Two quick notices: 1. Sorry my voice was kind of nasal in this video, blame my allergies. 2. I chose not to use the swastika flag image in this video, to make sure it wouldn't be blocked in Germany, instead using an identical flag but with an iron cross in place of the swastika. Thanks for watching and leave a reply letting me know which flag you want me to do a video on next!
As a German: You are allowed to show Nazi symbols in an educational setting in Germany. So it would be total fine for you to show the Nazi flag in this particular video.
+Rick van Staten I wished they would remove the ban on wolfsangles, runes, swastikas, fascist and communist party symbols &c. Instead there should be more care and education on the way how people are instrumentalized and influenced and how you can expose your self opposite views to ensure you are not becoming a tool serving someone elses ambitions. Symbols like the swastika changed their association, but they can do so again. We should be able to reclame them back and restore the original association or create a new one. Buddhists and Hindus are still pissed, because of the IRC's decision on that matter.
@CentralPerson: We don't take away our history, as was said already, in an educational context the Nazi symbols are ok. History doesn't disappear, just because you aren't allowed to wave the symbols of some criminal state or other around.
Warpwaffel Yes the nazis were pretty gay but if you want to associate yourself with the nazis then you should be free to do so. In America, if you go to people's houses down south, you're bound to see the confederate flag in some. Also there is a nazi party in America. There are also statues down south of the confederate leaders that are still up. It doesn't matter if you disagree with someone's political affiliation-be it a good or a bad one.
Oh yeah, can't take for granted that everyone knows who the confederates were. They were some (a bunch) slave owners that were against Lincoln (him being anti-slavery and all). (The south had a lot of slaves back then while most northern states had already stopped slavery. Lincoln wanted to make slavery illegal on a national level).
Don't be afraid to use the swastika when you speak about the Third Reich! Even in Germany today it is no problem to use the correct flag when you speak about history, use it in a piece of art or as a criticissm of the nazi dictatorship. Using the Iron Cross when speaking about nazi-atrocities is an insult to the Iron Cross however! It is the symbol of Germany's armed forces today. So please use the swastika when speaking about the nazis! Germany is not Harry Potter and you are not forbidden to say Voldemort's name!
@@sharkquark6252 no. it's the opposite. The Balkenkreuz (or Beams Cross) was the one with the straight lines (hence the name: Balken = beam). And it was the Wehrmacht's symbol. The Iron Cross is the much older, traditional one with the curved lines and you'll fin it on every vehicle of the Bundeswehr (the Federal Armed Forces) today.
@@sharkquark6252 Yes. The Iron Cross is the older one. And it's the one used today: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Cross The Balkenkreuz was invented in 1918 and is not in use anymore: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balkenkreuz
Erik Perik alright, then I was wrong. I knew that the Bundeswehr uses the one with curves but I was wrong with if it’s called Balkenkreuz or Eisenkreuz. This is a shame for me as German and Bundeswehrfan. I’m going to delete my comment because it probably only confuses others
As a german there is one thing I want to point out, technically the weimar republic didn't come to an end in 1933. In fact it was never called the weimar republic between 1918 and 1933, it was still officially the german empire and for germans it was propably simply germany. The term weimar republic is simply used to distiguish the democratic german empire (1918-1933), from the pre world war 1 german empire monarchy (1871-1918). Whith the nazi takeover of power in 1933 the country which existed previously didn't come to an end and was still officialy called the german empire. In fact the constitution of the "weimar republic" stayed in effect between 1933 and 1945. However, the so called "Reichstagsbrandverordnung" (Reichstagfiredecree) of 1933 suspended all articles of the constitution related to civil liberties and the so called "Enabling Act" of 1933 made Adolf Hitler a de facto totalitarian dictator. The term nazi germany is simply used by historians to distinguish the de facto dictatorship of the "third reich" from the democratic german empire (1918-1933) and the pre world war 1 german empire (1871-1918).
The Eagle on the Mexican flag is based on a story where the natives were traveling south until they saw an eagle with a snake in its beak. That's why they settled in present day Mexico
Wrong! It can be used for artistic and scientific purposes in movies and since this summer also in video games. Also I think they're also removing games who've been banned because of reasons like this from the ban list.
@Donald Trump they changed it, since now it was only ok to show swastika in movies (so its ok for artistic expression @levo games is wrong there) but now since short time computer games are considered art
@@CoL_Drake Actually the problem wasn't even the question whether Germany considered video games art. The problem was that the USK didn't allow it until recently.
goes back to the napoleonic aera. the german freikorps units wore black coats, with red scarfs and golden buttons in the fight for german independence against napoleon, which became symbolic and where adopted in the flag by the first german reichstag in frankfurt 1848/49
@@thefirepenguins74 it is gold mate... Check out wiki... stop being ignorant and learn something from a german. The german colors are Black Red GOLD that is officialy recognized in our constitution and I quote "Die Bundesflagge ist schwarz-rot-gold." - The federal flag is black-red-gold.
