declared war on Germany. And with that, every major country in europe was in the war. The different declarations and the allied view of the "Rape of Belgium" is why germany was later found the main aggressor in the conflict. I would suggest another video for more information, like WW1 Oversimplified Series by OverSimplified. At 4:50 in the original Video or 16:24 in yours... There is a major error in the original video about the berlin wall. To be fair... it's only in the graphics... But for a video that says "History of Germany" this looks like a large error which makes me wonder what is more glossed over and errornous. YES Their was a continuation of the "Anti-fascist wall" known in germany as the "inner german border" between the DDR (East-Germany) and BRD (West-Germany)... But the Berlin Wall was eclusively around the west-german enclave of West-Berlin, which is located inside East-Germany and borders directly with East-Berlin... which makes sense. It was not a border around the whole ofwest-germany. Why sould it be. Also the Second World War directly ends and pretty much goes into the cold war era... Sooo that is a major contributor to the whole "two germanys".

[@Nicklos-dy5qb]

If I remember correctly it was a royal family feud most European leaders were related to each other

[@TheRealBlxckXD]

Almost got the frohe weinachten keep going Btw hi from DEUTSCHLAND 🇩🇪

[@axp4613]

interesting fact: In germany its illegal to deny the holocaust

[@IceWolf75]

"Prusia wasn't really Russia at the time." What? Do you think the country just lost a P and Germans became suddenly Slavic? They are two different territories and countries with no link between them. Even today.

[@baum7des7lebens7]

Kaliningrad, damals Teil Preußens, ist heutzutage russisch.

[@maximax5471]

World War I started because of the assassination of archduke franz Ferdinand

[@HafdirTasare]

10:51 The Treaty of Versail is a controvercial topic. What is factual is, that Germany was given the main guilt for the war. Means appart from the very unfair and forced peace treaty, germany was robbed of their resources and much of their Land. WW2 would have never happened if they were not have been so desperat after WW1.

[@davidmezo4784]

If you’re interested in WW2 and the exact death numbers, here’s a video to summarise everything: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eqiugXmKYrecpbc

[@svealusmagi4165]

Yes this is supper good video.

[@ballenmedia]

I noticed that the original creator is using English pronunciations of German terms. That might make it hard to understand.

[@marv92]

Hey :) Just to clearify, "William I" is actually "Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig von Preußen" or "Wilhelm I" :)

[@privatevendetta]

WW1 happened because Franz Ferdinand (not the band) was shot.

[@wojtekpawlowski5660]

To better understand Hitler's actions I highly recommend Hitler Oversimplified (part 1 and 2).

[@basoc88]

No, better zoomer historian

[@melchiorvonsternberg844]

