The German Colonial Empire

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[@General.Knowledge]

Which other colonial empire do you want videos on? *CLARIFICATION* : The map on the thumbnail and beginning of the video (plus a couple times throughout it) is wrong guys, sorry! I used an interwar map with Danzig connecting West-Prussia to Germany. It should also have Memel, Alsace-Lorraine, and some more territory. Poland was also not independent at this time and the Austro-Hungarian Empire existed.

[@uncanadien3272]

Italy

[@vukmastilovic1467]

can you make more videos about friendships beetwen countries and interesting maps? P.S. Great video

[@elharvey5032]

The Japanese Empire and the First French Empire

[@loubaxo9339]

Japanese and Italian

[@lubolubchev8722]

It's not a colonial one, but still i think a video about Austria-Hungary would be very interesting

[@hwg5039]

I’m from Qingdao (Tsingtao), the German buildings are still very well preserved. When I was little I was living in one of them and I literally couldn’t believe other Chinese cities don’t have German architectures! They were so normal to me that I didn’t even notice how beautiful they are until I left my hometown.

[@Raiy09]

Get a Blutwurst and a med Brötchen if you’re think That tastes good than are the German houses beautiful

[@JH-hb5cc]

Out of all the colonies of China, Qingdao is the only one I find people view favorably only because of Tsingtao Beer (also probably because it didn’t last that long and Germany didn’t exploit China as much as the other colonizers).

[@hwg5039]

@@JH-hb5cc Yes that's very true

[@Cjnw]

World renowned Chinese beer!

[@zoomerboomer1396]

@@JH-hb5cc When we talk about "exploiting" we also have to keep in mind that the locals in African didn't really us their resources either. So their standards of living increased and they were better off then before the colonization.

[@harri7014]

2:14 Venezuela was called "Little Venice" because an early explorer saw the natives living in silt houses which reminded him of Venice

[@General.Knowledge]

Oh cool! I didn't know that

[@JohnSmith-sl2qc]

Klein Veindding

[@luizfellipe3291]

@@General.Knowledge Venezuela=Little Venice in spanish

[@rasapplepipe]

Correct

[@plumebrisee6206]

@@luizfellipe3291 It's in Italian lol

[@yungstallion2201]

Ok Germany you can have a colony, just don’t do anything stupid Germany: El dorado

[@NishiMiyamura]

If Germany would have just kept their territory they would have joined the Japanese during the pacific war

[@scintillam_dei]

@Angelo River The US was a vulture waiting for Russians and others to do much of the work.

[@yosuasilaen8197]

@@NishiMiyamura this is a contradiction. Japan had a propaganda to boycot all western powers in asia. If the reich still at asia, means they cant be allied no?

[@dawoifee]

@@NishiMiyamura I doubt that. Germanys forces were stretched already, they were not able to spare ressources there as well. But also Germany having colonies there would have made an Alliance with Japan way more difficult.

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

German empire: exists WWI allies: *And I took that*

[@cassianoneto1553]

It’s the old tale of thieves vs thieves, is taking stolen land legal of not?

[@jackgimre431]

ahh yes, he is here again

[@elharvey5032]

France: the African ones are MINE

[@howardthealien2606]

Shut up

[@hmoobmeeka]

Its avery the cuban american again

[@tonytwinkletoes3149]

Italian colonial empire be like: "we have stuff" *points to desert* "And we have other stuff" *points to mountainous desert*

[@evandelck8541]

Oof

[@i.hate.swedish.ISRAELUBERALLES]

Cries in Ottoman

[@Exoneos]

Tbf Italian had their time when they were Roman.

[@piekay7285]

@@Exoneos The Roman empire was (after it's beginning Mord Anatolian and Greek than Italian). TBF the Italians just stopped working in the military

[@ThisTheAviator]

The only good thing was Libya as it contains the largest oil reserves of Africa,if only they knew how much of an impact oil made in the post wwii they probably wouldn't have even bothered with the war and just fortified the alps in case of a german victory while selling oil to everyone. Imagine losing the most valuable region in Africa because you wanted some pointless coastlines in Croatia,that's a real oof.

