Life in Alsace Lorraine (Short Animated Documentary)

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  • Опубликовано: 10 янв 2025

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  • @HistoryMatters
    @HistoryMatters  5 лет назад +2692

    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
      @vlad-ns6yt 5 лет назад +33

      Yay Romania!!!

    • @MonsieurDean
      @MonsieurDean 5 лет назад +98

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

    • @FrancisTha1st
      @FrancisTha1st 5 лет назад +39

      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
      @_o..o_1871 5 лет назад +8

      Yasss Romaniaaaa

    • @catalin90vlad
      @catalin90vlad 5 лет назад +7

      Finally there is something about Romania

  • @siruranos9172
    @siruranos9172 5 лет назад +7360

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

    • @kaiserwilhelmll.3634
      @kaiserwilhelmll.3634 5 лет назад +636

      *I want to know your location*

    • @arfn1973
      @arfn1973 5 лет назад +226

      @@kaiserwilhelmll.3634 Ja, mein Kaiser!

    • @Perririri
      @Perririri 5 лет назад +16

      Normie

    • @Edmonton-of2ec
      @Edmonton-of2ec 5 лет назад +238

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

    • @ComradeHellas
      @ComradeHellas 5 лет назад +14

      Spot on

  • @MonsieurDean
    @MonsieurDean 5 лет назад +6217

    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.

  • @NoNumbersAfterName
    @NoNumbersAfterName 5 лет назад +6603

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

    • @herrwagnerianer1739
      @herrwagnerianer1739 5 лет назад +539

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

    • @fcalvaresi
      @fcalvaresi 5 лет назад +1006

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

    • @mariano98ify
      @mariano98ify 5 лет назад +226

      @@fcalvaresi and still not matter

    • @eingew
      @eingew 5 лет назад +44

      This is why we need federalism.

    • @thelastprussian6491
      @thelastprussian6491 5 лет назад +62

      Karl der Große

  • @beyo5
    @beyo5 5 лет назад +4330

    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
      @asifurrahman5014 3 года назад +765

      @@deprogramm they spoke luxembourgish obviously

    • @merouln700
      @merouln700 3 года назад +282

      @@deprogramm (They probably spoke alsacian)

    • @jacobpeters5458
      @jacobpeters5458 3 года назад +414

      @@deprogramm either huge baguette or huge wallette

    • @rambard5599
      @rambard5599 3 года назад +329

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

    • @Morgoth10101
      @Morgoth10101 3 года назад +62

      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.

  • @thomasturner6980
    @thomasturner6980 5 лет назад +9306

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

    • @SamAronow
      @SamAronow 5 лет назад +178

      Lotharingia 4eva!

    • @sandrojones8068
      @sandrojones8068 5 лет назад +528

      2060 syrian*

    • @dewoitine
      @dewoitine 5 лет назад +266

      All of the world will be Luxembourg in 2060

    • @habertpasternak30
      @habertpasternak30 5 лет назад +181

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

    • @explosivereactionstv7414
      @explosivereactionstv7414 5 лет назад +35

      ThomasTurner69 2100: Portuguese

  • @BarronVonPeugeot
    @BarronVonPeugeot 3 года назад +1605

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

    • @Skyline68230
      @Skyline68230 3 года назад +161

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

    • @daskleineskrokodil
      @daskleineskrokodil 3 года назад +33

      It should join the Bundesliga

    • @guilhermeroyama8842
      @guilhermeroyama8842 3 года назад +60

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

    • @daskleineskrokodil
      @daskleineskrokodil 3 года назад +9

      @@guilhermeroyama8842 yeah , even Hamburg are better

    • @esochibuike8477
      @esochibuike8477 3 года назад +2

      @@guilhermeroyama8842 😆😆💔

  • @tf2664
    @tf2664 5 лет назад +3039

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

    • @fischlmakesmondstadtgreata7113
      @fischlmakesmondstadtgreata7113 5 лет назад +191

