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  @Walsinats4Сағат бұрын

  I had German ancestors who lived in Polish Silesia. They fully assimilated and were proud Polish citizens even as III Reich tried to force them to reclaim German citizenship

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  @AFGuidesHD7 сағат бұрын

  "The Germans used the massacre for propaganda purposes" Do you ever say such things for other ethnicities ?

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  @MrKotBonifacy9 сағат бұрын

  4:37 - someone is making fun of "German agglutination gone haywire" again... ;-) But even if these words may look like some kind of monstrosity, "a wall of letters" if you will, for anyone with just decent exposure to German all these individual "bricks" in that "wall" stand out just as clear as regular bricks in an ordinary wall. In English words are either typed separately or "joined" with a hyphen (semi-automatic or basic allowance) while German sticks them together, with an occasional "s-glue" (i.e. letter "s") thrown in for better... look? Sound? Feck, dunno, but my German education was a rather lousy and mediocre high school teacher hammering into our heads, class in, class out, twice a week, for four years, how... lousy and mediocre students we are, and what a waste of time it is... on which I'd agree as all her efforts got all of us (her students) basically nowhere as far as speaking German was concerned, but then I can still, more than forty years latter, recognise all these words easily (and smaller "blocks" within them - like grund-stück or zu-ständig-keit or über-tragung). So, here we go: grundstück [s] verkehr [s] genehmigung [s] zuständigkeit [s] übertragung [s] verordnung property (lit. a piece of land) - traffic/ transport - approval/ authorisation/ permit - responsibility/ jurisdiction/ competence - transmission/ transfer - regulation/ ordinance/ by-law HOWEVER, making sense of it is totally different kettle of fish, and my wild guess is it is probably some regulation/ bylaw about transfer of "responsibility" or authority over issuing some permits for transport of goods over particular piece of land/ property...? Google Translate throws a towel here, for _grundstücksverkehrsgenehmigung_ it says "property traffic permit" and for _zuständigkeitsübertragungsverordnung_ it says "transfer of responsibility regulation", so cut the _grundstücksverkehrsgenehmigungszuständigkeitsübertragungsverordnung_ any way you like and torture GT to yer heart content... : ) Anyway, rindfleich - etikettierung [s] überwachung [s] aufgaben übertragung [s] gesetz beef meat - labelling - supervision - task - tranfer - law Verkehr [s] infrastruktur finanzierung [s] gesselschaft traffic - infrastructure - financing - company (in "business" sense) Gleich gewicht [s] dichte gradienten zentrifugation even/ equall/ same - weight - density - gradient - centrifugation (I suspect it should be "zertifikation", certification, but what do I know...) Elektrizität [s] wirtschaft [s] organization [s] gesetz electricity - business/ economy - organisation - law/ regulation Yes, I know - fork, WHO CARES! I guess "no one" would be the most accurate answer but nonetheless that was the topic no-one (so far) touched upon (and the only one untouched left...), so I guess "someone had to to that", right? ;-)

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  @SirManateee6 минут бұрын

  Man kann's aber auch wirklich übertreiben ;)

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  @NO-Komol41211 сағат бұрын

  Fuck Poland

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  @angelikaskoroszyn849515 сағат бұрын

  This story reminds of what's happening to Russian speaking minorities in Baltic Countries. Their existence itself poses an existential danger. They could be used as excuse for an invasion. Older Russians speak only Russian and consume a lot of Russian content which makes them more vu to propaganda. There's a push towards asimilation although it's nothing like what had happened in the Interwar period. In the way the history repeats itself. You allow those Russians to stay "Russian" (loyal to Russian state) and you're in trouble. You try to balticanize them too hard and they'll start cooperating with Russian state to spite you. It's a complicated issue and I hope it will never devolve like it happened a hundret years ago

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  @GeneralCurtisEmersonLeMay18 сағат бұрын

  Germans east of the Border of the German State always suffered under the tyranny of the Poles :(

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  @bambina56048 сағат бұрын

  wtf is your comment history, germ?

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  @nickrollstuhlfahrerson865923 сағат бұрын

  Could we get a video on the Greek minority in interwar Poland please?

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  @skullmaster6888Күн бұрын

  Hey man! GO watch Najdłuższa Wojna Nowoczesnej Europy 1979-1981 (Longest War of Modern Europe), communist Poland TV show about the topics you're talking about

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  @eqramerКүн бұрын

  why do you call Dmowski antisemite and germanophobe? Did you read any of his works? then you should know that Dmowski was not prejudiced against any nation and had no ‘’likes" or "dislikes". he was simply calculating logically which nations had common or conflicting interests with Poland. He correctly calculated that Germans interests could not be reconciled with Polish (mainly because of Poland need to have access to sea which could not be reconciled with Germans willingness to keep East Prussia connected with Germany) but this does not mean at all that he was germanophobic.

