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@Medvelelet
7 ай бұрын
Good video mate
@panzerknackerpaul2061
6 ай бұрын
In Hightech-Germany is no Wifi in Trains. :D
@benwars9524
6 ай бұрын
A Polish historian once pointed out a bitter Polish-Belgian paradox associated with two German occupations: While in 1939 Warsaw's inhabitants HOPED that the WW2 occupation would resemble WW1, in 1940 the people of Brussels FEARED that it would be similar. Both were wrong.
@Wilderness-Will
7 ай бұрын
All eight of my immigrant ancestors came to the United States from Poland during the late partition years, between 1891-1922. My paternal Great-Grandfather left a village in Austrian "Galicia" in December 1913, with the specific intention of earning some money in a Chicago factory to bring home with him after two or three years of work. About nine months after he arrived, the Russians invaded Galicia and any thought of returning home became impossible. There's shockingly little information in the English language about the Polish everyday experience during the partition, and even during WW1. Thank you for adding a little more to what's out there.
@ekesandras1481
7 ай бұрын
I know an elderly Romanian woman who was born in Chicago. Her parents also went from Austria-Hungary there to earn some money between the wars, where their daughter was born. After some years, they had saved enough to go back to their home village, bought land and founded a farm. A few years later communism came. They expropriated their farm and all the years of hard work on construction sites in the US were in vain. Their daughter, who is now the elderly woman, doesn't remember the English language, but in her passport is still written Chicago, Illinois as place of birth.
@funki4896
6 ай бұрын
Lets just ignore that Galicia only became part of Poland after Moscovy and Poland divided Ukraine among themselves and that it was basically Karma when Poland was partitioned.
@aleksanderkorecki7887
6 ай бұрын
@@funki4896Nonsense. Lwów was a part of Poland since 14th century, with no involvement from Muscovy. Then Ukraine's fall was karma for Khmelnitskyi?
@funki4896
6 ай бұрын
@@aleksanderkorecki7887 Ukraine's Karma for the audacity to rise up against the Polish slavers?!? Are you high?!? Polish nobles literally enslaved the Ukrainians!!! How do I explain it to you??? And still Lviv was NEVER a Polish city!!! Just the fact that Polish slavers occupied parts of Ukraine doesn't make Ukrainian cities Polish. Same as Stalingrad did not become German just because they conquered the city. If I would brake into your house would it become my house??? What kind of barbaric way of thinking is that??? Do you support lilliputin too??? Or is it only ok when Poles conquer, murder and enslave??? But Poles never talk about that. They only get upset when their slaves rise up and try to free themselves. But when Poles rebel against the Moscovite slavers than everything is fine. Alright I get it: you and the whole "Western World" and Russia too view Ukrainians as subhuman. Other rules and standards apply to Ukrainians. Good thing is: Ukrainians are fed up with that. They don't give a shit anymore. They will kill every conqueror from now on. And they feel the West's pressure to capitulate but they don't give a shit. They would rather die on the battlefield quickly than to slowly and painfully die in Auschwitz, Sachsenhausen, Jaworzno, Bereza Kartuska, Solovki or Gulag...
@angelo77138
6 ай бұрын
@@funki4896 Ukraine's current suffering is basically karma for Stepan Bandera's attempt to ethnically cleanse western Ukraine's Jewish and Polish minorities. Your line of thinking stings a little when it's used against you, doesn't it?
@Luxnutz1
7 ай бұрын
Excellent broadcast as usual. It is interesting how the German Empire went to great lengths to be seen as liberators while the British and Americans portrayed the Germans as blood thirsty. I hope there will be a story told about the War between Poland and Germany over Posen in the Early 1920's and the Austrian occupation and Russian Occupation of Austrian Przmysl. I will watch over again and again now.
@filipkopec525
7 ай бұрын
It was not a war between Germany and Poland. It was an uprising
@gloverfox9135
7 ай бұрын
They very much acted like occupiers in northern France and Belgium
@Burobrody
7 ай бұрын
They went to great lengths to portray themselves as liberators because they've needed manpower. Maybe they weren't as bloodthirsty as british propaganda tried to portray them, but germans never were some godsend liberating angels this is just german propaganda.
@hstochla
7 ай бұрын
@@gloverfox9135There was no possible way for Germany to justify that they were liberating Belgium or France, so they didn’t try.
@nathbaker
7 ай бұрын
What changed from this time to 1939 at which point Poles (and all Slavs) were viewed as “Untermenschen” and mortal enemies of Germany?
@baqterya
7 ай бұрын
Great video, I never expected a non-polish speaker to pronounce Dąbrowa so well, it shows your diligence
@mr.sidious9163
6 ай бұрын
Dźwięk ą nie jest ekskluzywny do języka polskiego, francuski ma go, na przykład. Jednak nie znam innego języka z dźwiękiem ę.
@stephanottawa7890
7 ай бұрын
Minor correction at 20:00 - In English ships do not swim, even German ships. They sail or travel. Fish usually swim as do some people, animals and birds.
@SirManateee
7 ай бұрын
That's funny, but thanks for pointing that out
@fintonmainz7845
6 ай бұрын
Birds are animals you pedant.
@allangibson8494
6 ай бұрын
Steam, motor or paddle would also be acceptable depending on the engine and propulsion system of the ships in question. That’s related to the prefix given to ship names, SS for Steam Ship, MV for Motor Vessel (diesel engined usually) or PS for paddle steamers.
