Facts About Germans Never Taught in School (American Reacts) - Thomas Sowell

[@Anonymous-xb2km]

Germans are very, very smart people. Like their brothers, the Dutch. Greetings from The Netherlands. 💗

[@BewareOfTheKraut]

True.😊

[@73smoo]

The American imagination that Germany is so organized, clean, neat, has perfect streets without potholes is much more true for the Netherlands than for Germany.

[@filipieja6997]

I am a foreign man living and marry to a German. Goshhh my family from the German-side is pushing me harder to be a very productive human. My heart goes out to German people and their cousins to their neighboring north and west for their shared common history, language and culture. 🥰

[@peterg.1940]

@@73smoo In this way the Netherlands are more german than Germany. 😛 As a german i have to admit, the Dutchies are three to four decades ahead in multiple ways.

[@fureuropa-gegennwo1259]

@@73smoo It was true for BOTH countries and now they are being turned into shitholes with knife-stabbing, violence and criminality that grows everyday - just like in England, France, or Belgium. If you protest against corrupt politicians importing Millions of third-world Migrants flooding our countries, you get labelled a "racist" or "Nazi" by Media, Government and even backstabbed by our own people. The British have become the minority in London, the Germans in Frankfurt, the Dutch in Amsterdam. Think about whether you want more illegal migration or not. I do not.

[@biloaffe]

43 million people in America have German roots, making Germans by far the largest migrant population in the USA.

[@allenwilliams1306]

Having “German roots” does not make you German. Moreover, if you did not yourself immigrate into the USA, although some of your forebears did, you are not part of any “migrant population” at all.

[@IramCoercere]

@@allenwilliams1306having invaded the original people does not make you american. You guys are invaders

[@user-lb4hb4mz4h]

we should make a fusion and teach you german

[@biloaffe]

@@allenwilliams1306 You seem to have misunderstood something. I didn't write that they are all Germans, but that Germans are the largest immigrant group! I am also aware that this group is no longer German for generations! Da scheinst du etwas falsch verstanden zu haben, ich habe nicht geschrieben, das es alles Deutsche sind, sondern, das die Deutschen die größte Einwanderer Gruppe stellen! Das diese Gruppe über Generationen heute nicht mehr Deutsche sind, ist auch mir bewusst!

[@officerstan1225]

@@user-lb4hb4mz4h and the Metric System ^^

[@Füchs_chen]

My favorite fact about German immigrants in the USA is that they were amongst the first few groups of people who were against slavery, spoke out against it and eventually fought for it so it can be abolished (this is info I've got from another so we'll video)

[@arnolsi]

OK, but on the other side Trump have german roots. The CIA was build with former german Nazis and they helped to kill people in middle and south America.

[@Verfassers]

Stimmt, 90% kämpften für die Nord Staaten.

[@montrelouisebohon-harris7023]

Exactly!! Most of them initially went to Pennsylvania and to this day there’s a large group of Pennsylvania Dutch who live in the county unless they’ve moved in the city areas since I left. Everyone there had German last names.. Straus, Stoudt, Fischer, 😂😂 I can go on and on, but I just thought it was cute being from the south and my last name is Harris and then when I was married, I had a French last name. The Germans fought in so many of our wars Because they were citizens then, including for the union during the Civil War.

[@allenwilliams1306]

If you got your information from the same maker, it is probably lies. All that I could bear to see of this one certainly is full of them.

[@stevqtalent]

@@montrelouisebohon-harris7023 it's quite funny to see as a german watching the olympics how many american athletes have german surnames

[@vlinder6329]

I have been married to a German 🇩🇪 for years and I come from the Netherlands 🇳🇱 My parents-in-law experienced and the War and Hitler was a terrible man, they didn't want War!! It was also a difficult time for them. My entire family from Germany are the sweetest people!

[@dagmarvandoren9364]

Thank you. You are a peacemaker

[@vlinder6329]

@@dagmarvandoren9364 Sweet 🫂 😘

[@14FrensAnd88Eagles]

Did they want communism? Because that was what was coming.

[@lll-xo6nk]

Mine halfly didn't survived, Butt Fee 😅

[@LeWe825]

Thomas Sowell, I love your obvious joy and enthusiasm when you hear facts about Germany and Germans in your videos. The smile on your face says it all. A pleasure to watch. I am not German, but have lived here a long, long time. Yes indeed, I am proud to live here and take part in this culture. In fact, I am applying for German citizenship.

[@allenwilliams1306]

More fool you.

[@TechSucht]

Herzlich willkommen 🙂

[@jackofalltrades5761]

I am Dutch and grew up in Rotterdam and I was taught to hate Germans for what they did to our town during WW2. I had a schoolfriend who was of German descent. Could not bring him home because of him and his mother being German. To me he was a real friend so I did not care wat my parents told me. I was born in 1949 and I played on the wartime rubble.

[@TheCappuccino2011]

Hartelijk dank!

[@Octopussyist]

​@@Michael_from_EU_Germany Thanks. I am German and uncle actually worked with the Danish resistance gathering intelligence for railway sabotage. I don't take credit for that. Just like I don't take responsibility for murders committed decades before I was born. I also don't judge today's Dutch people for having taken part in the slave trade that supplied North America and Caribbean colonies of European countries with slaves, and neither do I blame modern day Americans for having murdered most of the native population of North America.

[@allenwilliams1306]

@@Michael_from_EU_Germany There weren't many who fell into either of the “respect” or “honour” categories.

[@allenwilliams1306]

Being of German descent does not make you German. Your friend should just have changed his name.

[@jackofalltrades5761]

@@allenwilliams1306 We were schoolboys and changing names was not possible.

[@LalaDepala_00]

I think that many people wrongly assume that every German was having a great time during Hitler's rule. That was not the case. My grand, grandmother is German (I am Dutch). She fled Germany during the war. Even if you were German, you were extremely oppressed (unless you were rich and wealthy ofcourse).

[@fzoid3534]

The nazis acted like every dictatorship today does as well. They got rid of any intellectuals first, controlled the press and punished anyone who didn't follow very quickly. I've read many stories of teachers that were simply forced out of schools by the SS because it was known they weren't friends of the regime. The people who spoke out either died, fled or kept quiet because of fear for their lives or the lives of their family.

[@jennyh4025]

Similar with my grandma’s uncle, he spent a year in a concentration camp as a political prisoner (he was a socialist). According to his nieces and nephews, he came back a changed man, from previously happy and outgoing to pensive…

[@fckthelaw96]

Same with my grandmother. She lived in a Region in Poland, had to flee to germany but here it wasn't much better for her and her family too. It's a shame that people think everything was good and every german wanted this to happen.

[@BernhardGiner]

Yes. After Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor on January 30, 1933, the National Socialists established a dictatorship in the German Reich within a few weeks through terror measures. The persecution and elimination of the political opposition played a central role in this. Concentration camps were opened throughout the Reich to imprison political opponents en masse. Only six weeks after Hitler came to power, the first concentration camp was set up - for Germans: Social Democrats, Jews, Democrats, Christians, homosexuals, Communists, Roma, etc. One of my great-uncles, for example, was a Social Democrat mayor and was therefore imprisoned in Dachau in 1933/34. When he returned injured and suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, he told my great-aunt full of horror in his voice: "They beat people to death there." This terror had an effect on our family like this: my great aunt told my grandmother and she told my grandfather. From then on, they were extremely careful not to say anything political in front of their children, so that they wouldn't let anything slip. They were especially afraid of making their children orphans, including my father. His sister, my aunt, was a teenager and a passionate Hitler admirer (my father was too young). When they told us all this as children in the 1970s, they cried. All of them. Me too. I still cry if I think about. All these wonderful people from everywhere: just men, women and children, violated and murdered and finally thrown into the meat grinder of war. That's what fascism and nationalism brings us all. So great times for Germans? Definitively not for all in my family. (There were Nazis in my family too, perpetrators also, I definitively don't want to sugarcoat that. But both are true.)

