Why Does Luxembourg Exist? (Short Animated Documentary)

Luxembourg is a tiny nation which sits between France and Germany and has managed to survive centuries of warfare. The little country is still free and independent, but how? Well, you can find out by watching this short and simple animated documentary.
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[@grizzle7661]

Short Answer: Everyone else around it wanted it, so they decided that nobody could have it lol

[@lordmustafa3309]

Agree with you short answer

[@kousvetkousvet4158]

Just like Thailand

[@richamo13]

That's sounds like the epidsode of why Belgium exists.

[@meneither3834]

That's also why Belgium exists.

[@421less1]

@@meneither3834 isnt england way more invested in Belgium though?

[@warrenlehmkuhleii8472]

Luxembourg’s Motto: We are not as small as Lichtenstein.

[@DeeJayFM]

Not yet

[@PrinzPassionsfrucht]

If you translate this into german, it rhymes. Wir sind nicht so klein wie Lichtenstein.

[@kfraser3783]

You're greedy

[@vithu864]

Yet, Liechtenstein is richer (GDP per capita) than Luxembourg.

[@tonijelecevic4332]

But not as rich as Monaco:(

[@gerdforster883]

Why does Luxembourg maintain a standing army? Because there isn't enough room for them to sit down. I'll see myself out...

[@allanelder2711]

I thought Luxembourg kept an army in case things kicked off in Korea again and the US needed their help like they did last time.

[@mortal19901001]

@@allanelder2711 Ehm... you do know that China and communist North Korea were invading South Korea. And now let me ask you, looking at it know, what do you believe was the better choice? Assisting China and North Korea or South Korea which is prospering? Do you support the dictatorship of North Korea? Get the facts straight.

[@allanelder2711]

@@mortal19901001 oh dear, someone has taken my comment seriously. Luxembourg has a standing army of approximately 550 personnel. It was commendable of the country to send a portion of it's army to assist the UN efforts in Korea in 1950-53, but their efforts would have been nothing compared to the thousands of US, UK and other nation's troops that were fighting to stop a Communist takeover of the South. It would be a similar situation if another conflict started on the Korean peninsula and Luxembourg was to commit forces there again.

[@nitpickersheadliceremoval673]

@@mortal19901001 r/whoooooooosh

[@robot_girlyman1556]

@@mortal19901001 dense much?

[@arturoalvarezdelatorre9366]

As a luxembourg citizen, I think about this everyday

[@plonka4590]

U dont even exist

[@arturoalvarezdelatorre9366]

@@plonka4590 D: ?

[@gutty5475]

@@plonka4590 he said hes from luxembourg, not denmark

[@planteruines5619]

Luxembourg , come to belgium and me a french would love to annex belgium

[@planteruines5619]

@Get Fake the will be french or german but not luxembourgeois at first , this is too small to exist

[@FreaKCSGOHacker]

To be used as an easy way to bypass the Maginot Line in Hearts of Iron 4

[@kfraser3783]

I HATE HEARTS OF IRON IT SO OVERRATED

[@crocodileguy4319]

@@kfraser3783 you're just salty about the naval menu being hard, aren't you.

[@andrewlentner]

@@crocodileguy4319 to be fair the naval menu is fucking hard as shit.

[@The_Lidless_Eye]

y e s

[@The_Lidless_Eye]

@@andrewlentner everyone has their opions ,just know that yours is wrong

[@miliba]

I remember the time Luxmburg went furiously insane after winning a minor soccer match against Switzerland. Their newspapers mocked the Swiss for being the smaller country

[@rick0201]

Thats actually amazing

[@wmfa95]

We once played a draw against France during a friendly football match and while France forgot that match even happened we celebrated it as if we had won 😅

[@Die4Gesichter]

Yeah. Our """""football team"""''" is very very very bad.

[@blanco7726]

When Dudelange played Europa League, even rivals of Dudelange supported them every Thursday evening.

[@DD-ze1ki]

@@blanco7726 I am from Dudelange. :D

[@r.v.biagioni7210]

My dad was born and raised in Luxembourg and I’ve been there here times between 1965 to 1972. The country used to have one of the worst male life expectancies in the 1960s due to the large number of ore miners. Once the country became a hub of international banking, it has soared to having one of the best standards of living on he planet.

[@smokedoutpositivesquad9463]

Yea I remember reading in an atlas as a kid that Luxembourg had the highest percentage of car ownership in the world

[@seronymus]

So it sold its soul and became another neolib hellhole 🌈🏳️‍🌈

[@ronyobry898]

@@smokedoutpositivesquad9463 true

[@bobloblaw9679]

@@smokedoutpositivesquad9463 do they all drive....Luxus? :P

[@smokedoutpositivesquad9463]

@@bobloblaw9679 lol

[@BillCameronWC]

What’s really good about Luxembourg is that if you’re driving from Spain/France to Belgium and on to the Netherlands or vice versa, as I often have been, is that you can fill up your car with petrol at significantly lower cost than in the other countries mentioned. Of course I know that Luxembourg has wider importance (coal, steel etc) as well as being quite beautiful, but from a very selfish point of view its low petrol taxes make it a convenient place to fill up the tank during a lengthy car journey 😂👍.

[@jf752]

the gas station of Europe... I like it! 😎

[@karlosdeevs]

@@jf752 yh especially now with all the gas prices exploding

[@mikehunt3436]

Luxembourg: The New Jersey of Europe.