Hello there, there is a little story about the two- headed eagle. Firstly the eagle was adopted as a symbol of the city of Rome from the very beginning of its foundation; according to the legends the people who wanted to establish a city (as an ancient Greek Polis) (those people could have different names either Romulus and Rem of Aeneus- depending of the legend). So those founders saw an eagle dropping an animal (snake? ram?) and the started to build the city there. Eagle they believed was Zeus himself, so the eagle became an emblem of the city of Rome and the whole roman empire afterward. When the Christianity came and the Empire was split into Eastern end Western; the West Empire started to fade and finally perished. Wile on the East (Byzantine) it became a strong empire. And christian too. Byzantine emperors armies also used eagle as a symbol of roman might. The emperors in Byzantine stared tom use a two headed eagle that represent bot the Emperor and the Christian Power combined. One head for the civil ruler, and one head for the church. The symbol became a mighty one, because the empire was mighty and lasted for 800 years. When Russians adopted the Christianity (Eastern orthodox) they adopted the 2 headed eagle and they use it today. When the crusades passed throu Constantinople and when the Venetians conquered the City, they took the two- headed eagle and its meaning to the west.
I read a biography of Otto von Bismarck. Revolutionaries used to wave in his period the current triband. He preferred the bicolor white and black, meaning the Prussian state (over all).
After watching like 7 videos of yours, only now I noticed the pun on the name of the channel and the character that you put in some animations. I loved it.
1. Thank you for using the iron cross instead of the swastika in order for me to be able to watch this video. 2. As I already hinted at, I'm German and I didn't know about those red-white-blue flags directly after the war. I really didn't expect to learn something, great video!
Some minor mistakes, but one I want to mention: The basic law states that the flag shall be black, red and GOLD (Heraldic that may be represented by yellow). Just saying. :)
The first two flags you did show were actually only used during the time of the Revolution of 1848-1849. Black, Red and Gold being the symbol for Republicanism. The Flag of the North German Confederation/German Empire (Black-White-Red) was indeed influenced by Prussia, since it was the hegemonial power in both entities. After the Revolution of 1918, the new Republic adopted the colours of the republican movement. The (former) political meaning of those colour combination is historically quite important.
the black-red-dolden flag was first used by the german countries figthing together against Napoleon. It became later a symbol of the United Germany and Democrazy. For this reason the German Republic of 1848 (which didn´t last long) used it as National Flag. Later the Weimar Republic used it es referance to the revolution of 1848
Finally we got a show like this! I wanted a real-life "Fun with flags" series ever since I saw it in The Big Bang Theory! Thank you! It's also very well made, good job!!!
Speaking for all of Germany, as long as you don’t display Nazi ideals in your videos it’s fine, and your videos are great and educational, so it would be totally OK.
You forgot the mention the origin of the colours black red and gold. I will do it for you now, shall I? In the napoleonic wars there was a regiment of the kingdom of prussia, the lützower Jäger / lützower Freikorps. It had black uniforms with red stripes and golden knobs. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%BCtzow_Free_Corps#/media/File:Kn%C3%B6tel_II,_7.jpg These colours were later used on the Hambacher Fest, a demonstration after unity and democracy for the german nation had not been archieved in the congress of vienna, and then later in the revolution of 1848/1849.
indeed b.t.w. the reason for the black uniforms was, that the soldiers (they were volunteers) had to buy their equippment by themselves, and black cloth was then the cheapest...
Another special thing was that every citizen of any german state was allowed to join the Lützower Jäger. Also, they dyed normal cloth black because black dye was the cheapest dye, gave these black clothes the red stripes and golden knobs so it looked at least a bit like a uniform.
Yes, but that's a mere theory, although a popular one. We can't know for sure why people came up with those colors for the Hambach festival. Probably it had something to do with the symbol of the popular student fraternities at the time which was red-black-red with a golden leaf in the middle.
hi, cool video i am interested in a video of the state flags of german also i'm interested in the story of the county flags of spain :) hugs from Barcelona
i know, what i meant with "county flags" was a video about the "comunidades autonomas" of spain, that are the different regions of the country, like euskera, catalonia, madrid, etc. i don't know if i writted it right, i'm not a native english speaker
Very nice and informative video. Keep up the good work =) I'd like to suggest you to do a video about Qatar's flag. It may be a good moment for that as the country is involved in this diplomatic issue. Besides, it's a quite curious flag. Looking forward to watching the next video.
The Holy Roman Empire's eagle was single-headed as well originally. They changed the design in the 15th century. Also since the HRE in the middle ages was made of of 3 nominal kingdoms (Germany, Italy and Arles/Burgundy) there was a period in which the double headed eagle would represent the empire/emperor while the single-headed one would represent the king of Germany.
Just for the record: The service flag of the Federal Republic of Germany is NOT using the Coat of Arms (Bundesadler) but the very similar, but more „rounder“ Federal Shield (Bundesschild) which in fact also is an eagle but in a more rounder shape.