[@gwendolynsnyder463]

my friend's grandpa was a German soldier. He said, and I quote, "when we had to surrender, we were all glad to just be rid of this bloody arsehole."

[@spacebln]

As a german musician and musicologist I have always been very proud of the influence german culture had on music, especially classical music. Imagine a world without Beethoven, Brahms or, as mentioned in the video, Steinway and Sons. They started as the Steinweg family from the forests in middle Germany leaving for New York around 1850 and since then living the american dream to the fullest.. Of course, Germans have contributed a lot in other fields, but it is the field of music where our identity should have its roots. Most opera houses worldwide are found in Germany today among some of the finest orchestras there are. Let's not forget electronic music with Kraftwerk as Germany's most famous contribution to popular music. Unfortunately, most of our cultural heritage nowadays is overshadowed by what happened between 1933 and 1945.

[@KiffRiffart]

I am also a German musician. I have to mention one of the oldest American family companys founded by C.F. Martin from Germany. They invented the stealstring guitar and the dreadnought bodyshape. Very important for the unique style of American music, like Country, Bluegrass, Rock. And also for orchester music. Gretsch guitars is another example.

[@allenwilliams1306]

@@KiffRiffart Given your list, I fervently wish the company had never existed.

[@allenwilliams1306]

Not to mention 1814-1918! We could certainly have done without Steinway & Sons; there are many other decent piano makers around. I think the German School in music is greatly over-rated. I can easily do without Brahms, for example, and I despise Bruckner with passion (Austrian, I know, but definitely German School). Haydn and Schumann are the composers of this genre I rate most highly. I value French, Russian and British music most. You can keep all your opera houses and horrible German operas, too. Wagner ought to go in the bin with Bruckner. Interminable bores, both of them. I can't stand opera generally, but the German ones are completely unlistenable. I grant you there are some decent German orchestras. The best is obviously the Vienna Philharmonic, again, Austrian, but I also like Leipzig Gewandhaus and NDR Hamburg Radio orchestras. The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra I have never taken to.

[@babettestaiger5856]

Let's not forget literature and philosophy! And I particularily think of Humboldt, who was one of the first to wonder wether earth could be a great ecosystem. He studied amongst other regions the Amazonas, and was in ahw of its diversity. Let's study and keep in mind the positive contributions to humanity that cultures all over the world have developped, let's put together all this to fight back fascism and build something good!

[@HEIMAT64]

Sollten wir nicht Musik generell auf 432 Hz hören?

[@galacticangel5262]

In the 1910´s thru the 1930´s my grandfather and great grandfather owned a business located in south-west of Germany selling early typewriters. At the same time the shop served as a travel agency where you could book and purchase tickets for transatlantic ship passages to ´´the New World´´. As the private rooms were on the first floor just above the shop, much more than once, my grandfather got persistant knocks on the door waking him up in the middle of the night, where a nervous mother or father requested a one way ticket to America ´´ because my poor boy got himself in trouble``. Alll necessary papers were issued, no questions asked.

[@AnnetteLudke-je5ll]

My dad had to go to war even he was studying theology and philosophy and wanted to become a roman catholic priest. For him the war was cruel as he was tortured by the other soldiers who were Nazis. Especially the higher ranks tortured and bullied him a lot. He hated war but he had to go, because Hitler was a dictator. He had no chance, but he was lucky and survived. He taught us kids not to hate other nations and to be friendly to everyone but to hate war and fight for peace.

[@robaroundtheworld4723]

History should not be forgotten and always be seen critically. If it’s the holocaust, genocides or the slave trade: Every nation has its downsides and it’s always easier to point fingers on others. We should accept and acknowledge mankind’s dark history so we can work on a brighter future.

[@melchiorvonsternberg844]

Every event, has to be seen, in it's historical context. A masurement by our zeitgeist, don't fit in scientific terms...

[@macdieter23558]

And we should learn from history! Germany´s NAZI past is equal to America´s MAGA future! The only difference: Hitler (who was born in Austria) was soldier in WW 1, while Trump dodged the draft 5 times and his grandfather also dodged the draft! Don´t know about Fred!

[@ashley-fk6dp]

bro world war 2 ended in 1945 these motherfuckers were gassing people 3 seconds ago

[@Bernd-y9m]

I am german and proud of my Country. Lots of us gave great inventions to the World...the Car for example or the Transistor by Walter Schottky (Siemens) and many other Things

[@allenwilliams1306]

I'll give you the car, although Karl Benz actually invented the motorized tricycle. The transistor? No, not German. It is not even possible to attribute its invention to one man, because it was invented by a team at Bell Labs in the USA. You could have added chemical warfare, though.

[@bechri9573]

strange to be proud of other people's achievements only because they are from the same country, patriotism can lead to atrocities like those we Germans have plenty of in our history - be proud of yourself, be proud of your children ... or, was it perhaps Walter Schottky typing those words I am replying to? Is it you? Can I have an autograph?

[@thomaspetermann3391]

@@bechri9573 du hast nicht das recht anderen vorzuschreiben, wie sie leben wollen, und dein geschichtsstudium kann höchstens 2 wochen gedauert haben

[@bechri9573]

@@thomaspetermann3391 ich bin erstaunt, dass du sehr wohl das Recht zu haben scheinst, (a.) meine Rechte zu definieren und (b.) meinen Bildungsstand öffentlich in Frage zu stellen; im Übrigen habe ich niemandem mit auch nur einer Silbe etwas vorgeschrieben, sondern meinen Standpunkt klargemacht - nimm bitte zur Kenntnis, dass mich deine belanglose Meinung nicht interessiert (und fahr mal wieder runter)

[@thomaspetermann3391]

@@bechri9573 der hinweis patriotismus kann zu greueltaten führen ist genau das ding, die deutschen sollen sich auf der einen seite mit den greueltaten auseinandersetzen und sich so richtig schön schuldig fühlen, bis zum st. nimmerleinstag,(für etwas, wofür sie NICHT verantwortlich waren) aber auf gar keinen fall dürfen sie stolz auf eine nation sein, sich zu ihr bekennen(auch im positiven sinn). die nachkommen jeder nation haben die verpflichtung, dass mit blut und schweiß aufgebaute und errungene mit respekt und achtung zu erhalten und weiterzuentwickeln, und das hat etwas mit identifikation zu tun, viele ausländer können nicht verstehen, warum die deutschen kein nationalstolz haben dürfen, was dein geschichtsstudium angeht, ja, du hast recht, das war frech, beleidigend, ich bitte um verzeihung,

[@dapengu777]

Nice to see taht today people can see more and more the positive things of the rich german history.

[@sarahivsutterb747]

Thanksgiving is also founded by German people who gave back the goods that they got from the native American people who helped them to survive! And your Christmas tree is also a tradition from Germany! Just to mention it here!

[@SebastianSeltenreich]

Danke für dieses Video und deine Worte. Ich wünsche dir und allen die du liebst nur das Beste! ❤

[@blondkatze3547]

German history is really very interesting if you look into it. I had worked in nursing for the elderly and had personally heard so many stories about the the escape from the eastern regions. A women told me who had fled from Breslau( Silesia )before Hitler and the Nazis came to power , the Protestants , Catholics and Jews lived well together, everyone went about their work and practice their religion without being any problems.And then Hitler came and plunged the whole world into ruin with his mass murder.😔

[@Gr8Buccaneer]

and he wasnt even german...

[@melchiorvonsternberg844]

Yep! But the Nazis only "earn" the bronce medal, in terms of mass murders...

[@tabaaza9884]

Hitler did not come, he was chosen by the Germans as chancellor.

[@oleksandrbyelyenko435]

There are dozens of villages and small towns founded and inhabited by Germans in Ukraine. Even one district of my native city of Odesa used to be a German village Lustdorf.

