I am Prussian. My Oma came from Poland. She spoke German. They owned lands and had polish tenants who farmed sections of the land. Great Opa fought for the Wehrmacht. He was captured by the soviets and imprisoned for 3-5 years as a reparations worker. The entire family moved to Canada in the mid 50s. My great uncle told me his first beer was at 10 years old to celebrate when his dad (great opa) secured their customs documents to leave Germany and come to Canada. We are lucky to be here thanks to their sacrifices.
The Prussians were conquered by the Teutonic order and replaced between 1200 and 1500 A.D. The Ordenstaadt of Prussia is not the same as the Prussian people.
Sounds like your Oma and Opa were Nazis... fought for Wehrmacht.... captured by soviets... went to a rehabilitation camp... and now in Canada.... where 1/3rd of the Nazis are still hiding and the Govt. refuses to release their list.
Very annoyed that I got no notification of this, I was looking forward to tuning in. In any case, you've been on fire as of late AM, as is to be expected.
Prussia's greatest political leader of all times Otto von Bismarck once wrote "Even the most favorable outcome of the war will never lead to the disintegration of Russia, which is supported by millions of believers of the Russians of the Greek confession. The latter, even if they are separated as a result of international treaties, will reunite with each other as quickly as separated drops of mercury find their way to each other. This indestructible State of the Russian nation is strong by its climate, its spaces and its simplicity, as well as through the awareness of the need for constant protection of its borders. This State, even after complete defeat, will remain our creation, an enemy seeking revenge, as we have in the case of today's France in the West. This would create a situation of constant tension for the future, which we will be forced to assume if Russia decides to attack us or Austria. But I am not ready to assume this responsibility and be the initiator creating such a situation ourselves." If only his wise words were heeded by his successors, Prussia would still be intact.
He also wrote this: "Hit the Poles so hard that they despair of their life; I have full sympathy for their condition, but if we want to survive we can only exterminate them". Damn prophet!😂
Southern Germany retains a bit of its identity, specifically in Bavaria. Speaking as a resident of the also completely extirpated former Kingdom of Hannover, it is rather sobering to think of what we have lost, yet that is the German peculiarity of nationbuilding, after all Prussia all but dominated the "lesser" German kingdoms quite a bit.
@@homoe7976 I pray that Europe as a whole reconvert to the True Faith and the Kingdom of Hannover, together with all other German Kingdoms, Principalities and Grand-Duchies, get restored for the sake of their people and the Glory of God in the Highest! 🥰🙏
Isn't western Germany including Bavaria the main dumping ground for all the 3rd worlders the CDU and SPD have been importing for the past 25 years? I'm surprised that identity is still present
Prussian domination is a myth. How were Saxony, Württemberg and Bavaria "lesser" kingdoms when they had their own railways, postal services and independent armies during peace-time? German soldiers and officials swore allegiance not just to the emperor but also to their state's monarch. The Bundesrat, the representative organ of the 25 German states, allotted only 17 out of 43 seats (39%) to Prussia despite it making up 65% i.e. two-thirds of the country's territory and population. Every single one of the 25 states had its own parliament/diet with the power to pass its own state laws. Even Welfen and Wettiner separatists were allowed to send MPs to the imperial diet. So where, pray tell me, is the Prussian domination?
Really fantastic introduction to Prussian history for me beyond the stereotypes and cliches. Thank you very much for this. I'm particularly interested in the idea of Prussian culture as such. It reminded me of an argument with a fellow American in a small East Asian country. He insisted that America had no culture, as simple as that. Although one can understand this as a polemical point with some merit, he seemed to take this quite literally. It was obvious to me at the time that he was wrong and 20 years of living abroad has only made this more obvious to me. The issue, I think, is that he took his left of center American values and tastes for granted, as universals. And to skip ahead, I wonder if that is not to some degree the case for the way Prussian culture has been viewed. We have imbibed a lot of Prussian culture but having adopted it, claimed it's not Prussian but human.
Tyvm Gents! As Lithuanian, I find this deconstruction very valuable and tbh, was looking for similar analysis of Prussia's demise recently for quite a while. Cheers!
@3y6ac Hey. My girlfriend was born in plungé. And she speaks the samogithian dialect. Could she have some Prussian blood? I'm trying to understand Lithuania
This episode was full of amazing research and history. I’m going to have to listen to it a couple more times because so much of it is over my head. As an American we were never taught about Prussia in school. At least not enough to have any idea about what it encompassed and how it fit into the world stage back in its day. So learning about it as an introduction is like starting from scratch. There is so much to take in. Based on the current state of the world today and knowing what I know about American involvement in ww1&2. It’s pretty clear that the loss of Prussia and the destruction of Germany has sent the very direction of humankind. Into what feels like a dystopian death spiral. It’s even worse knowing that the occupied US govt played a major role in the Prussian/german destruction even back in those days.
@@simonestreeter1518 You spelled concise wrong. I'll rephrase since it went over your head. You can be on the losing side of a conflict once and recover. Being on the losing side twice in a span of less than 30 years, not so much. Especially whenever the opposing belligerents where the same from the previous conflict. In other words, this class was so determined they didn't lose the previous war, they left no doubt of it the second time around.
Canada is doing just fine, it's a very comfortable place to live in, as soon as we get a respectable PM, I'm sure we'll be respected again, a couple of months maybe. Come visit, you'll see, we love foreigns, just not too long hey!
Awesome video, gents. It's quite thorough. One thing to note is that, strictly speaking, German Prussia was more of a state than a nation (nation being a people) while the Baltic Old Prussians were more of a nation, which was destroyed and assimilated.
It’s interesting I’m seeing a lot of people say Prussia is a Germanized Slavic people and this is entirely incorrect. Prussians were originally closer related to the Baltic territories (who are their own ethnically and linguistically distinct) and were heavily influenced later by the Teutonic order and further germanization, that being said, I would not consider them Slavic peoples. Ask yourself, are Baltic countries Slavic? Is Finland Slavic? I would say no. Great video and discussion.
@@fpsKOLAWhat makes Slavs, Slavs but the language? People in some parts of Russia, Ukraine are the same as in the Baltics, even as many in Germany and Netherlands. There is no difference to the people from Macedonia for example and the people in France. My point is that the genes of the white people are pretty much the same. We have the northeners and baltics which are blondish, we have Central European, Western European and Balkan which are black, brown haired with the same white ten and we have the Southeners which are a bit of bronze skined. And that is it. Historicaly many parts of Europe were Celtic and spoke same language. So this division we are making today is mostly by language and borders which are established in the 19th to 20th century...
Austrians were Germanised Celts. And anyway, in terms of physical traits and capabilities, the fact that they were high Aryan concentration Baltic Sea peoples is far more important than whichever language they spoke. Poles are smarter than Bulgarians, Prussians smarter than Bavarians, Piedmontese smarter than Sicilians etc
@ yes Austria was a Roman province so you had a bunch of Latin settlers there as well before the Slavic migration into the area. East Germany is very evenly mixed where about half of the surnames are of Slavic origins and the other half Germanic.
@ the Old Prussians were Baltic yes, but I am talking about Greater Prussia which is east of the Elbe and stretches over the Oder towards the Vistula. That territory is mix of Slavs & Germans with no Balts since the Balts live east of the Vistula in what is commonly referred to as East Prussia.
It would be interesting to watch a stream about the fall of the Spanish Empire and the so-called wars of independence of Latin American countries from a reactionary (I supposed it would be pro-Spanish) position.
One big theme across that history is that Bolivar and other revolutionaries envisioned a United Latin America, and asking why that didn’t happen will open up separate rabbit holes explaining how the various nations as we know them today were formed.
in case you didn't know; its been done already,even in Span ish speaking historians, both iberian and american. Their positions make it clear that the independence wars were really a civil war between royalists and rich merchant free-masons. Most of the soldiers in the "royalist" army were native people. Even Native Noblemen supported the royalist cause because the Spanish King had granted them privileges and autonomoy. Under the liberalist regimes- the natives got all their identity and lands wiped out.
In Mexico at least, the criollo reactionaries/royalists actually were the ones who ultimately achieved independence, even offering the crown to the Spanish King following the mutiny at Cadiz and liberalization of Spain. Of course he rejected it, which led to instead try to achieve something akin to what the United States had. The original independence movement which included people from all classes and ethnic groups had all but fizzled out by the end, it was wholly hijacked by the reactionary wealthy Americas-born Spaniards.
@Shook1917 no it has not and no one cares lol. Pali apologists are the most annoying demographic on the Internet. They're like Indians, always present but never invited. Not to say Israel is any better, neither of them are good
don’t understand why German of today are so weird . Don’t they know that their entire dna is Russian and Irish and Italian form the soldiers of occupation? My friend did random dna and found Slavic dna in 70% of Germans who volunteered and all germans look extremely Russian , they don’t have the German Nordic features of World War Two soldiers . Many German have both grandfathers and great grandfathers who were Russian or Italian American soldiers . The Russians turned your country into a Russian country with your entire population looking Russian with Russian soldiers as fathers and grandfathers. Every single German I see look Mongolian and Russian to me. None of them look like the Germans of world war 2. 😢
@@oooshafiqooo Lot of German colonies and towns in the south, and in general the southern cone has strong european influence. Germany will rise again, for we share the same archetype of the phoenix. deutschland uber alles.
Citys like Pomerode and São João do Oeste in Santa Catarina (State) Brazil... also Hunsrückisch is a German dialect spoken in the Hunsrück region, in southwestern Germany, being the dialect that gave rise to the Hunsrik language spoken in the Brazilian states of Santa Catarina, Rio Grande do Sul, Paraná and Espírito Santo, and which has a strong influence from Portuguese .
The Treaty of Versailles is overblown. Territorially, Germany's losses were moderate and not unreasonable. What made the treaty stink was the war reparations, and the hypocrisy of proclaiming the 14 points and "self-determination" while denying Germany her land.
@@ndalum75 100% agree with you. Germany could have overturn its lost territories in the future especially its former eastern territories but not its former western territories. It was the war reparations and the war guilt that made the ToV harsh
Versailles was barely a slap on the wrist compared to Trianon for Hungary or Sèvres for the Ottomans. If anything this timeline's bad guy should have been a Székely painter.
