The Franco-Prussian War

[@stephanvenner2939]

France and the Britsh Empire where scared that Germany becomes too big. That's where the trouble began.War is always about Power and Money.

[@andrewdevine3920]

Well, duh...

[@meong6809]

So right

[@boningzhang4697]

security dilemma

[@Raisonnance.]

It's always the same. Britain did that against Louis XIV, Louis XV and napoleon.

[@lil_zangod713]

You don't say

[@XXGDUBSXX]

The last war where soldiers dressed so nicely.

[@XXGDUBSXX]

If only we were so lucky

[@XXGDUBSXX]

Johan Jacob Yeah the Germans should be happy their country was "liberated" so Social Democrats , the green party and other nooseworthy marxist individuals can flood Germany with non-white colonizers and direct government funding to educating them on how to pick up and impregnate white women with the openly stated intent on genociding the German people through mongrelization. While utilizing ex-stasi members to throw Germans in prison for speaking negatively on facebook about said Genocide. Good thing that evil old Hitler got beat.

[@TheJasonCastle]

XXGDUBSXX What's interesting is threadbare Americans were fighting in the mud just a few years earlier.

[@WhiteCamry]

+John Jacob. At the Nuremburg Trials Hugo Boss received the Award for Best Costume Design.

[@smooth_sundaes5172]

The French were still quite pretty in 1914

[@irgendeinerirgendwo8420]

How the war started: Prussia: Send insult *a few moments later* "My King, the bastards in France declared war upon us! Prepare for battle... They cite 'Diplomatic Insult' as their casus belli"

[@pieterzwaan4451]

Bismarck was a very clever politician,he WANTED this war,he knew how the provoce the French,he knew Prussia could win.

[@DamonNomad82]

Bismarck has a plan. Bismarck ALWAYS has a plan!

[@heavenwatcher100]

France: Elan! 20% morale is invincible Prussia: Nope, 150% discipline prevails

[@brianjordan2192]

Alsace and Lorraine were originally German territory. Unless you believe Strasburg and Metz are french names.

[@janzjenau8400]

Brian Jordan Straßburg is such a german sounding name, I don't understand how anyone could consider it to be a french city. The french version 'Strasbourg' is a sad attempt to make a german city name sound french.

[@bojak7808]

@Fabian Kirchgessner You have a very limited vision of things. It's not because something sounds more german that it is german. The city was originally renamed by the franks who are ancesters of France and Germany right? So it's not a germain city

[@JK-hd9raton]

In Strasbourg we are french, our grandfathers too and their fathers too, all we want is that the Germans close their mouths and stay as far as possible from us @@janzjenau8400

[@supernodream]

That's true. Thirty-years war gave France the opportunity to annex it.

[@wernerwirsching2058]

They have become french, since Louis 14th has occupied it in 1680

[@kingelthibardunbroch4529]

Napoleon III and F. A. Bazaine disliked this.

[@Merf_Gaming]

so this is basically the prequel to WW1

[@karnevalsjeck1984]

Oh, France "kept an eye on prussian ambitions".. What ambitions might that be? France wanted to own the german Rhineland. They declaired war.

[@EnEvighet7]

The answer is found at Bismarck...

[@TheAarondl]

I've read that telegram, have you? It was far from inflammatory, mildly insulting at best and let's not forget the French were making the demands.

[@TheAarondl]

Thinking further, even if it was an honest affront on the French governments part, and it was the intent of Bismarck to start a war, I don't see any fault on Bismarcks part. This was an obviously dangerous neighbor that thought itself superior, able to make demands and respond with the greatest force available if those demands weren't refused in the politest of terms. Further, attacking over such a small affront showed that they were aggressive and possibly expansionist. He did a service to his country really, if it was his intent to goad the French. I did find the 1.25 million man mobilization in 2 days a bit suspicious. I understand they did have a very excellent officer staff with a long military tradition. Then again looking at what they did in the Austrian Prussian war, and the fact that they had only improved since then. Who knows, that might have legitimately been a spur of the moment response maybe with a bit of forewarning over telegraph from a spy which I imagine both sides probably had at the time. I remember watching a doc on this war years ago, and the historian that had written it believed that the Austrians legitimately had no plans to attack France. And that the French government had legitimately believed that they did indeed plan to attack them. If I remeber right the guy had been over journals letters ect. and this was his honest conclusion. He seemed to find it funny in a dark way as I did.

[@AFT_05G]

Pepe the Frog Shut up alliedboo.

[@Heimkineast]

Since when was Alsace Lorraine annexed by Prussia? It belonged to the Holy Roman Empire for many centuries before it was step by step annexed by France! Its population was still speaking mostly German when it was reincorporated into the German Empire.

[@Timrath]

You forget the fact that they resented having been made subjects of Germany. They had it much better under French rule, because of the many tax exemptions, privileges and autonomy they enjoyed, which all disappeared once they were annexed by Germany. You must keep in mind that Alsace had been a part of France for two centuries by the time of the Franco-Prussian war. Yes, they spoke German, but so do the Luxembourgians and Swiss. Do you consider them candidates for "reincorporation" as well? Language is important, but there are other, more important, factors that determine national sentiment.

[@Heimkineast]

I am not sure about this. Of course there were resentiments but i doubt this was a majority. But regardless, that's a totally different matter. Fact is that people have a wrong perception about historic Germany trying conquer its neighbour countries while in fact it was just trying to unite all Volksdeutsche in a single free German empire. Just look at how the western history books tell the story about the annexation of Austria prior to WW2! And as far as I know there were never any ideas or attempts to annex the german speaking parts of Swiss, Luxembourg or Belgium.

