Just how Slavic is East Germany?

There have been some claims (during the Soviet-era especially) that East Germany was originally inhabited by Slavic people and that modern Eastern Germans in the Republic of Germany are actually more Slavic than Germanic, but just how Slavic is East Germany anyways?
Believe it or not, there may actually be more truth to this claim than one may think and there is a plethora of historic, genetic and linguistic evidence for the influence of old Slavic tribes on various groups of German-speaking people, and the modern Slavic peoples who still live within the borders of Germany and other Germanic countries to this day. Thanks for watching!
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[@carlfigueroa8466]

Next "Just how Germanic is Northern France"

[@besnikbrezhnica6120]

@Deva Rafael just how albanian turkish and slav is greece?

[@enqrbit]

How Serbian is Kosovo

[@besnikbrezhnica6120]

@@enqrbit %2 percent

[@sjoormen1]

@Suomalainen sotilas less and less, by the day.

[@celtofcanaanesurix2245]

That’s a video I’d want to see

[@isletoflangerhans8281]

Future archeologists will look at the prevalence of tracksuits to answer this question.

[@marmac83]

... and ponder the squatting nature of the skeletons

[@musikkritik6316]

Wearing adidas right now while living in east germany lol

[@afroplasm5956]

@@musikkritik6316 "Ausländer raus! Ausländer raus!"

[@sunglassshinpan1352]

@@marmac83 Koreans love to squat too.

[@levoGAMES]

Tri poloski!

[@bowlingforroof6878]

Just how greek is southern italy

[@toofle]

This one is good.

[@073d5]

@Deva Rafael that one doesn't count

[@gentry498]

I read the "Italioti" were mostly man who takes wife in south Italy

[@user-dq1kc6gr3e]

Bowling for Roof or just how Albanian is greece

[@crewposter6726]

Also just how Greek are Greeks in the Middle East

[@SLAVIC.761]

in eastern Germany there is a strong percentage of the element R1a1 that the Slavs brought in in the early Middle Ages. Many city names are former Slavic names, monuments of the Slavic religion, castles etc.

[@modmaker7617]

Even the capital Berlin comes from a Slavic word meaning swamp.

[@jryan2552]

@@modmaker7617 I think it means lake or river something like that.

[@wavstudionet]

Judging by the username, probably washing clothes. Good luck with that 😏

[@tenbroeck1958]

I'm German-American. My Y-DNA is R1B-U106 and I match a lot of people in Czechoslovakia. My DNA type is often called the "Dutch DNA". My mother's DNA is most common in Carpathia Russia and Croatia, but she's German on both sides of her family - clearly there is a lot of overlap with Germanic and Slavs.

[@2MinuteHockey]

Germanization was a ruthless, centuries old practice WWII was just a continuation of controlling Poland, which was the largest Jewish population at the time Look deeper in root cause analysis and original source material when studying your history @@tenbroeck1958

[@susiespear3334]

My mother was Prussian. I‘ve traced her family back to 1700 to the same villages up till ww1. I did a DNA test to see how much German I have... None! I am a Slav! Haha proves your theory!

[@kagefisk]

Adopted?

[@Randy-1967]

Well Prussia was originally Baltic anyway

[@2MinuteHockey]

Germanization was a ruthless, centuries old practice WWII was just a continuation of controlling Poland, which was the largest Jewish population at the time Look deeper in root cause analysis and original source material when studying your history

[@DonRob96]

​@@KotBegebot oh my gosh, you talk so much shit, holy crap.

[@Sunish_mapping]

@KotBegebot the names are a Coincidence, the old Prussians aren't even Slavic they were Baltic, Northern Belarus was formerly inhabited by Baltic peoples, the Eastern Europeans aren't a single people, they don't all belong to the Same language family, Balto-Slavs and Germans (when I say Germans I mean Germanic tribes) spilt over 4,000 years ago, and Balts and Slavs spilt over 3,000 years ago so they are not the same you are just being ignorant.

[@benniauskrems]

In parts of Austria you can definately see the Slavic influence. In Vienna, names like Morawec, Sobotka or Dvorak are common. A lot of place names are of Slavic origin too. The culture/food/architecture is also very similar to countries like Czechia or Slovenia, an obvious result of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

[@hermannarminius7757]

Its the opposite, countries like czechia and slovnia look much like germanic cities. german craftsman build many slavic citis or constructed it during the habsburg era.

[@daoudaba1628]

@Volkstum Yesss.In few words you did a great résumé.Thank you!

[@chileanyways9178]

@@hermannarminius7757 as an austrian I disagree

[@ousarlxsfjsbvbg8588]

@@hermannarminius7757 it’s not the opposite. Czechia and Slovenia aren’t at all germanic. Sure, they were part of some Germanic states at one point or another, but there isn’t much of a germanic legacy left behind. The fact that some buildings were built by Germans or Austrians doesn’t really mean anything, the architectural style of the cities is just common pan-European architecture, nothing especially Germanic about the cities in either country. And then in terms of culture and genetics, the Slavs have definitely influenced the Germans more than the Germans have influenced the Slavs.

[@andresvalverde5182]

@@ousarlxsfjsbvbg8588 Not in Czechia tho. At least not in east and middle Czech territory. There are also many cultural elements which they share. I would almost consider bavarians being more close to Czechs than to us west Germans who are more French and Dutch influenced.

[@madmasseur6422]

Funny thing is that there are more Serbs living in Germany than there are Sorbs.

[@tolrem]

Difficult to absorb.

[@madmasseur6422]

@@tolrem Who exactly, the sorbs or the serbs? 😂

[@bolerobolero5668]

Serbs migrated to the Balkans from Lusatia and Sorbs

[@madmasseur6422]

@@bolerobolero5668 So both of them, agreed :)

[@madmasseur6422]

@goran stojanovic More like the other way around since serbs came to the balkans from east germany so that means that serbs are sorbs. Also it's impossible for any serbs from the balkans to know that they're of sorbian heritage since both our languages and our genetics are completely different, also we definitely didn't keep our family records when we came to the balkans.

[@sanitar-otti320]

About 30 % of all germans have slavic or prussian familynames, including me, so these people are not distinct. They are simply assimilated.

[@hyenalaughingmatter8103]

there are slavic germans with german sur names as well

[@Spinnradler]

Can you give an example of Prussian familynames? That would really interest me. (Gerne auch in Deutsch.)

[@sanitar-otti320]

@@Spinnradler Zum Beispiel Prasuhn, Kurbjuhn, Kalis, Adomaitis, Orgas, Klaws, Mors, Jagstys, Raukuttis, Hindemitt, Zwegat, Naujoks, Urbat, Asmus, Baltrusch, Klauke, Corell, Dowidat, Kirleis, Tölke. Da das Prußische dem Litauischen sehr ähnlich war, gibt es viele dieser Namen auch dort. Auch wurden viele Litauer und Letten dort angesiedelt. Litauen war ja das letzte heidnische Land Europas. Bevor die Litauer entgültig zum Christentum konvertiert sind waren sie schon einmal vorübergehend Christen. Dann wurden sie wieder heidnisch, und wer Christ bleiben wollte, mußte nach Ostpreußen. Es gibt übrigens viele seltsame deutsch klingende Namen, die prußischen Ursprungs sind. Sie wurden irgend einem deutschen Wort zugeordnet, das so ähnlich klang. Etwa Anhut, Fleischut, Habedank, Gutzeit, Kahlweiß, Tolkien, Trinkaus, Vierkant. Viele Prußen wie auch Slawen hatten ursprünglich gar keine Familiennamen und legten sich erst später einen deutschen Namen zu, meist ihre Berufsbezeichnung.

