Hi all, next week's episodes will be: 'Why did Britain abolish slavery?' and 'Why did Romania Join the Axis?' Hope you enjoy.
@vlad-ns6yt5 жыл бұрын
Yay Romania!!!
@MonsieurDean5 жыл бұрын
Why not kill two birds with one stone and make a video about "Why Did Britain Abolish the Axis?"
@FrancisTha1st5 жыл бұрын
on the topic of Romania and the Axis i'd love a video about the small Axis powers, their leaders, and what life was like in them. Slovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, and of course Romania. I think it's one of the least-discussed topics in WWII and it was awesome to see this video being in the same spirit.
@_o..o_18715 жыл бұрын
Yasss Romaniaaaa
@catalin90vlad5 жыл бұрын
Finally there is something about Romania
@siruranos91725 жыл бұрын
0/10 Kaiser Wilhelm II is shown using both arms perfectly
@kaiserwilhelmll.36345 жыл бұрын
*I want to know your location*
@arfn19735 жыл бұрын
@@kaiserwilhelmll.3634 Ja, mein Kaiser!
@Perririri5 жыл бұрын
Normie
@Edmonton-of2ec5 жыл бұрын
Sir Uranos What are you talking about, the Kaiser is perfectly healthy! *Angry Imperial German Noises*
@ComradeHellas4 жыл бұрын
Spot on
@NoNumbersAfterName5 жыл бұрын
All because a thousand years ago, Charlemagne's grandsons couldn't share.
@herrwagnerianer17395 жыл бұрын
No, all because Louis XIV annexed it against the people's will in 1648. But no one talks about that. :-)
@fcalvaresi5 жыл бұрын
@@herrwagnerianer1739 people's will did not mean anything in 1648.
@mariano98ify5 жыл бұрын
@@fcalvaresi and still not matter
@eingew5 жыл бұрын
This is why we need federalism.
@thelastprussian64915 жыл бұрын
Karl der Große
@thomasturner69805 жыл бұрын
Life in Alsace Leraine 1900: German 1920: French 1940: German 1960: French 2060: Luxembourgish
@SamAronow5 жыл бұрын
Lotharingia 4eva!
@sandrojones80685 жыл бұрын
2060 syrian*
@dewoitine5 жыл бұрын
All of the world will be Luxembourg in 2060
@habertpasternak305 жыл бұрын
ThomasTurner69 It will be a prized possession of the intergalactic empire of Liechtenstein
@explosivereactionstv74145 жыл бұрын
ThomasTurner69 2100: Portuguese
@beyo55 жыл бұрын
My Great Grandfather was a German living there. He married a French woman. He couldn't speak French and she refused to speak German. Also he refused to fight in another one of the Kaiser's wars, so they packed up and came to America where they both had to learn to speak English.
@asifurrahman50143 жыл бұрын
@@deprogramm they spoke luxembourgish obviously
@merouln7003 жыл бұрын
@@deprogramm (They probably spoke alsacian)
@jacobpeters54583 жыл бұрын
@@deprogramm either huge baguette or huge wallette
@rambard55993 жыл бұрын
@@deprogramm Being unable to speak a language isn't the same as being unable to understand it.
@Morgoth101013 жыл бұрын
Which of those wars are you talking about? Germany didnt have any major wars between 1871 and the First World War. There was the Intervention in the Boxer Rebellion and the Namibian war against the local colonial people but those any had very limited participation by German troops.
@tf26645 жыл бұрын
Napoleon III: losses Alssace-Lorraine Wilhelm II: losses Alssace-Lorraine Hitler: sooon
@fischlmakesmondstadtgreata71135 жыл бұрын
...Losses Alssace-Lorraine Macron: Hold my wife, I got this... *losses Alssace-Lorraine*
@A_annoying_rodent5 жыл бұрын
@@fischlmakesmondstadtgreata7113 Steinmeier: well would du look at zis amazing terri- *loses it*
@cv48095 жыл бұрын
Merkel: *S o o n*
@AnAn-td2cn5 жыл бұрын
@King Victor Emanuele Martin Sonneborn 👹
@bullworthstudent93285 жыл бұрын
TF2 REICHSKOMMISARIAT ELSAß-LOTHRINGEN
@BarronVonPeugeot3 жыл бұрын
Fun fact: Strasbourg FC was founded during this period which technically makes it a French team founded in Germany.
@Skyline682303 жыл бұрын
Kind of the same fact with the car company Bugatti. French company, founded in German Alsace/Elsass by an Italian guy.
@daskleineskrokodil3 жыл бұрын
It should join the Bundesliga
@guilhermeroyama88423 жыл бұрын
@@daskleineskrokodil Considering how poorly they have been surviving in Ligue 1, they would hardly last a year in the Bundesliga.
@daskleineskrokodil3 жыл бұрын
@@guilhermeroyama8842 yeah , even Hamburg are better
@esochibuike84773 жыл бұрын
@@guilhermeroyama8842 😆😆💔
@MonsieurDean5 жыл бұрын
I knew a women named Lorraine once. She worked at Subway and was in charge of all the sauces. That's the only All-Sauce Lorraine I recognize.
@groundbeef61565 жыл бұрын
Bahdum tsk
@UNION_JACK_THE_RIPPER5 жыл бұрын
BOOOOOOO
@aroundhere12005 жыл бұрын
BRUH
@anttibjorklund18695 жыл бұрын
Here's your coat, this way to the door ->
@aaronmarks93665 жыл бұрын
*slow yet hearty clap*
@Aetherguy-cb9bu5 жыл бұрын
This comment section is basically the Franco-Prussian war in a nutshell.
@DaDunge5 жыл бұрын
Germany mobilized while france aren't?
@arminiuscherusci44105 жыл бұрын
@@DaDunge and Belgium raped
@machtharry5 жыл бұрын
Such a stupid name for this war btw. The Franco-German war would be so much more accurate.
@davidandremelchorzavala21005 жыл бұрын
machtharry Actually that’s how it’s called in French: Guerre Franco-Allemande (Franco-German War)
@machtharry5 жыл бұрын
In german as well. Der Deutsch-Französische Krieg aka the german-frech war. Seems like its just the british that ignore the other german states.
