What if a South German Federation Formed in 1866?

[@GoofyGoober69325]

brother please take a breath 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@AwwsomeHistoryYT]

I did take a breath, the breaths were just cut out of the video😭🙏🙏

[@AwwsomeHistoryYT]

Wut is bro’s (Goofy Goober’s) pfp💀💀💀

[@andydufresnefromshawshank5866]

@@AwwsomeHistoryYTit’s uncanny

[@iUrtzi]

Hey, I just wanted to give a tip: calmer, be relaxed when you read and I assure you, it will feel even better and plus, it will be more pleasant to listen. I liked the video, but I wanted to point that out.

[@notKyv]

K dude i will hear you calm down

[@user-vipgxpn]

One more "If my aunt had balls, she would be my uncle" video.

[@Wollovor]

What if a working MC Donalds spawned in the Sikh Empire in the year 1800 with infinite food and well trained workers? Would this cause the Sikh Empire to colonize Sweden?

[@AwwsomeHistoryYT]

@Wollovor I like it but it’s basically a fantasy and NOTHING like a plausible alternate history scenario Unfortunately, I’m not going 2 make a video on that but great idea!

[@TreeBeard2008]

I guess this alternative scenario would be more feasible if Austria won war with Prussia straight away.

[@shadowderper8930]

I will say, due to the adriatic nature of southern german sea access, I doubt they would posses much colonies outside of north africa or the horn of africa

[@flamingarrow9444]

Great video! One suggestion is to slow down how fast your talking.

[@AwwsomeHistoryYT]

Thx 4 the suggestion I’m glad u enjoyed my alternate history scenario😁 And I’ll try to talk slower in my Christmas special

[@skhydra-r8u]

I mean i think the talking speed is perfect, so maybe it should be a vote to see what should be the case

[@JeroldBoateng]

Bruh... why would Britain get mai land frech land?

[@AwwsomeHistoryYT]

Cuz it can

[@Bartholomew-h9q]

The civil war reference is crazy. But this was a very interesting video. You got a new sub now :D Keep up the good work mate

[@DisturbedAidan2]

So Franz Ferdinand doesn't get assassinated in Sarajevo in this timeline?

[@AwwsomeHistoryYT]

@@DisturbedAidan2 idk, wut do u think?

[@yaff1851]

Both the causes and effects of that assassination are extremely timeline dependent. So I say we’ll likely see A WWI, but definitely not THIS WWI

[@skhydra-r8u]

I'd say the scramble for africa goes the same as in our timeline cuz remember austria is still (although less than in our timeline) kinda weak and maybe they don't have the naval power to maintain their colonies. And for prussia, i still think they're strong enough to hold colonies, although since the seperation of the south germans happened before 1884 (the treaty for the scramble for africa) maybe the greater powers wouldn't let north germany get as much colonies as in our timeline(so like 1-2 less colonies) Also idk if (1st scenario) britain would let greece get constantinople, probably doing an international zone or annexing it directly

[@wojtekpolska1013]

adding so much germans to austria-hungary you need to consider that the other ethnic groups very much hated the idea. hungary would definitely demand greater autonomy if this were to happen, and all the other smaller regions would be very upset too, i think in the end such thing would only destabilise the empire

[@Lazardeve_Fr]

In my opinion. The only way south germany could win is if britain was on their side. Not to say britain would most likely be on their side by default. Yes napoleon the third was an unpredictable guy, but britain and france fought against russia before. To britain. This would be their only chance to defeat the threat russia was preparing to be. But yeah. Just a tiny nitpick. Great video! :3

[@yaff1851]

If you want French annexation of all territories west of the Rhine you have to not that some of them weren’t North German before 1871. Even if you have all of them annexed by Prussia in 1866, the South Germans will likely want them back.

[@Jannik69420]

Bro BREAAATH

[@wojtekpolska1013]

5:45 the UK wouldn't let Turkey be destroyed like this, as they need a strong power in that part of the world to stop russian expansion there, even historically after ww1 turkey wasnt punished this badly (and this wouldve been a smaller war)

[@VincentMC290]

Watermark goes hard

[@AwwsomeHistoryYT]

@VincentMC290 fr tho

[@VincentMC290]

@AwwsomeHistoryYT I mean one day you can afford premium

[@Masterchief_Tito]

Both treaties dont make sense ngl. Why would germany give south tyrol to italy? Including the german speaking area. And why would russia get almost all of prussia?