@chinggis-khaan
7 ай бұрын
I like how you cover history commonly taught in Poland but not widely known in the west. Spreading knowledge is one of the greatest virtues
@mateuszgigon3724
7 ай бұрын
Hello, a Pole here :) Very educative video, even for me, though main topics i remember from high school ;D Kalisz bombardment, confiscations for German army, attempts to bond Poles with emphasize unity of culture (against "Asiatic hordes"), more liberal ordinances, cultural life... Maybe it will be interesting, that average Polish citizen don't recalls this period of our history. It was very short and not extremely aggravating - last but not least, the Poles these times thought about chances for independention and wish the war end soon. Now in history coursebooks in Poland this period is quite short described. There is one little ortograph mistake in 7:35 - should be "Kujawian" instead of "Kajuwian" (Kujawy is a historical region, north-west from Warszawa, near Włocławek and Bydgoszcz).
@rafanadir6958
6 ай бұрын
Did Poles trust the Germans in that time? Weren't you closer back then, because of language and culture, to the Russians?
@bartoszgolik2430
6 ай бұрын
if you go to the Netherlands do not ever tell them that they are just like or close to Germans (even they do belong to the same family of language. This is the most optimal way I can answer your second question.
@mateuszgigon3724
6 ай бұрын
@@rafanadir6958 We never trusted neither Germans nor Russians. Both nations were at least rivals, often enemy for us. But if we had to choose, we rather choose Germans, because of their culture - at least until WW2. Russians was always our rivals in struggle for domination in Eastern Europe (todays Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Baltic states) and we never trust them, they never deserved trust.
@mateuszgigon3724
6 ай бұрын
@@bartoszgolik2430 Yup, they hate German most.
@ozyrysozi6186
6 ай бұрын
@@rafanadir6958I mean we never been friendly with Russia or Germany. Before and during WWI (especially at the begining) there were few visions how Poland could gain it's independence again. We knew we needed big conflict between countries that partitioned Poland. Going to 1914 there were two visions for Poles living in partitioned country - some said that going along with Austro-Hungary can get us our country back. Some said Russian Empire can give us opportunity. And of course there were people on emigration that thought and will try to sway Entente powers like France, United Kingdom, United States to recognize polish independence. German Empire and Russian Empire was very harsh and tried to eradicate polish nationality, so they were never seen as allies. Austro-Hungary gave Poles limited rights, but also they weren't keen to support Poles and took action against them. After some time some of polish politicians and also some Poles got higher in the Russian Empire, so that gave them hope that maybe it was possible to sway Russia to help Poles in a very limited manner - like if they won a war they could take polish land from other partitioners, maybe reestabilish Kingdom of Poland. They never though that Poland can get independence from Russia, but uniting, getting some rights and maybe along the way finding how to get independnce was good enough. With Austria it was a bit simmilar, but also - I doubt amyone though that Austro-Hungary would take land from Germany (they were close allies). But thanks to Austria maybe russian partitioned land could be united with austrian partitioned part. We never trusted that German Empire would give Poles more rights or created even Kingdom or country that wouldn't be German, that's why there was pretty much no organisations estabilished on prussian partitioned land. Mostly becouse Germany often fought with it and also becouse rights of Poles were most limited there. Of course all of this was much more complicated and there were people with different views on the matter, but as to answear your question - we never been more friendly with Germans, Russians or Austrians, even though for some it might make sense that looking at language, culture we would be close with Russia. World War I (or Great War seen at the time) created opportunity for Poles - for the first time all three partitioners were at war and they fought each other. So it might seem grim, but it was occasion to get closer to independence. Of course everyone couldn't see that it will escelate to a Great War and going further into the war vision of fully independent Poland was closer to the reality. So I tried to explain it best way I could. If there would be any more questions, I will try my best to respond (with my limited knowledge).
@halnywiatr
7 ай бұрын
The Russians had just a few years earlier completed the construction of their Orthodox Aleksander Nevsky Cathedral in Warsaw. The building was despised by Poles as a symbol of Russification. The Germans converted it to serve as the garrison church for their soldiers, but also stripped the copper roof off for the war effort. The ensuing water damage made the Polish decision to demolish the structure after the war an easy one.
@sofiaormbustad7467
7 ай бұрын
The russians also built a red orthodox cathedral in Helsinki, which still stands. Though the russofication wasn't as intense in Finland as in Poland, and they were able to maintain their autonomy to a greater extent
@SirManateee
7 ай бұрын
I didn't know that actually, thanks a lot for sharing
@francisdec1615
7 ай бұрын
In the Russian upside-down world Russia "liberated" Finland from the oppressive Swedes and it was also fascist Finland that attacked peaceful Soviet Union in 1939.
@adifreitag8579
6 ай бұрын
@@francisdec1615 You're talking nonsense. After the Napoleonic Wars, Finland was not liberated from the Russians. Russia received Finland as a spoil of war. Finland achieved its freedom and state independence at the end of the First World War with the help of the Germans. And in 1939 the Soviet Union attacked Finland and not the other way around. Rüdiger von der Goltz - liberator of Finland kzitem.info/news/bejne/mp-IsKNmjoKgq6g Finnish song in honor of the German Emperor Wilhelm II. kzitem.info/news/bejne/2qZ72IytjIV2kno Finland in the Winter War of 1939/40 against the Soviet invaders kzitem.info/news/bejne/ummMzqWKjZWohZw kzitem.info/news/bejne/1oeOn6mdm35_ioY
@francisdec1615
6 ай бұрын
@@adifreitag8579 Do you know what " " means?