My grandfather on my mother's side Prussian soldier in World War I... After the war he settled in a farming community in eastern Poland now Western Ukraine next to the Slivka River
I’d love to hear more about him what he said about his heritage and how he made his life in the region possible with his background… Must not have been easy… Do tell darling…
Strange sentiment in comments: intellectually opposing the Prussians or the Germans to imaginary "Slavs". We are separate people; Poles, Czechs, Muscovites, Slovaks being lumped into one sack. It doesn't work that way. For example, for the majority of its history, Prussia was an ally of Muscovy, united in their hatred of Poland. Czechs became fully germanised and had to revive their own language from scratch in the 19th century. Yet, at the end, the outcome for Prussia was the same across this imaginary Slavorum.
I'm pretty sure these people won't consider Russia to be Slavic, I guess that makes then Finno-Germans or something, I hate to think what it makes the rest of the Slavs, Ossetian maybe.
Slavs are the ones that started this little internet fight by constantly demonizing one of the greatest nations in Europan history ( The Prussia of Frederick the Great and Bismarck ). Like I said in another comment if Poland has the right to exist then so does Prussia ( I'm not even talking about an independent Prussian nation simply existing as a province of greater Germany would be good enough ).
Good Video. From a Polish point of view Prussia was carved out of Polish Commonwealth. The Polish population were second class citizens In the early years under Prussian rule. Then when Bismark came along, there was a policy of ethnic cleansing of the Poles, with a further influx of Germans. After WW2 the territory’s become OR were returned to Poland. In 1989 the Poles had organised free elections (Gdańsk shipyards) in August 1989. Which led to fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989. I have been recently to the areas that once were Prussian - and they are doing very well economically. Gdańsk and Gdynia are now the biggest ports on the Baltic. Wealth is coming back. Sorry my English is not my first language .
There was no ethnic cleansing of Poles in Prussia, forcing the Polish minority to speak German is no more tyrannical than what Napoleon did in France ( aka forcing all the different populations in France to speak French and adopt the main French culture ).
16:44 "coherent territorial identity" what is that in case of Prussia, what year are you talking about? Prussia was the patchwork of lands that were conquered and which Prussia wanted to digest. When Prussia annexed the third Partition of Poland Prussian authorities sent 10000 biurocrats to control new territory.
22:21 Prussian state under Bismarck entered anti-catholic Kulturkampf madness that was at the end counter-productive, strengthening Catholic population (in the West and in the East)
22:31 Prussian Industrialization - you committed important event. How Prussia got those territories that: 1. became the heart of Industrialization 2. Were bordering France (how convenient:) ) Can you tell which country promoted this idea during negotiations in Vienna ending in 1815. This country thought that it is ok to feed the beast if at that time the beast is not eating them. But the beast is the beast: Prussian army agressively attacks - whether this is XVIII, XIX or XX century.
24:16 "the Polish minority"... After the 3rd Partition of Poland Prussia became the country with Catholic majority. And as I wrote earlier history of Prussia and later Germany is the history of self-generated problems and at the end self-inflicted destruction.
At 1:34:00, AM & Marcus get to the Red Army reaching Prussia's borders - I encourage all viewers to read about the Nemmersdorf Massacre which the Red Army engaged in during its first 48 hours on Prussian soil. All of the atrocities committed were witnessed and or verified by neutral third party observers such as those from the Red Cross or neutral nations like Switzerland, Sweden & Spain. Hundreds of civilians were murdered, including several dozen French/Belgian POWs who were working as farm hands in the area and tried protecting local women from Soviet sexual assaults. The German army was able to successfully counter attack and retake Nemmersdorf for a brief period in time which is how all of this was discovered and brought to light.
Interesting info at 1:37.00, as I have a globe made in Spain sometime mid 20th century, which shows a curious hatched area to the east of Germany extending along the Baltic coast. Always wondered what this signified.
1938 A. H was insisting on the Corridor for connection Eastern Prussia with West Prussia Polish Government didint agree And Soon we had aggression 1 September 1939.
The Danzing corridor was not the real issue - since 1934 Hitler tried to convince Poles to join Germany in conquering Russia - he needed 100 Polish divisions to do the job . In early 1939 Poland ( Foreign Minister Jozef Beck ) definitely said NO . That caused Hitlers fury as Polish refusal derailed his life dream to colonize Russia . The true cause of the WWII was the German desire to colonize Russia , Hitler stated : “ Russia is our Africa , Russians are our Negros “ . Poland standing up to the German aggression ( “ First to Fight “ ) in September 1939 saved Russia from being a German colony and its Russians being its “ Negros”. Pozdrawiam.
Since 1930 Polish nationalists were scheming to steal all German land east of the Oder-Neisse line, unfortunately as a result of the post war German genocide they had their wish granted.
9:55 Ha, ha "Growth of Brandenburg-Prussia..." "Acquisitions"... A bit of understatement. Dr. Robert Citino's shortest summary of Prussian(German) history: they believed they can bite off more than they can chew."
@@marylamb1407 That's true, but I would also argue it's a pagan tendency. On one end you have the Roman triumph procession where they would humiliate captured enemy leaders and boast about the loot. This was known as Spolia Optima, or "rich spoils". On the other end you have the paganism of the Aztecs which was vastly more brutal and ubiquitous in civilian life. The Ancient Romans already considered human sacrifice to be barbaric. They would make "due" by sacrificing sheep, pigs, bulls, rabbits, chickens. The Roman ritual of Suoavetaurillia is a prime example, but human sacrifice was never normalized. However the soldiers would offer the blood of their slain enemies to Mars. Religious loophole of the time I guess, war provided enough shedding of human blood.
@@hermeticchonk371 Thank you for your reply. I take your point. With the exception of Carthage, neither Rome or the German tribes tried to destroyed all aspects of the conquered peoples. They generally incorporated and blended with them. There existed a respect for the enemy and not a psychopathic hatred.
France didn't enjoy the war they declared 1870-71 and held a grudge. Though, civilization as a whole greatly suffered from the turmoil of the events that would lead to the Great War and the inter-war years. Socialism and Anarchism tore through the fabric of highly evolved systems that had built and maintained the advanced world; Without those systems, not just the British Empire, but all of the globe began an [unmanaged] [graceful?] decline. Varus, give me back my Archduke Ferdinands!
@@TheRichestManInBabylon-s7d Ask the Allies that question, they are the ones that killed The German Empire and replaced it with the disgusting Weimar Republic.
Growing up in limburg , Netherlands , where we speak a German dialect , my mother used to say "zack zack saed dur preus" when we told to hurry or work harder
I would love if AM could do a video on Crown Prince Frederick III and if he didn’t have throat cancer. Frederick William IV is non-existent in the history of Germany and Prussia, don’t think I’ve seen any English biography on him.
@@zafarahmed3468Crown Prince Frederick III was married to one of Queen Victoria’s daughters. Is that correct? Was it possible he didn’t have throat cancer? I don’t know much about Frederick William IV or how long he reigned. I think he died around the time of the American Civil War in 1862-1863, somewhere around that time period. I believe he had no children so his younger brother Wilhelm succeeded him.
@@MichaelTreadwell-jo9bi Yes he was. He was married to Princess Victoria. Bismarck didn’t not like her, he thought she was a spy for the English and put liberal ideas into the Crown Prince. It is said that Queen Victoria was jealous when her daughter became Empress of Germany since she couldn’t gain the title of empress yet (she would became empress of India in 1877). Also a while ago I was at Windsor Castle and a bust of Frederick III was there. I’ve read that he was a favourite of Queen Victoria. As for Frederick William IV, I haven’t read any English biography of him (probably some in German). He is known for his fascination with German nationalism but in a medieval way where all the other kings would submit to Prussian leadership like the electors of the HRE would do to the emperor. You can see this in how Prussia tried to unite Germany through the Erfurt Union. He famously rejected the German crown from Frankfurt as he didn’t want a crown from the gutter implying he believed in divine right of kings. I’ve seen the term romanticist being used for him
@@zafarahmed3468Frederick William IV by David E. Barclay. I have uploaded it to the archive. Go to the I.A. and search for "David E. Barclay" (you must include the quotation marks).
11:27 ..."one nation if you can call it that.." No, it makes no sense to call it nation. What nation is that? Are you claiming that there was one nation living in Bra-Prussia?
Drang nach osten was slightly reversed, by far not fully. Check the history of Ruegen island...Pomern, Berlin, Brandenburg, Silesia, the Sorbs, Obotrites etc.
@@Julian-d1u yes but this guy is arguing that germany has some kind of evil want to expand eastwords even though the slavs were the first ones to kick out the germanic tribes. Im just proving him wrong by employing your argument.
“Zucht und Ordnung”, so ist mein Opi aufgewachsen. A typical Prussian Army virtue what they and their families lived for. Because he was 1.90 meter tall, he was in the Kaiser’s Guard Regiment. Now the army is full of “woke” creatures lol 😜
No, Prussia certainly has not been rehabilitated. In fact, the attempts at execution continue to bleed over into more and more ideas and concepts embraced by historical Germanic culture. Hence my interest in this video, because a person paying attention cannot miss it. How many times and ways can you work the N word into anything you don't like? How many ways can you mock and denigrate the mere concepts of 'honour' or 'duty' or, God forbid 'merit'?
When You talk about restoring historical borders, please keep in mind that everything east of Magdeburg was slavic tribes. Centuries of genocidal wars, tribe after tribe annihilated, frontier moved further east, town after town settled, all that jazz.. Then why not restore slavic reach all the way up to Brema? Its historically slavic lands, archeology is clear about that. Lets restore Astrasia and Saxony instead, and leave Prussia to lithuanians for re-baltization! Then its just Normandy restored and given back to Norwegians, Croatia restored back to Turkiye, England finally back to Italy, and ofc Ukraine restored to swedish colony, while pagan Italians from christian Greece will return to motherland in Egypt. After that Hungary will apologise to everyone and straight up go back to Mongolia, which restored Golden Horde includes Ukraine. Then we will have proper, ethically and morally just, wound-healing, sensible and logical historical restoration... Great discusion overall 💯👍
15:14 you are wrong: "this idea of Prussia" was attack, subdue, annex, exploit and again attack. This is, what you call, "a core identity" of Dutchy of Prussia. So you should use the word self-extintion, self-destruction... And with this basic observation it is easier to understand why "most of these territories are now" -you forgot to ad BACK - "part of Poland".
