Sadly, the people living in Prussia didn't just get to be polish or Russian.. they were forced out of their homes and had to flee westwards. Do to the hard winter conditions many lost their lifes or were mistreated and murdered by Soviets

@klaus9714

5 жыл бұрын

"Copare a crime with a crime, and you are no inch better"

@ThaatEpicKitten

5 жыл бұрын

Wrzem wrzem Nazi =/= Average Citizen Revenge =\= Moral

@diegodiego3164

5 жыл бұрын

"they would never have been forcibly relocated if Germany hadn't committed one of the biggest crimes against humanity in world history in the first place. So what I'm trying to say is "sorry, but... not sorry" "Where did i equate nazis with average citizens? Did say i say revenge is moral?" *"sorry,but...not sorry"* I think you're a bit wrong mate.

@henryseidel5469

5 жыл бұрын

Hardocore That's right. But you forget to mention what had been happening on Russian soil during the four years before that. Over twenty five million people lay dead on the fields.Of course it was a horrible disaster to the Russian and then the German population that were concerned in these areas.But politically and militarily it was just the boomerang that had come back to Germany.

@henryseidel5469

5 жыл бұрын

Wrzem Wrzem Yet I do not like the idea of Polish nationalism coming up again. What is Poland actually ? Until WW1 you were not even on the map of Europe. During the Russian civil war Pilsudski tried to cut off territories from Russia, and to me it is not a surprise that Stalin has always been very suspicious about Polish policies. Even when signing the Ribbentrop pact with Germany in August 39. The Brits had guaranteed for the Poles but did nothing but holding speeches in London together with your so called exile government. Eventually it was Stalin whose soldiers had to liberate Poland doing all the dirty jobs, because there was nobody else to do it.I know history is contradictory and problematic, but in the end the Poles were given enough land and support to rebuild their nation again. Do you think Berlin, Hamburg, Cologne and Dresden were not in ruins ? Do you think you should have been presented a piece of Europe well wrapped in silk ? Poles usually tend to complain about what they have lost but never appreciate what they have received from other European peoples. My grandfather was born and lived in Silezia (Walbrzych/Waldenburg) until 45, and in the eighties I took him there again when he was about eighty. We were welcomed by the Polish family who had been deported from Wolhynia/Ukraine and who lived in the house of my granddad at Walbrzych. So both parties were refugees. And the lady baked cake, made coffee and meals, and we sat there talking for hours without any problems. Their daughter had an excellent command of English. And on the way back to Zgorzelec and Germany my granddad said to me "I am so happy there are such nice people living there today !"And he had overcome the dreary past - even at his age. That is the only way to get on with each other - make friends not war !Otherwise the whole shit from the last century will start again from its beginning. Sorry, I am not sorry for the politicians, but I am sorry for the people ! The Germans, the Polish, the Russians - no matter where they are from.

Now I get it. France, USA, Britain and the Soviet got so sick of Helmut Kohl saying “Germany will be united” they eventually gave in so he would shut up.

@shahilgupta8176

4 жыл бұрын

KöhlerSAStudios Ever heard of Gandhi?

@shrek_has_swag2344

4 жыл бұрын

Vindexproeliator America is -although not official- the name most people call the USA and everyone knows what they mean

@yakutza3922

3 жыл бұрын

Actually, it's the Soviets, Gorbachev let them reunite. BBC did about that video, check it. But, yes, almost of Europe was against of reuniting Germany. In ussr was a parade of independence. A lot of republics, even the RSFSR subjects had a sovereign rights.

@yakutza3922

3 жыл бұрын

You have to read books

@c.g.5580

3 жыл бұрын

Reeky Tortoise ngl your last reply ruined the vibe of your first reply

I will never forget that evening, when the wall came down. I was seven years old, on TV the were people dancing and singing and fireworks were going off. My mum was crying. I didn't understand then what was happening. But everybody was glad and hopeful and relieved. It was awesome.

@brianlawrence8184

5 жыл бұрын

This video is a fairy tale and lacks in the reality of the Unification. Please read my remarks.

@beageler

5 жыл бұрын

No, I'm not gonna search for some comment that probably has nothing to do with my memories of the feelings right after the wall fell. And don't repost it here, I have no interest to read it, grinch. I also don't need someone from another country to wax about what went wrong. I lived through it, I seriously doubt you have anything to say that is pertinent to my understanding of it.

@verdeboyo

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah me too! There must have been lots of sex drugs and drinking going on for days, until the reality kicked in that the poor East will drain the richer West of it's resources before things smoothed out again

@ok-he2ko

4 жыл бұрын

@@verdeboyo You from Italy? And you call US poor? With your little country lmaoooo

@verdeboyo

4 жыл бұрын

@@ok-he2ko from England UK. And most def not poor😆😅

It kills me how the border guards were like "we aint paid enough for this" and opened the gates lmao

@gamerdrache6076

3 жыл бұрын

They propaly wasen't even paid lol

@chrisrudolf9839

2 жыл бұрын

Their problem was that they were rushed by thousands totally unprepared. And not the regular guys who always tried to sneak over the border at night, whom propaganda said were class traitors or western spys anyway, so they shot them like they were ordered, but literally the whole Berlin neighborhood that promptly packed a few bags and wanted to run to the west because the news (falsly) announced that it would be allowed now. The crowd was so big that the ones in front couldn't even have backed up if they wanted to, so the only option the border guards had other than just letting it happen, would have been using their automatic weapons and just mowing a few hundred of them down, hoping that the mass would then panick and disperse (and even then there would have been a chance that they would have just been overrun, tight packed crowds like that behave unpredictable when a panick breaks out). Thankfully, the guards weren't ready to cause a bloodbath of such proportions.

@iCanbEYOURrUKIA

7 ай бұрын

Some of those guards looked like they might tear up😢imagine not being able to see your friends and family because western powers couldn't decide if you were too dangerous to be united. It's a crazy story, but must have been a beautiful moment to live in.

@OlBlow-qv6oz

19 күн бұрын

That's communism for you 😂

Historically speaking, when Germany says "unite", the rest of the world gets a little nervous.

@meltedicecreamsandwich

4 жыл бұрын

Except the US

@thepepishow9878

4 жыл бұрын

Lebensraum

@itsprometheus8938

4 жыл бұрын

@@meltedicecreamsandwich trust me you fat piece of arrogant shit should be more anxious than the europeans they fought with courage since 38 you got later in to the ww 2 ask.UK& greece & and the soviets being the only one to either fight or resist the nazis or italians

@44olympus

4 жыл бұрын

They thought Germany was joking....but suddenly remembered that Germany has no sense of humor.

@henrifortier8621

4 жыл бұрын

@@itsprometheus8938 Greece hahaha

Germany: can I be unified All of Europe: *war flashbacks* n o

@certifiedcharbergian8462

4 жыл бұрын

iVls *sad german noises*

@appleslover

3 жыл бұрын

@Ska only first world In the rest of the world Germany and Germans are known for positive stereotypes

@appleslover

3 жыл бұрын

@Ska maybe because they did their shit in Europe unlike Britain, France, Spain and the US You know it's an unwritten rule to do your atrocities away from where the butchers live

@levi_athon9648

3 жыл бұрын

A few years later Okay maybe sure

@RodRock6133

3 жыл бұрын

No please

Germany will be.....? I can't remember how it ends because you didn't say it often enough.

@DaisyGeekyTransGirl

5 жыл бұрын

I don't either. Was it nuked? I think the word was nuked.

@notmaireelneim

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I think that's it. Germany will be nuked. He should say it a few more times because it is not emphatic or profound enough.

