While Prussia was by the end the biggest and most powerful German state and the Prussian king became the German Emperor, it was a bit strange that the history of that video focused entirely on Prussia and began only in the 16th century. There were over 30 other German states, among them big players like Bavaria, Saxony and Austria (it was once considered German as well) and history goes back many hundreds of years. The video probably should've started in 800 AD with Charlemagne.
One of the most important detail was the attitude of Wilhelm I., who would rather have remained "King of Prussia" on a hierarchical level and there were two factions when it came to the coronation as emperor in 1871, with one faction desiring a "strong title" proclaiming him as "Emperor of Germany" (basically proclaiming OWNERSHIP of the entire land, which would have annoyed all the other kings and monarchs) and the others a "weak title". In the end the guy who crowned him found a third version and thus "didnt offend any of these factions". *This is a bit fuzzy and the precise phrases of the titles are important, so anyone interested in it would have to look it up themselves. Wikipedia probably wont be enough ...*
Technically, it should have started in Roman times when 'Germania Magna' was on the maps for the first time (even though this wasn't a unified Germany, just an area where people with similar languages and culture settled).
also people are confused about Prussia thinking it some separate thing from Germany, when in its core it was the dukes of Brandenburg who used that title of Prussia to elevate their status while the core of Prussia always was Brandenburg, Berlin, Silesia and the North Rhine provinces aka all kinda always German lands. Prussia is this weird artificial construct layered on top, then squeezed between regional and national German identity, not its own nation or thing.
Maybe even starting in roman times ... because "deutsch" comes from the germanic word "tiu", which means "people". Oh and germans did -beat- CRUSHED the romans ... once (at least) ... which the gauls and britons couldnt.
@@Muck006 Excuse me, but what do today's Germans have in common with the Cherusci? We wouldn't be able to talk to them even if we met one. You could probably only prove a few family relationships even if you had all the family trees going back to that time. After that there was the Migration Period at the end of Antiquity and some other migration movements in the Middle Ages and the Modern Era. The Cherusci lived in what is now Germany, but they were not Germans. But that's only my opinion. :)
@@crazy71achmed That Rome didn't expand much beyond the Rhine and Danube I'd say is somewhat important in terms of the roman heritage left behind in those areas (or not in the areas beyond those rivers). Other than that though, I'd agree. I'd set the starting point either at Charlemagne, or if you want to start earlier, which makes sense to condense the video into a few minutes, probably with 1806 and the end of the HRE or 1814/15 with the Vienna Congress. The focus on Prussia is a bit weird to me. It's understandable that Prussia is obviously a massive part of unification and making Germany the way it is today, but certainly, how Frederic the Great consolidated his reign seems a bit benign to me. Especially compared with how short the video's segment about the vienna congress was, not to mention the absence of Austria. It is a little odd to focus so much on Prussia alone in such an early stage. though I've come across a bit of a focus on Prussia in earlier anglosaxon historiography, putting a lot of emphasis on the continuity of Prussia and modern Germany. So, I guess in that sense I can see where it might come from.
@@thesayes6231 It remains difficult: when does German history begin? Charlemagne is probably the more "correct" approach than Hermann the Cheruscan. He founded the first Empire. ??? I am also rather critical of the great emphasis placed on the development of the Prussian state. This type of historical narrative is typical of the Empire between 1871-1918: Bismarck, Roon and Moltke forged the Empire, the development of the Prussian state was only the preparation for it. Isn't that a bit naive? :) What we can and should miss are of course the influences of the Habsburgs, the French Revolution/Napoleon and the Revolution of 1848 and much more. Do you know if the source is British or American?
He starts a bit late in the game. The Margraviate and Electorate of Brandenburg was only one of the German fiefdoms which were subject to the German-Roman king. The Kingdom of the Germans (or "Königreich der Deutschen") started far earlier. In 919 Heinrich I was elected as king of East Francia - the first Saxon on the Frankish throne. His son and successor Otto I the Great became 936 Duke of Saxony and King of East Francia, 951 King of Italy and 962 Roman-German Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (HRE), which consisted first of the kingdoms of Germany and Italy; in 1033 the Kingdom of Burgundy (or Arelat) joined the Empire; in 1198 Bohemia became its own Kingdom within the Empire, controlling the fiefdoms of Silesia and Moravia. The Netherlands and (most of) Belgium were part of the German kingdom; in the 16th century they were ruled by House Habsburg, which had inherited its power from House Luxembourg. In 1556 Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and (as Charles I) King of Spain abdicated; his brother Ferdinand I, Archduke of Austria, King of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia got the German crown and the title of Emperor, while his son Philipp I became King of Spain and Lord of the Burgundian Netherlands (consisting of eleven duchies and earldoms) within the HRE. Soon the mainly Protestant Netherlands rebelled against him; William of Nassau-Dillenburg, Prince of Orange, one of the regional governors, joined the rebellion and became its leader. The Eighty Years' war had begun; it lasted from 1533 to 1648, the year as also the 30 Years' war ended. In 1648 the United Netherlands became independent as well as Switzerland and a bunch of Italian duchies and republics. In 1806 Napoleon dissolved the Holy Roman Empire and appointed Württemberg, Bavaria, Saxony as new kingdoms, while Brandenburg became officially part of the Kingdom of Prussia instead of Germany, which no longer existed. After Napoleon's defeat the Congress of Vienna rearranged things; Hannover became its own kingdom (replacing the kingdom of Westphalia which Napoleon had erected for his younger brother), and the former fiefdoms of the HRE founded the German Confederation; Prussia and Austria-Hungary were only members with those regions which were formerly within the HRE. In 1866 Prussia left the Confederation and allied with Italy to attack the Confederation. After defeating it, Prussia annexed Hannover as well as some other states in Northern Germany and established with the remaining ones the North German Confederation, while forcing the South German countries into alliances. After the Franco-Prussian war of 1870/71 a new German Empire was proclaimed, a federation of the German states except Luxembourg and Austria presided by the King of Prussia as "German Emperor" (not Emperor of Germany, because the other kings considered him only "primus inter pares"; they were not subject to him). There was no "name change". Prussia was a territory outside of Deutschland / Germany, whose ruler dominated most of Germany during the 19th century and made certain parts of Germany into Prussian provinces. Later they got their old names back. The dissolution of Prussia after WW II gave Germany more stability.
@@tsbaltar Konrad was the last Frankish king of East Francia and the first after the Carolingian dynasty went extinct in East Francia. His father Conrad the Elder, Duke of Thuringia and Count of the Frankish counties Oberlahngau, Wormsgau, Hessenngau, Gotzfeldgau, Wetterau, had married a illegitimate daughter of the Carolingian King of East Francia Arnolf of Carinthia (King of East Francia 887-899, Roman Emperor 896-899), who had only one legitimate son, Louis the Child (who was enthroned as king of East Francia as 6 year old boy in 899 and died in 911). (The illegitimate son Zwentibold ruled as king in Lotharingia from 895 - 900, while the eldest, Ratold, was named king of Italy in 896, but vanished after around one month from history.) The East Frankish branch of the Carolingians went extinct with Louis, and Konrad was elected as a near relative, but could not establish his own dynasty. Since Konrad had no surviving sons, he recommended Heinrich (Henri the Fowler) of Saxony as successor, who was then elected after Konrad's death. The West Frankish branch of the Carolingians produced three additional kings of West Francia (Louis IV Transmarinus, Lothair and Louis V Done-Nothing (le Fainéant)) before it went extinct, the Italian branch ended with Berengar I in 924. The kingdom of East Francia existed since 843 (King Louis the German, a son of Louis the Pious); in 876 Karl III the Fat became King of East Francia, in 879 King of Italy and in 885 also King of West Francia (because all other possible heirs of the Carolingian dynasty had died very young), which reunited Francia for a short period until his death in 887.
The USA announcing the "dissolution of Prussia" in 1945 after WW2 was honestly an idiotic empty gesture, because Prussia (which had been under Napoleonic France's occupation for decades until they could win their freedom again) had already ended its status as an independent state during the first German unification in 1871. But many Americans followed the strawman image of Prussia that they had learned from their allies the French (who had been allied with Tsarist Russian and tried to re-invade Prussia in WW1), with France and Great Britain (falsely) claiming that Prussia was "militaristic" in culture as evidenced by their large military (which as historians have proven wasn't larger per capita than that of other European powers at the time, and Prussia _had_ freed its from Napoleon's occupation in long arduous battles). Also, many Americans were under the false impression that Hitler the Austrian had been a German and a Prussian because 1. he had moved from Vienna first to Munich and then after his election as Chancellor moved to Berlin (the seat of 1930s Germany's goverment), 2. because the German Reichspräsident Hindenburg had mockingly called Hitler "der bömische Gefreite" ("the Lance Corporal/Private from Bohemia") due to a misunderstanding about Hitler's birthplace: Hitler was born in the town of Braunau am Inn in upper Austria. But there was also a Braunau in the region of Bohemia, which at the time was part of Austria-Hungary of the Habsburg Empire. As a young man, Hindenburg had taken part in the Prussian/Austrian war of 1866, so he didn't like Austrians (and also didn't like non-officers and non-noblemen), and during the war his regiment had moved through that second Braunau, the wrong one. The Kingdom of Bohemia had become part of Austria (the Habsburg Monanrchy) in 1906. In 1918 after the WW1, it became part of Czechoslovakia. In 1938, after the _Anschluss_ of Austria to the Deutsche Reich (when Austria and the Third Reich Germany became one political unit), the German-speaking non-slavic parts of the former Kingdom of Bohemia were also incorporated into the Deutsche Reich. (The region of Bohemia is today part of the modern-day Czech Republic.) and of coruse in 1939 Hitler and his ally Stalin annexed Poland and divided it between them. As eastern Europe from the Baltic coast to Ukraine at the Black Sea was swallowed up by the Soviet Union after 1945, this created even more shifting borders and confusion.
