My family are East Prussian they came to the USA in the 1900s around 1910. Im guessing my great grandfathers emigration was because of forced conscription.
my great grand parents told me of Prussia my peoples homeland...I know nothing of this place and I so want to learn all I can but there is not much information about it...
Rebekah Mcfatridge You are absolutely right. There are videos about the American education system as it was inspires by the Prussian system. But that is the extent of Prussian educational videos on youtube.
There was a lecture he did to a bunch of students where they asked him questions afterwards pertaining to the Ukrainian crisis that has been removed within the last month, does anyone know where that lecture was held and if there are any other copies of it up?
13:00 enlightened monarchs 20:00 Frederick’s uniform 21:00 Refusal to be recognized as individual 26:00 was Frederick gay? 32:00 Battle of Rossbach 1757 44:00 general law code 46:00 death 1786 48:00 young Germans know nothing 49:00 Otto von Bismarck 50:00 Day of Potsdam 1933 51:00 Otto Gebühr 53:00 Hitler and Frederick
@Ami-jc2oo about both Capitalism and Communism being flawed. And that we are liars: pretending we went to war to save Poland, but helped hand it to Russia. There's more but you've had enough of my time , considering it's an old poost
I think a lot of times the whole “history is written by the winners” line is a bit cliche or overstated but in the case of napoleon this is 100% true. It doesn’t help that essentially the entirety of the European great powers over the course of almost 2 full decades were allied against napoleon and the French, but after his loss at Waterloo, that essentially paved the way for the ultimate victors here the English and the rest of the contemporary historians at the time to just give a giant middle finger to napoleon and describe him as some sort of evil ogre bent on the destruction and conquest of the entirety of Europe and that good eventually prevailed. It also doesn’t help that while you have the detractors and that line of thinking that has been passed down, you have the exact opposite spectrum where it’s just as polarized where they idolize and treat napoleon as some sort of infallible general and leader. But the truth is a lot more nuanced then that and unfortunately he sort of gets overlooked a lot
@@worldview6218 I used to hold the position that he should have the same moniker as Alexander, Pyotr, and Frederick... But once I learned about his abandonment of his army in Egypt and subsequent lying to his own people, and then the absolute catastrophe of the Russian campaign... I'm like, yeah! He's not so great.
@@turtlenoheart what about when Fredrick literally fled the battlefield as well? Or the catastrophe at kunersdorf? I mean all that literally saved Prussia from literally being wiped off the map was one, the Russians not actually using the catastrophic and devestating defeat of the Prussian army to continue pressing their attack, and a stroke of luck that the tsarina died and her heir was a fanboy of the guy. It wasn’t military genius, and I’m not shitting on Fredrick either here, I’m just saying, these aren’t infallible leaders or generals. Fredrick during the 7 years war lost half of his battles, of the 16 major engagements, he lost 8 of those, and again, kunesdorf was a catastrophe. He also abandoned his men on the battlefield, which napoleon never fled the battlefield, more he left the theatre of war and delegated it to a subordinate to go back to Europe and I’m not defending napoleon leaving those men in Egypt either, and yes Fredrick after fleeing the battle, would then go on to actually be like napoleon, a leader who led from the front and was not afraid to put himself in the line of fire. But in both diplomacy, and matters of state, both men have had great achievements, and both have had great blunders and things we can criticize them for. In matters of war it is the same. But militarily, while Fredrick is for sure definitely one of the greatest solider kings in all of history, napoleon revolutionized warfare, and he is literally one of the all time greatest generals to have ever lived. Again, sure, was he eventually after two decades of war defeated in Waterloo? Yes, but he also was literally at war with entirety of the great powers in Europe almost perpetually for 2 decades, and he and his generals had some of the biggest accomplishments and victories of all time. The napoleonic code is still the bedrock of the French legal system today. But yes he was a flawed human, he had tons of faults like any other person in history and he’s neither the boogeyman or ogre, or overrated as a military mind his detractors make him out to be nor is he the greatest emperor and leader to have ever existed as some of his admirers think.
@@worldview6218 Why are you playing 'What About' games with me? Especially when France had been the superpower in Europe for centuries and Prussia was only trying to find a secure place in its own history? They were literally the little guy fighting against the big bullies of Europe.