[@wietholdtbuhl6168]

😎 COOL ❤

[@AlexandraVioletta]

You know, what Lustdorf means? I know... 😏

[@wietholdtbuhl6168]

@@AlexandraVioletta A Village full of Horney People! Ja Ja

[@Enchantedlight_20_13_]

It can mean anything, mainly Lust means to want to do something productive and enjoy it. So its not direct the english 'lust' , but if u want to interpret it in a sexual way it could also mean that. War and the necessary brainwash can makes some strange ' things' out of men. Btw Well we also have ' lustig' which means funny. But for me it sounds like a whoorehouse. But dont forget in deep germany, we have simple villages that are have strange names as well. Like 'Wichshausen' or 'Ficken'... 😂 I have no idea how they get their names. There is always a Story behind such names.

[@axell964]

It actually were the germanic people that brought down the western roman empire, conquered most of their lands, like modern france, spain, england and even north africa and founded many longlasting kingdoms there. Some of the states still exist today, though they aren't germanic anymore. And about german nationality. That is a rather new concept, not even 200 years old. Before there were dozens if not hundreds of different german states, not a single one. Even today most germans would consider austrians and the german speaking swiss and luxenburgians as germans, even if they are not within germany. And places like the netherlands and denkmark have closer culteral ties to the north german culture then the north germans and south germans have.

[@alis49281]

Uhm... No. The Roman empire underwent a transition. It was not "brought down" by any external force. Yes, there are movies that depict it like that. Those are fiction.

[@commandbrawler9348]

​@@alis49281 uhm you are mistaken, the Roman Empire was taken down from external forces

[@alis49281]

@@commandbrawler9348 so, who burned down the western Roman empire? No, it was a transition into a more decentralized organization. West Rome was most likely weakened by both international and external factors. What happens when an empire first loses financial, then military power? It doesn't even need a violent takeover, because any power can claim the void. It fell into smaller pieces, which then just later decided to sever their ties to Rome. It has happened more than once in history, that centralized political structures beyond a certain size fall apart to form smaller nations. I think that is more likely than anyone destroying the Roman empire, especially when there is no evidence for such a large scale war.

[@axell964]

@@alis49281 It was brought down by several factors, internal weakness and growing external threats. But it is fact that the western roman empire ended when italy was taken by the germanic king Odoacer and deposed the last western roman emporer Romulus Augustulus. The senate then gave the imperial signia to the eastern roman empire, ending the western one. The eastern tried later to restore the empire, and almost succeeded even.

[@tabaaza9884]

The empire changed into a different form, regardless of which of the Germanic tribes swept across the Italian Peninsula, the center of power was the bishop of Rome. This power grew so much that it eventually threatened the new imperial power. The investiture dispute, the strengthening of the papacy, the expansion of Christianity to northern Europe - these are political actions. If it weren't for the Great Schism, it is unknown whether the weakening Byzantium would have managed to maintain its independence.

[@Arch_Angelus]

In 1683, Francis Daniel Pastorius, a German-born educator, lawyer, poet, and public official, played a crucial role in the early history of Pennsylvania. As the agent for the Frankfort Land Company and a group of German merchants, Pastorius traveled to Pennsylvania to purchase 15,000 acres of land for a settlement. Pastorius arrived in Philadelphia on August 20, 1683, aboard the ship America. He was tasked with negotiating the purchase of land from William Penn, the proprietor of the colony. Pastorius successfully acquired the land and laid out the settlement of Germantown, which would become the first permanent German-American settlement. In 1688, he drafted the first protest against slavery in America. Yes exactly, Germany is always reduced to the Nazis, the Holocaust and the extermination of the Jews, of course this is also the largest ethnic group to be deplored, but opponents of the regime, gypsies, homosexuals and many other ethnic groups were also hunted down and exterminated on flimsy grounds, even if they were Germans who were married or related to Jewish citizens. btw. I use ethnicity. Why ? Scientific research has shown that the idea of races as biological or genetic groups of people is untenable. The diversity of people is undisputed, but it has nothing to do with races. The division of people into categories is a social construct and has nothing to do with biological or genetic differences. People are genetically almost the same and there are no meaningful criteria to distinguish between "races". The idea of race is a product of culture and history and is often linked to discrimination and prejudice. It is important that we overcome this notion and instead emphasize the diversity and commonality of all people.

[@axell964]

I would disagree, as with DNA tests you can easily distinguish these differences and they persist for a long time. These differences are there, but after WW2 and all the horror caused in the name of races aren't called that anymore, they got a new name. But it is basically the same. What it doesn't mean is that any of the genetic differences doesn't make one less human or one of them better then the other. And with the world becoming smaller, and more genetic exchange, the differences will shrink anyways more and more.

[@jennyh4025]

@@axell964technically, those genetic differences aren’t races, they are more like breeds for animals. Just take dogs, a dachshund and a Rottweiler may look very different and are different breeds, but they are still the same race. For humans there’s currently just one race alive: Homo sapiens.

[@Arch_Angelus]

​@@axell964 According to your understanding, we have races just because 1% of human genomes are different compared to 99% of genomes being the same. So if I take the Afar Triangle, for example, you are saying that there are 3 different races living there just because they differ in skin color (genetically determined according to your DNA difference) and language but also speak the main language Afar. The problem is that they have characteristics such as language, culture, origin or history, which here unambiguously denotes the ethnic group or a tribe but not a race. And according to independent scientific research by various large anthropological societies and institutes (including from America and Germany) and by researchers such as Svante Pääbo (considered the founder of palaeogenetics) and Craig Venter (whose company Celera Corporation was the first to sequence an entire human genome), the following can be clearly found in Conlusion (which you seem to have rejected this science). The division of the human species into races or subspecies is outdated from a scientific point of view. The visible differences between people from different geographically separate areas do not lead to objectively definable groups, because visible differences do not necessarily indicate the existence of genetic differences beyond the phenotype. Ongoing you can find: "Races" exist only in bred domestic animals There are several answers to the question of races. The first is that even animal races exist in this sense only in domestic animals - for example in dogs, cattle or horses. This has nothing to do with natural evolution, but these animals were specifically bred by humans for certain characteristics. It's practically non-existent with wild animals. There are no breeds of bears, wolves, tuna, or red cabbage. Differences? Yes! Race? No! The second counter-argument to alleged human races is provided by genetics. The old race theory 100 years ago focused on randomly selected, eye-catching features such as skin color, hair structure or skull shape. And they formed out of it, just as arbitrarily, different groups. Now, however, anyone who has travelled a bit around the world knows that the skin colors of the population do not suddenly change at any border. But between light-skinned and dark-skinned there are infinitely many shades, between smooth and curly hair as well. The same is true of many other features. It makes no sense to draw a line at a certain level of skin darkness and say: All people who are darker form a race of their own. Genetics refutes race theory Genetics confirms just that: Of course, there are genetic differences between the average Europeans and the average Africans. But we don't just have genes for skin and hair, we also have genes that influence how big we grow, whether we're susceptible to obesity, heart attacks or depression and many other hereditary traits. The bottom line is that people within Europe are much more genetically different than they are, say, different from people in Africa as a whole. That is also why it makes no sense to speak of races. By the way, nowhere are the genetic differences as great as within Africa. Simply because our ancestors lived there until about 80,000 years ago. It is indeed possible to determine relationships between population groups by means of genes. Then it turns out that white Europeans are much more closely related to East Africans than East Africans are to indigenous South Africans. So: to put all Africans in one pot - only a white person can come up with the idea of Races. Racism led to racialism - not the other way around And so it was: racism is not the result of a scientific theory of race, but the reverse. Race theory is a product of colonialism, born of the need to provide a justification to distinguish between supposedly higher and lower-quality people. This is also stated in the Jena Declaration, which zoologists and evolutionary researchers published in 2019. It says about the idea of human races: There is no biological reason for this, and in fact there never has been.