As a Brit myself, I've always had a slight fascination with German history as well as British history. Also, not all of Germany was called Prussia before German unification. Prussia was one of 30+ independent states located in modern day eastern Germany/western Poland
King Georg 1. was Born in hanover/Germany and was the leader of the house of Hanover before he become also the King of Greatbrit. & Irland. This Was the begin of the "personal union of great britain and hanover". Cause of the leader rules from the house of hanover, these Union ends with queen Victoria. A woman was not allowed to be the ruler of the house of Hanover so her nephew becomes the head of the house of Hanover, she got the Brit.crown and the Union was broken. The daughter of Georg 1. was Dorothea, she become the wife of prusia King Friedrich 1.
we learn pretty intense about WW2 - and it got more specific throughout the grades. i even got a holocaust survivor at our school holding lectures, other schools made trips to the concentration camps. so we are pretty open with our history.
Oh wow, that's so good to be honest. It's important to keep history alive so that we can learn from the wrong doings of the past. We had a holocaust survivor speak at our college. It was one of the most intense emotional speeches I have ever heard.
@@dwayneslens Our survivor had an quite unique story - he pretended to be a pure german and was even in the "Hitler Youth" during the war - his name is Sally Perel de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Perel
There was a change in how WW2 is taught over the last about 40,50 years - the curriculum moved away from war campaigns to the political backgrounds, to more honesty and openness about the crimes of the Nazis (and also parts of the military), with the intent to learn about the past for the future instead of rehearsing the past.
Man muss dazu sagen, dass aktuell bzw. in den letzten Jahren jedoch eine sehr wirre Situation auf den deutschen Straßen vorliegt: Araber bzw. Muslime verurteilen Deutschland dafür, dass Israel unterstützt wird, aber es wird nahezu nichts dagegen getan. Im Gegenteil: es wird von den Politikern nur geredet, aber diese "Flüchtlinge" und "Migranten" werden trotz teils aggressiver Straftaten weiter geduldet, sie dürfen weiter auf den Straßen antisemitische Dinge sagen und Polizeibeamte beleidigen und/oder körperliche Gewalt ausüben. Zudem Vandalismus betreiben... geduldet aufgrund unserer chronischen und krankhaften Schuldkultur. Nicht falsch verstehen: ja, es ist gut, dass die Nachkriegszeit genutzt wird, um die Kriegsjahre und alles aufzuarbeiten, aber es wird wie so oft in Deutschland wieder nur einseitig gedacht.... und deswegen gibt es hier so viele Probleme, weil nicht richtig zu Ende gedacht wird und man sich eine Opfermentalität eingeimpft hat
Waiting? You say that as if it's some kind of secret in the UK. I find it's usually Germans who see the royals as "typically British", while to Brits, they're German expats who even give their speeches in German when they tour Germany.
Asking why Germany isn't called Prussia is a bit like asking why England isn't called Scotland. The nations were under control of the same person, but in each case one wasn't part of the other. The difference is that the Prussian kings wanted to be kings and they couldn't be in the German parts of their realm, so they called their Realm after the part they could be kings in. While England and Scotland were both kingdoms and the royal line came from England and didn't see any reason to see their realm as Scottish. The territory the German empire took from Spain wasn't part of Hispaniola, that island was New Guinea.
@@aphextwin5712 The name England is derived from the Old English word Engaland, which means land of the Angles. The Angles were a Germanic tribe that colonised the country in the early Middle Ages.
If you want to learn more about what Germans get taught in school about the second world war, there's a really good video by Feli from Germany called 'Do Germans Talk About World War II? What Do They Teach About the Holocaust? '
For all the emphasis on WW2 in schools it's a lot less relevant to the world than WW1 (and it's causes) which should be taught a lot more than it is. Because we are still dealing with the fallout from WW1 today. WW2 was really just chapter 2 of the story.
History lessons in Germany regarding WW1 and WW2 are very comprehensive and detailed. It's not that Germans don't like talking about it or that it's taboo. Documentaries about it are shown on television every day. I also knew people who had experienced the war and the period after it. It wasn't a nice childhood back then. There are also videos about this topic "how WW in german school" there. Nothing is left out or glossed over. There is also more focus on the political constellations, the circumstances, the origins and actions, but less on the fights themselves. So which general commanded which army group and which equipment was used there is not discussed, at most only mentioned in passing. Of course everyone knows General Rommel or Paulus. Not like the British and US, for example, who are reluctant to talk about their past crimes. I can understand that they don't talk about their present transgressions, but the past is history. You shouldn't make the same mistakes twice.
In Germany (I was at school in the 80s and 90s) the Third Reich is actually discussed very extensively in class. A lot is being done about the Shoah. Many school classes visit former concentration camps in this class
if you are in southern Germany and want to get into serious trouble, tell them that Germany once was Prussia. "Preusse" (prussian) is a curse word in Bavaria.
14:42 The UK not being divided ? ..**ahem** (northern) Ireland might want to have a word with you on *THAT* topic... (not to mention the more political divide between "London"/"the south" and Schotland... remember how Schotland decided to not go independend in part because they did not want to have new negotiations on being part of europe... just to see "London" lying about staying part of europe if Schotland stayed and voting for brexit ? If the guys in Schotland would hve known about Brexit up front I doubt their vote to stay in the UK would have turned out the way it did practically cutting th UK in half.)
Wouldn't know, I went to school in London, near Germany, hi!hi! I was a German boy in England, I knew about the war from my mum, we had lost 2 families during the run up to the war, they were never seen again. Mum told me of days in the bunker during air raids on our home town, Hannover, and I did see a diaorama of the then demolished city as it was in 1945, it was horrendous.
i promise you did hear Prussia before, in "prussian blue" the name of this colour is a leftover from this time. Its that iconic blue colour every inkpen have. It was a major colour in this regency, only for the royals. (i am not sure but i remember it is made out of an ore that is located in this aerea. but thats just a slightly fading remember) And the "start of that Video is a little late, i guess the real German beginning starts with the babarian invasion somthing in the year 300 ad.
Hi! The historic germanic people had different tribes, so for example the teutones (Teutonen) and the Allemannen. "Deutsch" comes from "teut-(onen)" I think. In other languages - like spanish - Germany (or Deutschland) is called "Allemania", in turkish "Almanya". You english speaking people say "german" and "Germany". Italians say "Tedesco". ..."T" + "e" became "D" + "e" (= DEutsch). Far away it also has something to do with "dutch", if I`m right?.... Very interesting!🤔😅 ...Oh, I wanted to say one more thing: Prussia was much later in history!!!
Deutsch comes from a Germanic root *thiudisk (attested as latinised theodiscus, from a noun 'theudo/thiudo' meaning 'people' and the -isk suffix), Middle High German 'tiutsch' or 'diutsch', meaning roughly 'folkish' or 'pertaining to the (German) people'. The name of the teutoni tribe is likely related to the aforementioned noun. The term 'Dutch' is cognate to 'deutsch'; it's 'duits' in the Dutch language and originally was identical in meaning to 'deutsch' before it was narrowed to mean 'Dutch' with the rise of a Dutch national identity during the Early Modern era. The English term 'Dutch' was originally used to merely vaguely refer to continental Germanic speakers they had contact with, naturally mostly what we'd now call 'Dutch', and this term equally was narrowed down as was its Dutch equivalent.
~3:40 There is a little mistake in the source. Frederick was the son of Frederick William. Prussian history is sometimes a bit confusing because after 1640 all regents had the name either Frederick, William or Frederick William. ~:D
Germany was never named Prussia. Prussia Was just one Kingdom in the Holy Roman Empire (of German Nations) like Bavaria or Saxony. Deutschland means "Land of those that speak deutsch". Germany is a heritage from Rome and the names the Kelts gave the people in the East, "Germania Magna". About dividing you may ask the people in Ireland. They are divided.