[@juppjames9635]

+ Heimkineast You are totally right about France taking more and more land west of Rhine from the Holy Roman Empire in the centuries before, and Prussia/Germany just taking it back from France. but here is the problem with this line of thinking: If you go back further in time, the picture changes (Bellum Gallicum), so, if you don't want to act like children in the sandbox and pointing the finger to each other, you have to give up hisitory and deal with the present. Bismarck knew this, and he didn't want to take land from France at all. But this time, he lost against his king, likely because of the stubborness of the people of Paris, who didn't want a peace right after the battle of Sedan.

[@Heimkineast]

You are of course right. Nevertheless it's important to make people realize the continuous brainwashing by the media that Germany was an agressive Nation per se.

[@Timrath]

Heimkineast Germany is indeed an aggressive nation per se. It's just that France also happens to be a very aggressive nation. As are Russia, England, America, Spain, Portugal, Serbia, Japan, and pretty much any nation extant or extinct. Aggression is an integral component of human nature. I know of no nation that hasn't committed acts of aggression against their neighbours. Except maybe Liechtenstein. But I guarantee you, they would, if they could.

[@dansm1422]

It seems that some of Germany's early victories were rather pyrrhic. This could be because the main French rifle, the Chassepot, was vastly superior to the Prussian Dreyse needle gun. The German advantage was in its artillery.

[@boss180888]

i believe so, also the germans won the war by being able to concentrate more troops faster so even suffering more casualties they would still win...

[@Columbia1867]

Dan Sm Unlike when the Dreyse slaughtered the Austrians in 1866.

[@Wasserkaktus]

The German advantage was in it's new, innovative General Staff, which is now the primary command function in modern armies, but was revolutionary at the time. Prussia had a unified command, wherein their sub-divisioned armies obeyed a direct general staff command, in contrast to the French, who kept their old system of largely independent armies, with a "general staff" which did little more than offer recommendations to these independent armies.

[@swunt10]

the general staff was used during the napoleonic wars as well. so it was not new.

[@gotarmadillo]

That's not what I've read about Louis Napoleon's "Old Grumblers". He was trying a "Grand Armee" but actually had no use for it until 1870. The rest were schemes like Mexico and conscription by the army was considered a catastrophe for most Frenchmen. Discipline was horrible, the men all drank too much and, when they showed up in 1870 at the frontier were likely to loot their own towns because they outran their supplies. One French town actually opened the gates to the Germans because they paid good prices in script and could be counted upon to redeem it.

[@illiminatieoverlordgurglek140]

Fascinating how the German emperor was crowned after the conquest of Paris. Very significant moment in history. The rivalry between France and Germany goes all the way back to the fall of the western Roman empire, the Death Karl the Great/Charlemagne and the dividing of his empire. Germany, Austria and France claimed to be the heirs of that empire and were claiming the Imperial crown.

[@abdacnc3969]

France never wanted the germans united in one country ,, a Germany was a nightmare for France

[@mattp.3949]

The Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871 was a short, but long forgotten war that was a prelude to the mass killing and destrution of the First World War which was to come 44 years later. The French to this day still don't like to talk about this conflict which led to France's humiliating defeat by Prussia (aka the North German Confederation) so very little is discussed in France about the conflict which led to a united Germany replacing France as the greatest land power in Europe. France would fight two more wars with Germany; World War I (1914-1918) and World War II (1939-1945) which the latter once again led to France's defeat in 1940.

[@michaeltricoli5008]

Never heard of WW1 ?@Venge Ance

[@michaeltricoli5008]

as well, France won WW1 and besides losing the battle on france in WW2, they actually won the war while germany literally and drastically lost the 2 World War by surrendering each times. I wonder how many wars you country have won...not even close to France i bet@Venge Ance

[@michaeltricoli5008]

Venge Ance wtf so okay nobody won WW1 and WW2 then bc they were in coalitions as well, so UK did not win WW1 bc they needed help or France and USA and russia, USA did not win WW1 bc they needed help of France UK qnd russia, and same goes with WW2, USA did not win bc they needed the help of UK , France (wich helped to reconquered germany) and other countries...do you understand that you are saying is stupid? Its not because your are in a military alliance that when you win, you dont win (it doesnt make any sence right? ) especially in WW1 where no country was more involved in the war than France and germany, and france needed the USA bc UK fucked up and was not able to do their job while France did it perfectly. So following you mindset, France and the Us won WW1, but not UK, which is still false.

[@michaeltricoli5008]