@@turtlenoheart I’m not playing whataboutism though. I’m not even talking about Prussia or the reasons for going to war or France. It’s not whayaboutism to point out that not putting napoleon high up on your list because of the blunder in Russia, or because of Egypt to point out that Fredrick who you have on your list had the exact same type of blunders. I’m not even comparing Fredrick and napoleon either or like sizing them up against each other. I’m saying, Fredrick was a great king, a damn good general, but that he made diplomatic blunders, he made critical military blunders, and like napoleon he also accompanied his soldiers to a war he started and when it got crazy and looked like they’d lose, he left. He lost major battles and campaigns, and again, all that stopped Prussia becoming a literal minor landlocked backwater german kingdom was the death of the tsarina and Russia not pressing onto Berlin, not any military genius. The point I’m making is these guys are gods…they aren’t infallible. They are people who are deeply flawed, make mistakes, but also have both made many great accomplishments militarily and domestically.
Pure slander, you don't want Europeans to become aware of the greatness in their shared history, and to look to their individual as well as shared roots for inspiration, that would not do well 2020 globalist era.
@@INSANESUICIDE Yeah, because you couldn't ever do great things if you happened to be gay in those times. You're too used to modern flamboyance-- I get there's a lot of sensationalism today, but don't let that make you start whipping up conspiracy theories for a video.
If you ever visit Sanssouci, you'll be surprised how small it is. You can walk around it in five minutes, if you don't stop to admire the beauty of the rooms.
So nothing is left of king's home in Küstrin?! (The historian, standing in a meadow says, ``here is where it must have been?'') You show a long shot of a burg-like edifice; is that the castle? Inside is a plaque commemorating Leutnant Hans Hermann von Katte.
I'm here for history. But precisely because I love history - and Frederick the Great, and all things Prussian - I also love the Hetalian version of him and Prussia. Sure, Hetalia's Old Fritz is more affable and fatherly than his historical self, but that's understandable, considering he is mostly seen through Prussia's fond memories. Prussia himself is to me undoubtedly the best written character in Hetalia - a delightfully complex and memorable persona.
Reference to Frederic but it’s not so great and the decline of Rome during the war with Mexico and the United states 1846 in opposition to what was considered the “unjust war”: Have the histories of the ruin of Greek and Roman liberty consequent on such extensions of empire by sword no lesson for us? Many men have achieved the title and have been called great, but most have been great in crime and blood; an Alexander the Great , a Pompey the great , a Ceasar, a Herod, a Louis, a Henry, a Frederic, a Charles, a Bonaparte, a Charlemagne , a Houston. They were great in many things ; great, perhaps, in ability, great in resolution of will, great in means of influence, and striking in their results; but little in the elements of a truly great character; little in honesty, in truth, in love, mean, selfish, crafty, cruel, and implacable. They have been willing to sacrifice any amount of human life or happiness, to secure their end, and be accounted the greatest. But how poor the honor, how blood-stained the glory! How many death-pangs it has taken to refine their thrill of pleasure, how many tears to water their garlands of victory, how much human gore to dye their purple robes of royalty! What curses have loaded their names on earth, what awful memories must haunt them in the world of spirits! It was when the Pretorian Guards of Rome bore the emperor into office by their despotic will, that the mistress of nations began to decline. And when, in any nation, the glorious gifts of Christian statesmanship, and ripe experience, and large converse among men, and a life-time of civil services to one's country and the world, are postponed and set aside for “the conquering hero," the Genius of rational, heaven-descended Liberty is already meditating her departure to some more congenial clime. The great men in these United States, who are they ? Are they the poets who are striking the finest chords of the celestial lyre, and awakening, by strains of sublimity that will never die, the tastes and aspirations and immortal energies of men of all generations ? Are they the artists who are shaping the marble into beauty, and giving life to the canvas, and thus refining and elevating the soul of the world? Are they the orators who have plead for liberty with angelic tongue, and urged the infinite concerns of religion with a melting persuasion? Are they the princely merchants who have given their tens of thousands of dollars to the cause of education, and the welfare of a hundred ages to come? Are they the retired and humble scholars, who, poor and unnoted by the world, trim the lamp of learning, decipher the meaning of life, unroll the map of antiquity, and extract the wisdom of libraries, and the history of empires gone? No; our great men are not poets, nor philosophers, nor philanthropists, nor artists, nor judges, nor jurists, nor statesmen. Sad day is it for humanity, when the heroes are the destroyers, and hosaunas are sung over ruined cities and sinking nations, to those whose weapons are not love and truth, but fire and sword ! We want no more of those Great ones, we want the truly great. We want civilians, not swordsmen; Catos, not Caesars, nor Syllas at the head of Christendom, Christian American and nations. We must show them how much greater in reality Jesus, the well-beloved of the Father, was in washing his disciples' feet, than Xerxes riding forth at the head of his army to lay waste the fairest countries with fire and sword, Jesus dying in ignominy on the cross, than Caesar making a triumphal procession into Rome with the spoils and captives of vanquished kingdoms. 