@navarro6148

5 жыл бұрын

Germany will be Remade?? I think that's it

@notmaireelneim

5 жыл бұрын

Yes! I think that's it. Germany will be remade! Germany will be remade! Germany will be remade! Germany will be remade! Germany will be remade! Germany will be remade! Germany will be remade! Germany will be remade! Germany will be remade! Germany will be remade! Germany will be remade! Germany will be remade! I think I've said it enough times...

@harrylui309

5 жыл бұрын

Head of the EU.

Margeret Thatcher: the dominant people in Europe would be German another person in the background: yey

@Rynewulf

4 жыл бұрын

@Renan_PS badass? Leeching popularity from the budget cut and diplomatically abandoned armed forces success at defending the Falklands is functionally evil, not badass.

@MaSoNGaMeR115

3 жыл бұрын

@Renan_PS she wasn't tough just hateful towards her own people, Britain hasn't even been close to electing someone tough since the 30's when Mosley was imprisoned without charge for refusing to support a war that killed millions of britons.

@iain3713

3 жыл бұрын

MaSoNGaMeR115 millions lol ok

**Looks at a map of modern Germany** Otto von Bismarck: Look at how they massacred my boy.

@hannorasmusholtiegel6044

4 жыл бұрын

Germany is richer and more powerful then ever so huh...

@roskcity

3 жыл бұрын

@@hannorasmusholtiegel6044 Ja

@MaSoNGaMeR115

3 жыл бұрын

@@hannorasmusholtiegel6044 and Germans there are set to become a minority and eventually a non existent people from the past, definitely worth it

@PhysicsGamer

3 жыл бұрын

​@@MaSoNGaMeR115 Nobody with any sense cares about your racialized ideas of who is or is not German, dude. Not in Germany, and not elsewhere. Give it half a dozen generations and intermarriage will solve whatever particular "heritage" problem you've decided to decry. If you really want to make sure there aren't long-term problems, just change the citizenship criteria from primarily _jus sanguinis_ to primarily _jus soli._

@nevets2371

3 жыл бұрын

Technically you could argue his boy massacred himself, a couple times...

One man promised that Germany would be united: Otto Von Bismarck. LOL

@albertwang3536

5 жыл бұрын

Johan Jacobs lesser German solution

@Siegbert85

5 жыл бұрын

Otto... the Great

@onlinejobsfromhome5300

5 жыл бұрын

wonderful

@onlinejobsfromhome5300

5 жыл бұрын

thumbs up

@JohnSmith-fk7hq

5 жыл бұрын

thumbs up

Sorry I didn't get the Germany will be united part. Can you repeat it like another 100 times please?

@HistoryScope

4 жыл бұрын

I've added it to the next video for you so you'll get it then! :D

@SillyUwUBilly

3 жыл бұрын

@@HistoryScope Isn't it united tho ?

@victorviereck4117

3 жыл бұрын

@@SillyUwUBilly Currently? Yes Yes Yes and a lil tiny no.

@SillyUwUBilly

3 жыл бұрын

@@victorviereck4117 What u mean by tiny no ?

@martinfranzer2254

3 жыл бұрын

@@SillyUwUBilly he probably means the existing divide in Germany. Look up a religion map for Germany for example or look at the average income. Or where the big companies are having their headquaters e.t.c.

Donald Trump: Man, it's hard to build a wall... Walter Ulbricht & Erich Honecker: First time?

@will6412

4 жыл бұрын

Österreichischer Patriot you can’t compare the Berlin Wall to Mexican boarder wall

@Austrian_Butcher

4 жыл бұрын

@@will6412 it's only a joke tho

@kkapalle

4 жыл бұрын

They all failed, this what happend with the stupid Trump, he is already in the history of America as worst president ever

@Oline1756

4 жыл бұрын

Klaus Kapalle Trumo sucks, I wish Obama like president comes.

@johnsmith-yj2cn

4 жыл бұрын

bill Clinton and Obama are way worst

Who else cant get over the fact that all of this wouldn't have happened if some Serbs hadn't killed a austro-Hungarian guy

@OneEyeShadow

5 жыл бұрын

There would've been some other trigger for WWI 2 months later, probably.

@Redeemer216

5 жыл бұрын

@@acho8387 dafuq you smoking. Flo clearly said WW1

@nielsmichiels1939

5 жыл бұрын

@nowai ................Dude. When the germans were occupying my country (belgium) during WWI they did horrors upon the people out of pure fear from them because their officers filled their minds with paranoid delusions that every belgian was a potential saboteur and a killer. It became so bad that when a drunk german soldier accidentaly fired at another german soldier in Leuven they burned the entire city down and shot 3/4 of the population of the city in the square right in front of the train station. They were convinced that there was an insurgency happening. XD People had the right to be angry at them.

@PedoThaBear

5 жыл бұрын

History seldom has a clear cause. You could trace it all way back to the millitarism in Prussia, wich itself resulted alot from the 30 years war, and if you trace back the reasons for that, the church, christianity, and if you trace that back... Well, you see what I mean....

@Narusage

5 жыл бұрын

Sean Santos All of this because some Serb decided to get a sandwich and by luck saw Franz Ferdinand and killed him.

Your drawing of Gorbachev is hilarious

@Squeeze35i

4 жыл бұрын

Hollywood hair and no shitmark😂

@HistoryScope

4 жыл бұрын

I used this image, btw. www.google.com/search?q=gorbachev&client=ms-android-huawei&prmd=inv&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjBxZfMgPjjAhXSPOwKHYIOCVAQ_AUIFygB&biw=360&bih=518#imgrc=bQovboNKEovSpM

@jackhammer1021

3 жыл бұрын

200th like on dis comment

I wrote this comment, because... Germany will be united!

@galaxyred7

4 жыл бұрын

Szoszaty Germany is united idiot.

@k0mentator507

4 жыл бұрын

Galaxy Red r/woooosh

@zyanego3170

4 жыл бұрын

@@galaxyred7 Austria is Germany

@checkcommentsfirst3335

4 жыл бұрын

@@galaxyred7 Germany isnt united! Look at the east provinces idiot

@SillyUwUBilly

3 жыл бұрын

@@checkcommentsfirst3335 The what ?

I am from Berlin and I was there when the wall fell. The atmosphere was crazy. Everybody was so happy and full of hope. So many people openly cried tears of joy. But I only was 9 (or 10) at this time. So the real extent of this historical event wasn't clear to me back then. I mean: I was born in West-Berlin and grew up with 2 Germanies as the normality. I didn't know it differently. So it all felt like an adventure to me.

@rhinaffrika5825

4 жыл бұрын

Fusilier Thresher fuck no

@rhinaffrika5825

4 жыл бұрын

Gyoto Azimoto its really sad man

@boomznbladez405

4 жыл бұрын

@Gyoto Azimoto the fuck do you mean "the allies won unfortunately"? Bro better take that shit back to 1945 when that idealogy surrendered.

@onepunchman5909

3 жыл бұрын

@Thresher yes

@boomznbladez405

3 жыл бұрын

@@appleslover indeed

I'm watching this from Nigeria and no particular reason, but this was so informative and insightful

@prometheus9096

5 жыл бұрын

Greetings from Germany :=)

@jewelss7585

4 жыл бұрын

Yall have wifi?

@HistoryScope

4 жыл бұрын

Yes. the Internet is a few decades old and many poorer regions of the world also have access to Internet by now.

@alejandrorobles1343

4 жыл бұрын

@@HistoryScope r/woooosh

@hello-friend990

3 жыл бұрын

Do you really think a country with skyscrapers would not have WiFi users...are you dumb or prejudiced

“These people were now Russian... polish” That’s a nice way to say millions of Germans were expelled and replaced by Russian/polish settlers.

