How Do Germany & Poland Compare?

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  • @General.Knowledge
    @General.Knowledge  Рік тому +76

    *Which other countries should I compare next?*

    • @emmanuelgossaki4404
      @emmanuelgossaki4404 Рік тому +16

      I was thinking of Soith Korea and Japan or some countries less known like Algeria and Morocco

    • @JoeBidenIcecream
      @JoeBidenIcecream Рік тому +13

      Compare Poland and Germany

    • @mysak_cz5219
      @mysak_cz5219 Рік тому +27

      Czechia and Slovakia

    • @emptyhad2571
      @emptyhad2571 Рік тому +13

      Austria and Switzerland . If not do the comment above mine. Or Hungary and Romania

    • @emmanuelgossaki4404
      @emmanuelgossaki4404 Рік тому +10

      Oh! What about Portugal and Brazil or Greece and Turkey

  • @SocialistNerd
    @SocialistNerd Рік тому +1600

    A reason why the polish economy isn’t that good is because they started true development in 1990 since before that they were soviet ruled.

    • @tnickknight
      @tnickknight Рік тому +21

      No they were free for two decades prior to WW2

    • @user-ig7gf3qt8j
      @user-ig7gf3qt8j Рік тому +211

      @@tnickknight 20 decades rulled by oligarchy, which 5 of those were fighting the Germans, Soviets, Czech and linking the land together

    • @ptasznik5973
      @ptasznik5973 Рік тому

      ​@@tnickknight Yes we were free just to be demolished by thwo super-powers and almost 80 years of shity economic system and Sowiet exploatation

    • @KukurydzaPL400
      @KukurydzaPL400 Рік тому +219

      ​@@tnickknight20 years wasnt enough for poland that just was for 123 years of ocupation

    • @tnickknight
      @tnickknight Рік тому +17

      @@KukurydzaPL400 that was not Soviet it was Russian, and it includes Finland and the Baltics. Under Soviet occupation there just was no money and no supplies.. There was not a master plan. In fact, the best roads in the societ union lead to Moscow and St Petersburg to help unify the area. Your theory is ridiculous

  • @salad7776
    @salad7776 Рік тому +697

    These countries cannot be compared, because Germany was able to develop after WW2, although theoretically defeated, they could normally build industry, their own brands and get rich. Poland not only lost 1/5 of its area, was devastated and robbed, but also became a Soviet colony.

    • @salad7776
      @salad7776 Рік тому +115

      @@sassenspeyghel4155 Not exactly, because West Germany has a much larger population and territory than East Germany, and not only was West Germany not robbed like the Soviets robbed the area "donated" to Poland (they even stole entire railway lines). In addition West Germany was able to develop normally, build its brands, benefit from the support of the USA (Marshall Plan). As for the 1/5 of the area in the east lost by Poland, these were very fertile lands, also rich in natural resources (coal, gas, etc.). In addition, Stalin's goal was to quarrel Poles and Germans who were driven from their homes by the decision of the victorious powers (and NOT Poland).

    • @fastenergy2577
      @fastenergy2577 Рік тому +3

      @@salad7776but you can compare them

    • @123pik1
      @123pik1 Рік тому +41

      @@fastenergy2577 Yes we can compare
      But that important fact should be admitted, also like German companies which make much money during WWII (Volkswagen for example)
      Reparations also should be admitted and how many percent of population was lost during WWII
      and where are cultural objects in past belonging to Poland?

    • @plincz9279
      @plincz9279 Рік тому +15

      100% right

    • @salad7776
      @salad7776 Рік тому +22

      @dgsidecarscom To some extent, the fates of communist East Germany and communist Poland were similar, but not entirely, because East Germany was a "model" country for the Soviets to compare with the West, hence the greater economic support (or rather less exploitation). Polish communism was destroyed by the economic crisis in the 1980s, which in turn resulted from earlier years of indebtedness and stupid decisions in the economy. The biggest difference occurred in the 90s because Germany had a rich western part that could invest in the east and immediately introduce a normal legal and social system. Poland had to and still has to do everything on its own, with the support of the EU.