As for why most people call Deutschland "Germany"? That's what Julius Caesar called it. The Romans fought the Germans many times and won some battles, but couldn't really conquer them, and instead enlisted them in service to Rome as soldiers (and "civilizing" them in the process, if you consider Romans civilized). The Romans took over the Italian peninsula, Gaul (basically France) and southern Britain. Sure, they got sacked by the Visigoths awhile later, but one of their even later leaders (actually a Frank, and the Franks were Germans), got crowned by the Pope himself on Christmas Day, 800 AD - Charlemagne as Holy Roman Emperor - basically King of Germany, and Francia (Gaul and "Roman" Germany). Rome lost their administrative empire, but not necessarily their religious one, around 500 years earlier to Constantinople (Byzantium/Constantinople is now Istanbul, in Turkey). Upon Charlemagne's death, his country was divided among his sons, so there were three countries: West Francia (Gaul -basically France), Lotharingia (basically Alsace-Lorraine), and East Francia (basically Austria). The Holy Roman Empire survived for 1000 years, till around 1800 or so. That's the early history. Also, many ask what's the Third Reich? It means third empire.The HRE was the first. Wilhelm I and II headed up the second before WWI. I hope to never see another. Pope Leo III, upon crowning Charlemagne, meant to continue the original Roman Empire in Europe I think (instead of Constantinople, in Asia).
Firstly the pope did not crown kings but emperors. Secondly ppl that calling Deutschland "Germany" has nothing to do with Julias Caesar. Many nations have germanic origins ... like Austria, the Netherlands, Denmark etc. Its just plain out wrong ... like french calling Deutschland "Allemagne", a germanic tribe that exist anymore. Funny enough there is a correct word for german ppl and that is "dutch" ... but the ppl of the Netherlands are called that way.
At the time of the division of the empire there was no Austria! At that time, the East Frankish Empire consisted of the four tribes of the Franks, Saxons, Bavaria and Swabians.
@@johnnykotletti4614 Funnily enough, there is a correct word for German people and that is “Dutch”? Really? ;-) The word "Deutsch" goes back to the Old High German word "diutisc", which means "belonging to the people", developed into "Dütsch" in Low German, "Dutsch" in Frisian, and ultimately into "Deutsch", from which "Deutschland" (Germany) emerged.
The story of germany becoming modern germany is very hard to explain. There happened so much since 910 with arising first german cities. It is so deeply woven with european history. I really love it, but I am not good at explaining such stuff. And yeah even 910 is very late - there were the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest and stuff. As I said ...it's a lot more complicated than that.
For those interested there's a popular book sold at airports, a short history of Germany summarizing all those kingdoms, tribalism and wars from the days of the Romans to modern times. Lots of interesting stuff and not too dry. I would add that for reactors it should be courtesy to link the original content creator in the description.
German colonies were in China: Qingdao (Tsingtau) - in Oceania: Papua New Guinea and 200 islands in the Pacific (Bismarck Archipelago) - in Africa: Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda, Burundi, Togo, Ghana, Cameroon, Namibia - and Venezuela (Klein Venedig) in Latin America and Ernst Thälmann Island off Cuba
the last two are special cases: Venezuela was given by Emperor Charles V, who was also King Charles I of Spain, in 1528 to a private German company, the Welser from Augsburg and Nuremberg. After Charles V abdicated in 1556 they lost their rights in the now again Spanish colony. The Ernst Thälmann Island is an uninhabited island off the coast of Cuba, which was renamed in honor of German communist Ernst Thälmann in 1972 and symbolically donated to the FRG, but stayed in the administration of Cuba. Since it is a military exclusion zone (it is situated about 25 km from the notorious Bay of Pigs), all access is forbidden. We could add also some other special cases: - The earldom of Hanau tried in 1669 to lease a colony in Suriname from the Dutch West India Company, but the project failed due to lack of funding and the begin of the French-Dutch war. - In 1682 Elector Friedrich Wilhelm of Brandenburg sent a fleet to Africa; in 1683 the construction of Fort Groß Friedrichsburg in Ghana started. The colony engaged in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. His grandson Friedrich Wilhelm I in Prussia sold the colony in 1717 to the Dutch Westindia Company as well as some other colonies in 1720. The colony Arguin in Mauretania was in 1721 conquered by France. To get an own harbor at the other side of the Atlantic Brandenburg had leased a part of the island of Saint Thomas (now part of the US Virgin Islands) from Denmark (1685-1721). - Since Austria was also part of Germany before 1804, we could also count some Austrian colonies (more like trade posts) in Mozambique, the Nicobar Islands or the Malabar Coast.
One thing to consider when talking about historical nations: you have to be aware of the polictical and social system. Were Belgium and the Netherlands ever part of Germany? No, they never were. But the regions where these states are today, had at some points been subject to the same political organization that at some other point in history would become "Germany". So, land yes... country no. It's like asking if Gascony had ever been part of the United Kingdom.
If I had to generalise how history is taught in German schools, it'd go like this: Year 1-6: Going through history chronologically from the beginning to WW2. Year 7: How WW2 Year 8: Why WW2 Year 9: Other crimes during WW2 Year 10: How Hitler Year 11: Why Hitler Year 12: Recap of years 7-11 Year 12, last week: 1949-present At least, this is what we had in my time, 33+ years ago. It probably shifted to include a solid year of "how Germans did evil things in East Germany 1949-1990" or something like that. My favourite history lessons were "all classes in lat '89", when we had a radio in the classroom. At first to listen to the hourly news, and then it stayed on all the time during the "hot phase". And yes, it is possible to teach a class while the radio is playing music softly. (Mind blown, anyone?)
Germany was never named Prussia, that would be like sying: The United Kingdom was once named England. Thats just completly wrong, they where both very strong and big parts of a new entity, but still only a part.
What you learn in school about WWII will depend heavily on your state and maybe even your school in Germany. Personally, I'm glad that I went to a school that actually taught us a lot more than the standard curriculum and where we didn't dwell on that specific topic for 7 years straight (apparently some schools do that). But wherever you go, people will usually talk about the underlying causes of both world wars, the early warning signs and all that. Also the suffering, of course, but my memory from history class is mainly of the Weimar years. After all, that is the important bit when it comes to preventing sth like that from happening again. I don't think anyone really gets taught anything about military operations, logistics or the like.
During the German Holy Roman Empire, Prussia was not part of it, which is why the House of Hohenzollern, actually coming from the southwest, was able to take over the Prussian royal title. A long time before, they had already appropriated large parts of Brandenburg, in which Berlin and Potsdam are also located, because No one else wanted it because the soil was not very fertile. From there they expanded this area wherever they could. I don't know the rest of the 100th from other independent areas either. It is a long, confusing story that actually began with the expulsion of the Romans in the year 9 AD. ...
~1:00 Belgium and the Netherlands never were parts of Germany. In the Middleage they were part of the Holy Roman Empire. Just like Switzerland, Austria, the Czech Republic, parts of Poland, parts of France and parts of Italy.
The education about the time from 1918 till 1945 is top notch, I'd say. Then, in my day at school, the topic was the "De-Nazifikation", the time after the war when the Victors, with the Germans, searched for war criminals and "ordinary" nazis, to trial them and bring them to justice. And well........that is not quite what happened. There was no Denazifikation. At least not the way we were told to. Another dark chapter of german history: Nazis in Germany post-1945, selected, partially pardoned and put back into work by the Adenauer Administration (1949-1963). I don't know, if that is already part of history classes in Germany today but I doubt it. It's quite a new information and it takes some years before it's part of history class.
Maybe to explain a bit why it's called Deutschland (Germany) and not Prussia (Prussia was just one of many kingdoms) According to consistent reports from historians, the origin of the name "Deutsch" can be traced back to the Middle High German word "diet" and the Old High German word "diot". The word “diot” and the associated adjective “diutisc” mean “people” and “belonging to the people” in Old High German. This is a self-designation of the former local ethnic groups. At that time, this name for the language of the people stood in contrast to Latin, the linguistic communication of scholars and clergy. In Old High German, the term "theodiscus" later changed to "diutsch", Low German used the word "düdesch" - and in High German "teutsch", a direct predecessor of today's term "deutsch". So, following this Deutschland means the 'land of the people' or 'the land that does belong to the people' and in particular German speaking people. You can also see it in the term Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation - Heilige Römische Reich deutscher Nation (962-1806)
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Netherlands where par of the HREGN. Nether lands where part until there founding i believe- When thy got free from the spanish habsburges. Todays Belgium was part of tthe unitet netherlands and the time. Lots of Belgians are Wallonians which is more related to france so after Napoleon they get a seperated Nation-
Hi Dwayne, you asked what we learn about Hitler in school and I think we were educated more than enough back then, but it's also the decades that change a lot. There is a lot of criticism about the fact that in the 1950s many Nazis stayed in their old jobs, even though everyone knew that they were active there. That was the case in politics and also in the small village where I currently live. Everyone still knows today who was involved in the NSDAP and who was a party member. But cannot condemn the children of the perpetrators because they have no influence on their fathers' actions. Some people say that this topic is no longer so important in school, but I see it differently. It's still far too close to the past for that. Besides, something like this should always be remembered. To get back to your question, when I was at school we talked a lot about the Nazis. I would say that half of the time in our 6 years of high school we talked about the crimes of Nazi Germany. Before that there was history about the Romans and Greeks and that was pretty much it. So it was very detailed. It is also common practice to visit a concentration camp at least once to see it for yourself. It shapes you when you see this as a child and not as an adult. Not in a negative way, but maybe you think a little more about what happened in the past.