[@MonsieurDean]

*Mittelafrika intensifies*

[@officialzji1828]

Do I know you?

[@cat_in3rd519]

hey its that guy who does alternate history

[@SAVAGE-oe3fg]

Please make a video about the boers

[@ThatSlimeDood]

i didnt expect to see you here

[@huchung9886]

You need verified my dude. Almost missed your comment

[@sixmill70]

Denmark: Oh we have colonies! Greenland and Iceland: Empty snow noises

[@TheLocalLt]

Hey Greenland is valuable it will be an American possession soon enough

[@sixmill70]

@@TheLocalLt about as useful as fire in the desert

[@TheLocalLt]

@@sixmill70 it’s a geostrategic strong point and has vast oil resources. China’s own resources are starting to pour in due to Denmark’s neglect. America may need to step in and take over with more funding, the Trump proposal wasn’t a joke it was a contingency the state department already had planned, that shows the line of thinking even in the notoriously non-China-hawk civil service of America.

[@sixmill70]

@@TheLocalLt your paragraph long response has been ignored and discarded

[@TheLocalLt]

@@sixmill70 yeah sounds like you’re full of counterpoints…

[@dewangrajkakati132]

Bonus fact; the city of Kitchener in Canada was known as Berlin until 1916. Due to the large amount of Germans who migrated there. The capital of North Dakota is Bismarck; same reason.

[@kagenlim5271]

Imma say this, not a good idea to name your city Bismarck

[@niklaslow3254]

@@kagenlim5271 Why?

[@kagenlim5271]

@@niklaslow3254 I mean, the Bismarck fell, It's just bad karma to name your city after that

[@ehanoldaccount5893]

Canada had several cities with German names that were renamed due to discrimination

[@ehanoldaccount5893]

@@kagenlim5271 You know Bismarck was the guy who unified the German empire right?

[@sahahorria]

It was called Little Venice (Klein-Venedig) because the local indigenous peoples built settlements with canals, resembling Venice. In fact, Venezuela means Little Venice in a very old Spanish form.

[@howardthealien2606]

Shut up

[@howardthealien2606]

@@ordecanlom8520 spell right I can’t even understand you

[@aequisaequus8723]

@@howardthealien2606 tough guy

[@howardthealien2606]

@@aequisaequus8723 you being sarcastic?

[@landoRyder]

Guys im a german and he is right klein venedig means logically little venice bc these indigenous built little houses on stilts like in venice like he said

[@wilhelmzhegerman2143]

One German colonial fact: Germany did attempt to and wanted acquire Philippines, but was cut short due to America annexing it after the treaty of Paris post Spanish-American war

[@theangel3232]

If the Philippines had been german instead of american, it could have become independent much earlier (1918 instead of 1946) and spanish would probably still be spoken as a lingua franca. Sad.

[@kzaanimefan4836]

Pretty sure everyone was interested in it after they revolted against the spaniards

[@ARG0T]

@@theangel3232 Nah, the Philippines likely would've just been a L.O.N """ trust territory """ while in reality being annexed by the British.

[@loubaxo9339]

2:18 "Venezuela" is literally "Little Venice" in Spanish

[@howardthealien2606]

Shut up

[@gestapoboyz6375]

@@howardthealien2606 no 💯

[@danorott]

Is it like two words in one?

[@rodrigomejia953]

@@danorott No it's just one, but it's a diminutive.

[@danorott]

@@rodrigomejia953 thanks

[@makiskanyt9269]

*bismark sea is next to australia* Germany : and it marks my colonial empire

[@vonKraehe]

Whew, as a Bavarian, I've never heard of this colonial attempt, although I heard of the other 3 attempts by the other states before the unification... Imagine it would have been successful & New York would have been called Neu München for a short time ...

[@General.Knowledge]

The page I found was unclear as to what the idea was. Did they want to buy it from the Dutch? Conquer it somehow? I didn't really understand what it was other than a plan that ultimately failed.

[@johannesfranck1770]

It would suck, as Munich sucks

[@marijnverheggen6611]

I dont think the could conquer it from the netherlands in that time so Maby buy it because that would have got the Brits of there back

[@howardthealien2606]

Shut up

[@susactivities_]

@Howard The Alien why are you replying shut up to everyone? If you want attention, you’re not gonna get it.