@jamessalmon5109

5 жыл бұрын

Eh, these things happen

@hardcorehardo

5 жыл бұрын

@@jamessalmon5109 yeah just like with the native Americans..

@hardcorehardo

5 жыл бұрын

One of the most unheard humanitarian crimes of the 20th century

@Soundwave3591

5 жыл бұрын

how many poles and Russians did the Germans expel from their lands during the War? The presence of Ethnic Germans in the east was one of the driving motivations of HItler's "lebensraum" efforts, and the nations ransacked by the Nazis didn't want anyone using the excuse "there are already Germans there!" again.

@94Newbie

5 жыл бұрын

@Soundwave3591 the issue is not what was worse. but the video makes it sound like the local population was simply integrated into the soviet union and not expelled. wich is factually incorrect.

I was there in 89 working on the tv coverage. An amazing few days.

@MTC008

2 жыл бұрын

I hope korea gets reunified like this

@IamAWESOME3980

2 жыл бұрын

cool, summer of 89 my government was shooting at the student's protestors with live bullets. Didn't stop capitalism from chasing the communists out or vice versa though. the two intermarry one another and coexisted. just wow.

@OlBlow-qv6oz

19 күн бұрын

​@@MTC008Nah

@MTC008

19 күн бұрын

@@OlBlow-qv6oz yes, it should be

@OlBlow-qv6oz

19 күн бұрын

@@MTC008 Kim Jong Un declared that North Korea would be Independent forever.

Massive like for correct pronunciation of Gorbachev

I need to correct you about something. When you talked about the kaliningrad oblast and the lands east of the oder neisse, you said that the people there now would live in russia and poland. But that's wrong, because shortly after the war almost all germans from these regions (and in general east europe) where expelled or killed, leaving only a small part in upper silesia and Transylvania

@HistoryScope

6 жыл бұрын

you're correct. This video was already getting pretty long so I cut all the material about what happened to previously German territories :(

@ducktube7473

5 жыл бұрын

@@HistoryScope Yeah, but this extra sentence would be pretty damn important

@benragaberplym

5 жыл бұрын

@@ducktube7473 but this is entirely it. He's basically making a propaganda film about the greatness of Germany. Germany is an artificially constructed state, not an organically moulded one like all other European countries. He's very forceful about how essential it is that German borders be drawn a certain way, just as lines on a map rather than for some over arching reason. This idea of Germany has done so much damage over the last 150 years.

@ducktube7473

5 жыл бұрын

@@benragaberplym Germany is as artifical as Italy or the us. So cut that bs. The idea of Germany caused harm? Are y that dumb? Beside the last Century all European nations were nearly constantly warring in different coalitions. Germany is a legitimate state with every right to be united. If you have a problem with that gfy.

@benragaberplym

5 жыл бұрын

@@ducktube7473 I do have a problem with that. The difference with Italy is that since unification, they haven't been the cause of every major conflict in Europe. When Italy is the cause of every major conflict in Europe then we need to look at it again. Germany is a series of countries that don't work together. The only thing that say Bavaria and the Ruhr Valley have in common are the language they speak. No one has asked the people if they want this. Not putting such things to the people and forcing unity anyway is a ticking bomb, but nah, you go ahead because when it blows up, and believe me it will, it isn't going to explode in my face. Not until Germany needs another distraction from its own problems and causes another world war anyway.

Take a shot everytime he says G E R M A N Y W I L L B E U N I T E D

@saturn6584

5 жыл бұрын

*dies*

@thesuperean3008

5 жыл бұрын

german empire Anschluss?

@saturn6584

5 жыл бұрын

@@thesuperean3008 yes

@mariusberger3297

5 жыл бұрын

Oder ne Line ziehen :D

@ramranchlover5374

5 жыл бұрын

juancho albertonity i got alcohol poisoning

I have been in Kaliningrad couple of times. And it amazes me how almost nothing of Germany is left there. Even if Germans, for some reason, would decide they want it (like Russia wanted Crimea), there will be literally nobody who would support that

@juliane__

2 жыл бұрын

Sure, nevertheless russian politicians in Kaliningrad want to rename it into the russion version of Königsberg, what Kjongsberg is, i guess. Interesting how relaxed people in Kaliningrad look at the topic of homeland.

@schma9lo189

2 жыл бұрын

It's because they kicked all the germans out of it after WW2, sent them to germany, and repopulated it with ethnic russians.

@bob494949

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, it’s called ethnic cleansing. It’s horrible, no matter who does it.

@kerim.s8801

Жыл бұрын

Well everything was bombed of course and the russians rebuild it.

@erigreca3297

Жыл бұрын

The only thing that Orks from Moscow can do is Destruction&Poverty

The explanation regarding Helmut Kohl´s decision not to demand those territories taken over by the Soviet Union and Poland is a bit misleading. It is true that he attempted to get back as much as possible. But he was aware that this would not have been possible and didn´t push too hard for that. He just needed to show certain organizations (representing those that had been expelled from these territories) in Germany that he did his best ... Otherwise Poland would have demanded back the territories that were taken by the Soviet Union (these territories are part of Ukraine today btw.) So, insisting on these territories by Germany would´ve created great chaos through shifting back various borders - without helping anybody since anything German in the western Polish and anything Polish in western Soviet Union / Ukraine is gone. So, returning "East Prussia" to Germany was not going to happen - under any circumstances - In particular in Kaliningrad area there´s very little German cultural heritage (e.g. housing, etc.) left and since it is a major Soviet/Russian navy installation they were never going to give it up again - ever. Helmut Kohl knew that. After the war the German inhabitants of the (now) western Polish territory and East Prussia (Königsberg/Kaliningrad) were expelled and had to leave behind everything they possessed. But - the same happened to the Polish people that lived in the area of the western Soviet Union (now western Ukraine). They were moved to the former German territory in western Poland. That´s a fact that these organizations of expelled people in Germany silently ignore all the time ... These Polish people had to suffer the same fate as the expelled Germans. So, we can´t turn it over all again without creating new tensions/problems. Germany got the max out of what was possible when the big wall fell. We´re lucky !!!

@pinheadtheyumenikkifananti6969

4 жыл бұрын

fuck you nobody will read that you fucking nerd

@Alexander-zt9kz

4 жыл бұрын

You're right but most the territories that were Polish now belong to Belarus not Ukraine

@SillyUwUBilly

3 жыл бұрын

@@Hitman47IOI U mean piles of rocks dat were cities before war .

@camelofsiberia962

3 жыл бұрын

Nah germans lost so much rich land to minorities in their nation after ww2 I wouldnt call it max

@zliu4208

3 жыл бұрын

It doesn’t even matter now with the freedom to live wherever they want in European Schengen zone as a EU citizen. Both Poles and Germans should work together to make EU stronger to curb the influence of old and emerging superpower like USA, Russia and China. The world needs some rebalancing.

I watched this video in my German Class and my teacher who is quite old born in West Germany was so happy watching this video as it gave her memories of when she heard the news of reunification.

@stjaeger81

5 жыл бұрын

hope she realized that this video gives a lot of wrong informations.

@KLblk88

5 ай бұрын

Was she so happy because her country annexed independent GDR?

@vvieites001

4 ай бұрын

Of course she was happy. Her life as she knew it wasn’t upended at all lol

@vvieites001

4 ай бұрын

@@stjaeger81such as?

It was amazing watching this happen irl. One of the most memorable moments in my life, even as a young American boy watching it on TV.

