43 million people in America have German roots, making Germans by far the largest migrant population in the USA.
@Anonymous-xb2km
8 күн бұрын
Germans are very, very smart people. Like their brothers, the Dutch. Greetings from The Netherlands. 💗
@BewareOfTheKraut
8 күн бұрын
True.😊
@73smoo
7 күн бұрын
The American imagination that Germany is so organized, clean, neat, has perfect streets without potholes is much more true for the Netherlands than for Germany.
@filipieja6997
7 күн бұрын
I am a foreign man living and marry to a German. Goshhh my family from the German-side is pushing me harder to be a very productive human. My heart goes out to German people and their cousins to their neighboring north and west for their shared common history, language and culture. 🥰
@peterg.1940
5 күн бұрын
@@73smoo In this way the Netherlands are more german than Germany. 😛 As a german i have to admit, the Dutchies are three to four decades ahead in multiple ways.
@fureuropa-gegennwo1259
3 күн бұрын
@@73smoo It was true for BOTH countries and now they are being turned into shitholes with knife-stabbing, violence and criminality that grows everyday - just like in England, France, or Belgium. If you protest against corrupt politicians importing Millions of third-world Migrants flooding our countries, you get labelled a "racist" or "Nazi" by Media, Government and even backstabbed by our own people. The British have become the minority in London, the Germans in Frankfurt, the Dutch in Amsterdam. Think about whether you want more illegal migration or not. I do not.
@pascalf9602
8 күн бұрын
My favorite fact about German immigrants in the USA is that they were amongst the first few groups of people who were against slavery, spoke out against it and eventually fought for it so it can be abolished (this is info I've got from another so we'll video)
@arnolsi
6 күн бұрын
OK, but on the other side Trump have german roots. The CIA was build with former german Nazis and they helped to kill people in middle and south America.
@jurgenhaflinger1188
5 күн бұрын
Stimmt, 90% kämpften für die Nord Staaten.
@montrelouisebohon-harris7023
3 күн бұрын
Exactly!! Most of them initially went to Pennsylvania and to this day there’s a large group of Pennsylvania Dutch who live in the county unless they’ve moved in the city areas since I left. Everyone there had German last names.. Straus, Stoudt, Fischer, 😂😂 I can go on and on, but I just thought it was cute being from the south and my last name is Harris and then when I was married, I had a French last name. The Germans fought in so many of our wars Because they were citizens then, including for the union during the Civil War.
@user-kq1rd7jc9e
5 күн бұрын
I am german and proud of my Country. Lots of us gave great inventions to the World...the Car for example or the Transistor by Walter Schottky (Siemens) and many other Things
@vlinder6329
8 күн бұрын
I have been married to a German 🇩🇪 for years and I come from the Netherlands 🇳🇱 My parents-in-law experienced and the War and Hitler was a terrible man, they didn't want War!! It was also a difficult time for them. My entire family from Germany are the sweetest people!
@dagmarvandoren9364
8 күн бұрын
Thank you. You are a peacemaker
@vlinder6329
8 күн бұрын
@@dagmarvandoren9364 Sweet 🫂 😘
@14FrensAnd88Eagles
4 күн бұрын
Did they want communism? Because that was what was coming.
@jackofalltrades5761
8 күн бұрын
I am Dutch and grew up in Rotterdam and I was taught to hate Germans for what they did to our town during WW2. I had a schoolfriend who was of German descent. Could not bring him home because of him and his mother being German. To me he was a real friend so I did not care wat my parents told me. I was born in 1949 and I played on the wartime rubble.
@TheCappuccino2011
8 күн бұрын
Hartelijk dank!
@ichbinbluna3504
7 күн бұрын
It is right - to hate the Germans of this time who became Nazis - to respect those who did not become Nazis - to honour who did not become Nazis AND who helped the persecuted
@Octopussyist
5 сағат бұрын
@@ichbinbluna3504 Thanks. I am German and uncle actually worked with the Danish resistance gathering intelligence for railway sabotage. I don't take credit for that. Just like I don't take responsibility for murders committed decades before I was born. I also don't judge today's Dutch people for having taken part in the slave trade that supplied North America and Caribbean colonies of European countries with slaves, and neither do I blame modern day Americans for having murdered most of the native population of North America.
@TheBlessedWildHeartMan
5 күн бұрын
I am German. So don't forget the car, the diesel engine, the petrol engine, aircraft turbines, the X-ray machine, the electron microscope, the color television and millions of other inventions. Martin Luther also came from Germany. The last German emperor (before the WW1) was so committed to freedom and peace in the world that he was even nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Mr. Nobel himself. My great-grand-uncle, Gottlob Honold, was a friend of Robert Bosch and invented the spark plug, the parabolic light for vehicles, the car horn, and so on. When my grandmother was ill as a young girl, my great-granduncle came to take her from Esslingen to Bad Cannstatt hospital in one of the first cars in the world. It may have been the first ambulance in the whole world that ever existed! Such a blessing emanated from this country that one can only marvel. No wonder the devil tried to destroy this people - and this continues to this day. As a German pastor, I pray that this people will be blessed again and become a blessing for this world again - especially for God’s people!
@marion7661
3 күн бұрын
Danke schön! from a fellow German, who didn't learn this in school. Even my great degrees in History
@TheBlessedWildHeartMan
3 күн бұрын
@@marion7661 Sehr gerne…! ☺️ Es freut mich sehr, wenn es Leute gibt, die Deutsch lernen und noch mehr von Deutschland wissen möchten als das, was vor 80-90 Jahren war. Gottes Segen! Von Herzen! Christoph Immanuel 🦅
@tabaaza9884
Күн бұрын
Maybe if the Germans were less interested in technology and more in what their philosophers wrote about, we would have a little more respect for other people, instead of the excellent crematorium furnaces of the Topf und Söhne company from Erfurt, which operated in one of the most profitable enterprises of the Third Reich. Please excuse my sarcasm, but technology from Germany is misused in my country. It took me half my life to understand why this happened and to come to terms with the fact that great nations are sometimes created by very small people.
@TheBlessedWildHeartMan
Күн бұрын
@@tabaaza9884 I am so sorry to hear that! And when I hear stories like this, my heart starts to cry.... Do you know Dürrenmatt and his thoughts? He was Swiss. His play "The Physicists" is about a man who discovers nuclear power - and is then faced with the decision of whether to pass this invention on, because it can also be misused. In my (!) eyes, the decisive factor lies not in the technology, but in the heart of a person. You can use a kitchen knife to make a child something to eat, to cut shackles - but also (which is unfortunately increasingly the case) to kill a person with it. The same applies to time, money - and the power I have with my words. I myself have lost almost everything, including my family, because of other people's hatred and greed. Forgiveness is not easy. I'm still struggling to this day to really forgive. But I have decided to do that for myself.
@tabaaza9884
Күн бұрын
@@TheBlessedWildHeartMan I have nothing to forgive. People who have the right to forgive are either dead or will soon be gone. I only have a duty to remember. I believe that Germans should remember the crime of their exile, but they should also remember what led to it. If all the evil that the 20th century brought us has a chance to turn into good, it will only be thanks to memory and understanding. I really don't like such stories "How wonderful we are", I react badly to them, regardless of whether they are stories from Germany, Poland, Russia, the USA, etc. I think it's good to see both, what is wonderful about us and what is disgusting about us. It is more fair, equitable and good for people. Much healthier than the syrup from the praise, which is not entirely consistent with the facts. There are languages older than German in Europe. This is just an example. I know, I'm terribly detailed, little lies irritate me because they lead to big lies.
@spacebln
8 күн бұрын
As a german musician and musicologist I have always been very proud of the influence german culture had on music, especially classical music. Imagine a world without Beethoven, Brahms or, as mentioned in the video, Steinway and Sons. They started as the Steinweg family from the forests in middle Germany leaving for New York around 1850 and since then living the american dream to the fullest.. Of course, Germans have contributed a lot in other fields, but it is the field of music where our identity should have its roots. Most opera houses worldwide are found in Germany today among some of the finest orchestras there are. Let's not forget electronic music with Kraftwerk as Germany's most famous contribution to popular music. Unfortunately, most of our cultural heritage nowadays is overshadowed by what happened between 1933 and 1945.