[@timvanrijn8239]

Eastern border has been mixing for centuries

[@alpha-vw9vx]

@@sanitar-otti320 Junge laber ma nicht, außer Tölke gibt es keinen dieser Nachnamen

[@yucekaghan8437]

Next: "How Mongolic is Northern China"

[@7xC5]

pretty much 100%

[@golonawailus4312]

A LOT. Mandarin is a mongol-manchu pronunciation language that is distant from ancient or Middle Chinese.

[@Soler4485]

Very

[@Jon-mh9lk]

Southern China has a lot of Viet or Hmong/Miao or Thai influences. I mean the country has over 50 minorities. There ought to be a lot of non-chinese ancestry in any region.

[@yucekaghan8437]

@@belus6304 Just to correct the small misleading made statement I think you sir meant North east instead of west since there are a minority of Uyghur Turk populations living in that region aka Xinjiang province of China. yeah indeed in the autonomous Manchurian land there are still Koreans and Manchus out there. However both of these are two totally different ethnic groups that shouldn't be confused with each other. Genetically speaking the Korean peoples cluster quite alot with their early Austro Asiatic relatives with O2b haplogroup being the dominant in Korea mostly being found among many of the males. Manchus in the other hand mainly keep C1c3 shared by their other near Tungusic, Mongolic (Altaic speaking neighbors)

[@nekilik7886]

As a Balkan Serb it is very saddening and concerning to see how the number of Lusatian Serbs (or Sorbs in english) has fallen over the centuries. How they were forcefully assimilated by the Germans, destroying their language and culture. And they werent the only victims of this, there were many other Slavs in todays eastern Germany that were wiped out, such as Pomeranian Slavs. Slava Slovanom

[@nikolazuzic]

You see,they wanna be ,sorbs,not Serbs ,but they will find out in the end ....

[@Embrod]

Not really assimiliation, more like germanisation.

[@Embrod]

@@nikolazuzic in Polish Sorbs, are called "Serbowie Łużyczcy", so it's weird for me to write it, like westerners do

[@user-xt6mf1wk8w]

​@@Embrodwe need to help them to survive, after 1000 years of germanisation they still exist

[@FraIvan]

@@nikolazuzic They called themselves Serbs, not Sorbs.

[@sydmic8965]

You even see that mixture in other parts, for example: the architecture in Saxony looks very Czech and the Saxonian dialects are heavily influenced by Sorbs, Czechs and Polish people. In the Sorbish regions every street name and sign is bilingual and the so called "Umgebindehäuser" in the region are a mixture of slavic block huts and German Fachwerk. Greetings from Leipzig/Lipsk :)

[@2MinuteHockey]

Germanization was a ruthless, centuries old practice WWII was just a continuation of controlling Poland, which was the largest Jewish population at the time Look deeper in root cause analysis and original source material when studying your history

[@User-79916_ue]

Buddy u don’t know what ure talking about

[@2MinuteHockey]

so educate us, what are we wrong about? @@User-79916_ue

[@polskiszlachcic3648]

In East Germany you still have many Slavic toponyms can be found, basically anything that ends with -itz, -in or -ow. For example, the German capital Berlin comes from Slavic *brlo which means "swamp". You once had Polabian living around Berlin. Sadly the last Polabian speaker died in the late 17th. Sorbs still exist due to persistence, although they had to face restrictions and discrimination even in the middle ages (Germans forbid them to speak their own language).

[@robertrobski1013]

@Z Eave And you're jews of Europe

[@polskiszlachcic3648]

It's not about to make them look bad but a matter of truth "the Old Sorbian tribes' loss of independence in the 10th century, the subsequent rural settlement of their territory by the Franks, Thuringians, and Saxons, the expansion of German cities and trade, and the official ban of the Sorbian language that came into effect in the 13th century." That's the reason why Sorbian was steadily replaced by German. That's also why Polabian and Old Prussian went extinct.

[@polskiszlachcic3648]

@@robertrobski1013 Kinda. Remember that Jews in Eastern Europe often didn't speak the local Slavic languages but a slang based on German called Yiddish. Plus, yeah Germans often view themselves as "God's chosen people", when in reality their superiority came from conquering the Roman Empire xD

[@SuperJuvexxx]

Robert Robski actually the place of Europe that historically has been filled with Jews is Eastern Europe

[@bowlingforroof6878]

Just how Nordic are russians?

[@toofle]

I see you really want to put germans genes everywhere. Ew.

[@bowlingforroof6878]

@Pantoufle Russia was founded by germanics. Its a fact

[@toofle]

@@bowlingforroof6878 Classic, germs said the same for France. If you can't conquer someone's territory, just say they are like you and you are the "Masterace" of this European family, and then assimilate them. The jacobin shitters did the same with Occitans and Britons.

[@bowlingforroof6878]

@Pantoufle No. Russia means land of the Rus = Vikings. The Russian nation was founded by Rurik

[@jussim.konttinen4981]

Just how Finnic is Russia? kzbin.info/www/bejne/r6qbf36tqLibnMU

[@polskiszlachcic3648]

Many Eastern Germans are germanized Slavs. Check out the history of Haus Mecklenburg. Their ancestor was Niklot, a Slavic Polabian lord.

[@polskiszlachcic3648]

@evansdrad The celtic nationalist Baltic ancestry is more in the East (East Prussia, Masuria). Slavic ancestry of Eastern Germans starts already in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Brandenburg etc.

[@polskiszlachcic3648]

@evansdrad The celtic nationalist It was rather mixed there: Slavs, Balts and German settlers. You can see it on their surnames where they come from. Also worth mentioning: Many expelled East Germans weren't even viewed as real Germans, at least in West Germany.

[@rudolfb.3771]

@@polskiszlachcic3648 lots of germans from East Prussia where mixed with Baltics. After the war all these germans cames to today Germany and brings aswell their mixed heritage. There where a some millions. All got married with other germans. So today lots of germans got a bit Baltic heritage

[@rudolfb.3771]

@@polskiszlachcic3648 in upper Silesia today the peoples still are a polish german mixture

[@rudolfb.3771]

@@polskiszlachcic3648 it is a complex theme. Many poles becames germans and many germans became poles all over the history. I think someone whose maternal language is polish is a pole and someone whose maternal language is german is german. Especially in the south of east Prussia there lived lot of Masures a mixture predominantly from Masovia. Most of them got assimilated a felt german. After WW1 there was a vote. They got to vote if they want to stay a part of Prussia or became a part of the Polish Republic. 98% voted for Prussia. So we can say that they where germans with Masovian Roots

[@ScEd21]

I‘m from Germany and it‘s great to see this channel giving some publicity to the Sorbs - actually, their language is already severely endangered but there are measures taken against a further decline.

[@cherepaha3]

Serbołużycki language and Dolnołużycki language both endangered like Irish in just a little enclaves of Ireland

[@ryack6355]

I think that the German language will be endangered soon too, judging by the way things are going.

[@checkeredacorn2]

@@ryack6355 f

[@ryack6355]

PawelLL VEVO f

[@ScEd21]

@Ryack 63 Please enlighten me, how „things are going“.

[@icxcnikasrb]

We Slavs call Germans-Nemci. Ones who are mute who doesn’t speak our language

[@jayanths1221]

They're so Slavic that they substitute vodka for water..

[@Vitalis94]

But you see, comrade, vodka IS water. Literally. :P *Yes, vodka means just that - little water*

[@scottwhitley3392]

They’re so Slavic their favourite brand is Tap-out

[@robertrobski1013]

And you are substituted to be an idiot

[@gusty_scarf]

No, it's Uralic

[@carlosmarte428]

Jay You aren’t lying. My Polish friend’s grandfather would drop a shot of vodka into his soup for dinner lol, that’s got to be the most Slav thing I’ve ever seen.