[@Arch_Angelus]

@@jennyh4025 Homo Sapiens are Specie not a race.😉

[@melchiorvonsternberg844]

@@jennyh4025 And do you think, that the evolution has finished? When we arrived from Africa in Europe, we were all black. And the evolution turned us, in only a very short time, into white people, like the Neanderthals. Evolution, is goin' on and will split us again. That's biology and nothin' can stop this...

[@maybeide8078]

Correct, as a German, whatever topic is discussed, you have to start with Hitler, then have your conversation, and end with Hitler. If not, they call you "nazi". It is not required, on the other hand, if you are French, to start with Napoleon, or if you are Italian, to start with Cesar, or if you are spanish, to start with Franko.

[@MSBenBecker]

Wtf? Nobody talks about Hitler. Except a few Neo Nazis and ignorant, uneducated, entitled American tourists. We are aware of our history, but we no longer carry the guilt of our great-great-great grandfather's. You seem to feel comfortable with Nazis..maybe you should question yourself and the company you keep. Never heard something this ignorant in 30 years..

[@AlexandraVioletta]

Nah, as Italian you start with Mussolini 😂

[@smartladylr]

I'm German and French, speak read write both languages like " mother tongs" never speak neither from Hitler nor Napoleon, there's so much more interresting to talk about concerning theses two countries - besides I lived in the Us, taught languages my entire professionnal life, lived also in Russia, but also in Italy, I feel perfectly well wherever I go and really only silly people think that the main subject that are talked about are the " dark side" of history.

[@maybeide8078]

@@smartladylr In Germany, it is the "daily live" especially in politics, especially these days.

[@rep4063]

Mr. Thomas Sowell is one of the greatest intellectuals of our time.

[@eldritchedward]

Mining and beer, and they're gruff and honest with a heart of gold. ...great, we're RL's dwarves.

[@user-xq4tq7vo4s]

What about Paraguay. One of the greatest community’s abroad? As well as Namibia, where I landed 43 years ago. We still have a German news paper. Also online.

[@TommySuffocation]

THX. My famillie are from Ostpreußen. Braunsberg, Plasswich and Frauenburg. They run from Russians 1945. They never hurt any Humen. Never.

[@AlexandraVioletta]

My maternal grandma was born in Tilsit and raise in Königsberg. She was 8 when the Russians came. She, her sisters and her mom were *g*r*a*p*e*d

[@davidberriman5903]

You keep doing it Joel. Just when I think my general knowledge is reasonable you shoot me down in flames. I knew that the Germans were quite regional but I did not know that it was to that extent. Thank you for your work.

[@jensgirschik9479]

What is unfortunately forgotten far too often: The first country that the Nazis occupied was Germany. It was an aggressive and violent group that took radical action against any resistance. Many Germans have retreated into private life, not least out of fear. The worst thing you can accuse many Germans of at this time is a lack of moral courage. But if you feel like you're alone and worried about your family, then moral courage isn't exactly easy. You then simply try not to attract attention as much as possible. Many images of Germans cheering Hitler are propaganda created to display admiration. There were hardliners loyal to the line or soldiers who were obliged to do this. What was going on in the concentration camps was only discussed in private. Often the events were so unimaginable that they were considered unbelievable and even impossible. There were definitely convinced Nazis in Germany, but to apply this to all Germans is undifferentiated and certainly not correct.

[@macdieter23558]

So many similarities to today´s MAGA America!

[@MSBenBecker]

And the same thing is happening in the US. Trump, who is a Nazi and Project 2025.

[@jolaajtak7861]

Quite similar to Russia today.

[@Njordin2010]

Absolutely not. Please don't be ridiculous. Hatemongering and fearmongering are a path to authorianism.

[@jensgirschik9479]

@@Njordin2010 I have never claimed otherwise. But this hatred came from a group and not from the general population. This group used radical methods to intimidate a broad mass of people and thus gained their position of power. In a society that was based on obedience and the fulfillment of duty, shaped by Prussian militarism, there was a good breeding ground in times of economic crisis to gain followers who would help to intimidate and eliminate those who thought differently. In totalitarian societies, it is a comparatively small group that controls a broad mass of people through fear and intimidation.

[@dutchyjhome]

Being a Dutchy and yet being of German ancestry (since 1752 in The Netherlands) I do recognize this item. Many many true Dutch families turn out to be of German ancestry, whether they like this or not. A fact after all is a fact. See WW2 is never far away in daily life here in The Netherlands, although WW2 already is 80 years ago. For the generation which actually was in WW2, it often was a traumatic experience which gave many people PTSD and besides soldiers many common people as well. The same common people whom were trying to raise a family in this horrific era suffering of PTSD and all and so creating a newly born generation in WW2 or slightly after WW2 being exposed to PTSD parents and a PTSD society. The people growing up in WW2 are called first generation war victim and the children this first generation war victim raised are called second generation war victims (born in the late 40's, in the 50's, the 60's and even the 70's) , since they had to deal with their PTSD parents and PTSD grand parents, and all other people suffering from PTSD ( Family like aunts, uncles, cousins, neighbors, anybody) since such a grand war will leave a huge impact in any society. These are the consequences decennia after a war people were not in themselves and yet they struggle with the direct or indirect consequences of this war. This is the reason why some people in 2024 still can react strongly negatively to German people, Germany, the German language, but they do prefer German products: household items (kitchen, washing machine, coffee maker, etc.) and of course they prefer to have a German car in front of their door. The duality (originating from PTSD trauma) of rejecting the country, the language and the German people, and yet coveting German products is characteristic. Even today (2024), some young families are not free from PTSD and raise their children with such a duality between rejecting and desiring people and things of German origin, which for example at football matches between The Netherlands and Germany will come to the surface again.

[@occultured9722]

Doesn't even the Dutch national anthem say: "Ben ick van Duytschen Bloedt ..."?

[@dutchyjhome]

@@occultured9722 Yes it does :-) But this national anthem basically is a song about the Royal Orange family.... which actually partially is from German Blood. But it may just as well refer to all those German families whom have chosen The Netherlands to live in and now start denying they are from German Blood to begin with for the reason I explained in my first contribution to this topic above here ;-)

[@marion7661]

Well explained! Yes, up to today you can see it in some families, so sad and with what is going on right now with our politicians it will go on, because we can not heal that way.

[@dutchyjhome]

@@marion7661 So sad really...

[@tabaaza9884]

@@occultured9722 If the Dutch, instead of being interested in overseas colonies, were more concerned with the affairs of their country, Koninkrijk der Nederlanden would absorb Niedersachsen.

[@Capt.-Nemo]

Georg Hermann Ehrhardt Ruth alias Babe Ruth. It's definitely a German name.

[@Rick2010100]

One simple reason why many Germans left the country in recent centuries was inheritance law. The eldest son was the main heir, he took over the estate, farm, business or trade. The younger sons received their smaller share of the inheritance and had to build something for themselves with it. The younger sons looked around for where they could make the best start with their money and the offers from abroad were often better than those at home. Example: Friedrich Trump, Donald Trump's grandfather, was born in Bavaria (Kallstadt) as the second son, his older brother took over the winery. And Friedrich Trump followed his cousin Johann Heinrich Heinz (Heinz Ketchup), also from Kallstadt, to the USA.

[@galacticangel5262]

very interesting.

[@olgahein4384]

As a german who is not bavarian, i kinda had to grin learning that Trumps roots are actually bavarian.

[@wolsch3435]

@@olgahein4384 Soweit ich weiß, liegt Kallstadt in der Rheinpfalz, nahe bei Bad Dürkheim. Bayern ist insofern richtig, da die Rheinpfalz bis 1933/45 zu Bayern gehörte. Die Nazis zerstörten de facto die einzelnen Länder und die französische Besatzungsmacht etablierte nach 1945 das Land Rheinland-Pfalz.

[@galacticangel5262]

@@olgahein4384 sorry to disappoint you. Trump´s and Heinz´s family roots are from Kallstadt (double ll) in Palatina, not Karlstadt (rl)in Bavaria. Their families are even related.

