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What exactly do you mean? Of course, Wagenknecht tries to appeal to voters who formerly were not aligned with the Linke but I seriously doubt that Wagenknecht tries to appeal to officers.

@michaelfreiherr Didn't the section in the video refer to the fact that Adolf Hitler wanted to serve both right and left extremists? Because that's what I was referring to with Wagenknecht .

@@osaftkiller6991 Yes, it did. How do you think Wagenknecht tries to serve to the right, too? I do not follow BSW very closely so when I read in the media that she is trying to draw from the right, I just assumed it is the usual bs.

And failed. Barely over 5% in the polls.

Thank you! I thought about doing German content. The fun part is research. Writing the script, creating the visuals, and record the audio is very time consuming and annoying. I would have to do everything twice. Maybe I will try the Eugen Richter video some time and see how it goes.

At least the perception of Versailles had a big impact on Germany. However, every party opposed Versaille, some just as strong as the NSDAP. So this alone cannot be the explanation for the rise of the Nazis. The point about the Dolckstoßlegende is a good one! I never considered that the Socialist's eagerness for revolution played a big role in that.

@michaelfreiherr In one of the surveys done after the war in 1950 of 1000 people as to what they believed was the main reason why Hitler got into power. Less than 9% of the surveyed Germans answered with the Treaty of Versailles and "national humiliation" being the main reason. While 32% claimed that the main reason was unemployment and the economic crisis, 28% claimed that the "good will toward the people" and their party programme was the main reason.

@@celestialoof6346 "good will" is interesting. I wonder which signals exactly people took to mean that.

@michaelfreiherr From what I know from my research as to what the National Socialists believed, I presume this is to mean that these 28% saw a genuine attempt by the National Socialists to better the situation for Germany. Be it through social, economic or cultural legislation.

@@celestialoof6346 I understand that but I meant the concrete actions. Was it "We want the colonies back" or "We introduce mandatory insurance", for example?

Diese Beschreibung in ihrer Einfachheit bezweifle ich sehr stark. Natürlich spielt Versailles eine Rolle, doch ist es alleine nicht ausreichend. Jede andere Partei hatte ein Problem mit dem Vertrag, manche nicht weniger als die Nazis. Außerdem habe ich auch Quellen gehört, dass Versailles und die nachfolgenden Anpassungen eigentlich relativ lax waren, aber dazu muss ich mir erst noch ein Bild machen.

Locally, the rise started before the crisis of 1929. So it was not a purely economic issue. There must have been some cultural shift. Falter hints at something like that but provides no details our sources whatsoever. There definitely a general trend towards socialism, furthered by the war, on the one hand but also being afraid of full blown communism.

@michaelfreiherr When approximately did the National Socialists start to gain support locally? It surely must have been after 1928, since in the election they only got 2,6%, the lowest of their election turnouts. My guess is that they were widely known previously despite their relatively small size but then the Depression made people turn to them in 1930.

I have read little of Bastiat and know nothing about his personality. Any recommendations? I guess Richter would have been able to role straight over you like a train if he disliked you.

Hi, thank you for the nice words! I have no plans on doing videos about the minor parties. I currently try to better understand the general political dynamics of Weimar Germany and the minor parties seem too irrelevant right now. Also, I am not sure about the quality of the sources. Even with the SPD it was tough to find specific books.

​@michaelfreiherr ??? 1) You seem to use academic publications and primary sources. That's by no means a poor quality, let alone for UA-cam. And I appreciate very much that you allow people who don't speak German (like me) to get a peek into them. 2) You go for the juicy nitty-gritty details, demonstrating policies these parties actually stand for and what they did, instead of hiding behind vague nonsense. Even if it's not all the details that there are (and I don't think that anyone watches a 30-min believes it's all there is) it's still much more than I can learn anywhere for free - a dish that the world could use much more of. So good luck with whatever you are working on, and thanks again for the video.

What makes you say that? At least at the point in time when the Reichsbank printed the respective note, they must have bought the paper for less than the value they printed of it. Of course, when in circulation, the papermark quickly lost value and had enormous destructive power on top. In its use it lost all value just like when someone uses chemicals to blow up a perfectly working energy plant.