UK: we will not create a powerful germany Germany: i dont think you get it we will be united

I’m not scared of the idea of a strong and independent Germany, the Second World War was 76 years ago and the modern day German people have been educated about their past mistakes and would never do such things again. I trust the German people (who I very much love) to manifest their own destiny in the ever changing geopolitical landscape of the 21st century.

@KimPossibleShockwave

Жыл бұрын

There is a conflict brewing, though -- those in the political and academic areas want Germany to basically go full on EU and globalist, while the average German doesn't and is becoming more and more angry at what's happening with migration. The divide is growing. While the German people obviously have learned from their mistakes, it looks like their leadership hasn't. sigh

@Slam_

Жыл бұрын

Much love from Germany! ❤

@LetoxxIant

Жыл бұрын

Our and the future of all of Europe lays in a strong and independent EU. The single states in the EU are to small to compete with China, India, the US and even Brazil in the future. Indonesia will surpass Germans economy in 1.5 to 2 decades. We just need to look at the UK after Brexit to see what will happen to us if we do work together. Future endeavours are to costly for the single states in Europe. I hope there won't be a strong and independent Germany outside of a strong independent EU else Germany will neither be strong nor independent.

@michakrynicki7299

Жыл бұрын

​@@LetoxxIant eu state is bad idea i dont trust my country politicians so why woud i trust a forigner politician to look out for my intrests

@awesomestevie27

Жыл бұрын

It’s never the people it’s just governments and people of Germany even 40 years after we’re effect by a war that happened 40 years ago when they were just innocent civilians

GERMANY WILL BE UNITED

@user-qp3hd3cn8e

5 жыл бұрын

Dont fall for it, this is propaganda. Helmut Kohl was an idiot who could sell himself pretty good but at the end of his chancellorship things where obvious and most people hated him but he managed to get elected once again by making generous promises to the East Germans and the people couldnt belive it. He also was greedy for power and by that he had a good influence on the media as well, he is really known by the power he had.

@hardcorehardo

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah Prussia is next lol

@reigon5078

5 жыл бұрын

I had to stop the video

@denon7474

5 жыл бұрын

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN

@RecklessFables

5 жыл бұрын

ANOTHER EXCUSE TO DRINK BEER

2:55 the border guard officer: "i have just lost my sense of purpose"

helmut kohl: eggs and bananas east germany: where do i sign up

@de132

4 жыл бұрын

@elem arha Er macht Witze.

Was Germany united? I think I missed that

@therealslimshady3662

3 жыл бұрын

not yet

@Stack4Freedom

3 жыл бұрын

@@therealslimshady3662 *chuckles* I’m in danger

@therealslimshady3662

3 жыл бұрын

@@Stack4Freedom ja, auch ihr werdet eines tages deutsch sein, keine sorge.

@Stack4Freedom

3 жыл бұрын

@@therealslimshady3662 I doubt that, Germany’s population is in decline because you sold out population growth for women’s rights. Also the west will soon be surpassed by the east. I’m more scared of China than Germany.

@therealslimshady3662

3 жыл бұрын

@@Stack4Freedom thats ok, at least our women are educated and able to drive cars without being stoned to death

2:50 They essentialy had two choices open fire on civilians or let them through and there were no orders to kill the civilians which meant that if they did that they had to accept responsibility for it themselves. I don't think anyone has ever done that, taken it upon themselves to massacre civilians without being able to fall back on "I was just following orders".

Get someone who looks at you the same way Helmut Kohl looked at Germany.

Germany gets one of the hardest beatdowns in history, gets split in two and still West Germany has a bigger economy than the victor Great Britain.

@anoopm2022

Жыл бұрын

@Grivian ur right. Fraudsters never prosper.

@krle7970

5 сағат бұрын

Lost Cities and territories to ALL their neighbors and yet today is still a powerhouse. Not even Post Napoleonic France compares and they kept ALL their core territories.

Allmost a quarter century ago I served for a short period in Germany. I had to pay that “ solidaritats betrag“ from my income. I must admit that I enjoyed to pay this, just as a tiny contribution to the great German people to ease their unification. I wish the Germans prosperity and progress. God bless the Germans and all their Friends !

@derdude6214

Жыл бұрын

Thanks man, the solidarity contribution (Solidaritäts Beitrag) is still around actually. It's used for humanitarian purposes today.

@NazriB

6 ай бұрын

Lies again? Grab Food USD SGD

@bubiruski8067

6 ай бұрын

@@NazriB No lie ! Germans, finest people !

1:30; You make it sound like the West built the wall. The West didn't build the wall to keep people out, the East built the wall to keep people in.

@PedoThaBear

5 жыл бұрын

The west had build less visible walls nontheless. Like making a separate currency, to distance themself from the east and disturb their developement... That's often overlooked.

@dionysg205

5 жыл бұрын

And it was not build between the two Germanies as implied but around the West Berlin sector which was a West Germany enclave in East Germany.

@siblinganon66

5 жыл бұрын

@@dionysg205 Nope. It was build along the whole border. Minefields, fences and all. Today most of it is a nature preserve forming a very long green belt.

@linusfotograf

4 жыл бұрын

@@dionysg205 That's just what you assume. Totally incorrect.

@rebeccaliegeoise6895

4 жыл бұрын

Actually there were two walls : one between West and East Germany (and between the other capitalist and socialist states) and another, after august 1961, around the French, US-American and British sectors of Berlin called West Berlin surrounded by the German Democratic Republic and the Soviet sector of Berlin which became capital of the GDR.

My grandmother was born in Tilsit, known as Sowetsk in Russia, in Oblast Kaliningrad, while my grandfather was born in Berlin.

Very interesting, the mistake in the press conference and they let the people cross.

Wow Helmut Kohl was pretty badass. He even wanted pre-WW2 territory back.

@c.straut5065

3 жыл бұрын

That is complitly wrong. In the former eastern part of Germany there are now polish and in the northern part of eastprussia russian people. Kohl made an agreement with Poland that Germany would not claim for giving back these terretories. Germany wants to have friends at the borders!

@user-Merovingian1980

11 ай бұрын

taking the piss imo millions died for those land yet this jobsworth thinks its his to take back

A very interesting historical look at an event that I lived-through as an adult in the USA, paying so little attention as I did, as a young American, to events happening in Europe, (I had only visited France, Switzerland, and England before these events.) Thank you. In 1994, I went to Germany, to Berlin for several days, and learned so much history of Germany after WW II, frightening, very enlightening, but I still had much ore to learn, and, from your video, I guess I still do have much to learn. Thank you...you have succeeded where my teachers failed, to teach me important information about the German unification struggles around 1989-1990.

Crazy how a press secretary could hasten German unification just by misspeaking. Secretaries have more power than we give them credit for...

@fremejoker

5 жыл бұрын

Schabowski wasn't just a press secretary. It's a false friend translation. He was "Sekretär für Informationswesen" (Secretary for Information) . Secretaries in a communist state are kind of ministers within the communist party, which have the actual power instead of the real ministers within the actual administration (executive government). Often these positions are occupied by the same person. The central commitee of a communist party often mirrors the actual government cabinet regarding departments. The administration almost always has a minister for economy and in a communist state the central commitee will have a secretary for economy, and the latter has the actual power to make a decision. Anyway, even if he were just a press secretary back then, it would have had the same impact, because this was a statement in a governmental press conference with no single chance to take that back. Luckily.

@brianlawrence8184

5 жыл бұрын

Pure nonsense ! This video is a fairy tale and lacks in the reality of the Unification. Please read my remarks.

Fun fact to the ending, later in the 90s Boris Yeltsin offered to sell Kaliningrad to Germany but then they refused.

