Hi all, next week's episodes will be: 'Why did Britain abolish slavery?' and 'Why did Romania Join the Axis?' Hope you enjoy.

@vlad-ns6yt

5 жыл бұрын

Yay Romania!!!

@MonsieurDean

5 жыл бұрын

Why not kill two birds with one stone and make a video about "Why Did Britain Abolish the Axis?"

@FrancisTha1st

5 жыл бұрын

on the topic of Romania and the Axis i'd love a video about the small Axis powers, their leaders, and what life was like in them. Slovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, and of course Romania. I think it's one of the least-discussed topics in WWII and it was awesome to see this video being in the same spirit.

@_o..o_1871

5 жыл бұрын

Yasss Romaniaaaa

@catalin90vlad

5 жыл бұрын

Finally there is something about Romania

Life in Alsace Leraine 1900: German 1920: French 1940: German 1960: French 2060: Luxembourgish

@SamAronow

5 жыл бұрын

Lotharingia 4eva!

@sandrojones8068

5 жыл бұрын

2060 syrian*

@dewoitine

5 жыл бұрын

All of the world will be Luxembourg in 2060

@habertpasternak30

5 жыл бұрын

ThomasTurner69 It will be a prized possession of the intergalactic empire of Liechtenstein

@explosivereactionstv7414

5 жыл бұрын

ThomasTurner69 2100: Portuguese

All because a thousand years ago, Charlemagne's grandsons couldn't share.

@herrwagnerianer1739

5 жыл бұрын

No, all because Louis XIV annexed it against the people's will in 1648. But no one talks about that. :-)

@fcalvaresi

5 жыл бұрын

@@herrwagnerianer1739 people's will did not mean anything in 1648.

@mariano98ify

5 жыл бұрын

@@fcalvaresi and still not matter

@eingew

4 жыл бұрын

This is why we need federalism.

@thelastprussian6491

4 жыл бұрын

Karl der Große

I knew a women named Lorraine once. She worked at Subway and was in charge of all the sauces. That's the only All-Sauce Lorraine I recognize.

@groundbeef6156

5 жыл бұрын

Bahdum tsk

@UNION_JACK_THE_RIPPER

5 жыл бұрын

BOOOOOOO

@aroundhere1200

5 жыл бұрын

BRUH

@anttibjorklund1869

5 жыл бұрын

Here's your coat, this way to the door ->

@aaronmarks9366

5 жыл бұрын

*slow yet hearty clap*

My Great Grandfather was a German living there. He married a French woman. He couldn't speak French and she refused to speak German. Also he refused to fight in another one of the Kaiser's wars, so they packed up and came to America where they both had to learn to speak English.

@asifurrahman5014

3 жыл бұрын

@@deprogramm they spoke luxembourgish obviously

@merouln700

3 жыл бұрын

@@deprogramm (They probably spoke alsacian)

@jacobpeters5458

3 жыл бұрын

@@deprogramm either huge baguette or huge wallette

@rambard5599

3 жыл бұрын

@@deprogramm Being unable to speak a language isn't the same as being unable to understand it.

@Morgoth10101

2 жыл бұрын

Which of those wars are you talking about? Germany didnt have any major wars between 1871 and the First World War. There was the Intervention in the Boxer Rebellion and the Namibian war against the local colonial people but those any had very limited participation by German troops.

0/10 Kaiser Wilhelm II is shown using both arms perfectly

@kaiserwilhelmll.3634

5 жыл бұрын

*I want to know your location*

@arfn1973

5 жыл бұрын

@@kaiserwilhelmll.3634 Ja, mein Kaiser!

@Perririri

4 жыл бұрын

Normie

@Edmonton-of2ec

4 жыл бұрын

Sir Uranos What are you talking about, the Kaiser is perfectly healthy! *Angry Imperial German Noises*

@ComradeHellas

4 жыл бұрын

Spot on

Napoleon III: losses Alssace-Lorraine Wilhelm II: losses Alssace-Lorraine Hitler: sooon

@fischlmakesmondstadtgreata7113

5 жыл бұрын

...Losses Alssace-Lorraine Macron: Hold my wife, I got this... *losses Alssace-Lorraine*

@A_annoying_rodent

5 жыл бұрын

@@fischlmakesmondstadtgreata7113 Steinmeier: well would du look at zis amazing terri- *loses it*

@cv4809

5 жыл бұрын

Merkel: *S o o n*

@AnAn-td2cn

4 жыл бұрын

@King Victor Emanuele Martin Sonneborn 👹

@bullworthstudent9328

4 жыл бұрын

TF2 REICHSKOMMISARIAT ELSAß-LOTHRINGEN

Fun fact: Strasbourg FC was founded during this period which technically makes it a French team founded in Germany.

@Skyline68230

3 жыл бұрын

Kind of the same fact with the car company Bugatti. French company, founded in German Alsace/Elsass by an Italian guy.

@daskleineskrokodil

3 жыл бұрын

It should join the Bundesliga

@guilhermeroyama8842

3 жыл бұрын

@@daskleineskrokodil Considering how poorly they have been surviving in Ligue 1, they would hardly last a year in the Bundesliga.