Well, the DVP had a good part of nationalism mixed into their ideology. This probably came from the old national liberals. For these, nationalism was first, liberalism second at best. I don't see that with the FDP at all. Therefore, I had to pick the only party in Germany that has some nationalism left, therefore the AfD.

DVP would be a Mix of Bündnis Deutschland und Freie Wähler..

@@paulsevenitz616 Both parties are hardly noteworthy and so I did not use them for comparison. The Freie Wähler differ much from region to region. Bündnis Deutschland could come relatively close. Of course, all of the comparisons can be discussed heavily.

@michaelfreiherr another topic of discussion would be ..how a civilized right (like maybe the Bündnis D, or FW) could be made more popular in germany so that it can gain votes from some moderate AfD voters and be an accetable Option for coalitions being not more right than an ECR Party would be..

@@paulsevenitz616 That is an extremely difficult question above my paygrade. I think it starts with the fact that "right" lost any meaning. Even traditional "right" parties like the CDU are on the center-"left" now. The AfD is filling this gap, for better or worse.

Yeah, finding symbols from minor parties back then is tough. I picked it because most of the commies during the Weimar period were basically a copy of the Russian Soviets. The KPD's symbols, for example, can hardly be distinguished from those of their Russian comrades.

Of course, you are right. Thank you!

Besten Dank!

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This comment is so imprecise I do not even know what to make of it

@@michaelfreiherr says the Jew

When X is your source

​​@@Atom_gunAntisemit. And thats NOT the main reason, they voted for the NSDAP. They wanted hitler because he promised short improvement of germanys situation in that time. In earlier times, only 2% voted them, because they were to extremist. Beside the german nationalist peoples party also were kinda antisemitistic, which was a coaliton partner in the government of 1933.

I have to ask for patience. We will find out from which parties the NSDAP drew their voters in the course of this series.

@@michaelfreiherr rural small business was the backbone of their grassroots support.

@@descieuxx We will take a very close look at this issue.

the middle class

@@toxicavenger-oz6tr common thesis, but I do not want to spoil anything

Well, whenever a question pops in my head, I try to find some answers. When I think it could be interesting for others, too, I make a video, of course, only after taking time constraints into account.

@@michaelfreiherrit was a good overview video.

@@theculturedjinni Thank you!

Sorry for answering so late. I didn't get any notification about your comment. I have not read anything about "holding the families hostage". The only thing that comes close to that is that if one soldier deserted, a relative would be drafted in his place. If there was none, someone from the soldier's village would be forced into the military. Often, a son of the mayor would be on top of the list to motivate the local dignitaries to recapture the escapee if he tried to return home. Of course, this only worked during the conscripting and training phase. I do not think, there was much pressure on the families when the conscript had already arrived in the Americas.

Thank you so much!

Have to watch it some day. Thank you. Wired! I was sure I had replied to you months ago but it seems, it did not happen.

Seume was in Ziegenhain. Seems at least this part of his story could be true. Did I miss the link? It would be interesting!

@@michaelfreiherr Hello Michael, I don't think links are accepted here. If you enter Lagis-Hessen you will come to the archive. Best regards

To middle and western Europe Devshirme was a distance thing happening to other people. Of course, hardly anyone there remembers it. Glad you appreciate my videos! Feel free to share and spread the knowledge!

Good or bad thing? ;) Do you know why your ancestor stayed in America? Was he taken prisoner? Did he desert? Or was he settled in Canada by the British?

Thank you! I am unable to come up why with an explanation why this book is hardly known. Maybe because it not exactly well written or simply for ideological reason.

Had to look up what you meant. The comparison is not wrong but I think this particular Tenno was much more successful than the Sultan.

The Sultan's message probably was meant as a serious demand. However, to the modern mind it sounds very sarcastic or, simply put, crazy.

@@michaelfreiherr indeed.

Thank you! Actually, I am currently in the process of gathering a lot of literature for my next video. The topic will be in a highly competitive niche, so I am not sure about the success of the video. I am just following my own interests.

Greetings to Prague and thank you for your advice! I will produce videos on topics in which I am interested only. For example, I am not generally interested in the recounting of battles unless they are truly exceptional. Therefore, I will never make a video that reenacts a random battle In this sense, my channel will stay unique. However, bad view counts also tell me that some things about my videos could be improved, and that I should make the effort to find out where my videos lack. If, let's say only seven people watch a video (this has happened) it also tells me that I am wasting my time and energy. I promise you, I do not intend to change the character of my channel but try to find and remove aspects that lack quality.