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

    • @A_annoying_rodent
      @A_annoying_rodent 5 лет назад +45

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

    • @cv4809
      @cv4809 5 лет назад +63

      Merkel: *S o o n*

    • @AnAn-td2cn
      @AnAn-td2cn 5 лет назад +5

      @King Victor Emanuele Martin Sonneborn 👹

    • @bullworthstudent9328
      @bullworthstudent9328 5 лет назад +9

      TF2
      REICHSKOMMISARIAT ELSAß-LOTHRINGEN

  • @Grivian
    @Grivian 5 лет назад +1558

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

    • @kaffohrt9858
      @kaffohrt9858 5 лет назад +99

      "Luxembourgisch"

    • @Grivian
      @Grivian 5 лет назад +149

      @@kaffohrt9858 Nice try Ferman

    • @BeryAb
      @BeryAb 4 года назад +125

      Grench

    • @Faolan03
      @Faolan03 4 года назад +41

      Sherman xD

    • @Not-Ap
      @Not-Ap 4 года назад +17

      @@BeryAb I like that one the most. 😄

  • @vikingspud
    @vikingspud 3 года назад +479

    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
      @nicolas2419 3 года назад +30

      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

    • @vikingspud
      @vikingspud 3 года назад +4

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

    • @lawrencedoliveiro9104
      @lawrencedoliveiro9104 2 года назад +1

      Alsace also has nicer dogs.

    • @Jimmylenaze
      @Jimmylenaze 2 года назад

      @@lawrencedoliveiro9104 what do u mean?

    • @vincentvincenzowehrung5830
      @vincentvincenzowehrung5830 2 года назад +2

      Yes it s exact correct

  • @IAmReallyReallyBob
    @IAmReallyReallyBob 3 года назад +888

    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
      @nicolas2419 3 года назад +83

      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
      @Cigmacica 3 года назад +15

      Bonjour chère compatriote Lorrain

    • @stadtrepublikmulhausen4121
      @stadtrepublikmulhausen4121 3 года назад +10

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

    • @playsgofficial
      @playsgofficial 2 года назад +12

      Ah Moselleland!

    • @wumbleisthebest3270
      @wumbleisthebest3270 2 года назад +6

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

  • @Aetherguy-cb9bu
    @Aetherguy-cb9bu 5 лет назад +1620

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

    • @DaDunge
      @DaDunge 5 лет назад +49

      Germany mobilized while france aren't?

    • @arminiuscherusci4410
      @arminiuscherusci4410 5 лет назад +20

      @@DaDunge and Belgium raped

    • @machtharry
      @machtharry 5 лет назад +40

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

    • @davidandremelchorzavala2100
      @davidandremelchorzavala2100 5 лет назад +18

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

    • @machtharry
      @machtharry 5 лет назад +44

      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.

  • @misterhansen3799
    @misterhansen3799 5 лет назад +1686

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

    • @slanderskovly1029
      @slanderskovly1029 5 лет назад +49

      Agree!

    • @killianweisedesbois
      @killianweisedesbois 5 лет назад +272

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

    • @misterhansen3799
      @misterhansen3799 5 лет назад +30

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

    • @DaDunge
      @DaDunge 5 лет назад +372

      @@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
      @LeDogueDeBroceliande 5 лет назад +53

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

  • @Korschtal
    @Korschtal 4 года назад +308

    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
      @rao803 3 года назад +40

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

    • @Cigmacica
      @Cigmacica 3 года назад +10

      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
      @Korschtal 3 года назад +21

      @@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
      @stadtrepublikmulhausen4121 3 года назад +8

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

    • @sachaferrari4440
      @sachaferrari4440 2 года назад +28

      @@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.

  • @nietname2468
    @nietname2468 5 лет назад +1020

    Wait they seriously wanted to give alsace to switzerland?

    • @Grityom
      @Grityom 5 лет назад +177

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

    • @miliba
      @miliba 5 лет назад +90

      same german dialect

    • @generalaccount6531
      @generalaccount6531 5 лет назад +256

      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
      @IlGab02 5 лет назад +6

      @@Grityom SAVOIA

    • @joelp7665
      @joelp7665 5 лет назад +4

      @@IlGab02 Savoie?