'They have wandered back into the desolated Pantheon, and there, amongst the Polytheistic relics of that " pale mother of dead empires," they have found a God whom these Romans, centuries gone by, baptized, "Terminus". We have seen the end of him and his empire. Whoever would know the further fate of the Roman Diety, so recently taken under the bosom of American Democracy, may find ample gratification of his curiosity, in the luminous pages of the historical accounts of "Gibbons Decline and Fall of Rome". For What Rome was in her decline, America was in her infancy! Such will find that Rome thought as you now think, it was her destiny to conquer and divide nations, and no doubt she sometimes says as you do now "I will conquer a peace!". And where now is she, the once omnipotent Rome, Mistress of the World? And it needs no prophet's eye to read, in the future, the impartial condemnation of history. There we shall be defeated, without doubt and without help, No matter however successful we may be in blowing up Mexican cities and dispersing Mexican armies! Sermons, which are now before us, were preached both on the Rio Grande, and at the city of Mexico before the troops, justifying the war, talking largely of the " Anglo Saxon destiny." Comparing the progress of the American arms with the entrance of the children of Israel into the land of Canaan, and giving the sanctions and benedictions of Christianity to the awful wrongs and barbarities of one of the most cruel, sanguinary, and demoralizing wars on record!" But if the period ever arrives to when the second largest republic on earth, Mexico, and by far the most hopeful and consistent one besides our own is blotted out of the record of nations and becomes the “Poland of the west” we shall be condemned in the eyes of heaven and our own as authors to such tremendous a catastrophe! - From the War with Mexico Reviewed, Abiel Abbott Livermore 1845, American Peace Society
Oh the irony at the end when they connect ww2 germany with Prussia, and claim "very clever propaganda" all the while they were filming the very same propaganda themselves.
Right most repellent regime? Soviet, or maoists murdered far more, and the soviets legacy only recently ended, the Maoist one is now becoming a modern colonial power as well. I find it a stupid intro and segway to point to Hitler and ww2 in this way, if it was about nazi germany and the documentary mentioned inspirations from the past sure, but when this is a nation with roots starting in 1400s to mention something half a millennia later? That seems like tarnishing and/or discrediting something. Keep ww2 history to ww2.
Mon Prince, I would do this for you a thousand times.
once again proving that history is better than fiction.
I'm grateful for this video. This narrator really is wonderful.
Sir Christopher Clark is indeed one of his generation's finest scholars in the area of German History!
Fantastic documentary, thanks for the upload!
36:11
Polish guy: "there was no army anymore, only a group of..."
Host: "Fleeing soldiers."
Polish guy: "Flying Soldiers yes."
Lmao
My family are East Prussian they came to the USA in the 1900s around 1910. Im guessing my great grandfathers emigration was because of forced conscription.
quite ironic, since 4 years later your dad would have been conscripted in the US army to fight his fatherland.
Respect from India !
my great grand parents told me of Prussia my peoples homeland...I know nothing of this place and I so want to learn all I can but there is not much information about it...
Rebekah Mcfatridge You are absolutely right. There are videos about the American education system as it was inspires by the Prussian system. But that is the extent of Prussian educational videos on youtube.
How can I help you? Do you have something in specific that you want to know?
Europeans have a difficult history with Prussia, having regularly overshadowed in many fields over the years. Well. Until 1926 at least.
#removegermansfrompolishland
Like as in Prussian Prussian, or East Prussian German?
There was a lecture he did to a bunch of students where they asked him questions afterwards pertaining to the Ukrainian crisis that has been removed within the last month, does anyone know where that lecture was held and if there are any other copies of it up?
I don't know but I'm curious how much you've actually looked.
Could someone tell me please the music playing at 55:23? I feel I should know it.
It's Handel's famous sarabanda in d minor.
Thank you.
13:00 enlightened monarchs
20:00 Frederick’s uniform
21:00 Refusal to be recognized as individual
26:00 was Frederick gay?
32:00 Battle of Rossbach 1757
44:00 general law code
46:00 death 1786
48:00 young Germans know nothing
49:00 Otto von Bismarck
50:00 Day of Potsdam 1933
51:00 Otto Gebühr
53:00 Hitler and Frederick
you're holding 300 year old paper in your bare hands?!?!?