@KiffRiffart
3 күн бұрын
I am also a German musician. I have to mention one of the oldest American family companys founded by C.F. Martin from Germany. They invented the stealstring guitar and the dreadnought bodyshape. Very important for the unique style of American music, like Country, Bluegrass, Rock. And also for orchester music. Gretsch guitars is another example.
@Arch_Angelus
8 күн бұрын
In 1683, Francis Daniel Pastorius, a German-born educator, lawyer, poet, and public official, played a crucial role in the early history of Pennsylvania. As the agent for the Frankfort Land Company and a group of German merchants, Pastorius traveled to Pennsylvania to purchase 15,000 acres of land for a settlement. Pastorius arrived in Philadelphia on August 20, 1683, aboard the ship America. He was tasked with negotiating the purchase of land from William Penn, the proprietor of the colony. Pastorius successfully acquired the land and laid out the settlement of Germantown, which would become the first permanent German-American settlement. In 1688, he drafted the first protest against slavery in America. Yes exactly, Germany is always reduced to the Nazis, the Holocaust and the extermination of the Jews, of course this is also the largest ethnic group to be deplored, but opponents of the regime, gypsies, homosexuals and many other ethnic groups were also hunted down and exterminated on flimsy grounds, even if they were Germans who were married or related to Jewish citizens. btw. I use ethnicity. Why ? Scientific research has shown that the idea of races as biological or genetic groups of people is untenable. The diversity of people is undisputed, but it has nothing to do with races. The division of people into categories is a social construct and has nothing to do with biological or genetic differences. People are genetically almost the same and there are no meaningful criteria to distinguish between "races". The idea of race is a product of culture and history and is often linked to discrimination and prejudice. It is important that we overcome this notion and instead emphasize the diversity and commonality of all people.
@axell964
8 күн бұрын
I would disagree, as with DNA tests you can easily distinguish these differences and they persist for a long time. These differences are there, but after WW2 and all the horror caused in the name of races aren't called that anymore, they got a new name. But it is basically the same. What it doesn't mean is that any of the genetic differences doesn't make one less human or one of them better then the other. And with the world becoming smaller, and more genetic exchange, the differences will shrink anyways more and more.
@jennyh4025
8 күн бұрын
@@axell964technically, those genetic differences aren’t races, they are more like breeds for animals. Just take dogs, a dachshund and a Rottweiler may look very different and are different breeds, but they are still the same race. For humans there’s currently just one race alive: Homo sapiens.
@Arch_Angelus
8 күн бұрын
@@axell964 According to your understanding, we have races just because 1% of human genomes are different compared to 99% of genomes being the same. So if I take the Afar Triangle, for example, you are saying that there are 3 different races living there just because they differ in skin color (genetically determined according to your DNA difference) and language but also speak the main language Afar. The problem is that they have characteristics such as language, culture, origin or history, which here unambiguously denotes the ethnic group or a tribe but not a race. And according to independent scientific research by various large anthropological societies and institutes (including from America and Germany) and by researchers such as Svante Pääbo (considered the founder of palaeogenetics) and Craig Venter (whose company Celera Corporation was the first to sequence an entire human genome), the following can be clearly found in Conlusion (which you seem to have rejected this science). The division of the human species into races or subspecies is outdated from a scientific point of view. The visible differences between people from different geographically separate areas do not lead to objectively definable groups, because visible differences do not necessarily indicate the existence of genetic differences beyond the phenotype. Ongoing you can find: "Races" exist only in bred domestic animals There are several answers to the question of races. The first is that even animal races exist in this sense only in domestic animals - for example in dogs, cattle or horses. This has nothing to do with natural evolution, but these animals were specifically bred by humans for certain characteristics. It's practically non-existent with wild animals. There are no breeds of bears, wolves, tuna, or red cabbage. Differences? Yes! Race? No! The second counter-argument to alleged human races is provided by genetics. The old race theory 100 years ago focused on randomly selected, eye-catching features such as skin color, hair structure or skull shape. And they formed out of it, just as arbitrarily, different groups. Now, however, anyone who has travelled a bit around the world knows that the skin colors of the population do not suddenly change at any border. But between light-skinned and dark-skinned there are infinitely many shades, between smooth and curly hair as well. The same is true of many other features. It makes no sense to draw a line at a certain level of skin darkness and say: All people who are darker form a race of their own. Genetics refutes race theory Genetics confirms just that: Of course, there are genetic differences between the average Europeans and the average Africans. But we don't just have genes for skin and hair, we also have genes that influence how big we grow, whether we're susceptible to obesity, heart attacks or depression and many other hereditary traits. The bottom line is that people within Europe are much more genetically different than they are, say, different from people in Africa as a whole. That is also why it makes no sense to speak of races. By the way, nowhere are the genetic differences as great as within Africa. Simply because our ancestors lived there until about 80,000 years ago. It is indeed possible to determine relationships between population groups by means of genes. Then it turns out that white Europeans are much more closely related to East Africans than East Africans are to indigenous South Africans. So: to put all Africans in one pot - only a white person can come up with the idea of Races. Racism led to racialism - not the other way around And so it was: racism is not the result of a scientific theory of race, but the reverse. Race theory is a product of colonialism, born of the need to provide a justification to distinguish between supposedly higher and lower-quality people. This is also stated in the Jena Declaration, which zoologists and evolutionary researchers published in 2019. It says about the idea of human races: There is no biological reason for this, and in fact there never has been.
@Arch_Angelus
8 күн бұрын
@@jennyh4025 Homo Sapiens are Specie not a race.😉
@melchiorvonsternberg844
8 күн бұрын
@@jennyh4025 And do you think, that the evolution has finished? When we arrived from Africa in Europe, we were all black. And the evolution turned us, in only a very short time, into white people, like the Neanderthals. Evolution, is goin' on and will split us again. That's biology and nothin' can stop this...
@chrishomann1255
7 күн бұрын
I always find it amazing that people refer to A.H. as a German. He was Austrian, then stateless and only became German in 1932 so that he could become chancellor. His ancestors, his upbringing, all that is Austrian. There is no German ancestry! So why is this never mentioned, so that hardly anyone knows? Nobody blames the Austrians, and that's a good thing, because no nation should pay for the actions of its politicians. Thank you for mentioning that Germans should be proud. They are not, because they have been trying to keep them down ever since Churchill. And it hasn't stopped yet.
@winterlinde5395
6 күн бұрын
When you are reading „the Austrian painter“ in a comment section under any video with German in the title, that’s what they say to prevent the name you are preventing by writing A.H. Everybody knows that but it doesn’t matter. Because without all the Germans who voted for him and those who didn’t vote at all because they didn’t see the danger the Austrian born little man couldn’t have done anything.
@macdieter23558
5 күн бұрын
@@winterlinde5395 So many similarities between "the austrian painter" and "the mango mussolini"!
@HoldMySoda
3 күн бұрын
The two most important achievements of Austria are that they made the world believe that Hitler was German and Mozart Austrian.
@philbertdesanex9710
3 күн бұрын
@@HoldMySoda Beethoven
@HoldMySoda
3 күн бұрын
@@philbertdesanex9710 what do you mean? Beethoven was German. By the time Mozart was born his place of birth Salzburg was part of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. Borders moved a lot in Europe.
@LalaDepala_00
8 күн бұрын
I think that many people wrongly assume that every German was having a great time during Hitler's rule. That was not the case. My grand, grandmother is German (I am Dutch). She fled Germany during the war. Even if you were German, you were extremely oppressed (unless you were rich and wealthy ofcourse).
@fzoid3534
8 күн бұрын
The nazis acted like every dictatorship today does as well. They got rid of any intellectuals first, controlled the press and punished anyone who didn't follow very quickly. I've read many stories of teachers that were simply forced out of schools by the SS because it was known they weren't friends of the regime. The people who spoke out either died, fled or kept quiet because of fear for their lives or the lives of their family.