Venge Ance and if you still think France suck, well you might need a serious history lesson kid: There were 53 major conflicts in Europe. France will have been a belligerent in 49 of them, and the United Kingdom in 43. Of the 185 battles that France has fought over the last 800 years, its armies will have won 132 of them, and lost 43, leaving only 10 indecisive battles Thus giving the French military the record of victories in Europe and therefore in the world. France is the nation that has participated in the greatest number of war and battle throughout the history of Humanity. - Over the last 800 years France has beaten more than 200 years against England, more than 150 years against the Germanic nations, more than 190 years against the Spanish / Portuguese, and against many other nations. Very often these wars were waged against France, which was outnumbered by coalitions of several nations aimed at destroying it. France, the warrior nation par excellence, the strategies deployed by these generals are still studying today, including the campaigns of Napoleon Bonaparte. On all the lands and continents France has shown the world what it was worth in the fight. - Battle of Auerstaedt (1806), 25,000 French against 60,000 Prussians, French Victory fr.wikipedia.org/g/wiki/Bataille_d%27Auerstaedt Battle of Patays 1 against 6, French Victory. . fr.wikipedia.org//wiki/Bataille_de_Patay_(1429) - Fort Carillon, 3600 French against 18,000 English, French Victory. fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bataille_de_Fort_Carillon - Battle of the Pyramids, 20 000 Fr against 50 000 Mamluks, French Victory. fr.wikipedia.org/rg/wiki/Bataille_des_Pyramides - Austerlitz, 73,000 Fr against 86,000 Russians and Austrians, French Victory. fr.wikipedia.org/g/wiki/Bataille_d%27Austerlitz But it is also the battles of Bouvines, Verdun, Soissons, Marigan, Castillon, etc ... And those of the Prestige: - the battle of Camerone, 62 French legionnaires against 2000 Mexicans. fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bataille_de_Camerone - Birk hakeim, 1 against 10, 3700 French against 37 000 Germans / Italians. fr.wikipedia.org/rg/wiki/Bataille_de_Bir_Hakeim And so many others ... But France is also the one that colonized England in 1066, this Francized country for centuries to the point that 40% of English words are of French origin. It is the Nation Daughter-eld of the church, because the first barbarian King of Europe to be converted is none other than Clovis I, King of the Franks, she is therefore the protector of the Christianity, even in her national borders we feel the destiny. The one that dismantled the 900-year-old Holy Roman Empire. Allowing Germany to be born 65 years later. That which allowed the independence of the USA fighting in America against the English. The country of "Dynasties" Many European kings have French ancestries. - Under Saint Louis France is the richest and most populous country in Europe as well as the most developed intellectually and artistically influencing all of Europe. - The Amerindians nicknamed the King of France the Great Onontio "the greatest mountain of the earth" at the end of the seven-year war, overwhelmed then by the French defeat and their fate throw in the hands of the English who will exterminate them thereafter. The one that dominated Europe for several centuries making her royal court the most popular and appreciated by the Kings of Europe. The country of humanism and human rights and the first modern European democracy. But France is something else: France is the second nation in the world to have done the most invention and discovery. - It was the 2nd largest colonial empire in the world, spanning all continents and oceans. - It has the world's second largest maritime area behind the US and could legitimize some areas ranking it as the world's No. 1 maritime possession through the Globe. - It is the largest nation in the European Union in terms of area. - First European Agricultural Power and 4th world. - 5th world military power and 1st European. - 6th World Economic Power. - Permanent member of the UN alongside the USA, Russia, China and England. - 2nd industrial and commercial power of Europe. France is also the third country in the world to have manufactured the atomic bomb. France is also a space power, the third nation to conquer space, the most important space budget of the European agency. France is also famous for its gastronomy around the world. France is also the first nation with regard to Art. But it is also the Francophonie: The French language is the second language taught in the world, La Francophonie brings together 49 countries around the world grouped in permanent council of La Francophonie meeting every 2 years. - French is today the 5th most spoken language in the world with 274 million speakers - French is the 3rd language of business in the world - French is the 4th language of the internet. image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2016/30/1469787077-image.jpg: This map represents the French colonial empire image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2016/30/1469787248-image.jpg: This one represents the 1st French Empire under Napoleon in 1812 image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2016/30/1469787321-image.jpg: This one represents the Carolingian Empire under Charlemagne (ancestor of the French) image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2016/30/1469787977-image.jpg: This card represents France under Louis XIV, his sons being placed king of Spain and Italy who will later take a great French descent to the Spanish throne

[@michaeltricoli5008]

Venge Ance your answer just proved my point, you really dont know anything about history... in deed, we are done.

[@ThePerfectRed]

The only thing I don't like about such documentary films is that they show old b/w footage of the 1920s and 30s as if it were original footage of the time.

[@unadin4583]

It's particularly absurd when they do that with documentaries about ancient Rome.

[@VinnieBoombatz374]

The photos near the end, about the siege of Paris, are accurate and from the era. The stuff in the beginning probably not.

[@melechaifrankenberg254]

my favorite War . Prussian army crushed the French Empire! Otto von Bismarck great leader, iron chancellor

[@melechaifrankenberg254]

my great great grandfather took Prussian citizenship in 1875.

[@qhapaqinka]

What's the capital of Prussia? Pmoscow.

[@pimd6998]

I don't know but their current leader is Pputin.

[@cogitantcumsollicitudine9049]

You mean Ptsar Pvladimir Pputin?

[@Urlocallordandsavior]

used to be berlin

[@deltaforceee]

You dont get the joke do you lol

[@Urlocallordandsavior]

dont insult a defeated power ffs... plebs ( jk :) )

[@Oct131917]

The French were pissed off because they were insulted by Bismark and why because France was worried who would take the throne in Spain.

[@njeschagunasad]

Oct: Wasn`t it the French Ambassador, who first insulted the Prussian King? And yes, it was Bismarck, who made poor old Napoleon III take the bait.

[@geraldgriffin8220]

Alsace and Loraine were first taken from Germany by Louis XIV but everyone chooses to forget this....

[@tfriddo]

stfu lorraine is french im from lorraine vous n'aurez pas l'alsace et la lorraine

[@geraldgriffin8220]

Well I suppose the statute of limitations ran out years ago on this theft..".If you steal something and the crime is not resolved in a timely fashion you get to keep it Louis" ...unless you are German then your children have to return stolen stuff 78 years hence...The French think they own Brittany too the Bretons may have a surprise for them..