@@zk1919 Prussia and Russia brought civilisation to the wild polish tribes. To this very day Poland is awfully ungrateful. Prussia may be gone but at least Russia will one day collect this debt.
Lets not forget the prussian state was a land grab via a religious order under dubious rational. The whole notion was a personal effort not a tribe or village ala Kiev or Muscovy. So Prussia is more akin to Antioch that survived instead of going away centuries earlier
@@mareknowack6222 Latin and Christianity came to the Poles from the Czechs. Your statement is more about thinly veiled bellicosity than history. Sadly, all too typical.
@@mareknowack6222I don’t know about that. Stalin was not exactly kind to the Poles especially when he ordered the executions of Polish officers confined in Soviet POW camps.
Prussia, Austria-Hungary, Rhodesia, Constantinople, South Africa, Roman Africa and Middle East etc Our people have suffered great losses over the last two thousand years, but I'm certain we will survive this current anti-white age, we have to, the future of our descendants depends on it.
Bismarck is referred to as the Iron Chancellor. However, didn’t Bismarck have serious disagreements with the Prussian general Moltke? Didn’t Bismarck actually prevent Moltke from taking even more territory from France?
Bismarck literally orchestrated the war or was one of the biggest influencers in its outbreak. It’s not a saving grace to be like , no, don’t make a bigger mess than I wanted
Bismarck did have a serious disagreement with Wilhelm and the General Military Staff over the 1866 Austrian Peace. The King and the military wanted to march on Vienna and annex parts of Bohemia but Bismarck correctly knew that this would bring about the European powers to intervene. In the end, he won the disagreement with the Crown Prince Frederick agreeing with him.
@@MichaelTreadwell-jo9bi He was dismissed by Wilhelm II. But at that time, Bismarck had no support all his allies were retired or passed away. Out with the old in with the new I guess you can say from Wilhelm II’s perspective. Foreign policy wise, Bismarck and Wilhelm were two different individuals. Bismarck wanted to maintain the 1871 status quo and not let the Reinsurance Treaty lapse while Wilhelm wanted to embark on Weltpolitik. Two completely opposing foreign policy views. Domestically, the new kaiser wanted to be loved by his fellow German population and this meant he wanted to push through bills that would improve social welfare. I’m not too familiar with the domestic situation but the two leaders had different views. I should mention Wihlem’s social policy would have affected Bismarck and his support from the Junker class.
@ To a limited degree, I suppose. Though, much of Sparta’s legacy is quite possibly myth making, whereas Prussia’s I think is somewhat less so. Prussia and the German empire it formed managed to create a pretty functional modern state with excellent industry, a burgeoning welfare system and literally the best army in the world at the time. It was a major player in science, philosophy, ect. On the flip side, it had moments of genuine brutality, that grimly foreshadowed the horrors of the 20th century. But, in the 19th century, that was largely yet to come. I have a lot more respect for the Prussia of Bismarck and Frederick III than that of the 1930s.
‘Love your neighbor as yourself. "There is no commandment greater than these.” And you failed, my Prussian neighbor. "...And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon’s that is dreaming, And the lamp-light o’er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor; And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted-nevermore!..."
Мы русские рождённые в четвертом поколении в Калининграде Кёнигсберге интересуемся древней историей нашего города а дети моих друзей из Берлина нет. Хотя их дедушки и бабушки из Кёнигсберга
@makutas-v261 how dumb you must be to assume sth like this about person you know nothing about? Dumb enough to believe Prussia was not militaristic country or what? I live on the old Prussian lands, don’t need to watch Netflix pseudo-documents to have my own opinions. You made the dumbest comment I have encountered in YT recently
@makutas-v261 how dumb you must be to assume sth like this about person you know nothing about? Dumb enough to believe Prussia was not militaristic country? I live on the old Prussian lands, don’t need to watch pseudo historic Netflix documentaries to have my own opinion. You made the dumbest comment I encountered on YT recently.
One hour in and lots of dates and maps and people and other interesting info. But what about what drove Prussians culturally? The artists, writers, playrights, sculptors and philosophers, etc. No mention, either, of leading scientists or engineers or businesmen. A State is so much more than its army and civil service and territorial gains. What was the inner landscape? Who was celebrating and promoting Prussian hegemony in terms of visuals, the language and thought? Or was it a construct without a heart? Without a soul? Totally devoid of a reason for existence beyond conquest and subjugation? (Unlikely I would think yet not impossible.)
Untill 1657 (Treaty Welawa-Bydgiszcz) Prussia was tenent-in-chief of Polish King. This Treaty left dependency of Prussia of Polish King. Now, signing of this Treaty was great mistake of Polish Diplomacy cause it was a reward for betreyal of its Polish Supremace! Yes, on the 6th December 1656 Prussia joined the Treaty of Randot (in fact the 1st partitition of Poland) against the Commonwelth (with Sweden, Rakoczy and so on). And Prussia inherited its Dutchy after the Teutonic Order in 1525 when Albreht Hohenzollern secularized the Order and become heridarity prince (during protestant refoemation). It was also mistake of Polish King Sisigmunt the Old who agreed for this secularization of its vassal - Poland grew a viper who partitioned it later on her own bosom. And again, the Order was brought 1227 by polish Prince Conrad of Masovia to fight pagans. Instead, it started to fight its Dominion and gained lands by tricks (it was conquered 1410 in famous battle in Grunwald). So let's see that Prussia from the beginning built its superpower on betreayl, deception, plundering and so on... "on the sand"... we must say JMJ+
Originally Prussians were baltic ethnicity. Starting from XIII century Tutonic Order forced rule over Prussians. Tutonic Order composed from Germanic, Burgundians, French and Spanish knights. The same time it was settled by Germanic settlers, Vallons, Dutch, Swedish and Scotish. After reformation it attracted more people from western europe. German language was main language was in use as it was language of ruling nobility. It was not strictly forced to speak in German. We cannot say about nationality as it was feudal system and they adopted rules of to whomever nobility vow allegiance. Rise of what we know as Prussian Empire was due to rise in power of house of Hohenzollern and through the competition with other dynasties. This subject is much more complex than simply concept of nationality and DNA analysis.
El revisionismo se extiende por todos los rincones de la Historia y hasta cierto punto es natural y necesario, pero creo que en esta larga plática sobre Prusia, abunda en demasiadas contradicciones, sobre todo en el rol jugado por los EEUU y Gran Bretaña, por muy fuerte que haya sido la antipatía, prejuicio y hasta odio que distintos líderes de gobierno sintieran hacia Prusia, la realidad de la expulsión y lo que ahora llamamos limpieza étnica no fue llevado a cabo por los aliados occidentales sino por el mismo gobierno Nazi, que inició las primeras y masivas evacuaciones de la población Alemana y en manera mucho más decisiva por Stalin, que ya desde 1941 había comenzado con las deportaciones forzadas de los Alemanes étnicos en territorio Soviético. La expulsión de la población Alemana al este la línea Oder-Neisse fue una idea que desde comienzos de la guerra, pero solo hasta finales del 44 que hablo de ella, Stalin traía en mente.
IM Polish i dont cry for restoration of Prussia The name is Pogan Tribe call Prussian which They conquer and Took their land They took this land through Crusade.from Pogan people...
Yes! But they were germanic pagans! pagan tribes, that IS, non-christian ones, from outside of the judeo-christian sphere of influence.. they were known as Cimbri/Cymber/Cimmers/Cimmerians/Tsimber/Cimmers/Semba.
@@Atok1111 Friend, they were the very own original germanic tribe, Thats why their enemies went to such a length tô erased them from history. Once again, the only people inhabiting the baltic Sea(which were known as germanicum Sea to the romans and b4 that as cimbricus Sea to even Elder ppls) were Germanics. Period.
As an American, my history education was extraordinarily light on Prussian history and anything to do with Napoleon and what his goals may have been. To that note, I read myself that Germans had a thing called a Hansacrstic League which acted like port merchant houses on the various ports of the Baltic. It seems Prussia was an agricultural hinterland for this league using poles and slavs and perhaps Baltic people especially anyone known to be pagan. Napoleon seemed to be targeting these leagues and I don't know, tried his way for Moscow....it's all history... What remains is the question of where these power brokers went, since trading was their profession, Teutonic knights who wanted coastline from the poles, Baltic dutchy - where did they go? They didn't just stop trading.... The other question that comes to mind is how these trading / merchant leagues oriented themselves to Jews, being generally merchants in foreign ports, or working in merchant houses that were liveries for oligarchs and nobles and wealthy holders. What was the Jewish experience like in Prussian + Hansecratic Northern Europe?
@@nigelhornberry8062Very interesting about Princess Sophie also known as Catherine the Great. She was not trusted by the Tsarina Elizabeth probably with good reason since she more than likely had Elizabeth’s heir Peter III murdered to get him out of the way so she could become the next empress. I had a feeling that she was German.
@@MichaelTreadwell-jo9bi the Romanovs and many German dynasties were close. Alexander I was outraged when Napoleon annexed Oldenburg, the ruler was Alexander’s brother-in-law.
My family is prussian/austrian. My grandparents had factories just west of Krakow as well land. Generational wealth. All taken by the soviets. I had one uncle do a little time for being SS. He was arrested by a platoon backed up by a Sherman tank. I had another uncle fight on all fronts. There are other family members who were in Germany's airborne. It's only a fluke how my family ended up in west Berlin.
The flight of Germans from east Prussia began well before the world wars. Germans in general were migrating westwards for better economic prospects. The Prussian government used various methods to reverse this "Ost Flug" but it all came to nothing. There was more work in the Rhine valley and the Americas, better living conditions, and political freedoms. The clock was ticking down on East Prussia from the moment of unification in 1870.