Yeah, no glorious battles, no big conquests not even a real victor. Also, there is not very much literature available on this topic. This war has been overshadowed by the following wars of the coalitions.

@@michaelfreiherr Well I find regular politics like this as interesting as the big wars. At some point you've heard about all the big ones and have to get into the details to find interesting stuff. Personally I was going mad trying to find out why the Austrians didn't manage to get Bavaria after reading a throw-away sentence about Joseph II failing to make the exchange in a larger work about his life.

Yes, and this small detail adds so much to the following bigger wars. Austria's attempts on Bavaria were part of every war they fought against the French.@@Zanator1

@@michaelfreiherr Especially since you can gain so much understanding of how politics work from these smaller events. How sometimes deals make all the sense in the world and yet fail because of bad communication or timing or mistakes.

I know it! If I remember correctly, it was a slightly different version which I could not find anywhere in the literature. When I saw that, I heard the Doctor talking. This made it particularly funny.

Very kind of you. I will continue to upload, just not as many as before.

Completely agree.

Never underestimate Austria's ability to screw things up. I say this as an Austrian. For example, the Empire triggered WW1, although Europe would have found an alternative starting point for their useless slaughter. There was a reason why Austria fell way behind Prussia and maybe it being a big and tough to control Empire was part of it.

Agreed!

You can call me many things, but I am certainly not a Prussian fanboy. Actually, I think Prussia had a big part in "destroying" Germany. In most wars or battles you will find me on one side and one side only: rooting for the average grunt on the ground to have a peaceful and satisfying life while I do not care about the fate of Frederick, Jospeh and others like them at all.

You don't think Napoleon (or France in general) would just have taken an independent Belgium without even saying thank you?

It did make a lot of sense ... for Austria, that is. And that is why it made no sense at all to the other parties involved. Although the exchange would have constituted a power shift, considering that Bavaria was little more than an Austrian puppet during the Coalition Wars until 1806, I am not sure if the impact of the exchange would have been that great. Napoleon would have just taken it away from Austria like he did with Tyrolia and given it to a Wittelsbacher loyal to the French Empire. However, we cannot know what would have happend when peace returned.

You mean the ravaging of Saxony? In the end it does not matter whose fault the war was. The local population experienced the Prussian plundering and this stayed in their collective memory.

Mainly the "everyone lived happily ever after. Only, no." and the "He immediately set his minions to work" bits.

Saxony was certainly unhappily situated between Austria and Prussia. Peculiar how Eastern HRE was so much less fragmented than western HRE. I suppose early HRE Emperors wanted to keep nobility who bordered the slavs and magyars to retain large duchies and margraviates so they could raise comparibly large armies in times of outside threat. Or maybe those duchies were poorly populated and yielded low revenue so that they would become undesirable if divided up for the sake of rewarding loyal supporters.

That's very nice of you. We will see. Surprisingly, I gained a lot of subscribers in the two months I did not upload any new videos.

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How dare you question the decisions of his most Christian majesty Francis I! 🤣

Thank you very much!!!! In english, a superfluous e at the end of a word is one of my most common mistakes.

The story adds to the picture of the cossacks as rugged frontiersmen. Nevertheless, it probably is just propaganda, nothing more.😥

Did you spot someone looking like Schwarzenegger in the painting? I am not sure what you mean.

@@michaelfreiherr the voice

@@AngloSaxon1 did not realize that

​@@michaelfreiherrI believe he was referring to your strong German accent

I am aware of my accent but please tell me I do not sound like Schwarzenegger. @@IncitatusConsul 🤣

It seems like UA-cam did not post my answer.. Would you be willing to elaborate a little bit more on your points? 1) What exactly do you mean by "too dry"? Is it the "voice acting" or am I presenting to much data? In my newer videos I tried to add some jokes and switch to a more meme-like presentation. Did that work out? 2) Im am considering the option of adding sound elements. What do you personally prefer? Low-level music in the background of the main audio track or some seconds of music between the segments of each video. I am definitely going to switch my style to story telling instead of presentation.