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  @vojtechsulc5899Күн бұрын

  Feeling Victoria 2 vibes <3.

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  @prostytrollКүн бұрын

  Only because of the wonder of the Internet we can learn real history, so probably sooner then latter videos like this will disappear...

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  @NotplayingoneКүн бұрын

  It ended because we wanted independence after a couple centuries of being under rule by another country

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  @essasito1919Күн бұрын

  Very misleading video. You are talking about the german minority like they don't have a huge hostile country supporting them right next to them. Like they don't have schools and freedom of expression. This is one of your worst videos.

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  @SirManateeeКүн бұрын

  I mentioned the relationship between Germany and the minority in Poland often enough and talked about the fact that many Polish Germans held irredentist thoughts. And I never claimed that they didn't have minority schools or freedom of expression, you just didn't pay attention apparently.

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  @essasito1919Күн бұрын

  @@SirManateee I did, but the wording just felt biased idk

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  @rafaczajkowski60962 күн бұрын

  Poland was not "created" it was rather restored after 123 years of partition by her neighbors.

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  @SirManateee2 күн бұрын

  Poland wasn't, but the 2nd Republic of Poland definitely was

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  @rafaczajkowski60962 күн бұрын

  @@SirManateee fair enough 🤠

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  @collaborisgaming21902 күн бұрын

  15:56 I had an Ancestor in Marienwerder from the 1780s. He moved his whole Family deep into Germany before Fighting Napoleon.

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  @Feliciaon2 күн бұрын

  A really great video! Too bad you didn't mention and highlight the warlord policy of Silesian Governor (who was the face of the fight against 'Germanness') Michal Grazynski, which consisted of complete removal of German capital and German industrialists from every kind of establishment, almost complete removal of German education, fought against German culture and people and much more. It would also be interesting to mention the polocy of German removal (not landowners, but anyone and everyone) from the Pomeranian area by the Navy, and relocating them inland.

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  @SirManateee2 күн бұрын

  Michał Grażyński and the special autonomous status of Upper Silesia sadly didn't make the cut, as it would require a lot more additional context and explanations in a video that was already very long. I think I'll come back to the topic in a separate video

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  @francisparkeryockey48912 күн бұрын

  5 column in Poland

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  @BetterLifeCreations2 күн бұрын

  Excellent as always sir ❤🥰👍

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  @SirManateee2 күн бұрын

  Cheers :)

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  @raresremetan20012 күн бұрын

  Very educational video, thank you very much! Would there be any chance you could discuss in a future video about the German and Hungarian minorities in Greater Romania in the interwar period? I think this is also a topic that would make a great video! All the best and I cannot wait to watch your future videos! Liebe Grüße!

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  @simonguiri96282 күн бұрын

  As a descended of the Ruhrpoles, who tries to learn a bit of the jęzik polski, I love every video which includes the countries of my forefathers. Well done indeed, bravo

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  @jstefens2 күн бұрын

  I'm an American whose family is Polish from Poznan. Needless to say, my grandfather had little nice to say about Germans

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  @JeremyBentham-bx5dm3 күн бұрын

  Quite thorough video, well done ! Unfortunately, one thing is missing when discussing the German minority in Poland as a "fifth column" in the lead up to WW2: while indeed cases of direct para-military or sabotage action against Polish forces were rare, the German minority was critical for intelligence-collection, especially to prepare the Sonderfahndungsbuch Polen, a list drafted by the Gestapo immediately before the invasion of Poland containing more than 61,000 members of Polish elites: activists, intelligentsia, scholars, actors, former officers, landowners, teachers, entrepreneurs, social workers, army veterans, members of national organizations, priests, judges and prominent others. It was compiled from the clandestine human intelligence supplied by members of German minority in Poland involved in the Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz. People on the list were then targeted for execution during the subsequent Intelligenzaktion and AB-Aktion.

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  @aleksanderkorecki78873 күн бұрын

  It must be mentioned that many of the pogroms that happened in Eastern Galicia were perpetrated by Ukrainian soldiers of Symon Petliura.

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  @geoffreytotton19833 күн бұрын

  Thanks for this little known history The poles and Germans hated each other

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  @kidmohair81513 күн бұрын

  thank you for opening a curtain onto something that I have had little previous knowledge of.