@Grivian5 жыл бұрын
"What are you, French, German?" "Ferman"
@kaffohrt98585 жыл бұрын
"Luxembourgisch"
@Grivian5 жыл бұрын
@@kaffohrt9858 Nice try Ferman
@BeryAb4 жыл бұрын
Grench
@Faolan034 жыл бұрын
Sherman xD
@Not-Ap4 жыл бұрын
@@BeryAb I like that one the most. 😄
@nietname24685 жыл бұрын
Wait they seriously wanted to give alsace to switzerland?
@Grityom5 жыл бұрын
Switzerland could have annex a lot more territory in the XIX, like part of savoy. And yes alsace Lorraine also
@miliba5 жыл бұрын
same german dialect
@generalaccount65315 жыл бұрын
Lol for the modern world we live in, where bloody conflicts occur over a tiny bit of disputed land, it is just absolutely absurd to think how monarchs use to give away their land, divide colonies up with random straight lines, or sell their territories like they were nothing
@IlGab025 жыл бұрын
@@Grityom SAVOIA
@joelp76655 жыл бұрын
@@IlGab02 Savoie?
@masterchinese283 жыл бұрын
As someone who used to live in the region (Strasbourg), I noticed the locals are quick to point out that Alsace and Lorraine are very different one from the other linguistically, culturally and geographically. Alsatian dialect is much closer to German and they have relatively flatland with the Rhine running by. Lorraine is mountainous and isolated by comparison.
@nicolas24193 жыл бұрын
Strasbourg is in a flat aera, but Alsace is not totally flat! You forgot too much that a large part of the Vosges Mountains are in Alsace and the southernmost part of Alsace, Sundgau, my homeland, is hilly! :D
@masterchinese283 жыл бұрын
@@nicolas2419 That is a very nice part of Alsace!
@lawrencedoliveiro91042 жыл бұрын
Alsace also has nicer dogs.
@Jimmylenaze2 жыл бұрын
@@lawrencedoliveiro9104 what do u mean?
@vincentvincenzowehrung58302 жыл бұрын
Yes it s exact correct
@IAmReallyReallyBob3 жыл бұрын
Hi, I am from Alsace-Lorraine. Parents from Mosel region (Lorraine) and lived my entire life in Alsace. Nice vid! I would just add that the Germans built amazing cultural buildings such as opera or theatres. Also rebuilt the Haut Koenisbourg castle. In the end, alsacians also find themselves as being an exception in France and usually refer the rest of France as “the France of the inside” (France de l’intérieur).
@nicolas24193 жыл бұрын
I'm also from Alsace-Lorraine, but from the area of Mulhouse! Just a remark, Germans built effectively beautiful buildings in Metz and Strasbourg... but sniff... they replaced the previous buildings destroyed by German bombardement during the sieges of these cities in 1870/1871! And Alsace is effectively an exception in France, mainly because this French-German history! :D
@Cigmacica3 жыл бұрын
Bonjour chère compatriote Lorrain
@stadtrepublikmulhausen41213 жыл бұрын
@@nicolas2419 its the first time i have somebody else from mulhouse !
@playsgofficial2 жыл бұрын
Ah Moselleland!
@wumbleisthebest32702 жыл бұрын
I've been to Haut Koenisbourg before, the view is amazing!
@misterhansen37995 жыл бұрын
Could you also do a video about the germans living in Alsace Loraine after ww1?
@slanderskovly10295 жыл бұрын
Agree!
@killianweisedesbois5 жыл бұрын
They had a choice : stay here, learn French and become French or get out.
@misterhansen37995 жыл бұрын
@@killianweisedesbois I know, but it would be intresting if he could go a little bit more in depth
@DaDunge5 жыл бұрын
@@killianweisedesbois Diffrence is, the germans did that to 10% of the population the french did it to 90% of the popultion. And also the Germans didn't ban french until 1914 and would likely have permitted it again after the end of the war had they won.
@LeDogueDeBroceliande5 жыл бұрын
@@DaDunge The Republic did that to the entire French population, including the one in Alsace and Lorraine.
@SS5Ghaleon5 жыл бұрын
Wasnt Bavaria also Catholic? How was life there right after unification?
@dabbasw315 жыл бұрын
In short: Bavaria wasn't a Reichsland but a Kingdom. Bavaria kept its own army, its own foreign policy and a level of autonomy, which Alsace-Lorraine did not have.
@A_annoying_rodent5 жыл бұрын
Bavaria was rather poor during that time, in fact the rich bavaria we all know only appeared after ww2, up to 120k people left bavaria for the USA.
@yarpen265 жыл бұрын
@@A_annoying_rodent Bavaria was pretty much a carbon copy of Austria (I mean the actual modern Austria + South Tirol, not the Austrian half of the K.u.K.). They were both Catholic and rural German-speaking areas that never really industrialized (almost the entirety of Austria's industry lay in Bohemia) but which profited tremendouslyafter WWII from the economic shift from the industry onto the service sector. The same thing happened around the same time with the Republic of Ireland (at the expense of Northern Ireland) or Flanders (at the expense of Walloon).
@karlosdeevs5 жыл бұрын
wait, could you maybe explain the industrial growth in ireland, because nearly the entire time the republic (south) and the north were seceded (while Waloon & Flanders acted as one)
@boahkeinbockmehr5 жыл бұрын
Rhineland is also catholic. South and west are catholic, north and east are protestant.
@DrWatson6102 жыл бұрын
For more context: The Alsace-Lorraine territory has gradually been annexed by France from the Holy Roman Empire (and also provinces that left the HRE prior) between roughly 1550-1800 and as such the region was (and to some extent still is) home to a sizeable German speaking population.
@achillezins65482 жыл бұрын
People don’t speak German to much anymore, maybe as a third language. People their speak the local Germanic dialect the local dialect (alsacien) and french. When I speak with my grandparents in Germans and they switch to alsaciens, it sounds very different and I can’t understand.
@vincentvincenzowehrung58302 жыл бұрын
Oui ne pas oublier qui nous sommes , Elsass frei 🇮🇩
@vincentvincenzowehrung5830 Жыл бұрын
@Karl Von Lytovski je suis alsacien 🇮🇩 , ich bin Elsässer 🇮🇩
@nocomment6421 Жыл бұрын
The German language is pretty much dead there. Seriously Germany did everything to make the people there to hate being German after the second world war it was settled that Elsass and His inhabits are french.
@Nikioko Жыл бұрын
Correct. The territory never belonged to France before Louis XIV's conquest.
@Korschtal3 жыл бұрын
I live close to the German/French border and it always amazes me how this region is now at peace. We're in the C-19 pandemic at the moment and French patients are routinely treated in German hospitals. Also, the German dialect is still widely spoken over the border, which surprised me.