@invit87
7 ай бұрын
very interesting material. I am full of admiration for your ability to pronounce Polish hieroglyphs
@SirManateee
7 ай бұрын
I took Polish classes at uni for one year so that might explain it
@jaykita2069
6 ай бұрын
@@SirManateee One year is significantly more than the average student in the US. I have a bit of German from college but only fragments of words from my (Polish) grandparents.
@filipsocha
7 ай бұрын
Excellent stuff, as usual. I especially love your thorough pronunciation of Polish names which is not the easiest thing in the world. Another reason I enjoy your work so much is these kinds of topics are rarely touched by Polish history content creators, they tend to be more 2nd Republic, WWII and PPL - focused. It makes me now looking forward even more to a video about Austrian rule in Lublin.
@Caught2602
7 ай бұрын
Well researched video, you are doing a great job helping to bridge a deeper understanding between Poles and Germans. Having a German going to great lengths to showcase our history is great to see.
@dragoe7441
7 ай бұрын
Fairly tale compare to the GG we would see 20 years later What a shame
@jasse803
6 ай бұрын
I honestly applaud you for such a great effort on prenounciating polish names. Very well done! As to material itself, awesome. (Ps: Central Powers did not much wanted poles as "allies" but rather as "cannon fodder". They would also try to play on polish fear and, to put it mildly, dislike of all things from moscow. If you catch my drift)
@tylerlarm9878
7 ай бұрын
great info! my great grandfather was a gun runner during the great war, and resided in Bielsk Podlaski. He fled and came to america in 1917. Its not easy finding info on what was going on throughout the eastern front. This was great!
@MarcusAlexandru
7 ай бұрын
I think you meant the Gregorian Calendar
@ThomasBoyd-wv7qj
7 ай бұрын
Awesome. Brilliant content. Spot on. Poland Warsaw. Matthew Ludwiniski US actor Polish catholic American. He supports your video on Poland Warsaw.
@manugamer9984
7 ай бұрын
I mean... is it even possible to judge the WW1 occupation without considering the WW2 occupation? Everything before nazism inevitably looks pristine and angelic in comparison. Mauthausen concentration camp is truly telling as an example: thousands of Italian POWs died there in both world wars, but there's a big difference between nazi guards wanting you dead and Habsburg guards starving almost as much as you...
@nicoschmid668
7 ай бұрын
German Manatee back again with the consistently great history vids ❤
@quaker2636
7 ай бұрын
Great video, it's great to see more content about the largely forgotten parts of Polish history like this. Will you make a vid about the Ober-Ost occupation districts? They also included a part of Congress Poland's territory and much of it was incorporated into Poland after the war
@douglasschliewen4302
6 ай бұрын
Poland had already been occupied by Prussia(later Germany as a whole), Austria and Russia since the 18th century when the country was partitioned by all three. So, it wasn't just during the Great War that the country was occupied. As a result, there were Poles in the armed forces of all three countries because of that.
@bcvetkov8534
6 ай бұрын
Excellent video. Can't wait to see the video detailing the Austro-Hungarian administration of things in occupied Poland.
@franko7033
6 ай бұрын
Illuminating. Very interesting part of history I had no knowledge of till now. Thanks
@michaelscott358
2 ай бұрын
3:30 it’s sad how poorly their celebration aged
@johngorentz6409
6 ай бұрын
Very informative. Thank you. Outside of Congress Poland, many of the Germans in politics had displayed a sense of cultural superiority in the areas they had ruled since the partitions, in their on-again, off-again attempts to Germanize the Poles. It was a contested issue among the Germans, as the German liberals preferred to do it with carrots rather than sticks. But I imagine that historical background played some role in how the Poles in Congress Poland viewed the Germans and interacted with them during WWI.
@listkiewska
6 ай бұрын
As a Pole, I would like to congratulate you on this video. Some of the facts featured here are indeed surprising and unexpected for me. Much respect!
@countravicchio1050
7 ай бұрын
🎉 I'm so happy to be here for the release of a videos, you make amazing content
@Flupenius
6 ай бұрын
As a pole who has always admired the German Empire and favoured their chances at victory in ww1 due to the regimes that came from the entente victory. It's been really interesting to learn about just exactly what our nation went through in this period because I never really knew the extent of German exploitation other than that it was definitely less brutal than the Nazi or Soviet or Russian Imperial regimes. Although not perfect and insignificant due to later events, it definitely feels relieving to learn that Germany weren't cold-blooded killers and occupiers and further cements my and many others's belief that there wasn't a good side in ww1. It's such a shame that the path we went down could've been entirely avoided through either a german victory in ww1 or no war happening at all. This was incredibly interesting though and makes one of my favorite periods in history even more interesting because beforehand I always thought we didn't have any autonomy under Germany in ww1 but now I know otherwise. This video was amazing though, I thoroughly enjoyed it.
@lempereurcremeux3493
6 ай бұрын
Just wait until someone tells him about the Polish Border Strip plan. He's probably gonna feel so betrayed and lied to by Sir Manatee.
@tornation5609
7 ай бұрын
Great video once again ! Thanks !