Greetings from Neustadt von Westpreussen🙋 Germans built us a railway, factory, many churches, schools and hospitals, landkreis neustadt will never forget you.
@@Julian-d1u I hate when they hide comments. Honestly I would have thought of Jews as the proverbial "scorpion". Prussia in contrast doesn't quite track for me.
What's bittersweet about this ? Prussia was one of Europe's greatest nations especially after the Napoleonic era, what happened in 1947 was a tragedy beyond words. Any Poles that feel satisfied about Prussia's demise are only thinking about this in a very small minded Bulldog nationalist sort of way, Europe will never recover from the tragedy of the World Wars with this kind of mentality.
@@CatnamedMittens Russia was the main player in every single partition of Poland, Prussia just tagged along because the alternative would be to allow Russia to grow even bigger and stronger, I don't need to tell you why that would have been a terrible thing for everyone else.
Mayby I miss something but going through your playlist of such great history topics about my two favorite parts of the world which are actually one part which would be Germany and Russia because they are my two favorite countries at least it was Germany and now it's Russia. But anyways I did not see the name of Russia's greatest monarch Catherine anywhere you know the French German queen that took over for Peter the not so great and kind of took everything from him because he was a coward and and a failure and weak. Not to take away anything from Catherine herself. I've heard bad things about her but I don't care I still think he's one of the best monarchs that there ever has been in fact she is my very favorite out of any of them. And when I say that I mean not just rushing monarchs I mean any monarch or leader in the world and the holy leader that I hold next to her is presently leading the same country. Vladimir Putin is one of the only people that deserve the title leader in the world is the rest of the people who run countries are just politicians and crooks. But I've always wondered what really happened to pressure and I'm glad I found this video and I'm glad I found your channel that's really really awesome cuz I'm going to watch everyone your videos probably. I just hope you're not too serious about that stay on topic saying that you put on for your comments cuz you know you can always just erase them if you don't like them
The French pulled out of Romania in the early 1930s. After the re-occupation of the Rhineland in 1936, the British tried for the next several years to create a better political relationship with Romania. The King of Romania visited Britain in 1938. There were lots of economic talks between the two countries. In 1939, the British made territorial assurances to Romania that they would intervene if Germany attacked Romania. But the Romanians didn't have to do anything as part of that agreement.
@@Jim-TunerThank you for your response. I had a professor at university who did his dissertation on the British Romanian relationship during the thirties. He has passed away. I tried to obtain a copy of his dissertation from Case Western Reserve in Ohio where he wrote it probably back in the sixties. The university tried to charge me for it so I would have to travel to Ohio just to read it. I’m in Connecticut. Anyhow my professor would always say that he rarely had anybody to talk to about his dissertation. I guess the relationship between the two countries was not studied that much by historians for some reason. I do remember my professor mentioning the monarch of Romania. I am not sure but I think King Michael was the monarch. Is that correct? He visited Great Britain. That was interesting. Didn’t Romania have a large supply of oil that both sides wanted, the Germans and probably the Russians, as well as the British and Americans? Maybe that was why Britain was talking to Romania in the thirties in case of a future war to gain access to oil for their tanks and other military equipment. What happened to King Michael and the monarchy in Romania? Was he overthrown by Stalin? Well maybe I will find a way to read that dissertation someday. Apostolic Majesty is a good series. This one on Prussia was interesting.
Pressure has never been 'a nation '. They were a baltic speaking group, related to Latvians and Lithuanians. Germans (military[knights]) occupied the baltics, absorbed the Prussians and they lost their baltic language. Since then Prussia has been a state. But never a nation! Never! Germans don't see Prussians as a part of our various groups. There are franks, bavarians, swabians, saxons etc....but Prussians never existed as a German people. It was just a state. They occupied us Rhinelanders, we who are Franks, Romans, western Europeans! F prussia, thankfully they're dissolved. There is a reason why Prussia was allowed to vanish. It was easy. No people to identify with it and no one will defend it.
don’t understand why German of today are so weird . Don’t they know that their entire dna is Russian and Irish and Italian form the soldiers of occupation? My friend did random dna and found Slavic dna in 70% of Germans who volunteered and all germans look extremely Russian , they don’t have the German Nordic features of World War Two soldiers . Many German have both grandfathers and great grandfathers who were Russian or Italian American soldiers . The Russians turned your country into a Russian country with your entire population looking Russian with Russian soldiers as fathers and grandfathers. Every single German I see look Mongolian and Russian to me. None of them look like the Germans of world war 2.
I am Prussian. My Oma came from Poland. She spoke German. They owned lands and had polish tenants who farmed sections of the land. Great Opa fought for the Wehrmacht. He was captured by the soviets and imprisoned for 3-5 years as a reparations worker. The entire family moved to Canada in the mid 50s. My great uncle told me his first beer was at 10 years old to celebrate when his dad (great opa) secured their customs documents to leave Germany and come to Canada. We are lucky to be here thanks to their sacrifices.
Your oma kept slaves. It says a lot that you're bragging about that
The Prussians were conquered by the Teutonic order and replaced between 1200 and 1500 A.D. The Ordenstaadt of Prussia is not the same as the Prussian people.
thats a nice family story, thanks
Living in Canada sounds like a far worse fate than Gulag tbh...
Sounds like your Oma and Opa were Nazis... fought for Wehrmacht.... captured by soviets... went to a rehabilitation camp... and now in Canada.... where 1/3rd of the Nazis are still hiding and the Govt. refuses to release their list.
Very annoyed that I got no notification of this, I was looking forward to tuning in. In any case, you've been on fire as of late AM, as is to be expected.
The "upcoming" notice said 6 am but it started at 4 am AEST.
Prussia's greatest political leader of all times Otto von Bismarck once wrote "Even the most favorable outcome of the war will never lead to the disintegration of Russia, which is supported by millions of believers of the Russians of the Greek confession. The latter, even if they are separated as a result of international treaties, will reunite with each other as quickly as separated drops of mercury find their way to each other. This indestructible State of the Russian nation is strong by its climate, its spaces and its simplicity, as well as through the awareness of the need for constant protection of its borders. This State, even after complete defeat, will remain our creation, an enemy seeking revenge, as we have in the case of today's France in the West. This would create a situation of constant tension for the future, which we will be forced to assume if Russia decides to attack us or Austria. But I am not ready to assume this responsibility and be the initiator creating such a situation ourselves." If only his wise words were heeded by his successors, Prussia would still be intact.
He also wrote this: "Hit the Poles so hard that they despair of their life; I have full sympathy for their condition, but if we want to survive we can only exterminate them". Damn prophet!😂
@@joshuapaul2022 thanks for the quote. You got a source please? I’m doing my thesis on Bismarck and this quote will be useful to me
Proud of my Franconian Bayern Anspach Oberlausitz & Preussen ancestors -military men barons a diplomat and farmers!
@@mikei7498 so what, still nothing useful became of you!
@@hasheemal-minz7531 So I take it you know him well? Or are you just being envious?
Southern Germany retains a bit of its identity, specifically in Bavaria. Speaking as a resident of the also completely extirpated former Kingdom of Hannover, it is rather sobering to think of what we have lost, yet that is the German peculiarity of nationbuilding, after all Prussia all but dominated the "lesser" German kingdoms quite a bit.
@@homoe7976 I pray that Europe as a whole reconvert to the True Faith and the Kingdom of Hannover, together with all other German Kingdoms, Principalities and Grand-Duchies, get restored for the sake of their people and the Glory of God in the Highest! 🥰🙏
Isn't western Germany including Bavaria the main dumping ground for all the 3rd worlders the CDU and SPD have been importing for the past 25 years? I'm surprised that identity is still present
@@homoe7976 until Austria was finely strong enough to defeat Prussia.
Prussian domination is a myth. How were Saxony, Württemberg and Bavaria "lesser" kingdoms when they had their own railways, postal services and independent armies during peace-time? German soldiers and officials swore allegiance not just to the emperor but also to their state's monarch. The Bundesrat, the representative organ of the 25 German states, allotted only 17 out of 43 seats (39%) to Prussia despite it making up 65% i.e. two-thirds of the country's territory and population. Every single one of the 25 states had its own parliament/diet with the power to pass its own state laws. Even Welfen and Wettiner separatists were allowed to send MPs to the imperial diet. So where, pray tell me, is the Prussian domination?
Really fantastic introduction to Prussian history for me beyond the stereotypes and cliches. Thank you very much for this.
I'm particularly interested in the idea of Prussian culture as such. It reminded me of an argument with a fellow American in a small East Asian country. He insisted that America had no culture, as simple as that. Although one can understand this as a polemical point with some merit, he seemed to take this quite literally. It was obvious to me at the time that he was wrong and 20 years of living abroad has only made this more obvious to me.
The issue, I think, is that he took his left of center American values and tastes for granted, as universals. And to skip ahead, I wonder if that is not to some degree the case for the way Prussian culture has been viewed. We have imbibed a lot of Prussian culture but having adopted it, claimed it's not Prussian but human.
This is a great comment, imo. I have thought the same things as an American, until I traveled abroad.
Your philosophy of history as expressed around 2:48:43 is profound, and I think this is a major element of the all-around excellence of your content.
Tyvm Gents! As Lithuanian, I find this deconstruction very valuable and tbh, was looking for similar analysis of Prussia's demise recently for quite a while. Cheers!
@3y6ac Hey. My girlfriend was born in plungé. And she speaks the samogithian dialect. Could she have some Prussian blood? I'm trying to understand Lithuania
@@VonLuckow hi. although my father was russian, his father was also from Plunge, but tbh i cannot answer about her lineage, sry.
This episode was full of amazing research and history. I’m going to have to listen to it a couple more times because so much of it is over my head. As an American we were never taught about Prussia in school. At least not enough to have any idea about what it encompassed and how it fit into the world stage back in its day. So learning about it as an introduction is like starting from scratch. There is so much to take in.
Based on the current state of the world today and knowing what I know about American involvement in ww1&2. It’s pretty clear that the loss of Prussia and the destruction of Germany has sent the very direction of humankind. Into what feels like a dystopian death spiral. It’s even worse knowing that the occupied US govt played a major role in the Prussian/german destruction even back in those days.