@daskleineskrokodil

3 жыл бұрын

@@guilhermeroyama8842 yeah , even Hamburg are better

@esochibuike8477

2 жыл бұрын

@@guilhermeroyama8842 😆😆💔

"What are you, French, German?" "Ferman"

@kaffohrt9858

5 жыл бұрын

"Luxembourgisch"

@Grivian

5 жыл бұрын

@@kaffohrt9858 Nice try Ferman

@BeryAb

4 жыл бұрын

Grench

@Faolan03

3 жыл бұрын

Sherman xD

@Not-Ap

3 жыл бұрын

@@BeryAb I like that one the most. 😄

As someone who used to live in the region (Strasbourg), I noticed the locals are quick to point out that Alsace and Lorraine are very different one from the other linguistically, culturally and geographically. Alsatian dialect is much closer to German and they have relatively flatland with the Rhine running by. Lorraine is mountainous and isolated by comparison.

@nicolas2419

2 жыл бұрын

Strasbourg is in a flat aera, but Alsace is not totally flat! You forgot too much that a large part of the Vosges Mountains are in Alsace and the southernmost part of Alsace, Sundgau, my homeland, is hilly! :D

@masterchinese28

2 жыл бұрын

@@nicolas2419 That is a very nice part of Alsace!

@lawrencedoliveiro9104

2 жыл бұрын

Alsace also has nicer dogs.

@Jimmylenaze

2 жыл бұрын

@@lawrencedoliveiro9104 what do u mean?

@vincentvincenzowehrung5830

Жыл бұрын

Yes it s exact correct

Hi, I am from Alsace-Lorraine. Parents from Mosel region (Lorraine) and lived my entire life in Alsace. Nice vid! I would just add that the Germans built amazing cultural buildings such as opera or theatres. Also rebuilt the Haut Koenisbourg castle. In the end, alsacians also find themselves as being an exception in France and usually refer the rest of France as “the France of the inside” (France de l’intérieur).

@nicolas2419

2 жыл бұрын

I'm also from Alsace-Lorraine, but from the area of Mulhouse! Just a remark, Germans built effectively beautiful buildings in Metz and Strasbourg... but sniff... they replaced the previous buildings destroyed by German bombardement during the sieges of these cities in 1870/1871! And Alsace is effectively an exception in France, mainly because this French-German history! :D

@Cigmacica

2 жыл бұрын

Bonjour chère compatriote Lorrain

@stadtrepublikmulhausen4121

2 жыл бұрын

@@nicolas2419 its the first time i have somebody else from mulhouse !

@playsgofficial

2 жыл бұрын

Ah Moselleland!

@wumbleisthebest3270

2 жыл бұрын

I've been to Haut Koenisbourg before, the view is amazing!

This comment section is basically the Franco-Prussian war in a nutshell.

@DaDunge

5 жыл бұрын

Germany mobilized while france aren't?

@arminiuscherusci4410

5 жыл бұрын

@@DaDunge and Belgium raped

@machtharry

4 жыл бұрын

Such a stupid name for this war btw. The Franco-German war would be so much more accurate.

@davidandremelchorzavala2100

4 жыл бұрын

machtharry Actually that’s how it’s called in French: Guerre Franco-Allemande (Franco-German War)

@machtharry

4 жыл бұрын

In german as well. Der Deutsch-Französische Krieg aka the german-frech war. Seems like its just the british that ignore the other german states.

Could you also do a video about the germans living in Alsace Loraine after ww1?

@slanderskovly1029

5 жыл бұрын

Agree!

@killianweisedesbois

5 жыл бұрын

They had a choice : stay here, learn French and become French or get out.

@misterhansen3799

5 жыл бұрын

@@killianweisedesbois I know, but it would be intresting if he could go a little bit more in depth

@DaDunge

5 жыл бұрын

@@killianweisedesbois Diffrence is, the germans did that to 10% of the population the french did it to 90% of the popultion. And also the Germans didn't ban french until 1914 and would likely have permitted it again after the end of the war had they won.

@LeDogueDeBroceliande

5 жыл бұрын

@@DaDunge The Republic did that to the entire French population, including the one in Alsace and Lorraine.

Wait they seriously wanted to give alsace to switzerland?

@Grityom

5 жыл бұрын

Switzerland could have annex a lot more territory in the XIX, like part of savoy. And yes alsace Lorraine also

@miliba

5 жыл бұрын

same german dialect

@generalaccount6531

5 жыл бұрын

Lol for the modern world we live in, where bloody conflicts occur over a tiny bit of disputed land, it is just absolutely absurd to think how monarchs use to give away their land, divide colonies up with random straight lines, or sell their territories like they were nothing

@IlGab02

5 жыл бұрын

@@Grityom SAVOIA

@joelp7665

5 жыл бұрын

@@IlGab02 Savoie?

0:55 Well. Literally a well. Nice.

@TheUaxington

3 жыл бұрын

Well. Literally a well. Aint that swell

@adamkerman475

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheUaxington Well. Literally a well. Ain’t that swell. What’s that smell?