The secret service of the Third Reich were nearly 1:1 integrated as first secret service "Organisation Gehlen" by Protection of the U.S. in the Federal Republic of Germany. The "Organisation Gehlen" is later renamed in "Bundesnachrichtendienst". I rest my case (Womit dann alles gesagt wäre). And enough for the Algorithm🤮
Belgium and Netherlands one part and part of Habsburg empire. So technically Austrian although the Habsburgs also belonged to HRE. Similar to Luxembourg, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Bohemia, Moravia, Slovenia and Northern Italy. As a result of uprisings, some provinces joined together to form the "Utrecht Union", today's Netherlands.
Switzerland was never part of the Habsburg Empire. Switzerland was home to the Habsburgs before they had an Empire, but the Habsburgs lost the war against Zürich and were kicked out of their castle. As a result of never winning their castle back, they overcompensated and went on to rule the whole world (but not Switzerland)
No! Germany was NOT Prussia! Prussia was one of the german states like many others. Germany was a confederation of states for 1000 years before it became a federal state.
I actually think that if the Treaty of Versailles hadn't been harsh on Germany at the time, because it was almost like bleeding to death, there might not have been this economic crisis later and maybe Adolf Hitler wouldn't have come to power, and therefore maybe not the second one world war but what happened is done and it can no longer be undone. We can ensure that something like this doesn't happen again. Greetings
It was done on purpose. Like it is now done on purpose to set up Germany against Russia by means of the Ukrainian proxy war. History does not happen, history is carefully planned and executed in little steps until bigger events are inevitable. Be sure, the core event of the next decade(s?) called WW3 will be executed between Germany and Russia, while Russia will be the aggressor, this time, and both, the Anglo-Americans do all to get this conflict manifested as a reality, even though they may help Germany to have the upper hand finally, their goal is to weaken both on a large extend, like during WW2, take over both Germany (which is already under their hidden control) and Russia especially, tear it apart and control it's leftovers. Those who control the Eurasian landmass will dominate the world. (The Grand Chessboard - US geostragy and it's imperatives, Brzsinski).
Germany never called Preußen. The Prussens lived in the Baltic area and they wasnd Christians and the Territory was outside the holy roman Empire, So they are not real humans at this time. The Hohenzollern take it to get a King titel.
The Germany,wich we know today is founded 1872 ,after the winning of the french/german war 1871. Before that, there where many small,midsize,and bigger coutrys. Like ,i spell it the german way: Preußen,Sachsen,Baden,Würtemmberg,Bayern etc etc
dont forget that Anglo-saxons were "british people" (there came from germanic tribes and scandinavians) before the vikings and franks battled them in the historic years of 1065/1066
The British are a Celtic tribe and have nothing to do with the Saxons, Jutes, or Angles. The Scandinavians are also Germanic, as are the Franks, and Viking is a 'job title' and not a people or tribe. In 1066 the Normans fought in Hastings against the Saxons there. At that time, a Frankish upper class ruled a country, what is now called France, over the native Celtic tribes, from which the French later developed. Normandy was previously handed over as a fief to Scandinavian pirates, or Vikings, in order to be safe from further raids.
Oh a lot of complicated question. I try to give simple answers. Why is Germany no longer called Prussia? Because this Kingdom of Prussia fought so many wars that ended in World War I. In its entire existence of 250 years, there have been 15 years of peace in Prussia. Belgium was created by secession from France, not by Germany. As an East German who came of age in the GDR, I have a divided relationship with German unity. On the one hand, freedom is greater in German unity, on the other hand, the progress of the GDR has all been nullified
13:35 - Dear Dwayne - according to this question, please watch the following video bei German expat to the US Felicia with her account Feli from Germany - ruclips.net/video/DMNJk1LNV0w/видео.html Also this Video leaves out like 50 to 75% of the deal. 😅 It's actually quite shallow, as it only focuses on Prussia and leaves out all the other kingdoms and nobilities, such as Bavaria, Saxony and all roman history on german soil. It misses so many important things, like the 30 years war and yeah, Prussia just "got" Silesia...? Yeah, totally. Ask any Austrian, what she or he thinks about that... 😂
Prussia was called Prusaī by their tribes like the sudovians, natangians, nadruvians etc. until the germans conquert prussia in the 12th century by a brutal crusade. The name "Preußen" is just the german word for it. The greeks called them "pruthenians" and the romans "borussi", the arabians called them "burus". Famous for their trading with amber since ancient times.
We didn't change the name. Germannen means ' Spearmen '. And Prussia was just a bit in it's history. Depending on which country you're next to, names change. Do you speak of scots as Caledonians still?
Nether comes from the german "Nieder" like it is in "Niedersachsen" (the state that english people call lower saxony for no reason) their language is close to my native language "niederdeutsch" Niedersachsen ist very far away from Bavaria. There is a joke: If a Guy from Lower Saxony and Bavaria meat there happens nothing. The one one talks no german, the other does not talk at all. (because bavarian counts as german, but is harder understandable than lower german, that is not counted as german at all. My lowergerman region was not a part of Prussia (Preußen)
Most of the people fled from the eastern territories, which today belong to Russia and Poland, from the advancing troops of the Red Army. And not without reason, because of the atrocities committed by German soldiers and SS units, they could not count on appreciative treatment by the Red Army. Escape and expulsion were their fate, from which some of the displaced persons still alive today still suffer today. They were not really welcome in the "West" either, as the people in the West had also lost their homes due to the numerous bombing raids. At that time, the refugees from the East were only unpopular competitors for scarce housing and jobs.
The barbarism of the the red army has nothing to do with the atrocities that were committed by the germans. Polish ppl always tell you how bad the germans were but the soviets were even worse. The red army pillaged and raped their way through eastern europe and committed atrocities to everyone, they did not just do it to the germans.
Germany never was Prussia. Prussia was a part of Germany (Now most parts of former Prussia are Russian, Polish, Czech etc.. Germany was formed as a union of many Kingdoms like Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony, Baden, Würtemberg and many more. A little bit like England, Scotland and Wales unified as the British Empire - only with the difference that after WW1 the former Countries (Bavaria,....) lost their Country Status and where downgraded to States.
The Province of Westphalia was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1815 to 1918 and a province of the Free State of Prussia from 1918 to 1946. 😜😂
While Prussia was by the end the biggest and most powerful German state and the Prussian king became the German Emperor, it was a bit strange that the history of that video focused entirely on Prussia and began only in the 16th century. There were over 30 other German states, among them big players like Bavaria, Saxony and Austria (it was once considered German as well) and history goes back many hundreds of years. The video probably should've started in 800 AD with Charlemagne.
One of the most important detail was the attitude of Wilhelm I., who would rather have remained "King of Prussia" on a hierarchical level and there were two factions when it came to the coronation as emperor in 1871, with one faction desiring a "strong title" proclaiming him as "Emperor of Germany" (basically proclaiming OWNERSHIP of the entire land, which would have annoyed all the other kings and monarchs) and the others a "weak title". In the end the guy who crowned him found a third version and thus "didnt offend any of these factions".
*This is a bit fuzzy and the precise phrases of the titles are important, so anyone interested in it would have to look it up themselves. Wikipedia probably wont be enough ...*
Technically, it should have started in Roman times when 'Germania Magna' was on the maps for the first time (even though this wasn't a unified Germany, just an area where people with similar languages and culture settled).
It was Ludwig II King of Bavaria who crowned The German Emperor- not the Emperor of Germany…at Versailles Castle, in the Grand Gallery…
also people are confused about Prussia thinking it some separate thing from Germany, when in its core it was the dukes of Brandenburg who used that title of Prussia to elevate their status while the core of Prussia always was Brandenburg, Berlin, Silesia and the North Rhine provinces aka all kinda always German lands. Prussia is this weird artificial construct layered on top, then squeezed between regional and national German identity, not its own nation or thing.
Weird point in history to start, honestly. 500-1500 years earlier would have made more sense to understand how everything developed.
Maybe even starting in roman times ... because "deutsch" comes from the germanic word "tiu", which means "people". Oh and germans did -beat- CRUSHED the romans ... once (at least) ... which the gauls and britons couldnt.
@@Muck006 The Gauls sacked Rome itself in 387 BC
@@Muck006 Excuse me, but what do today's Germans have in common with the Cherusci?