[@JoaoPedro-gc8mw]

I like the fact that you are Portuguese because you never forget to mention Portugal. Most do, sadly so.

[@caeruleusvm7621]

Apart from the fact that Portugal's empire was by far the longest-lived in Africa, millions in Africa speak Portuguese now - only a few speak German.

[@JoaoSilva-hf5wf]

Melhor momento é quando dizes palavras portuguesas, uma pessoa á espera de um sotaque inglês mas depois sai aquele português de Portugal, sou quase sempre apanhado desprevenido. Continua o bom trabalho. Não sei se preferes os comentários em inglês mas prontos. Abraço!

[@valhalla-tupiniquim]

Eu só escrevo em português.

[@Chaoticplayz123]

Cd nosso ouro

[@MrTohawk]

There is still a not insignificant German population in Namibia.

[@elharvey5032]

Yeah German is taught there

[@user-zo9hg4fw3t]

in my country of Belize German Mennonites have already outnumbered certain native ethnic groups here in central America now about 18,000 of them now but most people here like them they greatly help the economy.

[@RV-cv2yt]

@@user-zo9hg4fw3t That's so cool!!

[@user-zo9hg4fw3t]

@@RV-cv2yt another thing is most of them self think of them self's not as German but as Belizean's pretty cool some of there villages also have majority German signs so we have to learn a bit of German to read the signs but there slowly adopting the English language some are really religious' and were traditional clothes and some are modern and look like the normal people. certain village names. they lived in America for a while so sometimes the name of the villages sound American. VILLAGES: Springfield, Shipyard, Friesen town, Riemer's camp, New Prussia

[@RV-cv2yt]

@@user-zo9hg4fw3t I know, I have recently seen a Deutsche Welle documentary about the german mennonite colonies of Belize :)

[@davimoneylender4112]

As a southern brazilian, I can tell for sure that the towns founded by the german and italian immigrants are among the gorgeous ones in Brazil.

[@thelondoner1526]

as an Italo-Brazilian, though not from the South, I feel flattered :)

[@familyandfriends3519]

@@thelondoner1526 your Italian not Brazilian true Brazilians are of Portuguese decent ♥️🇧🇷🇵🇹♥️🤜🇮🇹

[@familyandfriends3519]

Go back to Germany and Italy

[@thelondoner1526]

@@familyandfriends3519 1) wrong, I strongly encourage you to actually set foot in Brazil, you'll then notice how this narrow blood-oriented view is completely dismissed by basically everyone here. We are a people proud of our land, even more than any bloodline: Brazilians are whoever are born in Brazilian soil. 2) I've lost count of italians who wouldn't consider foreign-born descendents of Italians as "real genuine italians", especially if the italian relative was 2, 3 or more generations backwards. 3) I never claimed I don't have portuguese ancestry (I actually do), I only said I have italian one, the two are not mutually exclusive.

[@shawnnbits]

anythings better than those shitty favelas

[@koldaussie]

This is one of my favourites. I've only just found your channel.

[@PetriW]

1:40 the music playing in the back, is actually a finnish/swedish military march from 17th century. Its called the March of The Finnish Cavarly or in Finnish Hakkapeliittain marssi. Its one of the oldest military marches in the World!

[@Dave_Sisson]

The German military march Preussens Gloria is also in the later part of the video.

[@biopapapa]

Thanks general knownledge for doing my suggestion!

[@snoopy1alpha]

Your accent when reading out German names and terms is so adorable

[@jasonmafia5318]

dont flirt here

[@089roblox1]

Our mind either jump to Britain, Spain, Portugal, France, or the Netherlands History nerds: Germany and Italy

[@Robbie-pc1dl]

Our minds either jump to UK, Spain, Portugal, or France History nerds: Germany, Netherlands, Italy, and Belgium

[@UltmateKngofNothngthest]

Men of culture: Latvia

[@089roblox1]

@@sneksnekier6764 I mean I guess you could call courland a colonial empire if you wanted to, just with very few colonies (I think its trinidad & tobago and the gambia)

[@parmentier7457]

@@Robbie-pc1dl The Dutch discoveries of new islands and the establishment of colonies in the world were many times larger than Italy, Germany and Belgium.