[@AwwsomeHistoryYT]

1. Italy historically wanted South Tyrol from Austria so it would (somewhat) make sense 2 give it 2 them 2. Russia was a pretty expansionist power for it’s time so giving them Polish territories up 2 the Oder river would please the Russians (unrealistically ofc)

[@Masterchief_Tito]

@AwwsomeHistoryYT Germany would have rejected the request of giving ALL of south tyrol to italy. The southern part? Maybe. But not the majority german area.

[@miriadesauce4086]

why would Britian join the north german - russian side? The british would favour the weaker side in the name of the balance of power so why would they join the side that have more industry and a larger population

[@AwwsomeHistoryYT]

Bc, (long-term), they would NEVER work with the Bonapartist regime of France and the juggernaut of S. Germany And they would most likely favor the underdogs of N. Germany and Italy

[@Scober420]

@@AwwsomeHistoryYTwhy wouldnt they? are you telling me they are giving up their balance of power policy they have kept since the late 1700s?

[@Aquele_que_se_chama_pietro]

finalmente... a Lenda Retornou de sua Hibernação para nos Abençoar com mais videos de Geografia e História..

[@AwwsomeHistoryYT]

Thx

[@felixnimo]

" West Rhineland " would be called Palatinate (Pfalz) though 😬🤙

[@ayyybob]

Not a criticism or anything, but i feel like this scenario is almost exactly similar to possible history's "what if the dutch unified germany?", i did like the editing though👍

[@cadentrevino5746]

Not really but also I'm going to tell you somthing alternative history is egecated guessing if the senerio has similar situation those broad guess might aline but even so there's still large differences in the videos

[@AwwsomeHistoryYT]

Ik, that’s where I got my inspiration from

[@jdu7729]

You sometimes included the Grand Duchy of Hesse and by Rhein (Hesse-Darmstadt) as part of the south, sometimes as part of the north. As a Hessian I have questions: Wich one is it?In the real timeline only the Province of Upper Hess's join the Confederation. Would it be a reversal, where Rhenish Hesse and Strakenburg join the South? And what would that mean for the wartime? Upper Hess joining Hesse-Nassau? Becoming an "independent" member of the northern confederation? Becoming a Persian province? Or ... Hesse joining nither side, dropping out of both confederations and becoming a neutral state?

[@AwwsomeHistoryYT]

Both of the Hesse’s would be a part of the South

[@theman8421]

Weird thing about this hesse is technically apart of both confederations as in our timeline after the austro-prussian war, parts of hesse had to join the north confederation but the souther part was not, so i dont know how this all works if hesse is in both

[@AwwsomeHistoryYT]

Now thinking about it, the northern part will be apart of North Germany while the southern part would be apart of South Germany

[@theman8421]

@@AwwsomeHistoryYT but how would that work the hesse leader has 2 different obligations as a member of north germany and a member of south germany

[@AwwsomeHistoryYT]

@theman8421 maybe the Hessian state spilts up? Idk bro😭

[@theman8421]

@@AwwsomeHistoryYT it causes the south german confederation and the north german confederation to unite lol

[@Mr_Syrup]

These videos are great, the only recommendation is to talk slower to give yourself more time to think. Try to talk in the nonchalant tone that the alternative history dude does that has that Bulgarian accent. Keep it up man!

[@AwwsomeHistoryYT]

@@Mr_Syrup thx 4 the suggestion +, u mean Rewriting History?

[@Mr_Syrup]

@@AwwsomeHistoryYT yeah, I couldn’t think of his name because so many people have a similar name as that. But yes, that was my example.

[@PSM4020]

Nah bro didnt do that reference 💀

[@Bulbs3499]

This is pretty good

[@AwwsomeHistoryYT]

@@Bulbs3499 thx When ru gonna start uploading again?