[@Elaiyel]

Excellent research and presentation. Well done, Masaman

[@lionheart5078]

I've seen many autosomal results of east Germans and they are about half Slavic genetically, it's not just paternally or that they have some Slavic ancestry, they are on average about half Slavic genetically. They have massive Slavic ancestry.

[@taylorbarrett384]

Interesting!

[@dakkossman2063]

Less than that

[@lionheart5078]

@@dakkossman2063 nope 40-50% slavic on average

[@dakkossman2063]

@@lionheart5078 source? I can see only data with around 20%

[@lionheart5078]

@@dakkossman2063 what data are u looking at?

[@tritonewt3344]

The better question is just how German is Germany?

[@dymoslaw]

100% islam

[@blanco0379]

Germany is Africano-Muslim 😂

[@redeye3448]

@@dymoslaw Fresse

[@dk-wy7ph]

40% islam 40% people who are "smart" but act like fools 10%.....

[@inotaishu1]

@@dymoslaw what's with this fascination with Islam that people like you have?

[@giovannigoz]

I am East German. And basically asked this question: how slavic is my DNA. I know of no Sorbian ancestry of my family, still my grandmother I got tested, received 60 % predominantly Czech and Slovak heritage, much more than German, ~20 %(Ancestry DNA). I will do the test on my other grandparents as well, it's interesting. Oh and, area is Leipzig countryside. Not a sorbi hotspot today

[@Vitalis94]

Leipzig used to be Sorbian, though.

[@polskiszlachcic3648]

@@Vitalis94 mhmm. The original form of Leipzig was *Lipsk

[@blackarawak83]

There's has a misconception on "Germanic" or "Celtic" genetics because it has been confused with modern (and ancient) languages and ethnic affiliation. For example the English, Flemish and Southern Dutch are Germanic speaking ethnic groups who have overwhelmingly pre-Celtlc/Celtic DNA.

[@martinhate3113]

Your name "Czerni" if it's pronounced correctly sounded like "černý" or "tcherni" (with English pronunciation) in some slavic languages, it means dark or black. Also Leipzig comes from Lipsko which means Linden-tree town. But we all share the same ancestry of PIE - Celts, Germans, Italians, Slavs, just a little mutation here and there...

[@danakaleb4882]

Lol.Czerni - even your surename is Slavonic. It means black or dark.

[@Kamelhaj]

In other words, the Germans absorbed the Sorbs.

[@hahinrichsen]

Your videos are just great... with so many facts and hard data, in times of so much nonsense... Congrats and thanks.

[@inotaishu1]

So basically, the answer comes down to “how you define Slavic” as in many cases the assimilation happened a long time ago and just in the case of German names and words and folklore we often cannot tell for sure where they originated, it could be Slavic or Germanic. Also, the video made one mistake: It is not just East Germany. Parts of Western Lower Saxony, Northern Bavaria and the entire west German state of Schleswig Holstein also were once settled by Slavic peoples and especially Schleswig Holstein shows that with its many place names.

[@puclopuclik4108]

Slavic is a language group, nothing else. Although there are some genes related to the Slavic origin, its not shared by all population. And I would stress, that following maternal or paternal line doesn't make full picture of your origin, since you are looking on one ancestor from thousands. If we would apply the same to black Americans, almost all of them would be classified as Europeans. There is also another aspect to it. Genes don't always follow the language. Sometimes people adopt the language of invaders. E.g. Hungarians don't belong to the Indo-European family. In fact Indians and Persians are linguistically more related to germans and Slavs then Hungarians. But if you look on Hungarian genetic profile, they perfectly match the neighbouring countries. Or Sometimes people invaded areas and fused with existing population.

[@ronaldostrowski4014]

When you consider that even Slavic countries are very mixed the best definition for identifying Slavs is if they speak a Slavonic language.

[@niidhogg9090]

Yeah I don't think R1a can be associated with slavic population, it's probably an older haplogroup that was already present in eastern germans before, comming from eastern european hunter gatherer @@puclopuclik4108

[@zuraorokamono204]

Romanians might be the most slavic non-slavs. Not only in language but also in many traditions and life-style.

[@lucaslevinsky8802]

They are more likely to be dacian The most slavic, non slavs probably is hungary

[@Spinnradler]

@@lucaslevinsky8802 Hungarians, Romanians, East Germans, Austrians, Balts, Fins... for the Slavs we're probably all only some Slavaboos....

[@malaxes]

@@Spinnradler Slavs were not alike Romans and other emperors, they were free people with so many different dialects and traditions and that what I still love about us. That we are speaking different languages but we can understand each other.

[@Spinnradler]

@@malaxes interesting. But I don't understand what you mean? I spoke about the non-Slavic people of Eastern Europe (Hungarians, Romanians, etc.), not about Roman emperors.

[@vernicejillmagsino9603]

@@Spinnradler because they are located in Eastern Europe and Most Eastern Europeans are Slavs and how about a Greeks they are Slavs too

[@JustAToeBee]

Germans are the non-slavs with highest slavic influence (besides non-slavic minorities inside slavic countries. It would be very interesting to find out how germanic czechs and slovenians are as theri culture is often way more influenced by germans than other slavic people.

[@nielsqbc4]

and the stupidest thing is that Hitler wanted a pure race, not realizing how mixed the germans and austrians were

[@JustAToeBee]

@@nielsqbc4 there is nothing like pure germanic, pure slavic... There are majorities but not 100% pure genetics.

[@JustAToeBee]

@Vilém Plaček unfurtunaly that events accoured... but i ofcourse in over 800years germans and czechs mixed quiet a lot. and the slavic people moved there after moost of the germanic people fled from huns... so even when the slavic tribes moved into this regions, there still might have been some germanic tribes left, just like when in early middle ages german people moved towards the east again (my ancestry actually is from silesia, but i hope that in modern days no nationality has to be forceably replaced)

[@herbertsdottir9223]

And Hitler was Y-DNA Haplogroup E1B1B... the irony 😄

[@dk-wy7ph]

dude he wanted to breed the übermensch by killing the weak, sick or stupid people (+ people they didnt liked) the nazis even imported people from other nations who fitted into the idea of the übermensch they used "good" women and ss soiders for "breeding" (there have been only akademiks in the ss and they had to be heathy...it was a special force) to keep it short the idea they had isnt as crazy as most people think...but the way they did it was pretty fucked up i think some people shouldnt spread there dns for the better good and the idea of creating a extreamly healthy strong and smart human a "übermensch" is kind of fazinating 🤔....

[@danielwolfgang8234]

I had this subject in school 17 years ago, so your video is a nice refresher.

[@Vladymir_Putin]

Next "Just how Turkish is all Germany?"

[@TheWeedmate]

Kolilo si turcin ti?

[@rsoldier7829]

3%?

[@rsoldier7829]

@@TheWeedmate koliko je ti srbin

[@Joao-ms3vb]

This ain't gonna be a joke in some years

[@Boyd2342]

@@Joao-ms3vb yeah and how do you figure?

[@cossackhistorian7425]

Carinthians are Germanised Slovenes. You can see Carinthia was over 80% Slovene in the first Austro-Hungarian census. Burgenland saw extensive immigration from Croatia

[@nsk370]

Cossack Historian Yup

[@kristjanmatelic6478]

Most of Southern Austria used to be Slavic. Graz is germanised name of Slavic word Gradec. They were brainwashed by German propaganda over the centuries. They call themselves Windish and they actually hate Slovenes, lol.

[@cossackhistorian7425]

@Kristjan Matelic - they developed an inferiority complex and so welcomed Germans accepting them into their ethnicity :( The 19th century race science which saw Germans as superior to Slavs really didn’t help.