[@olgahein4384]

@@galacticangel5262 You don't disappoint me at all, cause Kallstadt belonged to Bavaria till 1945, then it was owned by the french who integrated it into the brand new state of Rheinland-Pfalz.

[@mariestreeting4213]

A lot of German folk moved to some small country towns near me. Places like Boonah, Haigslea and Marburg to mention a few, not far from my home town of Ipswich, Queensland. It’s interesting to visit some of the old cemeteries and read the headstones. So much history ❤️

[@peterwoosmann1823]

Man kommt in den USA gar nicht an deutschen Einfluss vorbei, Boing, IBM, Levi Strauss Jeans, Heinz und viele mehr.

[@martingerlitz1162]

My father suffered as a kid being drafted to Hitler youth and later being 16 drafted to war. His parents were conservative/social Democrats. They suffered a lot and couldn't do anything about it. It was a dictatorship.

[@blondkatze3547]

The Nazis were so cynical the more children the German women had, the better and then there were also orders of mothers. And at the end, when the war was lost anyway, all of the sons , many of them still teenagers , were drafted into the war and killed. How many mothers had their hearts boken, because they had lost their son`s. My grandpa`s cousin on my mother`s side had lost three sons aged 20 lost up to 30 years.😪

[@cartmann227]

Never again!

[@martingerlitz1162]

@@cartmann227 sad thing: in Russia it all starts over again. Young people who want to start their lives are cannon fuel. Russian government installed propaganda of lies and people partly can't help, partly cheer....

[@TexasChilliMassacre]

​@@blondkatze3547you're talking bullshit.The gernman national socialist party were germans not "Nazis". If you don't know what Nazi realy means just shut up.Just stop repeating the lies and bullshit the lefties are spreading.Get educated.

[@TexasChilliMassacre]

And you really believe this lie?

[@spmoran4703]

I know some Germans . One of my best friends Weibke is German . Another friend Anna Kline another friend Carsten Shott. They are very freindly people and very welcoming . Yes there are the two world wars . But before that Germany was a great allie to the British and America . Prince Albert promoted advances in sience and the arts . He was a German Saxon . George Frederick Handel a Hannoverian German wrote many good musical compositions in England and Ireland . Including The Messiah . There was a German settlement in Manchester England . They worked with the Jewish settlers there and some intermarried . They are a facinating people. He mentioned the Tutonic Knights . They were Crusader Knights . And they managed to free Jerusalem for a while from the Saracens . In the period before the Second World War . The first election featuring Hitler . He got no votes from Germany . It took outside circumstances to get people to vote for him. And many still called him " The Austrian. " The Holocaust was horrific. But there were supporters of this Genocide in many places . Britain and the USA were not exempt . There were Germans who protested against anti Semitism . Such as Dietrich Bonhoffer. Sister Basilea Shlenk and Marlene Dietrich. Meanwhile British politician Oswald Mosley and socialite Unity Mitford encouraged it.

[@mizapf]

5:02 If there is one constant, it's the mispronunciation of German Z: Zeiss should be pronounced like "tsize" in English. Z is always [ts], no exception. As a hint, try to say "size" but start with your tongue in the "t" position. (The ending ss is voiceless, too, but I did not find a better example.)

[@frodzie]

i've had a similar experience to the one he had in Argentina. Was at an arts festival in a small town in Queensland Australia, everyone looked Aussie sounded Aussie, but every now and then I'd see the adults talking in German, it was old German too. Then they'd turn around and tell their kids off in a full Aussie accent. I asked about it and was told that Germans settled there in the mid to late 1800's and the community had kept the language and some traditions alive since then. But apparently most of their kids were not interested in the language or traditions and they basically all said they'll probably be the last to speak the language and follow the traditions.

[@timetraveler43]

Same in the Barosa Valley in Sth. Australia. The older generation loved to speak their quaint German when they Heard- you’re from a Germanic country. After the Second World War, the younger ones refused to speak it tho.

[@Rasarel]

Budweiser comes from Budweis, a town in Czechia. Yes, and it's truth, the majority of people in Budweis spoke German before the war.

[@we73]

On of our family members immigrated to the US mid of the 19th. century and founded there a watch company (Gruen Watch Company) which was the biggest watch company in the US for years. In those times, you were able to do really successful things ;-)

[@ockertbrits6907]

Same for some villages and schools in South Africa.

[@Nikioko]

The areas, which Germany lost in the east, were ethnically cleansed, with millions expelled from their homeland. Today, there is hardly any German population left.

[@R0d_1984]

14 million in WW2 alone.

[@PokhrajRoy.]

3:59 Again, face beaming when beer discourse starts.

[@d2ndborn]

love Thomas Sowell, great books and smart man

[@TanjaKette]

I am German. It is very interesting how Americans See our abilities. Beer Crafts Military Organisation Agriculture. What about music or art or developping social systems? The first tenthousends had to leave Germany because of religious reasons or poverty. They were often seen as outcarsts in their own country. Very often they lived differently and seperated from the Others. So they continued this way of living abroad. And they mistrusted state interventions because of their bad experiences and therefore stayed away from political interactions.

[@73smoo]

Germans are the largest ethnic group in the US. Watch the video 'Ethnic groups in the United States 1820-2023'.

[@artmaknev3738]

Its hot summer in Germany, I wanted to buy water, it was like €3.20, and the cashier told me, "Bist du verrukt?" kaufen bier!, I looked at the price of beer and it was like €0.89 lol, nobody drinks water in Germany!

[@stevyyjay85]

The Nazi era should never be forgotten and it'll always be a stain on German history. However, German history is so much more than just that era. As explained in the video, Germanic tribes and their culture and history have existed for thousands of years now. The Germans versus the Romans, The Germans in the middle ages, the Germans of the Renaissance, the Germans of scientific inventions in the 18th, 19th and 20th century... literature, art, philosophy, medicine... German history is so broad. It is brutal and regressive, but also modern and progressive at times, it's rural and urban... it's everything in between for thousands of years. IF the Nazi era is the ONLY era that is taught in school, then that would be a real shame. Nevertheless, the Nazi era should always be taught as an example of what to prevent in the future at all costs.

[@gosugosu1280]

Not forgotten, but forgiven - especially since we did properly apologize.

[@p.f.5718]

What you have to understand why Germans from a specific area didn’t settle together is the reason that there were no one german State - there were many more or less little „states“ Kingdoms, Archbishoprics, Duchdoms and so on. They recognized themselves as german ethnic but in the first as people from the specific reign. That’s so as you say I am New Yorker or I am Pensilvanier you will have different customs and behavior. People from Austria would always go together on foreign soil because they had one empire centuries long. Today we always are sympathetic to people who belongs to the former empire although they were no german ethnic - they could be today from Hungary, Bosnia, Czech and so on it don’t matter. Love from Austria 🇦🇹

[@shaneb4612]

I'm from German decent & Australian Aboriginal decent. My mum's side is German, my great, grandparents emigrated to Australia in the mid to late 1800's. It's still unbelievable to me to think my great grands opened up a heap of land here in Queensland. Back then life would have been so tough for settler's. I knew Germans' had emigrated to a lot of those parts of the world. It's totally 6` of separation. Budweiser be is of German decent, but it was first brewed in the Czech Republic or back then it probably was the former Republic of Yugoslavia.

[@melchiorvonsternberg844]

Budweis, is a city in Bohemia and the beer, is from this city. But it was a German brewing master, who created the beer. You have to remember, that Bohemia, was for centuries a part of the Holy Roman Empire and until 1918 a part of the Austrian kingdom, as a part of the K&K empire...

[@tabaaza9884]

@@melchiorvonsternberg844 The Svitavy Brewery was founded in Budejovice in 1256, and in Pilsen, where Pilsner is made, in 1307. It was during the reign of the kings of the Přemyslid dynasty. In the first half of the 13th century, people from the German-speaking area began to arrive in many Slavic cities. It is not known whether the beer was created by the Slavs or the Germans, both have been brewing beer for a long time. American Budweiser has a slightly shorter history and is related to Budweiser Bürgerbräu, which was founded in 1795 by German-speaking residents of the city and began brewing Budweiser Bier in 1802. It was exported to the United States in 1875.