I live close to the German/French border and it always amazes me how this region is now at peace. We're in the C-19 pandemic at the moment and French patients are routinely treated in German hospitals. Also, the German dialect is still widely spoken over the border, which surprised me.

@rao803

2 жыл бұрын

Probably because German language is as strong as French so it is hard to erase the way they did with Occitant, breton, etc.

@Cigmacica

2 жыл бұрын

As someone who was born in lorraine(in Moselle) I have never seen someone speaking German, they teacher german(as a secondary language obviously) but that all.

@Korschtal

2 жыл бұрын

@@Cigmacica Possibly because it's further across into France. I tend to cycle in the Colmar/Neuf Brisach region and the dialect is very common there.

@stadtrepublikmulhausen4121

2 жыл бұрын

@@Korschtal its also spoken be a lot of people in mulhouse

@sachaferrari4440

2 жыл бұрын

@@Korschtal i was born in Strasbourg and have always lived there but I’ve only rarely met people who speak alsacien and they were all 50 or older and lived in the countryside. Sadly, this dialect is dying notably because we can’t learn it in school because of French centralization.

Spoken: "and" On-screen: "und" :D

@fralencemelograno

5 жыл бұрын

Perfect!

@bullworthstudent9328

4 жыл бұрын

Antti Björklund PERFECTO!!!!

@Faolan03

4 жыл бұрын

Und is german for and

@anttibjorklund1869

3 жыл бұрын

@@Faolan03 Yes. Well done for explaining the joke.

@BiglerSakura

21 күн бұрын

He also spoke "well"

*_... I for one welxome our new german overlords - Otto from Schonhausen_* im dead lol

@garthvader9916

4 жыл бұрын

I came here to say that. Glad to see some else saw the reference. 😁

@corincowley1351

4 жыл бұрын

what its die reference?

@hoarder1919

3 жыл бұрын

@@corincowley1351 google simpsons overlords

@ananttiwari1337

3 жыл бұрын

welxome

For more context: The Alsace-Lorraine territory has gradually been annexed by France from the Holy Roman Empire (and also provinces that left the HRE prior) between roughly 1550-1800 and as such the region was (and to some extent still is) home to a sizeable German speaking population.

@achillezins6548

2 жыл бұрын

People don’t speak German to much anymore, maybe as a third language. People their speak the local Germanic dialect the local dialect (alsacien) and french. When I speak with my grandparents in Germans and they switch to alsaciens, it sounds very different and I can’t understand.

@vincentvincenzowehrung5830

Жыл бұрын

Oui ne pas oublier qui nous sommes , Elsass frei 🇮🇩

@vincentvincenzowehrung5830

Жыл бұрын

@Karl Von Lytovski je suis alsacien 🇮🇩 , ich bin Elsässer 🇮🇩

@nocomment6421

Жыл бұрын

The German language is pretty much dead there. Seriously Germany did everything to make the people there to hate being German after the second world war it was settled that Elsass and His inhabits are french.

@Nikioko

Жыл бұрын

Correct. The territory never belonged to France before Louis XIV's conquest.

A vid about the Latvian colony in Africa or the USS Pueblo Incident (when DPRK captured a US spy ship) would be nice

@gabed7407

5 жыл бұрын

It was a Polish-Lithuanian colony. It's unfair to call it just Lithuanian

@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un

5 жыл бұрын

Gabe D Technically it’s neither, it’s Latvian

@gabed7407

5 жыл бұрын

Technically yeah, but the whole livonian region was basically a satellite of the Commonwealth

@fischlmakesmondstadtgreata7113

5 жыл бұрын

Gonna love the fact that @@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un knows about the Latvian Colony in Africa, he is just such a well educated man.

@EggertPlays

5 жыл бұрын

Do you mean the duchy of Courland? The prince ruling it was not Latvian and it was also a vassal of the PLC.

Some of my ancestors were amongst the 50,000 that chose to leave rather than become German. They owned a small textile factory, and when the Germans took over they relocated it in Normandy, with most of the employees choosing to come with them.

I live there near strasbourg. Its a beautiful region. My great father had to fight for germany in ww2 on the eastern front near leningrad. 1924-2001

@CatnamedMittens

3 жыл бұрын

Possibly one of the worst places ever to fight?

@romainwalter4593

3 жыл бұрын

@@CatnamedMittens Yeah it was pretty horrible my father told me he ate his id paper not to get caught but he ended up in the tambov camp. He learned a bit of russian he was then able to say he was french. When he came back after a long travel home where there was nothing to eat but frozen potatos in the ground he said you could count the rescaped on the finger of your hand. Plus when the other came home they ate a lot after being starved and their stomack exploded. My grand father started slowly by eating a bit of soup to let the stomack adapt.

@CatnamedMittens

3 жыл бұрын

@@romainwalter4593 smart man

@lolexplosions4214

7 ай бұрын

Deadly sieges World War II.

Wasnt Bavaria also Catholic? How was life there right after unification?

@dabbasw31

5 жыл бұрын

In short: Bavaria wasn't a Reichsland but a Kingdom. Bavaria kept its own army, its own foreign policy and a level of autonomy, which Alsace-Lorraine did not have.