We wouldn't be able to talk to them even if we met one. You could probably only prove a few family relationships even if you had all the family trees going back to that time. After that there was the Migration Period at the end of Antiquity and some other migration movements in the Middle Ages and the Modern Era.
The Cherusci lived in what is now Germany, but they were not Germans.
But that's only my opinion. :)
@@crazy71achmed That Rome didn't expand much beyond the Rhine and Danube I'd say is somewhat important in terms of the roman heritage left behind in those areas (or not in the areas beyond those rivers). Other than that though, I'd agree. I'd set the starting point either at Charlemagne, or if you want to start earlier, which makes sense to condense the video into a few minutes, probably with 1806 and the end of the HRE or 1814/15 with the Vienna Congress. The focus on Prussia is a bit weird to me. It's understandable that Prussia is obviously a massive part of unification and making Germany the way it is today, but certainly, how Frederic the Great consolidated his reign seems a bit benign to me. Especially compared with how short the video's segment about the vienna congress was, not to mention the absence of Austria. It is a little odd to focus so much on Prussia alone in such an early stage. though I've come across a bit of a focus on Prussia in earlier anglosaxon historiography, putting a lot of emphasis on the continuity of Prussia and modern Germany. So, I guess in that sense I can see where it might come from.
@@thesayes6231 It remains difficult: when does German history begin? Charlemagne is probably the more "correct" approach than Hermann the Cheruscan. He founded the first Empire. ???
I am also rather critical of the great emphasis placed on the development of the Prussian state. This type of historical narrative is typical of the Empire between 1871-1918: Bismarck, Roon and Moltke forged the Empire, the development of the Prussian state was only the preparation for it. Isn't that a bit naive? :)
What we can and should miss are of course the influences of the Habsburgs, the French Revolution/Napoleon and the Revolution of 1848 and much more.
Do you know if the source is British or American?
He starts a bit late in the game. The Margraviate and Electorate of Brandenburg was only one of the German fiefdoms which were subject to the German-Roman king.
The Kingdom of the Germans (or "Königreich der Deutschen") started far earlier. In 919 Heinrich I was elected as king of East Francia - the first Saxon on the Frankish throne. His son and successor Otto I the Great became 936 Duke of Saxony and King of East Francia, 951 King of Italy and 962 Roman-German Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (HRE), which consisted first of the kingdoms of Germany and Italy; in 1033 the Kingdom of Burgundy (or Arelat) joined the Empire; in 1198 Bohemia became its own Kingdom within the Empire, controlling the fiefdoms of Silesia and Moravia.
The Netherlands and (most of) Belgium were part of the German kingdom; in the 16th century they were ruled by House Habsburg, which had inherited its power from House Luxembourg. In 1556 Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and (as Charles I) King of Spain abdicated; his brother Ferdinand I, Archduke of Austria, King of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia got the German crown and the title of Emperor, while his son Philipp I became King of Spain and Lord of the Burgundian Netherlands (consisting of eleven duchies and earldoms) within the HRE. Soon the mainly Protestant Netherlands rebelled against him; William of Nassau-Dillenburg, Prince of Orange, one of the regional governors, joined the rebellion and became its leader. The Eighty Years' war had begun; it lasted from 1533 to 1648, the year as also the 30 Years' war ended. In 1648 the United Netherlands became independent as well as Switzerland and a bunch of Italian duchies and republics.
In 1806 Napoleon dissolved the Holy Roman Empire and appointed Württemberg, Bavaria, Saxony as new kingdoms, while Brandenburg became officially part of the Kingdom of Prussia instead of Germany, which no longer existed. After Napoleon's defeat the Congress of Vienna rearranged things; Hannover became its own kingdom (replacing the kingdom of Westphalia which Napoleon had erected for his younger brother), and the former fiefdoms of the HRE founded the German Confederation; Prussia and Austria-Hungary were only members with those regions which were formerly within the HRE. In 1866 Prussia left the Confederation and allied with Italy to attack the Confederation. After defeating it, Prussia annexed Hannover as well as some other states in Northern Germany and established with the remaining ones the North German Confederation, while forcing the South German countries into alliances. After the Franco-Prussian war of 1870/71 a new German Empire was proclaimed, a federation of the German states except Luxembourg and Austria presided by the King of Prussia as "German Emperor" (not Emperor of Germany, because the other kings considered him only "primus inter pares"; they were not subject to him).
There was no "name change". Prussia was a territory outside of Deutschland / Germany, whose ruler dominated most of Germany during the 19th century and made certain parts of Germany into Prussian provinces. Later they got their old names back. The dissolution of Prussia after WW II gave Germany more stability.
You forget Baden and Geroldseck in the Napoleon campaign
such fuckery
The first king was Konrad I from 911 to 918! He started to create East Francia.
@@tsbaltar Konrad was the last Frankish king of East Francia and the first after the Carolingian dynasty went extinct in East Francia. His father Conrad the Elder, Duke of Thuringia and Count of the Frankish counties Oberlahngau, Wormsgau, Hessenngau, Gotzfeldgau, Wetterau, had married a illegitimate daughter of the Carolingian King of East Francia Arnolf of Carinthia (King of East Francia 887-899, Roman Emperor 896-899), who had only one legitimate son, Louis the Child (who was enthroned as king of East Francia as 6 year old boy in 899 and died in 911). (The illegitimate son Zwentibold ruled as king in Lotharingia from 895 - 900, while the eldest, Ratold, was named king of Italy in 896, but vanished after around one month from history.) The East Frankish branch of the Carolingians went extinct with Louis, and Konrad was elected as a near relative, but could not establish his own dynasty. Since Konrad had no surviving sons, he recommended Heinrich (Henri the Fowler) of Saxony as successor, who was then elected after Konrad's death. The West Frankish branch of the Carolingians produced three additional kings of West Francia (Louis IV Transmarinus, Lothair and Louis V Done-Nothing (le Fainéant)) before it went extinct, the Italian branch ended with Berengar I in 924.
The kingdom of East Francia existed since 843 (King Louis the German, a son of Louis the Pious); in 876 Karl III the Fat became King of East Francia, in 879 King of Italy and in 885 also King of West Francia (because all other possible heirs of the Carolingian dynasty had died very young), which reunited Francia for a short period until his death in 887.
The USA announcing the "dissolution of Prussia" in 1945 after WW2 was honestly an idiotic empty gesture, because Prussia (which had been under Napoleonic France's occupation for decades until they could win their freedom again) had already ended its status as an independent state during the first German unification in 1871. But many Americans followed the strawman image of Prussia that they had learned from their allies the French (who had been allied with Tsarist Russian and tried to re-invade Prussia in WW1), with France and Great Britain (falsely) claiming that Prussia was "militaristic" in culture as evidenced by their large military (which as historians have proven wasn't larger per capita than that of other European powers at the time, and Prussia _had_ freed its from Napoleon's occupation in long arduous battles).
Also, many Americans were under the false impression that Hitler the Austrian had been a German and a Prussian because
1. he had moved from Vienna first to Munich and then after his election as Chancellor moved to Berlin (the seat of 1930s Germany's goverment),
2. because the German Reichspräsident Hindenburg had mockingly called Hitler "der bömische Gefreite" ("the Lance Corporal/Private from Bohemia") due to a misunderstanding about Hitler's birthplace: Hitler was born in the town of Braunau am Inn in upper Austria. But there was also a Braunau in the region of Bohemia, which at the time was part of Austria-Hungary of the Habsburg Empire. As a young man, Hindenburg had taken part in the Prussian/Austrian war of 1866, so he didn't like Austrians (and also didn't like non-officers and non-noblemen), and during the war his regiment had moved through that second Braunau, the wrong one.
The Kingdom of Bohemia had become part of Austria (the Habsburg Monanrchy) in 1906. In 1918 after the WW1, it became part of Czechoslovakia. In 1938, after the _Anschluss_ of Austria to the Deutsche Reich (when Austria and the Third Reich Germany became one political unit), the German-speaking non-slavic parts of the former Kingdom of Bohemia were also incorporated into the Deutsche Reich. (The region of Bohemia is today part of the modern-day Czech Republic.) and of coruse in 1939 Hitler and his ally Stalin annexed Poland and divided it between them. As eastern Europe from the Baltic coast to Ukraine at the Black Sea was swallowed up by the Soviet Union after 1945, this created even more shifting borders and confusion.
As a Brit myself, I've always had a slight fascination with German history as well as British history. Also, not all of Germany was called Prussia before German unification. Prussia was one of 30+ independent states located in modern day eastern Germany/western Poland
King Georg 1. was Born in hanover/Germany and was the leader of the house of Hanover before he become also the King of Greatbrit. & Irland. This Was the begin of the "personal union of great britain and hanover". Cause of the leader rules from the house of hanover, these Union ends with queen Victoria. A woman was not allowed to be the ruler of the house of Hanover so her nephew becomes the head of the house of Hanover, she got the Brit.crown and the Union was broken. The daughter of Georg 1. was Dorothea, she become the wife of prusia King Friedrich 1.
we learn pretty intense about WW2 - and it got more specific throughout the grades. i even got a holocaust survivor at our school holding lectures, other schools made trips to the concentration camps. so we are pretty open with our history.
