Why Germany is Still Divided...

Germany officially reunited in 1989. Today, it definitively stands as one of the most powerful and influential nations on Earth. However, remnants of East Germany's communist past still exist today. In this video, we explore some of those differences, as well as why they have come to be! Enjoy! :)

[@NothingCWN]

"Germany is known for starting..." A: World Cars B: World Wars

[@global.things]

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[@andreasburkhart]

As a German, I knew everything in the video, but it was explained well and in detail so that even people who know almost nothing about Germany can understand it well. Good Job 👍

[@global.things]

Thank you! As an American it can be kind of hard to analyze countries I haven’t been to, so I have to rely on what I read/watch. I’m happy you enjoyed it!

[@Wolf-rk6jq]

⁠@@global.thingsI found about east Germany was a country in 2023 or this year lol and it was a bit insane lol

[@ObejctCrusader125]

​@@global.things What happened to my comment?

[@krakentoast]

Ich hätte nie erwartet dich hier zu sehen hahahha

[@JihaneRizkJiji]

@@global.thingsim also American!

[@ecernosoft3096]

“Mr Gorbachev…. Tear down this wall” Truly inspiring.

[@herrforesight-Satanisking]

He never said thay

[@AmbroiseBataillard]

​@@herrforesight-Sataniskinghe did

[@herrforesight-Satanisking]

@@AmbroiseBataillard no he didn’t, that was ai

[@Zona984]

@@herrforesight-Sataniskingwdym the video is literally on Wikipedia 💀

[@herrforesight-Satanisking]

@@Zona984 that ai video? Yeah Wikipedia was fooled

[@zakaria_almo]

You should make a similar video for North and South Italy, I feel there are lots of similarities, even though the historical reasons may differ completely

[@ciaranReal]

Same with uk 🇬🇧

[@global.things]

This is an EXCELLENT idea bro! I’ll be sure to consider this for sure!

[@reyynoneMapping]

as a German whose parents grew up in the East, i can confirm that all u have said is true and correct. Im amazed that someone not from Germany could explain this so well, my dad often told me how it was in the east, like living, school and stuff and i was always shocked that such things existed which we today couldn’t think of, also speaking of „Freedom“ which wasn’t really there and the fact that you were only allowed to travel into other socialist countries and no capitalist countries which is crazy for me to think of. Yeah my Grandparents still live in the east so im visiting them often and i can say: Yes we are still Divided, even though for non German people we might look united. Great Job👍

[@ZayMadeITBeats]

It's good to see you making videos again

[@Tu_abuelita_pita]

a lovely video, haven't watched it yet but i can predict its brilliant as always.

[@global.things]

Haha thanks bro 😂

[@IrishSMapping]

0:49 “Tear Down this Wall!👴” “We Need to Build a Wall”🇺🇸

[@Marv588]

No Comments? 21 Likes? lemme fix it

[@zach2382]

Two different scenarios, genius

[@IrishSMapping]

@@zach2382 it’s just ironic someone said it like 30 years later

[@zach2382]

@@IrishSMapping okay

[@therealredical]

@@IrishSMappingokay

[@Jas_GeoMapper]

germany be like: lost ww1 lost ww2 got divided 2024: filthy rich

[@TheRealBaldwinIV]

2024: Islamic immigrants

[@AC-kb3uk]

thats correct,

[@محمدالقحطاني-س1ق4ف]

@@TheRealBaldwinIV So?

[@AFT_05G]

Germany was already a rich nation before the each world wars, always was a top 3 GDP nation.

[@therealreeyan]

@@AFT_05GBut it’s 4th place right now..

[@coolman-jh2iv]

I love how every video of this guy can explain every thing better Than any teacher and his videos have a really good quality

[@global.things]

Haha thanks bro 😂

[@UltraCanuck]

You should really make more of these long forum geopolitical videos

[@Sockit_1]

*form 🤓👆

[@The-Nerd-smart]

I remember, when I watched you in 2022. And you thanked us when you only had about 700 subscribers. It’s crazy how you almost have half a million subscribers!

[@Cyvolindusm]

This is very unnoticeable, but I love the HOI3 ost you add into your videos like these. Awesome track, and awesome video.