@rao8033 жыл бұрын
Probably because German language is as strong as French so it is hard to erase the way they did with Occitant, breton, etc.
@Cigmacica3 жыл бұрын
As someone who was born in lorraine(in Moselle) I have never seen someone speaking German, they teacher german(as a secondary language obviously) but that all.
@Korschtal3 жыл бұрын
@@Cigmacica Possibly because it's further across into France. I tend to cycle in the Colmar/Neuf Brisach region and the dialect is very common there.
@stadtrepublikmulhausen41213 жыл бұрын
@@Korschtal its also spoken be a lot of people in mulhouse
@sachaferrari44402 жыл бұрын
@@Korschtal i was born in Strasbourg and have always lived there but I’ve only rarely met people who speak alsacien and they were all 50 or older and lived in the countryside. Sadly, this dialect is dying notably because we can’t learn it in school because of French centralization.
@anttibjorklund18695 жыл бұрын
Spoken: "and" On-screen: "und" :D
@fralencemelograno5 жыл бұрын
Perfect!
@bullworthstudent93285 жыл бұрын
Antti Björklund PERFECTO!!!!
@Faolan034 жыл бұрын
Und is german for and
@anttibjorklund18694 жыл бұрын
@@Faolan03 Yes. Well done for explaining the joke.
@BiglerSakura5 ай бұрын
He also spoke "well"
@Felix05875 жыл бұрын
0:55 Well. Literally a well. Nice.
@TheUaxington3 жыл бұрын
Well. Literally a well. Aint that swell
@adamkerman4753 жыл бұрын
@@TheUaxington Well. Literally a well. Ain’t that swell. What’s that smell?
@Red_PlatinuumАй бұрын
@adamkerman475 it's a late gale
@AncientAccounts5 жыл бұрын
*_... I for one welxome our new german overlords - Otto from Schonhausen_* im dead lol
@garthvader99164 жыл бұрын
I came here to say that. Glad to see some else saw the reference. 😁
@corincowley13514 жыл бұрын
what its die reference?
@hoarder19194 жыл бұрын
@@corincowley1351 google simpsons overlords
@ananttiwari13373 жыл бұрын
welxome
@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un5 жыл бұрын
A vid about the Latvian colony in Africa or the USS Pueblo Incident (when DPRK captured a US spy ship) would be nice
@gabed74075 жыл бұрын
It was a Polish-Lithuanian colony. It's unfair to call it just Lithuanian
@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un5 жыл бұрын
Gabe D Technically it’s neither, it’s Latvian
@gabed74075 жыл бұрын
Technically yeah, but the whole livonian region was basically a satellite of the Commonwealth
@fischlmakesmondstadtgreata71135 жыл бұрын
Gonna love the fact that @@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un knows about the Latvian Colony in Africa, he is just such a well educated man.
@EggertPlays5 жыл бұрын
Do you mean the duchy of Courland? The prince ruling it was not Latvian and it was also a vassal of the PLC.
@billybobkingston56043 жыл бұрын
love the animation, especially when powerful people are dancing through the daisies, fills me with joy, thank you
@Jimmylenaze2 жыл бұрын
hahahahahahaha
@RYII-mm9gu5 жыл бұрын
My family lived in Alsace, they were German and at the end of the first world war they became French, of the lesser, of the rejection of France. In 1940 when Alsace became German again, they refused to become Nazis, they joined the Centre national de la résistance (CNR) but was captured in Paris in 1943 and then sent to the camp of Mauthausen
@darklysm83454 жыл бұрын
traitor family
@absentmindedshirokuma85394 жыл бұрын
@@darklysm8345 why would they be traitor when as video pointed out, German state has been discriminating alsace people? Why they demanded to be loyal to a country that didn't even protect them?
@jamesmccomb95254 жыл бұрын
@@darklysm8345 They may be traitors, but that isn't always a bad thing.
@pinkcheese9174 жыл бұрын
@@absentmindedshirokuma8539 the amount of kaiserboos in this comment section is astounding tbh.
@absentmindedshirokuma85394 жыл бұрын
@George Nathanael even Bavaria has to face kulturkampf to some degree even they are autonomy kingdom under Prussia. Alsace who always has been Catholic never get such oppression on their religion even under French Republican. Heck, this very reason was main cause Liechtenstein never wiant to be under Prussia or greater germany.
@u4tiwasdead2 жыл бұрын
Some of my ancestors were amongst the 50,000 that chose to leave rather than become German. They owned a small textile factory, and when the Germans took over they relocated it in Normandy, with most of the employees choosing to come with them.
@maltem.22253 жыл бұрын
I’m German and my great grandmother was born and raised in French Alsace Lorraine. After the war they had to change their surname, because it sounded too French
@justinajostin90063 жыл бұрын
@Funtime Florian I give plenty actually
@Botchewlism3 жыл бұрын
@Funtime Florian we give a pretty good amount of shits.
@omniscientcammaleon94773 жыл бұрын
@Funtime Florian all of them
@jonmurray76583 жыл бұрын
@Funtime Florian *insert carrying bag of shits* Plenty.
@niarkman69993 жыл бұрын
I'm on thé opposite situation. My mother side of thé family comes from Moselle. They were part of thé 50k To run away from thé german annexion. In WW1 and WW2, thé steinmetz part of thé family was always suspected of being spies because of their name. They never changed it though.
@vascogoncalves85425 жыл бұрын
That 'via Belgium' segment cracked me up
@juliaisafilmbuff1234 жыл бұрын
One thing this cartoon doesn't mention is the large amount of industrialization which took place in the Moselle (German Lorraine) region during this time. The Moselle was full of natural resources, namely iron ore, which was a significant reason as to why Germany wanted to control the region so badly. It was right after annexation when Berlin began pouring tons of money into the Lorraine mining and steel industries, not only to create more output but to win over the local population (states don't just use the stick, sometimes they use the carrot). I've lived in this exact region before and know the local history.
@romainwalter45935 жыл бұрын
I live there near strasbourg. Its a beautiful region. My great father had to fight for germany in ww2 on the eastern front near leningrad. 1924-2001
@CatnamedMittens3 жыл бұрын
Possibly one of the worst places ever to fight?