Oh wow, that's so good to be honest. It's important to keep history alive so that we can learn from the wrong doings of the past. We had a holocaust survivor speak at our college. It was one of the most intense emotional speeches I have ever heard.
@@dwayneslens Our survivor had an quite unique story - he pretended to be a pure german and was even in the "Hitler Youth" during the war - his name is Sally Perel de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Perel
There was a change in how WW2 is taught over the last about 40,50 years - the curriculum moved away from war campaigns to the political backgrounds, to more honesty and openness about the crimes of the Nazis (and also parts of the military), with the intent to learn about the past for the future instead of rehearsing the past.
2 KZ visits for me. one in germany and the other one was Ausschwitz. That was intense for many of us 17 years old.
Man muss dazu sagen, dass aktuell bzw. in den letzten Jahren jedoch eine sehr wirre Situation auf den deutschen Straßen vorliegt: Araber bzw. Muslime verurteilen Deutschland dafür, dass Israel unterstützt wird, aber es wird nahezu nichts dagegen getan. Im Gegenteil: es wird von den Politikern nur geredet, aber diese "Flüchtlinge" und "Migranten" werden trotz teils aggressiver Straftaten weiter geduldet, sie dürfen weiter auf den Straßen antisemitische Dinge sagen und Polizeibeamte beleidigen und/oder körperliche Gewalt ausüben. Zudem Vandalismus betreiben... geduldet aufgrund unserer chronischen und krankhaften Schuldkultur. Nicht falsch verstehen: ja, es ist gut, dass die Nachkriegszeit genutzt wird, um die Kriegsjahre und alles aufzuarbeiten, aber es wird wie so oft in Deutschland wieder nur einseitig gedacht.... und deswegen gibt es hier so viele Probleme, weil nicht richtig zu Ende gedacht wird und man sich eine Opfermentalität eingeimpft hat
Waiting for the day Brits find out that all british monarchs since George I. have a german background ;-)
Waiting? You say that as if it's some kind of secret in the UK. I find it's usually Germans who see the royals as "typically British", while to Brits, they're German expats who even give their speeches in German when they tour Germany.
Asking why Germany isn't called Prussia is a bit like asking why England isn't called Scotland. The nations were under control of the same person, but in each case one wasn't part of the other. The difference is that the Prussian kings wanted to be kings and they couldn't be in the German parts of their realm, so they called their Realm after the part they could be kings in. While England and Scotland were both kingdoms and the royal line came from England and didn't see any reason to see their realm as Scottish.
The territory the German empire took from Spain wasn't part of Hispaniola, that island was New Guinea.
Maybe a slightly better question is why Britain isn’t called England.
@@aphextwin5712 The name England is derived from the Old English word Engaland, which means land of the Angles. The Angles were a Germanic tribe that colonised the country in the early Middle Ages.
If you want to learn more about what Germans get taught in school about the second world war, there's a really good video by Feli from Germany called 'Do Germans Talk About World War II? What Do They Teach About the Holocaust? '
For all the emphasis on WW2 in schools it's a lot less relevant to the world than WW1 (and it's causes) which should be taught a lot more than it is. Because we are still dealing with the fallout from WW1 today. WW2 was really just chapter 2 of the story.
History lessons in Germany regarding WW1 and WW2 are very comprehensive and detailed. It's not that Germans don't like talking about it or that it's taboo. Documentaries about it are shown on television every day. I also knew people who had experienced the war and the period after it. It wasn't a nice childhood back then.
There are also videos about this topic "how WW in german school" there.
Nothing is left out or glossed over. There is also more focus on the political constellations, the circumstances, the origins and actions, but less on the fights themselves. So which general commanded which army group and which equipment was used there is not discussed, at most only mentioned in passing. Of course everyone knows General Rommel or Paulus.
Not like the British and US, for example, who are reluctant to talk about their past crimes. I can understand that they don't talk about their present transgressions, but the past is history. You shouldn't make the same mistakes twice.
In Germany (I was at school in the 80s and 90s) the Third Reich is actually discussed very extensively in class. A lot is being done about the Shoah. Many school classes visit former concentration camps in this class
if you are in southern Germany and want to get into serious trouble, tell them that Germany once was Prussia. "Preusse" (prussian) is a curse word in Bavaria.
14:42 The UK not being divided ? ..**ahem** (northern) Ireland might want to have a word with you on *THAT* topic...
(not to mention the more political divide between "London"/"the south" and Schotland... remember how Schotland decided to not go independend in part because they did not want to have new negotiations on being part of europe... just to see "London" lying about staying part of europe if Schotland stayed and voting for brexit ? If the guys in Schotland would hve known about Brexit up front I doubt their vote to stay in the UK would have turned out the way it did practically cutting th UK in half.)
Wouldn't know, I went to school in London, near Germany, hi!hi! I was a German boy in England, I knew about the war from my mum, we had lost 2 families during the run up to the war, they were never seen again. Mum told me of days in the bunker during air raids on our home town, Hannover, and I did see a diaorama of the then demolished city as it was in 1945, it was horrendous.
i promise you did hear Prussia before, in "prussian blue" the name of this colour is a leftover from this time. Its that iconic blue colour every inkpen have. It was a major colour in this regency, only for the royals. (i am not sure but i remember it is made out of an ore that is located in this aerea. but thats just a slightly fading remember) And the "start of that Video is a little late, i guess the real German beginning starts with the babarian invasion somthing in the year 300 ad.
Maybe you should try "Deuschland" by Rammstein?
It´s explaining much...
Hi! The historic germanic people had different tribes, so for example the teutones (Teutonen) and the Allemannen. "Deutsch" comes from "teut-(onen)" I think. In other languages - like spanish - Germany (or Deutschland) is called "Allemania", in turkish "Almanya". You english speaking people say "german" and "Germany". Italians say "Tedesco". ..."T" + "e" became "D" + "e" (= DEutsch). Far away it also has something to do with "dutch", if I`m right?.... Very interesting!🤔😅
...Oh, I wanted to say one more thing: Prussia was much later in history!!!
Deutsch comes from a Germanic root *thiudisk (attested as latinised theodiscus, from a noun 'theudo/thiudo' meaning 'people' and the -isk suffix), Middle High German 'tiutsch' or 'diutsch', meaning roughly 'folkish' or 'pertaining to the (German) people'.
The name of the teutoni tribe is likely related to the aforementioned noun.
The term 'Dutch' is cognate to 'deutsch'; it's 'duits' in the Dutch language and originally was identical in meaning to 'deutsch' before it was narrowed to mean 'Dutch' with the rise of a Dutch national identity during the Early Modern era. The English term 'Dutch' was originally used to merely vaguely refer to continental Germanic speakers they had contact with, naturally mostly what we'd now call 'Dutch', and this term equally was narrowed down as was its Dutch equivalent.
13:23 There is a video by Feli from Germany about that. It is a pretty new video actually
~3:40 There is a little mistake in the source. Frederick was the son of Frederick William.
Prussian history is sometimes a bit confusing because after 1640 all regents had the name either Frederick, William or Frederick William. ~:D
Germany was never named Prussia. Prussia Was just one Kingdom in the Holy Roman Empire (of German Nations) like Bavaria or Saxony.
Deutschland means "Land of those that speak deutsch".
Germany is a heritage from Rome and the names the Kelts gave the people in the East, "Germania Magna".
About dividing you may ask the people in Ireland. They are divided.
As for why most people call Deutschland "Germany"? That's what Julius Caesar called it. The Romans fought the Germans many times and won some battles, but couldn't really conquer them, and instead enlisted them in service to Rome as soldiers (and "civilizing" them in the process, if you consider Romans civilized). The Romans took over the Italian peninsula, Gaul (basically France) and southern Britain. Sure, they got sacked by the Visigoths awhile later, but one of their even later leaders (actually a Frank, and the Franks were Germans), got crowned by the Pope himself on Christmas Day, 800 AD - Charlemagne as Holy Roman Emperor - basically King of Germany, and Francia (Gaul and "Roman" Germany). Rome lost their administrative empire, but not necessarily their religious one, around 500 years earlier to Constantinople (Byzantium/Constantinople is now Istanbul, in Turkey). Upon Charlemagne's death, his country was divided among his sons, so there were three countries: West Francia (Gaul -basically France), Lotharingia (basically Alsace-Lorraine), and East Francia (basically Austria). The Holy Roman Empire survived for 1000 years, till around 1800 or so. That's the early history.