  • @DrWatson610
    @DrWatson610 3 года назад +200

    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
      @achillezins6548 2 года назад +8

      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
      @vincentvincenzowehrung5830 2 года назад +4

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

    • @vincentvincenzowehrung5830
      @vincentvincenzowehrung5830 Год назад +1

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

    • @nocomment6421
      @nocomment6421 Год назад +4

      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
      @Nikioko Год назад +3

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

  • @SS5Ghaleon
    @SS5Ghaleon 5 лет назад +334

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

    • @dabbasw31
      @dabbasw31 5 лет назад +312

      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
      @A_annoying_rodent 5 лет назад +91

      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
      @yarpen26 5 лет назад +110

      @@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
      @karlosdeevs 5 лет назад +3

      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
      @boahkeinbockmehr 5 лет назад +38

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

  • @Felix0587
    @Felix0587 5 лет назад +153

    0:55 Well. Literally a well. Nice.

    • @TheUaxington
      @TheUaxington 3 года назад +8

      Well. Literally a well. Aint that swell

    • @adamkerman475
      @adamkerman475 3 года назад +4

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

    • @Red_Platinuum
      @Red_Platinuum 4 месяца назад

      ​@adamkerman475 it's a late gale

    • @bigbitehood1353
      @bigbitehood1353 Месяц назад

      Well
      Nice, France

  • @anttibjorklund1869
    @anttibjorklund1869 5 лет назад +313

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

  • @billybobkingston5604
    @billybobkingston5604 3 года назад +40

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

  • @u4tiwasdead
    @u4tiwasdead 2 года назад +32

    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.

  • @AncientAccounts
    @AncientAccounts 5 лет назад +586

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

    • @garthvader9916
      @garthvader9916 4 года назад +2

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

    • @corincowley1351
      @corincowley1351 4 года назад +2

      what its die reference?

    • @hoarder1919
      @hoarder1919 4 года назад +4

      @@corincowley1351 google simpsons overlords

    • @ananttiwari1337
      @ananttiwari1337 3 года назад +1

      welxome

  • @SupremeLeaderKimJong-un
    @SupremeLeaderKimJong-un 5 лет назад +390

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

    • @gabed7407
      @gabed7407 5 лет назад +14

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

    • @SupremeLeaderKimJong-un
      @SupremeLeaderKimJong-un 5 лет назад +66

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

    • @gabed7407
      @gabed7407 5 лет назад +8

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

    • @fischlmakesmondstadtgreata7113
      @fischlmakesmondstadtgreata7113 5 лет назад +73

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

    • @EggertPlays
      @EggertPlays 5 лет назад +19

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

  • @romainwalter4593
    @romainwalter4593 5 лет назад +54

    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
      @CatnamedMittens 3 года назад +1

      Possibly one of the worst places ever to fight?

    • @romainwalter4593
      @romainwalter4593 3 года назад +18

      @@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
      @CatnamedMittens 3 года назад +7

      @@romainwalter4593 smart man

    • @lolexplosions4214
      @lolexplosions4214 Год назад

      Deadly sieges World War II.

    • @mathiaspoelman1493
      @mathiaspoelman1493 6 месяцев назад

      When did he fight at Leningrad? Was it around 1944 (when the city was liberated)? That means he must have undergone quite some Soviet attacks at 18 (?) years old. That is a lot for such a young age.

  • @RYII-mm9gu
    @RYII-mm9gu 5 лет назад +387

    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
      @darklysm8345 4 года назад +33

      traitor family

    • @absentmindedshirokuma8539
      @absentmindedshirokuma8539 4 года назад +91

      @@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
      @jamesmccomb9525 4 года назад +19

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

    • @pinkcheese917
      @pinkcheese917 4 года назад +74

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

    • @absentmindedshirokuma8539
      @absentmindedshirokuma8539 4 года назад +11

      @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.