@jennyh4025
8 күн бұрын
Similar with my grandma’s uncle, he spent a year in a concentration camp as a political prisoner (he was a socialist). According to his nieces and nephews, he came back a changed man, from previously happy and outgoing to pensive…
@fckthelaw96
8 күн бұрын
Same with my grandmother. She lived in a Region in Poland, had to flee to germany but here it wasn't much better for her and her family too. It's a shame that people think everything was good and every german wanted this to happen.
@BernhardGiner
8 күн бұрын
Yes. After Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor on January 30, 1933, the National Socialists established a dictatorship in the German Reich within a few weeks through terror measures. The persecution and elimination of the political opposition played a central role in this. Concentration camps were opened throughout the Reich to imprison political opponents en masse. Only six weeks after Hitler came to power, the first concentration camp was set up - for Germans: Social Democrats, Jews, Democrats, Christians, homosexuals, Communists, Roma, etc. One of my great-uncles, for example, was a Social Democrat mayor and was therefore imprisoned in Dachau in 1933/34. When he returned injured and suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, he told my great-aunt full of horror in his voice: "They beat people to death there." This terror had an effect on our family like this: my great aunt told my grandmother and she told my grandfather. From then on, they were extremely careful not to say anything political in front of their children, so that they wouldn't let anything slip. They were especially afraid of making their children orphans, including my father. His sister, my aunt, was a teenager and a passionate Hitler admirer (my father was too young). When they told us all this as children in the 1970s, they cried. All of them. Me too. I still cry if I think about. All these wonderful people from everywhere: just men, women and children, violated and murdered and finally thrown into the meat grinder of war. That's what fascism and nationalism brings us all. So great times for Germans? Definitively not for all in my family. (There were Nazis in my family too, perpetrators also, I definitively don't want to sugarcoat that. But both are true.)
@gwendolynsnyder463
8 күн бұрын
my friend's grandpa was a German soldier. He said, and I quote, "when we had to surrender, we were all glad to just be rid of this bloody arsehole."
@galacticangel5262
8 күн бұрын
In the 1910´s thru the 1930´s my grandfather and great grandfather owned a business located in south-west of Germany selling early typewriters. At the same time the shop served as a travel agency where you could book and purchase tickets for transatlantic ship passages to ´´the New World´´. As the private rooms were on the first floor just above the shop, much more than once, my grandfather got persistant knocks on the door waking him up in the middle of the night, where a nervous mother or father requested a one way ticket to America ´´ because my poor boy got himself in trouble``. Alll necessary papers were issued, no questions asked.
@martingerlitz1162
8 күн бұрын
My father suffered as a kid being drafted to Hitler youth and later being 16 drafted to war. His parents were conservative/social Democrats. They suffered a lot and couldn't do anything about it. It was a dictatorship.
@blondkatze3547
8 күн бұрын
The Nazis were so cynical the more children the German women had, the better and then there were also orders of mothers. And at the end, when the war was lost anyway, all of the sons , many of them still teenagers , were drafted into the war and killed. How many mothers had their hearts boken, because they had lost their son`s. My grandpa`s cousin on my mother`s side had lost three sons aged 20 lost up to 30 years.😪
@cartmann227
8 күн бұрын
Never again!
@martingerlitz1162
8 күн бұрын
@@cartmann227 sad thing: in Russia it all starts over again. Young people who want to start their lives are cannon fuel. Russian government installed propaganda of lies and people partly can't help, partly cheer....
@TexasChilliMassacre
8 күн бұрын
@@blondkatze3547you're talking bullshit.The gernman national socialist party were germans not "Nazis". If you don't know what Nazi realy means just shut up.Just stop repeating the lies and bullshit the lefties are spreading.Get educated.
@TexasChilliMassacre
8 күн бұрын
And you really believe this lie?
@LeWe825
6 күн бұрын
Thomas Sowell, I love your obvious joy and enthusiasm when you hear facts about Germany and Germans in your videos. The smile on your face says it all. A pleasure to watch. I am not German, but have lived here a long, long time. Yes indeed, I am proud to live here and take part in this culture. In fact, I am applying for German citizenship.
@AnnetteLudke-je5ll
8 күн бұрын
My dad had to go to war even he was studying theology and philosophy and wanted to become a roman catholic priest. For him the war was cruel as he was tortured by the other soldiers who were Nazis. Especially the higher ranks tortured and bullied him a lot. He hated war but he had to go, because Hitler was a dictator. He had no chance, but he was lucky and survived. He taught us kids not to hate other nations and to be friendly to everyone but to hate war and fight for peace.
@dapengu777
7 күн бұрын
Nice to see taht today people can see more and more the positive things of the rich german history.
@robaroundtheworld4723
8 күн бұрын
History should not be forgotten and always be seen critically. If it’s the holocaust, genocides or the slave trade: Every nation has its downsides and it’s always easier to point fingers on others. We should accept and acknowledge mankind’s dark history so we can work on a brighter future.
@melchiorvonsternberg844
8 күн бұрын
Every event, has to be seen, in it's historical context. A masurement by our zeitgeist, don't fit in scientific terms...
@macdieter23558
5 күн бұрын
And we should learn from history! Germany´s NAZI past is equal to America´s MAGA future! The only difference: Hitler (who was born in Austria) was soldier in WW 1, while Trump dodged the draft 5 times and his grandfather also dodged the draft! Don´t know about Fred!
@oleksandrbyelyenko435
8 күн бұрын
There are dozens of villages and small towns founded and inhabited by Germans in Ukraine. Even one district of my native city of Odesa used to be a German village Lustdorf.
@wietholdtbuhl6168
6 күн бұрын
😎 COOL ❤
@blondkatze3547
8 күн бұрын
German history is really very interesting if you look into it. I had worked in nursing for the elderly and had personally heard so many stories about the the escape from the eastern regions. A women told me who had fled from Breslau( Silesia )before Hitler and the Nazis came to power , the Protestants , Catholics and Jews lived well together, everyone went about their work and practice their religion without being any problems.And then Hitler came and plunged the whole world into ruin with his mass murder.😔
@Gr8Buccaneer
8 күн бұрын
and he wasnt even german...
@ichbinbluna3504
8 күн бұрын
No, the hatred of Jews in Europe (not only in Germany) is centuries old and goes back to the Middle Ages and beyond.
@melchiorvonsternberg844
8 күн бұрын
Yep! But the Nazis only "earn" the bronce medal, in terms of mass murders...
@tabaaza9884
Күн бұрын
Hitler did not come, he was chosen by the Germans as chancellor.
@Capt.-Nemo
8 күн бұрын
Georg Hermann Ehrhardt Ruth alias Babe Ruth. It's definitely a German name.
@73smoo
7 күн бұрын
Germans are the largest ethnic group in the US. Watch the video 'Ethnic groups in the United States 1820-2023'.
@axell964
8 күн бұрын
It actually were the germanic people that brought down the western roman empire, conquered most of their lands, like modern france, spain, england and even north africa and founded many longlasting kingdoms there. Some of the states still exist today, though they aren't germanic anymore. And about german nationality. That is a rather new concept, not even 200 years old. Before there were dozens if not hundreds of different german states, not a single one. Even today most germans would consider austrians and the german speaking swiss and luxenburgians as germans, even if they are not within germany. And places like the netherlands and denkmark have closer culteral ties to the north german culture then the north germans and south germans have.
@alis49281
8 күн бұрын
Uhm... No. The Roman empire underwent a transition. It was not "brought down" by any external force. Yes, there are movies that depict it like that. Those are fiction.
@commandbrawler9348
8 күн бұрын
@@alis49281 uhm you are mistaken, the Roman Empire was taken down from external forces
@alis49281
8 күн бұрын
@@commandbrawler9348 so, who burned down the western Roman empire? No, it was a transition into a more decentralized organization. West Rome was most likely weakened by both international and external factors. What happens when an empire first loses financial, then military power? It doesn't even need a violent takeover, because any power can claim the void. It fell into smaller pieces, which then just later decided to sever their ties to Rome. It has happened more than once in history, that centralized political structures beyond a certain size fall apart to form smaller nations. I think that is more likely than anyone destroying the Roman empire, especially when there is no evidence for such a large scale war.