[@karlosdeevs]

@@mikehunt3436 no no the Vermont of Europe. NJ is everything west of the Rhine (Northrhine-Westphalia & Rheinland Palatinate)

[@thesnowfox7262]

thank you for helping me plan my european tour 😂😂😂

[@AnotherLuckyStar]

*History Matters:* Why does Luxembourg exist? *Germany:* I ask myself the same question quite a lot.

[@MPHJackson7]

They tried answering that question to varying degrees of success

[@luxembourgishempire2826]

Yes... GRRRRR

[@TheSandkastenverbot]

Germany: don't blame me, I've tried my best

[@pointlesspublishing5351]

France: "me too"

[@diazinth]

@Vex to be fair, Belgium has made the biggest contribution to finally answer that question ;)

[@edgelord8337]

Luxembourg: *hey we exist* Liechtenstein: *no one even talks about us*

[@disneymore7941]

*Liechtenstein

[@civishamburgum1234]

And this is why Liechtenstein stll exists.

[@anderson52ma]

HistoryMatters: Hold my soup.

[@Chinawanka]

Liechtenstein, who are they? (Don’t be offended if you are from there)

[@theimperiumofman3714]

@@Chinawanka Liechtenstein is a country that's smaller than wide Putin

[@mogensrasmussen8414]

Funny enough Amazon, Apple, AIG, FedEx, Fidelity, Heinz, IKEA, Office Depot, Pepsi Bottling Group and Staples etc. found Luxembourg very useful to avoid paying tax.

[@gengis737]

Even more funny, all top stars have a concert in a tiny concert hall of 2,000 ^persons in Luxemburg, escaping taxes for their whole trip in Europe capitals.

[@CrazyAndy1983]

@@gengis737 Actually 6500 people

[@wxllibear]

You forgot Microsoft my friend 😘

[@studiognoe]

When I'm travelling and getting tired of the eternal 'Where are you from?' question, I always say I'm from Luxembourg. No witty replies there. Just a blank stare and people will leave you alone. Long live Luxembourg!

[@Gladiator239]

Et seet een sech emmer: Wëssen sie lo wat Lëtzebuerg ass oder muss ech erem alles erklären?

[@sweetiedahling8137]

Ha ha I’ve used Macedonia in the past for that same reason

[@tractual6363]

@@Gladiator239 Its always said: Do they already know what Luxembourg is or do i have to explain it all again?

[@infirmux]

You could rename yourself "van Mondorf" ;) Or even Bain van Mondorf :D

[@kingdoge8916]

@STD092812 tax evasion and being really small.

[@glitchy6449]

I love how Belgium wanted to annex Luxembourg so badly but France was like: non, what a buzz killer

[@mathiaspint6808]

I can't imagine what an even bigger mess we'd be in if we did get to annex it we're only barely hanging on as a country as it is hahaha (we're already 400+ days without a federal government and counting) so thank you France from protecting us from ourselves.

[@garfieldt]

Same as when Netherlands wanted to re-annex Belgium in the weeks after the revolution. France also stepped in and said Non. I guess they were still angry that Napoleon couldn't take anything a few decades earlier and decided no one gets to take anything. Not on their watch, non non.

[@steveweidig5373]

They almost succeeded. Luxembourg had a referendum in 1919 about it's own future and staying independent largely won out. Otherwise they would possibly have had their way. The Luxembourgers also wanted an economic union with France, who declined. So Belgium instead got an economic union with Luxembourg, which stands to this day btw.

[@elios4592]

This was mainly due to the fact that luxembourgish people fought the war during the belgian revolution and wanted to be part of Belgium when it was created, this was not done because of the fortress of Luxembourg City, which was occupied at the time by a prussian garnison.

[@cyrildewaha]

@@elios4592 We never wanted to be part of Belgium lmfao what the fuck?

[@sskuk1095]

Luxembourg: *exists* Germany: "Oh look! A shortcut!!"

[@Doss3332]

@German Boi fail art school

[@meusvideos5574]

@@Doss3332 STFU

[@pacificboi1594]

@@Doss3332 Hitler was Austrian

[@Doss3332]

@@pacificboi1594 german boi is the exact name that an austrian german nationalist would have.

[@pacificboi1594]

@「 Deadpoppin 」 cool

[@numberpirate]

One thing about Luxembourg not mentioned is the fact that the capital city of Luxembourg which is Luxembourg city is basically built on top of a massive rock outcropping from the surrounding areas. This outcropping has many fortifications dug into it, and they are quite siege resistant. They have repelled more sieges than one can count. So this is the main reason why it has survived.

[@geojelly9830]

De Kazematten! Went to Luxembourg and it's capital last weekend, really beautiful city. I think it might be the prettiest capital i've ever seen though I saw a lot of homeless people

[@angelgodplace]

@@geojelly9830 all the homeless people can move around thanks to the free transports. We have a lot of institutions trying to help the homeless though. It's not really a lack of resources problem

[@cattysplat]

Some homeless people legitimately enjoy the lifestyle and do not want to be housed or work.

[@abigweed1811]

".. Between the French, German and Dutch speaking world" French: *Shows both France and Belgium* Literally every Flemish person: *Triggered*

[@garfieldt]

Yep. I noticed that too. Triggered indeed.

[@Zwijger]

The way he said it, including Dutch, clearly means he recognizes the Flemish. If you only consider the Netherlands the "Dutch speaking world" you wouldn't put Luxembourg next to it.