  • @NewsHistorian
    @NewsHistorian 5 лет назад +14

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

  • @maltem.2225
    @maltem.2225 4 года назад +136

    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
      @justinajostin9006 3 года назад +70

      @Funtime Florian I give plenty actually

    • @Botchewlism
      @Botchewlism 3 года назад +41

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

    • @omniscientcammaleon9477
      @omniscientcammaleon9477 3 года назад +15

      @Funtime Florian all of them

    • @jonmurray7658
      @jonmurray7658 3 года назад +11

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

    • @niarkman6999
      @niarkman6999 3 года назад +6

      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.

  • @vascogoncalves8542
    @vascogoncalves8542 5 лет назад +29

    That 'via Belgium' segment cracked me up

  • @cormacsmithy3975
    @cormacsmithy3975 5 лет назад +33

    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.

  • @SouthpawZer0
    @SouthpawZer0 5 лет назад +16

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

  • @juliaisafilmbuff123
    @juliaisafilmbuff123 4 года назад +21

    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.

  • @mehmetkaan8255
    @mehmetkaan8255 5 лет назад +9

    I love the "Soon" look

  • @JessDoby
    @JessDoby 5 лет назад +21

    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
      @someguy7723 2 года назад +3

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

    • @vincentvincenzowehrung5830
      @vincentvincenzowehrung5830 2 года назад +3

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

  • @makaan1932
    @makaan1932 5 лет назад +325

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

    • @TheChosenFailure
      @TheChosenFailure 5 лет назад +16

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

    • @sganarellelevalet7479
      @sganarellelevalet7479 5 лет назад +39

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

    • @TheChosenFailure
      @TheChosenFailure 5 лет назад +58

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

    • @makaan1932
      @makaan1932 5 лет назад +18

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

    • @arminiuscherusci4410
      @arminiuscherusci4410 5 лет назад +40

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

  • @victorviereck4117
    @victorviereck4117 5 лет назад +106

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

    • @dumkopf
      @dumkopf 5 лет назад +12

      SkyChapelle *

    • @Cjnw
      @Cjnw 4 года назад +1

      Oof

  • @septillion.
    @septillion. 4 года назад +358

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

    • @MrDonut-ch8dr
      @MrDonut-ch8dr 4 года назад +52

      @Clear Kim Elsaß Lothringen is german

    • @Greey16
      @Greey16 4 года назад +13

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

    • @Faolan03
      @Faolan03 4 года назад +43

      @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
      @ImEazyE 4 года назад +5

      Elsass Frei

    • @Faolan03
      @Faolan03 4 года назад +29

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

  • @jameskelly8586
    @jameskelly8586 2 года назад +8

    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.

  • @billymartin2220
    @billymartin2220 5 лет назад +13

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

  • @jwasserman762
    @jwasserman762 Год назад +2

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

  • @tobiwan001
    @tobiwan001 3 года назад +77

    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
      @juwebles4352 2 года назад +4

      Not to even mention the division between west and east Francia

    • @Antarctide
      @Antarctide Год назад +1

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

    • @camm8642
      @camm8642 Год назад +1

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

    • @edmerc92
      @edmerc92 10 месяцев назад +1

      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.

    • @CAM8689
      @CAM8689 8 месяцев назад

      @@edmerc92 yeah some of the southern ones were pro french but even they turned on france in the end also....but yeah since prussia dominated and they got humiliated by france before the new germany was going to adopt an anti french feeling....many did not like being the playground for many of france conflicts and its understandable.

  • @luisdergroe8944
    @luisdergroe8944 5 лет назад +173

    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
      @bjarkel.993 5 лет назад +16

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

    • @seethrough_treeshrew
      @seethrough_treeshrew 5 лет назад +13

      Löl

    • @jpc7118
      @jpc7118 3 года назад +7

      @@seethrough_treeshrew Lmaö

    • @batonnetdecannelle
      @batonnetdecannelle 2 года назад

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

    • @huaba8804
      @huaba8804 2 года назад

      @@batonnetdecannelle ë

  • @asierescobal1248
    @asierescobal1248 5 лет назад +582

    Alsace-Lorraine: We're french again
    Adolf: Hold my Munich beer
    245 likes?! WOW thank you so much!