  • @bitnerka91
    @bitnerka91 Рік тому +331

    Statistic about young people living with their parents is not true for one important reason. In Poland there is no urge to inform the authorities that you do not live with your parents anymore. Many people practicaly move out when they are 19 and go to university, but they stay registered at parent's house, because the dorm at the university is not seen as permanent domicile. Then they can live with their partner for years, but the official adress will probably change, let's say, around 35th birthday, when they buy their own apartment.
    Personal example: many of my Polish friends, age 30-32, live abroad, but are registered at parent's to have also a Polish adress. They all moved out when they were 19-23.
    In Germany the registration right after moving to a new place is a big deal and you have to have it done quickly, even if you live in a dorm.

    • @GreatPolishWingedHussars
      @GreatPolishWingedHussars Рік тому +23

      Yes, that's just a minor detail on the other hand, is more important that this video is nonsense because of some serious errors. Poland had 40 million population before the Ukrainian war because of the migrants from Ukraine and Belarus but also from other countries, whereby the migration from the Ukraine was increased by the Ukrainian war. If one does not want to accept these migrants as a Polish population, one should also subtract the migrants from the German population. Then Germany would have at least 10 million fewer inhabitants, although that would probably 15 million less. If you doubt that, you just have to See streets in German cities where the migrants are often in the majority and take a German subway where often are no Europeans in the subway compartment. The alleged number of Poles who live in Germany is also wrong. According to the German wiki link Polen in Detuschland (Poles in Germany), 783,085 Poles lived in Germany in 2016. So that's significantly less than the absurd number of 2-3 million Poles who allegedly live in Germany. There are also significantly more Muslims in Germany than erroneously 3.6% indicate in the video. This false number is spread by the government in order not to soothe the German population. The real number of Muslims in Germany is about 10% and it is increasing all the time. New mosques are constantly being built in Germany, which is also illustrated by the large number of Muslims. Muezzin prayer call is now normal in many German cities because this country is becoming more and more oriental. The number of troops of the Polish Army was also incorrectly stated in the video, as the Polish number of troops today is 207,000. 172,000 regular army soldiers and 35,000 soldiers belonging to the territorial defense force. The Polish Army also wants to increase the number of soldiers in the army to 300,000 + 50,000 Territorial Defense Force. It is also absurd to claim that the crime rate cannot be compared because of the different populations. Because the crime rates are calculated per 100,000 inhabitants! The crime rate in Germany is twice as high as in Poland. Whether murder rate, robbery rate or rape rate all much higher than in Poland! Why is that so? Does that have anything to do with the different migration policies?
      In any case, it should also be mentioned in this video that Poland is poorer today than the Germans because of the Germans. This difference in wealth is the direct result of the extreme damage done to Poland by the Germans. The fact that this Nazi nation murdered 6 million Polish citizens was definitely not good for the Polish economy. Because not only did the Germans completely ruin Poland's economy with the raid in 1939 and the occupation of 1939-45, but they also directly caused the occupation of Poland by the Soviets through their raid. The Soviets have imposed with violence a communist economic system on Poland for almost 50 years, which was very harmful to Poland's economy. The communist system was also a hindrance to the rebuilding of Poland after the war! On the other hand much of the ignominious Nazi nation that was responsible for at least 55 million deaths, most of them murdered in genocide, was able to rebuild their country and economy after the war by means of in the beneficial capitalist economic system. Yes, a large part of the Germans in West Germany could enjoy the benefits of the capitalist system, while the Poles had to suffer under communism. Because a large part of the Nazi nation was not punished for their heinous crimes after the Second World War, they were actually rewarded by the Americans! Yes, the Americans give the Nazi nation a lot of money with the so-called Marshall Plan Aid and in addition, the western victors waived the national debts of the Nazi nation, because the Nazi country was already bankrupt before the war due to the massive rearmament. Indeed, the Nazi nation then became the ally of the western victors and was absorbed into NATO in 1955, with the army being built up by criminal Nazi generals. So in the 50s, most of Germans became the ally of the West. (West Germany). However the problem was that this Nazi nation was completely megalomaniac, mad, criminal, amoral