[@abigweed1811]

@@Zwijger Yeah I can get behind that, but it's not too obvious And I won't complain about him not splitting up Belgium in 2 parts or something, but my inner Flemish was a little hurt ;p

[@Zwijger]

@@abigweed1811 As a Dutch person, I understand. Though at the same time it's funny you are both so staunch in being a different culture yet so adamant in being included when the Dutch language is mentioned.

[@abigweed1811]

@@Zwijger Well yes obviously we're quite different from the French/Walloon, if you compare us And adamant concerning the Dutch language; well personally I'm okay with the (actual) Dutch language etc. However yes, that's mainly a true stereotype.

[@mauriciogonzalez3334]

As a Luxembourger, I ask myself this every day.

[@snooz3d998]

For cheap gas and good paying jobs for the neighbours ?

[@luxembourgishempire2826]

Really? We disown you then...

[@reset123451]

Tu nombre no parece muy de allí

[@captaindonut5240]

Wow so people really do live there...i thought it was a magical forest with a castle inhabited by fairies

[@yumani_]

@@luxembourgishempire2826 your name is a meme :D

[@RDA000]

Duchy of Luxembourg: Has land taken from it by the major powers Major powers: "Now you're a grand duchy!"

[@captaindonut5240]

Luxembourgh: -_-

[@user-p70totype101]

*I’ve won* *but at what cost?*

[@christopherollinger7457]

As a luxemburger, that's a good one😂

[@hkchan1339]

Pats Luxembourg on the head like a school kid

[@ItsLunaRegina]

Could've been worse; they could've taken all of it.

[@UmatsuObossa]

Never gonna get tired of how abruptly the characters keel over every time he says someone died XD

[@utkarshg.bharti9714]

And the THUD sound is hilarious..!

[@UNLebanon]

They caught a mild case of DEATH

[@querellenono2683]

IKR

[@ismaeldiawara26]

Fun fact : A few years ago, for the World Cup qualifiers, the Luxemburg's football team played against France (in France btw) and managed to keep the score tied. At the end of the game you'd see the Frenchies being a bit annoyed, while the Luxemburg's coach was knees on the ground yelling as if they just had won the WC Next day around 7:30 AM I was in my car and hear on the radio something like "Big victory for the Luxemburg's football team which tied France in the WC qualifiers last evening !" xD

[@tartas1995]

That is a victory. They played far outside their weight class and didn't lose.

[@sinfaz]

I'm starting to think that History Matters is a Greek philosopher...

[@Hilversumborn]

Does he live out of a jar?

[@sinfaz]

Perhaps.

[@The_Lidless_Eye]

n o

[@nowhereman6019]

I bet he thinks that you can define a human as a featherless biped. The hack.

[@-haclong2366]

The Socratic method in action.

[@user-km3fm8yx9v]

Another example of a question nobody ever asked but it is actually interesting.

[@Gautier-cw9bu]

I wonder why Luxembourg exists since my childhood

[@twoscarabsintheswarm9055]

I've thought this one for a while

[@El_Rey_Moglia]

I always ask this

[@user-fb7dm9ff8s]

@John B. Cause nowadays Bulgarians are mixture between Bulgars and Slavs

[@outcast8223]

@@user-fb7dm9ff8s dang. Shut that video idea down quick....

[@cynthiagautier9984]

Me (luxembourgish citizen since birth going to study in belgium): i am from luxembourg! Belgian: *points to the area around the border that they called luxembourg but is actually just the south of belgium* oh you mean from around there? Me: *points to the actual country* no over there Belgian: bUt THat'S tHE gRaNd DUcHy!

[@stuglife5514]

Hello! Just wanted to say hi. I never get to talk to anyone from the homeland. I was born in Pennsylvania but my family is from the town of Medernach. In fact, we’re actually Medernachs! Greetings from the Pennsylvanian Medernachs!

[@cynthiagautier9984]

@@stuglife5514 Omg such an interesting paticular situation:D Well i was born in Luxembourg but my ancestors are mostly from Portugal:) Except for an orphan grandpa, some French and Sanish^^' I should do a DNA test hha

[@kamy6305]

I feel ya Or when u say 'Im from Luxembourg' and u get the oh so popular answer 'Is ThAt In GeRmAnY" Or when they ask what language u speak in luxembourg, and u say luxembourgish, the answer most of the time is 'YoU hAvE yOuR oWn LaNgUaGe?'

[@cynthiagautier9984]

@@kamy6305 oh my god the language topic! studying in Belgium i in the beginning got often asked where I come from bc of my obviously non Belgium way to speak French. Then we proceeded on to the part of the conversation where they find out i am fluent in 5 languages which are Luxembourgish, Portuguese (Immigrant background in the family), German, French and English. Basically the 4 Basic Languages every Child in Luxembourg speaks at the age of 16 + Portuguese 'para a familia'. After this some conversations are over, overall when they ask me to prove my knowledge: I crushed their pride of knowing 2 max 3 languages (french, english, maybe dutch), whereas the 2 foreign languages they often just know to use in a very broken way.

[@comgetit1]

When I went to LA on holidays I was actually surprised by the amount of people who knew exactly where Letz was. I was expecting...you know...'Muricans. Was a pleasant surprise :D

[@Pugiron]

"We just don't want our rivals to have it"

[@lorenzomariani503]

I'm waiting for "Why San Marino exists?"