@romainwalter45933 жыл бұрын
@@CatnamedMittens Yeah it was pretty horrible my father told me he ate his id paper not to get caught but he ended up in the tambov camp. He learned a bit of russian he was then able to say he was french. When he came back after a long travel home where there was nothing to eat but frozen potatos in the ground he said you could count the rescaped on the finger of your hand. Plus when the other came home they ate a lot after being starved and their stomack exploded. My grand father started slowly by eating a bit of soup to let the stomack adapt.
@CatnamedMittens3 жыл бұрын
@@romainwalter4593 smart man
@lolexplosions421411 ай бұрын
Deadly sieges World War II.
@mathiaspoelman14934 ай бұрын
When did he fight at Leningrad? Was it around 1944 (when the city was liberated)? That means he must have undergone quite some Soviet attacks at 18 (?) years old. That is a lot for such a young age.
@gabed74075 жыл бұрын
Can you make the video on the Polish-Lithuanian Commanwealth like you said you were before? Love your vids by the way.
@sopmodo81225 жыл бұрын
What place of poland are you from?
@gabed74075 жыл бұрын
@@sopmodo8122 Białystok area, by Sokółka
@Ponanoix5 жыл бұрын
@@sopmodo8122 Wrocław
@sopmodo81225 жыл бұрын
@@Ponanoix Breslau*
@Ponanoix5 жыл бұрын
@Thomas Meyer Wrocław**
@NewsHistorian5 жыл бұрын
These videos are a wonderful intermediate primer on historical events with the cute cartoon figures and sardonic humor.
@cormacsmithy39755 жыл бұрын
I love how you end every video as though it was a happy ending forever after and then show hitler or napoleon. A nice pinch of foreshadowing.
@JamesTilsley15 жыл бұрын
“What flag flies in Strasbourg now?” “The Tricolor flies there.” “Ah, so they won. They had their revanche. That must have been a great triumph for them.” “It cost them their life blood,” I said.” From the Dream by Winston Churchill.
@SpadeRZA4 жыл бұрын
Isn't it the blue one with the yellow stars?
@colonelkurtz53974 жыл бұрын
fernando jose gonzalez olguin no, Strasbourg.
@wildfire92803 жыл бұрын
@fernando jose gonzalez olguin Stromboliniberg.
@davidandremelchorzavala21003 жыл бұрын
@fernando jose gonzalez olguin that ain’t real
@11Survivor3 жыл бұрын
@fernando jose gonzalez olguin Fuck Luxembourg, glory to the Republic of Alsace Lorraine.
@makaan19325 жыл бұрын
Elsaß-Lothringen is written without an Ö. Is that a joke?
@TheChosenFailure5 жыл бұрын
apparently it isn't written with an ö. it's Alsaß-Lotharingen and not Alsaß-Lötharingen
@sganarellelevalet74795 жыл бұрын
Anyway you wrote the wrong orthograph too, it's Alsace Lorraine
@TheChosenFailure5 жыл бұрын
@@sganarellelevalet7479 we are talking about the German version of it aren't we? so raus.
@makaan19325 жыл бұрын
@@TheChosenFailure german. Boy. Its german and it is correct the way I spell it cause I'm German.
@arminiuscherusci44105 жыл бұрын
@@TheChosenFailure In german: Elsaß-Lothringen In french: Alsace-Lorraine From a native german :)
@luisdergroe89445 жыл бұрын
Just a little mistake I noticed: Elsass Lothringen is written with a "o" and not a "ö". On the other hand you pronounced the ö quite nice, a thing most people don't, thinking these two letters are interchangeable. Regardless I think this video covers a less known topic very well.
@bjarkel.9935 жыл бұрын
Elsaß-Lothringen was the öld German spelling. Nöw yöu just göt the new Anglö spelling: Elsass-Löthringen. Lol
@seethrough_treeshrew5 жыл бұрын
Löl
@jpc71183 жыл бұрын
@@seethrough_treeshrew Lmaö
@batonnetdecannelle2 жыл бұрын
Could it possibly add a certain "gothic" charm, putting 'Umlaut'-dots where they don't belong? Metal bands: YES!
@huaba88042 жыл бұрын
@@batonnetdecannelle ë
@mehmetkaan82555 жыл бұрын
I love the "Soon" look
@JessDoby4 жыл бұрын
My family immigrated to the USA from Pfalsbourg and Strasbourg before WW2,and identified as Protestant Germans. They lived in the area for centuries under French and German rule .My Great Grandparents missed their homeland so much,they had Natives of Alsace Lorraine on their headstones . I always found it strange that they used the French spelling . My theory is that the American who made the headstone spellled it the French. way ... I’m not trying to start the age old debate,but think it is unusual. I still have family in Strasbourg . As a kid i thought it was strange that I have ancestors with French first names such as Jaques and our German surnames . Luckily I have a cousin in Strasbourg who is a great family historian and translated records to English from French and German .
@someguy77232 жыл бұрын
Could have been the funeral firm had a anti-german dude working that night or somthing like that
@vincentvincenzowehrung58302 жыл бұрын
great story, never forget the story of our ancestors there is a lot of sadness and strength , Elsass 🇮🇩
@SouthpawZer05 жыл бұрын
My Great-Great-Grandfather lived in Alsace-Lorraine prior to WWI. He was an engineer in the textile industry.
@victorviereck41175 жыл бұрын
History matters: The channel that made "Sky ship hell" a legit name. I am probably gonna name my kid that.
@dumkopf5 жыл бұрын
SkyChapelle *
@Cjnw3 жыл бұрын
Oof
@johnforsyth7987 Жыл бұрын
I love your characters holding the sign saying "Soon."
@quasar47805 жыл бұрын
Nice video. Do you plan on talking about either the Algerian War, the Sino-French War or the Paris Commune ?
@aaronmarks93665 жыл бұрын
Yesss, Sino-French war was nuts
@reds.victim10234 жыл бұрын
Français ne soyons plus esclaves!
@f_f_f_81425 жыл бұрын
Next: Life in the Saar Region (Short Animated Documentary)
@karlosdeevs5 жыл бұрын
Later: the Meuse-Rhine Euroregion
@kaffohrt98585 жыл бұрын
Maggi!
@SirSoloQ5 жыл бұрын
U get married to ur sister.
@haltdieklappe79723 жыл бұрын
Life in paris
@Nikolaj115 жыл бұрын
I appreciate the local perspective. Especially the detail "not all germans wanted to be part of germany." My family mostly live in Denmark now, but were originally danish-oriented, but low-german speaking Schleswig-Holsteiners. Their opinion was formed from a political standpoint rather than a cultural one; they viewed the Danish monarchy as the more liberal and democratic of the two. The formation of Germany very often boils down to "Prussia vs. Austria," but the political awakening within the HRE is a fascinating topic in off itself.