@bartek07k
6 ай бұрын
I know the pronunciation of the Polish names was tough, but I am impressed how well you nailed it. Thank you for another excellent material about the lesser-known part of the history.
@tenstrateq6262
7 ай бұрын
Great video as always! When I first came across your channel I thought, judging by the amount of material about Poland, that you were Polish😅. Hence the question of where you got such a curiosity about 19th century Polish history, and in fact the history of Polish-German relations? Grüße aus Warschau :3
@SirManateee
7 ай бұрын
Thanks a lot! There is no single reason for why this particular topic fascinates me so much. It's just sort of developed during the past few years, with me visiting Poland like two times per year. And I always found it quite a bit of a shame that your history is always so overlooked here in Germany, despite the fact that our two countries have shaped each other in so many regards.
@tenstrateq6262
7 ай бұрын
@@SirManateee I am glad that not only Poles are interested in their history haha but I'll admit that although I've been interested in history for a long time some of the events you talk about completely shocked me. I had no idea about the Polenbegeisterung, it came as such a big shock to me. In Poland, unfortunately, Polish-German history is only presented from the bad side, only the dark pages of history are presented. The Battle of Cedynia, Partitions, World War 2, Germanisation. The legend of Wanda, who did not want a German*. And although there is also talk of, for example, the Congress of Gniezno and the warm relationship between Otto III and Bolesław Chrobry, clearly these brighter pages of our history are not as highlighted as they could be. And after all, we Poles are so fond of being talked about abroad.... I am so surprised why the Polenbegeisterung is not widely known in Poland. This story is so fascinating, at least for me. Well, I'm glad that in Germany at least a few people are talking about it, it's an interesting contrast to the dark pages of our joint history like ww2. Im happy that at least from the German side I can learn about these, sometimes brighter chapters haha Anyways great job, your videos always touch on interesting topics and present them in depth. Thanks for this! * thats an interesting fairytale (en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Wanda)
@bartoszgolik2430
6 ай бұрын
small correction 1915 is the 20th century. If the video was about the Congress of Vienna 1815 yes it would be 19th century thing affecting Polish history.
@adamzieba8364
6 ай бұрын
22:27 There is a district in my home city of Łódź called Polesie which could be translated as "post-woodland". It was a forested area outside of city limits before WW1 but due to severe shortage of any fuel for cooking and keeping the homes warm this forest was completely chopped down for firewood. This cleared land was utilized for urban development after WW1 and became a new city district.
@bartoszgolik2430
6 ай бұрын
Lodz got its forests gone already when it started to be built in XiX century. WW1 only added to the trend. Lodz needed wood to be built and to power the machinery, the steam engines of the textile industry.
@arbuz_kawon
7 ай бұрын
Love your videos, man! And your pronounciation is amazing, kudos ♥
@theprezydent6250
7 ай бұрын
Thank you for these videos 😊
@stephanottawa7890
7 ай бұрын
My final comment is that it was delightful to see how beautiful Warsaw was. A Polish friend of mine who had been a child in pre-war Warsaw said to me that it was a gem and cannot be compared with the present-day Soviet style mess.
@kaanyasin3733
7 ай бұрын
If i could afford it, even by 1 cent, i would pay you to make this full time
@Igor-zp2tu
6 ай бұрын
One thing about Occupation that i dont think you have adressed in the video (i hope that im wrong on this one) is the question of who would be the king of Poland and who were the most likely candidates to be the king. Im maybe misremenbering it, but im sure that an Austrian candidate was the most likely to take the title.
@bartoszgolik2430
6 ай бұрын
The last king of Poland name was Poniatowski (like the bridge in Warsaw, named after him) Russian Tsars had these title mania, and even the hitlerite Hans Frank had this obsession to be the king of Poland, with the Wawel castle events he was organising. Anyone can call himself a king, this would not be Poland's, and nobody was expecting Germans to give us permissions to have Poland back in 1915 (a bit like the creation by Napoleon with the Duchy of Warsaw), after WW1 Poland did not want any scraps anymore, we were fed up with Russians and Germans equally. Had some better feelings to Austrians as they did not opress the language,and tradition but Austria evaporated... so it was perfect time and therefore 11 Nov is the Polish Independence. this is the only thing we care about WW1 it does not exist much in our mind map, we are interested only in its end/result. In a nutshell. I would not be astonished (after reading "historical" essays by V. Putin) to hear that he wants to be king of Poland too. But the bad news is.. the last king was Poniatowski haha. Poland is the Republic (Res Publica =Rzecz Pospolita). On a positive note It is great that at least US policies turned Germany into a democratic country (the attempt after ww1 failed possibly because Weimar Republic had to pay hard the contributions- terrible mistake which was not repeated after ww2) - and let it stay that way! It works for the Germans and the World. And lets hope Russia will be normal in the future too, for themselves and the World. However nobody sees this coming in a decade or two.
@michaekrynicki8330
7 ай бұрын
love youre videos
@joethegeographer
6 ай бұрын
Excellent topic, thanks for sharing!
@nozomuoh4148
6 ай бұрын
I only saw German empire and Russian empire during World War One in history books
@rosesprog1722
2 ай бұрын
There was no Poland during WW1, in fact, the re-birth of Poland was proposed by the Germans during the negotiations of the treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Trotsky.
@dunewalker3006
6 ай бұрын
24:51 Crab a la Pep(si) maximúm!