[@AkaMadem]

Because of Saint Marinus and bla bla bla

[@shawnjavery]

He explained it in the Italian unification video

[@Spectrum16]

Pretty much existed since Roman times and only survived because they were chill with everyone around them and everyone protected them

[@guillaumegiroux9425]

I’m sure it’s in the plans

[@R3stor]

Because they thought that if they don't move, no one will notice them

[@angelolocatelli5579]

You know... As someone who was born in Luxembourg, lived his whole life there, and watching your videos... I feel honored

[@inavag3038]

you are certainly luxembourgish. thats how we feel when we get mentioned LOL

[@tractual6363]

well, i just noticed that i feel the same when luxembourg gets noticed lol

[@unicorn2165]

brudi

[@metalheadcomicbookfan797]

@@tractual6363 I have a question. Did your country take in many illegal immigrants like most European countries did? If yes, that's really bad

[@tractual6363]

@@metalheadcomicbookfan797 i think they did

[@IceWolfLoki]

Short Answer: The Dutch aren't very good at staying unified and the Germans and French never seem to consolidate their victories for long. Plus a little bit of sexism.

[@DonCristian_DPB]

I cringe everytime I see the word "sexism". Perhaps because it's always a certain type of people who use it.

[@IceWolfLoki]

@@DonCristian_DPB and it's always a certain type of person that cringes.

[@willblack8575]

@@IceWolfLoki ye normal people.

[@idek6585]

@@DonCristian_DPB Did you even see the video?

[@kindbrute4640]

@@willblack8575 bro, did you watch the video? It's not that long

[@tathemrelag3123]

History Matters: _Includes Flanders in "the French-speaking world"_ The Flemish: *So you have chosen death.*

[@knowyourroleRocky]

Well, we (citizen of this small funny country) don't actually border the Dutch speaking world. We border Belgium, but not Dutch-speaking Belgium.

[@wp12mv]

So the dutch sold Luxembourg and everyone else kept giving it back to them

[@TheBrass18]

Lol

[@joehoe222]

Gold machine 🤑

[@captaindonut5240]

It's like printing our own money

[@dannyhu_]

Benelux will be united again. The Walloons didn't want to be Dutch so that's why Belgium was independent. Luxembourg and the Flemish were okay to be part of the Netherlands only the French people in Wallonia wanted independence.

[@axiezimmah]

@@dannyhu_ just give wallony to France and add the rest to the Netherlands. All parties will be better off.

[@judaspriest9843]

"Charles did the French king a solid and died"

[@lexprontera8325]

* THUD *

[@anwardiggs8748]

I literally went to the comments to find this

[@RankinMsP]

This, his dead pan delivery and cartoons is why I come back

[@princevesperal]

Charles the Bold was in the process of establishing his various territorial possessions into a sovereign State in their own right, so we may have had a independent country in the region centuries earlier, had he been successful!

[@harbl99]

"You're welcome France." -- a bunch of Swiss hillbillies with halberds

[@arthursimsa9005]

Fun fact: Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, did not just "die", he was killed in battle. He wanted his "kingdom" to extend over the entire region between Burgundy and the Netherlands, which meant annexing Lorraine (shown as belonging to him on your map, but he never held to it). Lorraine was at the time split between 5 different duchies and ecclesiastical principalities (or "Prince-Bishoprics"... that's a mouthful) under either the Holy German Roman Empire or the Kingdom of France. In the end Charles was killed in the battle of Nancy against Lorrain, Alsatian and Swiss forces, and his body was found several days later, already damaged by wolves. And after Charles' Death, Burgundy never regained the power it had had throughout the Hundred Years' War and ceased to be a thorn in the King of France's side.

[@wmg111]

I love these little snippets of history that this channel does. They give just enough of the right amount of information to pique my interest into looking deeper without boring me. Bravo.

[@staffan-]

It is amazing how the European empires just kept passing the Netherlands around themselves. Holy Roman Empire, Spain, Austria.

[@timothymclean]

Apparently it was more valuable as a gift than a possession.

[@sskuk1095]

*France and Germany

[@OnionChoppingNinja]

Untill they told them all to f--k off, declared independence and start colonizing other peoples s-it. Something they where really good at in those early days.

[@diazinth]

* Frankia East/Middle (?) Frankia HRE (Equal parts of) Dukes of Burgundy (Subjects to) ArchDukes of Austria/HRE (Subject to) Kings of Spain/HRE (Subject to) Correct me where I'm wrong :)

[@goldeagle8051]

Timothy McLean actually the Benelux has a GDP of over 1 trillion €/year, thank you.

[@YotoBoto]

We finally have the end boss of the “why does this country exist” trilogy

[@aureavita8653]

hah, it's not a trilogy. ITS A HEXOLOGY

[@brambakker5253]

@History Memes no after this one there is one more called Lichtenstein

[@Dave_Sisson]

There are lots of micro states in Europe where we could ask that question. Andorra, Monaco, Malta, San Marino, Lichtenstein and Gibraltar*. * Not technically independent because while the UK would like to get rid of it, a 310 year old treaty with Spain says it can't be, but they run the place is as if they are independent anyway.

[@chip1646]

All of them exist because Germany didnt want them

[@jolwr2719]

@@brambakker5253 he already did one

[@tildegrand2474]

I am from Luxembourg, it's a great country ! We speak 4 languages

[@MusicIsLegal]

I am from The Netherlands! we love our Luxembourg people!

[@DonCristian_DPB]

And you're also rich as hell

[@allanelder2711]

Why does such a small country need four languages?