1980- As a tourist in Canada and in a department store just before the Olympics the flags of the competing nations, with the name written underneath, were hung around the store. I noticed the East German flag had 'German Federal Republic" below while the West German flag had "German Democratic Republic" below. ps it's Prussia not Pussia.
The two headed eagle was first known to be used in minor asia tribes later adopted by the byzantines the grecoroman empire which they added symbols of christianity The eagle looking to the east is usually holding a sword two face their enemies and the eagle looking to the west shows the desire of the reclaiming of rome
I see a lot of comments about, mistaken pronunciation used here. I must say to the critics; there is a lot of research and artistic talent gone into making this video and despite the mispronunciation it is entertaining, informative and perfectly understandable. Only when you have created something of equal value will you be qualified to denigrate on this level.
How you have already did Portuguese Flag, the flag of my country. You could talk about The evolution of the Russian Flag. You could also talk about Nepal because its a different flag comparared with the usual ones, retangular ones. Yes, there are some old flags that used different shapes, but I think Nepal is the only country that still have a different shape, of course im not sure, if i said sth bad, just correct me :) I'm not sure if your portuguese but I think you are cuz' you started with the portuguese flag. If you are --> Parabéns pelo teu trabalho, encontrei o teu canal por acaso enquanto estava a pesquisar no youtube e achei uma ideia diferente do habitual e bastante divertida e cativante. Abraço! Rodrigo
Muito bom mais uma vez, estou a espera do episódio 5 e como agr são as férias acho que consegues ter mais tempo(acho eu) para fazer este conteúdo espectacular. Podias fazer sobre os EUA, aí tens uma ideia :)
That would be cool to showthw history of most of the Kingdoms that united to form Germany, their separate cultures and territories. But that would be a long story.
Problem is, there is no compass. It is a circle. All of the symbols represented the people of eastern germany. A compass would represent something like freedom or exploration. Both of them not really wanted by the gouvernment.
some additional info and minor corrections: 1. The colors are actually black red and GOLD (not yellow) 2. the flag of the German Empire stemmed from the flag of the northern german alliance (Norddeutscher Bund) which was created by prussia after the austro-prussian brothers war. Bismarck created the new state in the north by puting all other states under prussian rule. It was this made up of Prussian lands (Brandenburg-Prussia and the Rhineland) Hannover and some others. Important to mention are the Hanse cities (for example Hamburg, Bremen, Lübeck, Rostock,...). The colors of Prussia were Black and White and those of the Hanse traiding league were white and red. Thus the norther german alliance revieved a mixture of both with the top half beeing the Prussian and the latter half beeing the Hanse flag. 3. The origin of the modern german flag's clolors is actually not clear. Most historians believe they orignate back to the Napoleanic wars when the German lands east of the Rhine rose up and fought aganst Napoleon's French empire. At that time a unit was formed called the "Lützower Jäger" (Lützow Skirmishers) who accepted volunteers. Mostly students joined that newly formed regiment and they wore black uniforms with reg insignia and golden buttons. They became some sort of a symbol of the fight for freedom (against Napoleonic and French repression) and thus might have become the inspiration for the flag of the revolution in 1848/49. There is also a poem associated to the colors whichs goes as follows: Aus der Schwärze der Knechtschaft durch blutige Schlachten ans goldene Licht der Freiheit From the darkness of servitude (black) through bloody battles (red) into the golden light of freedom (gold)
why? the current colors are way more patriotic and a simbol of freedom. The Empire's flag was just a mixture between the Prussian and the Hanse flag. No real meaning to it. The current flag has a poem associated to it that promotes the fight for freedom
@@partizanbear552 no it doesn't. The current colors fit the democratic free germany and it's history of struggle for freedom. Let a Geraman tell you what colors fit his country please!
a story in germany says, the two-headed eagle looks protecting to the west (France) while it looks awared to the east (Poland/Russia). While France, Germany and parts of Spain where territory of the older Franko Empire, Germany protected against the "wild east". Sadly, its not that common anymore in Germany and France did betray the German several times ending with the 1. World War.
The Swastika it's the symbol of taboo itself, it's imponent and terrifying, I doubt any symbol will have the same impact in the history of mankind until the end of the days.
The 2 head eagle has its roots to the Eastern Roman Empire (also known as Byzantine Empire) and 1 head was looking at Rome and the other was looking at Constantinople and then Germany(and many others like serbia - russia etc) copied the Byzantine Eagle as they claimed to be Romans , for example when constantinople fell Russians (and Greeks) believed that Moscow was the 3rd Rome due to the religious connection they had with Byzantine Empire , also German city states copied this eagle as they claimed to be Romans too (and it was like a fashion trend to be a roman XD)
the flag of the german empire is that way cuz it wanted to "unite" all german states from the biggest (prussia with its flag being black and white) and the smallest (the Hanse (or trade) cities and their color being red (see emblem of modern day hamburg, bremen or lübeck))
I think that the Austrian flag should have been included at first and then stated that the Northern German Confederation decided to exclude Austria since it was a powerful empire.