Also, many ask what's the Third Reich? It means third empire.The HRE was the first. Wilhelm I and II headed up the second before WWI. I hope to never see another. Pope Leo III, upon crowning Charlemagne, meant to continue the original Roman Empire in Europe I think (instead of Constantinople, in Asia).
Firstly the pope did not crown kings but emperors. Secondly ppl that calling Deutschland "Germany" has nothing to do with Julias Caesar. Many nations have germanic origins ... like Austria, the Netherlands, Denmark etc. Its just plain out wrong ... like french calling Deutschland "Allemagne", a germanic tribe that exist anymore. Funny enough there is a correct word for german ppl and that is "dutch" ... but the ppl of the Netherlands are called that way.
At the time of the division of the empire there was no Austria!
At that time, the East Frankish Empire consisted of the four tribes of the Franks, Saxons, Bavaria and Swabians.
@@johnnykotletti4614 Funnily enough, there is a correct word for German people and that is “Dutch”?
Really? ;-)
The word "Deutsch" goes back to the Old High German word "diutisc", which means "belonging to the people", developed into "Dütsch" in Low German, "Dutsch" in Frisian, and ultimately into "Deutsch", from which "Deutschland" (Germany) emerged.
The story of germany becoming modern germany is very hard to explain. There happened so much since 910 with arising first german cities. It is so deeply woven with european history. I really love it, but I am not good at explaining such stuff. And yeah even 910 is very late - there were the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest and stuff. As I said ...it's a lot more complicated than that.
Prussia is just one German State at this times, but the strongest. I am a Prussian because my Ancestors were prussians...
Grasp the fact that the time since the wall fell is longer than the time the wall stood.
For those interested there's a popular book sold at airports, a short history of Germany summarizing all those kingdoms, tribalism and wars from the days of the Romans to modern times. Lots of interesting stuff and not too dry.
I would add that for reactors it should be courtesy to link the original content creator in the description.
German colonies were in China: Qingdao (Tsingtau)
- in Oceania: Papua New Guinea and 200 islands in the Pacific (Bismarck Archipelago)
- in Africa: Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda, Burundi, Togo, Ghana, Cameroon, Namibia
- and Venezuela (Klein Venedig) in Latin America and Ernst Thälmann Island off Cuba
the last two are special cases:
Venezuela was given by Emperor Charles V, who was also King Charles I of Spain, in 1528 to a private German company, the Welser from Augsburg and Nuremberg. After Charles V abdicated in 1556 they lost their rights in the now again Spanish colony.
The Ernst Thälmann Island is an uninhabited island off the coast of Cuba, which was renamed in honor of German communist Ernst Thälmann in 1972 and symbolically donated to the FRG, but stayed in the administration of Cuba. Since it is a military exclusion zone (it is situated about 25 km from the notorious Bay of Pigs), all access is forbidden.
We could add also some other special cases:
- The earldom of Hanau tried in 1669 to lease a colony in Suriname from the Dutch West India Company, but the project failed due to lack of funding and the begin of the French-Dutch war.
- In 1682 Elector Friedrich Wilhelm of Brandenburg sent a fleet to Africa; in 1683 the construction of Fort Groß Friedrichsburg in Ghana started. The colony engaged in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. His grandson Friedrich Wilhelm I in Prussia sold the colony in 1717 to the Dutch Westindia Company as well as some other colonies in 1720. The colony Arguin in Mauretania was in 1721 conquered by France. To get an own harbor at the other side of the Atlantic Brandenburg had leased a part of the island of Saint Thomas (now part of the US Virgin Islands) from Denmark (1685-1721).
- Since Austria was also part of Germany before 1804, we could also count some Austrian colonies (more like trade posts) in Mozambique, the Nicobar Islands or the Malabar Coast.
One thing to consider when talking about historical nations: you have to be aware of the polictical and social system.
Were Belgium and the Netherlands ever part of Germany? No, they never were. But the regions where these states are today, had at some points been subject to the same political organization that at some other point in history would become "Germany". So, land yes... country no.
It's like asking if Gascony had ever been part of the United Kingdom.
If I had to generalise how history is taught in German schools, it'd go like this:
Year 1-6: Going through history chronologically from the beginning to WW2.
Year 7: How WW2
Year 8: Why WW2
Year 9: Other crimes during WW2
Year 10: How Hitler
Year 11: Why Hitler
Year 12: Recap of years 7-11
Year 12, last week: 1949-present
At least, this is what we had in my time, 33+ years ago. It probably shifted to include a solid year of "how Germans did evil things in East Germany 1949-1990" or something like that.
My favourite history lessons were "all classes in lat '89", when we had a radio in the classroom. At first to listen to the hourly news, and then it stayed on all the time during the "hot phase". And yes, it is possible to teach a class while the radio is playing music softly. (Mind blown, anyone?)
Germany was never named Prussia, that would be like sying: The United Kingdom was once named England. Thats just completly wrong, they where both very strong and big parts of a new entity, but still only a part.
11:10 That is an island north of AUSTRALIA ... NOT "Dominican Republic". Look at a lot more maps to learn the shapes of islands ...
What you learn in school about WWII will depend heavily on your state and maybe even your school in Germany. Personally, I'm glad that I went to a school that actually taught us a lot more than the standard curriculum and where we didn't dwell on that specific topic for 7 years straight (apparently some schools do that). But wherever you go, people will usually talk about the underlying causes of both world wars, the early warning signs and all that. Also the suffering, of course, but my memory from history class is mainly of the Weimar years. After all, that is the important bit when it comes to preventing sth like that from happening again. I don't think anyone really gets taught anything about military operations, logistics or the like.
Since "shit like that" was mostly arranged by the old elites of the empire, there isn't much to be learned from the era of Weimar.
During the German Holy Roman Empire, Prussia was not part of it, which is why the House of Hohenzollern, actually coming from the southwest, was able to take over the Prussian royal title. A long time before, they had already appropriated large parts of Brandenburg, in which Berlin and Potsdam are also located, because No one else wanted it because the soil was not very fertile. From there they expanded this area wherever they could. I don't know the rest of the 100th from other independent areas either. It is a long, confusing story that actually began with the expulsion of the Romans in the year 9 AD. ...
~1:00 Belgium and the Netherlands never were parts of Germany. In the Middleage they were part of the Holy Roman Empire. Just like Switzerland, Austria, the Czech Republic, parts of Poland, parts of France and parts of Italy.
The education about the time from 1918 till 1945 is top notch, I'd say. Then, in my day at school, the topic was the "De-Nazifikation", the time after the war when the Victors, with the Germans, searched for war criminals and "ordinary" nazis, to trial them and bring them to justice. And well........that is not quite what happened. There was no Denazifikation. At least not the way we were told to. Another dark chapter of german history: Nazis in Germany post-1945, selected, partially pardoned and put back into work by the Adenauer Administration (1949-1963). I don't know, if that is already part of history classes in Germany today but I doubt it. It's quite a new information and it takes some years before it's part of history class.
Maybe to explain a bit why it's called Deutschland (Germany) and not Prussia (Prussia was just one of many kingdoms)
According to consistent reports from historians, the origin of the name "Deutsch" can be traced back to the Middle High German word "diet" and the Old High German word "diot". The word “diot” and the associated adjective “diutisc” mean “people” and “belonging to the people” in Old High German. This is a self-designation of the former local ethnic groups. At that time, this name for the language of the people stood in contrast to Latin, the linguistic communication of scholars and clergy.
In Old High German, the term "theodiscus" later changed to "diutsch", Low German used the word "düdesch" - and in High German "teutsch", a direct predecessor of today's term "deutsch".
So, following this Deutschland means the 'land of the people' or 'the land that does belong to the people' and in particular German speaking people. You can also see it in the term Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation - Heilige Römische Reich deutscher Nation (962-1806)
15:25 - Dude... It's not like... Why... Come on, even though you guys left the EU, it's not like Eurostar has stopped service, just get into your car, take a train, or a flight and get here and look for yourself. I mean, Heathrow to Hamburg or Cologne is like 1,5 hours flight and it costs from 13 Pounds, Hostels are not that expensive and I guess you might even find some of your followers here offering you a couch or a bed. 😂
Of course this is only a small glimpse. The Holy Roman Empire alone offers content for several books.
Netherlands where par of the HREGN. Nether lands where part until there founding i believe- When thy got free from the spanish habsburges. Todays Belgium was part of tthe unitet netherlands and the time. Lots of Belgians are Wallonians which is more related to france so after Napoleon they get a seperated Nation-
Hi Dwayne, you asked what we learn about Hitler in school and I think we were educated more than enough back then, but it's also the decades that change a lot. There is a lot of criticism about the fact that in the 1950s many Nazis stayed in their old jobs, even though everyone knew that they were active there. That was the case in politics and also in the small village where I currently live. Everyone still knows today who was involved in the NSDAP and who was a party member. But cannot condemn the children of the perpetrators because they have no influence on their fathers' actions. Some people say that this topic is no longer so important in school, but I see it differently. It's still far too close to the past for that. Besides, something like this should always be remembered. To get back to your question, when I was at school we talked a lot about the Nazis. I would say that half of the time in our 6 years of high school we talked about the crimes of Nazi Germany. Before that there was history about the Romans and Greeks and that was pretty much it. So it was very detailed. It is also common practice to visit a concentration camp at least once to see it for yourself. It shapes you when you see this as a child and not as an adult. Not in a negative way, but maybe you think a little more about what happened in the past.