[@ShivDewan99]

@@allanelder2711 Precisely because it is so small. It doesn’t have its own language and uses languages of the countries that surround/border it

[@writerconsidered]

@@allanelder2711 The people make the languages, so they have an amalgamation of the surrounding countries. Similarly Austrians don't speak Austrian they speak German because they are German. Cultures general last longer than countries.

[@wxllibear]

As someone who has been born and raised in Luxembourg, this video is very well done. Thank you for this video !

[@antonioaroche3357]

Luxembourg: we are neutral Hitler: Ok

[@hendrikdependrik1891]

Netherlands: We have a woman as king Luxembourg: Ok

[@timothymclean]

@@hendrikdependrik1891 Crusader kings, make sure your succession laws are the same for all of your titles. If you can't manage that, for the love of god, make sure your top-level titles are going to the same person. Unless you've got gavelkind, then you're screwed.

[@luxembourgishempire2826]

@@timothymclean If only he respected that...

[@scutumfidelis1436]

@@luxembourgishempire2826 as if you matter.

[@hoticeparty]

Neutral countries: *Well boys, we did it. Wars are no more.*

[@PuckishAngeI]

The famous greek philosophers: Socrates Aristotle plato James bissonette

[@user-p70totype101]

Party boyko

[@historiaprotempore938]

Kelly money maker

[@kodylangham]

Spinning three plates

[@mannyphantom0]

izzy?

[@YTLSF]

WHAT happened to "a man of culture"??

[@joehitchen9311]

Love these videos! As someone not entirely familiar with Luxembourg's current borders, it would have been really helpful to have them outlined over the historical maps so I could tell exactly which bits to focus on!

[@fungusz_4292]

0:39 “Charles did the french king a solid and died”😂

[@LiveLNXgaming]

You know how when you have a big meal and you just cant finish that last bite? thats the Luxembourg bite.

[@luxembourgishempire2826]

Honestly this comment section is the best in the world.

[@ForsaforZXD]

@@luxembourgishempire2826 come to papa the netherlands

[@blanco7726]

Forsafor Z come to our campings and give us money ;)

[@ForsaforZXD]

@@blanco7726 no

[@blanco7726]

Forsafor Z too late you’re already doing it thank you very much

[@riploljustforfu9929]

"Why DOES Luxemburg exist?" -Germany while thinking about what to do when they win the Great War

[@gandalf_thegrey]

No but really: Why DOES it exist?

[@NelsonDiscovery]

The House of Luxembourg was an important rival of the Habsburgs during the 14th century. Three members of the family were elected Holy Roman Emperor. At the height of its power members of the family ruled as Kings over Bohemia, Hungary, Croatia and as Dukes and Counts in Brandenburg and other counties and Bishopric properties in the HRE besides its home turf in Luxembourg.

[@matelandon]

Long live Sigismund!

[@holextv5595]

Luxembourg in history: 🏚️ Luxembourg in czechia :🏰

[@tubickkema3009]

Yes and the House of Luxemburg orginated from the Carolingians cause Siegfried Graf of Luxemburg was a Male descent of Charlemagne.

[@paulcowlishaw]

Really interesting video history matters. Keep up the good work and great commentary as always

[@borkbork3513]

Luxembourg feels like it’s just been thrown around by France Germany Netherlands and Belgium until the world forgot about it

[@OnionChoppingNinja]

it's northern Europe's weed bong. Everybody gets a whiff.

[@sovietagent9303]

@@OnionChoppingNinja lmao

[@diazinth]

Luxemburg exists so Bohemia and other HRE provinces can be free from their influence :D

[@woogangamadeusmozart3642]

Big companies haven't forgotten that Luxembourg exists bruh

[@Tjalve70]

Well, if you're small, and there are big guys fighting around you, if you tuck yourself into a ball, they might even fight OVER you, but you'll be fairly safe.

[@thelasttimelord7550]

"Why does Luxembourg exist?" Luxembourg citizens: because our *History Matters*

[@vincentikea3518]

I know you from harbo wholmes

[@pablodmdp]

Luxemburg lives matter

[@ressljs]

After watching this video, I got the impression that Luxembourg exists because no one really wanted it that bad.

[@charelpeffer52]

@@ressljs yeah and now we’re one of the richest countries in the world

[@uggggu2846]

@@charelpeffer52 du mengst den reichsten land vun der welt

[@Eliezer3838]

Luxembourg has more history than my history class even taught me about Europe

[@theoldholmes]

I am from Luxembourg and this is really well done! thanks a lot for putting us on the map ;-)

[@luxembourgishempire2826]

🙂

[@VincentFarides1776]

Small country: *Exists* History Matters: But why tho?

[@MP-vc4nu]

So that 1) It can be made as internet meme and known better than Switerland. 2) So that all KZbin channels talk about it instead of Switerland.

[@benisddd9784]

"Like, 15ft tops" god I LOVE this channel

[@Chinawanka]

Ikr, it’s funny

[@mlippert]

Well, he's only off by about 54km, so he's not that far off.

[@mlippert]

@Gregory Smith well, for that one country that doesn't use the metric system I suppose you are right.

[@MegaUMU]

I wish he included the fact that the succession from Willem III to Adolphe of a junior branch was the furthest away transfer of a throne to a relative in history. Adolphe was Willem III's 17th cousin once removed. Edit:spelling

[@igorsmihailovs52]

..."farthest"?