@aymankhan2670
7 ай бұрын
Please make a video about Venetia Lombardy under Austrian Empire. There's so less about this era on KZitem
@SirManateee
7 ай бұрын
Uuuuh, that's a great idea
@AJ-lu3wx
6 ай бұрын
Glad you made a vid of this lesser know aspect. Not trying to troll here but if you retreat backwards, are you not actually advancing? 2:33
@mueezadam8438
28 күн бұрын
6:27 _“withered physical, mental, and political development”_ O_o
@travissutherland8502
7 ай бұрын
Haven’t watched it yet, but great video
@georgios_5342
7 ай бұрын
3:30 when the Germans invade Poland to free the Jews 😳
@FxTR22
6 ай бұрын
24:19 Additional note. At the bottom it says: "Only christian workers are allowed."
@Dawid.O
7 ай бұрын
another great video fromn you. I'm, really shocked how good you know polish history from this time.
@condelevante4
7 ай бұрын
The German monarchy may not have been perfect but it had the restraint and culture that prevented becoming monstrous like the Nazis. Compare the difference
@lovablesnowman
7 ай бұрын
The Kaiserreich was better than the Nazi regime in that it wasn't consciously genocidal (in Europe) but it was brutal enough all the same. Aggressive expansionist, ethnic cleansing, slavery and murder. Just look how the Germans behaved in Belgium to see how "civilised" The Kaisers armies were
@felixbabuf5726
7 ай бұрын
Yeah, try talking to a Namibian about how “restrained” the Kaiser’s men were. It’ll go great.
@tristanthamm505
7 ай бұрын
@@lovablesnowmanWhat happened in Belgium was grossly exaggerated by British propaganda to drum up support for the war.
@condelevante4
7 ай бұрын
@@felixbabuf5726 absolutely - it was a genocide there alright. Probably an outlier though. In Africa the Europeans in general committed atrocities all over the place - the Congo, Rhodesia etc. anyway I was just saying that things were becoming way more brutal and cold blooded as the 20th century progressed.
@cultural-and-historical
6 ай бұрын
wait, is Sir Manatee Sorbian?
@AOT_HxH95
6 ай бұрын
Would you ever cover the Rzez Wolynska, aka the Volhynian Genocide?
@wojciechbednarz9675
7 ай бұрын
While not great. The Germans WW1 treatment of the Poles seems almost quaint compared to the dehumanizing and brutal policies of WW2.
@lempereurcremeux3493
7 ай бұрын
Oh, they had plans alright, it's just that Beseler had enough sense to delay them until after the war because he didn't want a Polish rebellion sparking off and forcing Germany to divert troops to suppress it and potentially blow the Eastern Front wide open. He himself was also personally less interested in deciding how much land the Polish Border Strip would take and how many millions of Poles and Jews should be expelled to make way for German settlers than in the working out the details for the economic subjugation of postwar Poland to German businesses and Germanization of its people. After the war, he was criticized in the Reichstag for being too kind to the Poles - ie. not forcibly deporting Polish men to work in German factories and starting deportations for the Polish Border Strip by Christmas. How it escaped them that doing this would only have guaranteed their defeat is beyond me.
@grandcrowdadforde6127
3 ай бұрын
PRZEMYSL...shem a zyl? how the hell do they get that pronounciation from those letters?
@chrisloveshistory
6 ай бұрын
Its pretty ironic that the polish jews were happy with the german occupation…
@birotariusintaberna818
7 ай бұрын
A full century has elapsed and German attitude towards Poland hasn't changed a single bit.
@grandcrowdadforde6127
3 ай бұрын
and LODZ is woo dzsh...is Polish really that strange??!
@Wanwan-mq3jw
3 ай бұрын
Poland didnt exist as a country but had been split up btw russia, Austria, Prussia earlier. Supporting polish Independence was a double edge sword. There was a polish uprising in the 1860s that was supported by German public also financially but not by german nobility. Usually also in WW2 were preferred as 'occupier' to the russia as Germany was richer and more modern. Strategically German nobility wanted to secure German workforce, and create buffer zones to a russia after war that could easily be dominated by Germany. Therefore in 1917 Germany carved out all the eastern european states like Ukraine.. antisemitism was nothing of interest. But Germans developped a feeling of superioty when they moved more eastwards Like Belarus. They were simply underdevelopped at that time. One reason why Germans underestimated the russians in WW2. German Nazi party detested German nobility, German nobility despised them. Dont mix them up. Prussia by contrast was quiet Open to foreign Immigration e.g. hugenotts in 18th century. Lot of poles also migrated in the 1860s into the Rhineland Industrial areas
@rotmistrzjanm8776
7 ай бұрын
Personally I find it funny how similar was occupation during WW1 to that after WW2 by communist and yet there are people still claiming that one was occupation and second was free and independent Poland XD
@arthurmosel808
6 ай бұрын
There was no Polish nation for almost two centuries. Poland had been split between the Holy Roman Empire, Prussia and Impetial Russia. So, the wording of this video doesn't reflect reality.
@crpgap9595
6 ай бұрын
"Worst genocide in human history?" I guess you've never heard of the Mongol hoards, Communists, Islamists, etc.