@axell964
8 күн бұрын
@@alis49281 It was brought down by several factors, internal weakness and growing external threats. But it is fact that the western roman empire ended when italy was taken by the germanic king Odoacer and deposed the last western roman emporer Romulus Augustulus. The senate then gave the imperial signia to the eastern roman empire, ending the western one. The eastern tried later to restore the empire, and almost succeeded even.
@tabaaza9884
Күн бұрын
The empire changed into a different form, regardless of which of the Germanic tribes swept across the Italian Peninsula, the center of power was the bishop of Rome. This power grew so much that it eventually threatened the new imperial power. The investiture dispute, the strengthening of the papacy, the expansion of Christianity to northern Europe - these are political actions. If it weren't for the Great Schism, it is unknown whether the weakening Byzantium would have managed to maintain its independence.
@sarahivsutterb747
8 күн бұрын
Thanksgiving is also founded by German people who gave back the goods that they got from the native American people who helped them to survive! And your Christmas tree is also a tradition from Germany! Just to mention it here!
@user-id1eh5kb6r
3 күн бұрын
THX. My famillie are from Ostpreußen. Braunsberg, Plasswich and Frauenburg. They run from Russians 1945. They never hurt any Humen. Never.
@dutchyjhome
8 күн бұрын
Being a Dutchy and yet being of German ancestry (since 1752 in The Netherlands) I do recognize this item. Many many true Dutch families turn out to be of German ancestry, whether they like this or not. A fact after all is a fact. See WW2 is never far away in daily life here in The Netherlands, although WW2 already is 80 years ago. For the generation which actually was in WW2, it often was a traumatic experience which gave many people PTSD and besides soldiers many common people as well. The same common people whom were trying to raise a family in this horrific era suffering of PTSD and all and so creating a newly born generation in WW2 or slightly after WW2 being exposed to PTSD parents and a PTSD society. The people growing up in WW2 are called first generation war victim and the children this first generation war victim raised are called second generation war victims (born in the late 40's, in the 50's, the 60's and even the 70's) , since they had to deal with their PTSD parents and PTSD grand parents, and all other people suffering from PTSD ( Family like aunts, uncles, cousins, neighbors, anybody) since such a grand war will leave a huge impact in any society. These are the consequences decennia after a war people were not in themselves and yet they struggle with the direct or indirect consequences of this war. This is the reason why some people in 2024 still can react strongly negatively to German people, Germany, the German language, but they do prefer German products: household items (kitchen, washing machine, coffee maker, etc.) and of course they prefer to have a German car in front of their door. The duality (originating from PTSD trauma) of rejecting the country, the language and the German people, and yet coveting German products is characteristic. Even today (2024), some young families are not free from PTSD and raise their children with such a duality between rejecting and desiring people and things of German origin, which for example at football matches between The Netherlands and Germany will come to the surface again.
@occultured9722
5 күн бұрын
Doesn't even the Dutch national anthem say: "Ben ick van Duytschen Bloedt ..."?
@dutchyjhome
4 күн бұрын
@@occultured9722 Yes it does :-) But this national anthem basically is a song about the Royal Orange family.... which actually partially is from German Blood. But it may just as well refer to all those German families whom have chosen The Netherlands to live in and now start denying they are from German Blood to begin with for the reason I explained in my first contribution to this topic above here ;-)
@marion7661
3 күн бұрын
Well explained! Yes, up to today you can see it in some families, so sad and with what is going on right now with our politicians it will go on, because we can not heal that way.
@dutchyjhome
3 күн бұрын
@@marion7661 So sad really...
@tabaaza9884
Күн бұрын
@@occultured9722 If the Dutch, instead of being interested in overseas colonies, were more concerned with the affairs of their country, Koninkrijk der Nederlanden would absorb Niedersachsen.
@we73
5 күн бұрын
On of our family members immigrated to the US mid of the 19th. century and founded there a watch company (Gruen Watch Company) which was the biggest watch company in the US for years. In those times, you were able to do really successful things ;-)
@Rick2010100
8 күн бұрын
One simple reason why many Germans left the country in recent centuries was inheritance law. The eldest son was the main heir, he took over the estate, farm, business or trade. The younger sons received their smaller share of the inheritance and had to build something for themselves with it. The younger sons looked around for where they could make the best start with their money and the offers from abroad were often better than those at home. Example: Friedrich Trump, Donald Trump's grandfather, was born in Bavaria (Kallstadt) as the second son, his older brother took over the winery. And Friedrich Trump followed his cousin Johann Heinrich Heinz (Heinz Ketchup), also from Kallstadt, to the USA.
@ichbinbluna3504
8 күн бұрын
This is motivation 1. Motivation 2 is that devout German Christians emigrated because they were hostile in Germany in the face of Kant's Enlightenment (and other Enlightenment thinkers of the time). In the last censuses in the USA, immigrants from Europe indicated where their families came from. Immigrants from what was then German territory came before England or Ireland, who were there first. They mainly immigrated from german ground to the USA with the second wave in the 19th century. And even the immigrants from England were often half-German ... 1066 William the Conqueror is a good example. Even today, DNA tests carried out by English universities show that up to 30% of English people carry Norman-Germanic DNA. This also explains part of the answer to Joel's question about how a small country like the UK today could have the colonies worldwide. Put simply, it's the Viking blood in English DNA. From their partial occupations over the centuries.
@galacticangel5262
8 күн бұрын
very interesting.
@olgahein4384
7 күн бұрын
As a german who is not bavarian, i kinda had to grin learning that Trumps roots are actually bavarian.
@ichbinbluna3504
7 күн бұрын
@@olgahein4384 Wikipedia: Kallstadt an der Deutschen Weinstraße ist eine Ortsgemeinde im Landkreis Bad Dürkheim in Rheinland-Pfalz. Sie gehört der Verbandsgemeinde Freinsheim an. Die Großeltern väterlicherseits des 45. US-Präsidenten Donald Trump sowie die Großeltern des Heinz-Ketchup-Gründers Henry John Heinz stammen aus Kallstadt, was der Gemeinde überregionale Bekanntheit bescherte. Die Heinz’ und Trumps sind auch miteinander verwandt.
@wolsch3435
7 күн бұрын
@@olgahein4384 Soweit ich weiß, liegt Kallstadt in der Rheinpfalz, nahe bei Bad Dürkheim. Bayern ist insofern richtig, da die Rheinpfalz bis 1933/45 zu Bayern gehörte. Die Nazis zerstörten de facto die einzelnen Länder und die französische Besatzungsmacht etablierte nach 1945 das Land Rheinland-Pfalz.
@mizapf
7 күн бұрын
5:02 If there is one constant, it's the mispronunciation of German Z: Zeiss should be pronounced like "tsize" in English. Z is always [ts], no exception. As a hint, try to say "size" but start with your tongue in the "t" position. (The ending ss is voiceless, too, but I did not find a better example.)
@user-xq4tq7vo4s
5 күн бұрын
What about Paraguay. One of the greatest community’s abroad? As well as Namibia, where I landed 43 years ago. We still have a German news paper. Also online.
@PokhrajRoy.
8 күн бұрын
3:59 Again, face beaming when beer discourse starts.
@CabinFever52
7 күн бұрын
You must know that Frankfort, KY, is the capital of KY. It's not exactly in the middle of nowhere 🙃😉
@macdieter23558
5 күн бұрын
Been in Kentucky! There is not much difference between Kentucky and Nowhere! Referring to Mitch, they don´t even speak any intelligible language!
@rep4063
2 күн бұрын
Mr. Thomas Sowell is one of the greatest intellectuals of our time.
@arnodobler1096
8 күн бұрын
@Feli from Germany made a good video about the topic.
@PokhrajRoy.
8 күн бұрын
No society is ever born bad. It’s just that at certain times, some people are more egregious than ever.