and degenerated! The West could not be allied to a morally degenerate Nazi nation that has murdered millions of children, among other crimes. So they were practically systematically washed clean to be tolerable as allies. So they were washed clean by propaganda (Western historians / media / politicians / Hollywood etc.) and the blame was put on relatively few Nazis. So there was also a Western whitewashing campaign that whitewashed Germans from the Guilt and laid the blame on relatively few Nazis. This pro-German whitewashing propaganda is continued to this day. The propagandists even claim that the Germans were liberated in 1945. I have read and heard this lie more often that the Germans were allegedly liberated. LIBERATED! As e.g. the title of this UA-cam video shows. "Liberation of Munich April 30 1945" ua-cam.com/video/RtCvjD56Kkc/v-deo.html the title is not the occupation of Munich by the Americans, which would correspond to historical facts. No, a lie is being spread about liberation! An unbelievable lie in which from the victory over this evil Nazi nation with the subsequent multi-annual occupation is made a LIBERATION. This white wash of the Germans of course bothers the Poles. But what bothers Poland certainly doesn't interest the shameful and pathetic West. No, their historians, politicians and journalists mendacious make Poland some kind of ally of the Nazis in the genocide against the Jews. Of course not the allies of the Germans, because the culprits were only and exclusively the Nazis!
      As for the absurd talk about the alleged Polish-German friendship, that's ridiculous, because it doesn't exist. The fact that Poland is in NATO and the EU together with the Germans is pure pragmatism. This has nothing to do with friendship! Despite the Germans, Poland is in NATO and the EU, not because of the Germans. This nation is absolutely incapable of friendship with Poland. They are much too arrogant, insulting and megalomaniac for that! Friendship with this very unpleasant nation is ruled out not only because of the murder of 6 million Polish citizens and the ruin of Poland, but also because of their insolence today. So their historians, journalists and politicians are also very keen to take part in the outrageous defamation campaign which falsely makes Poles some kind of ally of the Nazis in committing genocide against the Jews. It is self-explanatory when their journalists, historians and politicians defame Poles as an ally, not of the Germans, but of the Nazis. So they also constantly use the term Nazis not Germans whose supposed allies were the Poles as do the mendacious western propagandists. Just as they defame Poles, they wash themselves clean with the help of the gigantic Western mendacious propaganda machine. They spread all sorts of lies about Poland's past, and I only told a fraction of the lies. The German media and politicians also defame today's Poland as a kind of non-democracy, spreading the lie that allegedly the Polish judicial system does not conform to democratic standards and that there is allegedly no freedom of the press in Poland. Yes, of all things, Germans shamelessly defame Poland in this way, whereby their legal system does not correspond to democratic standards. Here is the information regarding the German judiciary system that does not meet democratic standards. One can find out in this german link (Richterwahlausschuss - Wikipedia) about the German judge election procedure and how much this procedure violates democratic standards. Translated from this German Wiki link "Richterwahlausschuss" ( Judicial Selection Committee)! "The judicial election process in Germany is worthy of criticism because of the lack of transparency of the process and that in the election in addition to the professional qualifications and the party-political orientation of the candidates play a role. Experts speaks of "party patronage" and "personal expansion of power of the political parties". The authority responsible for the selection and career of judges is not independent of the executive in Germany. If Germany were not already in the EU, Germany would be a problematic candidate for accession ... " The German Constitutional Court, which is almost exclusively made up of party members from influential parties, certainly does not meet democratic standards either. Incidentally, in Germany all public prosecutors up to and including the Federal Public Prosecutor are appointed by active party politicians of the governing parties (Ministers of Justice). This is a judicial system steeped in political influence that does not at all meet democratic standards. Germans with this miserable legal system then dare to defame Poland as undemocratic because of the allegedly democratic standards not corresponding legal system. In Germany, left-wing journalists completely dominate the media and such one-sided dominance also contradicts democratic principles. But especially the Germans with media, which do not do justice to the democratic standards at all. dare to defame Poland as a country without freedom of the press. But there are also various other impudence of this nation!
      I continue the comment below.