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  @carlhvs94373 күн бұрын

  Poland could have been Germanys ally and given back Danzig for sooo much more land in the east. What a bunch of retards... Instead of winning the war they got fucked on both sides then fucked over. Fuck poland

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  @siemanowariat73303 күн бұрын

  Nazis wore latex unifroms and sanacja saw this as an unbased act of homosexuality. Thats why this could never work out

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  @carlhvs94373 күн бұрын

  Fuck poland

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  @Shantari3 күн бұрын

  I love that you responsibly point out when images you use have been used for propaganda and how you never shy away from the more uncomfortable parts of these histories.

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  @hedgehog31803 күн бұрын

  You should try doing a video on the Post-War treaties between Denmark and West Germany to show an example of how to actually solve issues with ethnic minorities. It has worked out really well and has lead to the two countries having incredibly warm relations and the Danish minority party even managed to get into the Reichstag during the last election.

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  @SirManateee3 күн бұрын

  I absolutely love that idea. It would finally be something positive for once haha

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  @XIXCentury3 күн бұрын

  Can we do a video on the Danube Swabians in pre-WW1 Serbia.

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  @kennethcarney58743 күн бұрын

  I almost turned this off right away when you said the German minority was often PERCEIVED as a hostile element within the polish state. You almost make it sound like the poles some how were getting this wrong. I think the events of ww2 prove they were right as Germans soon turned rabid

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  @zersky4952 күн бұрын

  Self-fulfilling prophecy

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  @piotrsieminski3 күн бұрын

  I would like to remind you that the official investigation conducted by the envoys of the US Congress with Henry Morgenthau, who was the ambassador of the USA to the Sublime Porte during the Armenian Genocide, cleared Poland and the Polish authorities of the accusation of pogroms, and stated that the word "pogrom" was inappropriate, because excluded Polish and Ukrainians victims. It is an official US Congress document. Murders occurred on both sides of the conflict, Ukrainians killed much more often and much more brutally, and the fact is that the Jews in Lwów sided with the Ukrainians.

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  @afropaintshaman47132 күн бұрын

  It’s worth mentioning that in Lwów the jewish minority have been helping Ukrainian soldiers during the fighting, and many of Polish soldiers were not fond of this fact.

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  @SirManateeeКүн бұрын

  1. Yes, Morgenthau came to the conclusion that it wasn't a pogrom. The whole point of the investigation was to protect Poland's international reputation after the (admittedly very often exaggerated) news of the anti-Jewish violence had come to the public. The fact that the peace delegation at Versailles was led by one of the most openly vocal antisemites at the time didn't help much. The US saw Poland as an important diplomatic partner in Europe because of its position between the USSR and Germany, which is why they sent the commission in the first place. Morgenthau was specifically chosen because he was known to be sympathetic to Poland. While he refrains from using the word "pogrom", he still condemns the anti-Jewish violence, stating that they were a "result of a widespread anti-Semitic prejudice aggravated by the belief that the Jewish inhabitants were politically hostile to the Polish State." Most modern-day historians who have researched the Lwów pogrom do name it as such, for example Christoph Mick, Alexander Prusin, William Hagen and many more. 2. Murders and heinous crimes were committed by both sides of the conflict, but that doesn't absolve the Polish mob who murdered, raped, pillaged and rampaged their way through Lwów's Jewish quarters and the commanders of the army who failed to put a stop to the violence. It would definitely have been possible, the Polish commander Stachiewicz had managed to put a stop to sporadic attacks that were happening after the takeover of Przemyśl just weeks before, but there was a clear lack of will in to do something similar in Lwów. While it most likely wasn't a planned attack and the Polish government certainly gave no order to commit mass violence, it still justifies nothing. 3. The claim that Lwów's Jewish population sided with Ukrainians is simply false. Most Jews remained passive and the Jewish militia did not fight on the Ukrainian side on a large scale, with a few individual exceptions. The Jewish militia even disbanded after the arrival of the Polish army and most victims of the pogrom were unarmed civilians. Between November 1918 and March 1919, only eight militiamen and two Jewish civilians were tried for collaborating with the Ukrainians during the battle of Lwów, which hardly supports the claim that the city's entire Jewish population was a monolithic anti-Polish front.

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  @afropaintshaman4713Күн бұрын

  @@SirManateee good points, but I can see that we have different sources for the third paragraph. Jan Gella who was at the time in the city, reported that the Jews were divided into two major sides neutral and pro-Ukrainian, so the second group couldn’t be minor since Ukrainian Army had given thanks to the Jews with a special announcement on November 18th, this can be find in his book Ilustrowany Opis Walk Listopadowych we Lwowie.