@thunderbird1921

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe it's for the best right now. It's Russia's only warm water port in the region IIRC, so it at least keeps some tensions down.

@HauntedXXXPancake

2 жыл бұрын

As nice as it would have been to get that piece of Germany back as well, it probably would have been more trouble than it was worth. Short term, kicking out all the Russians would have looked (and been) really bad. In the long run, having a piece of the Country that's separated is a conflict just waiting to happen.

Wow. Again, well researched and well presented. You got yourself another subscriber.

I served in West Germany in the early '80's. At the Headquarters US Army Europe, Heidelberg, we were a mere 90 miles from the border. A 600 mph jet could cover that distance in nine minutes. Missiles could be launched from miles away. Helmut Kohl flew into my airfield on a C-414 Chancellor. I always got a kick out of that. He was a BIG man!!

@PropperNaughtyGeezer

2 жыл бұрын

And a heavy man. I´m sure he had to sit in the middle because of the trim.

Instructions unclear: was Germany United or not? Edit: Instructions definitely unclear. Nukes were fired and Germany isn’t even there

@damiangaming5696

5 жыл бұрын

Instructions Still Unclear Got Paper cuts instead of Reuniting

@MrTohawk

5 жыл бұрын

Depends on what you call Germany.

@malcolml309

5 жыл бұрын

Actually, it's a Germany, minus BOTH Prussia and Austria.

@malcolml309

5 жыл бұрын

@Johan Jacobs Valid point.

@hardcorehardo

5 жыл бұрын

No it wasn't. Prussia is missing and mostly forgotten

I served in the British Army of the Rhine for 8 years in total spread between 1969 and 1982 at no time was the British Army an occupation force. The same can be said of the Canadian, Belgian, Dutch, French and US forces I served with and alongside. In 1949 as NATO was conceived the armies of occupation ceased to exist as such and became a joint NATO force as the Russians rearmed at an alarming rate. Six years later the Bundeswehr came into being.

Correction - a wall was built in east Germany surrounding west Berlin to stop emigration out east Germany/ Berlin into West Berlin

That was interesting. I'll watch some more of your vids!

You say Germany has been united. Politically and geographically yes, culturally and economically no.

@fuckinantipope5511

5 жыл бұрын

wildsurfer12 true. Many eastern parts are still underdevelopted and the people in the west have much better income

@MattBargain

5 жыл бұрын

Well, I guess you can't have it all at once. Created quite a bit of ugly consequences though. I was born in East Germany, served in the first international army division (German-French) and lived in Germany, Spain, US and now Netherlands. I now feel alienated in Germany though. Had to leave after another try for a year. I feel they are moving backwards instead of forward in history.

@the_9ent

5 жыл бұрын

Matt Bargain Interesting. Why do you feel that way?

@klaus9714

5 жыл бұрын

When I saw this picture de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahnstrecke_Neumark%E2%80%93Greiz#/media/File:Bahnhof_Greiz_Aubachtal_(5).jpg first, I thought it is somewhere east, like poland or ukraine... It´s from 2017

@lowesmanager8193

5 жыл бұрын

Its getting better every year, you can't expect the cultural changes of East Germany to go away in just under thirty years, but I believe that it will be mostly gone in a decade or two.

1:00 the german people living in the now Polish and Russian regions didn’t become Polish or Russian they were forced out of their homes and had to flee to Germany. I know this because my grandmother was born in now Polish territories but back then were German territories until 1945 and they were ordered to leave their home within 6 hours or something. These were hard times for German people living in these territories and there are some details I’m not sure if I should go in to. But anyway great video.

Amazing video i subscribed with bells and liked the video for this amazing video

Wow, now that's a piece of music I didn't expect to hear as the backing track of an unrelated KZread video: 'Franz Liszt's 3rd Symphonic Poem "Les Preludes"'. Has always been a favourite of mine, but unfortunately very few people know about Liszt's immense repertoire of top-tier music beyond Hungarian Rhapsody 2., Un Sospiro, his transcription(basically a rework in Liszt terms) of 'Stanchen' Serenade, by Schubert and 'La Campanella'. I recognised Les Preludes instantly, major Kudos for using it.

There is one important detail about the border wall that is very important, and needs to be mentioned, especially in the actual context where everyone wants to build walls : The German wall was not build by the west to not let the poorer East Germans in, but by the East to not let them out !

Nicely summarized video on on the historic events leading up to Germany's re-unification. Congratulations to all Germans as we approach the 30 year anniversary of their re-unification! That historic event reflected a tremendous achievement in human dialogue, international team work and mutual co-operation on an epic scale. Looking forward, I sincerely hope with all my heart to perhaps one day also see the re-unification of both Ireland and Korea, in my lifetime. The brothers and sisters of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland should look each other in the eyes, shake hands and become one Ireland for all time. Similarly, North Korea and South Korea are also members of the same family and should seek to end their conflict peacefully and become one again.

@SushiElemental

2 жыл бұрын

Oh, I misread. Ireland unifying with Korea would be pretty cool, though.

@iCanbEYOURrUKIA

7 ай бұрын

It's really so beautiful, and I pray for those nations to reunite as well.

He protecc He atacc But most importantly He got his Eastern half bac

German historian here. All in all I liked that video, and it gives a nice overview over certain events. However, some of the points are not totally "on spot", while others are a bit mis-represented, and others are missing. Here is my take on what I would've liked to see included and/or corrected. - The German reunification was set down in the West German Constitution (Grundgesetz). From that day on - basically 1949 - it was an imperative for all Bundeskanzler (German Chancellors) to do their best to fulfill this, and different policies were used over time, with the latest one being called "change through rapprochement" (Wandel durch Annäherung). Kohl was pushing for the reunification, but he was one of many in a long line of politicians before him, and the circumstances that led to the 1989 events had nothing to do with his policies, but rather with East German policies and structural failures. - The wall was build by East Germany and was called "antifascist wall" by the East German ruling party (SED). It was not meant to prevent poor East Germans to defect to the richer West - it was to keep people from leaving the East no matter the reason (officially it was meant to deter fascists to enter the "socialist paradise" that was East Germany). Most people fled because of the political oppression, not because they were poor, because indeed in East Germany, people were less wealthy than the West Germans but far from being poor - they had jobs, houses, food, some had cars, public transport, too. It was the political leadership that bancrupted the German Democratic Republic because Socialist planning economy cannot beat Capitalist market economy. People were not poor in East Germany. Despite trade sanctions from the west, they actually produced a lot of higher-end products, especially despitet he fact that the USSR after 1945 took the industrial infrastructure was reparations. - The thesis that the "peaceful protests" in East Germany did anything more than increasing the pressure on the SED regime is rejected by historians. It was not the common people who toppled the wall, it was a process of political power. The ideat hat the common people toppled the regime by peace is more wrong than correct. They played a role, but far minor than it seems. - A far more important role played Hungary, which opened its borders earlier (August '89) and was a de facto escape route through the iron curtain (via Austria). The fact that East Germans could leave the East Bloc despite the wall, made the wall far less powerful than the regime hoped, so they of course made amends so that they would not totally loose the grasp on their citizens and migration politics. De jure and de facto, Germany was re-united because Gorbachov and Bush agreed on it, with Germany paying loads of money to "finance the retreat" of the Russian USSR soldiers. Kohl bartered for it and had the "10 point plan", but he had almost zero political leverage "against" the other political powers. It was the *2+4 Treaty* (meaning: 2 Germanies, and the 4 occupational powers/former allied forces from WW2) that did it, meaning 6 parties had a say in it, with USA and USSR being the chief players. This is why Gorbachov especially is a hero for Germans because he is seen as a great liberal figure (Russians despise him because he basically destroyed the USSR - which is not quite right, because his reign started already in financial ruin). Same as with George Bush, who was probably the man of the hour.