[@mrhippo6040]

Even the german name for Carinthia which is Kärnten comes from Karantania, a Slovene kingdom

[@alexandartheserb7861]

Also nearby Venetia is from Slavic Wends, which were trading caste. Milan is so familiar name within Serbs, I dont know is there any Italian guy called Milan, but city there is called Milano ;)

[@jubanumidia8460]

I think the good question is how German are the Slavs ?

[@rublikonemamtucha6966]

@Cosmic Rift what

[@LB_die_Kaapie]

@Ian Miles because Russia had Viking kings

[@jubanumidia8460]

@Ian Miles I think most of Russians are Finns or Karelians or something like that

[@Wombat_Astronaut]

Kristoff Bjorgman We might feel that way as Germanic people, but the Poles do not like us and will probably never work with us. They see themselves as Slavs.

[@hersirivarr1236]

@@Wombat_Astronaut Slavic people and Germanic people are both Indo-European peoples living mostly in northern Europe so kinship is guaranteed. When the Lechite Slavs conquered modern day Poland they would of absorbed the remaining Eastern Germanic peoples such as the Rugians. In a similar way, the English are a Germanic people with Celtic heritage, the Poles are a Slavic people with Germanic heritage.

[@unapatton1978]

I am East German. My paternal grandmother was Silesian. Other than that my whole family were settled in Thuringia as far back as I can tell. By family name I know I have some Hugenotte ancestry. My facial features however are very Baltic.

[@hyenalaughingmatter8103]

@Fat Earther latvian lituhanian typical faces

[@Deines7]

@Fat Earther East Prussian, Lithuanian, Latvian look, except me - I'm too green!

[@alpharius8264]

@@Deines7 you adobted

[@martinlenker]

@una Patton in what part of thuringia do u live

[@aaronmarks9366]

I'd like to hear about "Just how Slavic are the Hungarians?" I remember reading that when the Magyars arrived in the Pannonian plain, the population they found there was a mixture of Slavs and Iranian Alans. The Magyar rulers eventually assimilated them to speaking Hungarian, but the genes should still show a lot of the people's earlier identity.

[@xboxgamerhr]

Extremely Hungarians are almost identical to slovaks and croats in genetics

[@attilatasciko4817]

Aaron Marks < " stupidy rules " ??? ( with your slavic friends ) !!!

[@OrolesMagnus]

@@xboxgamerhr This would mean that Hungarians are actually extinct and all the Hungarian ethnics from the neighboring are something else, but not Hungarians.

[@dowmont6209]

Hungarians are slavic (moravian),but they speak Finnish.

[@anthonyappleyard5688]

@@dowmont6209 Hungarians speak a language related to FInnish.

[@robertko7306]

Just for you all to know Slavic (slava, sława) means, GLORIOUS in all slavic languages, that's why they pick up so much lands in the past ®

[@zmajooov]

Actually, the root is Slovo, or word. Basically Sloveni, Slaveni etc means people that speak the same language, as opposed to Nemci - the people that can't speak (Germans).

[@joannasynowitz2736]

@@zmajooov niemiec - nie miec - nie mieć - nichts haben

[@slavyangolubica3846]

I wrote above: First there were Slavs in Europe (Slavic means "glory", not slave - they are called Francs, Anglo-Saxons, Germans and Vikings, because they enslaved the Slavs and traded with their beautiful wives), so there are so many Slavic nations in Europe - divided Slavic tribes to the eastern, southern and western.

[@Rus-bw2oq]

Slava means glory and it has nothing to do with the Latin deregatory word "Slav" describing East-Europeans. Proto east European language was called Sloven (Sloviane) from Slov which means word.

[@ashtarsheran749]

tyś sławianian, czy słowianin?

[@podmizje]

almost all town names in carinthia and styria have slovenian roots. even as north as southern part upper austria region theres a town "windisch-garsten", and just south of vienna there's "gloggnitz" which is clearly not german. also, big city of Graz comes from Gradec (small castle)

[@swietosawagromowadna7957]

Many towns and cities in Germany have clearly slavic (polabian or lusatian) roots-even Berlin! German have some territorial claims to Poland,but they don't know that those cities also have slavic roots. Szczecin ( Slavic word for hill peak, (Polish: szczyt), or the plant fuller's teasel (Polish: szczeć), or the personal name Szczota) -Stettin in german or Opole ( likely originated from the medieval Slavic term for a group of settlements) and in german-Oppeln. I guess the same situation is in Czech Republic...

[@wolfgangpagel6989]

@@swietosawagromowadna7957 Of course Germans know about slavic settlements. Just that not the first settlement decides to whom territory belongs. Almost all the cities are founded by the Germans, because Slavs did not live in cities, at that time, of course. And slavs came in the 6th century to these before Germanic homeland. You cannot base a claim on that. Also that slavic settlements were not polish, the inhabitants mixed with Germans and are part of us.

[@podmizje]

@Ararune it is simple, slovenians are autochthon all across eastern alps., croats are not, they came later. you answered yourself

[@podmizje]

@Ararune Slovenian identity is relativley new... yes, that is actually true! it faded because Carantania seize to exist in 8th century and that was in huge interest of other nations, especialy Germans. but to say alpine slavs instead of Slovenians is just ignorant. And slovenian identity was based on language and nothing else (not religion, or something else). and this is what i call a TRUE nation. not like swiss, bosnians or belgians....

[@isoiso1371]

yes and almost all cities in slovenia have albanian roots..ljubljana literallly means city of the dragon in albanian...

[@sockenpuppe1057]

love your work .. keep it up ..

[@pawerysiejko2058]

1 correction: Lechitic branch is a subdivision of Western Slavs, that include Poles, Silesians and Kashubians. Czechs, Slovaks and Sorbs are not Lechites.

[@Gew219]

Lower Sorbian language is more closely related to Polish while Upper Sorbian is more similar to Czech.

[@polskiszlachcic3648]

Polabians are Lechites, too!

[@swietosawagromowadna7957]

@@pawerysiejko2058 Śląski to dialekt a nie język a zarówno Kaszubi jak i Ślązacy są Polakami.

[@dantedante839]

Silesians were Germanics, already mentioned by the Romans.

[@NoNumbersAfterName]

Regarding non-Slavs with Slavic influence, I'd like to hear more about the various Volga Finnic people in Russia.

[@ivanduvalierveryevildictat8940]

they're fine. they sing and dance. ))) kzbin.info/www/bejne/eX7KaqefbMmCqdk kzbin.info/www/bejne/aofIfnmAoZKbjbc kzbin.info/www/bejne/qKXLmHSwmLl2hJY kzbin.info/www/bejne/q6SYqpqfrLdjsKc

[@slimboyfat9409]

Putin has the face of a Finn,which if he actually did originate in St Petersburg mightn't be surprising.

[@vanya1290]

I live in russia and i can say russians are 1/3 finnic

[@slaff632]

@@slimboyfat9409 Yes,he is veps(finno-ugric tribe),don't slavic

[@user-ld3qw1kc9n]

Vanya so, do russians look like finns?

[@sapujapu6323]

I would appreciate a video about the ethnic makeup of great britain, if that doesnt already exist. Specifically the extend of celts and germanics and their intermixing

[@cass2239]

I can't remember where I read it (history student, but it may have not been an academic paper) but I remember reading something which said that no invading force (including the A-S) have affected the genetic makeup of Britain by more than 5%. Considering one of the modern understandings of the Adventus Saxonum as small groups of warriors who staged coups rather than a 'migration', 'Germanic' people might not make up much of Britains genetics at all

[@sapujapu6323]

@@cass2239 Yes theres new debates almost monthly to the genetic makeup of britain. Since i have 50% English heritage myself i am really interested if those would be rather celtic or germanic

[@cass2239]

@Horst Wessel is that just what you believe or is it from a study? As a Brit that seems like manipulation of statistics in order to scaremonger, which we've definitely had our share of these past few years, perhaps it is possible for major cities or if you were to say they had to be fully white in an ancestry test but a lot of rural areas are very much still white and don't receive a lot of immigration especially after the 'hostile environment' policy came in so I'd be very surprised.