It’s better to use bare hands on old paper.
Marshall Banana couldn’t be told better...
Why are some of the narrations censored?
Not censored, just the audio fails. Some technical error when uploading the video.
Anna Marianne YEP!
anyone hear the star wars duel of the fates at the beginning or am I just obsessed with star wars?
that's suite in d minor written by handel around 1700, its a little bit older than dual of the fates lol
@@robertgiggie6366 Spank you. The very question I was about to ask.
5:11...Clan of "Calvinist" noblemen (House of Hohenzollern). Critical (and glorious) fact. Lang lebe die Hauses des Hohenzollern. Gott mit uns.
Sorry Germany you were right. If my ancestors had known they would never have fought against you. GB was fooled by its own leaders
Right about what?
About what tho?
@Ami-jc2oo about both Capitalism and Communism being flawed. And that we are liars: pretending we went to war to save Poland, but helped hand it to Russia.
There's more but you've had enough of my time , considering it's an old poost
@@markstokes3685 nazi
I love that this man is still known as one of the GOATs but Human History went ahead and gave Napoleon the middle finger.
I think a lot of times the whole “history is written by the winners” line is a bit cliche or overstated but in the case of napoleon this is 100% true. It doesn’t help that essentially the entirety of the European great powers over the course of almost 2 full decades were allied against napoleon and the French, but after his loss at Waterloo, that essentially paved the way for the ultimate victors here the English and the rest of the contemporary historians at the time to just give a giant middle finger to napoleon and describe him as some sort of evil ogre bent on the destruction and conquest of the entirety of Europe and that good eventually prevailed. It also doesn’t help that while you have the detractors and that line of thinking that has been passed down, you have the exact opposite spectrum where it’s just as polarized where they idolize and treat napoleon as some sort of infallible general and leader. But the truth is a lot more nuanced then that and unfortunately he sort of gets overlooked a lot
@@worldview6218 I used to hold the position that he should have the same moniker as Alexander, Pyotr, and Frederick... But once I learned about his abandonment of his army in Egypt and subsequent lying to his own people, and then the absolute catastrophe of the Russian campaign... I'm like, yeah! He's not so great.
@@turtlenoheart what about when Fredrick literally fled the battlefield as well? Or the catastrophe at kunersdorf? I mean all that literally saved Prussia from literally being wiped off the map was one, the Russians not actually using the catastrophic and devestating defeat of the Prussian army to continue pressing their attack, and a stroke of luck that the tsarina died and her heir was a fanboy of the guy. It wasn’t military genius, and I’m not shitting on Fredrick either here, I’m just saying, these aren’t infallible leaders or generals. Fredrick during the 7 years war lost half of his battles, of the 16 major engagements, he lost 8 of those, and again, kunesdorf was a catastrophe. He also abandoned his men on the battlefield, which napoleon never fled the battlefield, more he left the theatre of war and delegated it to a subordinate to go back to Europe and I’m not defending napoleon leaving those men in Egypt either, and yes Fredrick after fleeing the battle, would then go on to actually be like napoleon, a leader who led from the front and was not afraid to put himself in the line of fire. But in both diplomacy, and matters of state, both men have had great achievements, and both have had great blunders and things we can criticize them for. In matters of war it is the same. But militarily, while Fredrick is for sure definitely one of the greatest solider kings in all of history, napoleon revolutionized warfare, and he is literally one of the all time greatest generals to have ever lived. Again, sure, was he eventually after two decades of war defeated in Waterloo? Yes, but he also was literally at war with entirety of the great powers in Europe almost perpetually for 2 decades, and he and his generals had some of the biggest accomplishments and victories of all time. The napoleonic code is still the bedrock of the French legal system today. But yes he was a flawed human, he had tons of faults like any other person in history and he’s neither the boogeyman or ogre, or overrated as a military mind his detractors make him out to be nor is he the greatest emperor and leader to have ever existed as some of his admirers think.
@@worldview6218 Why are you playing 'What About' games with me? Especially when France had been the superpower in Europe for centuries and Prussia was only trying to find a secure place in its own history? They were literally the little guy fighting against the big bullies of Europe.