[@tfriddo]

Gerald Fallon-Griffin no Brittany is French too stfu Brittany is French.. OK no but in all seriousness people in Alsace Lorraine see themselves as unequivocally French even if they speak German like my whole family the people in britanny however well let's just say all of France knows that they're... Different

[@tfriddo]

Et alors? Qu'est ce que ca change?

[@tfriddo]

Gaël Scarselli mais c'est pas vrai que l'Alsace et Lorraine ont été plus longtemps allemandes que françaises. L'Allemagne a longtemps été séparé en région. L'Allemagne est un pays très jeune

[@GHST995]

"The French were killing the invaders at a horrific rate, but still the Prussians advanced" key note.

[@GHST995]

lol wow

[@silverpleb2128]

"until all the french were annihilated" Actually, no, clearly no. The french were still more than the germans in this war. The error came from the HQ. Exactly like in the ww2.

[@MaximKretsch]

In that war most French soldiers died from diseases because their vaccination system was far inferior to that of the Germans.

[@fahoodie1852]

@@silverpleb2128 France never outnumbered Germany in the war, the latter fielding around 900,000 while the French army under Napoleon III was only at 400,000. After sedan and Metz the French armies completely disintegrated which allowed Prussia to effortlessly siege paris and push deep into french territory. The French empire was outnumbered in nearly every battle

[@silverpleb2128]

@@fahoodie1852 Counting the mobilisation of troops, france had at its highest pick 900.000 troops, not 400.000. Adding to this nulmber 70.000 Francs-tireurs while the prussian army got at its highest pick 500.000 soldiers. In total, the french side got 1.600.000 soldiers and fighters while the nord german confederation got 1.400.000 soldiers and fighters. Iam talking about total number, in fact the french mobilization was catastrophic and france didnt really had real plan established. But in somes battles, the french were outnumbering the germans.

[@colonistsfirst204]

my grandfather August Bischoff fought this his one brother lost his limbs. we have been in the Prussian military service it's entire existence.

[@duncancameron3235]

Sardonic Prussian Hp

[@colonistsfirst204]

***** great great Grandpa

[@colonistsfirst204]

Der Kaiser Von Preußen we are of last Schneidermuil Prussia I hope I spelt that correct. Stubborn German is my Ritter and Bischoff. They refused to learn English my grandmother Bischoff would only say no and don't think she even knew what it ment. love

[@Livinivs]

Do you wish that Königsberg was german once again?

[@simvlacrvm]

Who wouldnt? Lets make Königsberg great again!

[@ancientnumbat4631]

"The conflict was caused by Prussian ambitions to extend German unification." Ah, no. It was caused by a French attack on Prussia.

[@gaslightstudiosrebooted3432]

69Numbat Wrong. Bismarck pulled a political stunt in order to get France to declare war.

[@ancientnumbat4631]

+Christopher Quin, the French could have asked their ambassador if he had been insulted by the Prusssian king. Instead, they decided to start a war. Bismark did not force the decision upon them; it was their own arrogance that lead them to make it.

[@betaking1448]

Le manque de respect envers l'ambassadeur de France par la Prusse était voulu par la Bismarck afin de montrer la France comme l'agresseur et éviter une réponse allié, si Napoléon III n'avait pas répondu cela aurait créé des troubles intérieur puissant

[@MaximKretsch]

betaking C'est vrai, et la France avait supposé à tort, dans son arrogance sans bornes, que cette forme de perfidie diplomatique qu'elle avait inventée et introduite en politique n'est bien sûr que son droit et ne peut être maîtrisée que par elle.

[@VinnieBoombatz374]

69Numbat Yes and no. France went to war to stop German unification, both sides wanted war for their own reasons. I guess you can say the German cause was more just, they just wanted a unified country, while France wanted to oppress the Germans,

[@kevinbyrne4538]

This is a clip from "War and Civilization: Episode 6: Blood and Iron" (1998), narrated by Walter Cronkite.

[@damien4246]

I think if the French army was better managed, organized, and planned more carefully France could've actually won.

[@heronmyer3780]

if the french had modern tanks and aircrafts they could've actually won

[@damien4246]

+Heron Myer In 1870?

[@damien4246]

+Heron Myer In 1870?

[@LAMOE2012]

I agree they simply didn't understand the technology, or how to effectively use it.

[@Timrath]

They were further hampered by Napoleon III, who was a good politician, but a mediocre diplomate and an even worse general. He managed to get his country isolated, leaving him with no allies. He could have crushed Prussia 4 years earlier, if he had seized the opportunity to support Austria in the Austro-Prussian war. The French army was actually well equipped, large, and and enjoyed high morale. Regiment for regiment, they were equal to the Prussians, and superior to the other German states. The generals weren't really bad. They just had a lousy general staff, that hadn't yet adapted to the realities of industrialised warfare.

[@TheSeanoops]

Napoleon III fell right into my boys Wild Man Bismarck and Von Moltke’s hands. French powder puffs.

[@tommypwood672]

Beautiful...France sort of started it and couldn't back it up.

[@marc-antoinerave2572]

Tommy Pwood France sort of started nothing. Bismarck wanted this war to unite Germany. France was not ready for a war that’s why we lost

[@Nathan-no3gu]

then they started WWI and lost...

[@Macmo0699]

@@marc-antoinerave2572 regardless of Bismarck trying to start the war (I agree, he did want a defensive war with France), Napoleon the third still declared war. If you weren’t ready for the war you shouldn’t have declared it

[@marc-antoinerave2572]

@@Macmo0699 Yes you are right. The Ems dispatch was a clever ruse from Bismarck and Napoléon fell into the political trap. At that time the french army was being reformed, and despite its victory during the Crimean war and the war in Italy against the austrians, was in no shape to face the prussian army and its allies. But to be fair, Bismarck cornered Napoléon into declaring war on Prussia, if he hadn't it would have been perceived as an admission of weakness. The french emperor had political enemies in France who would have seized the opportunity to overthrow him. Moreover, he would have lost face on the international scene. And sometimes you don't really have a choice when you enter a war. When a neighbour nation is hell-bent on fighting you, all you can do is fight back. Sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't. In this case it was a complete fuck up.