[@thelastprussian6491]

Super master of history: Austria-Hungary Top that internet

[@fernandolacerda0133]

Are you Portuguese? Amazing English accent. But no non Portuguese would say Rio Grande do sul like that. Great channel. Subscribed

[@MrTTar]

"The British Empire at present covers a quarter of the globe, while the German Empire consists of a small sausage factory in Tanganyika". Sorry, I couldn't pass up this opportunity to post one of my favourite quotes from Blackadder Goes Forth, probably my favourite comedy series.

[@mrbond4722]

like the germans say, everything has an end, but a sausage has two.

[@General.Knowledge]

Baldrick!

[@andrewharper3165]

PMSL.

[@ricardoguanipa8275]

Little Venice, it comes from the Palafitos Houses, that the natives of the Maracaibo lake live, the whole structure lies untop of Sticks that had been hammered into the bottom of the lake, the house lays a little bit higher than the water levell incase of high ties, so "it kinda looked like Venice"

[@howardthealien2606]

Shut up

[@gaymermoment]

@@howardthealien2606 nobody likes you

[@user-ft3jq5vi2l]

Merchant: little venice *is larger than normal venice*

[@karolz545]

Amerigo Vespucci coming in 1499 called land ‘Venezziola’ what means Little Venice. Venezuala is kind of modification od this name.

[@kreznreich]

Great!

[@karolz545]

I got it from wikipedia. If it's not fully true please be more precise than "not exactly".

[@karolz545]

es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etimolog%C3%ADa_de_Venezuela

[@karolz545]

Language lives so it could be just old form. True or not it would be good to provide any source to confirm claim that this is/was bad form? I know that wikipedia is not a best of sorces, but it's allways more than nothing.

[@karolz545]

@Sebbo h Great. A have respect for you knowledge of current italian. Also 500 years is very much for language. Also regional defferences were bigger before traveling becomes common.

[@wonderfulweavile5563]

Always a pleasure to look at German history and German topics. Germans are by far one of the kindest, friendliest yet most serious and most honest people I’ve ever met. And of course their history is so unique and complex (yes, it’s by far not only about the Third Reich: their history is way more interesting and fascinating). Ich wünsche allen Deutschen einen schönen Abend und eine erfolgreiche Zukunft für ihr Land.

[@NoName-ig2jb]

Danke

[@brokkrep]

@@howardthealien2606 no u

[@constructix4232]

Danke

[@50shekels]

Was bedeutet “erfolgreiche” auf englisch

[@constructix4232]

@@50shekels successful

[@torvidbente7889]

Germany! Yay

[@lookbehindyou2862]

As a German, I find this very interesting

[@torvidbente7889]

@@lookbehindyou2862 same

[@utopia4056]

Ehhhh

[@P4Tri0t420]

U are allowed to say that You're not German

[@noahbpeters]

@@P4Tri0t420 who?

[@shawnyepes2389]

Love these types of videos !

[@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

Who needs South America when you have mighty Samoa

[@Robbie-pc1dl]

Spain

[@elharvey5032]

Portugal

[@howardthealien2606]

Oh sorry my chairman this was not meant for you

[@TheLocalLt]

No juche socialists on classicalist empire videos

[@HalalHistory]

If I kill you would you kill me?

[@victorjash874]

A lot of old German building in Namibia are still in peak condition. And the guerilla tactics explained at 15:00 they learned from us during The War of Liberation in the early 1900s

[@jasmikko]

I love the disclaimer at the end. Nailed it! Respect man!

[@mariajoaoferrazdeabreu150]

Great video! Love this channel

[@samuele_giletto3130]

great vid, you should do swedish and danish colonies next!

[@kreznreich]

Top footage! I am very interested in German colonization and thus I have seen several videos so far on this topic, and I must tell you that this is the best video I have seen so far!