[@boofy2592]

Caj Newbo not sure but I think masaman has made a video on it before

[@slimboyfat9409]

Horst Wessel Empty Wessel.

[@josephjude1290]

Great video and commentary

[@sealegendful]

Don't you just love how in all videos about Slavs they are always shown as older people, with long white beard, dress in animal coats, with no weapon? And yet this group of old men came from somewhere and spread across half of Europe where tall, strong, brave and young soldiers with huge axes and armors on big horses lived before them…

[@micksmith5123]

That wasn't the slavs

[@feudaljester7581]

Fax.Those people defeated the byzantines,mongols and even the vikings just to be called sheep herders this days...Polabian slavs were defeated because they were not united.Unfortunately poland did not help them as they were catholics

[@user-hb9mz2hp2g]

@@feudaljester7581 Poland was young state, with many problems. They tryed to incorporate Weleti tribe but failed.

[@numenoreaneternity6682]

More than 20% of modern-day Germans bear Slavic Y-DNA, and Eastern and Northeastern Germany are teeming with Slavic toponyms, and the near-totality of modern-day cities in the aforementioned territories were founded by these Slavs.

[@jamesthomas1595]

Finally some background music!! Bach goes great with this

[@jamiewilson8253]

Another excellent video. 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@vitorferreirapecanha1767]

10:21 Here in Brazil, exist Pomerode in Espírito Santo, it's a pomeraniam colionie in Southeast. By the way, many citizens from Pomerode speak the pomeriniam dialect with local linguistc influence. However, in Paraná (South of Country) is famous the so many polish, ukrainian and russian colonies. Amazing video, greetings from RJ, Brazil 😀

[@robertrobski1013]

But Pomeranian are the Vikings of the southern Baltic sea

[@vitorferreirapecanha1767]

@@robertrobski1013 ??

[@vitorferreirapecanha1767]

@Bruno Jr Há uma colônia de pomerânios no ES que mantêm bastante da cultura pomerana. Se eu não me engano, a cidade leva o mesmo nome de Pomerode. Pfvr, pesquise no Google sobre a colonização de pomerânios no ES.

[@selvoselvo1]

Southern Austria had in the past a significant, if not even a majority, Slavic population (today city of Graz = Gradec, "small city" in Slavic), so it is not a recent development after WW2, but goes to the Early middle ages.

[@ItalianIrishguy]

Rest In Peace to all the extinct ancient races, tribes, and people's of Europe! There is so many that are gone! 😔

[@Stephanthesearcher]

they are not gone, the simply united with other , stronger tribes. the names are gone but the ppl are still here , even today.

[@HiVoltag3R]

@@Stephanthesearcher That's like saying Neanderthals aren't extinct

[@HiVoltag3R]

@Scp 173 goths, vandals, burgundians, lombards, picts, gauls, polabians, slovincians, white croats, prussians, huns, avars, khazars, pechenegs, dacians, minoans, liburnians, paeonians, messapians, dalmatians, etruscans and their relatives, like a dozen italic peoples that were absorbed by romans...

[@HiVoltag3R]

@Scp 173 We don't know the names of those who were because they didn't have writing back then.

[@ousarlxsfjsbvbg8588]

Scp 173 they were modern humans, if that’s what your asking. Their genetic backgrounds would of course be different from the human populations of today, though.

[@Yora21]

I'm from the Baltic Coast, right on the border between East and West Germany. And around here, we have lots of Slavic village and town names all over the place.

[@oOSalvadoraxOo]

Das heißt Ostsee, du Narr.

[@stanislev]

@@oOSalvadoraxOo Milcz osle! Always Baltic See! Yes, for German Ost See, because they were far West!

[@user-xt6mf1wk8w]

There was Bodrići,Ljutići...in past

[@mountainlion8989]

Nice one!..I love your videos

[@stephanpeterthree]

Bro ... Very cool. I am Austrian and here most are culturally German and have Slavic ethnicity. I did a DNA test and I am basically 100% Eastern European.

[@averinus7706]

Do a few more tests, you'll get wildly different results.

[@jeanvaljean7266]

Well I don't think at all that Vorarlbergers, Tyrolians, Salzburgers have Slavic ethnicity

[@stephanpeterthree]

@@averinus7706 Did a new one. Turns at out I am half Kenian^^

[@stephanpeterthree]

@@jeanvaljean7266 True. I am just talking about South and East Austria. The areas that were inhabitat by Slavs 1000 years ago.

[@jeanvaljean7266]

@peter pan; yes, to some extent Slavic but not entirely just like in my Eastern Bavarian home region (Upper Palatinate). By the way Austria was settled by Bajuvarians (Bavarians) and Styra was especially settled by people from my region. Therefore you Austrians speak different variations of Bavarian (or if you prefer: Austro-Bavarian) dialects.

[@AA-777-AA]

I'm from Germany in East Germany are many cities with Slavic names

[@beliarek4595]

Modern Germans=German + Slavic mixed

[@slavyangolubica3846]

Of course, for example "Berlin" - in the Czech Republic near Prague is "Beroun" - the root "ber" means bear - the Slavs gave many cities names and are located in such a large area because they were the first.

[@noway2434]

Another good job masaman. I'm a fan.

[@agrotta1650]

The photo at the 5:00 minute mark is Rothenburg OdT... We lived in Katterbach township of Ansbach for almost 7 years. Rothenburg is only a 20 minute drive away. It's in Bayern...

[@fredred8371]

I liked the Texas part. Glad to see I'm rite in the middle of the German area of it. And even our street names are in German here in Boerne Texas

[@pissyourselfandshitncoom2172]

Neat, a lot of the German culture was oppressed in the 1900s so it's lost now

[@ehanoldaccount5893]

Noss Njeppa It still amazes me how one presidents tyranny and neglect of the constitution led to Americas largest ethnic group essentially giving up its culture.

[@pissyourselfandshitncoom2172]

@@ehanoldaccount5893 Woodrow Wilson? I'm not exactly familiar with what he did, I have a vague idea though. But yeah, there was a highly pro Anglo anti German sentiment by 1916/1917. Sucks to see really, there could be millions continuing to speak German today had it not been oppressed, thus learning it could have been easier for me, but alas ill have to start from scratch, same for Italian & Russian.

[@ehanoldaccount5893]

Noss Njeppa Wilson kinda just violated Americas constitution a bunch and suppressed freedom of speech and religion as well as many other amendments. He’s also responsible for the KKK being reorganized. His policies led to a lot of discrimination, especially against Germans, and got us into a war most Americans objected.

[@beambooi6431]

Do a video about the genetic legacy of the Pannonian Avars in Hungary and Central Europe

[@lukassbeataddicts]

In Polish a German person is called Niemiec which in old slavic means mute, the man who don't speak our language. And that is the whole secret, clash of 2 totally different language groups.

[@dowmont6209]

In russian too. And slavic is "slavyanin",because of "slovo" (word.)

[@nestingherit7012]

In Romanian there's a better etymology. Neam( tribe)+ tz' phonetics so often heard in German language. Neamtz' A people who talk with a lot of tz'. Same as Sarmatians / Sarmati ( wired) a reference to wire shirts they were dressed in.

[@amanb8698]

Ironically both Indo-European languages though, so a common language ancestor. However different branches. Germanic is Centum. Balto-Slavic is Satem.

[@nikolazuzic]

@@nestingherit7012 Romanian language is made around 150-200 years ago right?