[@БогданИлић-з8ц]

prussia had a small,but better equiped and trained soldiers.prussian army and german reunion was an inspiraton to my country

[@kevinronske2645]

Not it will unify with the muslims.How smart is that.

[@richardcurry4912]

The French started it and the Prussians finished it.

[@shadowhunting]

Vive l'amitié franco-allemande! Es lebe die Deutsch-Französische Freundschaft!

[@juaninamillion5864]

Preussen Gloria

[@adrian_zombturtle148]

The french looked basically the same 43 years later at the start of world war 1

[@r.blakehole932]

This must be old with Walter Cronkite as the narrator.

[@preshlock]

John Keegan is a master military historian. Prussian army was perfection.

[@marsnz1002]

the first of three summer vacations west of the Rhine.

[@orpheonkatakrosmortarchoft4332]

I wouldn't call WW1 summer vacations.

[@silverpleb2128]

three summers? WW1 summers? okay you are dumb

[@julzhickman]

haha i think you may want to rethink that statement........xxxxx think about it

[@andrews902]

The first vacation was a war, the second vacation was slaughter, and the third vacation was well... nothing but pure unadulterated evil.

[@benitomussolini3271]

To long live king of prussia, i hate frenchS! I amVietnamese

[@danielpardo6890]

I'm not sure where the commentator is getting the number of Prussian death from. Prussia lost around 28 000 men in total.

[@kedi7385]

What is 5:47 March Name?(I know it's preußens gloria but which version?)

[@tcc5750]

6:00 Amazing. But also why the Treaty of Versailles was so harsh in 1919.

[@SKY-jv9ue]

Oh, this is the last war germany ever won folks!

[@epicchocolate1866]

Roger Borroel they only fought two more wars fucknuts

[@ImranPangilinan]

Roger Borroel actually Germany won against France in WWII. The Allies only intervened

[@emelianenko4025]

FrosTy theNoob actually napoleon 1 wins against german . Only a coalition of Russia U.K. And Austria saved them

[@rhysnichols8608]

Roger Borroel Um no, Germany beat Russia in ww1, Belgium in ww1 and were steamrolling the french until Britain arrived. In ww2 Germany beat France and 6 other countries in 7 months. They only lost both wars because their enemies outnumbered them at least 4:1 hahaha Germany was the strongest

[@mightymulatto3000]

Had no idea Berlin was such a young city.

[@german_spirit7545]

Somehow english spoken history dokumentation always achieve it to present Germany as the aggresor. Just sad. It was a glorious time and the most just country of that time has been risen. 5:48

[@MoonBurn13]

That was superb. My own question is: Twice now, from KZbin documentaries, I've heard that "Germany took the provinces of Alsace and Lorraine" as conquered land. Yet in some literature, I've read that "Alsace and *part of* Lorraine" were taken. If the latter's more accurate, exactly what regions of Lorraine were taken?

[@ShalinTM]

I may be wrong, and also not the correct person to answer this, but I believe that Alsace is one state, and Lorraine was another, yet the germans did not annex the entirety of Lorraine, and just the bit with a reasonable ethnic-german population, thus why it was referred to as Alsace-Lorraine. (Yes, answered a comment made 4 years ago)

[@MoonBurn13]

@@ShalinTM Thanks, never too late to Comment.

[@buckyryan2804]

thank for the video

[@chrisnewport7826]

France and Germany have long history of conflict. The Germans never got over their first experience with democracy, Napoleon’s armies. France attacked them more times than the reverse.

[@michaelcoatney2568]

Lang leben Preußen!! Gott mit uns.

[@conservativemike3768]

I hear the giraffe chops served at Maxim’s were excellent, but the kitchen was a disaster.

[@deutschlanddieschone8449]

Who's narrating this? He sounds kinda familiar.

[@MikeHawksBig69]

Deutschland die Schöne i think its walter cronkite

[@stevelammert4392]

The narrator is Walter Cronkite this is a very old film.

[@krossen4]

I agree with H,tpg and steve I think it is Walter Cronkite too - Probably the only news anchor who involuntarily brought a war closer to it's end (In his humble opinion).

[@ColTravis]

I'd like to see the whole documentary.

[@aksmex2576]

so the french didnt surrender right away... hmm they fought

[@doliague2590]

of course those are lies about france that there weak France always fights even after its conquest in ww2

[@epicchocolate1866]

Daniel A. Santana yeah the fought the twelve German soldiers still fighting two weeks before the end of the war

[@Columbia1867]

Daniel A. Santana Yes they only eventually surrendered.

[@aksmex2576]

Yeah even Germany "eventually surrendered" in ww1 and ww2. Hmmm.

[@Columbia1867]

jklahsd32 laksd13 Uh yeah... obviously.

[@HannahHäggAutisticTransWoman]

2:nd Schlewig holstein war of 1866 between Denmark and Austria and prussia, Austrian prussian war of 1868 and Franco prussian war of 1970-71. The wars that made the German empire

[@Extommy1]

He kept on about modern weapons, but never told us what they were. And I still know nothing about why or how.