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  @burneraccount9003 күн бұрын

  It's heinous how the awful treatment of Germans after both world wars is swept under the rug or is attempted to be justified by international elements.

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  @jimtaylor2943 күн бұрын

  07:20 "Berleen" 😌👌

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  @SirManateee3 күн бұрын

  Böörlin

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  @gmb36023 күн бұрын

  Hey 👋🏻 as a suggestion for a future video, maybe a video on Gustav Stresemann. Imo a very interesting figure in German politics!

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  @gmb36023 күн бұрын

  Great video like always. Honestly big praises for the usage of sources! More videos on KZread should have this approach 👌🏻

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  @Ciech_mate4 күн бұрын

  That quip about Polish having a point at about 10 mins 30 I thought was funny, good job good video man. I am a history student myself

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  @SirManateee2 күн бұрын

  Just a bit of banter

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  @Northern_Judge4 күн бұрын

  Watched every video, I love all the small topics around Europe and the 16th century especially in eastern europe that only a few KZreadrs make content on like sandrhoman

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  @PaulvonPaulus4 күн бұрын

  Great video in light of recemt popularity of the channel "Zoomer Historian" who constantly claims that Germany was justified in its invasion of Poland because of massive ethnic clenses conducted by Polish government on Germans...

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  @alexandermalinowski42774 күн бұрын

  Same old racial hatred that started after 1870. Hatred towards Jews was forbidden in Bundesrepublik, but Poland was member of another block.

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  @SirManateee3 күн бұрын

  That bloody channel is actually awful

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  @PaulvonPaulus3 күн бұрын

  @@SirManateee yeah as a Polish person i feel almost dreadful listening to his ramblings and thinking some people in the west who know no better might believe him

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  @alexandermalinowski42773 күн бұрын

  @@PaulvonPaulus Chances are very high he is Putins troll

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  @alexandermalinowski42773 күн бұрын

  @@SirManateee Putins troll. Russian propaganda is supporting hatred in all corners of the world. They sponsor both radical left and radical right, they support antisemitism and Jewish radicals etc.

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  @Hilosiak4 күн бұрын

  another great video topic, and it's talked about so well. thank You for Your continuous work, Sir Manatee!

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  @titan_fist19534 күн бұрын

  "Germanized Polish Minority".

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  @MenwithHill4 күн бұрын

  Another precious bit of insight into this neglected area of history, thank you very much!

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  @alexandermalinowski42774 күн бұрын

  I remind you: problem of Germans originated from unification in 1871. Before German could live in Poland, Russia or Transylvania and be loyal to country of settlement. More over problem of Germans was unification by Prussia. This meant that Germany and Poland are enemies. The 3rd problem was that Germany was too strong to be not dangerous for everyone and to weak to conquer Europe. Polish problem with German minority was only reflection of overall German problem in 20th century. You need to find roots for every problem among Germans and not among Poles. Poles only reacted to Germans. Poles tried to copy German example for example.

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  @alexandermalinowski42774 күн бұрын

  Your first mistake: if you wanted to learn what Poles believed about common cohabitation with Germans, you should read this book. This is because in Poland famous intellectuals have say in such things. Wiatr od morza - książka Stefana Żeromskiego. Ukazała się w 1922 roku. Żeromski otrzymał za nią Nagrodę im. Orzeszkowej, Państwową Nagrodę Literacką (Ministra Wyznań Religijnych i Oświecenia Publicznego)[1]. Książka doczekała się ponad dziesięciu wydań[2].

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  @TrustyEngineer4 күн бұрын

  Sir, your pronounciation of Polish names is outstaning. May the Lord bless you! 😏

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  @TheOtherPhilip4 күн бұрын

  Isn’t it interesting that the overwhelmingly popular narrative is that the collapse of the Habsburg Empire was due almost entirely to multiculturalism. Yet, all of the states that were created out of the Habsburg Empire were multicultural….

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  @SirManateee4 күн бұрын

  This narrative largely comes from cold-war historians who tried to argue that only monoethnic states similar to those created after WW2 could function. It was also often used as an argument to explain why Eastern and Central were underdeveloped compared to Western European countries.

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  @TheOtherPhilip4 күн бұрын

  @@SirManateee that’s really interesting. I honestly didn’t know where the narrative came from but after reading Hitler’s scathing critique of the Habsburg monarchy in Mein Kampf, I was curious if it that narrative might have originated in national socialist circles.

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  @alexandermalinowski42774 күн бұрын

  If you are multicultural empire and collapse you break into smaller states. However empires create mixed areas. The overall result is necessity of ethnic cleansing. It happened everywhere, where Empire fallen. India Pakistan, Turkey Greece, Balkan countries etc.