[@JannaMontana_]

The map at the beginning hurt my brain. Germany had Memel, Alsace-Lorraine, and some more territory in now modern day Poland but the map just showed some weird map with Silesia and Prussian lands connected to modern Germany

[@joshhsieh1579]

It’s the interwar Germany

[@JannaMontana_]

@@joshhsieh1579 It cant be, the map at the beginning had all its Colonies. Post world war 1 Germany also had the polish corridor disconnecting east and west prussia.

[@willywodka1924]

@@joshhsieh1579 It isn't, in interwar Germany, East Prussia was seperated from the restt through the polish corridor. This corridor is also missing.

[@MrDonut-ch8dr]

In that map posen is missing

[@dbriner-jo5tv]

I did too i commented in it too

[@davout5775]

The greed on the Allies in WW1 is the whole reason for everything that happened from 1918 onwards

[@HistoryandWhiskey]

That is very correct Marshal.

[@waiting4aliens]

Nice over view, thank you.

[@jeanbonnefoy1377]

2:18 simply because when Amerigo Vespucci discovered the region, some of its indigenous stilted houses reminded him of Venice, leading him to name it "Veneziola" ("little Venice") which became later the Spanish name Venezuela...

[@M_Dun]

"Come to Brazil" - King João VI, 1808

[@ItsSeated]

No

[@ItsSeated]

Yóü'ré Gôíñg tò Bräzíl

[@mikaelvilhjalmsson6068]

This is a really good video. The one thing I find a little misleading is at 0:40 the caricature of that guy looking a bit like Hitler, but in fact it's no German person, but the British imperialist Cecil Rhodes, demonstrating Britain's claim on Africa from North through to South. Apart from that, a great and interesting video.

[@emilymalden3310]

This is fascinating.

[@cesargonzalez4146]

The name Little Venice (Klein Venedig), according to some records, has its origins in the houses the anu and other natives built around the shores of Lake Maracaibo and the Gulf of Venezuela, named in spanish palafitos (stilt houses), supported by long and strong wooded poles to keep them over the water level, there were complete villages with dozens of houses built in this fashion, they also preferred to use canoes to travel between the villages around the area rather than exposing themselves walking around the coast, where wild animals and hostile tribes could attack them. The spanish and italian explorers, many of them seasoned mediterranean merchants, called the area Pequeña Venecia or Venezziola for its likeness to the legendary City of Channels even before arrival of the germans, and that's also the origin of the country name, Venezuela, the Little Venice.

[@Jonasm501]

There were also german-british plans to divide the portuguese colonies in 1898 and 1913, to improve Anglo-German relationships. Britain wanted: Mozambique, south of the Zambezi, Portuguese India, Macau, Timor-Leste, the eastern part of Angola and Cape Verde and Germany wanted: Mozambique, north of the Zambezi, the rest of Angola + Cabinda and Sao Tome and Principe while Portuguese Guinea would be ceded to France.

[@rodrigomejia953]

The reason the Welsers refered to Venezuela as little Venice is because that is how Americo Vespucci had refered to it in one of his books, he was italian so when he saw the native building huts along and on top of the Maracaibo lake he instantly thought of it and called the area Venezola (Little Venice) which is also where the name Venezuela comes from.

[@seguir4827]

Thank you

[@FikAb]

Better to make next video about the German settlements in the various places like Wolga-Deutschen, Pskau Deutschen and even German settlers in Azerbaijan (the Caucausus region), where settlers from Baden-Württemberg founded such villages like Andreasdorf and Helensdorf.

[@HahnJames]

I would be interested in seeing a history of Brazil.

[@realhawaii5o]

It was called Little Venice because the guy that discovered Venezuela (name comes from small Venice) spent a lot of time in Venice and the native Americans there built houses on stilts in an area on a river estuary that looked like canals.

[@offtraileddino5989]

Beautiful!

[@ann-carolinemorner6405]

My family lived in Tanzania in the sixties. We met an old man who could speak -German. We also stayed at the Tabora Hotel which was built for Kaiser Wilhelm. Only he never did visit Tanganyika. People in Tanzania still remeḿbeered the Germans and the terrible way they treated people, especially in tne Arusha province.