Nice video! However, in 7:10, you say that when used by the federal goverment, the flag also includes a coat of arms, and while that is true, the coat of arms you show is not the correct one, although a very similar one. The coat of arms shown in the video is the “Bundesadler” used in sports events, for example. The one used by the federal goverment is the “Bundeschild” and it can only be used by goverment authorities. (Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Germany)
Great video. Very nicely presented. Unfortunately there are some errors in the video. The "German Confederation" was not a state, but only a confederation of states and initially consisted of 39 sovereign states. But that can't be called Germany yet. The flag of this confederation was only introduced in 1848 and was "black-red-gold". The naval war flag was just the same with the coat of arms of the German Confederation at the top left. In 1866 the "German Confederation" was dissolved and a year later Prussia founded the "North German Confederation" together with 22 other states. It was actually a state and not a confederation. From this time on you can speak of "Germany". The flag was of course "black-white-red". "Black and white" are the colors of Prussia and "red" the color of the Hanseatic cities. In 1871 this state was renamed "German Empire" and dissolved in 1943. From 1919 the flag was changed to "Black-Red-Gold". The trade flag was "black-white-red" with a small version of the state flag in the upper left corner. In 1933 the flag was again the one that was used before 1919. From 1934 the flag of the state was then the party flag of the NSDAP. The Federal Republic of Germany has been using "black-red-gold" as a flag since 1949. The version with the federal eagle in the middle may only be used by state institutions. Outside this setting it is forbidden, but is only tolerated at larger events (sporting events). By the way: The name "Weimar Republic" is not the name of the German state after 1918, but only the name of a period of time. The German name for "German Empire" has never changed. This name was later given by historians because the constituent assembly was held in Weimar. People at that time spoke more of the "German Republic". The name "Third Reich" is also used a bit incorrectly here. The actual "Third Reich" was only founded in 1943 under the name "Greater German Reich". Before that it was still the "Second Reich" but under the leadership of the National Socialists. Still good video and nicely explained. Keep it up. 👍
The symbol of the two headed eagle is quite simple... It's the imperial symbol. It only can get used by the emperor. As you can see for the Austrian two headed eagle, or the Russian two headed eagle - the only two other empires in Europe.
Two quick notices:
1. Sorry my voice was kind of nasal in this video, blame my allergies.
2. I chose not to use the swastika flag image in this video, to make sure it wouldn't be blocked in Germany, instead using an identical flag but with an iron cross in place of the swastika.
Thanks for watching and leave a reply letting me know which flag you want me to do a video on next!
Do a Fun With Flags with the French Flag
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are you a history lover , I am one
Nepal flag!
As a German: You are allowed to show Nazi symbols in an educational setting in Germany. So it would be total fine for you to show the Nazi flag in this particular video.
treverios Yeah, but on RUclips, they often don't look at if it's educational or not, so they often, they block it either way
+Rick van Staten
I wished they would remove the ban on wolfsangles, runes, swastikas, fascist and communist party symbols &c.
Instead there should be more care and education on the way how people are instrumentalized and influenced and how you can expose your self opposite views to ensure you are not becoming a tool serving someone elses ambitions.
Symbols like the swastika changed their association, but they can do so again. We should be able to reclame them back and restore the original association or create a new one.
Buddhists and Hindus are still pissed, because of the IRC's decision on that matter.
@CentralPerson: We don't take away our history, as was said already, in an educational context the Nazi symbols are ok. History doesn't disappear, just because you aren't allowed to wave the symbols of some criminal state or other around.
Warpwaffel Yes the nazis were pretty gay but if you want to associate yourself with the nazis then you should be free to do so. In America, if you go to people's houses down south, you're bound to see the confederate flag in some. Also there is a nazi party in America. There are also statues down south of the confederate leaders that are still up. It doesn't matter if you disagree with someone's political affiliation-be it a good or a bad one.
Oh yeah, can't take for granted that everyone knows who the confederates were. They were some (a bunch) slave owners that were against Lincoln (him being anti-slavery and all). (The south had a lot of slaves back then while most northern states had already stopped slavery. Lincoln wanted to make slavery illegal on a national level).
Don't be afraid to use the swastika when you speak about the Third Reich! Even in Germany today it is no problem to use the correct flag when you speak about history, use it in a piece of art or as a criticissm of the nazi dictatorship. Using the Iron Cross when speaking about nazi-atrocities is an insult to the Iron Cross however! It is the symbol of Germany's armed forces today.
So please use the swastika when speaking about the nazis! Germany is not Harry Potter and you are not forbidden to say Voldemort's name!
@@sharkquark6252 no. it's the opposite. The Balkenkreuz (or Beams Cross) was the one with the straight lines (hence the name: Balken = beam). And it was the Wehrmacht's symbol. The Iron Cross is the much older, traditional one with the curved lines and you'll fin it on every vehicle of the Bundeswehr (the Federal Armed Forces) today.