[@dan45100]

i am honestly loving this new video style! love your videos! keep up the good work :D

[@global.things]

Thanks bro! I’m really glad you find value in them 😎

[@dan45100]

@@global.thingsof course dude! your videos make learning geography actually fun, with them funny sound effects and such, so Gen Alpha actually learns :)

[@Jofre_]

One of my favorite KZbinrs

[@global.things]

AYYYYY 😎

[@MichaelDVD3000]

@@global.things Please make videos daily

[@Osmangaziahmed]

Hi German here! I think your video was very well explained. I knew most stuff but still learned a lot thanks

[@Fonix21]

I love the fact that your videos are educational but the pfp is the complete different

[@DerBlonde2609]

As a German, I have to say that this sums pretty much the history with enough detail so that everyone can understand it. 👍

[@global.things]

As an American, it’s sometimes difficult to cover things like this that I haven’t been able to see or experience first hand, so I’m glad you enjoyed it!

[@Ergato07]

Gemany is absolutely insane

[@tomgu2285]

???? What?

[@N00bie_silly_Official]

Fr

[@Ergato07]

Wow your editing has improved

[@reflexbr8315]

saw your essay from elevated school about geography and flags and id say it was amazing

[@global.things]

Thanks bro! 😂 I never realized people would actually see that haha

[@Golden_FatAssBear]

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[@GNLO_Editz]

What did Porsche made in 1939… A: cars B:tanks C:planes D:airforces

[@gail694]

USSR to Eastern Europe: You’re liberated from fascism. Eastern Europeans: USSR: Please do not resist.

[@kriper-ly3uu]

Well so USSR wanted to make socialistic revolution in the entire world, is that hard to understand? ._.

[@kriper-ly3uu]

But what it got After ww2, was pretty satisfying for USSR, cuz The vast plain in Europe is completely protected as their influence was up to eats Germany so it won't be easy to invade USSR if that big plain is protected

[@gail694]

@ did you not get the joke💀

[@punk7723]

it's not like the ussr was gonna leave all the fascists in power after the bloodiest war in the history of humankind

[@AgastyaSoni]

Thanks for the info man ... Going to study in germany next month

[@Returnofthegachatuberameer]

West Germany's lights is completely different compared to the east

[@ssg9offical]

Facts

[@ssg9offical]

Love the flag in your pfp.

[@Returnofthegachatuberameer]

@@ssg9offical yeah and thanks It's combination flag of germany & austria

[@rustix3]

12:13 I think it's not Hessen as a territory, but Frankfurt as a city(located inside Hessen) which screws statistics. So Frankfurt is a financial capital of Germany, even the European bank(the bank that prints Euro currency all over Europe) is located there. Would be interesting to see the Hessen without the Frankfurt metropolitan area(and nearby cities).

[@RicherDaniu]

Chabos wissen wer der Babo ist, Frankfurt abi money rich

[@RicherDaniu]

We are indeed the richest big city in Germany

[@saibottobi]

@RicherDaniuand the most degenerate

[@CanadianMapper4]

Wow this is so educational

[@Adamsterdam00]

Despite that, Germany is still the goat of modern-day Europe 🔥

[@flexlv1464]

USING hoi4 soundtrack as background music is cold

[@h58javed]

USA: “I hate walls especially the one in Berlin” *35 years later* USA: “Now I love walls, especially the one separating us from Mexico.”

[@Montechgamer-pm3mp]

they need a wall? like all country's we need a boarder to protect us they can still get in and the wall isn't even working if they want to get in they can, LEGALLY

[@fictionalinanutshell]

fr

[@AFT_05G]

If you truly believe that building a wall to prevent hundreds of thousands of illegals entering the US without permission is comparable to the wall that seperated brothers from each other for a few decades, then you're an indoctrinated normie.

[@todoldtrafford]

Maybe to stop illegal immigration, drug/human trafficking

[@RorysAdventures2025]

East Germany still owns an uninhabited island in Cuba💀

[@teamteslaeckyvlogs1]

What?

[@RorysAdventures2025]

@@teamteslaeckyvlogs1 They bought an island from Cuba and they still own it💀

[@KingdomofJerusalem123]

​@RorysAdventures2024 no they did not. It had been "united" by west germany

[@teamteslaeckyvlogs1]

@@KingdomofJerusalem123 no cuz only the Germany part was unified not the island in Cuba

[@KingdomofJerusalem123]

@@teamteslaeckyvlogs1 Yes, Although East Germany (the German Democratic Republic, GDR) leased a small island in Cuba known as Cayo Blanco del Sur from 1972 until the reunification of Germany in 1990. This island was used primarily as a vacation spot for East German officials and employees. The lease was part of the close relationship between East Germany and Cuba during the Cold War.

[@joelmagirin]

I love your vids

[@RubberDuck-5000]

I don't know why but I can't take him seriously with his youtube icon

[@derwestphale]

Ive always known you for doing half assed yt shorts, wouldnt have imagined seeing you on my homepage with an actual wellmade video one day

[@neko_birel]

Despite ww2 being over 70 years ago. The scars of it will be present forever

[@klausbohlert6613]

Sind sogar viel schlimmer geworden.