@Nikolaj115 жыл бұрын
@Hugin If the video and the comment is written in English, then you probably should do so too.
@Nikolaj115 жыл бұрын
@Hugin Sorry mate, I had German in school but I haven't used it in something like 13 years. You folks are too good at English now for it to be a useful language to remember. I'd like to pick it up again some day though :) I can still understand some, to some degree. The reason why I ask you to do English wasn't on that part. If I had to guess then I think you said something along the lines of "Liberalism and demokracy was bad for the Germans. Germans remain brothers and belong toegther," or something to that degree. Feel free to correct me!
@qwertzuiopu81615 жыл бұрын
@@Nikolaj11 Your right. But I would say the German Empire wasn't as undemocratic as often said.
@billymartin22205 жыл бұрын
I love your quick image-word paring. It keeps me laughing and learning
@Daniel-kq4bx5 жыл бұрын
My Grand Grandpa fought together with solidiers from Alsace Lorraine but he said they werent less brave then others. However he said the Austrians and Chechz behaved shit and snitched often in The POW Camps
@11Survivor3 жыл бұрын
Having a Gestapo officer personally threaten your family can be quite the motivator...
@J-IFWBR3 жыл бұрын
@@11Survivor Austrians and chechz were fighting alongside the germans i think, not against them? Just like the Rumanians and Fins did too. I think (in case i remember it wrong I AM RLY SRY) xd. So it would rather have been a KGB or redarmy officer threatening them inside a POW Camp. Also their families were not with them there. Edit:wait are we talking first or second WW here?
@11Survivor3 жыл бұрын
@@J-IFWBR Second WW In Alsace, they threatened deportation for the families of those who refused to present themselves for conscription
@hubertsavio93563 жыл бұрын
Not true, my tip grand father got several medals!!!
@Daniel-kq4bx3 жыл бұрын
@@hubertsavio9356 Im not trying to generalize, these are heavily subjective Impressions. However it seems logical that the Czechs were leaning more to that, considering they were subjugated under Habsburg Rule
@asierescobal12485 жыл бұрын
Alsace-Lorraine: We're french again Adolf: Hold my Munich beer 245 likes?! WOW thank you so much!
@asierescobal12485 жыл бұрын
@@pancakemacbuttery9142 Hitler, I apllied a bit of autocensorship, just in case
@aaronmarks93665 жыл бұрын
@@pancakemacbuttery9142 Really man?
@garmenlin59905 жыл бұрын
Charles de Gaulle: Hold my wine!
@barney68885 жыл бұрын
Winston Churchill: Let go of my whiskey!
@karlosdeevs5 жыл бұрын
I thought Bulldog was more a brandy-type
@jameskelly85862 жыл бұрын
My ancestors were German speaking Catholics who lived in Elsass for generations until the French Revolution in the late 1700s, when the French took over their land and expelled them. They then travelled by ox cart across Europe to the Ukraine where they established a farming commune called Elsass, near to the Black Sea. It's a whole thing--the Black Sea Germans--you can look it up. My grandfather fled from there, circa 1900, when as a young man he was being pressed into the Tsar's army and would likely have died on some battle field against people he had no grievance with. He then came to Canada, to a German speaking farm community on the prairies.
@vincentvincenzowehrung58302 жыл бұрын
Very interesting story, makes me want to know more.
@MaGioZal3 жыл бұрын
This is a proof that loyalties to a state goes beyond of merely “speaking the same language”.
@11Survivor3 жыл бұрын
Alsatian isn't even german. It's a common misconception. As an indigenous alsatian, I can tell you the language, orally, sounds a lot different to the guys on the other side of the river. Additionally, alsatian actually predates german.
@asifurrahman50143 жыл бұрын
Yep
@uekiguy58863 жыл бұрын
@@11Survivor -- At that point in history, did the majority of Alsatians wish to be part of France or Germany? Thank you.
@11Survivor3 жыл бұрын
@@uekiguy5886 They wished to be part of France, as evidenced by the 'elected protestors' they'd elect as their representatives. I'm alsatian by birth, by name, and by family history, my great-grandparents were there.
@uekiguy58863 жыл бұрын
@@11Survivor -- I see. Thank you so much for taking the time to answer. Hello from Kansas, U.S.
@Lcgmatheus5 жыл бұрын
i love those "soon" plates
@adrianred2362 жыл бұрын
I love how History Matters clears up things in minutes that I've wondered about for years.
@danielhale13 жыл бұрын
Sadly moping through the flower field was a fantastic subversion of your own running joke! Keep it coming, HistoryMatters! You're the best!
@aaronmarks93665 жыл бұрын
Can you propose some Americas topics for future videos? Some ideas: - the Red River Rebellion and Northwest Rebellion in Canada - the English colonization of the Carolinas - the North American theaters of the War of the Spanish Succession or the War of the Austrian Succession - the First Mexican Empire under Agustín de Iturbide - the joining and breakup of Central America after independence from Spain - the War of the Triple Alliance, the bloodiest conflict in South American history
@Xindet5 жыл бұрын
American history is for the Most part Not important AT all sry
@aaronmarks93665 жыл бұрын
@@Xindet lmao
@Toast08085 жыл бұрын
Make your own
@joaov_ds4 жыл бұрын
Would be awesome. A shame that eurocentric people think they're the only ones in the world who deserve some praise...
@josesandoval14402 жыл бұрын
@@Xindet American history is the only reason you're speaking English instead of German
@PhilWood825 жыл бұрын
Switzerland: Oh no, you're not drawing me into this mess!
@reschi565 жыл бұрын
Giving Elsass to Switzerland would've probably been the best decision as the people in Elsass spoke the same dialect as people in Switzerland.
@guardiadecivil67775 жыл бұрын
@@reschi56 imagine ww1 and ww2 then when theres a switzerland is cucking you out of the country you're attacking
@11thstalley965 жыл бұрын
Reschi I can confirm. My family emigrated from Thurgau and Appenzell to Elsass after the Thirty Years War. I never met my great grandparents who emigrated to the US after the Franco Prussian War, but my Dad said that the German they spoke was very different from the German spoken in their neighborhood in St. Louis.
@thedwightguy3 жыл бұрын
@@reschi56 Elsass would have one big time, with the view of current history. But there are many dialects of German in Switzerland. My buddy speaks German but it sounds like Italian.