What else would you expect of an officer class that was twice on the losing side of two major world wars?
@@jon00769 Sorry, what is it you are saying here, exactly?
@@simonestreeter1518 Exactly what I said? lol
@@jon00769 Cowardly answer.
@@simonestreeter1518 You spelled concise wrong. I'll rephrase since it went over your head. You can be on the losing side of a conflict once and recover. Being on the losing side twice in a span of less than 30 years, not so much. Especially whenever the opposing belligerents where the same from the previous conflict. In other words, this class was so determined they didn't lose the previous war, they left no doubt of it the second time around.
Look how they murdered my boy 😢
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@@BaronEvola123 Von Dito in this case
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AM, if you like contradictory nations that no longer really exist, you really need to look into Canada.
It’s crazy how true that is now
@@amirmichaelroyer I saw it coming 30 years ago. It's always been a fake country. A fur company outpost.
USA too
As in First Nations or European Canada? I’d say the later sold itself out to immigration long before their current situation
Canada is doing just fine, it's a very comfortable place to live in, as soon as we get a respectable PM, I'm sure we'll be respected again, a couple of months maybe. Come visit, you'll see, we love foreigns, just not too long hey!
I finally had a chance to give this discussion the listen it deserves. First rate. Thank you!!!
Awesome video, gents. It's quite thorough. One thing to note is that, strictly speaking, German Prussia was more of a state than a nation (nation being a people) while the Baltic Old Prussians were more of a nation, which was destroyed and assimilated.
It’s interesting I’m seeing a lot of people say Prussia is a Germanized Slavic people and this is entirely incorrect. Prussians were originally closer related to the Baltic territories (who are their own ethnically and linguistically distinct) and were heavily influenced later by the Teutonic order and further germanization, that being said, I would not consider them Slavic peoples. Ask yourself, are Baltic countries Slavic? Is Finland Slavic? I would say no.
Great video and discussion.
Prussians were Balts and their language was very similar to Slavic languages.
@@Aercadian Sure, Still not slavs lol
@@fpsKOLAWhat makes Slavs, Slavs but the language? People in some parts of Russia, Ukraine are the same as in the Baltics, even as many in Germany and Netherlands. There is no difference to the people from Macedonia for example and the people in France. My point is that the genes of the white people are pretty much the same. We have the northeners and baltics which are blondish, we have Central European, Western European and Balkan which are black, brown haired with the same white ten and we have the Southeners which are a bit of bronze skined. And that is it. Historicaly many parts of Europe were Celtic and spoke same language. So this division we are making today is mostly by language and borders which are established in the 19th to 20th century...
Some of my ancestors got kicked out of Prussia in 1848 and moved to Texas. You got to admire Frederick the Great and Bismarck, though.
It is ironic that the Germanized Slavs in Prussia & Austria became the two principal nations of Germania.
Stuff like that typically happens in history the outsider comes along and takes over.
Austrians were Germanised Celts. And anyway, in terms of physical traits and capabilities, the fact that they were high Aryan concentration Baltic Sea peoples is far more important than whichever language they spoke. Poles are smarter than Bulgarians, Prussians smarter than Bavarians, Piedmontese smarter than Sicilians etc
@ yes Austria was a Roman province so you had a bunch of Latin settlers there as well before the Slavic migration into the area.
East Germany is very evenly mixed where about half of the surnames are of Slavic origins and the other half Germanic.
The Prussians were not Slavs at all, but Baltics. Prussian language was related to Lithuanian and Latvian language.
@ the Old Prussians were Baltic yes, but I am talking about Greater Prussia which is east of the Elbe and stretches over the Oder towards the Vistula. That territory is mix of Slavs & Germans with no Balts since the Balts live east of the Vistula in what is commonly referred to as East Prussia.
It would be interesting to watch a stream about the fall of the Spanish Empire and the so-called wars of independence of Latin American countries from a reactionary (I supposed it would be pro-Spanish) position.
One big theme across that history is that Bolivar and other revolutionaries envisioned a United Latin America, and asking why that didn’t happen will open up separate rabbit holes explaining how the various nations as we know them today were formed.
in case you didn't know; its been done already,even in Span ish speaking historians, both iberian and american. Their positions make it clear that the independence wars were really a civil war between royalists and rich merchant free-masons. Most of the soldiers in the "royalist" army were native people. Even Native Noblemen supported the royalist cause because the Spanish King had granted them privileges and autonomoy. Under the liberalist regimes- the natives got all their identity and lands wiped out.
In Mexico at least, the criollo reactionaries/royalists actually were the ones who ultimately achieved independence, even offering the crown to the Spanish King following the mutiny at Cadiz and liberalization of Spain. Of course he rejected it, which led to instead try to achieve something akin to what the United States had.
The original independence movement which included people from all classes and ethnic groups had all but fizzled out by the end, it was wholly hijacked by the reactionary wealthy Americas-born Spaniards.
@@blondequijote Latin America does not exist. We are Hispanic Americans.
@@PeterJordansonn you are wrong 😑
Started listening thinking Id turn it off in 20 minutes but I'm here two hours later
The fires of Dresden still burn in my heart.
Gaza has been bombed 4x harder imagine …. Heartbreaking
@@Shook1917same people are responsible as is often the case
@@Shook1917And Tokyo, conventional warheads still obliterated the city
@Shook1917 no it has not and no one cares lol. Pali apologists are the most annoying demographic on the Internet. They're like Indians, always present but never invited. Not to say Israel is any better, neither of them are good
this is seriously one of the most interesting historical discussions online
Pretty sure Prussia exists to this day in South America, they just moved from Germany to Chile.
don’t understand why German of today are so weird . Don’t they know that their entire dna is Russian and Irish and Italian form the soldiers of occupation? My friend did random dna and found Slavic dna in 70% of Germans who volunteered and all germans look extremely Russian , they don’t have the German Nordic features of World War Two soldiers . Many German have both grandfathers and great grandfathers who were Russian or Italian American soldiers . The Russians turned your country into a Russian country with your entire population looking Russian with Russian soldiers as fathers and grandfathers. Every single German I see look Mongolian and Russian to me. None of them look like the Germans of world war 2. 😢
Given that you are pasting this under multiple comments I'm going to assume it's bait.
thats only the Prussian army, how about the Prussian people, the Prussian homeland?!?
@@oooshafiqooo Lot of German colonies and towns in the south, and in general the southern cone has strong european influence. Germany will rise again, for we share the same archetype of the phoenix.
deutschland uber alles.
Citys like Pomerode and São João do Oeste in Santa Catarina (State) Brazil... also Hunsrückisch is a German dialect spoken in the Hunsrück region, in southwestern Germany, being the dialect that gave rise to the Hunsrik language spoken in the Brazilian states of Santa Catarina, Rio Grande do Sul, Paraná and Espírito Santo, and which has a strong influence from Portuguese .
I love this video! The details discussed in this is so informative on a topic that often gets overlooked
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This Video has "radicalised" me almost as much as reading the Versailles-"Treaty" back when I was in School.
The Treaty of Versailles is overblown. Territorially, Germany's losses were moderate and not unreasonable. What made the treaty stink was the war reparations, and the hypocrisy of proclaiming the 14 points and "self-determination" while denying Germany her land.
@@ndalum75 100% agree with you. Germany could have overturn its lost territories in the future especially its former eastern territories but not its former western territories. It was the war reparations and the war guilt that made the ToV harsh
@@zafarahmed3468 As (allegedly stated by Keynes, in the drama Paris 1918) ' everyone keeps their own ledgers, everyone has their own map '
@ that’s a cool quote thanks for sharing it with me 👍
Versailles was barely a slap on the wrist compared to Trianon for Hungary or Sèvres for the Ottomans. If anything this timeline's bad guy should have been a Székely painter.
My grandfather on my mother's side Prussian soldier in World War I... After the war he settled in a farming community in eastern Poland now Western Ukraine next to the Slivka River
I’d love to hear more about him what he said about his heritage and how he made his life in the region possible with his background… Must not have been easy… Do tell darling…
I look at this nation and her people fondly.
Otto Von Bismarck was a genius
Strange sentiment in comments: intellectually opposing the Prussians or the Germans to imaginary "Slavs". We are separate people; Poles, Czechs, Muscovites, Slovaks being lumped into one sack. It doesn't work that way. For example, for the majority of its history, Prussia was an ally of Muscovy, united in their hatred of Poland. Czechs became fully germanised and had to revive their own language from scratch in the 19th century. Yet, at the end, the outcome for Prussia was the same across this imaginary Slavorum.
I'm pretty sure these people won't consider Russia to be Slavic, I guess that makes then Finno-Germans or something, I hate to think what it makes the rest of the Slavs, Ossetian maybe.
Central European internet historians sperging out in the comments like they’re football teams, just as expected
Strange: czechs became germanized? During the Habsburg- monarchy they had the same rights as other people with non- german mother tongue.
@@Julian-d1u dna would disagree
Slavs are the ones that started this little internet fight by constantly demonizing one of the greatest nations in Europan history ( The Prussia of Frederick the Great and Bismarck ).
Like I said in another comment if Poland has the right to exist then so does Prussia ( I'm not even talking about an independent Prussian nation simply existing as a province of greater Germany would be good enough ).
Good Video.
From a Polish point of view Prussia was carved out of Polish Commonwealth. The Polish population were second class citizens In the early years under Prussian rule. Then when Bismark came along, there was a policy of ethnic cleansing of the Poles, with a further influx of Germans.
After WW2 the territory’s become OR were returned to Poland. In 1989 the Poles had organised free elections (Gdańsk shipyards) in August 1989. Which led to fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989.
I have been recently to the areas that once were Prussian - and they are doing very well economically. Gdańsk and Gdynia are now the biggest ports on the Baltic. Wealth is coming back.
Sorry my English is not my first language .
No one cares about triggered poles and their bias cry baby views on Prussia
@@rhysnichols8608 Except you. You care very much. lol
@@RAS-pz3st Polish make believe history
There was no ethnic cleansing of Poles in Prussia, forcing the Polish minority to speak German is no more tyrannical than what Napoleon did in France ( aka forcing all the different populations in France to speak French and adopt the main French culture ).