[@jaswindersinghsraa9435]

yes it’s a nice building in Tabora ,,, a beautiful town ,,,,stay blessed ,,, i was born in Dodoma

[@ferhatdikmen3762]

15:00 didn't know that zebras are used like horses .

[@fireflyfireworks668]

It takes literally balls of steels to tame a zebra, but better than having to "import" horses.

[@ferhatdikmen3762]

@@fireflyfireworks668 it wasn't that easy to import thousends of horses to another continent in that time .

[@wolfsoldner9029]

Its stature doesnt look like a zebra. It looks like a horse with a zebra camo painted on it.

[@niccolopaganini4268]

@@wolfsoldner9029 outstanding move

[@fireflyfireworks668]

@@ferhatdikmen3762 As I said, it was easier to sacrifice some poor man's balls than importing.

[@rub-al-khali4265]

Venezuela was names after Venice because in 1499, an expedition led by Alonso de Ojeda visited the Venezuelan coast. The stilt houses in the area of Lake Maracaibo reminded the Italian navigator, Amerigo Vespucci, of the city of Venice, Italy, so he named the region Veneziola, or "Little Venice".

[@galiciangladiator5857]

6:44 Brazilians, asking people to come to Brazil since 1808.

[@ordinary_magician]

Is it just me or does that Germany look... kinda off in the thumbnail

[@Irrelevantnerd1918]

Yeah it looks like Posen, Alsace Lorraine, and North Schleswig aren’t apart of Germany for some reason

[@General.Knowledge]

Shhhh... I might have not been able to find a proper map so I used a post-ww1 one and just connected danzig by hand while forgetting the rest

[@M_Dun]

@@General.Knowledge Professional 😂

[@efecar5929]

Pretty amazing how large they got a empire in just 47 years

[@alui3619]

Great as usual! Where are you from? I've been asking myself asking the same question video after video.

[@fanta-cool7532]

He is Portuguese

[@ZK_1234_]

I want..... *MORE*

[@dumigamez397]

You wanna go where the people go?

[@Unknown-wk3bh]

Most people in germany don't know anything about its colonial past + the genocides in Africa.

[@SpaceMonkeyBoi]

3:03 Nice

[@caiosiqueira6138]

2:14 When the europeans arrived in present-day Venezuela, there were a lot of indian's stilt houses(which is actually quite common in the amazon region) and they thought: "hey, that resembles what we see in Venice(Venezia in italian), so let's call this place VENEzuela(which stands for litte venice, just like the name the germans gave to it)" By the way, the country's name was Americo Vespucci's ideia.

[@Kameliius]

Diese Kommentar-Sektion ist nun offiziell Teil des Deutschen Kaiserreiches!

[@Raiy09]

Das Gefühl habe ich auch xD

[@TheGogeta222]

EIN VOLK, EIN REICH, EIN KOMMENTARBEREICH!

[@ulrikschackmeyer848]

Ok. As long as you don't tell anyone and don't make a fuzz. Or we'll have to take it off your vands. The World

[@wendigockel]

Man Spricht Deutsch, mein Herr!

[@ulrikschackmeyer848]

@@wendigockel If you know how to do it PROPERLY! As a Dane I would rather speak correct English than bad German, neh?

[@arturogiovannic.6473]

King João VI: “Come to Brazil!”

[@originalhistory4446]

Could you do the French colonial empire? I really want to learn more about their North American possessions before 1763. If that one is to complex could you try the Swedish colonial empire?

[@s.t.384]

Thanks

[@cedricdalbalcon5999]

It was called little Venice because the Venezuela’s landscape resembles the lagoon-like City of Venice. That’s why Venezuela 🇻🇪 is named like it is. Vene comes from Venezia (Italian)

[@familyandfriends3519]

But Venezuela is a Spanish colonization

[@ralfm.schroder8188]

Too less about German Samoa ... By the way, I visited the formerly German part of Samoa twice, and many Samoans asked me: Where do you come from? When I said: Germany, all of them smiled more than before, and some told me details of German history there, no German has ever heard about. Many (western) Samoans are very proud of their German part of history. It felt like the Kaiser‘s Empire has never gone there. It‘s one of the few really German-friendly places in the world. And that’s although we Germans deported some of their chiefs, didn’t allow them to build traditional high sea ships anymore, didn’t allow them to bury their dead relatives at home like before, accept the Kaiser as their Tupu Sili, their highest king, and many other repressions. They could REALLY forgive. What wonderful people they are! I hope one day they will be re-united with the eastern brothers. They are still under US rule.