    • @asierescobal1248
      @asierescobal1248 5 лет назад +3

      @@pancakemacbuttery9142 Hitler, I apllied a bit of autocensorship, just in case

    • @aaronmarks9366
      @aaronmarks9366 5 лет назад +4

      @@pancakemacbuttery9142 Really man?

    • @garmenlin5990
      @garmenlin5990 5 лет назад +10

      Charles de Gaulle: Hold my wine!

    • @barney6888
      @barney6888 5 лет назад +3

      Winston Churchill: Let go of my whiskey!

    • @karlosdeevs
      @karlosdeevs 5 лет назад +1

      I thought Bulldog was more a brandy-type

  • @Argacyan
    @Argacyan 5 лет назад +43

    and after ww1 when Alsace Lorraine was annexed by France they occupied it militarily and cleansed it from the german dialect, german culture and german history up until fairly recently when people were allowed to use the german alsacian dialect again. The dialect is still having a hard time as a result of decades long repression.

    • @guguss3804
      @guguss3804 5 лет назад +18

      Argacyan German teaching was allowed again in 1952, but Yeah « decades of oppression »

    • @LessnoIVe
      @LessnoIVe 5 лет назад +13

      the germans were the ones who banned alsatian

    • @r.v.b.4153
      @r.v.b.4153 5 лет назад +1

      @@LessnoIVe
      How did they ban Alsatian?

    • @Kookanoodles
      @Kookanoodles 5 лет назад +18

      ​@@r.v.b.4153 Forcing everyone to speak Hochdeutsch instead of Alsatian dialect, I imagine.

    • @boahkeinbockmehr
      @boahkeinbockmehr 5 лет назад +8

      @@kartoffelmensch519 he is right you know. It all started under the nazis and their school reform. They wanted to get rid of dialects to make people forget that we were actually a federation of hundreds of different people and make us become one people instead. So no more bavarians, ripuarians and saxons, but only germans. You also find it everywhere in the propaganda of the time. (Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer - one people, one empire, one leader) sadly that trend was continued after the war and even the generation of my father still got the dialect literally beaten out of them in school in the 70s and 80s. Even in my generation (1992) we were still shunned for even using mundart, so high german with a strong accent, not to speak of dialect, as most of us never learned to speak it to begin with.

  • @johnforsyth7987
    @johnforsyth7987 Год назад +2

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

  • @adrianred236
    @adrianred236 2 года назад +1

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

  • @richardthomas5362
    @richardthomas5362 Год назад +13

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

    • @edmerc92
      @edmerc92 10 месяцев назад +5

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

    • @matthiasbehrendt6112
      @matthiasbehrendt6112 9 месяцев назад +3

      ​​@@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.

  • @MaGioZal
    @MaGioZal 4 года назад +327

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

    • @11Survivor
      @11Survivor 3 года назад +53

      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
      @asifurrahman5014 3 года назад +2

      Yep

    • @uekiguy5886
      @uekiguy5886 3 года назад +7

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

    • @11Survivor
      @11Survivor 3 года назад +47

      @@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
      @uekiguy5886 3 года назад +9

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

  • @Daniel-kq4bx
    @Daniel-kq4bx 5 лет назад +37

    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
      @11Survivor 3 года назад

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

    • @J-IFWBR
      @J-IFWBR 3 года назад +4

      ​@@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
      @11Survivor 3 года назад

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

    • @hubertsavio9356
      @hubertsavio9356 3 года назад +1

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

    • @Daniel-kq4bx
      @Daniel-kq4bx 3 года назад

      @@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

  • @danielhale1
    @danielhale1 3 года назад +2

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

  • @JamesTilsley1
    @JamesTilsley1 5 лет назад +218

    “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
      @SpadeRZA 4 года назад +8

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

    • @colonelkurtz5397
      @colonelkurtz5397 4 года назад +20

      fernando jose gonzalez olguin no, Strasbourg.

    • @wildfire9280
      @wildfire9280 4 года назад +7

      @fernando jose gonzalez olguin Stromboliniberg.