@A_annoying_rodent

5 жыл бұрын

Bavaria was rather poor during that time, in fact the rich bavaria we all know only appeared after ww2, up to 120k people left bavaria for the USA.

@yarpen26

5 жыл бұрын

@@A_annoying_rodent Bavaria was pretty much a carbon copy of Austria (I mean the actual modern Austria + South Tirol, not the Austrian half of the K.u.K.). They were both Catholic and rural German-speaking areas that never really industrialized (almost the entirety of Austria's industry lay in Bohemia) but which profited tremendouslyafter WWII from the economic shift from the industry onto the service sector. The same thing happened around the same time with the Republic of Ireland (at the expense of Northern Ireland) or Flanders (at the expense of Walloon).

@karlosdeevs

5 жыл бұрын

wait, could you maybe explain the industrial growth in ireland, because nearly the entire time the republic (south) and the north were seceded (while Waloon & Flanders acted as one)

@boahkeinbockmehr

4 жыл бұрын

Rhineland is also catholic. South and west are catholic, north and east are protestant.

love the animation, especially when powerful people are dancing through the daisies, fills me with joy, thank you

@Jimmylenaze

2 жыл бұрын

hahahahahahaha

My family lived in Alsace, they were German and at the end of the first world war they became French, of the lesser, of the rejection of France. In 1940 when Alsace became German again, they refused to become Nazis, they joined the Centre national de la résistance (CNR) but was captured in Paris in 1943 and then sent to the camp of Mauthausen

@darklysm8345

3 жыл бұрын

traitor family

@absentmindedshirokuma8539

3 жыл бұрын

@@darklysm8345 why would they be traitor when as video pointed out, German state has been discriminating alsace people? Why they demanded to be loyal to a country that didn't even protect them?

@jamesmccomb9525

3 жыл бұрын

@@darklysm8345 They may be traitors, but that isn't always a bad thing.

@pinkcheese917

3 жыл бұрын

@@absentmindedshirokuma8539 the amount of kaiserboos in this comment section is astounding tbh.

@absentmindedshirokuma8539

3 жыл бұрын

@George Nathanael even Bavaria has to face kulturkampf to some degree even they are autonomy kingdom under Prussia. Alsace who always has been Catholic never get such oppression on their religion even under French Republican. Heck, this very reason was main cause Liechtenstein never wiant to be under Prussia or greater germany.

I’m German and my great grandmother was born and raised in French Alsace Lorraine. After the war they had to change their surname, because it sounded too French

@justinajostin9006

3 жыл бұрын

@Funtime Florian I give plenty actually

@Botchewlism

3 жыл бұрын

@Funtime Florian we give a pretty good amount of shits.

@omniscientcammaleon9477

3 жыл бұрын

@Funtime Florian all of them

@jonmurray7658

2 жыл бұрын

@Funtime Florian *insert carrying bag of shits* Plenty.

@niarkman6999

2 жыл бұрын

I'm on thé opposite situation. My mother side of thé family comes from Moselle. They were part of thé 50k To run away from thé german annexion. In WW1 and WW2, thé steinmetz part of thé family was always suspected of being spies because of their name. They never changed it though.

That 'via Belgium' segment cracked me up

This is a proof that loyalties to a state goes beyond of merely “speaking the same language”.

@11Survivor

3 жыл бұрын

Alsatian isn't even german. It's a common misconception. As an indigenous alsatian, I can tell you the language, orally, sounds a lot different to the guys on the other side of the river. Additionally, alsatian actually predates german.

@asifurrahman5014

3 жыл бұрын

Yep

@uekiguy5886

3 жыл бұрын

@@11Survivor -- At that point in history, did the majority of Alsatians wish to be part of France or Germany? Thank you.

@11Survivor

3 жыл бұрын

@@uekiguy5886 They wished to be part of France, as evidenced by the 'elected protestors' they'd elect as their representatives. I'm alsatian by birth, by name, and by family history, my great-grandparents were there.

@uekiguy5886

3 жыл бұрын

@@11Survivor -- I see. Thank you so much for taking the time to answer. Hello from Kansas, U.S.

I appreciate the local perspective. Especially the detail "not all germans wanted to be part of germany." My family mostly live in Denmark now, but were originally danish-oriented, but low-german speaking Schleswig-Holsteiners. Their opinion was formed from a political standpoint rather than a cultural one; they viewed the Danish monarchy as the more liberal and democratic of the two. The formation of Germany very often boils down to "Prussia vs. Austria," but the political awakening within the HRE is a fascinating topic in off itself.

@Nikolaj11

5 жыл бұрын

@Hugin If the video and the comment is written in English, then you probably should do so too.

@Nikolaj11

5 жыл бұрын

@Hugin Sorry mate, I had German in school but I haven't used it in something like 13 years. You folks are too good at English now for it to be a useful language to remember. I'd like to pick it up again some day though :) I can still understand some, to some degree. The reason why I ask you to do English wasn't on that part. If I had to guess then I think you said something along the lines of "Liberalism and demokracy was bad for the Germans. Germans remain brothers and belong toegther," or something to that degree. Feel free to correct me!

@qwertzuiopu8161

5 жыл бұрын

@@Nikolaj11 Your right. But I would say the German Empire wasn't as undemocratic as often said.