@@Joey-The-Frog Until it happens to ....YOOO !
Fantastic stream. Thank you for everything you do.
16:44 "coherent territorial identity" what is that in case of Prussia, what year are you talking about? Prussia was the patchwork of lands that were conquered and which Prussia wanted to digest.
When Prussia annexed the third Partition of Poland Prussian authorities sent 10000 biurocrats to control new territory.
17:10 "Germany is created by Prussia expanding into Germany"
19:58 "Prussian idea of good government".... Good for whom? Poles? Danes? Or Protestants?
22:21 Prussian state under Bismarck entered anti-catholic Kulturkampf madness that was at the end counter-productive, strengthening Catholic population (in the West and in the East)
22:31 Prussian Industrialization - you committed important event. How Prussia got those territories that:
1. became the heart of Industrialization
2. Were bordering France (how convenient:) )
Can you tell which country promoted this idea during negotiations in Vienna ending in 1815. This country thought that it is ok to feed the beast if at that time the beast is not eating them. But the beast is the beast: Prussian army agressively attacks - whether this is XVIII, XIX or XX century.
24:16 "the Polish minority"...
After the 3rd Partition of Poland Prussia became the country with Catholic majority. And as I wrote earlier history of Prussia and later Germany is the history of self-generated problems and at the end self-inflicted destruction.
At 1:34:00, AM & Marcus get to the Red Army reaching Prussia's borders - I encourage all viewers to read about the Nemmersdorf Massacre which the Red Army engaged in during its first 48 hours on Prussian soil. All of the atrocities committed were witnessed and or verified by neutral third party observers such as those from the Red Cross or neutral nations like Switzerland, Sweden & Spain.
Hundreds of civilians were murdered, including several dozen French/Belgian POWs who were working as farm hands in the area and tried protecting local women from Soviet sexual assaults. The German army was able to successfully counter attack and retake Nemmersdorf for a brief period in time which is how all of this was discovered and brought to light.
Is this what Ilya Ehrenburg was encouraging in his black book?
@ Possibly
Kinda meh compared to what the Germans were doing
@@Skeaik Doing to whom? Sounds like you have a "what about..." mental problem you need to sort out.
@@ColonelHoganStalag13 The jews? You know the millions and millions of Jews that were systematically slaughtered?
Interesting info at 1:37.00, as I have a globe made in Spain sometime mid 20th century, which shows a curious hatched area to the east of Germany extending along the Baltic coast. Always wondered what this signified.
1938 A. H was insisting on the Corridor for connection Eastern Prussia with West Prussia Polish Government didint agree And Soon we had aggression 1 September 1939.
That wasn't the first use of military aggression sparking WWII.
No
The Danzing corridor was not the real issue - since 1934 Hitler tried to convince Poles to join Germany in conquering Russia - he needed 100 Polish divisions to do the job .
In early 1939 Poland ( Foreign Minister Jozef Beck ) definitely said NO . That caused Hitlers fury as Polish refusal derailed his life dream to colonize Russia .
The true cause of the WWII was the German desire to colonize Russia , Hitler stated : “ Russia is our Africa , Russians are our Negros “ .
Poland standing up to the German aggression ( “ First to Fight “ ) in September 1939 saved Russia from being a German colony and its Russians being its “ Negros”.
Pozdrawiam.
Since 1930 Polish nationalists were scheming to steal all German land east of the Oder-Neisse line, unfortunately as a result of the post war German genocide they had their wish granted.
9:55 Ha, ha "Growth of Brandenburg-Prussia..." "Acquisitions"...
A bit of understatement.
Dr. Robert Citino's shortest summary of Prussian(German) history: they believed they can bite off more than they can chew."
Great stream gentlemen, thank you!
Just found your channel. Thanks for the videos, ill check em out.
"....to the winnah go the spoils!" - Bobby, The Sopranos.
“Why don’ you take your little quotations book and shove it up your fat fuckin’ asch!” - Tony Soprano
sacrebleu, where's me mama!?
How is razing your enemy completely winning? It's not a European value, it's a Hebrew one.
@@marylamb1407 That's true, but I would also argue it's a pagan tendency. On one end you have the Roman triumph procession where they would humiliate captured enemy leaders and boast about the loot. This was known as Spolia Optima, or "rich spoils". On the other end you have the paganism of the Aztecs which was vastly more brutal and ubiquitous in civilian life. The Ancient Romans already considered human sacrifice to be barbaric. They would make "due" by sacrificing sheep, pigs, bulls, rabbits, chickens. The Roman ritual of Suoavetaurillia is a prime example, but human sacrifice was never normalized. However the soldiers would offer the blood of their slain enemies to Mars. Religious loophole of the time I guess, war provided enough shedding of human blood.
@@hermeticchonk371 Thank you for your reply. I take your point. With the exception of Carthage, neither Rome or the German tribes tried to destroyed all aspects of the conquered peoples. They generally incorporated and blended with them. There existed a respect for the enemy and not a psychopathic hatred.
Wilhelm II was not a warlord
We certainly should look at the earliest history
France didn't enjoy the war they declared 1870-71 and held a grudge. Though, civilization as a whole greatly suffered from the turmoil of the events that would lead to the Great War and the inter-war years. Socialism and Anarchism tore through the fabric of highly evolved systems that had built and maintained the advanced world; Without those systems, not just the British Empire, but all of the globe began an [unmanaged] [graceful?] decline.
Varus, give me back my Archduke Ferdinands!
I will never understand how they let in the Nazis.... How the Old Prussian Guard let itself be engulfed and used by the Swastika.
@@TheRichestManInBabylon-s7d Ask the Allies that question, they are the ones that killed The German Empire and replaced it with the disgusting Weimar Republic.
Growing up in limburg , Netherlands , where we speak a German dialect , my mother used to say "zack zack saed dur preus" when we told to hurry or work harder
"You are asking the wrong person for a brief summary "
Furious
Some very hilarious honesty
This is so beyond my education. I would love to study this topic in depth. Is there a suggested reading list somewhere?
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Perhaps a presentation on Frederick William IV? What happened to that monarch?
I would love if AM could do a video on Crown Prince Frederick III and if he didn’t have throat cancer. Frederick William IV is non-existent in the history of Germany and Prussia, don’t think I’ve seen any English biography on him.
@@zafarahmed3468Crown Prince Frederick III was married to one of Queen Victoria’s daughters. Is that correct? Was it possible he didn’t have throat cancer? I don’t know much about Frederick William IV or how long he reigned. I think he died around the time of the American Civil War in 1862-1863, somewhere around that time period. I believe he had no children so his younger brother Wilhelm succeeded him.
@@MichaelTreadwell-jo9bi Yes he was. He was married to Princess Victoria. Bismarck didn’t not like her, he thought she was a spy for the English and put liberal ideas into the Crown Prince. It is said that Queen Victoria was jealous when her daughter became Empress of Germany since she couldn’t gain the title of empress yet (she would became empress of India in 1877). Also a while ago I was at Windsor Castle and a bust of Frederick III was there. I’ve read that he was a favourite of Queen Victoria.
As for Frederick William IV, I haven’t read any English biography of him (probably some in German). He is known for his fascination with German nationalism but in a medieval way where all the other kings would submit to Prussian leadership like the electors of the HRE would do to the emperor. You can see this in how Prussia tried to unite Germany through the Erfurt Union. He famously rejected the German crown from Frankfurt as he didn’t want a crown from the gutter implying he believed in divine right of kings. I’ve seen the term romanticist being used for him
The first two were so good, nobody was paying to see anything past the original trilogy.
@@zafarahmed3468Frederick William IV by David E. Barclay. I have uploaded it to the archive. Go to the I.A. and search for "David E. Barclay" (you must include the quotation marks).
This is a brilliant presentation, thanks.
11:27 ..."one nation if you can call it that.." No, it makes no sense to call it nation. What nation is that? Are you claiming that there was one nation living in Bra-Prussia?
Really appreciate the discussion, and I'll be listening to it again. Also, all the comments are very interesting.
Drang nach osten was slightly reversed, by far not fully.
Check the history of Ruegen island...Pomern, Berlin, Brandenburg, Silesia, the Sorbs, Obotrites etc.
All of these places were lived by Germanic tribes about 500 years before slavs entered modern day Germany
@philippmulthaup6781 what's your point? Yamnaya or Cordware were there before 😂
@@Julian-d1u yes but this guy is arguing that germany has some kind of evil want to expand eastwords even though the slavs were the first ones to kick out the germanic tribes. Im just proving him wrong by employing your argument.
@@philippmulthaup6781no, the Slavic People.
My grandmother came from Prussia, and her family came to Australia in the late 1800s . Their name was Schulz (no T in the name)
“Zucht und Ordnung”, so ist mein Opi aufgewachsen. A typical Prussian Army virtue what they and their families lived for. Because he was 1.90 meter tall, he was in the Kaiser’s Guard Regiment. Now the army is full of “woke” creatures lol 😜
No, Prussia certainly has not been rehabilitated. In fact, the attempts at execution continue to bleed over into more and more ideas and concepts embraced by historical Germanic culture. Hence my interest in this video, because a person paying attention cannot miss it. How many times and ways can you work the N word into anything you don't like? How many ways can you mock and denigrate the mere concepts of 'honour' or 'duty' or, God forbid 'merit'?
When You talk about restoring historical borders, please keep in mind that everything east of Magdeburg was slavic tribes. Centuries of genocidal wars, tribe after tribe annihilated, frontier moved further east, town after town settled, all that jazz.. Then why not restore slavic reach all the way up to Brema? Its historically slavic lands, archeology is clear about that. Lets restore Astrasia and Saxony instead, and leave Prussia to lithuanians for re-baltization! Then its just Normandy restored and given back to Norwegians, Croatia restored back to Turkiye, England finally back to Italy, and ofc Ukraine restored to swedish colony, while pagan Italians from christian Greece will return to motherland in Egypt. After that Hungary will apologise to everyone and straight up go back to Mongolia, which restored Golden Horde includes Ukraine. Then we will have proper, ethically and morally just, wound-healing, sensible and logical historical restoration... Great discusion overall 💯👍
Was the Ukraine part of the Swedish empire at one time? That would probably be King Charles’ conquest?