@@sharkquark6252 Yes. The Iron Cross is the older one. And it's the one used today: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Cross
The Balkenkreuz was invented in 1918 and is not in use anymore: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balkenkreuz
Erik Perik alright, then I was wrong. I knew that the Bundeswehr uses the one with curves but I was wrong with if it’s called Balkenkreuz or Eisenkreuz. This is a shame for me as German and Bundeswehrfan. I’m going to delete my comment because it probably only confuses others
well but youtube tends to block these videos anyways because they want to make sure that there is no Neo-Nazi propaganda on theit platform...
i would be interested in a video about each german state's individual flags. Nice video keep it up
me too
miguel willckens bit isnt that exactly what this is?
Same
Yes pls!
@@osiris9128 dude there are 16 states in germany... they each got their own flag.
As a german there is one thing I want to point out, technically the weimar republic didn't come to an end in 1933. In fact it was never called the weimar republic between 1918 and 1933, it was still officially the german empire and for germans it was propably simply germany. The term weimar republic is simply used to distiguish the democratic german empire (1918-1933), from the pre world war 1 german empire monarchy (1871-1918). Whith the nazi takeover of power in 1933 the country which existed previously didn't come to an end and was still officialy called the german empire. In fact the constitution of the "weimar republic" stayed in effect between 1933 and 1945. However, the so called "Reichstagsbrandverordnung" (Reichstagfiredecree) of 1933 suspended all articles of the constitution related to civil liberties and the so called "Enabling Act" of 1933 made Adolf Hitler a de facto totalitarian dictator. The term nazi germany is simply used by historians to distinguish the de facto dictatorship of the "third reich" from the democratic german empire (1918-1933) and the pre world war 1 german empire (1871-1918).
The Eagle on the Mexican flag is based on a story where the natives were traveling south until they saw an eagle with a snake in its beak. That's why they settled in present day Mexico
The swastika is not forbidden in Germany.
It can be used for educational purposes only (not even for artistic expression, i.e. in video games).
It's regularly shown in movies though. Double standard much...
Wrong! It can be used for artistic and scientific purposes in movies and since this summer also in video games.
Also I think they're also removing games who've been banned because of reasons like this from the ban list.
@Donald Trump they changed it, since now it was only ok to show swastika in movies (so its ok for artistic expression @levo games is wrong there) but now since short time computer games are considered art
close but wrong levo ^^ it is for education AND art allowed but in the past games was just considert as art
@@CoL_Drake Actually the problem wasn't even the question whether Germany considered video games art. The problem was that the USK didn't allow it until recently.
Go Sheldon Cooper!!! Love your channel!
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Charles Popoff lmao fun with flags..
not bad but you fail to answer the most obvious question of all - namely why black Red and yellow?
goes back to the napoleonic aera. the german freikorps units wore black coats, with red scarfs and golden buttons in the fight for german independence against napoleon, which became symbolic and where adopted in the flag by the first german reichstag in frankfurt 1848/49
IT is NOT yellow!!! Pls everybody knows it’s black, red and GOLD! Gold not yellow it ain’t that hard.
@Hariom Shree 🤔🤔
@@linajurgensen4698 it is YELLOW, it does not have the metallic shine to become gold, saying it is gold does not change how it looks LOL
@@thefirepenguins74 it is gold mate... Check out wiki... stop being ignorant and learn something from a german. The german colors are Black Red GOLD that is officialy recognized in our constitution and I quote "Die Bundesflagge ist schwarz-rot-gold." - The federal flag is black-red-gold.
Hello there, there is a little story about the two- headed eagle. Firstly the eagle was adopted as a symbol of the city of Rome from the very beginning of its foundation; according to the legends the people who wanted to establish a city (as an ancient Greek Polis) (those people could have different names either Romulus and Rem of Aeneus- depending of the legend). So those founders saw an eagle dropping an animal (snake? ram?) and the started to build the city there. Eagle they believed was Zeus himself, so the eagle became an emblem of the city of Rome and the whole roman empire afterward. When the Christianity came and the Empire was split into Eastern end Western; the West Empire started to fade and finally perished. Wile on the East (Byzantine) it became a strong empire. And christian too. Byzantine emperors armies also used eagle as a symbol of roman might. The emperors in Byzantine stared tom use a two headed eagle that represent bot the Emperor and the Christian Power combined. One head for the civil ruler, and one head for the church. The symbol became a mighty one, because the empire was mighty and lasted for 800 years. When Russians adopted the Christianity (Eastern orthodox) they adopted the 2 headed eagle and they use it today. When the crusades passed throu Constantinople and when the Venetians conquered the City, they took the two- headed eagle and its meaning to the west.
Please make a video about all the flags of the Bundesländer (thats how these states are called here)!
Great stuff man. Hugs from Brazil!
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Great video!! I love it! keep on doing this!!
I read a biography of Otto von Bismarck. Revolutionaries used to wave in his period the current triband. He preferred the bicolor white and black, meaning the Prussian state (over all).
very nice and interesting videos!! this is really fun :) do the Swiss Flag next please!!
After watching like 7 videos of yours, only now I noticed the pun on the name of the channel and the character that you put in some animations. I loved it.