@joueurspectateur3 жыл бұрын
@@reschi56 you do realize that if any country was given Alsace it would have most likely went to war with France. So if they wanted to stay neutral, they would have refused the offer.
@hannofranz7973 Жыл бұрын
The local dialect in Lorraine/Lothringen is also a Germanic dialect. It belongs to the model-franconian dialects and is by no means further away from German dialects than Alsatian. Alsatian belongs to the Alemannic dialect group whereas Lorraine to the Franconian. That's the main difference. Even though, there aren't that many speakers. Both have been widely wiped out by French.
@edmerc928 ай бұрын
Most of Lorraine didn't speak a Germanic dialect, only the department of Moselle did (and even then, the city of Metz did not)..
@liennitram9291 Жыл бұрын
My 3X great grandparents immigrated from Alsace in 1872. There name was Lueckel and they ended up in Tell City / Cannelton Indiana. I've always wondered what was their reason to pack up and move half way across the planet to rural Indiana. Thank you for sharing this.
@jwasserman76211 ай бұрын
The parking lot between the French and German language houses at my uni was designated "Alsace-Lorraine."
@lindsayhengehold53412 жыл бұрын
My Family is of German origin but was from this region of France pre unification and moved to America in the mid 19th century.
@septillion.4 жыл бұрын
The french when Germany invades Alsace Lorraine: "Stop, you're trying to kidnap what I've rightfully stolen!"
@MrDonut-ch8dr4 жыл бұрын
@Clear Kim Elsaß Lothringen is german
@Greey164 жыл бұрын
@@MrDonut-ch8dr Elsass is Elsass, not german, not french, Elsass
@Faolan034 жыл бұрын
@Clear Kim why should it? Alsace lorraine was german speaking since the end of the roman empire and the french conquered it in 1700 when the HRE was weak and couldn't defend it.
@ImEazyE4 жыл бұрын
Elsass Frei
@Faolan034 жыл бұрын
@Clear Kim at what point did the world stay like it was? Literally never in History
@tobiwan0013 жыл бұрын
Sorry, but Franco-German relations were not permanently bad starting with 1871. The Napoleonic wars that completely destroyed the German states were not popular in Germany either. It's safe to say that it has had a long history.
@juwebles43522 жыл бұрын
Not to even mention the division between west and east Francia
@jacobinfier94072 жыл бұрын
Most of germans before 1812 liked France very well because we brought political progress. And few random guy not really famous like Hegel, Kant or Goethe were all huge fans of Napoleon.
@Antarctide Жыл бұрын
@@jacobinfier9407 We all saw and keep seeing what that "progress" was truly for and it's anything but glorious...
@camm8642 Жыл бұрын
@@jacobinfier9407 nah bismark and the like held resement over french domination over german lands int he Napoleonic age
@edmerc928 ай бұрын
But there were individual German states that were pro-French, especially the south. This ended with the unification of Germany, where Prussia now set foreign policy.
@oliversherman24142 жыл бұрын
I love your channel keep up the great stuff!!!
@brettsh.25453 жыл бұрын
One of your funniest videos I've seen. Nice work.
@sachin27444 жыл бұрын
I had a chapter in English class in high school called "The last lesson". The story revolved around this annexation.
@theMcWOPPER5 жыл бұрын
"Totally settled forever " 🤣🤣🤣
@christophers_verified3 жыл бұрын
2:31 "...the region was returned to France and the issue over who owned it was totally settled for ever" 😂🤣😅
@EvanSeal5 жыл бұрын
Been really enjoying these styles of videos recently!
@l.u.i.s._.84524 жыл бұрын
French men: bonjour🙂 German soldier: Also hast du den Tod gewählt🔫😑
@darrenbutler98194 жыл бұрын
I'm swiss and can you imagine how interesting it'd be if the Kaiser said yes.
@gutentagichliebebretzel25713 жыл бұрын
I live in alsace and I also wonder alot
@someguy77232 жыл бұрын
100% chance France would have tried taking it back
@ekmalsukarno23025 жыл бұрын
Please make a video on the Republic of China from 1911 to 1949. Please accept my request.
@mygl44905 жыл бұрын
You can suggest an idea and but ultimately he lets the community (sometimes patreon sometimes youtube) vote on what gets made. He might list it as a voting option.
@TheLocalLt5 жыл бұрын
Ekmal Sukarno bro there are tons of videos on that in the Between Two Wars series from Timeghost’s channel
@mtlicq5 жыл бұрын
dare to make a video about Germany between 1945 and 1951, especially 1945 to 1948
@nickmiesch4845 Жыл бұрын
My great grandparents came from Mulhouse (Mülhausen) in the early 1900’s. My grandpa told me that they generally considered themselves as Germans and we consider ourselves a family of German immigrants. But on our records they put down their nationalities as ‘Alsatian’ all the way up to the 1960’s. It’s almost as if they didn’t even consider themselves Germans or French at all. I could tell they had a lot of love and pride for Alsace and I can relate too for being proud of being from the southern United States. I hope I get to visit this region soon and Europe.
@katequinn8195 Жыл бұрын
My great grandfather was born there, I know his father and brother lived with him. He was born around 1835, but by about 1870, he'd married a woman in Canada. He was German (very German first and last name, but I read somewhere that he said that he was French. Some of this is from free ancestor information sites online, so I don't know if he really thought himself French. But moving from Alsace to Canada might mean that he wanted to stay French. The woman he married had the last name Nichols, I believe she was German, also. I had wanted to live there for years, then finding that he was born there, maybe I'm meant to go back?
@richardthomas5362 Жыл бұрын
So, Germany annexed an area which was 90% German speaking and the Kaisers, mostly Wilhelm II, managed to screw that up.
@edmerc928 ай бұрын
They spoke Alsatian, which is a Germanic language but not quite the same.
@matthiasbehrendt61127 ай бұрын
@@edmerc92It's a German dialect. The emergence of standard German as an everyday language happened primarly after the invention of mass media. Btw. that's what is true for almost every standard language.
@alilshotofrhum3 жыл бұрын
Well, to be more accurate, the German empire didn't annex Alsace-Lorraine because that doesn't make any sense at all. In reality, they annexed Alsace, almost all of Moselle and a bit of Meurthe et Moselle (Moselle and Meurthe et Moselle are two of the four departements of the Lorraine region). The Moselle and Meurthe and Moselle aren't the entire Lorraine region, i know it because i live there. I don't why this mistake perpetuates but it's a huge geographical error.