[@nestingherit7012]

@@nikolazuzic You stole basic Romanian words and gave them a ridiculous slavic etymology Plata ( payment) for example. Who on earth would believe that your Plata ( payment) derives from .... textiles.??? due to original payment with such a thing?? We got Plata ( payment) from Spaniards during the Roman empire. Plata means money and silver just like , argent' in French does. Why Plata for money anyway? It's from Latin, platus' ( plat= flat) a reference to how the silver was plated into coins. We also have , arginti' for coins. Your Kopati' ( digging) is from Romanian SAPAT and we also have SAPA ( hoe) while you have , motyka' Your "protoslavic" iti' and , ati is also from Romanian and is a Latin ending met in all Italic languages. Embarrassing, isn't it?

[@Neu-Arnshalde.Psycho]

Slavs also settled in part of franconia (bamberg) bavaria (up from dunaj) holstein (lubeck) and thuringia

[@edselwexl4541]

And get German. I know one

[@gorankoilic6571]

Živili Lužički Srbi!

[@jminix6287]

Živili!

[@igor9204]

Greetings front Poland :)

[@jminix6287]

@@igor9204 Greetings from Serb Republic!

[@smokwawelski6010]

Pierogi team

[@richardalfaro3890]

Long Live an Independent Lusatia!

[@nucainchicksaw4411]

Thanks for this video! Can you talk about the natives of asia minor?

[@JOHNsotiriadis98]

Old anatolian peoples then greeks then turks

[@kevinlawler2571]

I love the content 👍

[@hermannrexroth6489]

I'm westgerman living in eastgermany and I often mock them a bit by calling them slavic. It's funny and they always deny. I work in a street " Wendenschlossstrasse" . Proof enough

[@filipjoldzic7368]

Berlin is a slavic name

[@comradedoushkin6602]

Filip Joldzic common misconception

[@filipjoldzic7368]

@@comradedoushkin6602 its true. Look it up If you want. I also speak German and serbo-croatian and Berlin has No meaning in the German language.

[@cooldewd35]

Berlin, Dresden, Rostock, Lancken-Granitz, Burg Stargard etc all have Slavic origins. For crying out loud, Vorpommern/Pomerania translates to "By the Sea". We Slavs consider Germans our cousins. Even if you are cold and sometimes weird, we still love you.

[@minchen_2265]

Brunswick in Lower Saxony has a lot of names pointing to the Wends as well. "Wendentor", "Wendenring", "Wendenstraße", "Wendenmaschstraße", "Wendentorwall", "Wenden" the city quarter for example

[@anthemsofeurope2408]

Greetings from an Rani Slav from Rügen!

[@anthemsofeurope2408]

@Magik z Leśnej Pantemony Rugia is the fucking polish name. The polabian name is Rana

[@dowmont6209]

@@anthemsofeurope2408 "ruyan"

[@anthemsofeurope2408]

@@dowmont6209 What is ruyan?

[@dowmont6209]

@@anthemsofeurope2408 Ruyane=Rani on russian.

[@rafakrzentowski9549]

@@anthemsofeurope2408 in old Polish it was Rana too

[@gregoryriley9946]

Thanks, Mason! I just recently found out that my "German" grandfather was one of these Germano-Slavs, his parents being born in German-Poland and Russian-Poland of the late 19th century. I've been very curious about the genetics of these regions and this was very informative! I just wish that I could identify which exact groups of Slavs have lent me their DNA. Next time I'm in Texas I'll have to visit Serbin.

[@kevinstimelsky673]

Yes you should come visit Texas! It's full of Czech, German,Polish and yes The Sorbs!! And still speak their languages! Just with a Texas accent!!!

[@ViragoRiver]

I'm Sorbian- have many ancestors and cousins in and around Serbin. My great x3 grandfather helped build the church there.

[@nikolazuzic]

@@ViragoRiver Word ,,sorb,,means nothing but the word Serb means a lot in history and recently as well .

[@inga6666]

​@@kevinstimelsky673never heard of this fact, pozdrawiam😊

[@jamesewanchook2276]

thanks, I like what you present, thanks!

[@robertprice5039]

My grandfather's East Prussian is originally from the eastern section of East Prussia. My father's Ancestry DNA Test is mostly Baltic, then Slavic, then Germanic in that order from highest to lowest % for population groups in that area. Our YDNA Haplogroup is N, and it probably was originally from the Varangian Swedes.

[@lukassbeataddicts]

@Masaman We Slavs are not from Asian step, we are white and our children are blond when born. We are living in Central Europe for minimum 10,000 years. The fact that some of us especially Russians have Asian look is because of Mongolian raids and not because we are Asians. Evolution doesn't work as fast otherwise Jewish people that lived in Poland for half of millenium would turn blond too, but they didn't. Stop spreading German anti slavic propaganda.

[@JMM33RanMA]

This video was particularly interesting for several reasons. My mother's maiden name could be Polish, Lithuanian, Russian or Jewish, depending on the spelling used [I've seen three different versions]. My great grandfather emigrated to the US at the time of the Bismarck unification. This video contained more information about the area he came from than is known in the family. Information about the Sorb enclave was mentioned in my high school and university courses but with far less information than what you provided. The Baltic people need more exposure as well. Altogether it was a fascinating video, keep up the good work.

[@humzabhatti6745]

Great vid

[@Oldparson220]

It is a box mix. I am of Polish descent, but my last name (which wasnt redacted) has a German and Slavic mix.

[@exocet8834]

Surnames dont really tell much about your origin, my surname is Austrian but I did a DNA test and it showed its of Celtic origin. Surnames were mainly given according to the language in the respective territory where one of your ancestors lived, no matter what his descend was.

[@sanitar-otti320]

There were also slavic nobles ruling in Germany. In Mecklenburg ruled the Obodrites with their headquarter in this castle, where is today the parliament of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schweriner_Schloss ...and they had many other dukes and castles: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obodriten_(Adelsgeschlecht) In Pommern ruled the Greifen in this castle in Stettin: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stettiner_Schloss ...and in many other castles. They also ruled in Denmark and in Sweden (Erich der Pommer). de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greifen And in Silesia ruled the silesian Piastes who were an offspring of the polish kings, with many dukes and castles: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlesische_Piasten They were the nobles, who had accepted to turn to be christians. But where the slavs didnt want to become christians and opposed christianisation for about 400 years, like it was in Sachsen-Anhalt, Sachsen and in Brandenburg, they were finally conquered and the slavic nobles lost their positions to Germans.

[@cobra4640]

I read a 9th century chronicles of how the Germans and Slavs fought each other by Magdeburg. They mentioned that both parties when saw a newborn would steal it and raise them as theirs ;-)

[@markthornton7347]

thanks for your interesting informative efforts, when you signed off you said " see you next TIME" the TIME had a slight slang of a southerner to it. Are you from the South?

[@oXSimonXo]

"Just how Scandinavian are Northern Germans" would be an interesting topic as well.

[@fuxihutterer8088]

scnadinavians are germanic

[@theleonid4377]

*I must Say that you Videos are Amazing experience. Very good Job Masaman. You are Lord of Maps.* 🙏 *Btw Could you make Video about Slovaks? We used to Live in whole Carpathian Basin now we are forced to live in North and South (Vojvodina) of it. It's good topic and There are no professional vids about it. In Case you'll do it, Many thanks mate.*

[@BeorEviols]

So they essentially inhabited the area where Hungarians are? Were Hungarians originally Slovaks?

[@volkhen0]

Leonid didnt say they were exclusive inhabitants of these realms. It was all mixed in Austro-Hungarian empire.

[@theleonid4377]

@@BeorEviols Nah. Slovaks inhabited it before Magyars came. Magyars came in 9th century and took over in following decades due to Civil war in Great Moravia and Death of Svätopluk. Magyars (Also known as Hungarians) Took over the lowlands and we Survived in Mountains in North and In Vojvodina. We were the Majority in 9th Century in there. Of course, There were Avar enclaves etc.