[@PokhrajRoy.]

No society is ever born bad. It’s just that at certain times, some people are more egregious than ever.

[@macdieter23558]

As in today´s America´s MAGA future

[@CabinFever52]

You must know that Frankfort, KY, is the capital of KY. It's not exactly in the middle of nowhere 🙃😉

[@macdieter23558]

Been in Kentucky! There is not much difference between Kentucky and Nowhere! Referring to Mitch, they don´t even speak any intelligible language!

[@alansmithee8831]

Hello Joel. My city of Bradford in England had a Little Germany from 19th century. Many German communities were fleeing intolerance at home or trying to maintain their religious identity. There was not one Germany until the 1870s, but those like Wagner were already sowing the seeds of what came later, that was not just down to Nasties, but was evident in such as Namibia pre WW1. The bit about casualties made me wonder. It was a bit like saying US had less casualties against native Americans or Iraq. Sitting Bull comes to mind. I worked with a couple of German women from different bits of Germany. The one from the bit that historically shared a king with UK had a British family name. She found the other woman much more of a "rules are rules" German than where she was raised.

[@zondar76]

I thought the video would talk about german scientists. There are some very important mathematicians, like Kepler or Gauss, and physicians (I think I don't have to quote the most famous of them 😛).

[@Jochen.Lutz-Germany]

Originally the sumerians brewed something like beer but beginning in 1516 german munks wrote down the famous german purity law (which still is very important for us) and determined the only ingrediances of beer: Hop, barley and water, nothing else. There's a famous saying here in Germany: "Hopfen und Malz, Gott erhalt's" (hop and bardley god preseve it). No other mixtures have got a chance exept beer with lemonade called Alster or Radler or beer with Coke = Diesel like the fuel.

[@maris1407]

Don't forget Wernher von Braun

[@astridgreyowl8115]

Interessantes Video! 👍 Grüße aus Deutschland

[@tusk70]

Germany is and always was multicultural. I'm was born in Cologne, I'm a catholic from the Rhineland. I am closer to french or dutch people, than germans from Berlin, Hamburg or Zwickau. The germans in the south are closer to me but they have their own traditions. ....and I like it!

[@thomaspetermann3391]

ich würde das wort vielfältig verwenden

[@tusk70]

@@thomaspetermann3391 Könnte man, nur trifft es mit "multikulturell" wohl besser. Deutschland besteht nun mal aus dutzenden Kulturen. Was hat ein Badener mit einem Hessen oder Friesen zu schaffen? Man spricht Deutsch mit örtlichem Dialekt aber es gibt andere Traditionen, Lieder und Tänze. Somit steckt in dem hässliche Spruch von der Islamistin Özoguz schon eine Spur Wahrheit, obwohl es ihr aber eher darum ging Deutschland zu diffamieren.

[@Grafganja420]

@@thomaspetermann3391 Ich würde einfach, wieder ganz zurück gehen und verschiedene stämme sagen

[@glaubhafieber]

Funny that ine German newspaper in Thailand is just called the white foreigner 😂

[@23drcharles]

The major contribution to higher education was the establishment of the graduate school in the USA. The Ph.D is the outcome of the German transfer of degrees to the USA. The German scholarship of the 19th century is the basis for the social science and natural science revolution. See Ira Remsen and the Scientific Transformation of the Graduate school.John Hopkins was based on the German model and gave the first PH.D.

[@Attirbful]

On the other hand, Germans (or more specifically German migrants) are always known to adapt in no time, as well. Germans make a point in learning the language and customs wherever they go as fast as possible. Like, my family moved to Norway in the early 70s. We were all fluent in Norwegian within half a year as my parents took evening classes to learn the language, my brother attended school, and after two week wrote his first Norwegian dictation, making only a few mistakes, and I, a toddler at the time, learned it from the neighboring kids…. That may be the cause why Germans today stress the importance of acculturation among immigrant groups in Germany. It is not unusual to have first generation Turkish mothers in Germany NOT knowing how to speak German after forty of fifty years of living here…

[@Miristzuheiss]

You forget the Germans living at Mallorca or Canarian Islands. They dont learn spanish, they expect all speak german😂

[@cayreet5992]

@@Miristzuheiss Most of those who really immigrate there to live and work actually do learn Spanish and speak it well. The tourists or short-term inhabitants or those with a vacation home there are the ones who do not adapt.

[@barbaral.5980]

​@@Miristzuheiss My German sister in law lived in Spain for 25 years and is fluent in Spanish, Katalan, Portugese, French and English. If you move somewhere for a job or marriage, you better get your language skills going! Retirees are a different matter.

[@Miristzuheiss]

@@barbaral.5980 i only thought about the typicall Germans, living in Spain and expect German food, Beer and fluently speaking German spanish people. I know such idiots

[@dagmarvandoren9364]

We alowed this. So they can

[@Finrohir]

Yes, we have quite a history. I like being German.

[@arnodobler1096]

@Feli from Germany made a good video about the topic.

[@jjuniper274]

I love Germany. I have family there. The cobblestone streets, the platz and outdoor restaurants are fabulous in the summer. And Weinachts Markt at Christmas is really something to see. Writers too are German. Geothe, Schiller and psychology, Nietzsche, Freud and of course scientist, Einstein, Oppenheimer. How about aviation? Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindburgh.

[@Condor-Toni]

There is a cool video about places where German is spoken. 17 Weird Places They Speak German

[@k.s.8064]

Ok...now I got it and it was the first time that I really have noticed that you are having German blood in you. I always said to the way you are and behave, that you would fit so perfectly fine into German society because for me, you are so untypical American...😂 Now it's clear... 😊 And like I said before, you would be so happy with living in Germany! I think, you would really like it!!! I really do like your mindset and just the great guy you are!!!

[@ottonormal3354]

Another fun fact, there was never a sort of german cosa nostra... Allmost every big imigrant nation had this, but not the germans. xD

[@Celisar1]

17:36 that is so not true.one branch of my US-Relatives is married to people with Italian and Irish roots, the other branch (5 children) all married people without German roots as well. The first generation born in the USA hardly speaks any German anymore. So they integrated immediately and mixed with all others.

[@macdieter23558]

As a wise man once said:" YOU speak english because it is the only language you ever learned. I speak english because it is the only language that YOU ever learned!"

[@michaelazimmermann301]

My paternal Grandparents and their huge families had been invited by Catherine the Great to farm land in the vicinity of Kalicz. They were proud, stubborn and mentally independent plus very hardworking people who built up their farms and worked them for 200 years. They spoke good Polish, but since they only intermarried with each other, they also kept their original German language. After WWII they fled to the German mainland, and most of them emigrated to Canada after a few years to join other relatives who had already been living there. All the time they kept their language alive, which is a bit different from the nowaday German I speak, but is has very much charm and ancient beauty to it, with some words that are actually not in usage anymore. I love the memories of listening to those aunts and uncles talking in their dialect that is lost forever now. My Grandparents were too thick headed to allow any government to tell them whom they were supposed to like or not - so they made themselves equally unpopular with the Nazis and with the Communists. They had to flee twice in their life and leave all their property behind - once in 1945 and the second time in 1953 escaping from GDR, with their 4 sons. They were in their early 50s when they found their final home in Castrop-Rauxel, North Rhine Westphalia, with next to nothing to their name. They built a new life - for the third time - and raised their sons there. Sadly, the second oldest, Herbert Gohl. drowned in the Emscher at the age of 19, and my Grandma Natalie never recovered from this. In the 60s, my two Uncles emigrated to Canada like many other family members, and only the youngest, Horst, who would become my and my sister's Dad, stayed in Germany and started a family here. My Canadian cousins are happily mixing with the English speaking Canadians, neither of them has married someone of German origin, unlike the earlier generations who kept to themselves. Thank you for sharing this video with us , and also for showing a great deal of love and respect for German culture! Keep up your splendid work and warmest Greeting from Sachsen-Anhalt ❤

[@AlexanderPapp]

Whats the original video ? Can you gibe credit ?