@explodingwolfgaming8024
7 ай бұрын
Commenting 4 algorithm
@ThugShakers4Christ
6 ай бұрын
You forgot yhe part where Polosh jews stabbed Germany in the back
@tavishnundoo6002
6 ай бұрын
Hallo
@goon5757
6 ай бұрын
beats ww2 though lol
@Flow86767
7 ай бұрын
Poland strong
@Pioneer_DE
7 ай бұрын
Can you do more videos about the german population in Poland after WW1?
@Zzzooooppp
7 ай бұрын
lol this guy wants some material that’ll console him
@Pioneer_DE
7 ай бұрын
@@Zzzooooppp what?
@sasukeuchihaa1447
6 ай бұрын
dont mind him. he is just on his whataboutism rant@@Pioneer_DE
@rhysnichols8608
6 ай бұрын
Led to ww2 😂
@Zzzooooppp
6 ай бұрын
@@Pioneer_DE just like the most recent poster above alluded to, I am accusing you Germans of wanting to hear about how poor Germans were treated so you can feel better about voting Moustache man into power. Nobody actually thinks it led to WWII except for Germans who want to whitewash their own history.
@Artur_M.
7 ай бұрын
I love all of your videos, especially the ones that mention Łódź, my city! This reminds me of an interesting video by a local museum (in Polish but with English subtitles). It's mostly about November 1918; taking control over the city by independent Polish authorities and disarming the German troops, (which did end up in some fighting) but it also provides some context, talking about the situation during the occupation: kzitem.info/news/bejne/sKSbqIeChXxqrI4si=Y_CcoB7WmRDeab8p
@piotrczaplinski6320
7 ай бұрын
My my, don't you look cool in that video 😉
@Artur_M.
7 ай бұрын
@piotrczaplinski6320 😁 Cześć! My shameless sneaky self-promotion got exposed. [A disclaimer for everyone else: Yes, I took part in the making of this video. I'm one of the guys looking like a dollar store version of the Peaky Blinders in that one scene.]
@penguinsfan251
7 ай бұрын
That was a great video.
@Argacyan
6 ай бұрын
It feels like I see you in the comments under most videos I watch
@Artur_M.
6 ай бұрын
@Argacyan We either have a similar taste in videos, or I have a bit of a problem with watching and commenting too much. Probably both. 😉
@Andre-by4su
7 ай бұрын
The latest Eastory video had me wondering, how was Poland under German occupation during WW1? Thanks for this!
@SornGeorge
7 ай бұрын
Greetings fellow man of culture
@olgagaming5544
6 ай бұрын
Well, we in Poland don't learn about this short period that much. Because the land was occupied anyway for 120 years so 4 years wasn't that much of a deal esp well u know, a fcking WW1 is happening and then shitload of stuff happened just after the ww1. But I've never seen a youtuber so well versed in Eastern europe's history and that is pretty strange to see lol
@olgagaming5544
6 ай бұрын
Well, for most ww1 on our lands would be like - well, if these battles happened on our lands, it means a lot of stuff got destroyed
@bartoszgolik2430
6 ай бұрын
this is fundamental error which I am trying to point out to the author of this clip, the title is misleading and possibly Eastory got it wrong too. Poland regains its independence on 11 November 1918 (after 123 years of non-existance, partitions by neighbours) so Poland does NOT exist in 1915. It was just convenient for Germans to call it Poland so to take the spotlight from the region of Wielkopolska (Greater Poland region in the West) which they happily occupied. And were asstonished to lose it in 1918 in the Powstanie Wielkopolskie (the only uprising that was succesful and kicked the oppressors). So yes you were right to wonder, and now you just think you got explained that Poland was occupied by Germans in 1915 only by the fact that the error is repeated. Germans occupied Warsaw in 1915 which was under Russian rule for a hundres years at that time... it is a huge difference.
@michalsawa881
6 ай бұрын
@@bartoszgolik2430Czyżby kolega zapomniał o 3 powstaniach śląskich oraz walk o zaolzie, ktore odebralismy w ten sam sposob co oni nam w 1938
@Rapture-nv5vj
7 ай бұрын
Yeeeeeeey, another video from my favorite german manatee, about polish history. Also, i passed my math test, so it's the best day this month so far 😅
@SirManateee
7 ай бұрын
Congrats, mate :D
@Rapture-nv5vj
7 ай бұрын
@@SirManateee Thanks, mate :D
@klimafooty5954
6 ай бұрын
As a Pole, this part of history in the partitions in often overlooked, we know the brutality of the Russian partition and the Prussian treatment of Poles under Bismarck. Not much is taught about Poland during WWI despite being the battleground for the 3 empires. Greatly appreciate this video, so informative!
@konradvonschnitzeldorf6506
7 ай бұрын
Nobody ever talks about the austrians. That's what happens when your country seizes to exist after the war
@dropandy1453
7 ай бұрын
okay i’m gonna be that guy. it’s ceases not seizes lol. but the point of your comment is correct. english is a funny little language
@krainex
7 ай бұрын
@@dropandy1453english is the littlest language of all
@NathanDudani
7 ай бұрын
Ironic@@krainex
@SirManateee
7 ай бұрын
I was actually going to talk about both Germany and Austria in this video but the amount of information I found was just way too much
@konradvonschnitzeldorf6506
7 ай бұрын
@@SirManateee It's a time of great "source-density", it's a blessing and a curse. My original comment was just a bit of bitterness after finishing "Radetzkymarsch" and "Kapuzinergruft" by Joseph Roth
@oiytd5wugho
7 ай бұрын
I don't got nothing constructive to add, but you have the best Polish pronunciation out of all (non-polish) historians I ever heard speak. Like, everything except the alveolo-palatals was on point!