    • @davidandremelchorzavala2100
      @davidandremelchorzavala2100 4 года назад

      @fernando jose gonzalez olguin that ain’t real

    • @11Survivor
      @11Survivor 3 года назад

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

  • @gabed7407
    @gabed7407 5 лет назад +266

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

    • @sopmodo8122
      @sopmodo8122 5 лет назад +3

      What place of poland are you from?

    • @gabed7407
      @gabed7407 5 лет назад +5

      @@sopmodo8122 Białystok area, by Sokółka

    • @Ponanoix
      @Ponanoix 5 лет назад +7

      @@sopmodo8122 Wrocław

    • @sopmodo8122
      @sopmodo8122 5 лет назад +8

      @@Ponanoix Breslau*

    • @Ponanoix
      @Ponanoix 5 лет назад +12

      @Thomas Meyer Wrocław**

  • @f_f_f_8142
    @f_f_f_8142 5 лет назад +96

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

  • @christophers_verified
    @christophers_verified 3 года назад +12

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

  • @Nikolaj11
    @Nikolaj11 5 лет назад +72

    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
      @Nikolaj11 5 лет назад +5

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

    • @Nikolaj11
      @Nikolaj11 5 лет назад

      @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
      @qwertzuiopu8161 5 лет назад +5

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

  • @l.u.i.s._.8452
    @l.u.i.s._.8452 4 года назад +12

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

  • @ericmiller6056
    @ericmiller6056 4 года назад +69

    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
      @karlscher5170 2 года назад +1

      That's just anglo-saxon bullshit propaganda

    • @stadtrepublikmulhausen4121
      @stadtrepublikmulhausen4121 2 года назад +4

      @@karlscher5170 no that's true.

    • @mikaelb.2070
      @mikaelb.2070 2 года назад +13

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

    • @ericmiller6056
      @ericmiller6056 2 года назад +7

      @@mikaelb.2070 What's your evidence?

    • @mikaelb.2070
      @mikaelb.2070 2 года назад +13

      @@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.

  • @sachin2744
    @sachin2744 4 года назад +4

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

  • @darrenbutler9819
    @darrenbutler9819 4 года назад +15

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

  • @brettsh.2545
    @brettsh.2545 3 года назад +1

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

  • @Lcgmatheus
    @Lcgmatheus 5 лет назад +7

    i love those "soon" plates

  • @theMcWOPPER
    @theMcWOPPER 5 лет назад +24

    "Totally settled forever " 🤣🤣🤣

  • @Liminal_Simulacre
    @Liminal_Simulacre Год назад +4

    The German wanted Alsace so they had access to wine that wasn't totatally undrinkable.

  • @PhilWood82
    @PhilWood82 5 лет назад +50

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

    • @reschi56
      @reschi56 5 лет назад +9

      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
      @guardiadecivil6777 5 лет назад +2

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

    • @11thstalley96
      @11thstalley96 5 лет назад

      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
      @thedwightguy 3 года назад +2

      @@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
      @joueurspectateur 3 года назад

      @@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.

  • @liennitram9291
    @liennitram9291 Год назад +1

    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.

  • @quasar4780
    @quasar4780 5 лет назад +16

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

  • @lindsayhengehold5341
    @lindsayhengehold5341 2 года назад +5

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

  • @juanfran579
    @juanfran579 Год назад +6

    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
      @edmerc92 10 месяцев назад

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

  • @nickmiesch4845
    @nickmiesch4845 Год назад +3

    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.

  • @EvanSeal
    @EvanSeal 5 лет назад +1

    Been really enjoying these styles of videos recently!

  • @oliversherman2414
    @oliversherman2414 2 года назад +1

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

  • @katequinn8195
    @katequinn8195 Год назад +3

    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?

  • @aaronmarks9366
    @aaronmarks9366 5 лет назад +15

    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
      @Xindet 5 лет назад +3

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

    • @aaronmarks9366
      @aaronmarks9366 5 лет назад +1

      @@Xindet lmao

    • @Toast0808
      @Toast0808 5 лет назад

      Make your own

    • @joaov_ds
      @joaov_ds 4 года назад +4

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

    • @josesandoval1440
      @josesandoval1440 3 года назад

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

  • @erick64bosck3
    @erick64bosck3 4 года назад +27

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

  • @tombowers6713
    @tombowers6713 Год назад +1

    My dad's side of the family is from this region they moved to the USA in late 1800s. What a turbulent place in 19th and 20th centuries.