About WWI... In order to settle the matter of World War I, we actually have to go back to 1618 and discuss the Thirty Years' War. At the end of this war, Germany was split into more than 300 mini-states, some of which were very small. And that was exactly what France had wanted to achieve with its first covert and then open military intervention in this war. The prevention of the emergence of a German nation state. By the way, the war cost the lives of 1/3 of the German population. As a result, between 1648 and 1815, there were repeated French invasions of Germany. This reached its climax and end under Napoleon. After Napoleon, however, there was still no German nation state. This was only achieved with the founding of the new German Empire in 1871. And exactly this foundation was made possible by a direct fight between France and Prussia. France lost Alsace, which the French had gradually gotten their hands on since 1648. This created an ardent desire for revenge from the French, which ultimately led to World War I, at the end of which France reclaimed this area. But when it comes to why the end of World War I led to World War II and the rise of the Nazis, we'd better let one of those responsible at the time have his say. British Prime Minister, Sir David Lloyd George, at Versailles in 1919: “One may deprive Germany of her colonies, reduce her army to a mere police force, and reduce her navy to the strength of a fifth-rate power. Nevertheless, when Germany feels that she has been wronged in the peace of 1919, she will at last find means of compelling restitution from her conquerors. In order to obtain reward, our conditions may be severe, they may be harsh, and even ruthless, but at the same time they may be so just that the country upon which we impose them feels in its heart that it has no right to complain. But iniquity and hubris displayed in the hour of triumph will never be forgotten nor forgiven. I can think of no stronger reason for a future war than that the German people, which has certainly proved to be one of the most vigorous and powerful tribes in the world, should be surrounded by a number of smaller states, some of which have never before had a stable government for able to stand up, but each of which would contain large crowds of Germans aspiring to reunification with their homeland.” But that's exactly what happened... BTW... 17.000.000 people killed in Holocaust, is totaly BS. Why did we know this? The Nazis were extrem accoutants. There lived only 11.000.000 Jews in all of Europe at that time. They killed up to 6 million.In this context, it is not entirely clear to me who the other 11 million victims of the "other" Holocaust are supposed to be. Does this include dead civilians from the war? How is that? The makers of the video remain here, owing an answer. Especially when you take a closer look at things in detail. What about the dead civilians who died in Stalingrad? When the Germans made their advance towards the Caucasus and Stalingrad in the summer of 1942, it was clear weeks before they reached the city that the city would be the target of the attack. However, Stalin forbade the evacuation of civilians and so it happened that during the battle, from September 1942 to February 1943, more than 400,000 civilians died. In my opinion, Stalin bears sole responsibility for these victims...

[@kevenbassett7323]

God killed many many more than that. Grim.

[@willybauer5496]

Du hast dir Mühe gegeben, aber auch unglaublich viel Bullshit geschrieben… sorry, not sorry for that ;)

[@melchiorvonsternberg844]

@@willybauer5496 Wie nett... Na dann widerlege doch meine Aussagen! Viel Spaß dabei... 📚👀

[@nik-roshansirak3398]

Not only Jews were killed in the camps, also political opponents, homosexuel people, members of other minorities, the mentally ill and many more. I don't know, how they got to the 17 million either, but there were definitely murdered more than "just" the six million Jews...

[@EviLpr0duction]

In Belgium we also still have a Royal Family altho it's not like in the past. We don't really care about them honestly haha

[@carstenstille8503]

There is also to mention that germany still is recorded as an enemy state in the UN as of Japan. The deatch toll of Stalin is much higher and even higher is the death toll of Mao Tsetung.

[@axelk4921]

for your perspective to compare germany is a bit smaller than south and north dakota combined but has 50 times more inhabitants only about 1.6 million people live in both states together Don't get confused by the English names, he only uses the English pronunciation "Wilhelm" in German the same as "William" in English In Germany we also say "Karl" and not the "West Franconian (French) pronunciation " Charlemagne" , or the English pronunciation " Charles "

[@JudeLagcao]

William I's Mother or grandmother is Queen Victoria of Britain now he resides in germany and become an Emperor, that's what i heard from the other Documentary.

[@jerryleport5455]

Happy Christmas Favour. After taking a DNA test seems most of my ancestry is Geman. Look forward to watching the video later ( just too busy right now) But just wanted to wish you merry Christmas and the best for 2023, you done so well in 22.

[@zoeysmith6095]

JAAAAAAAA!

[@ThomasEisenach]

Hello from the North Coast of Germany. Like you and your video. Thx. Have a nice day and 2023, of course.

[@danielsmodellbauwerft9908]

The emperors Name in German were Wilhelm I and Wilhelm II. Don‘t know why his Name was translated into English.

[@srccde]

2:02 You do, actually, albeit indirectly. Nowadays the imperial system is based on the metric system.

[@Veit-A.-G.-Mayer]

For everything from 1900 you have to know that germans may not show that they are patriotic but we are

[@schleiftnix2196]

Frohe Weihnachten! Hahaha =) Very Good!!! Better than my English^^

[@square7935]

they really not get taught anything in the us damn

[@FavourInternational]

How much US or Texas history do you know?