It was interesting for me as a german to See the history behind the flag. Great Video!
1. Thank you for using the iron cross instead of the swastika in order for me to be able to watch this video.
2. As I already hinted at, I'm German and I didn't know about those red-white-blue flags directly after the war. I really didn't expect to learn something, great video!
I would love to see a episode of the federal flags. Especially because some of them are extremely similar like Türingen and Hessen
Great job! Can you do the canadian flag please!
Some minor mistakes, but one I want to mention: The basic law states that the flag shall be black, red and GOLD (Heraldic that may be represented by yellow). Just saying. :)
Good work, keep it up!
Excelent! Another great video! Thanks 👋
Cátia Ferreira hi
Black-Red-Gold goes back to the time of fights against Napeon. After 1815 it was used by students who fought for unification of whole Germany.
Nice video, I would like to know more abre the german flags ! :)
Greetings from Germany
The first two flags you did show were actually only used during the time of the Revolution of 1848-1849. Black, Red and Gold being the symbol for Republicanism. The Flag of the North German Confederation/German Empire (Black-White-Red) was indeed influenced by Prussia, since it was the hegemonial power in both entities. After the Revolution of 1918, the new Republic adopted the colours of the republican movement. The (former) political meaning of those colour combination is historically quite important.
Thank you, that was nicely informative 😊
the black-red-dolden flag was first used by the german countries figthing together against Napoleon. It became later a symbol of the United Germany and Democrazy. For this reason the German Republic of 1848 (which didn´t last long) used it as National Flag. Later the Weimar Republic used it es referance to the revolution of 1848
Finally we got a show like this! I wanted a real-life "Fun with flags" series ever since I saw it in The Big Bang Theory! Thank you! It's also very well made, good job!!!
yes, of course!
please, make a video about all the German's federation flags
I would love to see the russian flags next! Also, as a brazilian, i would love to watch a brief history about some of my country's states flags.
Podes falar português. Ele é português. :)
I figured that's why he read Weimar as /vay-mar/ instead of /vye-mar/
cool video!Make more of these videos!
You didn't mention the Lützower Freikorps once, it's pretty important when we talk about the black, red, gold flag
Amazing content, pls continue!
Speaking for all of Germany, as long as you don’t display Nazi ideals in your videos it’s fine, and your videos are great and educational, so it would be totally OK.
Great job! You gotta do the others flag video, also congratulations on the Brazil video
You forgot the mention the origin of the colours black red and gold. I will do it for you now, shall I?
In the napoleonic wars there was a regiment of the kingdom of prussia, the lützower Jäger / lützower Freikorps. It had black uniforms with red stripes and golden knobs. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%BCtzow_Free_Corps#/media/File:Kn%C3%B6tel_II,_7.jpg
These colours were later used on the Hambacher Fest, a demonstration after unity and democracy for the german nation had not been archieved in the congress of vienna, and then later in the revolution of 1848/1849.
indeed
b.t.w. the reason for the black uniforms was, that the soldiers (they were volunteers) had to buy their equippment by themselves, and black cloth was then the cheapest...
Another special thing was that every citizen of any german state was allowed to join the Lützower Jäger. Also, they dyed normal cloth black because black dye was the cheapest dye, gave these black clothes the red stripes and golden knobs so it looked at least a bit like a uniform.
well actually the knobs had the same reason like the coats, and the red scarfs was adopted from the prussian military
Yes, but that's a mere theory, although a popular one.
We can't know for sure why people came up with those colors for the Hambach festival. Probably it had something to do with the symbol of the popular student fraternities at the time which was red-black-red with a golden leaf in the middle.
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Muito fixe mano...pelo título percebi logo que era inspirado no Sheldon do "The BigBang Theory"....xD Muito fixe...Boa informação! Bom trabalho xD
Good video!
Do it about the argentinean flag!
Me: (seeing this video)
My brain: [Sheldon and Amy’s Bavarian Fun with Flags where Amy dresses as a pretzel]
I would appreciate a video on each of the flags, it would be truly educational.
By the way the next video could be on the English flag
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@Arch Stanton the British flag incorporates elements of Scotland and Ireland, which are not ethnically English. Since 1707, right?
hi, cool video
i am interested in a video of the state flags of german
also i'm interested in the story of the county flags of spain :)
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i know, what i meant with "county flags" was a video about the "comunidades autonomas" of spain, that are the different regions of the country, like euskera, catalonia, madrid, etc.
i don't know if i writted it right, i'm not a native english speaker
Very nice and informative video. Keep up the good work =)
I'd like to suggest you to do a video about Qatar's flag. It may be a good moment for that as the country is involved in this diplomatic issue. Besides, it's a quite curious flag.
Looking forward to watching the next video.
thanks for telling them!
The German Imperial Flag (balck-white-red) had the following meaning: Black and white for Prussia and white and red for the Hanseatic city states
The flag of Egypt also has an eagle displayed on it 2:30.