[@xaviersan6044]

Keep this series coming, I'm loving it

[@vonschenck6464]

02:40 clearly the man on the left was an ancestor of James bisonette

[@The_FatGeneral]

Hahaha

[@blur-blade4981]

Luxembourg is so small that you would have to stand at either end to socially distance

[@michelgerhards2810]

😂

[@marabroers6247]

Come on😂

[@alexiacordeiro8741]

Lol no. It takes up almost 3-4 hours to do that by train and 2h by car. I’m sorry but people who don’t live in Luxembourg tend to comment immature things. I’m tired of it It’s hard to see comments laughing at my country all the time when life here has provided so many, a dream life full of opportunities. Yes it’s small (once you live here it’s not that small at all) but can people stop laughing at it like this country is shit? The things they do for people here is astonishing!

[@blur-blade4981]

@@alexiacordeiro8741 I’m sure it’s a great country - I was only joking

[@geoplane3799]

@@alexiacordeiro8741 People make fun of the US all the time and even the US citizens laugh at the jokes about the US. The point is......*its just a joke*. And the joke was not made to belittle your country

[@pumpkinhammy5931]

Luxembourg being tossed around for over 500 years, i can relate to it

[@oliversherman2414]

I love your channel keep up the great stuff!

[@noobster4779]

When the only reason your country exists is the fact none of your neighbours wants the other ones to get to annex you.

[@merathore9978]

A country : *exists* History matters: but why?

[@PANZERFAUST90]

exists* lol

[@marinarosario8855]

Because james bisonette

[@merathore9978]

@@PANZERFAUST90 oh ya thank you ✌️

[@cyklop617]

YEP But why?

[@cyklop617]

YEP Cock

[@xXXCleonXXx]

Merci for the Video :)!🇱🇺

[@nik65stgt60]

Great content!

[@danielm6341]

I loved the pitch perfect timing of the animation change and the phrase "and then France pounced". It's the subtle things like this and the "thud" timing of characters dying that elevate what should be seemingly flat 2D animation into something more.

[@luminescentcore]

0:08 😭I'm crying in metric

[@thechannelofeverything2615]

Why? Is it because it's population is too small?

[@GamerTA13]

Cuz it said feat not meaters

[@ilufex9794]

I always love theses videos your style and the way you edit and your voice and the way you make the videos is cool

[@Lawnmower737]

I love how Luxembourg decided after being conquered twice since it’s independence, to renounce neutrality and decided that little Luxembourg wasn’t going to let it happen again. And since WW2 Luxembourg has sent its troops to major conflicts and wars and developed a program in which its citizenry would basically become resistance fighters in the event of occupation. Luxembourg was one of many NATO members to send its troops to Korea, and their most famous foght was the Battle of the Imjin River in which the combined Belgian/Lixembourgish troops held off waves of Chinese assaults. Since then Luxembourg has sent UN troops throughout the years even to the present.

[@kmmmsyr9883]

I was so amazed when I learnt about the fact the House of Luxemburg once ruled over the Holy Roman Empire, the Kingdom of Bohemia and the Kingdom of Hungary. This tiny country had some really powerful leaders.

[@Zwijger]

The things is, "ruling" back then wasn't really what it is now. Especially not when the HRE was concerned.

[@jeandehuit5385]

@@Zwijger Yeah, and the House of Luxembourg ascendancy only happened b/c the lowly origins of their house made them appealing compromise candidates to the electors of the late middle ages. At this point the HRE was incredibly weak. The legitimate heirs to the Empire, the descendants of Frederick II, had been disinherited by the Pope, so a number of families vied for the title of King of the Romans. The Nassaus, the Habsburgs, the Luxembourgers, and an English prince all held the title at one point or another.

[@jeannotschumacher1024]

crazy....but they still did😁 i think...3 emperors...am i wrong. could be.

[@holextv5595]

Luxembourg in history: 🏚️ Luxembourg in czechia :🏰 Actually it was not country power and Moravian margraviate jobst of Luxembourg sold Luxembourg just like nothing

[@nmatthew7469]

The enlightened rulers from the 50th parallel.

[@aleksandarvil5718]

Same reason as for Belgiums existence: *SPEEDBUMP FOR GERMANY OR FRANCE*

[@alphaviki7987]

Granpda Corey There is no rule that states, because you belong to a certain country or ethnic group, you are better or worse at certain things. In the end it’s only down to personal skill and how much ability you get to grow. Napoleon was just a good general and charismatic person who happens to come from Corsica. (And Corsicans are neither French or Italian btw)

[@luftwaffle4327]

Wait why are you guys talking about this in a joke comment

[@skiteufr]

@Granpda Corey Well you dont Know history then. How a country Who invaded Europe and spread all modern ideas of the révolution on which all modern democracies are based does not matter ? Napoleon was not italian as that did not exist back then. He was born French in the French island of corsica and led France to domination. Then if France did not matter, how they came to have the second largest colonial Empire in the 19th/20th centuries. Why did they invent the car, plane, metric system, vaccines, radioactivity, photography and so on... Why they forged many countries by helping them to be independent (Belgium, Italy, Greece...). Why they sacrificed millions of men to Win ww1 and be the top Wiener ? Why do they have the nuclear bomb and are one of the UN top 5... Napoleon was not the end of France. You just need to learn about it

[@Mattstone1992]

@Granpda Corey He wasn't a full blooded italian... He was from provence but lived in Corsica, which was already french. France is a vast country. We have multiple European ethnicities inside of it. Northern france is like belgium/german. South is mediterranean.