[@Pulsatyr]

From which documentary was this extracted? It is continued from a Austro-prussian war video and seems to be a history of Prussia or a prelude to the Great War.

[@georgejenkins3371]

Did the people doing the video forget what the title was?

[@tomkrayg8102]

The primary commentator sounds like Walter Cronkite. Am I correct? If so...when was this commentary originally done. BTW...these casualties seem proportionally worse than the American Civil War.

[@thomasbaagaard]

they where not. Much larger armies.

[@dangtran5843]

Can anyone tell me the name of this documentary? Thanks so much in advance. I remember watching it years ago as a a kid, but I just don't know its name.

[@grognard7790]

150% discipline

[@RedDawn66]

I always tell people that are studying WWII to start at the Franco- Prussian war to really understand it

[@gotarmadillo]

Anyone catch the post-1870 weapons here and there?

[@bearmare9710]

Loved this show as a kid.

[@plinkbottle]

Interesting background to WW2 often forgotten. Germans were running rings around the French way back then.

[@chrisschultz8445]

Sounds like Walter Cronkite narrating .

[@elamite66]

it is

[@dkupke]

When you are high on victory, it can be easy to forget the need for a bit of grace and tact. France was deeply embittered at the humiliations that were heaped on them by Germany, and were all too eager for a chance to not only start another fight-but also to savor their own turn to subject Germany to such humiliation after the first world war. Look at Israel and the Arab states! Each defeat only embittered the Arabs more and made them that much more, and sewed the seeds of even more conflicts.

[@puffin51]

That analogy, France vs Germany compared to the Arabs vs Israelis, seems to me to be a good one. Inconclusive humiliations can only stoke the fires of future wars. But the conclusion is terrifying: the only way to break the cycle is the final, irrevocable, and conclusive defeat and fundamental reconstitution of one side or the other.

[@dkupke]

I'm not a believer in the revisionist theory of the American Civil War-the slave holding states were in the wrong and sewed their own defeat over and over. But the humiliations that were heaped on them in the aftermath created a deep bitterness that sewed the seeds of future conflict. And therein lay the irony to me; Abraham Lincoln actually had a much more lenient and moderate vision of what was to become of the post-war south, and his murder not only cleared the way for the Radical Republicans, but it also made them that much more eager to heap abuse on the defeated south. And many in the south knew it-Jefferson Davis himself actually expressed grief when he got the news about Lincoln's death because he knew what it was going to lead to. And, indeed, I recall reading that in the aftermath of the Six Day War, while most of Israel was joyful, there was at least one general who predicted "We just screwed every Arab country."

[@unadin4583]

You both raise good points. The humiliation Germany inflicted on France (both in terms of heavy reparations and occupation of northern France) led France to do the same to them after WW1, which led to the rise of Hitler and WW2. What happened after that war seems to be a combination of what both of you are saying. There was unconditional surrender and a complete restructuring of the German and Japanese governments, but at the same time, a generous amount of economic aid to help them rebuild. It seems to have worked out pretty well.

[@dkupke]

Its also why I am personally a supporter of the nuclear deal with Iran. I'm not naive enough to think the arrangement has prevented any future conflict, or that suddenly we can all be best of friends. But the idea the US could simply have bombed Iran into total submission is childish; the Iranians have just as much national pride as US citizens do and they do not want to see their country bullied or humiliated, so attempting to simply force anything into them will only embitter them and stiffen their resistance.

[@rhysnichols8608]

Well 1870 peace treaty wasn’t particularly harsh, Alsace and Lorraine were previously German lands annexed by Louis 14th, they still spoke German and were more culturally Germanic so it made sense to annex them. The reparations were quite steep, but definitely achievable and since France started the war on very superficial pretexts, they needed somewhat of a punishment. Although I agree Germany should’ve taken steps to heal relations with France following the war, as France was itching for a re-match which culminated in ww1

[@littlehelphere]

Which program is this?

[@leonardofonseca2897]

Prussia

[@tuffbunker1413]

Walter Cronkite? I miss him.

[@StormLaker]

The Franco-Prussian war....the reason my Great-Great grandparents fled Luxemburg and immigrated to the States.

[@danialxiv591]

British is just lucky that they won against the German in 1915, they actually dont stand a chance at all.

[@尚伤熵]

nice video

[@tomservo5347]

I'd like to do some research as since both of my great-grandfathers were in WW1 on the German side, perhaps my great-great grandfathers were in this conflict.

[@tippett94]

what doco is this from?

[@robzonefire]

A Prussia that is not part of Russia

[@dannyn.6933]

They have a recording of Wilhelm I becoming the German Emperor?

[@Rick2010100]

No, there was no filming in 1871 and also no photos, as the rooms of the versailles palace have been to dark for the photo technics of that time.

[@sheldonwheaton881]

Bismarck ringed the city? Moltke? This video is a little on the " Oh, poor France. " side ?💀

[@conservativemike3768]

Napoleon III fell stupidly into Bismarck’s trap.

[@ardalla535]

I remember a political cartoon where a Parisian couple were seated at the dinner table properly eating their poodle. Caption: "Poor Bijou, he would so have liked these bones." I think it was from a British newspaper.

[@zeelowsguys]

I may not be here today if my Great Grandfather didn’t choose to leave prior to this conflict

[@kunicross]

This video contains so few informations I'm on the brink of disliking it - no mention of the Emser Depeche and the reasons for war not even bothering to explain how the southern German states fought alongside Prussia which had been their enemy just 4 years ago...

[@unadin4583]

Like I said before, it's less than 8 minutes long. Someone needs to upload something more.