15:14 you are wrong: "this idea of Prussia" was attack, subdue, annex, exploit and again attack. This is, what you call, "a core identity" of Dutchy of Prussia.
So you should use the word self-extintion, self-destruction... And with this basic observation it is easier to understand why "most of these territories are now" -you forgot to ad BACK - "part of Poland".
Preach on, brother! For us, Prussia started in 1226, and we clearly can connect the dots since there. Good riddance of colonial Ubermenshen...
@@zk1919 Prussia and Russia brought civilisation to the wild polish tribes. To this very day Poland is awfully ungrateful. Prussia may be gone but at least Russia will one day collect this debt.
Lets not forget the prussian state was a land grab via a religious order under dubious rational. The whole notion was a personal effort not a tribe or village ala Kiev or Muscovy. So Prussia is more akin to Antioch that survived instead of going away centuries earlier
@@mareknowack6222 Latin and Christianity came to the Poles from the Czechs. Your statement is more about thinly veiled bellicosity than history. Sadly, all too typical.
@@mareknowack6222I don’t know about that. Stalin was not exactly kind to the Poles especially when he ordered the executions of Polish officers confined in Soviet POW camps.
Prussia, Austria-Hungary, Rhodesia, Constantinople, South Africa, Roman Africa and Middle East etc
Our people have suffered great losses over the last two thousand years, but I'm certain we will survive this current anti-white age, we have to, the future of our descendants depends on it.
Constantinople? More like the entirety of Anatolia
Bismarck is referred to as the Iron Chancellor. However, didn’t Bismarck have serious disagreements with the Prussian general Moltke? Didn’t Bismarck actually prevent Moltke from taking even more territory from France?
Bismarck literally orchestrated the war or was one of the biggest influencers in its outbreak. It’s not a saving grace to be like , no, don’t make a bigger mess than I wanted
Bismarck did have a serious disagreement with Wilhelm and the General Military Staff over the 1866 Austrian Peace. The King and the military wanted to march on Vienna and annex parts of Bohemia but Bismarck correctly knew that this would bring about the European powers to intervene. In the end, he won the disagreement with the Crown Prince Frederick agreeing with him.
@@zafarahmed3468 Bismarck resigned when Wilhelm II was king. Or was he sacked? What was going on between Bismarck and Wilhelm II that caused the rift?
@@MichaelTreadwell-jo9bi He was dismissed by Wilhelm II. But at that time, Bismarck had no support all his allies were retired or passed away. Out with the old in with the new I guess you can say from Wilhelm II’s perspective. Foreign policy wise, Bismarck and Wilhelm were two different individuals. Bismarck wanted to maintain the 1871 status quo and not let the Reinsurance Treaty lapse while Wilhelm wanted to embark on Weltpolitik. Two completely opposing foreign policy views.
Domestically, the new kaiser wanted to be loved by his fellow German population and this meant he wanted to push through bills that would improve social welfare. I’m not too familiar with the domestic situation but the two leaders had different views. I should mention Wihlem’s social policy would have affected Bismarck and his support from the Junker class.
@@zafarahmed3468Thank you. Very interesting.
For all her faults Prussia is probably going to be one of my models for an ideal state. It’s a shame it fell to such corruption, and I mourn its loss.
I suppose you could compare them to Sparta in their militarism.
@ To a limited degree, I suppose. Though, much of Sparta’s legacy is quite possibly myth making, whereas Prussia’s I think is somewhat less so.
Prussia and the German empire it formed managed to create a pretty functional modern state with excellent industry, a burgeoning welfare system and literally the best army in the world at the time. It was a major player in science, philosophy, ect. On the flip side, it had moments of genuine brutality, that grimly foreshadowed the horrors of the 20th century.
But, in the 19th century, that was largely yet to come. I have a lot more respect for the Prussia of Bismarck and Frederick III than that of the 1930s.
yep, its a very militaristic and liberal state for it's time
@@oooshafiqooo It managed to somehow be oddly both. Kinda strange but here we are.
@TitusCastiglione1503 true
‘Love your neighbor as yourself. "There is no commandment greater than these.”
And you failed, my Prussian neighbor.
"...And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting
On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;
And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon’s that is dreaming,
And the lamp-light o’er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor;
And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
Shall be lifted-nevermore!..."
Semper fidelis 😊
Мы русские рождённые в четвертом поколении в Калининграде Кёнигсберге интересуемся древней историей нашего города а дети моих друзей из Берлина нет. Хотя их дедушки и бабушки из Кёнигсберга
Great interview - might want to re-record without overdriving the guests microphone.
The loss of Prussia in Europe is a tragedy.
@@Valencetheshireman927 Not really
Blessing. Militaristic and barbaric form of German culture. The one that led to many wars, including the Great War
@makutas-v261 And you believe random conspiracy theories online. Real genius over here…
@makutas-v261 how dumb you must be to assume sth like this about person you know nothing about? Dumb enough to believe Prussia was not militaristic country or what? I live on the old Prussian lands, don’t need to watch Netflix pseudo-documents to have my own opinions. You made the dumbest comment I have encountered in YT recently
@makutas-v261 how dumb you must be to assume sth like this about person you know nothing about? Dumb enough to believe Prussia was not militaristic country? I live on the old Prussian lands, don’t need to watch pseudo historic Netflix documentaries to have my own opinion. You made the dumbest comment I encountered on YT recently.
I often think about "what it means to *be* Prussia. Apparently, that means what it's like to be East of the Elbe, but then.... there's a switch.
Is Prussian Blue still produced? I wonder.
One hour in and lots of dates and maps and people and other interesting info. But what about what drove Prussians culturally? The artists, writers, playrights, sculptors and philosophers, etc. No mention, either, of leading scientists or engineers or businesmen. A State is so much more than its army and civil service and territorial gains. What was the inner landscape? Who was celebrating and promoting Prussian hegemony in terms of visuals, the language and thought? Or was it a construct without a heart? Without a soul? Totally devoid of a reason for existence beyond conquest and subjugation? (Unlikely I would think yet not impossible.)
It was German. 100% Kulturkampf.
Very interesting stream, thanks
Untill 1657 (Treaty Welawa-Bydgiszcz) Prussia was tenent-in-chief of Polish King. This Treaty left dependency of Prussia of Polish King. Now, signing of this Treaty was great mistake of Polish Diplomacy cause it was a reward for betreyal of its Polish Supremace! Yes, on the 6th December 1656 Prussia joined the Treaty of Randot (in fact the 1st partitition of Poland) against the Commonwelth (with Sweden, Rakoczy and so on). And Prussia inherited its Dutchy after the Teutonic Order in 1525 when Albreht Hohenzollern secularized the Order and become heridarity prince (during protestant refoemation). It was also mistake of Polish King Sisigmunt the Old who agreed for this secularization of its vassal - Poland grew a viper who partitioned it later on her own bosom. And again, the Order was brought 1227 by polish Prince Conrad of Masovia to fight pagans. Instead, it started to fight its Dominion and gained lands by tricks (it was conquered 1410 in famous battle in Grunwald). So let's see that Prussia from the beginning built its superpower on betreayl, deception, plundering and so on... "on the sand"... we must say JMJ+
Originally Prussians were baltic ethnicity. Starting from XIII century Tutonic Order forced rule over Prussians. Tutonic Order composed from Germanic, Burgundians, French and Spanish knights. The same time it was settled by Germanic settlers, Vallons, Dutch, Swedish and Scotish. After reformation it attracted more people from western europe. German language was main language was in use as it was language of ruling nobility. It was not strictly forced to speak in German. We cannot say about nationality as it was feudal system and they adopted rules of to whomever nobility vow allegiance. Rise of what we know as Prussian Empire was due to rise in power of house of Hohenzollern and through the competition with other dynasties. This subject is much more complex than simply concept of nationality and DNA analysis.
Germany "killed" Prussia.
Great video
PKA!?
El revisionismo se extiende por todos los rincones de la Historia y hasta cierto punto es natural y necesario, pero creo que en esta larga plática sobre Prusia, abunda en demasiadas contradicciones, sobre todo en el rol jugado por los EEUU y Gran Bretaña, por muy fuerte que haya sido la antipatía, prejuicio y hasta odio que distintos líderes de gobierno sintieran hacia
Prusia, la realidad de la expulsión y lo que ahora llamamos limpieza étnica no fue llevado a cabo por los aliados occidentales sino por el mismo gobierno Nazi, que inició las primeras y masivas evacuaciones de la población Alemana y en manera mucho más decisiva por Stalin, que ya desde 1941 había comenzado con las deportaciones forzadas de los Alemanes étnicos en territorio Soviético.
La expulsión de la población Alemana al este la línea Oder-Neisse fue una idea que desde comienzos de la guerra, pero solo hasta finales del 44 que hablo de ella, Stalin traía en mente.
War is a racket. Sadly the people knocking down the statues have no idea why they should be - at least in the states. - the states
IM Polish i dont cry for restoration of Prussia The name is Pogan Tribe call Prussian which They conquer and Took their land They took this land through Crusade.from Pogan people...
Yes! But they were germanic pagans! pagan tribes, that IS, non-christian ones, from outside of the judeo-christian sphere of influence.. they were known as Cimbri/Cymber/Cimmers/Cimmerians/Tsimber/Cimmers/Semba.
@@Zanota85they were balts
@@Atok1111 no ethnic or racial branch exists for these people, inhabitants of nearby áreas were either germanic(coast lines) or slavs(interior)
@@Zanota85 they don't exist anymore because they were genocided by teutons
@@Atok1111 Friend, they were the very own original germanic tribe, Thats why their enemies went to such a length tô erased them from history. Once again, the only people inhabiting the baltic Sea(which were known as germanicum Sea to the romans and b4 that as cimbricus Sea to even Elder ppls) were Germanics. Period.