[@eryximaque6310]

@Granpda Corey Dare to say to a Corsican he is an Italian and you will see.

[@julianstern2328]

Thank you for this video! Your channel is great. and I'm from Luxemburg.

[@luxembourgishempire2826]

👍

[@Hand-in-Shot_Productions]

I knew a little bit about Luxembourg's history, but I found this informative! Thanks for the video!

[@J__C_]

As a Luxembourghois I always ask myself this question when wake up in the morning

[@capitalistmaxington5329]

i have liked your comment to make seem like you liked your own comment forcing you to like your own comment so it dosent look like you like your own comment

[@aureavita8653]

@@capitalistmaxington5329 jokes on you, i have saved his reputation

[@vithu864]

@@capitalistmaxington5329 do you actually have a life?

[@capitalistmaxington5329]

@@vithu864 yes i have a life im not in a grave

[@joezbest5519]

Episode 20 of things I will tell my friends that they didn’t ask or care about

[@napoleonibonaparte7198]

“But sir, what about the Balkans” - A courtier informing the delegates during the Treaty of Westphalia

[@Toonrick12]

"Meh, let the Ottomans keep it and try to keep the peace there. Doubt any war will be started there."

[@harry5326]

Ah Based Napoleon

[@sternuens]

Luxembourg can be used for storage.

[@pumpkinhammy5931]

As a 100% luxembourger by heritage and resident, i ask myself this question every day

[@arkady714]

Mir wëlle sinn wat mir sinn!

[@rantman2276]

I love this channel. It always answers questions I never knew I asked. Thank you.

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

Why? Well, why not? It's too legendary not to be a country

[@bobsemple9281]

With no Luxembourg tannu tuva would be unrivalled as Bhutan is to busy being buddhist

[@snensnmt]

@@bobsemple9281 Tannu what?

[@thescottishanimeguy9946]

@@snensnmt What Tuva?

[@MK00040]

hello

[@gamebawesome]

Liechtenstein: Finally, a worthy opponent. Our battle will be Legendary!

[@GuildsmanPirate]

This video has popped up first in my recommended like four times in the last two weeks and I’ve watched it every time

[@Super-chad]

Beautiful video! Incredible!

[@LightFykki]

Fun fact: Luxembourg also had quite an strategic importance and hence why it allowed to remain independent and somehow like a bargain chip between great powers, like France and German states. It was know as the "Gibraltar in the North" due to its strong fortress, usually hailed as one of the Europe's best fortification, a status which would remain until quite late in the Renaissance.

[@77777Spooky]

"Why does Luxembourg exist?" Because there haven't been any world wars lately.

[@a2falcone]

And because Germany lost both of them.

[@shellshockedgerman3947]

And both France and Germany wanted neither to get the land.

[@nalulenert9001]

Thanks for the video. Greetings from a Luxembourger living in Luxembourg! ☺️

[@Knappnax]

refreshing to see a video about our small country

[@familygash7500]

*VIDEO SUGGESTION:* When did The Celts first arrive in Britain, and who inhabited Britain before them?

[@aureavita8653]

@John B. i have a guess, 1. Ottomans, 2. Russia

[@abloodorange5233]

Dat Lettuce neither. It’s just the bulgars didn’t impose their culture on the Slavic population.

[@snensnmt]

@John B. how come Suomi in the same linguistic category as Magyar?

[@-haclong2366]

Celtic people didn't migrate to the British Isles, Celtic culture and language did through trade, in fact French people outside of Britanny are ironically "more Celtic" than the Britannians or the Britons, or the Irish.

[@abloodorange5233]

黑龍 - Hắc Long yes they did. A small band of warriors and migrants conquered the British isles and Irish isle through warfare. They imposed their culture and language, and made a barely noticeable genetic impression.

[@geoffreycharles6330]

I'm studying law here and, Gosh, everything is so perfect, calm expensive !

[@mayorgeneralramirez1997]

Specially expensive

[@HittokiriBatosai]

I love this channel. So many sly little jokes crammed into a very informative 5 minutes or less.

[@pablodmdp]

Great video pal

[@Alpha1200]

0:03 - Including Belgium in the French speaking world. *6 million Flemish people glower at History Matters*

[@AzsimuthOldAccount]

I think his voice is becoming more and more calmer trough the videos. He started with a bit agressive voice in his first videos, and it became calmer.

[@Punnery]

Speaking of Nassau, what about a segment explaining why Baarle-Herzog and Baarle-Nassau exist as such? Other videos exist on the subject, but they tend to be preoccupied by the fact of the weird borders and their legal implications rather than the question of why the weird borders in the first place. I would be interested to hear your take. Thanks!

[@atariranger]

This video was awesome.

[@NanarStudios]

History Matters, you have way enough subscribers to just walk into Luxembourg and annex it. No need to ask that question anymore

[@jacobjohnson4785]

MAKE A VIDEO ABOUT THE UYGUIR GENOCIDE OR PAPA STALIN WILL SEND YOU TO THE GULAG!!!

[@timothymclean]

I wouldn't be so sure-numbers aren't everything, and armies made of KZbin subscribers are infamously undisciplined.

[@gilileo8732]

@@timothymclean No, no. He's got a point...

[@Tjalve70]

I think it would be easier of James Bissonette just bought it.