@macdieter23558
5 күн бұрын
As in today´s America´s MAGA future
@Nikioko
8 күн бұрын
The areas, which Germany lost in the east, were ethnically cleansed, with millions expelled from their homeland. Today, there is hardly any German population left.
@R0d_1984
9 сағат бұрын
14 million in WW2 alone.
@Draganter1977
8 күн бұрын
the german names sound so bad in english that i have to laugh . german greetings
@wallywombat164
8 күн бұрын
There many people and villages in Brasil and Argentina with German customs. Some villages are built in the German style. 😮😮😮😮
@aidekhia81
8 күн бұрын
when ww2 ended a lot of higher rank nazi fled to south america
@alfwinch24
5 күн бұрын
In my opinion, the federal system, i.e. the differences between the individual federal states in Germany, is the key to economic success in Germany. This creates healthy competition between the individual federal states with the advantage of having no customs duties and uniform standards and basic rules. This also has the effect that many Germans feel more like Bavarians or Berliners or Hamburgers, for example. So local patriotism outweighs national patriotism. Nowadays, many politicians want more and more to be regulated by the government and less by the federal states. This is a development that I view very critically.
@tabaaza9884
Күн бұрын
You're right, this is not good for Germany as a country. Just as the lack of a term limit for the chancellor is disadvantageous.
@shaneb4612
8 күн бұрын
I'm from German decent & Australian Aboriginal decent. My mum's side is German, my great, grandparents emigrated to Australia in the mid to late 1800's. It's still unbelievable to me to think my great grands opened up a heap of land here in Queensland. Back then life would have been so tough for settler's. I knew Germans' had emigrated to a lot of those parts of the world. It's totally 6` of separation. Budweiser be is of German decent, but it was first brewed in the Czech Republic or back then it probably was the former Republic of Yugoslavia.
@melchiorvonsternberg844
8 күн бұрын
Budweis, is a city in Bohemia and the beer, is from this city. But it was a German brewing master, who created the beer. You have to remember, that Bohemia, was for centuries a part of the Holy Roman Empire and until 1918 a part of the Austrian kingdom, as a part of the K&K empire...
@tabaaza9884
Күн бұрын
@@melchiorvonsternberg844 The Svitavy Brewery was founded in Budejovice in 1256, and in Pilsen, where Pilsner is made, in 1307. It was during the reign of the kings of the Přemyslid dynasty. In the first half of the 13th century, people from the German-speaking area began to arrive in many Slavic cities. It is not known whether the beer was created by the Slavs or the Germans, both have been brewing beer for a long time. American Budweiser has a slightly shorter history and is related to Budweiser Bürgerbräu, which was founded in 1795 by German-speaking residents of the city and began brewing Budweiser Bier in 1802. It was exported to the United States in 1875.
@denise4954
8 күн бұрын
There is a cool video about places where German is spoken. 17 Weird Places They Speak German
@Attirbful
8 күн бұрын
On the other hand, Germans (or more specifically German migrants) are always known to adapt in no time, as well. Germans make a point in learning the language and customs wherever they go as fast as possible. Like, my family moved to Norway in the early 70s. We were all fluent in Norwegian within half a year as my parents took evening classes to learn the language, my brother attended school, and after two week wrote his first Norwegian dictation, making only a few mistakes, and I, a toddler at the time, learned it from the neighboring kids…. That may be the cause why Germans today stress the importance of acculturation among immigrant groups in Germany. It is not unusual to have first generation Turkish mothers in Germany NOT knowing how to speak German after forty of fifty years of living here…
@Miristzuheiss
8 күн бұрын
You forget the Germans living at Mallorca or Canarian Islands. They dont learn spanish, they expect all speak german😂
@cayreet5992
8 күн бұрын
@@Miristzuheiss Most of those who really immigrate there to live and work actually do learn Spanish and speak it well. The tourists or short-term inhabitants or those with a vacation home there are the ones who do not adapt.
@barbaral.5980
8 күн бұрын
@@Miristzuheiss My German sister in law lived in Spain for 25 years and is fluent in Spanish, Katalan, Portugese, French and English. If you move somewhere for a job or marriage, you better get your language skills going! Retirees are a different matter.
@Miristzuheiss
8 күн бұрын
@@barbaral.5980 i only thought about the typicall Germans, living in Spain and expect German food, Beer and fluently speaking German spanish people. I know such idiots
@dagmarvandoren9364
8 күн бұрын
We alowed this. So they can
@d2ndborn
7 күн бұрын
love Thomas Sowell, great books and smart man
@TanjaKette
5 күн бұрын
I am German. It is very interesting how Americans See our abilities. Beer Crafts Military Organisation Agriculture. What about music or art or developping social systems? The first tenthousends had to leave Germany because of religious reasons or poverty. They were often seen as outcarsts in their own country. Very often they lived differently and seperated from the Others. So they continued this way of living abroad. And they mistrusted state interventions because of their bad experiences and therefore stayed away from political interactions.
@MrSinclairn
8 күн бұрын
Thomas Sowell !?! 😂😂
@jensgirschik9479
6 күн бұрын
What is unfortunately forgotten far too often: The first country that the Nazis occupied was Germany. It was an aggressive and violent group that took radical action against any resistance. Many Germans have retreated into private life, not least out of fear. The worst thing you can accuse many Germans of at this time is a lack of moral courage. But if you feel like you're alone and worried about your family, then moral courage isn't exactly easy. You then simply try not to attract attention as much as possible. Many images of Germans cheering Hitler are propaganda created to display admiration. There were hardliners loyal to the line or soldiers who were obliged to do this. What was going on in the concentration camps was only discussed in private. Often the events were so unimaginable that they were considered unbelievable and even impossible. There were definitely convinced Nazis in Germany, but to apply this to all Germans is undifferentiated and certainly not correct.
@macdieter23558
5 күн бұрын
So many similarities to today´s MAGA America!
@k.s.8064
15 сағат бұрын
Ok...now I got it and it was the first time that I really have noticed that you are having German blood in you. I always said to the way you are and behave, that you would fit so perfectly fine into German society because for me, you are so untypical American...😂 Now it's clear... 😊 And like I said before, you would be so happy with living in Germany! I think, you would really like it!!! I really do like your mindset and just the great guy you are!!!
@davidberriman5903
6 күн бұрын
You keep doing it Joel. Just when I think my general knowledge is reasonable you shoot me down in flames. I knew that the Germans were quite regional but I did not know that it was to that extent. Thank you for your work.
@glaubhafieber
7 күн бұрын
Funny that ine German newspaper in Thailand is just called the white foreigner 😂
@maybeide8078
3 күн бұрын
Correct, as a German, whatever topic is discussed, you have to start with Hitler, then have your conversation, and end with Hitler. If not, they call you "nazi". It is not required, on the other hand, if you are French, to start with Napoleon, or if you are Italian, to start with Cesar, or if you are spanish, to start with Franko.
@corvuscorone7735
3 күн бұрын
But Biergarten is simply a synonym for "Outside seating area" of a café/restaurant/pub/inn, especially in the South. It does not have to be That Place in Bavaria where you are allowed to bring your own food if you like. In fact, bringing your own food would not go down well in any restaurant or cafe, even if they call their outdoor seating area a beergarden. There is not really any other succinct German word to describe an outside seating are where you can sit and consume food and drinks. Has nothing to do with advertising beer. You could just say it is like advertising a garden, when it has nothing to do with a "garden" in any way shape, or form. Just like horse power nowadays has not much to do with horses anymore.
@MrsStrawhatberry
7 күн бұрын
Regional identity is very important to Europeans in general. There are so many linguistic and cultural differences in a small area compared to the US. History is also quite complicated. For example Bavarians would feel more at home in Austria than in Frankfurt. People from Geneva would prefer Paris to Stuttgart, etc
@manub.3847
8 күн бұрын
About 20 years ago, NDR television produced a series with Yared Dibaba: "De Welt op Platt". It visited places around the world where many generations of Germans still spoke "Platt". For many, Yared Dibaba was a "Platt snacking" surprise, as he immigrated from Ethiopia as a child and actually learned to "Snacken Platt" in his new home village. "Platt-Düütsch" = North German (official) languages.