[@nsk370]

The Leonid There was no clear distinction between Slovaks and Slovenes back then. So you could just as easily say that Slovenes inhabited the regions. It seems that linguistically, the inhabitants of the Pannonian basin were more closely related to Slovenes and Kajkavians. However we cannot say much more than that. It is most likely that during the 9th and 10th century, Slovenes, Slovaks and northern Croats were one and the same people speaking one language, and genetics confirm that theory quite well.

[@theleonid4377]

@@nsk370 Indeed. Slovenians have almost same Language like us. There's a theory when magyars came that Slovenians developed alone because they were cut out from us and vice versa. There is chance that Slovenians are Actually Slovaks. But People back then spoke language more simmiliar to todays Slovakian. And Slovak is derived from word Sclaveni, which Byzantians used to describe slavs living in Carpathian basin. Also it's Slavic name for word. ,,Word-people". It could be translated like that.

[@pascalbaryamo4568]

As a German, I can say that the part east of the Elbe is like 80% Slavic genetics-wise, but culture-wise almost totally part of German culture with some regional specifics due to proximity to Poland and due to socialism. The large exception is a little part of saxony and Brandenburg which has its own Slavic language and is almost entirely catholic in contrast to the atheist surroundings

[@dogogang85]

You know that name of river elba ,sounds like palabi in latvian language- right side, polabian slavs, what means rightside slavs.

[@pascalbaryamo4568]

@@dogogang85 didn’t know that, cool! But makes sense given Elbe is Lab or something like that in Czech

[@JeremiaszCzeresniowiecki]

@@pascalbaryamo4568 Poles and Germans are more similar than both nations would like to admit. Maybe not as much as Czechs but even speaking of architecture, it's clear for me that German influence was much more significant than eastern one. The main difference now is that we are more conservative, due to historical factors.

[@icxcnikasrb]

Elba-Laba

[@user-xt6mf1wk8w]

You have "uper" Luzatia-Cotbus and "lower" Lusatia-Budishin, one of them are chatolic the other are protestants...Once again religion spliting nations😢. Searbs on Balkan are orthodox, Croats chatolics...

[@derlinclaire1778]

Masaman,how about the Hungarians?They,re an Uralic people,and culture surrounded in Europe by mostly Slavic countries.So,I would imagine that they were probably influenced quite a lot by the Slavs who surrounded them,wouldn,t you? Anyway,kudos for another interesting video,my dear friend.Best wishes,Shalom,and God bless you.

[@jmaaybraak]

I'm not sure if you've done a video on this topic yet, but I would be interested in learning more about the possibility that some Baltic groups, such as the Latvians and Lithuanians, may have ventured south into the ancient Hellenic as well as Latin worlds and lent the inhabitants of these regions their surnames ending in -us or -sus. I've heard rumors about this taking place, but I haven't researched it at all and it's not exactly a common topic of conversation lol. I would deeply appreciate any feedback that u have. Thanks!

[@raitiC1]

People used to trade from north to south all the time! So that's not unique. The reason we use -s, -is, us, is because Baltic languages have the most "archaic" form of Proto-Indo European language. So many things sound similar because they derive from some ancient Indo-European language word. For example, the famous Greek football player Giorgos Karagounis his surname - in Latvian means - Battle Fire...

[@Vitalis94]

As raitiC1 said, those endings have more to do with the archaisms in Baltic languages than the trade or connections. Although there was plenty of that. Amber was heavily sought after, and both Greeks and Romans valued it greatly.

[@jmaaybraak]

@@raitiC1 Makes perfect sense. Thanks so much for letting me learn something new. Have a good day.

[@jmaaybraak]

@@Vitalis94 Got it. Like what raiti said, you make good sense. Thanks again guys.

[@markg1531]

A few years ago I found on the Deutsche Welle website, an article, since removed, stating that in all of Germany, East and West, only about six percent of the population was really truly Germanic. The rest were pretty evenly divided between Slavic and Celtic origins, with a very significant admixture of Jewish genes. That information was based on extensive genetic studies.

[@841Takis]

Do you have any idea why it was taken down.

[@markg1531]

@@841Takis Not really. I can only guess. Political correctness?

[@zhizhi9138]

You should provide the source of your info. Books. Maps. To study more.

[@SimoLInk1698]

They are in the description of the video though.

[@Gloopular]

@Manley Nelson Use your pause button.....

[@CanMan-pd9vh]

@Manley Nelson I know because I want to take screenshots of some of them.

[@DeKesas]

www.eupedia.com/europe/european_y-dna_haplogroups.shtml

[@cossackhistorian7425]

For anyone wondering “Extensive contact” means extensive war

[@command_unit7792]

Not really there was alot of cross border migration and Intermarrige...

[@wolfgangpagel6989]

That is wrong.

[@cossackhistorian7425]

@Crimson - look how many times PLC & HRE troops fought against each other. Look at the religious war in Bohemia (Bohemia VS HRE). West Slavs and Germans have been fighting for ages

[@cossackhistorian7425]

@Command_Unit - Have you got any examples of a cross border migration event?

[@cossackhistorian7425]

@Yaroslav L - they call the genocide in the Namib an “overseas settlement program”

[@AccordionJoe1]

Ironic that Hitler considered Slavs sub-human when most western Europeans have some slavic blood according to DNA samplings. Also, far more Russians than Germans have blond hair and blue eyes, thanks to Viking marauders of 1,000 years ago. So who is the real arian?

[@yasuotanaka4636]

the true arian is a bitch

[@robertrobski1013]

But Hitler was a jew

[@overlord165]

Viking marauders, kind of Nazi handbook have you been reading? The blonde hair and blue eye gene comes from modern-day Ukraine many thousands of years ago.

[@Pebbe496]

Interesting tidbit: In eastern Saxony, we say "No" (short o) or "Nu" for yes, completely confusing English speakers. It is thought that this comes from Czech "ano".

[@nsk370]

Peter Eberhard In Slovenia, we use 'ja' for yes instead of the slavic 'da'. Comes from German probably.

[@dpw6546]

"No" (short o) is a common expression of affirmation (well, among other things) in Polish; however, it's considered informal and incorect from the standard Polish point of view (yet everybody, I mean everybody uses that, only to different extent) so it'd best be translated as English "yeah / yep". Unforunately I don't know the exact origins of the Polish "no" (we do have "ano" for i.a. "yes" as the Czechs do, but it's of rare use in Polish). We don't have the "nu" though - that's a Russian expression for what I can tell. What I've found interesting is that some Germans informally use "nee" instead of the standard German "nein", I don't know whether it's common in some parts of Germany only or with a particular group or class of people. With its softened and prolonged e it definitely resembles the Polish "nie" more than it does the Czech "ne" (short and hard e) with all three bearing the same meaning.

[@SladkaPritomnost]

Czech and Slovak say No as short term of Ano meaning yes

[@monicaurschitz1548]

Hi Masaman, my family actually descends from the Sorbs. It took me many years to research this as all I knew was that my grandfather was 5th generation ‘German’ in the Ukraine and my grandmother was ‘3rd generation’ there. My grandfather still fought in WW1 and the family moved westwards over time. Before WW2 my grandparents moved to South America. My grandfather had a strange surname which appeared to be Slavic but my uncles always maintained that they were Germans although the younger siblings were born in the area where the Sorbs came from in Poland/East Germany. With my research I figured that the family on my grandfather’s side was Slavic rather than German. The German side came from my grandmother. I’ve recently taken a DNA test and this confirmed the half German half Slavic descendancy in my family, including some Scandinavian and Balkan, Scandinavian probably having been the influence in the Ukraine. My father came from a Austria where the German, Balkan and even some Celt appeared in my DNA .... truly awesome. Your documentary here sheds further light on the influences and mixtures in this area of Europe over the years. Thank you for a well done research.