[@boahkeinbockmehr]

*retook Elsaß-Lothringen

[@melechaifrankenberg254]

my great great grandfather was born in Lorraine France 1863 .

[@Schugger1]

Someone got to do this right: It's called Franco-Prussian War but it was in fact a war between France and many german states. Prussia alone could not handle France alone.

[@shadowfiend3142]

You are right Prussia has struggled way before the Franco Prussian War they struggled during the Seven Years War and was almost conquered by Russia before Czar Peter III stopped it and switched sides becoming allies with Prussia and Frederick the Great which upset the Russian military and the Napoleonic Wars where the 1st French Empire led by Napoleon conquered them and other European nations and took a coalition to drive them back to France after they're failed Invasion of Russia so alone they couldn't without allies they might have done well against Austria but France entire different story

[@esox56]

Quite a crash-course through history, facts, as far as mentioned, are correct, but the rather complex background is completly left aside.

[@GuileMike]

No mention of the EMS Dispatch??

[@guzelataroach4450]

Glourious european history

[@EndlarStudios]

Need to provide credit for original clip

[@OHexpat12]

This film carefully hides critical people's movements such as the Paris Commune which took over Paris during the Prussian invasion and ended landlordship.

[@unadin4583]

In all fairness, it's less than 8 minutes long. I'd like to see a comprehensive one hour documentary about this war.

[@OHexpat12]

yes its short. Who defended Paris? That's a huge gap that is really the main story in why France could'nt defend itself well, which is left out.

[@williamdean4101]

Guess what? The famous 'Geneva Convention" governing the conduct of war was signed by European powers in Switzerland in 1863, midway through the American Civil War. (It was anything but civil.) So every time you see some bogus Hollywood war movie with characters screaming about the Geneva Convention, it was done in the 19th Century. not the 20th.

[@ElongatedVowels]

You know there were multiple Geneva conventions right? Most of them having happened in the 20th century.

[@bbfissingle1715]

Poor France. It just seems to have the worst luck when it comes to war.

[@TarraAncientStar]

my 2nd great grandfather left prussia jun 1870...now I know why

[@karlkarlos3545]

he didn't like winning?

[@silverpleb2128]

winning? how many wars prussia and germany lose? lol.

[@karlkarlos3545]

in 1870? Not much.

[@silverpleb2128]

Wow prussia so strong germany so strong they won the 1870 war omg

[@karlkarlos3545]

So what's your problem, kid? Unhappy with history?

[@smooth_sundaes5172]

Should be called the Franco-German war as Germany was effectively one nation since 1866

[@nakoamechi]

Whosoever 1871*

[@allanashby8089]

And Uncle Walter's narration, too.

[@shinjansaha240]

This documentary is mislead french was agressor prussian weren't

[@shmuelgoldstein2740]

Is this narrated by Walter Cronkite?

[@robertfatoulatchi9482]

A war for an insult.....(face Palm)

[@prun8893]

France should thank the mercy and good graces of others for its continued existence. They generally don't.

[@jeb1413]

Like other country France some time fight against whole Europe they do not need to ask mercy for other

[@nalzhaaaaaaay]

Damn they didn't even mention the paris commune

[@cmdrgarbage1895]

cuz it died fairy fast

[@patriciojuvenalbaezguzman1428]

Que encontraron en la cueva los Tayos en realidad ???

[@briantierney9771]

Meanwhile....way over to the other side of the world... in isolation, Australia, developed their country, on the back of 'Gold' wealth & merino fleece....and established the finest code of Football in the world, today....Aussie Rules (AFL)...and the oldest professional Football on Earth...Melbourne F.C (1858.) 🥂

[@walterschumann2476]

This show is biased as the French suffered 3 KIA to every 1 Prussian KIA. Such statements as the French were killing the Prussian at a horrific rate was just French bias or just anti German bias as the above figure shows. The Germans deployed a total of 33,101 officers and 1,113,254 men into France, of which they lost 1,046 officers and 16,539 enlisted men killed in action. Another 671 officers and 10,050 men died of their wounds, for total battle deaths of 28,306. Disease killed 207 officers and 11,940 men, with typhoid accounting for 6,965. 4,009 were missing and presumed dead; 290 died in accidents and 29 committed suicide. Among the missing and captured were 103 officers and 10,026 men. The wounded amounted to 3,725 officers and 86,007 men.[5] French battle deaths were 77,000, of which 41,000 were killed in action and 36,000 died of wounds. More than 45,000 died of sickness. Total deaths were 138,871, with 136,540 being suffered by the army and 2,331 by the navy. The wounded totaled 137,626; 131,000 for the army and 6,526 for the navy. French prisoners of war numbered 383,860. In addition, 90,192 French soldiers were interned in Switzerland and 6,300 in Belgium.[5] Look it up, for yourself.

[@siyakumari6748]

Just imazine.... What was the effect of these wars on children's😶😶I have readen about this topic in a chapter in my textbook "The last lesson"and then come here to acquire more knowledge about this War 😑😑😥😥😶😶

[@purplesword5536]

the newly formed Republican gov't of France tried to continue the war but it was too little and too late..the loire campaign during the war makes for some interesting reading.

[@troy9477]

And as usual, the French did not learn from this and had many of the same problems and mistakes in the next war, and the war after that (WW1 and WW2, obviously). I never figured out what the Arc de Triomphe is supposed to be celebrating. They always get large parts of the country occupied or get completely overrun.