@stevenwills46605 жыл бұрын
Maybe do a video on the british vietnam, the Malay emergency.
@HistoryMatters5 жыл бұрын
Definitely.
@stevenwills46605 жыл бұрын
@@HistoryMatters Wooo thats the first Heart i've gotten from a youtuber, love your videos keep up the great work!
@itrthho5 жыл бұрын
That sounds interesting...
@karlosdeevs5 жыл бұрын
more interesting than the Aden bloodbath
@Edmonton-of2ec4 жыл бұрын
I wouldn’t exactly call it “Britain’s Vietnam” because unlike the Americans, they comparatively succeeded, and no communist regime ever ruled in Malaysia
@FoxTrotteur4 жыл бұрын
One of My Great-Great grandfather (3 out of 8 were Alsacians) was a "Malgré-nous". That means "Against-us". It was the name that alsacians gave to those of them who were enrolled against their will in the Deutsches Heer. The two others hid for years in a barn or in a cellar to avoid being enrolled in the German army.
@geheimleise5 жыл бұрын
Great sum-up. What do you think about a video about Alsace Lorraine's neighbour Saarland, who was passed between french and german controll as well, under "french"/international control/influence after WW1 and WW2? ^^
@Marhakon5 жыл бұрын
was mostly used by France as war reparation and coal mining . Unlike Alsace Lorraine, france never seriously planned on anexing the territory as it was 100% german.
@geheimleise5 жыл бұрын
@@Marhakon I know (I'm from the region), but still things like Hitler's effort to regain the territory and especially and especially the way it was handled after WW2 and the election over the "Saarstatut" (the idea europe-isation of the region as neither german nor french) still make for an interesting topic nonetheless^^ (Though there were people and groups with that goal in mind)
@Marhakon5 жыл бұрын
@@geheimleise it would be a nice subject to study on nonetheless
@quasar47805 жыл бұрын
Nice idea, I always wondered what really happened during the French occupation of the Saarland after WW2.
@onurbschrednei45693 жыл бұрын
@@Marhakon not what I heard, after WW2 they did start making all the streetsigns in french and invested money in the region to persuade them to become french..
@ericmiller60564 жыл бұрын
47 years (1871-1918) of Prussian rule achieved what the previous 200 years of French rule could not: it made even the German-speaking Alsatians into enthusiastic citizens of France.
@karlscher51702 жыл бұрын
That's just anglo-saxon bullshit propaganda
@stadtrepublikmulhausen41212 жыл бұрын
@@karlscher5170 no that's true.
@mikaelb.20702 жыл бұрын
Actually by the 1900s loyalty to France had diminished completely.
@ericmiller60562 жыл бұрын
@@mikaelb.2070 What's your evidence?
@mikaelb.20702 жыл бұрын
@@ericmiller6056 Laicism and the spread of socialism had alienated catholics from France, the Dreyfus-affair alienated the jews from France while at the same time A-L was given more autonomy and rights within Germany, plus the rapid economic growth and wealth convinced people to accept Germany.
@Argacyan5 жыл бұрын
and after ww1 when Alsace Lorraine was annexed by France they occupied it militarily and cleansed it from the german dialect, german culture and german history up until fairly recently when people were allowed to use the german alsacian dialect again. The dialect is still having a hard time as a result of decades long repression.
@guguss38045 жыл бұрын
Argacyan German teaching was allowed again in 1952, but Yeah « decades of oppression »
@LessnoIVe5 жыл бұрын
the germans were the ones who banned alsatian
@r.v.b.41535 жыл бұрын
@@LessnoIVe How did they ban Alsatian?
@Kookanoodles5 жыл бұрын
@@r.v.b.4153 Forcing everyone to speak Hochdeutsch instead of Alsatian dialect, I imagine.
@boahkeinbockmehr5 жыл бұрын
@@kartoffelmensch519 he is right you know. It all started under the nazis and their school reform. They wanted to get rid of dialects to make people forget that we were actually a federation of hundreds of different people and make us become one people instead. So no more bavarians, ripuarians and saxons, but only germans. You also find it everywhere in the propaganda of the time. (Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer - one people, one empire, one leader) sadly that trend was continued after the war and even the generation of my father still got the dialect literally beaten out of them in school in the 70s and 80s. Even in my generation (1992) we were still shunned for even using mundart, so high german with a strong accent, not to speak of dialect, as most of us never learned to speak it to begin with.
@erick64bosck34 жыл бұрын
I'm French and my granmother was from Alsace with a german name,but she was proud to be french
@laurentlachaussee56784 жыл бұрын
1:01 Happy Kaiser killed me xD
@tombowers6713 Жыл бұрын
My dad's side of the family is from this region they moved to the USA in late 1800s. What a turbulent place in 19th and 20th centuries.
@py8554 Жыл бұрын
Impact to life for Frenchmen in the Alsace Lorraine after annexation by Germany? The first thing that came to my mind is THE LAST LESSON by Alphonse Daudet. I learned about this story when I was in junior high and made a deep impression on me. It fascinated me so much that I went on to learn about the Franco-Prussian War and the unique history of the Alsace Lorraine region.
@cryogenical_5 жыл бұрын
The alsace area is amazing to visit, definitely worth a couple of days if you're ever close by!
@crkcrk7023 жыл бұрын
Germany and France : have best relationship History Matters : oh yes ? We will see that in the comments after my video 😎
@Narwaro4 жыл бұрын
My great-grandma changed nationality four times in her lifetime despite never going anywhere: Deutsches Reich until 1921, independent Saargebiet 1921-1935, Deutsches Reich again 1935-1947, independent Saarland 1947-1957, and German Federal Republic until her death.
@Ponanoix2 жыл бұрын
Why did you call modern Germany by its english name, but earlier states by their german name
@paulc6471 Жыл бұрын
I’m glad these historical points of friction are settled forever. Don’t want it to bleed over into another episode.
@venkelos69962 жыл бұрын
There's just something about the looming "Soon!" signs.😁
@Koellenburg5 жыл бұрын
Life in Elsaß 0500: Alemanns 0700: Franks 0843: midfrank 0870: german 0913: french 0925: german 1648: french 1871: german 1918: french 1940: german 1945: french .. thats why you should think things through, when writing the last will. (i am looking to you Louis the Pious) ^^
@bazzatheblue4 жыл бұрын
Wasnt the last german veteran of ww1 actually a Elsasser,his name was Karl something,when Elsass became Alsace again he changed his name to Charles and i think he joined the French army in ww2 Bizarre times.