@ttun100

5 жыл бұрын

Totally correct about Hungary, East Germans were already using it as an escape route to West Germany. It would have taken a little longer if the Berlin wall didn't come down, but East Germany would have eventually just about emptied out.

@Hobbz7

5 жыл бұрын

Nice recap of some crucial points

@Schmidt54

5 жыл бұрын

@Peter S No, on the very contrary. As the newly formed West Germany did, so did the East German regime: They "hunted" down the big guns and executed/jailed them, but left the large body of public officials (Staatsbeamte) as it was and in power, especially the courts and legal system in general. The East German regime put in place a sopecial court ruled by workers who gut crash courses in law, but after a few years and not that much "traffic" they were closed, and no one spoke of it again, and the whole nation declared itself "anti-fascist", implying that in the West the fascists were still in power, which partly was not wrong "technically" - in at least one case, the East German secret service send a dossier about a high ranking official in the west which contained evidence that said person has been a true Nazi. Both sides never did a deep cleanup, because they a) really did not want to and more so b) they could not. Because, what fact makes you a Nazi worth of punishment? A rhetorical question it is indeed because it cannot be answered. One side might argue you are a part of the system if you did not resist - but then, what exactly does resisting mean? One part argues that many people were not against the regime because they were afraid of the Gestapo, or that they just did not know of the holocaust. And as can be seen today, there are still Nazis in Germany today, and some affiliate themselves with a rising right-wing party called AfD. You cannot kill an idea, let alone forbid an idea. In West Germany, Adenauer, first chancellor of Germany who himself suffered at the hand of the Nazis, stopped every instance of "nazi-hunting" in West Germany because he said that the society should be united and at peace (Israel, for example, had other ideas about that, and so had other good people like Fritz Bauer!). The East German state simply declared itself anti-fascist, and never dealt with it. From the very late 1960's, i.e. after 10+ years of ignoring the fact that a lot of law enforcement, judicial staff etc. were Nazis, it only then became a public notion on how Germany should deal with its past, and it is a fruitful and ongoing nd very unique approach until this day.

@fremejoker

5 жыл бұрын

@@Schmidt54 Could you elaborate your statement: The thesis that the "peaceful protests" in East Germany did anything more than increasing the pressure on the SED regime is rejected by historians. It was not the common people who toppled the wall, it was a process of political power. The ideat hat the common people toppled the regime by peace is more wrong than correct. They played a role, but far minor than it seems. At first glance it seems like you want to diminish the impact of the common people, but I think that's not what you intended to express.

@Schmidt54

5 жыл бұрын

@@fremejoker Indeed I do not want to diminish the fact that thousands of Germans faced a lot of danger and repression to demonstrate for a better life. That takes a lot of bravery. But it is a bit romantic to think that people protesting peacefully would move a real-socialism regime substantially - that never happened, even armed uprisings did not work (like in Hungary). It was clear that the mindset of a (substantial) portion of the citizens (not all though, there were true believers and many people who thought well of the regime, and still do so today) was set against the current regime, but beyond protesting, they had neither institutional nor institutionalized power: Police, military, Stasi/MfS, all backed the regime 100%. No totalitarian regime goes down without gunshots, so to say; one needs real power to enforce a new rule, this can be seen today in Syria and Venezuela, and historically it was shown in the (mostly successful) French Revolution and the (unsuccesful) revolution of 1848 in Germany. That said, it was a factor that put political pressure under the regime, which is one reason why they were not shot or massively incarcerated. Economic collaps of the DDR and the USSR were imminent while the West was going very strong, and the West German politics called "change through approach" (Wandel durch Annäherung) meant that there were actual political ties between the countries, so that conflicts of any sort were a very complicated matter. At the same time the USSR had a weakened position because Gorbatchev's Glasnost/Perestroika led to more productive relations (as the idea of the "House of Europe", a figure of speech also used by Putin), and without financial aid from the West the whole system would have broken down (as it did a short time later after Gorbatchev was removed by Yelzin and his oligarchic bandits). So in a nutshell: The protests were one factor, but a "soft" factor that could not move any politics of power, but pressured the regime in a more subtle and moral way.

This was really interesting! Thanks for the video :)

Great video, keep it up

nice video, subscribed!

One thing is mistaken very often. The wall was only built around West Berlin. At the border between West and East Germany from the Baltic See down to the Czechoslovakian border, there was no wall, it was a fence, secured with snipers sitting in watchtowers, landmines and automatic shooting devices. But still, no wall ecxept for the one around West Berlin.

I liked the video, it was cool to see the German version of the event. Also the animation is very good. I just wish you had provided some sources, only because I was taught in my classes that the US's was the first power (following W Germany) to support reunification and that we pressured France and the UK to accept it.

getting support on reunification: US - easy mode, UK - hard mode

Helmut Kohl was an interesting guy. He was truly Christian. He admired Poland and felt always profoundly sorry for his ancestors responsible for the war. He was often in Poland officially and privately. He gave all his support to Eastern Europe.

In 1970 West Germany signed treaties with the Soviet Union (Treaty of Moscow) and Poland (Treaty of Warsaw) recognizing Poland's Western border at the Oder-Neisse line as current reality,

@HistoryScope

6 жыл бұрын

You are right, what I should have said is that the new Germany hadn't given up claims to the former German regions of Poland :)

@Maddinhpws

5 жыл бұрын

Why should it have remained divided?

@alanhowitzer

5 жыл бұрын

Interesting. I wonder why West Germany recognized Poland's west border. What would Germany gain by doing this?

@Maddinhpws

5 жыл бұрын

@@alanhowitzer Like a good relationship with Poland?

@HashimyHuseini

5 жыл бұрын

Maddinhpws Yeah seems a very profitable thing

10:40 Westgermany gave up all the territories east of the Oder-Neisse-Line in the "Ostverträge". Chancellor Willy Brandt used this agreement for his "Neue Ostpolitik" (new east-policy), which started the process of reunification.

@rUckAmIng

5 жыл бұрын

thats wrong he only agreed with poland the the borders from the görlitz agrement of 1950 wont be violated

@hexadezimal8631

5 жыл бұрын

@@rUckAmIng Brandt signed the Moscow Agreement in august 1970. West-germany recognized the existing borders with poland. In december 1970 he signed the agreement of Warsaw which reaffirms the agreement of Moscow. With the "Grundlagenvertrag" he reassured the Oder-Neiße-Line as the western border of Poland.

@Exodon2020

5 жыл бұрын

Brandt asured Poland and the Soviet Union that West Germany wouldn't demand those Territories back until a final agreement concerning the German borders has been made. This final agreement is the 2+4 Treaty

@HipsterKlatscher

5 жыл бұрын

de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schweriner_Grenzvertrag

No a single mention of David Hasselhoff and how he single-handedly reunited Germany

How can I not like this! Thank you for clearing up things I needed to know.

I've always wondered about how this happened. This is your best video yet. Congrats!

@MattBargain

5 жыл бұрын

There is a wonderful video about Kohl and his foreign affairs minister Genscher in Russia. After they signed the deal for billions of $ the mics are still open and you can hear them say: " yeah, now let's get drunk!" Funny footnote in history...

@stjaeger81

5 жыл бұрын

would be wonderful, if it would be correct..

@MattBargain

5 жыл бұрын

Here is a source: www.focus.de/politik/deutschland/zeitgeschichte-milliarden-poker-am-telefon_aid_173810.html

@tamino27

5 жыл бұрын

sorry, but this the worst video ever on german unification. It is full of mistakes and desinformation.