I love how you end every video as though it was a happy ending forever after and then show hitler or napoleon. A nice pinch of foreshadowing.

I love your characters holding the sign saying "Soon."

My ancestors were German speaking Catholics who lived in Elsass for generations until the French Revolution in the late 1700s, when the French took over their land and expelled them. They then travelled by ox cart across Europe to the Ukraine where they established a farming commune called Elsass, near to the Black Sea. It's a whole thing--the Black Sea Germans--you can look it up. My grandfather fled from there, circa 1900, when as a young man he was being pressed into the Tsar's army and would likely have died on some battle field against people he had no grievance with. He then came to Canada, to a German speaking farm community on the prairies.

@vincentvincenzowehrung5830

Жыл бұрын

Very interesting story, makes me want to know more.

One thing this cartoon doesn't mention is the large amount of industrialization which took place in the Moselle (German Lorraine) region during this time. The Moselle was full of natural resources, namely iron ore, which was a significant reason as to why Germany wanted to control the region so badly. It was right after annexation when Berlin began pouring tons of money into the Lorraine mining and steel industries, not only to create more output but to win over the local population (states don't just use the stick, sometimes they use the carrot). I've lived in this exact region before and know the local history.

“What flag flies in Strasbourg now?” “The Tricolor flies there.” “Ah, so they won. They had their revanche. That must have been a great triumph for them.” “It cost them their life blood,” I said.” From the Dream by Winston Churchill.

@SpadeRZA

3 жыл бұрын

Isn't it the blue one with the yellow stars?

@colonelkurtz5397

3 жыл бұрын

fernando jose gonzalez olguin no, Strasbourg.

@wildfire9280

3 жыл бұрын

@fernando jose gonzalez olguin Stromboliniberg.

@davidandremelchorzavala2100

3 жыл бұрын

@fernando jose gonzalez olguin that ain’t real

@11Survivor

3 жыл бұрын

@fernando jose gonzalez olguin Fuck Luxembourg, glory to the Republic of Alsace Lorraine.

These videos are a wonderful intermediate primer on historical events with the cute cartoon figures and sardonic humor.

My family immigrated to the USA from Pfalsbourg and Strasbourg before WW2,and identified as Protestant Germans. They lived in the area for centuries under French and German rule .My Great Grandparents missed their homeland so much,they had Natives of Alsace Lorraine on their headstones . I always found it strange that they used the French spelling . My theory is that the American who made the headstone spellled it the French. way ... I’m not trying to start the age old debate,but think it is unusual. I still have family in Strasbourg . As a kid i thought it was strange that I have ancestors with French first names such as Jaques and our German surnames . Luckily I have a cousin in Strasbourg who is a great family historian and translated records to English from French and German .

@someguy7723

Жыл бұрын

Could have been the funeral firm had a anti-german dude working that night or somthing like that

@vincentvincenzowehrung5830

Жыл бұрын

great story, never forget the story of our ancestors there is a lot of sadness and strength , Elsass 🇮🇩

My Great-Great-Grandfather lived in Alsace-Lorraine prior to WWI. He was an engineer in the textile industry.

History matters: The channel that made "Sky ship hell" a legit name. I am probably gonna name my kid that.

@dumkopf

5 жыл бұрын

SkyChapelle *

@Cjnw

3 жыл бұрын

Oof

I love how History Matters clears up things in minutes that I've wondered about for years.

My Family is of German origin but was from this region of France pre unification and moved to America in the mid 19th century.

I love your quick image-word paring. It keeps me laughing and learning

When people say "Alsace-Lorraine" instead of "Alsace-moselle"

@Hugo-cn9no

4 жыл бұрын

It's not Alsace-moselle too because Belfort was french in 1871

@soderfjarden3197

4 жыл бұрын

IT'S ELSASS LÖTHRINGEN DU SCHWIEN HUND 😎

@K2ELP

4 жыл бұрын

@@soderfjarden3197 Actually its "Elsaß-Lothringen", with an Eszett and no Ö

@saupiquet7516

3 жыл бұрын

@@soderfjarden3197 Alsace-Loraine for you prussiaboo

@soderfjarden3197

3 жыл бұрын

ELSASS LOTHRINGEN FOR YOU DU SCHWEIN HUND 😎

Been really enjoying these styles of videos recently!

Next: Life in the Saar Region (Short Animated Documentary)

@karlosdeevs

5 жыл бұрын

Later: the Meuse-Rhine Euroregion

@kaffohrt9858

5 жыл бұрын

Maggi!

@SirSoloQ

4 жыл бұрын

U get married to ur sister.

@haltdieklappe7972

2 жыл бұрын

Life in paris

Elsaß-Lothringen is written without an Ö. Is that a joke?

@TheChosenFailure

5 жыл бұрын

apparently it isn't written with an ö. it's Alsaß-Lotharingen and not Alsaß-Lötharingen

@sganarellelevalet7479

5 жыл бұрын

Anyway you wrote the wrong orthograph too, it's Alsace Lorraine

@TheChosenFailure

5 жыл бұрын

@@sganarellelevalet7479 we are talking about the German version of it aren't we? so raus.