As an American, my history education was extraordinarily light on Prussian history and anything to do with Napoleon and what his goals may have been. To that note, I read myself that Germans had a thing called a Hansacrstic League which acted like port merchant houses on the various ports of the Baltic. It seems Prussia was an agricultural hinterland for this league using poles and slavs and perhaps Baltic people especially anyone known to be pagan.
Napoleon seemed to be targeting these leagues and I don't know, tried his way for Moscow....it's all history...
What remains is the question of where these power brokers went, since trading was their profession, Teutonic knights who wanted coastline from the poles, Baltic dutchy - where did they go? They didn't just stop trading....
The other question that comes to mind is how these trading / merchant leagues oriented themselves to Jews, being generally merchants in foreign ports, or working in merchant houses that were liveries for oligarchs and nobles and wealthy holders.
What was the Jewish experience like in Prussian + Hansecratic Northern Europe?
Prussia the most impressive European State ever
Duchy of Florence wants to know your location
@makutas-v261 Spain is Gypsy state
What about the Roman Empire
Какие мы русские добрые только 3 или 5 лет тюрьмы . удивительно за службу в Вермахт 30 лет в Сибири было бы уместней
A Bavarian making a Video about prussia and thé „Sau-preuss. :D it‘s like a texan who’s describing california on a video.
Who's a Bavarian? The guy talking with the English accent?
Where did Catherine the Great come from? She married the Russian heir to the throne but I know Catherine herself was not Russian.
@MichaelTreadwell-jo9bi She was German. Born in Prussia as Princess Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst.
@@nigelhornberry8062Very interesting about Princess Sophie also known as Catherine the Great. She was not trusted by the Tsarina Elizabeth probably with good reason since she more than likely had Elizabeth’s heir Peter III murdered to get him out of the way so she could become the next empress. I had a feeling that she was German.
@@MichaelTreadwell-jo9bi the Romanovs and many German dynasties were close. Alexander I was outraged when Napoleon annexed Oldenburg, the ruler was Alexander’s brother-in-law.
@@zafarahmed3468 That is very interesting. Thank you.
@@MichaelTreadwell-jo9bi And Peter himself was of the german house of Holstein-gottorb.
Is this video about the demise of the ancient Baltic nation or the modern German usurpers?
Which ancient baltic people?
@@Zanota85 The original Prussians.
@@hollunderjohn and you mean, by that, of course, the pagan germanic tribes that lived there, right?
@@Zanota85 No.
My family is prussian/austrian. My grandparents had factories just west of Krakow as well land. Generational wealth. All taken by the soviets. I had one uncle do a little time for being SS. He was arrested by a platoon backed up by a Sherman tank. I had another uncle fight on all fronts. There are other family members who were in Germany's airborne. It's only a fluke how my family ended up in west Berlin.
I don't think any country that wears hats like that is going to survive for very long
The flight of Germans from east Prussia began well before the world wars. Germans in general were migrating westwards for better economic prospects. The Prussian government used various methods to reverse this "Ost Flug" but it all came to nothing. There was more work in the Rhine valley and the Americas, better living conditions, and political freedoms. The clock was ticking down on East Prussia from the moment of unification in 1870.
I would change the title of this item from 'Execution of a Nation' to 'Suicide of a Nation'.
Greetings from Neustadt von Westpreussen🙋 Germans built us a railway, factory, many churches, schools and hospitals, landkreis neustadt will never forget you.
Pomorze. When was it named Westp.. ? What was the political reason to rename it ? Gdansk - Danzig, 1800. Why ?
@metanoian965 Languages exist bro
@@metanoian965 shhh, let them have their larp
Ich bin ein Preuße, will ein Preuße sein!
You were like a scorpion riding on frogg back in thev proverbial story... it's just your nature to sting.
@Julian-d1u Maybe I am to german to undestand this. But what does your answer even mean?
@@wacherwicht1810 "The scorpion and the frog" is a fable. He is likening Prussia to the scorpion.
@@gravygravyjoshand frog to Poland. I explained this to him, once here but censorship 😂
@@Julian-d1u I hate when they hide comments. Honestly I would have thought of Jews as the proverbial "scorpion". Prussia in contrast doesn't quite track for me.
Prussia will rise again.
@@Interlocutor67 how ?
@, on the ruins of the Bundesrepublik after the Americans leave Europe.
@@Interlocutor67 "Ich habe einen Traum, meine Herren!"
i like you optimisim
It will never happen.
@ , sure it could once Germans are healthy again .
Hard to listen to because of the lack of passion or peaks and valleys in the narration....
I'm Polish so it's all bitter sweet.
What's bittersweet about this ? Prussia was one of Europe's greatest nations especially after the Napoleonic era, what happened in 1947 was a tragedy beyond words.
Any Poles that feel satisfied about Prussia's demise are only thinking about this in a very small minded Bulldog nationalist sort of way, Europe will never recover from the tragedy of the World Wars with this kind of mentality.
@Joey-The-Chud I mean, they did partition Poland...
@@CatnamedMittens Russia was the main player in every single partition of Poland, Prussia just tagged along because the alternative would be to allow Russia to grow even bigger and stronger, I don't need to tell you why that would have been a terrible thing for everyone else.
@@Joey-The-Frog Debatable honestly. I think Prussia and Russia were definitely the two biggest collaborators.
Mayby I miss something but going through your playlist of such great history topics about my two favorite parts of the world which are actually one part which would be Germany and Russia because they are my two favorite countries at least it was Germany and now it's Russia. But anyways I did not see the name of Russia's greatest monarch Catherine anywhere you know the French German queen that took over for Peter the not so great and kind of took everything from him because he was a coward and and a failure and weak. Not to take away anything from Catherine herself. I've heard bad things about her but I don't care I still think he's one of the best monarchs that there ever has been in fact she is my very favorite out of any of them. And when I say that I mean not just rushing monarchs I mean any monarch or leader in the world and the holy leader that I hold next to her is presently leading the same country. Vladimir Putin is one of the only people that deserve the title leader in the world is the rest of the people who run countries are just politicians and crooks. But I've always wondered what really happened to pressure and I'm glad I found this video and I'm glad I found your channel that's really really awesome cuz I'm going to watch everyone your videos probably. I just hope you're not too serious about that stay on topic saying that you put on for your comments cuz you know you can always just erase them if you don't like them
Does anybody have any information about a possible political or military relationship between Britain and Romania from around 1935 to 1939?
The French pulled out of Romania in the early 1930s. After the re-occupation of the Rhineland in 1936, the British tried for the next several years to create a better political relationship with Romania. The King of Romania visited Britain in 1938. There were lots of economic talks between the two countries.
In 1939, the British made territorial assurances to Romania that they would intervene if Germany attacked Romania. But the Romanians didn't have to do anything as part of that agreement.
@@Jim-TunerThank you for your response. I had a professor at university who did his dissertation on the British Romanian relationship during the thirties. He has passed away. I tried to obtain a copy of his dissertation from Case Western Reserve in Ohio where he wrote it probably back in the sixties. The university tried to charge me for it so I would have to travel to Ohio just to read it. I’m in Connecticut. Anyhow my professor would always say that he rarely had anybody to talk to about his dissertation. I guess the relationship between the two countries was not studied that much by historians for some reason. I do remember my professor mentioning the monarch of Romania. I am not sure but I think King Michael was the monarch. Is that correct? He visited Great Britain. That was interesting. Didn’t Romania have a large supply of oil that both sides wanted, the Germans and probably the Russians, as well as the British and Americans? Maybe that was why Britain was talking to Romania in the thirties in case of a future war to gain access to oil for their tanks and other military equipment. What happened to King Michael and the monarchy in Romania? Was he overthrown by Stalin? Well maybe I will find a way to read that dissertation someday. Apostolic Majesty is a good series. This one on Prussia was interesting.
Prussia died two times
Was the second time when Chuck Berry wrote Roll Over Beethoven and duckwalked on the Kaiser’s grave?
@@blondequijote one was old Prussia, second german Prussia
@@apstuxa old prussia just became christian germanic prussia. it never died.
@berndlauert8179 died, it's language and culture were replaced
@@apstuxa they had no culture before the teutonic order came
You tube finally allowing me to hear,(History) according to its own country. I hope this is not Americans history ❤
cenzura thank you
You don’t have to keep saying of course gents - we are watching this video because we don’t know!!
DDR was Red Prussia.
Thata a decent way of looking at it
Can it really be called prussia without Königsberg :c
@@Longislandenjoyer true :
It truly was, bunch of Trabants from Wartburg😂
no
Pressure has never been 'a nation '. They were a baltic speaking group, related to Latvians and Lithuanians. Germans (military[knights]) occupied the baltics, absorbed the Prussians and they lost their baltic language. Since then Prussia has been a state. But never a nation! Never! Germans don't see Prussians as a part of our various groups. There are franks, bavarians, swabians, saxons etc....but Prussians never existed as a German people. It was just a state. They occupied us Rhinelanders, we who are Franks, Romans, western Europeans! F prussia, thankfully they're dissolved. There is a reason why Prussia was allowed to vanish. It was easy. No people to identify with it and no one will defend it.
Верно
If you fly high, you have further to fall! Dig deeper and come up muddier!
Marshall Wilhelm Keitel was from Prussia
he was a (((J)))
RIP Prussia. Germany today is pathetic, though things can improve.
don’t understand why German of today are so weird . Don’t they know that their entire dna is Russian and Irish and Italian form the soldiers of occupation? My friend did random dna and found Slavic dna in 70% of Germans who volunteered and all germans look extremely Russian , they don’t have the German Nordic features of World War Two soldiers . Many German have both grandfathers and great grandfathers who were Russian or Italian American soldiers . The Russians turned your country into a Russian country with your entire population looking Russian with Russian soldiers as fathers and grandfathers. Every single German I see look Mongolian and Russian to me. None of them look like the Germans of world war 2.
@@mayaasan7201 lmao “friend“ is a funny way of saying scizo rambling
Germany was lost after WW2. They will never allow it to improve now
@@mayaasan7201 What does it matter, clownn ??? nationality is not DNA
@@mayaasan7201 When the Russians entered Berlin, they raped millions women, so surely many of have russian DNA