  • @LilBigBriggi
    @LilBigBriggi 3 года назад +23

    First I wondered, what you mean by "Alsace Lorraine", but then it hit me, "Aaaaah", you meeeaan "Elsass Lothringen"! 😂👌

  • @fclp67
    @fclp67 5 лет назад +6

    that newspaper at 1:16 tho XDDDDD

  • @alilshotofrhum
    @alilshotofrhum 3 года назад +7

    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.

  • @jmu3441
    @jmu3441 5 лет назад +17

    0:09 It's Elsass-Lothringen in german.

  • @docjoe86
    @docjoe86 Год назад

    1:05 My great great great grandmother was one of them. She died in 1919. My great grandmother knew her and said that she was happy to have lived to see Alsace returned to France after World War I.

  • @Numba003
    @Numba003 3 года назад +1

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

  • @luckyFrenchy
    @luckyFrenchy 7 месяцев назад +3

    Hi, i’m from Metz (Lorraine) and i saw thoses days the youngest french alsatian-lorrainer being more and more germanophobic… A sort of « revenge » wan’t to take place ? I don’t know but our elders had already told us what Germany was… Now… Alsace-Lorraine will colonise Germany.

  • @laurentlachaussee5678
    @laurentlachaussee5678 4 года назад +5

    1:01 Happy Kaiser killed me xD

  • @Narwaro
    @Narwaro 4 года назад +5

    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
      @Ponanoix 2 года назад +1

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

  • @MrAlsachti
    @MrAlsachti Год назад +2

    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.

  • @luxtayii3473
    @luxtayii3473 4 года назад +2

    If I was James Bizonette, I would be living somewhere in a big mansion, still donating 50% of my tax to History Matters

  • @bazzatheblue
    @bazzatheblue 4 года назад +22

    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.

  • @FoxTrotteur
    @FoxTrotteur 4 года назад +3

    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.

  • @ekmalsukarno2302
    @ekmalsukarno2302 5 лет назад +61

    Please make a video on the Republic of China from 1911 to 1949. Please accept my request.

    • @mygl4490
      @mygl4490 5 лет назад +2

      You can suggest an idea and but ultimately he lets the community (sometimes patreon sometimes youtube) vote on what gets made. He might list it as a voting option.

    • @TheLocalLt
      @TheLocalLt 5 лет назад +2

      Ekmal Sukarno bro there are tons of videos on that in the Between Two Wars series from Timeghost’s channel

    • @mtlicq
      @mtlicq 5 лет назад

      dare to make a video about Germany between 1945 and 1951, especially 1945 to 1948

  • @michaelr3583
    @michaelr3583 2 года назад

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

  • @paulc6471
    @paulc6471 Год назад

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

  • @hubby00n6
    @hubby00n6 5 лет назад +13

    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
      @gryfalis4932 3 года назад +7

      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
      @hubby00n6 3 года назад +1

      @@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
      @karlscher5170 2 года назад +4

      @@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
      @Papepatine 2 года назад

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

    • @karlscher5170
      @karlscher5170 2 года назад

      @@Papepatine sounds childish

  • @felszi1043
    @felszi1043 5 лет назад +4

    When you get a 0/1/3 leader called Willhelm II and you lose your brutal advisor called bismark that gave you 4 diplomatic power

  • @cryogenical_
    @cryogenical_ 5 лет назад +6

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

  • @sourabhsumandas9930
    @sourabhsumandas9930 4 года назад +5

    I m from India.. I studied a chapter on my 12th class (the last lesson) which is written by Alphonso daudet.. Where a little boy name franz telling his last day of his France language school.. After studied that chapter i feel so sad about France people who lived in 1871..