[@7macfly2]

Troy Ortega France dont have the chance to have the channel sea as protection.... the arc of triomphe is for the 5 european coalitions that were humiliated by France and Napoléon

[@troy9477]

7macfly2 - Thanks. That makes sense. The Napoleonic era would have been their last (only) triumph. There are a lot of French small arms on the world market- never been fired and only dropped once! ROFL

[@7macfly2]

Troy Ortega yes, these weapon are very effective against brit 😂😂 i dont know if you are jalous or just stupid lol

[@arjay5425]

7macfly2 neither

[@michaeltricoli5008]

@@troy9477 There were 53 major conflicts in Europe. France will have been a belligerent in 49 of them, and the United Kingdom in 43. Of the 185 battles that France has fought over the last 800 years, its armies will have won 132 of them, and lost 43, leaving only 10 indecisive battles Thus giving the French military the record of victories in Europe and therefore in the world. France is the nation that has participated in the greatest number of war and battle throughout the history of Humanity. - Over the last 800 years France has beaten more than 200 years against England, more than 150 years against the Germanic nations, more than 190 years against the Spanish / Portuguese, and against many other nations. Very often these wars were waged against France, which was outnumbered by coalitions of several nations aimed at destroying it. France, the warrior nation par excellence, the strategies deployed by these generals are still studying today, including the campaigns of Napoleon Bonaparte. On all the lands and continents France has shown the world what it was worth in the fight. - Battle of Auerstaedt (1806), 25,000 French against 60,000 Prussians, French Victory fr.wikipedia.org/g/wiki/Bataille_d%27Auerstaedt Battle of Patays 1 against 6, French Victory. . fr.wikipedia.org//wiki/Bataille_de_Patay_(1429) - Fort Carillon, 3600 French against 18,000 English, French Victory. fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bataille_de_Fort_Carillon - Battle of the Pyramids, 20 000 Fr against 50 000 Mamluks, French Victory. fr.wikipedia.org/rg/wiki/Bataille_des_Pyramides - Austerlitz, 73,000 Fr against 86,000 Russians and Austrians, French Victory. fr.wikipedia.org/g/wiki/Bataille_d%27Austerlitz But it is also the battles of Bouvines, Verdun, Soissons, Marigan, Castillon, etc ... And those of the Prestige: - the battle of Camerone, 62 French legionnaires against 2000 Mexicans. fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bataille_de_Camerone - Birk hakeim, 1 against 10, 3700 French against 37 000 Germans / Italians. fr.wikipedia.org/rg/wiki/Bataille_de_Bir_Hakeim And so many others ... But France is also the one that colonized England in 1066, this Francized country for centuries to the point that 40% of English words are of French origin. It is the Nation Daughter-eld of the church, because the first barbarian King of Europe to be converted is none other than Clovis I, King of the Franks, she is therefore the protector of the Christianity, even in her national borders we feel the destiny. The one that dismantled the 900-year-old Holy Roman Empire. Allowing Germany to be born 65 years later. That which allowed the independence of the USA fighting in America against the English. The country of "Dynasties" Many European kings have French ancestries. - Under Saint Louis France is the richest and most populous country in Europe as well as the most developed intellectually and artistically influencing all of Europe. - The Amerindians nicknamed the King of France the Great Onontio "the greatest mountain of the earth" at the end of the seven-year war, overwhelmed then by the French defeat and their fate throw in the hands of the English who will exterminate them thereafter. The one that dominated Europe for several centuries making her royal court the most popular and appreciated by the Kings of Europe. The country of humanism and human rights and the first modern European democracy. But France is something else: France is the second nation in the world to have done the most invention and discovery. - It was the 2nd largest colonial empire in the world, spanning all continents and oceans. - It has the world's second largest maritime area behind the US and could legitimize some areas ranking it as the world's No. 1 maritime possession through the Globe. - It is the largest nation in the European Union in terms of area. - First European Agricultural Power and 4th world. - 5th world military power and 1st European. - 6th World Economic Power. - Permanent member of the UN alongside the USA, Russia, China and England. - 2nd industrial and commercial power of Europe. France is also the third country in the world to have manufactured the atomic bomb. France is also a space power, the third nation to conquer space, the most important space budget of the European agency. France is also famous for its gastronomy around the world. France is also the first nation with regard to Art. But it is also the Francophone: The French language is the second language taught in the world, La Francophonie brings together 49 countries around the world grouped in permanent council of La Francophonie meeting every 2 years. - French is today the 5th most spoken language in the world with 274 million speakers - French is the 3rd language of business in the world - French is the 4th language of the internet. image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2016/30/1469787077-image.jpg: This map represents the French colonial empire image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2016/30/1469787248-image.jpg: This one represents the 1st French Empire under Napoleon in 1812 image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2016/30/1469787321-image.jpg: This one represents the Carolingian Empire under Charlemagne (ancestor of the French) image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2016/30/1469787977-image.jpg: This card represents France under Louis XIV, his sons being placed king of Spain and Italy who will later take a great French descent to the Spanish throne

[@mariocisneros911]

And Kaiser Wilhelm blew it. Shouldn't have fought England. Than Nazism never would've happened. Germany would've got stronger in peace , and had a large military and colonies

[@njeschagunasad]

Mario: The fact that Germany became stronger economically endangered the British supremacy on the world market. That`s why the British needed a reason for war. So did the French who wanted revenge for their defeat in 1871. The Kaiser, who was naive what concerns international politics (he was no good liar) did not see, that the Brits and French isolated him internationally. It was not Wilhelm II who started WW1 and it was the idiocy of the so called treaty of Versailles which called Hitler on the scene.

[@eddiekulp1241]

Sounds like Walter Cronkite narrating , can't be

[@PrinceChaloner]

When's the last time France won a war????