@makaan1932

5 жыл бұрын

@@TheChosenFailure german. Boy. Its german and it is correct the way I spell it cause I'm German.

@arminiuscherusci4410

5 жыл бұрын

@@TheChosenFailure In german: Elsaß-Lothringen In french: Alsace-Lorraine From a native german :)

I love the "Soon" look

The parking lot between the French and German language houses at my uni was designated "Alsace-Lorraine."

One of your funniest videos I've seen. Nice work.

My Grand Grandpa fought together with solidiers from Alsace Lorraine but he said they werent less brave then others. However he said the Austrians and Chechz behaved shit and snitched often in The POW Camps

@11Survivor

3 жыл бұрын

Having a Gestapo officer personally threaten your family can be quite the motivator...

@J-IFWBR

3 жыл бұрын

​@@11Survivor Austrians and chechz were fighting alongside the germans i think, not against them? Just like the Rumanians and Fins did too. I think (in case i remember it wrong I AM RLY SRY) xd. So it would rather have been a KGB or redarmy officer threatening them inside a POW Camp. Also their families were not with them there. Edit:wait are we talking first or second WW here?

@11Survivor

3 жыл бұрын

@@J-IFWBR Second WW In Alsace, they threatened deportation for the families of those who refused to present themselves for conscription

@hubertsavio9356

3 жыл бұрын

Not true, my tip grand father got several medals!!!

@Daniel-kq4bx

3 жыл бұрын

@@hubertsavio9356 Im not trying to generalize, these are heavily subjective Impressions. However it seems logical that the Czechs were leaning more to that, considering they were subjugated under Habsburg Rule

Can you make the video on the Polish-Lithuanian Commanwealth like you said you were before? Love your vids by the way.

@sopmodo8122

5 жыл бұрын

What place of poland are you from?

@gabed7407

5 жыл бұрын

@@sopmodo8122 Białystok area, by Sokółka

@Ponanoix

5 жыл бұрын

@@sopmodo8122 Wrocław

@sopmodo8122

5 жыл бұрын

@@Ponanoix Breslau*

@Ponanoix

5 жыл бұрын

@Thomas Meyer Wrocław**

Sadly moping through the flower field was a fantastic subversion of your own running joke! Keep it coming, HistoryMatters! You're the best!

I love your channel keep up the great stuff!!!

47 years (1871-1918) of Prussian rule achieved what the previous 200 years of French rule could not: it made even the German-speaking Alsatians into enthusiastic citizens of France.

@karlscher5170

2 жыл бұрын

That's just anglo-saxon bullshit propaganda

@stadtrepublikmulhausen4121

2 жыл бұрын

@@karlscher5170 no that's true.

@mikaelb.2070

2 жыл бұрын

Actually by the 1900s loyalty to France had diminished completely.

@ericmiller6056

2 жыл бұрын

@@mikaelb.2070 What's your evidence?

@mikaelb.2070

2 жыл бұрын

@@ericmiller6056 Laicism and the spread of socialism had alienated catholics from France, the Dreyfus-affair alienated the jews from France while at the same time A-L was given more autonomy and rights within Germany, plus the rapid economic growth and wealth convinced people to accept Germany.

"Totally settled forever " 🤣🤣🤣

My 3X great grandparents immigrated from Alsace in 1872. There name was Lueckel and they ended up in Tell City / Cannelton Indiana. I've always wondered what was their reason to pack up and move half way across the planet to rural Indiana. Thank you for sharing this.

I love al your videos!! It’s so awesome!

i love those "soon" plates

I had a chapter in English class in high school called "The last lesson". The story revolved around this annexation.

Excellent as always.

I absolutely adore the animations 💙😂

I'm French and my granmother was from Alsace with a german name,but she was proud to be french

I got to visit both Strasbourg and Metz and I have to say I really enjoyed this.

@stadtrepublikmulhausen4121

2 жыл бұрын

You should go to colmar and mulhouse the Haut-Rhin in really underrated !

Glorious video! I love this because it gives you a ton of fascinating history in such a short amount of time so that makes it convenient with my schedule.

French men: bonjour🙂 German soldier: Also hast du den Tod gewählt🔫😑

Switzerland: Oh no, you're not drawing me into this mess!

@reschi56

5 жыл бұрын

Giving Elsass to Switzerland would've probably been the best decision as the people in Elsass spoke the same dialect as people in Switzerland.

@guardiadecivil6777

4 жыл бұрын

@@reschi56 imagine ww1 and ww2 then when theres a switzerland is cucking you out of the country you're attacking

@11thstalley96

4 жыл бұрын

Reschi I can confirm. My family emigrated from Thurgau and Appenzell to Elsass after the Thirty Years War. I never met my great grandparents who emigrated to the US after the Franco Prussian War, but my Dad said that the German they spoke was very different from the German spoken in their neighborhood in St. Louis.

@thedwightguy

3 жыл бұрын

@@reschi56 Elsass would have one big time, with the view of current history. But there are many dialects of German in Switzerland. My buddy speaks German but it sounds like Italian.