@georgios_5342
7 ай бұрын
This is the sort of long format videos I love to see. It's quite rare these days. Thanks for the amazing work, keep it up!
@michaireneuszjakubowski5289
7 ай бұрын
"Marsz marsz, narodzie, o głodzie i chłodzie, za przewodem Beselera weźmie nas cholera!" I'll add that I was told this pastiche of what is now the national anthem by my grandpa, who had been told the song (it's an entire song, but I can only remember this one line) by his grandpa, who, by the way, was a distinguished fighter Greater Poland uprising (an official commendation for which is framed in my grandpa's room). PS: FIxed a silly mistake; I guess I need sleep...
@milton911
7 ай бұрын
Yooo Poland :DD
@somfing4872
7 ай бұрын
Can you talk about German Namibia?
@SirManateee
7 ай бұрын
Certainly, one day
@VIRTUALESENCE
7 ай бұрын
I have no idea why this era in history activates my neurons but thank you for making these videos so it does haha, thank you
@piop
7 ай бұрын
Once again, great and interesting presentation.
@CatnamedMittens
7 ай бұрын
Shout out to Smetana's Die Moldau in the background there.
@jcoker423
7 ай бұрын
The Cz's might say the Vltava. Alot of Cz rivers end in -ava, which I am told is an old IndoEuropean word (German/Keltic) for water. Like aqua in Latin.
@CatnamedMittens
7 ай бұрын
@@jcoker423 I just know it as Die Moldau from school and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.
@herbertschulz4313
7 ай бұрын
I would be interested in a history video of prewar Gdasnk, or mayhaps one on the Göttinger Sieben
@vetarlittorf1807
7 ай бұрын
You mean Danzig.
@ChatGPT_ChatbotTest
7 ай бұрын
@@Sidneymoch It was called danzig prewar
@onurbschrednei4569
7 ай бұрын
Günter Grass wrote some books about pre-war Gdansk, he even won a Nobel literature prize for it.
@vetarlittorf1807
7 ай бұрын
@@Sidneymoch No. Danzig is the correct name.
@penguinsfan251
7 ай бұрын
@@vetarlittorf1807Not anymore.
@Dmitrisnikioff
7 ай бұрын
Were the Austrians more laizzes-faire about the whole deal?
@JulianSki
7 ай бұрын
Wow! This video was well detailed and very in-depth! Love your stuff man, keep it up!
@moonman9227
7 ай бұрын
another banger
@jannis.grossmann
7 ай бұрын
the new kalendar ist called Gregorian not Georgian
@King_of_Railways
7 ай бұрын
If the Jewish only knew, what came several years later... 😮😢
@SirManateee
7 ай бұрын
Yeah that picture really made me sad when I saw it
@IrishCarney
7 ай бұрын
You should have mentioned a crucial context item of Germany's agricultural exploitation of Poland and its drafting of Poles into farm labor in both Poland and Germany. That being the British-led Allied blockade which caused widespread hunger in Germany and Austria and ultimately a large number of deaths of German civilians from starvation and of various diseases which proved fatal from being in a weakened state due to hunger. That's not to justify Germany's exploitation policy, but it helps explain it.
@thelvadam2884
7 ай бұрын
and they protraised us as bloodthirsty monsters during WW1 ... ohh the irony
@hashkangaroo
7 ай бұрын
or the Schweinemord, or German over-conscription of farmhands, or German requisition of plow-horses for military service, or German redirection of all ammonia for explosives production instead of fertilizer, The German government shot themselves in the foot several times over. Had they not done these things, the German dinner table would have weathered the blockade much better.
@IrishCarney
6 ай бұрын
@@hashkangaroo The German way of war comes from back in the 18th century when Prussia was a small, resource-poor, low-population backwater on the fringe of Europe that couldn't sustain long wars of attrition against big enemies. It relied on maximum intensity short engagements winning decisive victories, after which you'd resume peace. Worked well for a while, into the late 19th century. Then they got themselves entangled in two long wars of attrition. Oops.
@IrishCarney
6 ай бұрын
@@hashkangaroo On the issue of horses, I think it was David Stahel who pointed out that German farm horses were huge and could pull heavy loads, so German logistics assumed such horses. But the horses, while willing to do their jobs, were accustomed to a "contract" - in which they got Sundays off, were protected from harsh elements, and were given high-quality fodder. When stuck in an endless Russian quagmire in harsh weather with no breaks and expected to eat mere (shudder) grass, they protested in the way that these temperamental animals do: they died, en masse. The Germans captured rugged little Rusisan ponies descended from the Mongol animals could happily eat any grass laying around and were used to the horrible conditions, but they couldn't deal with the big German carts (loaded down, of course, with complex, over-engineered suspensions that assumed mild Central European conditions).
@pilum3705
6 ай бұрын
24:53 Kilian Experience Reference
@d.annejohnson5631
6 ай бұрын
You do not need the music. Please remove it. Use it for your intro or end, but otherwise please no. As a lover of classical music I it too distracting and thus annoying. It does not at "class" or "gravitas", Please. Otherwise, interesting, well researched and written and well delivered. Thank you.