@@turtlenoheart I’m not playing whataboutism though. I’m not even talking about Prussia or the reasons for going to war or France. It’s not whayaboutism to point out that not putting napoleon high up on your list because of the blunder in Russia, or because of Egypt to point out that Fredrick who you have on your list had the exact same type of blunders. I’m not even comparing Fredrick and napoleon either or like sizing them up against each other. I’m saying, Fredrick was a great king, a damn good general, but that he made diplomatic blunders, he made critical military blunders, and like napoleon he also accompanied his soldiers to a war he started and when it got crazy and looked like they’d lose, he left. He lost major battles and campaigns, and again, all that stopped Prussia becoming a literal minor landlocked backwater german kingdom was the death of the tsarina and Russia not pressing onto Berlin, not any military genius. The point I’m making is these guys are gods…they aren’t infallible. They are people who are deeply flawed, make mistakes, but also have both made many great accomplishments militarily and domestically.
Does the BBC consider groundless speculation propaganda? There was no historic evidence presented in regards to Fredricks sexuality.
I agree. Who knows but I think he was so devoted to his kingdom that marriage or children never consumed him. Maybe he was gay tho maybe he wasn't
I'm pretty sure there is a letter from Frederick essentially saying he wasn't straight that you can find on his Wikipedia page
Magnus I wonder why the bbc didn’t show a picture of this letter he penned to bolster their claim?
Pure slander, you don't want Europeans to become aware of the greatness in their shared history, and to look to their individual as well as shared roots for inspiration, that would not do well 2020 globalist era.
@@INSANESUICIDE Yeah, because you couldn't ever do great things if you happened to be gay in those times. You're too used to modern flamboyance-- I get there's a lot of sensationalism today, but don't let that make you start whipping up conspiracy theories for a video.
The humble jacket and the idolatry splender of his palace dont go together.
No good to be found in the libertine culture...
The "palace" is barely a large mansion. If you compare it to other 18th century palaces in Europe it is indeed rather humble.
If you ever visit Sanssouci, you'll be surprised how small it is. You can walk around it in five minutes, if you don't stop to admire the beauty of the rooms.
The name of the German military musique please in 18:22
Preussens gloria
thank you
@@Fireoflearning Big fan of your vids
this guy is pretty smart whats his name?
Christopher Clark
Derude Sandstorm.
Harry Potter
@Majestic Satire haha
Alexander the Great
Anyone know the beginning piece? Is that Bach?
Handel sarabande
So nothing is left of king's home in Küstrin?! (The historian, standing in a meadow says, ``here is where it must have been?'') You show a long shot of a burg-like edifice; is that the castle? Inside is a plaque commemorating Leutnant Hans Hermann von Katte.
Überlegenes Training, Taktik und Waffen waren der Grund, warum wir das dominanteste Militär auf dem Planeten waren
Ich bin Amerikaner, aber ich bin ein Nachkomme von Preußen. Meine Vorfahren kamen 1845 in die Republik Texas.
fire the sound mixer. this is awful. instruments yelling at me, host whispering....
We were Prussian too...
Alright, who's here because of hetalia?
No one? Ok then.
I came her because I like history not some anime.
Here*
@@AbrahamLincoln4 Fair enough, I don't blame ya
I'm here for history. But precisely because I love history - and Frederick the Great, and all things Prussian - I also love the Hetalian version of him and Prussia. Sure, Hetalia's Old Fritz is more affable and fatherly than his historical self, but that's understandable, considering he is mostly seen through Prussia's fond memories. Prussia himself is to me undoubtedly the best written character in Hetalia - a delightfully complex and memorable persona.
@@huhthatsinteresting1644 I have only seen a few of the show's bits, but the concept is interesting
I am god
Gotta mix in the Jewish homosexual shilling
I'd like a real documentary not some guy drawing pictures in the sand
Are you gonna dismiss this as a documentary, simply because of less than 1 minute of footage when the entire video is 1 hour?
@@eiriksj983 I think he means another documentary that I forgot the name of, but it had a man explain history with sand.
Pay for his book and read it then, which covers the whole history of Prussia in more detail. Or just bitch on UA-cam comments...