@hape3862
8 күн бұрын
Please react to "Why German History is Different" by the channel "Then & Now"!!!
@Celisar1
7 күн бұрын
17:36 that is so not true.one branch of my US-Relatives is married to people with Italian and Irish roots, the other branch (5 children) all married people without German roots as well. The first generation born in the USA hardly speaks any German anymore. So they integrated immediately and mixed with all others.
@macdieter23558
5 күн бұрын
As a wise man once said:" YOU speak english because it is the only language you ever learned. I speak english because it is the only language that YOU ever learned!"
@alansmithee8831
8 күн бұрын
Hello Joel. My city of Bradford in England had a Little Germany from 19th century. Many German communities were fleeing intolerance at home or trying to maintain their religious identity. There was not one Germany until the 1870s, but those like Wagner were already sowing the seeds of what came later, that was not just down to Nasties, but was evident in such as Namibia pre WW1. The bit about casualties made me wonder. It was a bit like saying US had less casualties against native Americans or Iraq. Sitting Bull comes to mind. I worked with a couple of German women from different bits of Germany. The one from the bit that historically shared a king with UK had a British family name. She found the other woman much more of a "rules are rules" German than where she was raised.
@Peter_Cetera
8 күн бұрын
The Germans are impressive!
@Finrohir
6 күн бұрын
Yes, we have quite a history. I like being German.
@friendsofdoomsday7486
Күн бұрын
For many members of my generation, born in the early 60's it's been a hard time being raised by grandparents and parents socialized under the Nazi regime. Many of us still suffer a lot, meanwhile science is trying to assist us. We are called "grandchildren of war" (Kriegsenkel) suffering under severe psychological problems, resulting in additional physical diseases too. Born and raised in Germany, I never felt German. I did not join the forces, cause I did not want to wear the flag of Germany on my uniform, I would.never buy a German car etc. The area I live is mixed up. Many of us do not feel German, we speak the language, pay taxes but we do.not belong to this state. We are a mix of France, Italy, Greece, Luxembourg, Belgium, UK, the.Netherlands and a bit German. We also have our own religion which is pagan, but.not Christian. Paganism was covered by the Christians for centuries, many of our holy places we're occupied and destroyed, but our believe was never dead. So today we're back on the scene, mostly unregarded but becoming stronger again. We do.not have problems with foreigners as it isual in the eastern parts of Germany (I would never visit former East-Germany, we are not welcome there), cause we natives are already totally mixed up. Reading the comments it becomes obvious, that there a regions of the FR of Germany where people have a different view, they are proud of their country. That's fine for us, we deeply believe in peace,freedom and liberty, our homeland is Europe, a continent without nations and borders. 🇪🇺
@Stadtpark90
7 күн бұрын
8:56 Chicagoer Abendpost 😂
@edwardwoodstock
7 күн бұрын
3 words....holy roman empire....look it up.
@sakurajin_noa
6 күн бұрын
The small towns/communities also exist in German. Roughly 40% of Germans citizens live in cities with less than 20 thousand people. This includes cities that are the result of grouped together villages (done to reduce administrative overhead). Only 33% of the people live in towns with more than 100 thousand people. Despite the overall high population density most people are spread out and live in their own little pocket. There are some cultural and economic hot spots but those are not where the majority of the population lives. Also the movement between areas inside of Germany is very small. Only very few people move between states despite the German states being a lot smaller than American state. There is this video by NALF who went a bit deeper on the movement topic: kzitem.info/news/bejne/yqZjy5WFnIWjmoI
@schroedingers_kotze
7 күн бұрын
Concerning your biggest interesting takeaways from this video: I think there are several reasons for the lack of integration among many German emigrants in the 19th and early 20th centuries. One main reason in the early phase of the 19th century is that for a long time there was no German national consciousness, but everyone drew their self-image from their respective home region (of course, this is still the case to some extent today). One must not forget that most German immigrants came to the USA when the German nation was just being founded. The other reason is both a blessing and a curse, namely that many Germans brought with them a long cultural and technological tradition and were well aware of their superiority when it came to many of their innovative developments. In many areas, the Germans considered themselves to be the gold standard, but at the same time they had an inferiority complex for a long time compared to traditional nations such as France, England or Spain, because the Germans did not play a major role in world politics, even though they had so much cultural and other tradition (there is a parallel here with Italy, which formed a nation from a series of small states at a similarly late stage). This is also the basis for the terrible detours that Germany then took (as did Italy from 1922 to 1943, when Mussolini dreamed of reviving the ancient Roman Empire): Not only with the two world wars, but immediately after the founding of the empire in 1871, the Germans tried to catch up with their European competitors in terms of colonies in Africa and elsewhere. Since they were historically very late in their plans, they proceeded with even greater brutality (e.g. in Namibia, but also in the Boxer Rebellion in China, where they played a particularly inglorious role within the Eight-Nation Alliance). This logic (we are the greatest, but can only make that clear to everyone else with extreme brutality) then led to the catastrophe of two world wars. BTW, many German communities in the USA were very well connected and also very visible until the USA entered the First World War in 1917. After that, the United States was in a sense "de-Germanized"; it was also sometimes simply dangerous to be seen as German. From that point on, many families of German descent in the USA assimilated much more than in the decades before. Greetings from Germany!
@tabaaza9884
Күн бұрын
There is so much distortion in this video that it seems impossible to completely correct it. The origins of the Proto-German language date back to the 7th century, Althochdeutsche Sprache was created in 750 at the earliest. The French language comes from Latin, to which Gallic and Franconian elements were added, so it is older than the German language. The Italian language was created on the same principle, derived from the Tuscan language, i.e. Latin with minor elements of other languages. In the Germanic area, apart from short periods of political unification, there was significant cultural diversity, which persists to this day. In what is now Germany, there were and still are two forms of the German language. The story about the settlement of remote areas by German settlers is true only in relation to the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. Throughout the Middle Ages and most of the modern era, Swabians, Bavarians, inhabitants of the Rhineland, Austria and the German-speaking cantons of Switzerland moved around Europe and the world. German-speaking countries, despite the existence of an imperial institution that was very weak for most of its existence, fought wars among themselves. Continually. Moreover, the ethnic homogeneity of Germans is also a great myth; just read a little about the history of Friesland, Brandenburg, Saxony and Prussia. Political history is also full of surprises, the lands up to Hanover could have been almost Dutch and if it were not for the short-sightedness of one Polish king, there would be no Prussian state. This film gives the impression that it treats complexes rather than telling the story of one of the three German-speaking countries in Europe. And it's a great story that deserves to be better known.
@tombrunner8181
5 күн бұрын
Do you know why Japanese manga often look very German? Google the story, very exciting
@mattesrocket
8 күн бұрын
For me as a German the adjective "German" comes rarely to my mind, when I think about our history. Our middle Europe area developed slowly over many centuries from various influences, at the beginning the Romans in the southwest and Germanic tribes in the northeast, then many little kingdoms, then the Francs, then influences from Skandinavian and Eastern countries, the catholic church played a big role and little princes, the french kings and Austrian monarchies, then the craft guilds and Hanseatic cities, Napoleon from France, etc., that all played a role from which something like a "German culture" was "baked out of". That's how I learned it in school. And England was the first country where industrialization developed and from there it spread to middle Europe. So the perspective of this video maker is a bit odd to me, especially as he said himself some "Germans" immigrated when there was even not yet a German state. And yes, there were hundrets ot thousands that immigrated from middle Europe to South- or Northamerica, but compared to the development and long history of central Europe/Germany these "Germans" play a very small role in the German history. Some nationalists/right patriots surely overrate some phases in the "German history", even if objectively these from them emphasized times were only some few decades.
@ichbinbluna3504
8 күн бұрын
Last USA Microcensus: 30% of the descendants of immigrants from Europe state that their ancestors came from small German states. More than from England or Ireland. English and Irish were the first, but not the most.