[@Mercps]

Should’ve have also gone into things like north south divide, including catholic and Protestant divide, and etc but nice video

[@Harshithisgreat]

Wow You Are Popping Out Videos Fast

[@global.things]

I’m trying! 😂

[@edwinsparda7622]

Neumark, Schlesien, Westpreussen, Ostpreussen, Posen, pommern, Elsass-Lothringen.

[@That_guy-s2l]

Was haben die ehemaligen ostgebiete mit der DDR zu tun?

[@Quataure]

@@That_guy-s2l alsace lorraine is not eastern

[@ethanol5462]

Love Hoi4 music in the background

[@TiagoFerguson920]

Can you take an ancestry DNA test and then make a video about the results? I'm curious about your ethnicity!

[@amazingkanishq6675]

Great video

[@CraftedExploits]

2:24 The AfD is not an radical or extreme party. And totaly not communist. Im german myself and the only thing that devides germany is our own goverment in not only making redicolous choices but also marking everything as extreme that does not fit in their plans.

[@Montgomery_official]

The afd is far right that is extreme. Like the linke are far left which is also extreme

[@CraftedExploits]

@@Montgomery_official How Do you seem to know that?

[@Montgomery_official]

@@CraftedExploits why wouldnt i know

[@CraftedExploits]

@@Montgomery_official maybe because you arent german (maybe) and didnt read the party program what i did. Because then you would know theres only some members that are extreme but not the party itself.

[@Montgomery_official]

@@CraftedExploits of course not everyone is radical but some key members of the party are right wing extremists, which disqualifies the party in general, in my opinion

[@JoshB-www1230]

❤ur voice and videos

[@AirbusFan_12345]

0:29 Hey!!! The Trabant was a Great Car it was the Volkswagen Beetle from the East so light weight, Cheap and Reliable

[@pappask12e73]

aint no way ive had this pfp for years

[@yellow855]

if comunism didn't exist in Poland, my grandma's family would be extremely weathly because of education

[@liamfilmaking]

*bolshevik rule

[@TiagoFerguson920]

Btw, great video👍

[@OliStatsYT]

So technically, I’ve travelled through East Germany?

[@diar_11]

global things ur the goat

[@Mental_Illboy]

I was grown up in the DDR and had a good childhood.

[@countryballsandmappingprod315]

Nice video

[@adamseid5447]

1:27 wow that's interesting . never heard of that before.

[@Thanus420]

Your channel's pfp makes me edge.

[@Yora21]

Reconstruction aid and better management certainly helped West Germany with restoring its industry after the war, compared to East Germany. But West Germany also was already greatly advantaged by having had a world leading industry before the war. East Germany never had much industry to begin with, and what there was was highly concentrated in the very south in Saxony. Even if Germany had been unified in 1949, the eastern states would always have remained economically weaker than the southern and western states. Though of course to a significantly lesser degree.

[@Suriganda]

YES NEW GLOBAL THINGS VIDEO JUST DROPPED AT 12AM 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@joelcrandell700]

10 year delay in the delivery of an automobile also applies in the Soviet Union

[@samuelyninoskareis6482]

Got here faster than the berlin wall fell

[@New_Hinesville]

Who started the Second World War? A: Germany B: An Austrian that failed painting school

[@skull7877]

No way we got Germany lore before GTA 6

[@fuzitip1]

Still there's an island in cuba that was given to east germany and when they reunited germany no one mentioned the islands. So we can say that east germany still exist even if it's not

[@nxnfr]

Diese Kommentarsektion ist Eigentum der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.

[@S3PSONIC]

Ronald would be mad at Donald for building that wall.

[@its_pomaret]

the music of this video reminds me of that one time where west germany became the fourth reich in hoi4

[@Mitzy8748]

Diese Kommentarsektion gehört nun der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.

[@janetgoedhart9402]

I swear Global Things has like 16 mics

[@michaelbs-my3fm]

east:poor west: rich east: non-religious west:religious east:(political) right-far right west: left-middle east immigrants:vietnamese/chechs/polish west immigrants:turkish

[@Unboxing-xc4tf]

Very entertaining.

[@porkstudios762]

"Germany now in one piece" -yakko

[@60neodymium60]

can you show your sources? i want to read more about it :)

[@ΑΛΙΚΗΜΑΛΕΣΙΑΔΑ]

i wonder why the soviets treated the germans like that. It's not like the germans broke a treaty and started clapping around for 1,5 years

[@pieterjan29]

Everytime I cross the border sovjet music start playing in my head.