    • @ishouldbestudyingrightnow5368
      @ishouldbestudyingrightnow5368 4 года назад +5

      France conquered the region in 1648. When the army was in vienna to defend the city from the turks france invaded the kingdom of lorraine who was a german ally AND alsace.
      peace to india and hope there wont be fight with china

    • @sourabhsumandas9930
      @sourabhsumandas9930 4 года назад

      @@ishouldbestudyingrightnow5368 Yes bro.. And bro this is Record that india doesn't attack first to any Country... And if Anyone Attack first to india Then we will Destroy that Country Just like Corona Country China and Pakistan...

    • @romain6275
      @romain6275 3 года назад

      @@ishouldbestudyingrightnow5368 Lorraine was not a kingdom but a duchy. The duchy didn't rule all the Lorraine area.

    • @edmerc92
      @edmerc92 10 месяцев назад

      @@ishouldbestudyingrightnow5368 Vienna wasn't threatened by the Turks in 1648. It was in 1683.

  • @Bartdu59Gaming
    @Bartdu59Gaming 5 лет назад +21

    I'm from Alsace Lorraine

    • @guguss3804
      @guguss3804 5 лет назад +18

      Solar Dwarf Not anymore

    • @guguss3804
      @guguss3804 5 лет назад

      Solar Dwarf it’s for your own good ;) let’s just focus on being friends and stop fighting over this, there are no borders between our countries anymore

    • @guguss3804
      @guguss3804 5 лет назад +7

      Solar Dwarf ok then just have fun with your unrealistic fantasies

    • @guguss3804
      @guguss3804 5 лет назад

      Solar Dwarf forgive me senpai

    • @guguss3804
      @guguss3804 5 лет назад

      Solar Dwarf Wololo

  • @jordiedmond5744
    @jordiedmond5744 5 лет назад +14

    Same story with german speaking Belgians. The regian looks very German and got German influences but they say they are more proud to be Belgian.

    • @bingobongo1615
      @bingobongo1615 3 года назад +9

      In Lothringen people clearly wanted to be French but in Elsaß a majority (at least in 1914) wanted to stay German.
      The video also omits that the people were unhappy with their treatment by some of the soldiers there but were very much not so with the Emperor (maybe out of necessity but who knows)

    • @vin55100
      @vin55100 3 года назад +1

      not true the germans there are happy to be ignored and most have dual citizenship and go to aachen for shopping and to german universities for higher education. It is closer to the german life than to the belgium (I met some and their french was non existing).

    • @rao803
      @rao803 3 года назад

      If someday Belgium breaks away Germany could take the land back.

    • @haltdieklappe7972
      @haltdieklappe7972 3 года назад

      What does being Belgian even mean? You live in the land that is called belgium and have papers saying you have a right to be there? That’s all it means to be Belgian?

  • @pinkcrewmate8103
    @pinkcrewmate8103 5 лет назад +7

    Hey thanks for this video and the Franco Prussian war video both of these are helping me HUGELY on my final history project

  • @stevenwills4660
    @stevenwills4660 5 лет назад +18

    Maybe do a video on the british vietnam, the Malay emergency.

    • @HistoryMatters
      @HistoryMatters  5 лет назад +6

      Definitely.

    • @stevenwills4660
      @stevenwills4660 5 лет назад +1

      @@HistoryMatters Wooo thats the first Heart i've gotten from a youtuber, love your videos keep up the great work!

    • @itrthho
      @itrthho 5 лет назад

      That sounds interesting...

    • @karlosdeevs
      @karlosdeevs 5 лет назад

      more interesting than the Aden bloodbath

    • @Edmonton-of2ec
      @Edmonton-of2ec 4 года назад

      I wouldn’t exactly call it “Britain’s Vietnam” because unlike the Americans, they comparatively succeeded, and no communist regime ever ruled in Malaysia

  • @sergioperez5730
    @sergioperez5730 3 года назад

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

  • @py8554
    @py8554 Год назад +2

    Impact to life for Frenchmen in the Alsace Lorraine after annexation by Germany? The first thing that came to my mind is THE LAST LESSON by Alphonse Daudet. I learned about this story when I was in junior high and made a deep impression on me. It fascinated me so much that I went on to learn about the Franco-Prussian War and the unique history of the Alsace Lorraine region.