[@MrSinclairn]

Thomas Sowell !?! 😂😂

[@tabaaza9884]

There is so much distortion in this video that it seems impossible to completely correct it. The origins of the Proto-German language date back to the 7th century, Althochdeutsche Sprache was created in 750 at the earliest. The French language comes from Latin, to which Gallic and Franconian elements were added, so it is older than the German language. The Italian language was created on the same principle, derived from the Tuscan language, i.e. Latin with minor elements of other languages. In the Germanic area, apart from short periods of political unification, there was significant cultural diversity, which persists to this day. In what is now Germany, there were and still are two forms of the German language. The story about the settlement of remote areas by German settlers is true only in relation to the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. Throughout the Middle Ages and most of the modern era, Swabians, Bavarians, inhabitants of the Rhineland, Austria and the German-speaking cantons of Switzerland moved around Europe and the world. German-speaking countries, despite the existence of an imperial institution that was very weak for most of its existence, fought wars among themselves. Continually. Moreover, the ethnic homogeneity of Germans is also a great myth; just read a little about the history of Friesland, Brandenburg, Saxony and Prussia. Political history is also full of surprises, the lands up to Hanover could have been almost Dutch and if it were not for the short-sightedness of one Polish king, there would be no Prussian state. This film gives the impression that it treats complexes rather than telling the story of one of the three German-speaking countries in Europe. And it's a great story that deserves to be better known.

[@manub.3847]

About 20 years ago, NDR television produced a series with Yared Dibaba: "De Welt op Platt". It visited places around the world where many generations of Germans still spoke "Platt". For many, Yared Dibaba was a "Platt snacking" surprise, as he immigrated from Ethiopia as a child and actually learned to "Snacken Platt" in his new home village. "Platt-Düütsch" = North German (official) languages.

[@Grafganja420]

@@manub.3847 As a German from Nordrhein-Westfalen, Siegen, in my City some older folks still speak IT, but i doubt it gets ever Back to the Point of its all time high in History,

[@wallywombat164]

There many people and villages in Brasil and Argentina with German customs. Some villages are built in the German style. 😮😮😮😮

[@aidekhia81]

when ww2 ended a lot of higher rank nazi fled to south america

[@GustavGans-v5u]

Thank you very much for depicting my country that well. As a German, this makes me proud. However, I need to admit that Germany has changed considerably from its strong past. There's a tiny bit of that German excellence left but in general our level of education and fitness is below average now. The virtues that have made Germany strong have been forgotten or they are viewed as not important by many. :(

[@MrStubbs8157]

Not only were germans used in the civil war to make a difference with their military training, but also (among the switch of the brits) were a big part of the war against slavery as well. Most german settlers didnt participate and most german enclaves were northern territories. History is crazy and without some more contexts, it is even crazier how we judge people on more recent pasts than a bigger picture.

[@Bauramiboring]

From a german : You have my permition to teach others about Germany 🤓 nice spoken

[@smti1985]

German here. It is sad that one dark time in history overshadows what we did before that. But that is not fault of other countries, today German politics and media like to point out their own dark history themselves, instead of getting over with like Japan.

[@Grafganja420]

@@smti1985 you compare complete indoctrination of Not having any pride in your own country/people,For over 60 years and still going !Even though, Not one country did an outcry inthe early stages of war For the jews, Cuz Back then everybody was, "racist" Cuz No country Like them (NOT SAYING ANYONE DESERVES WHAT HAPPEND)(BUT SAME THING WITH PALESTINIANS TODAY AS JEWISH BACK THEN, WHY DO THE OTHER COUNTRIES DONOT WANNA TAKE IN REFUGEES OF SAID GROUPS TO SAID WAR PERIOD. With the complete ignoring WARCRIMES/CRIMES OF HUMANITY of the unit 731 For their science resulsts, THE MASS STABBINGS OF FREAKIN BABIES

[@nonamerider4953]

5:00 just to get to you another fact why Germany produces that much beer and has that much breweries, it all is located back to the bavarian empire, the King made a law where every Citylord was allowed to have it`s own brwerie, so nearly every bigger Village in Bavaria with over 10.000 people living in there has got it`s own brewerie, where the oldest ones where founded back in the 1100`s. Bavaria alone has about triple the amount of breweries then the rest of germany.

[@bellathemusicaddict]

*founded in the 1000s :) Weihenstephaner and Weltenburger for example 😊

[@Llyd_ApDicta]

This "sticking to yourself" is in my opinion about the worst thing you can do as a migrant in a foreign country. Not only will it prevent you from proper integration into the new culture but it will also foster a certain clinging to values, customs and philosophies that might collide with realities and laws in the new country as well as no longer representing cultural values from your original country. As a matter of fact, quite a few Germans today will hold exactly that kind of refusal to integrate against minorities and migrant populations that have settled in Germany in the last half century.

[@thomaspetermann3391]

hast du lack gesoffen? die deutschen hegen integrationsverweigerung im eigenem land, kommst du klar, die deutschen machen die regeln, und wenn irgendjemanden das nicht passt, kann er gerne weiterziehen.

[@Djahnie]

I wonder though, if one could not make a similar video about many other nations. Like, listing achievements of people from that ethnicity or nationality, or mentioning exclaves in other places. I would somehow expect that e.g. France or Italy would also have many things that could be referenced in a video like this.

[@Peter_Cetera]

The Germans are impressive!

[@mattesrocket]

For me as a German the adjective "German" comes rarely to my mind, when I think about our history. Our middle Europe area developed slowly over many centuries from various influences, at the beginning the Romans in the southwest and Germanic tribes in the northeast, then many little kingdoms, then the Francs, then influences from Skandinavian and Eastern countries, the catholic church played a big role and little princes, the french kings and Austrian monarchies, then the craft guilds and Hanseatic cities, Napoleon from France, etc., that all played a role from which something like a "German culture" was "baked out of". That's how I learned it in school. And England was the first country where industrialization developed and from there it spread to middle Europe. So the perspective of this video maker is a bit odd to me, especially as he said himself some "Germans" immigrated when there was even not yet a German state. And yes, there were hundrets ot thousands that immigrated from middle Europe to South- or Northamerica, but compared to the development and long history of central Europe/Germany these "Germans" play a very small role in the German history. Some nationalists/right patriots surely overrate some phases in the "German history", even if objectively these from them emphasized times were only some few decades.

[@wolsch3435]

You forget the Ottonian and Hohenstaufen emperors from 962 to 1250. Even then, people saw themselves as Germans and were perceived as such by members of neighboring nations. Even though central state power became increasingly weaker in the following period, the German people, German culture and German language continued to exist and developed further. Of course, Germany was strongly influenced by its neighboring nations. But these were mutual processes. The neighboring nations were also strongly influenced by Germany. Today, many Germans like to downplay the fact that they are German (very German, unfortunately); they are trying to escape the dark aspects of history. I think this is a harmful development.