@joueurspectateur

3 жыл бұрын

@@reschi56 you do realize that if any country was given Alsace it would have most likely went to war with France. So if they wanted to stay neutral, they would have refused the offer.

"The issue is settled forever." For now.

@lucienaras2165

3 жыл бұрын

Next time France take rhenanie too, as it should be.

@colonelkurtz5397

3 жыл бұрын

Sams Alsace Lorraine don’t want to be german and Germany don’t have the power to take it.

@Sams-li8tj

3 жыл бұрын

@@colonelkurtz5397 It's just a joke bro. And moreover, nothing is set in stone.

@colonelkurtz5397

3 жыл бұрын

Sams I know, but after seeing like 100 000 comments of kaiserboo, it starts to be annoying (i live in alsace lorraine) and anyway, Germany and France are good friends, and no one in Europe want to start another war..

@Sams-li8tj

3 жыл бұрын

@@colonelkurtz5397 I don't know what kaiserboo is and I won't even ask since it sounds like bad news. Here's to continued peace in Europe, tschüss!

Just a little mistake I noticed: Elsass Lothringen is written with a "o" and not a "ö". On the other hand you pronounced the ö quite nice, a thing most people don't, thinking these two letters are interchangeable. Regardless I think this video covers a less known topic very well.

@bjarkel.993

5 жыл бұрын

Elsaß-Lothringen was the öld German spelling. Nöw yöu just göt the new Anglö spelling: Elsass-Löthringen. Lol

@John_Jim

5 жыл бұрын

Löl

@jpc7118

2 жыл бұрын

@@John_Jim Lmaö

@batonnetdecannelle

Жыл бұрын

Could it possibly add a certain "gothic" charm, putting 'Umlaut'-dots where they don't belong? Metal bands: YES!

@huaba8804

Жыл бұрын

@@batonnetdecannelle ë

2:31 "...the region was returned to France and the issue over who owned it was totally settled for ever" 😂🤣😅

The alsace area is amazing to visit, definitely worth a couple of days if you're ever close by!

The local dialect in Lorraine/Lothringen is also a Germanic dialect. It belongs to the model-franconian dialects and is by no means further away from German dialects than Alsatian. Alsatian belongs to the Alemannic dialect group whereas Lorraine to the Franconian. That's the main difference. Even though, there aren't that many speakers. Both have been widely wiped out by French.

@edmerc92

3 ай бұрын

Most of Lorraine didn't speak a Germanic dialect, only the department of Moselle did (and even then, the city of Metz did not)..

Thanks for this video, my family largely immigrated from the area in 1888 though we don't have reliable information on why most of the extended family up and moved. This might explain a good bit of it.

Sweet video History Matters.

I'm swiss and can you imagine how interesting it'd be if the Kaiser said yes.

@gutentagichliebebretzel2571

2 жыл бұрын

I live in alsace and I also wonder alot

@someguy7723

Жыл бұрын

100% chance France would have tried taking it back

Sorry, but Franco-German relations were not permanently bad starting with 1871. The Napoleonic wars that completely destroyed the German states were not popular in Germany either. It's safe to say that it has had a long history.

@juwebles4352

2 жыл бұрын

Not to even mention the division between west and east Francia

@jacobinfier9407

Жыл бұрын

Most of germans before 1812 liked France very well because we brought political progress. And few random guy not really famous like Hegel, Kant or Goethe were all huge fans of Napoleon.

@Antarctide

Жыл бұрын

@@jacobinfier9407 We all saw and keep seeing what that "progress" was truly for and it's anything but glorious...

@camm8642

Жыл бұрын

@@jacobinfier9407 nah bismark and the like held resement over french domination over german lands int he Napoleonic age

@edmerc92

3 ай бұрын

But there were individual German states that were pro-French, especially the south. This ended with the unification of Germany, where Prussia now set foreign policy.

Best video so far!

The well gag was so fast it took me a few to process it and finally sensibly chuckle at it

that newspaper at 1:16 tho XDDDDD

My great grandparents came from Mulhouse (Mülhausen) in the early 1900’s. My grandpa told me that they generally considered themselves as Germans and we consider ourselves a family of German immigrants. But on our records they put down their nationalities as ‘Alsatian’ all the way up to the 1960’s. It’s almost as if they didn’t even consider themselves Germans or French at all. I could tell they had a lot of love and pride for Alsace and I can relate too for being proud of being from the southern United States. I hope I get to visit this region soon and Europe.

Great video. I'm going to use it in class.

I love that "totally settled forever" with a strange little mustached guy saying soon😅

Nice video. Do you plan on talking about either the Algerian War, the Sino-French War or the Paris Commune ?

@aaronmarks9366

5 жыл бұрын

Yesss, Sino-French war was nuts

@reds.victim1023

4 жыл бұрын

Français ne soyons plus esclaves!