@wolsch3435
7 күн бұрын
You forget the Ottonian and Hohenstaufen emperors from 962 to 1250. Even then, people saw themselves as Germans and were perceived as such by members of neighboring nations. Even though central state power became increasingly weaker in the following period, the German people, German culture and German language continued to exist and developed further. Of course, Germany was strongly influenced by its neighboring nations. But these were mutual processes. The neighboring nations were also strongly influenced by Germany. Today, many Germans like to downplay the fact that they are German (very German, unfortunately); they are trying to escape the dark aspects of history. I think this is a harmful development.
@mattesrocket
7 күн бұрын
@@wolsch3435 good points. But I think, the minority downplay the fact that they are German because of dark parts of the history, the majority (as far as it appears to me) are not so much in the "I am German" because they are zero interested in history or the whole thing of "is this and that a special German culutre". Personally: There are quite some cultural, a bit unique points, that are quite typical German, that are here in Germany and "in" me, like how we build our houses, how small towns are layed out, Komunalwesen, the Vereinskultur, the language and dialects and food anyway and how and when we eat, Christmas culture, holiday culture, Kleingärten culture, agriculture... how we deal with nature, fairy tales and Sagen, music..., beergardens, (now outdated but sometimes also progressive) education, engineering, social science, Martin Luther and other important "guys", ... I like that all this is from the land where I was born, but me (and maybe many others too) really don't care wheather these cultural points origine from here, middle Europe, or not. If most of this came originally from England and Italy or Spain or whereever, I don't care. It "gives me nothing" to call this things German or not, I just like them that they are a part of the culture that surrounds me. Rarely enough nowadys. I lived also already in England and Austria and they have in the same fields like I listed above also unique cultural characteristics, but very often less different than I thought, but different. And these cultural differences were often so nice, that I could not really decide, what I liked more or not, both cultures, for example the German and British both are in some points very great, especially when they are quite different
@ulrichhaepp2657
8 күн бұрын
Lunenburg, Nova Scotia still today looks like my hometown Lüneburg
@Never_again_against_anyone
Күн бұрын
Just wanted to add a few aspects: 1. Regarding the especially thoughtful end: Yes, there are idiots who just want to forget. There are probably everywhere where there is a history with parts not to be proud of. Still please do not think that everyone who wants to talk a bit less about it, is some kind of neo-fascist or neonazi. That part of German history has taken so much of the spotlight, that there is simply too little attention to learn from other parts of history ( Both our own and the history of others.). On top there is the tendency in some people to want to dive into history so much that they have no attention left for the present. They are good at whining and excusing and best if they can do that to distract from their lack of will to better the present that can be changed. 2. I don't think you understood the full extent of our regional/ local identities. There was no unified Germany until the late 19th century (Similar to Italy.). Look at a proper map of Germany. Most o the country is not flat. Travel was hard; many villages where quite isolated for long, which gave rise to a plethora of dialects. Even today with dialects weakening it is no surprise if you can hardly understand the dialect of a place 20km away, sometimes less. So people did not mingle in many cases because they did not understand each other. 3. The emigration patterns: My mother's side of the family is from 1,000 years old village in the Rhine basin, neither far from France, nor Switzerland (Not far from the blackforest either.) It was a typical place many left towards the US in the nineteenth century. And from what I could find out relatively effortless due to many documents having been digitalised (It pays off if your ancestors did not dwell in cities where archives where burnt in wars....) the pattern was always the same and occured at least four times in my ancestry lines (And that is only my mother's side...): First all the children marry someone either from the same village or from one not to far away with the same confession. Exceptions to this are only seen when there is one significantly younger child, so that waiting would have not been overall beneficial. Then everyone except one child with his/ her spouse leaves (That are my ancestors: nobody came back.), the siblings leaving with their spouses take their parents with them. In some cases family names went distinct over here. The leaving famiily always took the same ship and settled together in the US. Going down the tree is harder and due to lack of time mostly postponed, but it seems that in most cases there were at least 2 generations who stayed close by after that, before the descendants moved farther. PS: Feel welcome (whoever reads this) to say hi, in case some of your ancestors came from near "Breisach am Rhein", in that case we might be distantly related.
@stevyyjay85
8 күн бұрын
The Nazi era should never be forgotten and it'll always be a stain on German history. However, German history is so much more than just that era. As explained in the video, Germanic tribes and their culture and history have existed for thousands of years now. The Germans versus the Romans, The Germans in the middle ages, the Germans of the Renaissance, the Germans of scientific inventions in the 18th, 19th and 20th century... literature, art, philosophy, medicine... German history is so broad. It is brutal and regressive, but also modern and progressive at times, it's rural and urban... it's everything in between for thousands of years. IF the Nazi era is the ONLY era that is taught in school, then that would be a real shame. Nevertheless, the Nazi era should always be taught as an example of what to prevent in the future at all costs.
@LudwigRohf
7 күн бұрын
Any Americans watching this? I have a question: What are you taught at school about Germany? I know that you treat the 2nd WW and the Holocaust. But what else? I mean this question. I am German who went to German school and I have no idea about history lessons in the US.
@p.f.5718
7 күн бұрын
What you have to understand why Germans from a specific area didn’t settle together is the reason that there were no one german State - there were many more or less little „states“ Kingdoms, Archbishoprics, Duchdoms and so on. They recognized themselves as german ethnic but in the first as people from the specific reign. That’s so as you say I am New Yorker or I am Pensilvanier you will have different customs and behavior. People from Austria would always go together on foreign soil because they had one empire centuries long. Today we always are sympathetic to people who belongs to the former empire although they were no german ethnic - they could be today from Hungary, Bosnia, Czech and so on it don’t matter. Love from Austria 🇦🇹
@szabados1980
7 күн бұрын
4:12 If what you say were true, I'd either not be a person (singular of people) or outside of Germany. Beer doesn't come to my mind when I think of Germany at all. And Germany doesn't come to my mind when somebody mentions beer. If any nation does, it's the Czechs. They're the ones bathing in it.
@macdieter23558
5 күн бұрын
The germans prefer to DRINK their beer.
@PokhrajRoy.
8 күн бұрын
Babe Ruth speaking German is unreal.
@macdieter23558
5 күн бұрын
But true!
@jensweniger636
8 күн бұрын
I went to school in the city where this map was created. For 5 years I walked past the possible building in which it was built by Waldseemüller at the time. But it wasn't until years later that I realized what a historic place it was.
@MrShosuka
2 күн бұрын
You would laugh if you here what they don't tell us in german schools about our own history. If we want to know something, we have to search for it by ourselves. Especialy if it is about the truth. But to explain the settlement thing. We are many nations with different cultures and subtypes of language, but we have some things in common. We try to make things perfect, we always fight for freedom and peace (same is not true for politicans) if you look into the history. We don't want to be dominatet. We want to live in peace. Our family and our land is the most important thing and if we can, we help. I love my country and just want to travel here, because their is so much to see. All the castles build in the past. The beauty of architecture. My map from google is full of places worth to travel. My last exploring tour was in Kassel, the town I was born. Beautyful places to see, but you can see the bombs too. I drove threw the "holländische Allee" and saw the differences. How many bombs destroyed beautyful houses created with love. In Bremen you can see the same and the war is not over. Just the weapons changed. After the physical attack came the mental attack. I want my country back. I want to see more of the beauty we can create and give the same to others.
@biloaffe
6 күн бұрын
I have a cousin in Australia and a cousin in the USA!
@alexvonhamburch
7 күн бұрын
Greetings from the best an greatest City in the world: Hamburg in Germany ✌🏼✌🏼✌🏼✌🏼✌🏼
@WilliamPickard-eo4xt
8 күн бұрын
I'm suprised the protestant reformation wasn't mentioned It might be Germany's export. Btw check out Germantown PA
@christophevanobbergen3674
2 күн бұрын
HELO you did find it great and fun about soccer and there fans and hardcore fans then look up euro-pane basketball . Grtz from belgium
@PokhrajRoy.
8 күн бұрын
18:25 Parochialism is symptomatic of many human societies. Sometimes, its ethnicity and sometimes it is caste location.