    • @GreatPolishWingedHussars
      @GreatPolishWingedHussars Рік тому

      Let's ignore the fact that they murdered my grandpa and enslaved the other grandpa and didn't pay a cent in compensation for it. They supposed to be our friends? For real? This nation should be our friend who refuses to pay compensation to the entire Polish nation to this day, even though they have extremely damaged our country and completely ruined our country. They paid compensation to the Western European countries. But they refuse to pay Poland! Poles want the Germans to finally pay the justified reparation debts because these are national debts that are inherited. But the Germans definitely refuse to pay. Incidentally, this is how the Germans dare to treat Polish victims. An old Polish woman, during the German occupation 9 years and her mother were imprisoned from the Germans in death camp Auschwitz. They were there for about a month and then were freed! Her father was murdered in this death camp! This Polish woman wanted money for her grandchildren and applied for compensation from the Germans! The Germans sent her a 5 Deutsch Mark (2,5 Euro) check, with the remark that this is not compensation from the German side, but a "gesture of goodwill"! A gesture of "goodwill"! The Germans still refuse to pay compensation to Poland for the damage caused by the German occupation.
      They show their masked face to the western nations. The face of the purified Germans. Towards Poland, Germans often show the true German face! Pure outrageous arrogance! For example on German TV, Poles are regularly portrayed in jokes with the punchline that we are criminals and our women are called as prostitutes in jokes! This is politically correct in Germany! These are very popular jokes in Germany! By the way, Poles are also the millions of Poles who were murdered by the them. These jokes defame these murdered Poles too! I could name many more examples of their outrageous arrogance! Germans who defame the Poles with such jokes are supposed to be friends of the Poles? NO these are not our friends.
      But the Germans will soon stop laughing! The Germans obviously have no problem with being colonized. Perhaps because of self-loathing, they allow millions of culturally completely foreign Orientals from the middle east to colonize the own country. Because it's amazing what's happening in Germany because the German allow millions of culturally completely foreign Orientals to colonize the own country. Yes they accept their colonization! Because tens of millions come from them and settle the country the term colonization is totally appropriate. By the way, Wiki quote: "Colonization is sometimes used synonymously with settling." Already today there are about 10% of Orientals in this country. Which are a kind of aliens. It is no coincidence why Germany has twice the crime rate compared to Poland. Even before the Ukraine war, Poland had millions of migrants from Ukraine. Yes, Poland is an immigration country. And the Ukrainians have no problem integrating in Poland. They are Europeans like the Poles and will be assimilated if they live longer in Poland. This did not significantly increase the Polish crime rate. On the other hand, Orientals and Africans immigrated to Germany. The result of this immigration is an extremely increased crime rate. It's not racism if one state it, one is just describing reality. Everyone knows that these migrants form parallel societies and that must do not integrate and adapt. The Orientals also give their children Oriental first names and not German first names. There can be no talk of an assimilation of most anyway. Due to this failure to integrate, there are social problems that lead to increased crime. In addition, crime is also increased by special cultural aspects of the countries of origin. Like, for example, these migrants come from Klan-influenced societies, which leads to klan crimes. Religion is also a reason why integration fails and the crime rate increases. The Ukrainians come from a Christian country. The Orientals and many Africans, on the other hand, are Muslims. This results in terrorism, but also crimes such as the genital cutting of girls or the murder of homosexuals or honor killings. Incidentally, this migration also leads to an increase in crime among Germans themselves, because it is also a crime if one attacks migrants and migrant camps, threaten migrants and hunts or even kills them.
      Already today there is a big conflict in this country of the "natives" against the orientals, although the orientals have reached until now only about 10% of the population in this country. Only a small percentage is assimilated. Most wanted to keep their oriental identity! Moreover, this religion also prevents integration, in addition to the completely different culture, because the migrants feel superior to the native Germans because of their religion, which makes integration even more difficult. Because when you feel superior, you certainly don't conform to those who are inferior. Failed integration due to extremely different cultures is the norm for millions of Orientals in this country. Let's see what will happen when 20% or 30% of the population will be Orientals. Because of that there will be chaos and civil war for supremacy. Already today radicals including soldiers and police officers are already setting up weapons depots and planning armed struggle with the aim of overthrowing the government. The presages of the civil war are already clearly visible today. In Germany there was already a planned coup d'état with the participation of former officers of special forces of the army! It was planned to overthrow the government and replace it with a new provisional government. 3000 police officers with special task forces were deployed to arrest those responsible. A few months before this attempted coup d'etat, another far-right group wanted to provoke a civil war to overthrow the government!The German Criminal Police Office (BKA) recorded a total of 44,692 politically motivated crimes in 2020. These have increased by 8.5 percent compared to the previous year and are therefore at a new high according to the BKA. Propaganda crimes, insults and incitement to hatred made up more than half (57.3 percent) of all reported crimes. The other half are violent crimes. Right-wing extremist crimes accounted more than half of all this crimes registered in 2020. The other half are Islamist and left-wing extremists crimes. Many mosques are already being built today and there is more and more resistance to it! There is a growing demand for Muslim dietary laws to be taken into account in society. There are more and more conflicts regarding religious clothing. The Orientals also give their children Oriental first names and not German. Female teachers only want to work with their hair covered. It is demanded that girls in schools should have the opportunity to be taught with their hair covered. Girls should not participate in physical education and swimming lessons. The Christmas markets are actually renamed Winter markets. . Because the country should be de-Christianized. Let's see when there will be ramaḍān markets etc. etc. etc. In this German video one can see Germany's future with fully veiled girls! Children's street festival in Berlin with islamic veiled little girls! ua-cam.com/video/ByvcTkXhsCE/v-deo.html There are also additional Arabic street signs on German streets as this video also shows. ua-cam.com/video/Jta9hppHxd8/v-deo.html Germany celebrates its first Arabic language street sign! In the meantime are currently about 3000 mosques in Germany!
      Such news can then be read in the German media, which point to the coming civil war. "Right-wing extremists are becoming more and more radical!" "Left-wing extremists are becoming more and more radical!" "Islamic fundamentalism is becoming more and more radical!" "Attacks on refugee camps by right-wing extremists." "A group of Left-wing extremist seriously injured two right-wing extremists in Erfurt in a planned ambush." "Hundreds of masked left-wing extremists riot in Berlin!" "On New Year's Eve there were riots by orientals in various German cities. Fires were started. Firefighters trying to put out a burning bus had to flee from an oriental mob. Even ambulances were attacked and damaged. Police officers were also attacked." In the few German media that are not controlled by the left wingers in Germany, these oriental riots were seen as a demonstration of power by the Oriantals in Germany. The online offshoot "Zeit Online" of the German left-wing newspaper "Zeit", which is very well respected in Germany, has posted on Twitter that "the Germans will lose power in their own country. The Germans will become a minority in their own country. Non-Germans will take over power in the country!" But when the German journalists realized how explosive these sentences were, the article was deleted. But the internet never forgets and various people have already reported on the article.
      A civil war for supremacy in the country is therefore likely with about 30% oriental population! The future of this country will definitely be violent! These are all consequences of radical left-wing politics in Germany!