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  @nonrumor3 күн бұрын

  And none of them seemed to work that well either! Wow!

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  @alexandermalinowski42773 күн бұрын

  @@nonrumor By the way, United States after the independence also suffered one generation of crisis. Political changes require times to start being effective.

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  @karelkieslich67724 күн бұрын

  It’s quite sad that Vienna and Prague didn’t grow much closer since they are both in the EU: I think there’s so much more potential and I would love an increased cultural mixing between them. Also with Ljubljana - I always feel that these three cities (and countries) are culturally the closest you can get, yet pleasantly unique. The shared history is fascinating and offers a lot of potential, yet often it feels it’s completely dormant, perhaps buried. But also Budapest, Bratislava, Trieste, Zagreb, Krakow, Lviv, Timisoara, Cluj… It all feels like one civilisation and the EU offers so much opportunity for a deeper integration and revival of the historical connection between these places, at least in culture. But I’m not sure there’s much apetite for it apart from a few of us… But I’m certain the viewers of this channel are among them :)

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  @SirManateee4 күн бұрын

  Beautifully written :)

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  @karelkieslich67724 күн бұрын

  What a fantastic and fascinating video, I really enjoy your channel and as a Prague-born with a German surname who loves Vienna, this video was a personal favourite. I’m not sure if you accept recommendations but I think a related video on the Germans in Prague would be equally interesting. For anyone interested, the American historian of Central Europe, Chad Bryant has a fascinating book called “Prague: Belonging in the Modern City” where each chapter describes the city throughout its history through the eyes of one (actual historical but not super well known) person from a minority (ethnic, political etc.). The chapter on the Germans in Prague is super interesting. Bryant also wrote a few academic papers on the issue of Germans and Czechs, and discusses their cohabitation and national struggles brilliantly in his book Prague in Black (which focuses on the Nazi period but it’s a much wider discussion with fascinating and well-balanced insights; in general, I find that well-meaning and interested American historians often tell the least biased histories of our region). But there are of course many other sources.

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  @SirManateee4 күн бұрын

  A video about the Prague Germans might happen one day, thanks for the suggestion :)

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  @arnbo884 күн бұрын

  My grandfather was an ethnic German conscripted into the Polish Army 1922-1924. He knew that minorities were not well received and kept his mouth shut and played along. What he witnessed was how brutal the Polish Sergeants were towards Orthodox Jews. Caught between a Russian and German vice; there was little tolerance of recruits who refused to shave and get a haircut. After the German invasion of 1939 it took the German police only a few months to photograph and issue a "Stammblatt" of every adult in the region of Kieselowka (Mariendorf).

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  @alexandermalinowski42774 күн бұрын

  If you believe in equal rights and duties for everyone, including Jews, you must comply with the rules. Do you know that Jews were exempt from military service for centuries? Polish Republic simply seriously broke with this tradition.

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  @alexandermalinowski42774 күн бұрын

  What is Stammblatt in Kisielewka? What does it mean?

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  @arnbo883 күн бұрын

  @@alexandermalinowski4277 Kisielowka is a village near Krakow in southern Poland where my mother was born. It used to be called Mariendorf due to the Germanic population. When the German Wehrmacht invaded Poland they were followed by the Einsatzsturm (pacification troops) whose job was to identify and index according to race every adult in the occupied area. The Stammblatt was a document that listed:your photo, age, occupation, race. parents, children and marital status. After this local Poles faced discrimination and Jews had a much worse fate. Even ethnic Germans were expected to play their part in this madness. Terrible times.

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  @hedgehog31803 күн бұрын

  @@alexandermalinowski4277 Jews weren't "exempt" from military service in Europe, they were banned. This wasn't some sort of privilege it was a targeted attempt to reduce the ability of jews to advance in society since throughout most of history the army was the only place where you could hope to advance in social standing.

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  @alexandermalinowski42773 күн бұрын

  @@hedgehog3180 🤣🤣🤣 This is extremely biased view. First of all for the most of history being a peasant conscripted to an army was really f* up. You should be grateful and basically Jews were happy to be exempted. Yes, I know - you compare a Jew and a Prussian officer. You do not compare a Jew and a peasant soldier. Nevertheless there were 1000 peasants per 1 officer.

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  @alexandermalinowski42774 күн бұрын

  Another problem: I don’t believe that refugee crisis in wake of Nazi invasion of Poland was a genuine one. It was for sure Goebbels organized crisis that was to provide pretext for invasion.