Awesome
The Holy Roman Empire's eagle was single-headed as well originally. They changed the design in the 15th century. Also since the HRE in the middle ages was made of of 3 nominal kingdoms (Germany, Italy and Arles/Burgundy) there was a period in which the double headed eagle would represent the empire/emperor while the single-headed one would represent the king of Germany.
Just for the record:
The service flag of the Federal Republic of Germany is NOT using the Coat of Arms (Bundesadler) but the very similar, but more „rounder“ Federal Shield (Bundesschild) which in fact also is an eagle but in a more rounder shape.
There is a legend that the eagle of the Mexico’s flag is the one the Aztecs found were they found Texcoco
You're great!
Yes, I would be interested in the individual flags of the German states. Thanks!
1980- As a tourist in Canada and in a department store just before the Olympics the flags of the competing nations, with the name written underneath, were hung around the store. I noticed the East German flag had 'German Federal Republic" below while the West German flag had "German Democratic Republic" below.
ps it's Prussia not Pussia.
loved it
The two headed eagle was first known to be used in minor asia tribes later adopted by the byzantines the grecoroman empire which they added symbols of christianity
The eagle looking to the east is usually holding a sword two face their enemies and the eagle looking to the west shows the desire of the reclaiming of rome
I see a lot of comments about, mistaken pronunciation used here. I must say to the critics; there is a lot of research and artistic talent gone into making this video and despite the mispronunciation it is entertaining, informative and perfectly understandable. Only when you have created something of equal value will you be qualified to denigrate on this level.
How you have already did Portuguese Flag, the flag of my country. You could talk about The evolution of the Russian Flag. You could also talk about Nepal because its a different flag comparared with the usual ones, retangular ones. Yes, there are some old flags that used different shapes, but I think Nepal is the only country that still have a different shape, of course im not sure, if i said sth bad, just correct me :)
I'm not sure if your portuguese but I think you are cuz' you started with the portuguese flag. If you are --> Parabéns pelo teu trabalho, encontrei o teu canal por acaso enquanto estava a pesquisar no youtube e achei uma ideia diferente do habitual e bastante divertida e cativante. Abraço! Rodrigo
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Muito bom mais uma vez, estou a espera do episódio 5 e como agr são as férias acho que consegues ter mais tempo(acho eu) para fazer este conteúdo espectacular.
Podias fazer sobre os EUA, aí tens uma ideia :)
I like the video
It's fun! It's has flags!!
Aus der Knechtschaft (schwarz),
Durch blutige Kämpfe (rot),
In die goldene Zukunft (gold).
I would love to see a video about the flags of different German states.
That would be cool to showthw history of most of the Kingdoms that united to form Germany, their separate cultures and territories. But that would be a long story.
Could you make the Turkish flag as well? I like your videos very much you're very talented and deserve much more attention.
...compass and a hammer encircled with rye... (not corn) good job on the whole series
Problem is, there is no compass. It is a circle. All of the symbols represented the people of eastern germany. A compass would represent something like freedom or exploration. Both of them not really wanted by the gouvernment.
I would love to see a video of the german states because i come from hamburg and would like to see the history of my town
4:26 you could also use the black cross witch is also historic to the early 40
some additional info and minor corrections:
1. The colors are actually black red and GOLD (not yellow)
2. the flag of the German Empire stemmed from the flag of the northern german alliance (Norddeutscher Bund) which was created by prussia after the austro-prussian brothers war. Bismarck created the new state in the north by puting all other states under prussian rule. It was this made up of Prussian lands (Brandenburg-Prussia and the Rhineland) Hannover and some others. Important to mention are the Hanse cities (for example Hamburg, Bremen, Lübeck, Rostock,...). The colors of Prussia were Black and White and those of the Hanse traiding league were white and red. Thus the norther german alliance revieved a mixture of both with the top half beeing the Prussian and the latter half beeing the Hanse flag.
3. The origin of the modern german flag's clolors is actually not clear. Most historians believe they orignate back to the Napoleanic wars when the German lands east of the Rhine rose up and fought aganst Napoleon's French empire. At that time a unit was formed called the "Lützower Jäger" (Lützow Skirmishers) who accepted volunteers. Mostly students joined that newly formed regiment and they wore black uniforms with reg insignia and golden buttons. They became some sort of a symbol of the fight for freedom (against Napoleonic and French repression) and thus might have become the inspiration for the flag of the revolution in 1848/49.
There is also a poem associated to the colors whichs goes as follows:
Aus der Schwärze der Knechtschaft
durch blutige Schlachten
ans goldene Licht der Freiheit
From the darkness of servitude (black)
through bloody battles (red)
into the golden light of freedom (gold)
Good, but your voice remeber me the microsoft sam's voice hahaha
I looove the German Empire flag! 👍👍👍👍👍⚫⚪🔴
why? the current colors are way more patriotic and a simbol of freedom. The Empire's flag was just a mixture between the Prussian and the Hanse flag. No real meaning to it.
The current flag has a poem associated to it that promotes the fight for freedom
@@meganoob12 Because it looks more powerful, it fits Germany well.