[@MrSicc274]

And in Tonga also. My aunties family Sanft

[@eybaza6018]

A Dinosaur from Tanzania was named after general von Lettow-Vorbeck: Dysalotosaurus lettowvorbecki. It means Lettow-Vorbeck's untouchable lizard, probably in reference to his long and fierce resistance against the British forces.

[@StefonMilosivich]

First “Come to Brazil” 6:30

[@sidneilefredopadaratz6048]

Another charttered German Colony was settled in 1850 in Santa Catarina (Brazil) and it was named after its manager Doctor Hermann Bruno Otto Blumenau. So, my ancestors came along with him to Blumenau to start a new life out of Prussia, which became part of the Germany after a while. Till the WWII the main language in Biumenau Town was German and its several dialects. And speak this language from 40's decade was forbidden by The Federal Brazilian Government and my family had got to learn Portuguese liking or not. As consequences of this almost anybody speaks German at all. It's easier to find those which are English speakers instead. I meant, Rio Grande do Sul was the first part of Brazil where Germans have taken place but there were Santa Catarina and Espírito Santo colonies as well. It's to say the least.

[@OmegaLegacy972]

Germany sure did lose a lot of territory in the 1900s but it’s still strong and proud today.

[@elharvey5032]

And don't forget also non German I'm joking

[@danorott]

I don't know about the "proud" part but ok.

[@Raiy09]

but not proud of history or today. We can say we are a better democracy than the USA or were strong in economy. But proud not this is so an old word better new and better or something

[@elharvey5032]

@@Raiy09 Is that one of the main reasons why Germans migrate to Switzerland and Austria?

[@elharvey5032]

@S K Sadly that might be the case because even Austrians were Protesting against Immigrantion and now with recent Terrorists attacks it might have increased the Anti Immigrantion movement

[@whataworldwelivein1624]

I was planning to make a video related to this

[@ElDiosMashiar]

When i heard Colonial Empire i remind: Netherlands UK Portugal France Spain Latvia Denmark Sweden Norway Japan Belgium USA Austria-Hungary

[@ammoniumphosphate]

Maybe the swedish colonial empire? (can't remember if you've already done that)

[@vieiradosreismariadelurdes9105]

Good idea. 👍

[@willywodka1924]

That map is really strange, Poland exists, Germany lost all of its WW1 losses except the polish corridor and Austria-Hungary is split up. What happened there?

[@sallmandar1027]

Its a ww2 map, but germany has its colonies and the polish corridor

[@oscarbray4854]

@@sallmandar1027 i saw that too

[@Duececoupe]

I love this channel more for each episode! 🏆🥇

[@MakriaMicronation]

They called Venezuela "little venice " because in the colony there was a city with houses built on stilts just like venice

[@mikeschmidt91]

Really good content. 👏 greetings from Germany 🇩🇪

[@TurkishPanzer]

hmmm what dose the german empire look like (general knowledge) just give them ww2 borders with danzig.

[@oscarbray4854]

i saw that too

[@lefrenchaudir188]

Imagine if there is a universe where germany kept Norway and Denmark after a peace deal some how...

[@TurkishPanzer]

@@lefrenchaudir188 HOI4 TNO?

[@alphastorm1466]

The sufix -uela/o in Spanish means "little", for example, a little well (pozo) it's pozuelo, so Venezuela literally means Little Venice in Spanish

[@engelsteinberg593]

No in today Spanish.

[@alphastorm1466]

@@engelsteinberg593 well i'm Spanish and even if it's not really used today, many people from rural areas specially make use of it, specially in Andalusia and sorrounding areas.

[@robertholmberg6485]

The Swedish Empire, which at 1 time included part of the what would become the U.S.A. (mainly in Delaware area), part of present day Ghana, the Baltic states, and Finland

[@cassianoneto1553]

They called it “little Venice” because Venezuela’s coast reminded them of the Italian city. That is also the origin of the name Venezuela in Spanish, too, meaning little Venice.