@stjaeger81

5 жыл бұрын

@@MattBargain my answer was for Judit Kovacs, I didn't doubt your comment.

This really helped with my homework thanks :D

Very good and entertaining video!

awesome videos!!!

ONE MISTAKE WAS MADE. GDR anthem was not adopted.

@Exodon2020

5 жыл бұрын

That whiny piece was heavily tainted by the regieme abusing it...

@Soldner41

5 жыл бұрын

@@Exodon2020 still it Sounds better and makes more Sense than the cutted West German anthem.

@kampfkarpfen6013

5 жыл бұрын

@@Soldner41 cut

@Exodon2020

5 жыл бұрын

The Nazis didn't use the third stanza though

@Exodon2020

5 жыл бұрын

No, "Deutschland über alles" is actually the first stanza. And despite the Nazis abusing it as a call for conquest it was originally meant very differently: as a call for unification. Germans should be putting aside their differences and working together to achieve one common goal - the only goal that mattered throughout the 19th century. The third stanza is the one left out by the Nazis as it is about unity, law and freedom being the foundation of happiness and thus a goal worth striving for - so basically the opposite of what the Nazis believed in.

1.There was only a wall in Berlin, around the allied sector. Common misconception. 2. And it was built by East Germany.

@coobk373

4 жыл бұрын

There was also a wall between the two germanies not just in Berlin You can still visit it in some places

@maaarlon248

4 жыл бұрын

Agreed. I‘m from the border of Sachsen-Anhalt and Niedersachsen and there still are some leftovers of the wall.

Are we not gonna talk about how he highlighted the falklands on the 1990 map? That's some big dedication.

This was tremendous. Thank you! 🙂

A few inaccuracies on the pre-ww2 map of the British Empire! Libya and Italian Somaliland are both shown as British yet Egypt isn't. However one *could* argue that because Egypt was a dominion of Britain it wouldn't be shown, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, The Raj, and Malaya are all shown as Britain.

@drakon5076

5 жыл бұрын

As far as I know, Egypt has not been officially part of the british empire, egypt was never annexed but instead was turned into a (british controlled) puppet-state.

@liberalaco829

5 жыл бұрын

A dominion you could say?

@drakon5076

5 жыл бұрын

I have to admit that I do not really know the British definition for a Dominion. But to be a Dominion, does a country have to be part of the British Empire or not? My impression was that the Dominions were part of the British Empire with a lot of autonomy and independence, like Canada or Australia? The difference, in my opinion, is that Egypt was never annexed and was never part of the British Empire. Officially, Egypt was a sovereign nation whose government was later forced to enter into unfavorable treaties with Great Britain. This allowed the British representatives in Egypt to act as they wished and to have full control over the economy, politics and the army. Therefore I would call it a classic puppet state.

"Germany is united" You mean half of it

@thinkaboutit4715

5 жыл бұрын

You right

@bobesponja7791

5 жыл бұрын

where is the other half? i can't see any on map,and if you can,i think you need to start learning history

@thinkaboutit4715

5 жыл бұрын

@@bobesponja7791 I would say that we're still missing, the German speaking population in the eastern part of Belgium, Austria, Pomerania and Silesia.

@thinkaboutit4715

5 жыл бұрын

This is just my opinion

@thinkaboutit4715

5 жыл бұрын

@@bobesponja7791 Not all German speaking countries are called "Germany"

Wow what a amazing video thx u saved my whole life

You didn't show THE nost important part of the Scharbowski clip. The part where, when asked when this new rule would be implemented, he stuttered and said: "After my knowledge, now. Instantly."

Thank you so much for sharing that.

@stjaeger81

5 жыл бұрын

Do you like incorrect information?

@stjaeger81

5 жыл бұрын

@Anonymous Person can I contact you somewhere else? KZread id not good and sometimes I can read the answers.

Unfortunately, theres some wrong information in the video... For example, the opening of the wall was planned to be on the next day (10th november) instead of months away. So, saying that it was open immediatly, was only shortening it by a day, perhaps even less. The main problem just had been, that the border guards didn't knew about it wich made it potentially dangerous - the opening itself was a decision made in order to reform the GDR as a reaction to the massive protest. Then, the GDR wasn't broke. In fact, it had a relativly small international debt (about 1/3 compared to that of west germany) and they had gold reserves in the USSR worth more than the debt. So they were potentially "debt free". Of course there were other economic problems and they were depending especially on resources (like gas) from the USSR, wich at the time had been cut by alot. Also, most of the USSR milltiary had left east germany long ago, in contrast theres alot of the US millitary still stationed in germany today. Of course not as an occupant, rather as part of the NATO - still, they are there and to a large part never left. (so removing the US flag to present the unition is a bit ~) What i personally dislike, is that you only show the west german perspective of the reunition and not at all that of the east. Allthough it could only happen from both sides and the GDR was not as much of a USSR puppet as it often seems. So would have been nice, to show theyr perspecitve as well.

@TheRichardSpearman

5 жыл бұрын

Very well said. It is the same when information about Berlin is posted; nothing is ever said about the development of Westberlin as a centre of spying and sabotage directed against the DDR, which lasted 1945 - 1961. This is completely concealed in modern history material and the internet.

@viconiusvortex4999

5 жыл бұрын

@@TheRichardSpearman Well that's because it was eclipsed by the Stasi machine. That just makes it seem like it was concealed. History has plenty to say about NATO and Soviet spies. Practically none of that information is really hidden anymore. In the late 80's it was estimated that the Stasi had nearly 190k collaborators never mind full time staff. Furthermore, I doubt that more than a handful of people actually worry about it in anyway other than fear that it could ever happen again. That said, the video is definitely skewed, but all in all a pretty fair telling of the events that re-unified Germany. Now, I'm still waiting to see if the old West German NCO's and officers of the 80's cries that "The snow won't stop us next time!" can still be heard?

@TheRichardSpearman

5 жыл бұрын

An interesting reference to NATO plans for the "armed anschluss" of the DDR, and other countries in the 1980s, which were often mentioned in DDR publications, but strenuously denied in BRD material.

@cyberpass

3 жыл бұрын

History is written by the victorious.

Thanks so much for the history lessons sire

With these animations, it feels like Extra History, but better

So at about 1:40 you mention that "a wall was built between the two Germanies" in order to prevent East Germans from emigrating. This isn't exactly true. A wall was built around West Berlin for this purpose, but since it was entirely surrounded by East Germany, it wasn't "between the two." Instead, much of the border between these two countries was turned into a minefield for the same purpose.

Königsberg germans faced the same fate as volga germans.

@klarobskyr

5 жыл бұрын

Except not really. Volga Germans and the rest of the Soviet Germans were expelled to Kazakhstan and Siberia, while East Prussian Germans were evacuated to West Germany.

@DaDunge

5 жыл бұрын

@@klarobskyr Evacuated? Told to walk to the border.

@conveyor2

5 жыл бұрын

@@klarobskyr My extended family were Volga Germans and got to starve to death under Stalin in 1933.

@klarobskyr

5 жыл бұрын

@@conveyor2 Well, that's just Communist things. All of my extended family is from the former USSR, I've got at least a dozen of relatives who got imprisoned, executed, expelled or starved. Pretty much every branch of it lost virtually all kind of the property it had prior to the 30s. My grandmas couldn't think of any male cousins they had, because very few made it throught the first decades of the Communist rule.

Its absolutely beautiful watching the east germans flood through the gates.