You forgot that in 1911 Elsass-Lothringen won their own constitution and were considered as a german land! This was a major concession from the germans and Elsass-Lothringen had years ahead with the social security and several other laws. So much better than in France

@gryfalis4932

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah that was so much better they wholeheartedly abandonned their loyalty to France and became germans with no resistance or altercation whatsoever. Truly Germany was the best choice for the region. /s

@hubby00n6

2 жыл бұрын

@@gryfalis4932 indeed all my great-grandfathers had German uniform, won EK 2nd class medals and fought at the French front. One of them was close to expulsion in 1919, as German speaking only

@karlscher5170

2 жыл бұрын

@@gryfalis4932 So my salty frenchman, when the loyalty for France was so big, why didn't France dared to make a democratic referendum and settle the issue in a civilised way?

@Papepatine

Жыл бұрын

​@@karlscher5170 Why would they ? There was no independentist movement. If Germany did one tho, they would have chosen France

@karlscher5170

Жыл бұрын

@@Papepatine sounds childish

Amazing!

The not-skipping through flowers at 1:11 is great lol. Stay well out there everybody, and God bless you friends. :)

So, Germany annexed an area which was 90% German speaking and the Kaisers, mostly Wilhelm II, managed to screw that up.

@edmerc92

3 ай бұрын

They spoke Alsatian, which is a Germanic language but not quite the same.

@matthiasbehrendt6112

2 ай бұрын

​​@@edmerc92It's a German dialect. The emergence of standard German as an everyday language happened primarly after the invention of mass media. Btw. that's what is true for almost every standard language.

One of My Great-Great grandfather (3 out of 8 were Alsacians) was a "Malgré-nous". That means "Against-us". It was the name that alsacians gave to those of them who were enrolled against their will in the Deutsches Heer. The two others hid for years in a barn or in a cellar to avoid being enrolled in the German army.

At some point, Switzerland wanted to integrate Mulhouse for strategic reasons. But finally, Swiss were satisfied with the location of the new border agreed by France and Germany. The integration of Mulhouse was no longer needed.

I got surprised for the cotton fact, then you got me chuckling to the "und"

Can you propose some Americas topics for future videos? Some ideas: - the Red River Rebellion and Northwest Rebellion in Canada - the English colonization of the Carolinas - the North American theaters of the War of the Spanish Succession or the War of the Austrian Succession - the First Mexican Empire under Agustín de Iturbide - the joining and breakup of Central America after independence from Spain - the War of the Triple Alliance, the bloodiest conflict in South American history

@Xindet

5 жыл бұрын

American history is for the Most part Not important AT all sry

@aaronmarks9366

5 жыл бұрын

@@Xindet lmao

@Toast0808

4 жыл бұрын

Make your own

@joaov_ds

4 жыл бұрын

Would be awesome. A shame that eurocentric people think they're the only ones in the world who deserve some praise...

@josesandoval1440

2 жыл бұрын

@@Xindet American history is the only reason you're speaking English instead of German

My great-grandma changed nationality four times in her lifetime despite never going anywhere: Deutsches Reich until 1921, independent Saargebiet 1921-1935, Deutsches Reich again 1935-1947, independent Saarland 1947-1957, and German Federal Republic until her death.

@Ponanoix

Жыл бұрын

Why did you call modern Germany by its english name, but earlier states by their german name

I’m glad these historical points of friction are settled forever. Don’t want it to bleed over into another episode.

Absolutely fascinating video!

Well, to be more accurate, the German empire didn't annex Alsace-Lorraine because that doesn't make any sense at all. In reality, they annexed Alsace, almost all of Moselle and a bit of Meurthe et Moselle (Moselle and Meurthe et Moselle are two of the four departements of the Lorraine region). The Moselle and Meurthe and Moselle aren't the entire Lorraine region, i know it because i live there. I don't why this mistake perpetuates but it's a huge geographical error.

1:01 Happy Kaiser killed me xD

Fascinating!

Very interesting episode

Wasnt the last german veteran of ww1 actually a Elsasser,his name was Karl something,when Elsass became Alsace again he changed his name to Charles and i think he joined the French army in ww2 Bizarre times.

@niklashaselmann2944

3 жыл бұрын

If this is true we NEED a video immediatly 🤯

@niklashaselmann2944

3 жыл бұрын

@historymatters

The french when Germany invades Alsace Lorraine: "Stop, you're trying to kidnap what I've rightfully stolen!"

@MrDonut-ch8dr

3 жыл бұрын

@Clear Kim Elsaß Lothringen is german

@Greey16

3 жыл бұрын

@@MrDonut-ch8dr Elsass is Elsass, not german, not french, Elsass

@Faolan03

3 жыл бұрын

@Clear Kim why should it? Alsace lorraine was german speaking since the end of the roman empire and the french conquered it in 1700 when the HRE was weak and couldn't defend it.

@ImEazyE

3 жыл бұрын

Elsass Frei

@Faolan03

3 жыл бұрын

@Clear Kim at what point did the world stay like it was? Literally never in History

My great grandfather was born there, I know his father and brother lived with him. He was born around 1835, but by about 1870, he'd married a woman in Canada. He was German (very German first and last name, but I read somewhere that he said that he was French. Some of this is from free ancestor information sites online, so I don't know if he really thought himself French. But moving from Alsace to Canada might mean that he wanted to stay French. The woman he married had the last name Nichols, I believe she was German, also. I had wanted to live there for years, then finding that he was born there, maybe I'm meant to go back?

Bless you