@Kommentator-rd4kd
6 ай бұрын
Situation in Poland was actually like today... with the EU! ;-)
@livethefuture2492
6 ай бұрын
Whatever it was, it was a damn sight better than the bloody communists or nazis that came later. All this tells me is that frankly we screwed up the peace after ww1 so bad, that in some aspects it may have actually been better to have let Germany win the war itself. The treaty of versailles and the concurrent handling of the Russian revolution and civil war were among the greatest foreign policy disasters of the 20th century. All our greatest enemies of the 20th century can be tied back to this one moment...we very much laid the seeds for our future enemies. This is - our victory was so poorly utilized and managed, it was made null and void in laying the seeds for future greater conflict that would ultimately overshadow all of it, and especially for eastern and central europe, ultimately for the worse.
@sahhaf1234
7 ай бұрын
again, an infinitely interesting presentation
@GeneralCurtisEmersonLeMay
6 ай бұрын
Can you make a Video about the Russification of Poland until WW1??? That’s an interesting topic and cause you‘ve already made a Video about the Prussian Settlement Commisson it would be nice to know what was going on in Congress Poland at the time. :)
@kidmohair8151
7 ай бұрын
thank you for covering an aspect of WW1 that has gotten short shrift on this platform.
@lordjim3109
6 ай бұрын
There is an important correction that has to be made about this video. Germany did not occupy Poland in WW1 in the same sense as it did in WW2, for in 1915 Poland had ALREADY been under occupation for over a century. Germans were occupying western Poland, from where they attacked Russinas, who were occupying eastern Poland. One occupier attacked another. When both occupiers got badly damaged in the war, the Poles successfully used this opportunity to regain independence in 1918. If you are as unlucky as Poland to have 3 enemies more powerful than yourself (Russia, Germany and Austria), your only chance arises when they fall out with one another.
@ozyrysozi6186
6 ай бұрын
I have to agree and I seen it that that question gets here in some comments. Occupation isn't really good word used here. There was no Poland for a long time at that time (about 120 years as in 1918 after 123 years we Poland gain independence). It was really terrain of partitioned Poland changing it's owner. And yes, WWI or Great War was seen by many Poles as opportunity as German Empire, Russian Empire and Austro-Hungary finally got into conflict with each other - Germany and Austro-Hungary as allies versus Russia. So it was something special as before in history we seen how those empires fought together against Poles or at least supported each other. So in 1915 there were no Poland to occupy really as it didn't exist, we can talk about terrain got in partitions and with changes after Congress of Vienna (with for example Kraków that was a republic untill the annexation by Austria 1846, we can call it somewhat independent, but in reality it was still under Austrian influence and was dependant on Austria). When we talk about Kingdom of Poland - there was entity like this and it was third partition land of Prussia and Austria combined (so Grand Duchy of Warsaw created by Napoleon). It was created at the time of Congress of Vienna (1815). Kingdom of Poland wasn't fully a country though as it was given to Tzar of Russia - he would become king and the land would be in personal union with Russian Empire. But at the time of 1915 Kingdom of Poland didn't exist for a long time - I don't want to talk to much, so I will skip some parts. It was already part of Russia and was also renamed, becouse Kingdom of Poland wasn't seen warmly by russian goverment after many events and slowly renaming it to Kraj Nadwiślański (Priwislinskij kraj) as to get rid of part of polish nationality. Hope I added some context there and sorry if it seems long, but as many things it's complicated matter.
@lordjim3109
6 ай бұрын
@@ozyrysozi6186 If a country is occupied by the enemy forces doesn`t mean this country doesn`t exist. If you are in a gulag, for example, it doesn`t mean you don`t exist, does it. It was a dream of Russian and German occupiers of Poland that Poland would never exist, so what you are saying is very much along the lines of Putin`s propaganda.And this ridiculous lecturing tone is really annoying. Are you a Russian troll?
@ozyrysozi6186
6 ай бұрын
@@lordjim3109 I was agreeing with you about missleading title, but what I was also saying that Poland as a country on the map - didn't exist untill 1918. Same could be said about Czechia - there was no country on the map, but that doesn't mean there were no Chechs. So I never claimed that there was no national identity of Poles as it was very strong - they lived in partitioned parts, emigrated to many countries and of course some were sent to Siberia, forced to move to other places, etc., but they still fought for independent Poland (in different ways). As for the the rest of my message I wanted to add some context, guess I made a mistake there.
@lordjim3109
6 ай бұрын
@@ozyrysozi6186 Ok, I get it. Your intentions were good. No hurt feelings, ok? Peace.
@ozyrysozi6186
6 ай бұрын
@@lordjim3109 I don't use much of my feelings in this discussion, so no worries there. Just wanted to comment and also point out that saying occupation might be missleading. As the situation and reality was much more complicated, as it is with most of history. And also I was curious where the discussion might lead.
@spyczech
6 ай бұрын
"most workers signed up voluntarily" 23:45
@spyczech
6 ай бұрын
28:30 exporting food from a hungry country, kind of soft pedalling that. "sensible" policies you say in next sentence
@Kiritanpo_Nabe
6 ай бұрын
I wondered a month ago, why is there nothing on yt about Poland during ww1... 🤔
@sliftyy
7 ай бұрын
You're my favourite historytuber!
@SirManateee
7 ай бұрын
@paulmattt
6 ай бұрын
Kingdom of Poland already was using the Gregorian Calendar.
@vulpix3783
6 ай бұрын
Absolutely amazing Video!! Thanks a lot! Greetings from Poland!!
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