Actually the eastern regions of the old German Reich were never even a topic to be dicussed. West Germany allready accepted the border with Poland in 1970 under Chancellor Willy Brandt. The question of reunification was just about the two german states. Even when the Sowjet Union offered to sell its Kaliningrad province back to Germany, Helmut Kohl and the West German government declined, because it would have upset several other states that were still opposing the reunification, like Great Britain, for example. So this part isn't actually true.

Lousy dokumentation! It just sounds like the reunition came just because the mistake from Schabowski. You forget the whole protests of the citicens of GDR before. "We are the people!" " we are one nation!"

@canislupus6591

4 жыл бұрын

And he is overestimating kohl's role in the reunification process. And underestimating the 1990 election as a motivation for Kohl to reunite so quickly. As far as I can remember only the British had serious doubts about the reunification. And the polish because of possible discussions about the Oder-Neiße-Border, but in fact only right-wing CSU politicians were talking about regaining those areas.

Awesome video, as always!

One weird thing about the east and west Berlin was how they dealt with the u-Bahn (the tube) crossing two countries.

REally liked it, mostly because it covered all the important aspects. In addition to that it also had current Brexit angle as well. Thank you :)

It's sad that east Prussia isn't Germany this territory was everyday German.

@orpheonkatakrosmortarchoft4332

5 жыл бұрын

Well it kinda bounced around a lot, at first it was slavic territory conquered by the Teutons.

@davidbilgic4553

5 жыл бұрын

@@orpheonkatakrosmortarchoft4332 ok thank but the last 300 Years

@orpheonkatakrosmortarchoft4332

5 жыл бұрын

Doesn't seems to be a problem to many Germans when talking about Alsace.

@drharnsaft1005

5 жыл бұрын

Not slavic. Baltic.

@drharnsaft1005

5 жыл бұрын

The soviets offered to sell it. But the USA wouldn't allow Germany to buy it.

Germany could have been reunited in 1952. Actually Stalin wanted Germany to be an independent buffer zone between the West and the East. Some Historians say he wanted to hinder West Germany joining the European Economic Zone. Then Kanzler Adenauer only wanted reunification under a Western controlled Germany.

@willywodka1924

5 жыл бұрын

And than, ooops, Soviet Invasion in Germany, which had no allies, because they had no NATO membership. It would have been a real risk for Germany.

@henryseidel5469

5 жыл бұрын

Willy Wodka Yet an independent united Germany would have been much better for the Germans than being rearmed again by both sides to become another launching site and target for foreign powers. Nato should have been abolished after the Warsaw Pact had been broken down. Instead of some nato idiots creeping about in front of Russian borderlines.A handful of Russian missiles on the island of Cuba were called a "world crisis", but American missiles a hundred miles away from Petersburg are a great deed for freedom and democracy ??What an insane philosophy ! Russians will never agree to that.

@rippspeck

5 жыл бұрын

If Germany hadn't allied with the West, we'd speak Russian all the way to Lisbon right fucking now. Don't forget, they claimed to be the savior and liberator of all "suppressed" peoples with their incredibly benevolent politics of economical stagnation and terror.

@henryseidel5469

5 жыл бұрын

@@rippspeck Oh yes, the Russians would have come over he Cremlin Wall with knives between their teeth to rape all western virgins. After they had defeated the Nazis long before the fighters for freedom and democracy appeared on the horizon. What terror ? The Russians only defeated themselves, they never carpet bombed residential areas with women and children in them. They fought with machine guns and tanks on battlefields only. You are a lover of western tabloids, aren't you ? By the way, Germany had not allied with the west, it was only half of it. Germany was separated to preserve American bases in Europe. The Soviets withdrew some thirty years ago, but the yankees are still there.

@The80sWolf_

5 жыл бұрын

Western capitalist states only wants independent countries when they accept pro-capitalist politics. They never care about letting people build their own society.

To me that mistaken press conference is the ultimate sign of just how powerful a mass movement of people is. Because it shows just how brittle power actually is because it’s based on divide and conquer and fear. When the reality could be quite different if you actually test the system on mass

So nato agreed not to expand in East Europe. Interesting

@derdude6214

Жыл бұрын

There was never any contract signed and since all the former states bagged to join Nato... it's almost like countries have a right to direct their own destiny.

1:20 the germans in Silesia, Pommerania and Eastprussia weren't allowed to stay there. They were forced to leave.

I spoke with some former East Germans who had come to the UK in 2003 on an exchange visit. I asked them their opinion on reunification - and they all said it hadn't gone well for those in the east. 30 years on I wonder what opinion those in the former DDR hold?

@scanida5070

2 жыл бұрын

West German here! After reunification, a lot of the East’s businesses just couldn’t compete with those of the West and were subsequently bought up or just went bankrupt. In 2000, 20% of all East Germans were unemployed. Only after Angela Merkel came into office and investment started to go up, the numbers went down. Today, East Germany has been integrated thoroughly into the rest of Germany. It now has 70% of the economic performance of the West and cities like Dresden, Chemnitz and Leipzig are hubs for many startups. Though East Germany is still the poorest part of Germany with Mecklenburg-Vorpommern being the poorest state where the people have an average income of 3300€. People in Hesse Hesse (or should I say H€$$€) have an average income of 5000€ per month (though that‘s probably due to Frankfurt). The political landscape is also quite diverse. While in the West it‘s pretty simple (the further south you go, the more conservative/Bavaria it gets and the more north you go the more left it gets) the East is quite complicated. Some states are center-conservative or hardline/national-conservative while others are totally left wing/communist. The East isn‘t really dominated by the Conservative CDU (Angela Merkel‘s party) but by the National Conservative AfD (Alternative für Deutschland) and the successor of the East German SED (DIE LINKE). Only in the recent election, the CDU managed to get a record result of 37% in Sachsen-Anhalt. Saxony remains the stronghold of the AfD but it will most likely never govern as nobody wants to form a coalition with them. Thuringia meanwhile is the stronghold of DIE LINKE where they sit at 30% in a coalition together with the SPD and the Greens. So you see that‘s still pretty divided politically. The East is also very Atheist with nearly no Christians/Jews/Muslims/whatever remaining. There have been many projects though to integrate the East further. For example the VDE projects are 21 infrastructure projects which are designed to stimulate the East‘s economy. VDE 1-9 are train lines which also includes a High Speed line (max. speed 300 km/h) from Berlin to Munich. VDE 10-20 are new Autobahn highways and VDE 21 is an extensive project rerouting canals and connecting them with others in the West. VDE 21 is the last one that needs completion and is expected to be opened next or this year. Overall, West and East Germany is still divided but things have changed for the better. We Germans still call each other „Wessis“ (Westies) and „Ossis“ (Easties) but many of us think reunification was a succes, but there‘s still a lot to do ;)

Finally a good video on this stuff

What you are saying at 10:38 is just wrong! His predecessor Willy Brandt already acknowledged these territorys as Polish. Claims to these parts were never made at this time. It is true that Germany during reunification made a treaty with Poland and the restof the allies to ratify the already obvious. However Kohl did get an offer to buy the Russian territory but he refused it. Because only russians were living there (the Germans in this area already migrated to Germany years ago) and the infrastructure was in very bad shape and would ad trillions to an already expensive reunification. He said in a famous quote that he would not even take the Soviet part if it was given to him for free.

@gerdforster883

4 жыл бұрын

Some soviet general, who had no authority in that matter, has been reported to have made said offer to one of Kohl's underlings. Who refused it without even asking Kohl. At least that is the story told in an article that was published more than ten years after reunification. Gorbatchev immediately made it clear that this had never been an official offer, when that story broke.

@canislupus6591

4 жыл бұрын

You are right, but that would disturb his epic song about almighty Helmut Kohl, Kanzler der Einheit.