[@Bulbs3499]

@@AwwsomeHistoryYT never, videos were boring to make and the people who watched many of my vids were pretty annoying sometimes

[@AwwsomeHistoryYT]

@@Bulbs3499 c’mon I thought ur vids were interesting

[@Bulbs3499]

@@AwwsomeHistoryYT well if your looking for something similar i found this channel called volkzeit thats pretty cool (no, its not me, im friends with the guy who made it)

[@Bulbs3499]

@@AwwsomeHistoryYT also i taught him how to map so his style is similar

[@fntnil]

Correction for the North German win scenario, Britain would NEVER take continental European land, as they would not be able to properly defend it also they didn't had any interest in it, also not to mention in any war Britain might get into it's obvious France would join in to retake their lost land. Edit: What a mess of a scenario, honestly, why would the South emphazise that the North wanted to opress them? That's stupid asf, also you're telling me South Germany unites with Austria and that wouldn't cause a war? After all Austria is still the same backwards collection of kingdoms, North Germany would just destroy them again. The South would do nothing to help Austria's incompetence, also in our timeline Prussia made a lot of concessions to Bavaria, the most important out of the southern states, The German Empire was a federal entity so they would retain a lot of autonomy, joining a backwards collection of lands with nothing in common doesn't seem so appealing to a modern and really industrialized nation in my opinion, sorry I just don't see any good reason to join with Austria rather than Prussia, the similarities with Vienna are good and all but this ignores the state of both nations (also Prussia had already made a deal with the South that if any nation (France) attacked them they would join the war and possibly unite), they had no future as independent. Alliances that are impossible, you're telling me RUSSIA AND AUSTRIA would ALLY? That's straight up fantasy, Germany has nothing Russia needs or wants, the spoils are just bad for Russia, more people that don't want to be a part of your empire. I don't see this being a realistic scenario at all

[@AwwsomeHistoryYT]

Brother, it’s just an alternate history scenario, chill out😭🙏🙏🙏

[@fntnil]

@AwwsomeHistoryYT Make it realistic at least, also in my comment I state it is alternate history, so... 🤷‍♀️

[@belstar1128]

east Germany west Germany north Germany kingdom of south Germany the central German republic

[@wojtekpolska1013]

0:30 btw just know the map of the "german speaking world" at 0:30 is not very accurate, i know its from wikipedia but it vastly overestimates german speakers, for example counting all hebrew speakers as germans. (for example the city of Łódź, it never in it's history had more than ~14% german population, but the map shows it as completely german, probably because ~35% of the people there were jewish at that time [and the rest ~50-55% were poles depending on various sources])

[@jacquestricatel7055]

According to Wiesław Puś (a Polish professor), in 1839 77% Germans, 13% Poles and 9% Jews lived in Łódź.

[@wojtekpolska1013]

@@jacquestricatel7055 i wasnt able to find the source of this claim, all sources i found say it was primarly polish with a jewish minority at that time, and germans only came later and never had majority

[@jacquestricatel7055]

​@@wojtekpolska1013 Wrong again! With the Second Partition of Poland in 1793, Łódź was annexed by Prussia. 1793: 0% Germans, 95% Poles and 5% Jews 1820: 0% Germans, 66% Poles and 34% Jews The systematic settlement of German craftsmen began in 1823. 1831: 74% Germans, 17% Poles and 9% Jews 1836: 75% Germans, 14% Poles and 11% Jews 1839: 77% Germans, 13% Poles and 9% Jews 1862: 62% Germans, 21% Poles and 17% Jews 1864: 59% Germans, 21% Poles and 19% Jews The January Uprising of 1863/64 triggered a large exodus of Germans from the region. 1865: 44% Germans, 34% Poles and 21% Jews After the peasant liberation was carried out in Poland in 1864, a large influx of Poles began to move into the city. 1884: 36% Germans, 33% Poles and 29% Jews Since the 1870s, Jews, especially Litwakians, have increasingly been immigrating alongside Poles. 1894: 35% Germans, 38% Poles and 25% Jews 1897: 21% Germans, 46% Poles and 29% Jews 1911: 18% Germans, 50% Poles and 32% Jews 1921: 7% Germans, 62% Poles and 31% Jews Source: Wiesław Puś, Ludwik Mroczka & Eugen Oskar Kossmann.

[@AwwsomeHistoryYT]

Ani’t no way bro did this much commenting, js to win a argument😭😭😭😭

[@siyacer]

interesting

[@talhaamj3425]

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