@niklashaselmann29444 жыл бұрын
If this is true we NEED a video immediatly 🤯
@niklashaselmann29444 жыл бұрын
@historymatters
@hubby00n65 жыл бұрын
You forgot that in 1911 Elsass-Lothringen won their own constitution and were considered as a german land! This was a major concession from the germans and Elsass-Lothringen had years ahead with the social security and several other laws. So much better than in France
@gryfalis49323 жыл бұрын
Yeah that was so much better they wholeheartedly abandonned their loyalty to France and became germans with no resistance or altercation whatsoever. Truly Germany was the best choice for the region. /s
@hubby00n62 жыл бұрын
@@gryfalis4932 indeed all my great-grandfathers had German uniform, won EK 2nd class medals and fought at the French front. One of them was close to expulsion in 1919, as German speaking only
@karlscher51702 жыл бұрын
@@gryfalis4932 So my salty frenchman, when the loyalty for France was so big, why didn't France dared to make a democratic referendum and settle the issue in a civilised way?
@Papepatine Жыл бұрын
@@karlscher5170 Why would they ? There was no independentist movement. If Germany did one tho, they would have chosen France
@karlscher5170 Жыл бұрын
@@Papepatine sounds childish
@michaelr35832 жыл бұрын
I love that "totally settled forever" with a strange little mustached guy saying soon😅
@Sams-li8tj4 жыл бұрын
"The issue is settled forever." For now.
@lucienaras21654 жыл бұрын
Next time France take rhenanie too, as it should be.
@colonelkurtz53974 жыл бұрын
Sams Alsace Lorraine don’t want to be german and Germany don’t have the power to take it.
@Sams-li8tj4 жыл бұрын
@@colonelkurtz5397 It's just a joke bro. And moreover, nothing is set in stone.
@colonelkurtz53974 жыл бұрын
Sams I know, but after seeing like 100 000 comments of kaiserboo, it starts to be annoying (i live in alsace lorraine) and anyway, Germany and France are good friends, and no one in Europe want to start another war..
@Sams-li8tj4 жыл бұрын
@@colonelkurtz5397 I don't know what kaiserboo is and I won't even ask since it sounds like bad news. Here's to continued peace in Europe, tschüss!
@martonk5 жыл бұрын
Great video, is it not simply called Elsaß-Lothringen though ?
@joshi33345 жыл бұрын
Yes. Either Elsaß-Lothringen or Elsass-Lothringen. Both are technically correct. But not Löthringen.
@mzudemartin5 жыл бұрын
This area changed even before 1871 sides or am I wrong? Who took it first?
@martonk5 жыл бұрын
@@mzudemartin Well I'm sure the first were the Celts or something xD.
@hornysanders62445 жыл бұрын
@@mzudemartin Celts -> Roman Empire -> Charlemagnes empire -> HRE -> France -> Germany -> France -> Germany -> France . Probably forget a few periods
@DaDunge5 жыл бұрын
@@hornysanders6244 The problem comes from the fact that the region got conquered by the duchy of Burgundy which is a vassal of france but following Charles V the duke of Burgundy was also the Holy roman emperor.
@fclp674 жыл бұрын
that newspaper at 1:16 tho XDDDDD
@pubusi42535 жыл бұрын
What about "Life in Carpathian Ruthenia"?
@Edmonton-of2ec4 жыл бұрын
Dear god
@sergioperez57303 жыл бұрын
I love al your videos!! It’s so awesome!
@docjoe86 Жыл бұрын
1:05 My great great great grandmother was one of them. She died in 1919. My great grandmother knew her and said that she was happy to have lived to see Alsace returned to France after World War I.
@sourabhsumandas99304 жыл бұрын
I m from India.. I studied a chapter on my 12th class (the last lesson) which is written by Alphonso daudet.. Where a little boy name franz telling his last day of his France language school.. After studied that chapter i feel so sad about France people who lived in 1871..
@ishouldbestudyingrightnow53684 жыл бұрын
France conquered the region in 1648. When the army was in vienna to defend the city from the turks france invaded the kingdom of lorraine who was a german ally AND alsace. peace to india and hope there wont be fight with china
@sourabhsumandas99304 жыл бұрын
@@ishouldbestudyingrightnow5368 Yes bro.. And bro this is Record that india doesn't attack first to any Country... And if Anyone Attack first to india Then we will Destroy that Country Just like Corona Country China and Pakistan...
@romain62752 жыл бұрын
@@ishouldbestudyingrightnow5368 Lorraine was not a kingdom but a duchy. The duchy didn't rule all the Lorraine area.
@edmerc928 ай бұрын
@@ishouldbestudyingrightnow5368 Vienna wasn't threatened by the Turks in 1648. It was in 1683.
@pinkcrewmate81035 жыл бұрын
Hey thanks for this video and the Franco Prussian war video both of these are helping me HUGELY on my final history project
@nifixer70263 жыл бұрын
Small correction to the whole video, it is Alsace-Moselle which was annexed and not Alsace-Lorraine (80% of Lorraine remained French, only a small part, Moselle was annexed).
@nicolas24193 жыл бұрын
Yes, but in fact the annexed part was called "Alsace-Lorraine/Elsaß-Lothringen" by both countries between 1871 and 1919! The notion of "Alsace-Moselle" is more a post-Great War concept, maybe for describing the body of laws specific to the departments of Alsace (Haut-Rhin/Bas-Rhin) and Moselle : "Droit local d'Alsace-Moselle".
@nifixer70263 жыл бұрын
@@nicolas2419 Lorraine or Lothingen in German has a thousand year old history before the annexation and its territory has never had anything to do with Moselle alone (the historical capital of Lorraine being even Nancy, not in Moselle), in short to speak of the concept of Alsace-Lorraine remains a historical error even if this error was common at the time and to continue to convey it is rather problematic (I am from Lorraine and I am a little tired of explaining that my ancestors were not German at that time)
@matthiasbehrendt61127 ай бұрын
@@nifixer7026We say Elsaß-/Elsass-Lothringen (Alsace-Lorraine) because we don't care about artificial French Départements.
@ULHIS3 жыл бұрын
I absolutely adore the animations 💙😂
@Numba0033 жыл бұрын
The not-skipping through flowers at 1:11 is great lol. Stay well out there everybody, and God bless you friends. :)