Reference to Frederic but it’s not so great and the decline of Rome during the war with Mexico and the United states 1846 in opposition to what was considered the “unjust war”:
Have the histories of the ruin of Greek and Roman liberty consequent on such extensions of empire by sword no lesson for us? Many men have achieved the title and have been called great, but most have been great in crime and blood; an Alexander the Great , a Pompey the great , a Ceasar, a Herod, a Louis, a Henry, a Frederic, a Charles, a Bonaparte, a Charlemagne , a Houston. They were great in many things ; great, perhaps, in ability, great in resolution of will, great in means of influence, and striking in their results; but little in the elements of a truly great character; little in honesty, in truth, in love, mean, selfish, crafty, cruel, and implacable. They have been willing to sacrifice any amount of human life or happiness, to secure their end, and be accounted the greatest. But how poor the honor, how blood-stained the glory! How many death-pangs it has taken to refine their thrill of pleasure, how many tears to water their garlands of victory, how much human gore to dye their purple robes of royalty! What curses have loaded their names on earth, what awful memories must haunt them in the world of spirits! It was when the Pretorian Guards of Rome bore the emperor into office by their despotic will, that the mistress of nations began to decline. And when, in any nation, the glorious gifts of Christian statesmanship, and ripe experience, and large converse among men, and a life-time of civil services to one's country and the world, are postponed and set aside for “the conquering hero," the Genius of rational, heaven-descended Liberty is already meditating her departure to some more congenial clime. The great men in these United States, who are they ? Are they the poets who are striking the finest chords of the celestial lyre, and awakening, by strains of sublimity that will never die, the tastes and aspirations and immortal energies of men of all generations ? Are they the artists who are shaping the marble into beauty, and giving life to the canvas, and thus refining and elevating the soul of the world? Are they the orators who have plead for liberty with angelic tongue, and urged the infinite concerns of religion with a melting persuasion? Are they the princely merchants who have given their tens of thousands of dollars to the cause of education, and the welfare of a hundred ages to come? Are they the retired and humble scholars, who, poor and unnoted by the world, trim the lamp of learning, decipher the meaning of life, unroll the map of antiquity, and extract the wisdom of libraries, and the history of empires gone? No; our great men are not poets, nor philosophers, nor philanthropists, nor artists, nor judges, nor jurists, nor statesmen. Sad day is it for humanity, when the heroes are the destroyers, and hosaunas are sung over ruined cities and sinking nations, to those whose weapons are not love and truth, but fire and sword ! We want no more of those Great ones, we want the truly great. We want civilians, not swordsmen; Catos, not Caesars, nor Syllas at the head of Christendom, Christian American and nations. We must show them how much greater in reality Jesus, the well-beloved of the Father, was in washing his disciples' feet, than Xerxes riding forth at the head of his army to lay waste the fairest countries with fire and sword, Jesus dying in ignominy on the cross, than Caesar making a triumphal procession into Rome with the spoils and captives of vanquished kingdoms. 'They have wandered back into the
desolated Pantheon, and there, amongst the Polytheistic relics of that " pale mother of dead empires," they have found a God whom these Romans, centuries gone by, baptized, "Terminus". We have seen the end of him and his empire. Whoever would know the further fate of the Roman Diety, so recently taken under the bosom of American Democracy, may find ample gratification of his curiosity, in the luminous pages of the historical accounts of "Gibbons Decline and Fall of Rome". For What Rome was in her decline, America was in her infancy! Such will find that Rome thought as you now think, it was her destiny to conquer and divide nations, and no doubt she sometimes says as you do now "I will conquer a peace!". And where now is she, the once omnipotent Rome, Mistress of the World? And it needs no prophet's eye to read, in the future, the impartial condemnation of history. There we shall be defeated, without doubt and without help, No matter however successful we may be in blowing up Mexican cities and dispersing Mexican armies! Sermons, which are now before us, were preached both on the Rio Grande, and at the city of Mexico before the troops, justifying the war, talking largely of the " Anglo Saxon destiny." Comparing the progress of the American arms with the entrance of the children of Israel into the land of Canaan, and giving the sanctions and benedictions of Christianity to the awful wrongs and barbarities of one of the most cruel, sanguinary, and demoralizing wars on record!" But if the period ever arrives to when the second largest republic on earth, Mexico, and by far the most hopeful and consistent one besides our own is blotted out of the record of nations and becomes the “Poland of the west” we shall be condemned in the eyes of heaven and our own as authors to such tremendous a catastrophe! - From the War with Mexico Reviewed, Abiel Abbott Livermore 1845, American Peace Society
He was gay !!!!
Oh the irony at the end when they connect ww2 germany with Prussia, and claim "very clever propaganda" all the while they were filming the very same propaganda themselves.
Right most repellent regime? Soviet, or maoists murdered far more, and the soviets legacy only recently ended, the Maoist one is now becoming a modern colonial power as well.
I find it a stupid intro and segway to point to Hitler and ww2 in this way, if it was about nazi germany and the documentary mentioned inspirations from the past sure, but when this is a nation with roots starting in 1400s to mention something half a millennia later? That seems like tarnishing and/or discrediting something. Keep ww2 history to ww2.