[@sadaqataljariya]

Great video

[@panzerbanz7296]

next one should be: Just how Germanic is Alsace-Lorraine?

[@adamwnt]

All of your vids are so well researched, kudos 👏🏻👍🏻 Greetings from Gdańsk Ps: I am a Kashubian Pole with some Prussian/German roots from my dad’s side.

[@TheOlgaSasha]

R1a1 haplogroup can't be the only fact of Slavic presence in East Germany because: 1) R1a1 belongs not only to Slavs but also to Balts and many other Indo-European groups (including desappeared ones). For example, R1a1 was found among 15% Swedes and approx. 25% of Norwegians, although the Slavs never lived in Scandinavia. Nordics have more ancient markers of R1a which are absent among Slavs. 2) Gubin (Guben) group of Jastorf (Germanic) arch.culture, as well as Pszeworsk (Balto-Slavic and Germanic Vandals) arch. culture, had the mixed processes: some Germanic tribes were slavinizated, but other Slavic tribes were germanizated, both had strong Celtic influence. So it is practically impossible to divide Slavic and Germanic tribes in southern Poland during Przeworsk arch.culture. For example, Vandals were Germanic tribe from Przeworsk arch.culture, although a lot of DNA-tested remains of Vandal warriors had haplogroup R1a

[@nenadzivic2457]

to add, us Serbs, South Slavs besides predominant R1a1, next two genetic profiles are Norse as second, Teutonic as third. cheers from Belgrade.

[@sanelanadj]

Good videos. Hi from Sorbia.

[@ytyt3922]

As much as I love Bach’s cello suite, it is VERY distracting in this video. Need to lower the music volume in future videos or hopefully cut it out entirely.

[@50tisic]

The Germans are predominantly a mix of DNA groups R1a and R1b, which are actually Slavs and Celts, Germanic I1 is just over 10%.

[@noway2434]

Kinda correct, but it is greater than 10%. Eupedia.com

[@hmcccpp]

I1 is atlanto mediteranean, R1b* is proto germanic (indoeuropean)

[@robertrobski1013]

I1 is mostly Scandinavians

[@overlord165]

​@@hmcccppCeltic*

[@thebrocialist8300]

I always wondered why Himmler looked like Mr. Miyagi

[@matushova1779]

LMAO ikr

[@anthemsofeurope2408]

de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Himmler#/media/Datei:Heinrich_Himmler_as_a_child.jpg

[@cernejr]

Good video, and accurate as far as I can tell. My mom is Czech, dad Slovak. Mom did a DNA test and she is 10-20% German, maternal haplogroup H1a. BTW, there is a belief that more German men marry Slavic women as opposed to Slavic men with German women (although I know couples of both kinds).

[@myeramimclerie7869]

East German from Mecklenburg here, some people still identify as partly Slavic at least. Me too, mainly because I look more Slavic than German and I find more cultural similarities to Poland than I do to Saxony or former West Germany.

[@mattinkoall]

Great video as always. As a german of sorb origin its very refreshing to see a video about the topic for once.

[@timsalter5505]

Both of my parents immigrated from Germany, my mom from Bavaria, my dad from Westphalia, but with many ancestors coming from the east and from Austria. According to 23andMe, I'm 40% Eastern European, and 35% French/German, with the rest of the ancestry coming from places from which I have no known ancestry, such as the Balkans, Scandinavia, Italy and even Siberia. My haplogroup is the Eastern R1a. Since I'm more Eastern European than anything else while my parents didn't even immigrate from East Germany, there is definitely some truth to the Slavic German theory. Strangely enough, my surname is most common in Britain (I have no British ancestry at all), while it is rare in Germany and somewhat common in Austria. So I think my paternal line goes back to Austria. Like I always say, no one is 100% one heritage. I guess I'm just central/eastern European, as opposed to western European.

[@nsk370]

Tim Salter Austria is genetically heavily influenced by the neighbouring slavic countries. To simplify, most of Austrian population are germanized slavs.

[@timsalter5505]

Pretty much, except for the parts bordering Bavaria, unless Bavarians, too, are Germanized Slavs. But having family in Bavaria and having spent a lot of time there, many see themselves as Germanized Romans, which makes no sense.

[@nsk370]

Tim Salter Germanized Romans? I have never heard of that. As for Bavarians being germanized slavs - as for the evidence we have this does not appear to be the case. But of course there is always some admixture, as with any ethnic group, ever.

[@timsalter5505]

Bavarians are most likely a mix of Germanic peoples from the north, the original inhabitants (probably related to the pre-Indo-European Hallstatt people), and some Eastern European admixture. The 40% Eastern European probably comes mostly from my dad's side. Though he is from Westphalia, much of his family came from the east, as in the 1800s, there was large scale migration of Germans from the east to Westphalia to work in the mines. Bavarians tend to think they are different from and better than other Germans, from what I gather, but just like other Germans, they are the result of several different waves of migration.

[@rudolfb.3771]

That is an average estimate for a german according to Ancestry DNA

[@CubaCubinho]

I am reading a lot about this topic the last days and this is finally the best summary there to find. I am from Saxony myself and all my family considers themselfes to be german. It's a question of definition in the end. Maybe I am totally german just because I was raised german, speak german and act german. But I could also say that I am slavic just because I might contain more gens from the old slavic tribes than from germanic tribes.

[@mmneander1316]

That map on 9:05 about Turks is accurate. It is almost shocking to see this footprint of politics on ethnic geography, i.e. the politics of the immigration policy of West-Germany prior to the German Unification. I hadn't yet realized this before, but it is indeed correct that the former "West-Germany" has Turks everywhere, whereas you almost do not see any Turks at all in the former "East-Germany". (Since German Unification, the Germans (Merkel) have instead in the past 10 years imported Syrians in large numbers, which are now very visible everywhere in Germany, including in cities in the East like Leipzig. The Syrian presence probably stops at the current German-Polish border, leaving behind a new footprint of politics on ethnic geography.)

[@user-il9cz6ss9y]

all lands along the border of the Elbe River and from the Baltic Sea to the Adriatic Sea to Venice of Italy are the lands of the Venets (Slavs)

[@ajtef]

Many East Germans identify more with eastern culture than with western culture. My friend from east Berlin told me in 2018 “here in the east part of Berlin we identify much more with the culture of Moscow than that of London or Paris”

[@hermannarminius7757]

im from berlin and for most people its not true. Its just that masses of poles and russians migrated here.

[@ajtef]

Hermann Arminius you’re probably from west arent you?

[@hermannarminius7757]

@@ajtef yes I am

[@guciodestroyer2432]

It is funny because in Warsaw people identify much more with London or Paris or even Rome, than with Moscow or Berlin.

[@javorkostov5128]

The Kingdom of Charlemagne bordered the Bulgarian empire in the 9th century AD , so it is very possible that slavs migrated during this period in both directions - to Germany and to Bulgaria, both Charlemagne and khan Krum were allies , so probably after destroying the Avar Khaganat more slavs inhabited the area, later even more when the students of Cyrill and Methodius crossed half of Europe to spread the Bulgarian alphabet amongst all slavic people. Tsar Boris I was also allied with Ludwig the German. Great Moravia was also very closely related to the Germans.

[@shaolindreams]

What's interesting if you look on a detailed phylogenetic tree for R1a, Slavic branches only make up a fraction of R1a.. there's many branches which aren't attributed to Slavic peoples. I found out we are Polish but not originally from Western Slavs but another R1a1 group in Europe.... Not sure if Swedish or Hungarians as there's ties on both sides.