[@boosh5827]

British colonial empire pretty thicc tho

[@andenfighter0078]

bruv that map be looking cursed tho like tf did you do to my Posen

[@amiroo0o581]

Just a little note; begin, beGAN, beGUN

[@irohito622]

This explains why Chilean military helmets are German

[@lukealexander2135]

Cool

[@jaredbrooks9717]

Very well said ending

[@UninstalledGamer]

Does anyone else feel like that Germany is missing Posen and Alsace Lorraine in General's map at the first minute of the video?

[@collaborisgaming2190]

14:16 they blamed it on the Germans for attacking first, you know who was the first to defy the colonial neutrality act of 1884? Belgium. then brtiain, France followed suit and South Africa had it's own plans. Germany was forced to defend against the breakers of international law. the Germans only tried attacking after the second week of entaunt assaults

[@engelsteinberg593]

Actually was Austria, and if was no by Kiaser Wilhelm II the devil, there would be no war.

[@collaborisgaming2190]

@@engelsteinberg593 Serbia Sponsored the Assassination. So if Anything It's Yugoslavia that takes the Blame since it Came into Existence because of the Outcome of the war Serbia also didn't extradite the Terrorists Responsible to Austria-Hungary which internationally was Illegal. All Russia Had to do was Stay out but Noooo. They had to Go Burr with their Incompetent Military and Pan-slavism that only Inspired the German Version a Generation Later

[@engelsteinberg593]

@@collaborisgaming2190 Actually the Serbians were willing to colaborate, they asked for internacional arbritation, therefore Wilhelm should have ordered Austria to accept and invite America to arbritate. PD.: Hail Deutschland.

[@collaborisgaming2190]

@@engelsteinberg593 they didn't want to collaborate on 2 specific terms, one being 24 hour compliance and the second being to turn in a Serbian Army Major (Whom also had a Hand in Killing Greek monarchs) who threw a Bomb in a Failed Attempt the day before Princip killed Franz, they agreed to the rest of the Terms that Honestly sounds like it was Written to the part of France that Wasn't Vichy I'm pretty sure you wouldn't want outsiders to Mediate when some foreign country's state sponsored terrorist Group kills someone in equivalency to Vice President (America Might Pursue war anyway if it was them (Given they almost went to war with Mexico over Pancho Villa), otherwise Embargo was the main tactic). International Law was Also on Austria-Hungary's side so Mediation would only Complicate things Only Russia and Serbia Cared about the Ultimatum. the Chain of Alliances did the Rest. the Entaunt was the "We are Scared of Germany" Club because France and Russia (the Tsar was the Kaiser's cousin so it would make sense for Russia to be a mediator). then the Entaunt became the "Gang Bang Germany" Club when Germany wanted to End the War Quick in the West because Russia was more Feared Despite being Relativly De-industrialized

[@engelsteinberg593]

@@collaborisgaming2190 Certainly maybe having America arbitring may complicate things, but having some external country to testify the things may help to avoid scalate the crisis. Also Frace just wanted Alssac-Lorraine back. Maybe offering self-determination to the regions of Alssac-Lorraine, so the French can be no longer obssesed with war with Germany. Also Germany should have search a Alliance with America so if something goes to war, Germany could win easy.

[@kaiserwilhelmii9636]

I still remember my old days when i become new Kaiser of German Empire

[@drybrucke1]

And ruined the empire.

[@malte5490]

Dieses Video ist sehr gut.

[@kiviimusic]

Prussia also had the island of Arguin from 1685-1721

[@emilymalden3310]

I would like to know more about the Ottoman Empire as well. In addition to Japanese, Italian, Portuguese, and French colonial rule.

[@justsomepersononyoutube9271]

The german empire reunion

[@kaiserwilhelmtheii9682]

Yes

[@hyperion3145]

Little Venice has to be one of the best ways someone has gotten out of debt, give the debtor some inhospitable so they give it back

[@meetbarkade1389]

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[@caleb.z]

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