@@partizanbear552 no it doesn't. The current colors fit the democratic free germany and it's history of struggle for freedom. Let a Geraman tell you what colors fit his country please!
a story in germany says, the two-headed eagle looks protecting to the west (France) while it looks awared to the east (Poland/Russia). While France, Germany and parts of Spain where territory of the older Franko Empire, Germany protected against the "wild east". Sadly, its not that common anymore in Germany and France did betray the German several times ending with the 1. World War.
*snorts*
Beautiful! :)
Interesting video mate! But the colors are black - red - gold :)
The Swastika it's the symbol of taboo itself, it's imponent and terrifying, I doubt any symbol will have the same impact in the history of mankind until the end of the days.
nice
The Mexican eagle is based on the story of how the Aztecs came to where they made their empire
Fun Fact: The german and austrian eagles are the world oldest state symbols in use today, dating back to the germanic tribe times.
The 2 head eagle has its roots to the Eastern Roman Empire (also known as Byzantine Empire) and 1 head was looking at Rome and the other was looking at Constantinople and then Germany(and many others like serbia - russia etc) copied the Byzantine Eagle as they claimed to be Romans , for example when constantinople fell Russians (and Greeks) believed that Moscow was the 3rd Rome due to the religious connection they had with Byzantine Empire , also German city states copied this eagle as they claimed to be Romans too (and it was like a fashion trend to be a roman XD)
More videos! more videos!! :D
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Brandenburg (Pre-Prussia) also used an eagle. It was red instead of black, but an eagle nonetheless.
Sure, eagles are popular symbols in heraldry. It's not like there was only one.
the flag of the german empire is that way cuz it wanted to "unite" all german states from the biggest (prussia with its flag being black and white) and the smallest (the Hanse (or trade) cities and their color being red (see emblem of modern day hamburg, bremen or lübeck))
i can see this serieswill have a lot of episodes xD
Prussia is pronounced as 'Pra-sha' Mein Gott
Pr-uh-sha
silence. saupreiss
No its Preußen. Mein Gott!
Ru-sh-ia
Preißen
Hey its interisting for me. (Im from germany)
I think that the Austrian flag should have been included at first and then stated that the Northern German Confederation decided to exclude Austria since it was a powerful empire.
The "Prooshian" Eagle?
The NS Dab?
Nepal flag!kkkkk kkkkk kkkkk
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The symbol of the two headed eagle is quite simple. It's the imperial symple. Two heads are for emperors only
Have you done a video on the Vatican flag?
Nice video! However, in 7:10, you say that when used by the federal goverment, the flag also includes a coat of arms, and while that is true, the coat of arms you show is not the correct one, although a very similar one. The coat of arms shown in the video is the “Bundesadler” used in sports events, for example. The one used by the federal goverment is the “Bundeschild” and it can only be used by goverment authorities. (Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Germany)
Great video. Very nicely presented.
Unfortunately there are some errors in the video.
The "German Confederation" was not a state, but only a confederation of states and initially consisted of 39 sovereign states. But that can't be called Germany yet. The flag of this confederation was only introduced in 1848 and was "black-red-gold".
The naval war flag was just the same with the coat of arms of the German Confederation at the top left.
In 1866 the "German Confederation" was dissolved and a year later Prussia founded the "North German Confederation" together with 22 other states. It was actually a state and not a confederation.
From this time on you can speak of "Germany". The flag was of course "black-white-red". "Black and white" are the colors of Prussia and "red" the color of the Hanseatic cities.
In 1871 this state was renamed "German Empire" and dissolved in 1943. From 1919 the flag was changed to "Black-Red-Gold". The trade flag was "black-white-red" with a small version of the state flag in the upper left corner.
In 1933 the flag was again the one that was used before 1919. From 1934 the flag of the state was then the party flag of the NSDAP.
The Federal Republic of Germany has been using "black-red-gold" as a flag since 1949. The version with the federal eagle in the middle may only be used by state institutions. Outside this setting it is forbidden, but is only tolerated at larger events (sporting events).
By the way: The name "Weimar Republic" is not the name of the German state after 1918, but only the name of a period of time. The German name for "German Empire" has never changed.
This name was later given by historians because the constituent assembly was held in Weimar. People at that time spoke more of the "German Republic".
The name "Third Reich" is also used a bit incorrectly here. The actual "Third Reich" was only founded in 1943 under the name "Greater German Reich". Before that it was still the "Second Reich" but under the leadership of the National Socialists.
Still good video and nicely explained. Keep it up. 👍
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When will you do the Bohemia/Czech and Czechoslovakian flags ?? Please and Thankyou :-)
Could you please do history of Paraguay?
There is no Kompass in the east german flag it is an in german called Zirkel an mathematics Tool to draw circle.
The symbol of the two headed eagle is quite simple... It's the imperial symbol. It only can get used by the emperor.
As you can see for the Austrian two headed eagle, or the Russian two headed eagle - the only two other empires in Europe.
Please make a bavarian Flag Video :D