@nonamerider4953
8 күн бұрын
5:00 just to get to you another fact why Germany produces that much beer and has that much breweries, it all is located back to the bavarian empire, the King made a law where every Citylord was allowed to have it`s own brwerie, so nearly every bigger Village in Bavaria with over 10.000 people living in there has got it`s own brewerie, where the oldest ones where founded back in the 1100`s. Bavaria alone has about triple the amount of breweries then the rest of germany.
@bellathemusicaddict
7 күн бұрын
*founded in the 1000s :) Weihenstephaner and Weltenburger for example 😊
@alwynemcintyre2184
16 сағат бұрын
Germanic peoples weren't a humogonous group of people as some others
@mathildewesendonck7225
7 күн бұрын
Germany is so heavily criticized about our „open border“ policy. Yes, there are problems, I‘m not gonna deny it. But we are also blessed with some wonderful people who have come as refugees. In 2015, we took in many refugees from Syria, and three of those former refugees are now working in my department. (I’m an anaesthetist in hospital) Mohammed was 15 back then in 2015, he is now a surgery technician who helps the surgeons. Hajan was 22 and a medical student, he is now a great anaesthetist. Hannah was only 12 when she fled all by herself, her family was killed or went missing. She is now a nurse. All three of them are incredibly hard working, smart and overall just great to work with! ❤❤❤
@Celisar1
7 күн бұрын
I am working in the health system myself (big hospital) and in my department as well as in several others I am in contact with there are exactly zero coworkers who came as asylum seekers/ economic migrants. On the other hand they are well represented among patients. That is one important factor why it is now impossible to get a medical appointment without 7-9 months minimum on the waiting list. The cardiologist told us in April we had to wait until spring 2025 and it’s even worse with other specialists. According to official statistics the majority of immigrants rely permanently on social transfers. Asylum seekers and economic migrants have cost the taxpayers 42 billion Euros in 2022 and 48 billions in 2023 according to the newspaper „welt“ (11/23). The crime rate of foreigners is through the roof. 60 knife attacks each day and in Berlin alone 111 gang rapes in 2023, mostly of minors between 14 and 16. You are probably familiar with the many brutal attacks on random people just this weekend. The USA have given a travel warning for Germany, once one of the safest countries on earth.
@fabianstriebeck8054
8 күн бұрын
Walhalla - 2k of Germania. and forever into the future.
@herrlich7013
8 күн бұрын
Grüße aus Deutschland
@LudwigRohf
8 күн бұрын
Maybe you know Douglas Madenford and his channel? It's about the German dialect spoken in Pennsylvania til today with some Influence from English of course. The title of this video kzitem.info/news/bejne/royswINncaGlpKAfeature=shared might be confusing, but he explains a lot about ancestors from Germany.
@holgawalda
8 күн бұрын
try to find german mafia.
@macdieter23558
5 күн бұрын
I searched "orange mafia", and guess what i found!
@berndbaasner7445
8 күн бұрын
Always strange for a german to read what US citicens knew about germany. They laught about german last names and their own is "Stugelmayer". The should just accept, that they have no "history" ...(only 300 years) and that they are just a mixture of imigrants. Most people came to survive ( irish) or for religiösen reasons. Many germans who went to russia and than to North america. As a reminder...it was a time where it was clise that "german" would have been the language of the US
@LookAtMeWhenImTalkingToU
6 күн бұрын
And now imagine for what your parents pays thousends of dollars every school year. And College we dont want start talk about.
@macdieter23558
5 күн бұрын
Aren´t those the educational institutions that are free of charge in Germany?
@christianklier4793
6 күн бұрын
please make a video what it means to touch a german shoulder
@AnnetteLudke-je5ll
8 күн бұрын
You are astonished that German seperate from other Germans who are not from their area,but that is typical. I am proud to come from Northern Germany and I would look for other Northern Germans because they are completely different from e.g. Bavarians
@zuptreay7540
8 күн бұрын
Numerous historians share the opinion that because of their regionality and different denominations, "the Germans" did not perceive themselves as a common group abroad and did not exert influence together as a large German community. Unlike, for example, the Irish or Italians in the USA.
@la-go-xy
8 күн бұрын
In short: Those who emigrated before Germany was founded didn't have the concept. And they didn't have much in common, because the dialects were very different.
@B.Zimmermann
5 күн бұрын
Only in Germany it‘s forbidden to be a German 🤷♂️
@macdieter23558
5 күн бұрын
Why is it forbidden? As long as you are not THAT type of german. Had that 80 years ago, don´t want that back!
@B.Zimmermann
5 күн бұрын
@@macdieter23558 Heil Merkel und co 🙋♂️ viel Spaß noch dabei 👍🏻
@m.h.6470
8 күн бұрын
I mean, it took CENTURIES to form a united Germany. Germans are very individualistic in that way. There is a reason, why the first verse (banned nowadays) of the national hymn says "Germany above all". NOT because Germany was meant to rule above others, but because the author/writer wanted to tell every German, that they should look for a united Germany, not for their individual city or region. Check out the holy roman empire and the mess of kingdoms and fiefdoms that came before it. HUNDREDS of regions needed to be combined to make one big "state" of Germany.
@ichbinbluna3504
8 күн бұрын
It's not banned. A popular error. Fact: Only the third strophe is the national hymn.
@ichbinbluna3504
8 күн бұрын
The German anthem is based on a poem. The poet has expressed himself very unhappily, because he explicitly says "about all (everything) in the world". And the world is the planet Earth as a whole and not just the territory of the small German states.
@RustyDust101
8 күн бұрын
@@ichbinbluna3504 agreed, banned is too strong a word. Very frowned upon would be better, as the first stanza contains geographic borders that are nowhere near today's borders. Our government has also declared that any and all claims to these older borders have been withdrawn and negated. As such a national hymn that claimed people and territories from outside its borders would be at least in very bad taste.
@ichbinbluna3504
8 күн бұрын
@@RustyDust101 100% true
@InspektorDreyfus
8 күн бұрын
"Deutschland über alles" is meant as: Make Germany a united functioning state first, and only afterwards bother about all the details in the world. That's what would be needed nowadays in Germany.
@gehtdichnixan3200
8 күн бұрын
tsingtao was a german colony back then
@melchiorvonsternberg844
8 күн бұрын
Pachtgebiet, ganz ähnlich wie Hong Kong, nur bedeutend größer...
@gehtdichnixan3200
8 күн бұрын
@@melchiorvonsternberg844 komm ne packt auf 100 jahre sein wir ehrlich und nennens beim namen
@Pauliinanmaailma
8 күн бұрын
The US economy gained huge benefits of all scientists who immigrated from Germany during 1930's and 40's. And during the same period English overruled German as the language of science. It's a pity, I like German better.
@billyo54
8 күн бұрын
In the early years of the USA there was a vote cast among the Founding Fathers as to what the official language of the new United States would be. The votes were taken but never adopted into law. English gained the most votes but only a handful of votes over the German language. I've always wondered what John Wayne would've sounded like in German had a resolution been passed that had gone the other way.😂
@zuptreay7540
8 күн бұрын
According to historians, there is no evidence that such an event ever took place. With high probability it's just a legend...
@janwagner4074
7 күн бұрын
I'm German, staying in Nebraska for business for three weeks and watching this video 😅. In January I was staying in Texas and visit Fredricksburg, a "german town" that was founded by a guy who was originally from the area that I live in Germany. The world seems to be a village and there are more Germans (in third or fourth gen.) that I thought 😅
@PokhrajRoy.
8 күн бұрын
‘Women Talking’ exists so idk abt Mennonites being peaceful
@01DOGG01
8 күн бұрын
Bro, you are reacting to an AI channel. Go check the earlier videos. It's a totally different and inferior voice. It actually has inflections now and sounds natural. Especially when transitioning to German pronounciation. Go look at the frequency of videos as well. Not to mention the thumbnails. Its a black man every time. Yet the voice is white, and you never actually see the black man speaking. That's without getting into the content either.
@wietholdtbuhl6168
6 күн бұрын
Brunswick =Braunschweig 😊
@Nikioko
8 күн бұрын
Lou Gehrig’s full name was Heinrich Ludwig Gehrig.
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