[@AkEr-t1n]

min 11 57, it is right

[@Anson_Linner]

8:11 The trump clip was wild 💀

[@Arcturusplanes]

Sad😥 Germany is my favorite country

[@SaiyanKing1993]

I worked in Germany and it is not true that Western Germans are rich and Eastern Germans are poor. In the West, wages are low in 2020 they paid people 1200 euros, while in the East wages started at 1900 euros at the same time. My colleagues who are now working in the East now have 2500 euros plus benefits and sometimes even free accommodation. Where in the West they earn 1400 euros.

[@nezarshid3387]

Kinda

[@-Lazy]

Angebot und Nachfrage gilt auch für Jobs. Der Westen ist weiter , Deshalb.

[@kartofel2812]

And nobody payed attention to hoi4 music playing in the background?

[@Notvvrposts]

So your telling me they haven’t changed their light bulbs since 1989

[@pramona1837]

That’s true. I visited Berlin in 2014 or so and the traffic lights around the “Pariser Platz” (Place of Paris) are different at the west- and the east side.

[@CoolDude18372]

I didn’t know that Germany was still divided💀

[@herrforesight-Satanisking]

It’s not

[@CoolDude18372]

@@herrforesight-Satanisking then why is the video saying it’s still divided?

[@herrforesight-Satanisking]

@@CoolDude18372 oh I don’t know, perhaps you should WATCH IT

[@That_guy-s2l]

As someone who lives and was raised in the former east germany, I can say there is still a cultural and economic dived between the West and the so called neuen Bundesländer (New federal states). For example less wages and pensions Diclining towns Less Population More economic groth due to the lag of buissneses after the reunification Less trust in the politc system And a far intense culture of protesting if something seems going wrong, likely because of the experience that our parents and grandparents made in a real dictatorship.

[@Oscar92839]

6:59 mostly in Rhineland

[@Therabbitthemyththelegend]

"Damn, both of those places sound like they have bad governments."

[@BenjaminJones-gu7pc]

East Germany still exists due to a Cuban island that was given to east Germany but wasn't reunited during the reunification

[@AnkhaLover333]

But Cuba said it was just a symbolic decision...

[@Slavtron]

4:32 chad Spanish didnt need no funding

[@global.things]

To be fair, they didn’t really participate in the war 😂

[@HenryIsEpik]

How do you make these type of vids?

[@WW1TWTEAW]

A is for? A. Austrian Painter B. Auferstanden aus ruinen

[@idk_tbhvr]

idk if im going crazy but i hear the roblox rise of nations music in the background

[@castleknight3909]

Good video but saying that east Germany has more imigrants east from Germany than the west doesn‘t say anything

[@Letuva_Friends298]

Are you sure? I think Lithuania left the Soviet Union first but it’s just my opinion I think I have

[@diar_11]

yes i watched the video in 10 seconds

[@lucadeluca-nq7lv]

Spain:are you sure about that?

[@johnray854]

Because drawing some lines doesn't actually do much

[@propangasschnuffle]

12:13 Is Thüringen really pronounced that way in english

[@UrLocalAmerican1776]

Cool 😎

[@MsJpizle]

I’m still waiting for Armenia’s video.

[@isakbh]

W hearts of iron music in the background

[@d_gamet]

We are united on paper, but in reality? Well... 😐

[@global.things]

I’d say Germany is definitely a strongly unified nation, however, there are some subtle differences by region without a doubt! 🇩🇪 💪

[@GarrettLemrick]

This is all because of Norway

[@AC-kb3uk]

what do you mean by that

[@shafirihan6081]

Simply because Norway is exporting iron ore to Germany through neutral Denmark and they didn't played both sides Like Finland in ww2

[@rustix3]

6:50 50% of World Wars was started by Serbian guy killing head of Austro-Hungarian Empire

[@Carpediem357]

Both wars were started by Austrians while one was by a Serb💀

[@rustix3]

@@Carpediem357 Actually you are right, I forgot that the artist was Austrian. And then Austria calls itself a neutral country💀 That what Austrians best at, convincing the World, that Mozart was Austrian, but the artist was German.

[@Carpediem357]

@@rustix3 Mozart is Austrian💀

[@Carpediem357]

@@rustix3 you might be confusing Mozart with Beethoven who was German

[@rustix3]

@@Carpediem357 I just googled and paste here the first search result: "Julian Rushton, in his Mozart biography, summarizes many of the facts given above and concludes: "Mozart, by modern criteria Austrian, counted himself a German composer.""

[@MintyMove]

7:42 they had to wait over 16 years... when a kid got born, they ordert a car

[@Kiefer_291.37]

I subscribed to globai things

[@ComanderFrog]

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