[@gideonmele1556]

Luxembourg: exists because we don’t want the other guys to have it more than we want it

[@pyrrhusthegreat2103]

Wow. Good vid

[@Diego_i]

This channel.. Everytime a character appears with suspicious eyes I die of laughter.. Love the character dancing through the daisies fields.. more laughter!!!

[@denislamesch8155]

Luxembourger here, I have some questions. Why do you start your timeline right after we ruled the hre? Why don't you mention our big Fortress? Also Luxembourg didn't join Nato or the eec but was a founding member. Aka it was to some extent our Idea. Like Robert Schumann who was half Luxembourger or the Schengen Agreement named after the luxembourgisch town it was signed in. I don't want to apear as a nationalist, I just want to counterbalance this Image of Luxembourg just getting tossed around with no agency of its own.

[@denislamesch8155]

Still a good Video. Keep it up.

[@noone-lp7tr]

leider ass letzebuerg eischter en meme ginn wei soss eppes. Mais ech ginn dir Rescht, sou vill Geschicht wou einfach vergiess gett

[@SlideGxd]

@@noone-lp7tr "Why Does Luxembourg Exist?" as den titel and net "What is Luxembourg" :)

[@mathieuL2204]

(French here) If you take a step back you'll see that Luxemburg exists not because it is a nation or because it makes sense as a state, but as a result of historical contingencies. It is a founding member of NATO and the EU because it agreed to join those organisations that were willing to bring in as many members as possible. Imagining that tiny (and back then impoverished) Luxemburg willed those into existence is just caricatural wishful thinking. Last but not least, the sovereign status of Luxemburg (as well as many other micro-states who just 'happen' to be tax-heavens) right in the middle of the EU is not only puzzling, it is also indicative of a willingness on the part of the rulers of larger states to deliberately allow some white-collar criminal activities to go unchecked. And the citizens of your oh-so-respectable country are handsomely paid to never question whether there's anything fishy going on. For instance the average bus driver makes 45,000 euros in Luxemburg and 25,000 in London (one the most expensive cities in the world). So many multinationals are allowed to divert their benefits into shell companies that have "tax-deals" with your government and as a result pay a very low tax rate, allowing your compatriots to pay very little tax and civil servants to be outrageously overpaid. Those civil servants jobs usually being reserved for native luxemburgers and all the financial engineering being carried out by foreign workers. Maybe you're proud of being from Luxemburg. And that's OK. But personally I don't think I would be.

[@denislamesch8155]

@@mathieuL2204 First of all, every Nation is formed do to certain external cercumstances. Like France beeing formed thanks to arbitrary splitting Charlemagnes Empire. Second, every country offers favorable tax deals to certain cooperations. I don't like that either but it's wrong to only point at someone else as the cause of the Problem. Why pick only small countrys. What about the Swiss, Ireland, the Netherlands, the Britisch with all their dependencys or Delaware in the US. Everybody is doing it. I agree with you, that it shoudn't happen, but blaming a single country isn't a solution. I didn't say we founded Nato or the Eu on our own. I said some of it was our Idea. We contributed to the Group Projekt that is the EU. Minimum wage in Lux is around 2000 a month or 24000 a year which might seem like a lot, but living here is pretty expensiv. And taxes for privat people are pretty mutch the same as elsewhere.Around 20 to 22 of our Money comes from the Finance sector. The reason is simply that as a small country with few natural ressources, you gotta make your Money with something like tourism, Tech or Banking, which require few ressources and manpower. Again, I am not a Nationalist, and this isn't about pride. It's about corecting the prejufices people like you have and spread. I don't like everything my country does or has done in the past, but you gotta be more nuanced in your worldview.

[@donmah06]

Fun fact: after the first world war, the allies thought about giving Alsace-Lorraine* to Luxembourg, but France would've been absolutely against this. *that strip of land between germany and france that they passed between each other several times

[@EmbyTheEnby]

That's sad you have to explain that, but understandable.

[@Xindet]

germany had the idea to give the french part of Alsace-Lorraine to the swiss to reduce tensions

[@machtharry]

@@Xindet How would that make any sense? The French speaking part of Alsace-Lorraine is basically Lorraine. Alsace is (or rather was) mostly german speaking. Lorraine doesnt boarder Switzerland though - Alsace does.

[@CivilizedWasteland]

ugh what could have been

[@shellshockedgerman3947]

@@machtharry Probably thought because they were German and French, it meant they would get along with the inhabitants of Alsace and Lorraine.

[@NightWolf-nk8yk]

i love tis video, simple and fast. Greetings from Luxembourg😘

[@isaacwest276]

“Did [him] a solid a died” is a great line. You doing jokes in your unwavering tone is hilarious.

[@ihavetowait90daystochangem67]

Imagine thinking Luxembourg exists lmao

[@WarmPotato]

XD

[@chip1646]

*angry Luxembourgish noises*

[@luxembourgishempire2826]

@@chip1646 More like *ENRAGED Luxembourgish noises*

[@user-rd8xy6zv5z]

Do not anger them please theyll kill all of us

[@zokhay5914]

æ wATCH US

[@cursedex3755]

Waiting for "Why does Andorra exist?"

[@a2falcone]

Ooooh, that's a good one! A lot of wacky feudal hereditary law.

[@littlechemie5425]

The place where King of France still exists

[@MrMichelxD]

If you want to know how small they currently are: The part the Belgians took from Luxembourg is currently the province "Luxembourg". This province is bigger than the actual country.

[@yootooooooob]

I have learned more from this channel than i did from my years at school