[@mattesrocket]

@@wolsch3435 good points. But I think, the minority downplay the fact that they are German because of dark parts of the history, the majority (as far as it appears to me) are not so much in the "I am German" because they are zero interested in history or the whole thing of "is this and that a special German culutre". Personally: There are quite some cultural, a bit unique points, that are quite typical German, that are here in Germany and "in" me, like how we build our houses, how small towns are layed out, Komunalwesen, the Vereinskultur, the language and dialects and food anyway and how and when we eat, Christmas culture, holiday culture, Kleingärten culture, agriculture... how we deal with nature, fairy tales and Sagen, music..., beergardens, (now outdated but sometimes also progressive) education, engineering, social science, Martin Luther and other important "guys", ... I like that all this is from the land where I was born, but me (and maybe many others too) really don't care wheather these cultural points origine from here, middle Europe, or not. If most of this came originally from England and Italy or Spain or whereever, I don't care. It "gives me nothing" to call this things German or not, I just like them that they are a part of the culture that surrounds me. Rarely enough nowadys. I lived also already in England and Austria and they have in the same fields like I listed above also unique cultural characteristics, but very often less different than I thought, but different. And these cultural differences were often so nice, that I could not really decide, what I liked more or not, both cultures, for example the German and British both are in some points very great, especially when they are quite different

[@AnnetteLudke-je5ll]

You are astonished that German seperate from other Germans who are not from their area,but that is typical. I am proud to come from Northern Germany and I would look for other Northern Germans because they are completely different from e.g. Bavarians

[@zuptreay7540]

Numerous historians share the opinion that because of their regionality and different denominations, "the Germans" did not perceive themselves as a common group abroad and did not exert influence together as a large German community. Unlike, for example, the Irish or Italians in the USA.

[@la-go-xy]

In short: Those who emigrated before Germany was founded didn't have the concept. And they didn't have much in common, because the dialects were very different.

[@stevqtalent]

12:32 we don't really do the whole blood thing anymore

[@edwardwoodstock]

3 words....holy roman empire....look it up.

[@sns4748]

I have to stronlgy disagree with what this documentation is teaching you regarding the claim that millions of Germans were „sent back to Germany“ after WW2. This might be correct in regards of German minorities living in Sudetenland for example. But it doesn‘t count for the large majority of Germans that were violently expeled from their German homeland which was annexed by the Sowjets after WW2. East Prussia, Pomerania und Silesia were GERMAN territory, not some kind of „Eastern Europe“ as described by the narrator.

[@drstrangelove4998]

You are totally correct. It was ethnic cleansing on a scale never seen before.

[@Octopussyist]

It is not quite true that our language is older than English. Modern day High German has the same origin as English - it has, however, even up to the time when the Bible was translated and printed changed a lot from that ancient Germanic language which was similar to the ancient language known as Old English. Just like a modern day English speaker would understand little Old English without special training, a modern day German would understand little of its continental counterpart.

[@MrsStrawhatberry]

Regional identity is very important to Europeans in general. There are so many linguistic and cultural differences in a small area compared to the US. History is also quite complicated. For example Bavarians would feel more at home in Austria than in Frankfurt. People from Geneva would prefer Paris to Stuttgart, etc

[@christophevanobbergen3674]

HELO you did find it great and fun about soccer and there fans and hardcore fans then look up euro-pane basketball . Grtz from belgium

[@Jochen.Lutz-Germany]

By the way "Zeitung" is not pronounced "Seitung" but "Tseitung"

[@hape3862]

Please react to "Why German History is Different" by the channel "Then & Now"!!!

[@alexvonhamburch]

Greetings from the best an greatest City in the world: Hamburg in Germany ✌🏼✌🏼✌🏼✌🏼✌🏼

[@jensweniger636]

I went to school in the city where this map was created. For 5 years I walked past the possible building in which it was built by Waldseemüller at the time. But it wasn't until years later that I realized what a historic place it was.

[@LudwigRohf]

Any Americans watching this? I have a question: What are you taught at school about Germany? I know that you treat the 2nd WW and the Holocaust. But what else? I mean this question. I am German who went to German school and I have no idea about history lessons in the US.

[@Stadtpark90]

8:56 Chicagoer Abendpost 😂

[@MrShosuka]

You would laugh if you here what they don't tell us in german schools about our own history. If we want to know something, we have to search for it by ourselves. Especialy if it is about the truth. But to explain the settlement thing. We are many nations with different cultures and subtypes of language, but we have some things in common. We try to make things perfect, we always fight for freedom and peace (same is not true for politicans) if you look into the history. We don't want to be dominatet. We want to live in peace. Our family and our land is the most important thing and if we can, we help. I love my country and just want to travel here, because their is so much to see. All the castles build in the past. The beauty of architecture. My map from google is full of places worth to travel. My last exploring tour was in Kassel, the town I was born. Beautyful places to see, but you can see the bombs too. I drove threw the "holländische Allee" and saw the differences. How many bombs destroyed beautyful houses created with love. In Bremen you can see the same and the war is not over. Just the weapons changed. After the physical attack came the mental attack. I want my country back. I want to see more of the beauty we can create and give the same to others.

[@Smartfish101]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/iqGunnptoqmUeq8 The History of the "Holy Roman Empire of German Nations". "Charlemaigne/ Charlemagne/ Karl the Great was resident in Aachen, Western Germany, seen as the truth father of the nations of Germany and France. This was the so called "1st Reich" . The German title "Kaiser" is originated from the Latin "Caesar", so the Russian title "Tsar" is originated here. Even the Windsor Monarchy in GB is of German origin (Queen Victoria was the grandmother of the King of England, the last Tsar and the second Deutscher Kaiser; so they were cousins). The era of the Deutsche Kaiser (1871 - 1916) was the so called "2nd Reich". So Hitler wanted to found the "3rd Reich" (glad, he didn't make it).

[@julesmarwell8023]

DON't forget the greatest INVENTION EVER MADE....... the WINDMILL

[@janwagner4074]

I'm German, staying in Nebraska for business for three weeks and watching this video 😅. In January I was staying in Texas and visit Fredricksburg, a "german town" that was founded by a guy who was originally from the area that I live in Germany. The world seems to be a village and there are more Germans (in third or fourth gen.) that I thought 😅

[@theoderich1168]

Where the British went they conquered - where the Germans went they cultivated....see the difference ?

[@robm6803]

The Herero, Ovambo, Nama etc will surely have different opinion on that topic..

[@MrBulky992]

Where the British went, they *traded* . Also, the British introduced education and medicine wherever they went. The British Empire arose through trade. The British East India Company and Hudson Bay companies are prime examples of tge origons of two major colonies, India and Canada. Napoleon understood when he said "Britain is a nation of shopkeepers". From 1807 onwards, the British Royal Navy stamped out the slave trade across the world and freed slaves in places which came under their control e.g. Benin and Nigeria in Africa (the cradle of the transatlantic slave trade).

[@m.h.6470]

I mean, it took CENTURIES to form a united Germany. Germans are very individualistic in that way. There is a reason, why the first verse (banned nowadays) of the national hymn says "Germany above all". NOT because Germany was meant to rule above others, but because the author/writer wanted to tell every German, that they should look for a united Germany, not for their individual city or region. Check out the holy roman empire and the mess of kingdoms and fiefdoms that came before it. HUNDREDS of regions needed to be combined to make one big "state" of Germany.

[@RustyDust101]

​@@Michael_from_EU_Germany agreed, banned is too strong a word. Very frowned upon would be better, as the first stanza contains geographic borders that are nowhere near today's borders. Our government has also declared that any and all claims to these older borders have been withdrawn and negated. As such a national hymn that claimed people and territories from outside its borders would be at least in very bad taste.

[@InspektorDreyfus]

"Deutschland über alles" is meant as: Make Germany a united functioning state first, and only afterwards bother about all the details in the world. That's what would be needed nowadays in Germany.

[@michaelmedlinger6399]

@@Michael_from_EU_GermanyNot at all! He meant that the concept of a united German nation should take precedence over all of the loyalties to the many small dukedoms, kingdoms, and small states that existed at that time. He even defines the borders precisely in that same verse. They are not relevant today, but at in the mid-19th century, they encompassed what was basically German, and it was by no means the whole planet.

[@LudwigRohf]

Maybe you know Douglas Madenford and his channel? It's about the German dialect spoken in Pennsylvania til today with some Influence from English of course. The title of this video kzbin.info/www/bejne/g4fZi4JnbdSnp80feature=shared might be confusing, but he explains a lot about ancestors from Germany.