    • @Masa-san
      @Masa-san Рік тому +4

      In Poland My dad which is over 50 is still officially assigned to my grandparents apartment address though he owns 2 houses. Main house address is assigned to my mom.
      So yeah, if you don't want to do it, Poland won't force you.

    • @missquprison
      @missquprison Рік тому +8

      I can attest to this. I'm 27yo Polish male. I left familyhome at age of 20, but to this day I live elsewhere and I am still oficially registered to live at parent's house. It's actually very conienent that way. I don't have any issues from goverment or companies not being registered here at my current locations, but I move a lot and all the important letters I get (which is also very rare, because everything gets done over internet nowadays) just end up at my folks place and they just read it out for me through phone.

    • @GreatPolishWingedHussars
      @GreatPolishWingedHussars Рік тому +1

      @@missquprison Yes, that's why the statistics shown in the video are not correct!

  • @Alberto2
    @Alberto2 Рік тому +768

    Poland's Emblem can be dated back to the 7th Century as legend has it that Lech, the supposed founder of Poland, saw a Wite Eagle on The Sunset and made it his symbol.

    • @tymonzmijewski3206
      @tymonzmijewski3206 Рік тому +17

      more like to the first ruler in 10th century of poland but still i

    • @stephenroney2366
      @stephenroney2366 Рік тому +26

      The emblem of Scotland is a unicorn.
      I don't think anyone has ever seen one for obvious reasons.

    • @Alberto2
      @Alberto2 Рік тому +23

      @@stephenroney2366 yeah but those aren't real and I haven't heard any legends of Scots seeing them.

    • @eddyheaddrascal1858
      @eddyheaddrascal1858 Рік тому +14

      The symbol of the Goths, Eastern Germanics, was the eagle. They migrated West, where the Sun sets, into the Roman Empire. Lech saw the eagle leave West; its a story about the Slavs seeing the Goths leave

    • @Alberto2
      @Alberto2 Рік тому +14

      ​@@eddyheaddrascal1858It could be but many places represent themselves with various eagles + Lech and the East Germans were nearly 200 years apart and Lech was supposed to be hunting, not chasing Goths around.

  • @mejsjalv
    @mejsjalv Рік тому +269

    Gotta love the Polish people. Too bad I've never been to Poland yet, but I've met poles randomly and really cannot complain. Very down to earth people, very welcoming, and they pretty much do magic with cabbage.

    • @kj4923
      @kj4923 Рік тому +18

      take your Polish friend(s) and go to visit Poland. Greetings from PL.