It should be forbidden to confront children with things like that, and by German law it is, but nothing beats German double standards.
The secret service of the Third Reich were nearly 1:1 integrated as first secret service "Organisation Gehlen" by Protection of the U.S. in the Federal Republic of Germany. The "Organisation Gehlen" is later renamed in "Bundesnachrichtendienst". I rest my case (Womit dann alles gesagt wäre). And enough for the Algorithm🤮
Belgium and Netherlands one part and part of Habsburg empire. So technically Austrian although the Habsburgs also belonged to HRE. Similar to Luxembourg, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Bohemia, Moravia, Slovenia and Northern Italy. As a result of uprisings, some provinces joined together to form the "Utrecht Union", today's Netherlands.
Switzerland was never part of the Habsburg Empire. Switzerland was home to the Habsburgs before they had an Empire, but the Habsburgs lost the war against Zürich and were kicked out of their castle. As a result of never winning their castle back, they overcompensated and went on to rule the whole world (but not Switzerland)
No! Germany was NOT Prussia! Prussia was one of the german states like many others. Germany was a confederation of states for 1000 years before it became a federal state.
I actually think that if the Treaty of Versailles hadn't been harsh on Germany at the time, because it was almost like bleeding to death, there might not have been this economic crisis later and maybe Adolf Hitler wouldn't have come to power, and therefore maybe not the second one world war but what happened is done and it can no longer be undone. We can ensure that something like this doesn't happen again. Greetings
It was done on purpose. Like it is now done on purpose to set up Germany against Russia by means of the Ukrainian proxy war. History does not happen, history is carefully planned and executed in little steps until bigger events are inevitable. Be sure, the core event of the next decade(s?) called WW3 will be executed between Germany and Russia, while Russia will be the aggressor, this time, and both, the Anglo-Americans do all to get this conflict manifested as a reality, even though they may help Germany to have the upper hand finally, their goal is to weaken both on a large extend, like during WW2, take over both Germany (which is already under their hidden control) and Russia especially, tear it apart and control it's leftovers. Those who control the Eurasian landmass will dominate the world. (The Grand Chessboard - US geostragy and it's imperatives, Brzsinski).
~11:05 That ist not Hispaniola. It is New Guinea. ;)
Was the video the second of two. ?
Where is the beginning ?
Germany never called Preußen. The Prussens lived in the Baltic area and they wasnd Christians and the Territory was outside the holy roman Empire, So they are not real humans at this time. The Hohenzollern take it to get a King titel.
The Germany,wich we know today is founded 1872 ,after the winning of the french/german war 1871. Before that, there where many small,midsize,and bigger coutrys. Like ,i spell it the german way: Preußen,Sachsen,Baden,Würtemmberg,Bayern etc etc
"The UK has never been devided up"
Ask the Irish what they think about that...😉
Netherlands and Belgium were a part of Germany, but only for a short time.....
dont forget that Anglo-saxons were "british people" (there came from germanic tribes and scandinavians) before the vikings and franks battled them in the historic years of 1065/1066
The British are a Celtic tribe and have nothing to do with the Saxons, Jutes, or Angles.
The Scandinavians are also Germanic, as are the Franks, and Viking is a 'job title' and not a people or tribe.
In 1066 the Normans fought in Hastings against the Saxons there.
At that time, a Frankish upper class ruled a country, what is now called France, over the native Celtic tribes, from which the French later developed.
Normandy was previously handed over as a fief to Scandinavian pirates, or Vikings, in order to be safe from further raids.
Oh a lot of complicated question. I try to give simple answers. Why is Germany no longer called Prussia? Because this Kingdom of Prussia fought so many wars that ended in World War I. In its entire existence of 250 years, there have been 15 years of peace in Prussia. Belgium was created by secession from France, not by Germany. As an East German who came of age in the GDR, I have a divided relationship with German unity. On the one hand, freedom is greater in German unity, on the other hand, the progress of the GDR has all been nullified
I was born in 92 and without the fall of the Wall I wouldn't exist because I'm an East/West child
13:35 - Dear Dwayne - according to this question, please watch the following video bei German expat to the US Felicia with her account Feli from Germany - ruclips.net/video/DMNJk1LNV0w/видео.html
Also this Video leaves out like 50 to 75% of the deal. 😅 It's actually quite shallow, as it only focuses on Prussia and leaves out all the other kingdoms and nobilities, such as Bavaria, Saxony and all roman history on german soil. It misses so many important things, like the 30 years war and yeah, Prussia just "got" Silesia...? Yeah, totally. Ask any Austrian, what she or he thinks about that... 😂
🇩🇪Deutschland means something like 'land of people' ✌️
Preußen bedeutet ,, das Land vor Russland `` Prussia means “the country before Russia”.
It was the name of a Baltic people, originally, so your statement is wrong, as far as we know ☺️
Prussia was called Prusaī by their tribes like the sudovians, natangians, nadruvians etc.
until the germans conquert prussia in the 12th century by a brutal crusade.
The name "Preußen" is just the german word for it. The greeks called them "pruthenians" and the romans "borussi", the arabians called them "burus".
Famous for their trading with amber since ancient times.
We didn't change the name. Germannen means ' Spearmen '. And Prussia was just a bit in it's history. Depending on which country you're next to, names change. Do you speak of scots as Caledonians still?
Well actually the origin of the name Germanen is not so sure and spearmen is considered a linguistically less likely hypothesis nowadays.
Nether comes from the german "Nieder" like it is in "Niedersachsen" (the state that english people call lower saxony for no reason) their language is close to my native language "niederdeutsch" Niedersachsen ist very far away from Bavaria. There is a joke: If a Guy from Lower Saxony and Bavaria meat there happens nothing. The one one talks no german, the other does not talk at all. (because bavarian counts as german, but is harder understandable than lower german, that is not counted as german at all. My lowergerman region was not a part of Prussia (Preußen)
What happened with the video? From minute 17-25 is nothing...
Read the Wikipedia article on the Holy Roman Empire, it'll clear a lot up
Most of the people fled from the eastern territories, which today belong to Russia and Poland, from the advancing troops of the Red Army. And not without reason, because of the atrocities committed by German soldiers and SS units, they could not count on appreciative treatment by the Red Army. Escape and expulsion were their fate, from which some of the displaced persons still alive today still suffer today. They were not really welcome in the "West" either, as the people in the West had also lost their homes due to the numerous bombing raids. At that time, the refugees from the East were only unpopular competitors for scarce housing and jobs.
The barbarism of the the red army has nothing to do with the atrocities that were committed by the germans. Polish ppl always tell you how bad the germans were but the soviets were even worse. The red army pillaged and raped their way through eastern europe and committed atrocities to everyone, they did not just do it to the germans.
hahaha well to say german was prussia can only bring you heat in non prussian parts of germany ...
Not every German was a Prussian. I for example am from Westphalia.
Germany never was Prussia. Prussia was a part of Germany (Now most parts of former Prussia are Russian, Polish, Czech etc.. Germany was formed as a union of many Kingdoms like Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony, Baden, Würtemberg and many more.
A little bit like England, Scotland and Wales unified as the British Empire - only with the difference that after WW1 the former Countries (Bavaria,....) lost their Country Status and where downgraded to States.
Yikes
The Province of Westphalia was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1815 to 1918 and a province of the Free State of Prussia from 1918 to 1946. 😜😂
In Westphalia the strongest football club is still named Borussia, which is Latin for Prussia
No, we were not Prussia! We were your rulers, and we were occupied by Prussia for some time.
Why do we Change the Name? Prussia IS Preußen in German 😂
The most of my family was prussian.
We learned guilt
we are only 60 to 80 years removed from "historical land grabs". histoircally that is a short window. who says land grabs wont happen again?
2014 is not 60 years away
early prussia WASNT "polish"
Ohje der fängt mit polen ^^ also die deutsche geschichte fängt viel früher an. Karl der große. Oder noch mit den römischern leuten und druiden usw...
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yeah take away everything from austria leaving no choice for any right without joining eu gj germans , italians etc
Prussia was not so much a State with a big Army . .
It was more of an Army that happened to have a small state . .
...doesn`t even mentioned any german tribes. 1525 isn`t even a particular date in german history,- pathetic,-sorry!
History did not start with the Independence of the USA you know.
That guy is a brit bro
It didn't? Surely you jest!
Well the this is more the history of Prussia and not Germany or even Brandenburg. None the less a well made video. But too selective.