    • @arturms4159
      @arturms4159 Рік тому +13

      Time to visit - go to Warsaw, Gdansk, Krakow, Poznan and Wroslaw. I think you won't be disappointed.

    • @InsoIence
      @InsoIence Рік тому +7

      @@arturms4159 Malbork (castle), Wieliczka (salt mine), Oświęcim (Auschwitz), Toruń, Mazury! And so much more.

    • @GreatPolishWingedHussars
      @GreatPolishWingedHussars Рік тому +3

      Thanks for the praise for Polish people! In any case, you are welcome in Poland with valid travel documents.

    • @GreatPolishWingedHussars
      @GreatPolishWingedHussars Рік тому +14

      By the way, this video is nonsense because of some serious errors. Poland had 40 million population before the Ukrainian war because of the migrants from Ukraine and Belarus but also from other countries, whereby the migration from the Ukraine was increased by the Ukrainian war. If one does not want to accept these migrants as a Polish population, one should also subtract the migrants from the German population. Then Germany would have at least 10 million fewer inhabitants, although that would probably 15 million less. If you doubt that, you just have to See streets in German cities where the migrants are often in the majority and take a German subway where often are no Europeans in the subway compartment. The alleged number of Poles who live in Germany is also wrong. According to the German wiki link Polen in Detuschland (Poles in Germany), 783,085 Poles lived in Germany in 2016. So that's significantly less than the absurd number of 2-3 million Poles who allegedly live in Germany. There are also significantly more Muslims in Germany than erroneously 3.6% indicate in the video. This false number is spread by the government in order not to soothe the German population. The real number of Muslims in Germany is about 10% and it is increasing all the time. New mosques are constantly being built in Germany, which is also illustrated by the large number of Muslims. Muezzin prayer call is now normal in many German cities because this country is becoming more and more oriental. The number of troops of the Polish Army was also incorrectly stated in the video, as the Polish number of troops today is 207,000. 172,000 regular army soldiers and 35,000 soldiers belonging to the territorial defense force. The Polish Army also wants to increase the number of soldiers in the army to 300,000 + 50,000 Territorial Defense Force. It is also absurd to claim that the crime rate cannot be compared because of the different populations. Because the crime rates are calculated per 100,000 inhabitants! The crime rate in Germany is twice as high as in Poland. Whether murder rate, robbery rate or rape rate all much higher than in Poland! Why is that so? Does that have anything to do with the different migration policies?
      In any case, it should also be mentioned in this video that Poland is poorer today than the Germans because of the Germans. This difference in wealth is the direct result of the extreme damage done to Poland by the Germans. The fact that this Nazi nation murdered 6 million Polish citizens was definitely not good for the Polish economy. Because not only did the Germans completely ruin Poland's economy with the raid in 1939 and the occupation of 1939-45, but they also directly caused the occupation of Poland by the Soviets through their raid. The Soviets have imposed with violence a communist economic system on Poland for almost 50 years, which was very harmful to Poland's economy. The communist system was also a hindrance to the rebuilding of Poland after the war! On the other hand much of the ignominious Nazi nation that was responsible for at least 55 million deaths, most of them murdered in genocide, was able to rebuild their country and economy after the war by means of in the beneficial capitalist economic system. Yes, a large part of the Germans in West Germany could enjoy the benefits of the capitalist system, while the Poles had to suffer under communism. Because a large part of the Nazi nation was not punished for their heinous crimes after the Second World War, they were actually rewarded by the Americans! Yes, the Americans give the Nazi nation a lot of money with the so-called Marshall Plan Aid and in addition, the western victors waived the national debts of the Nazi nation, because the Nazi country was already bankrupt before the war due to the massive rearmament. Indeed, the Nazi nation then became the ally of the western victors and was absorbed into NATO in 1955, with the army being built up by criminal Nazi generals. So in the 50s, most of Germans became the ally of the West. (West Germany). However the problem was that this Nazi nation was completely megalomaniac, mad, criminal, amoral and degenerated! The West could not be allied to a morally degenerate Nazi nation that has murdered millions of children, among other crimes. So they were practically systematically washed clean to be tolerable as allies. So they were washed clean by propaganda (Western historians / media / politicians / Hollywood etc.) and the blame was put on relatively few Nazis. So there was also a Western whitewashing campaign that whitewashed Germans from the Guilt and laid the blame on relatively few Nazis. This pro-German whitewashing propaganda is continued to this day. The propagandists even claim that the Germans were liberated in 1945. I have read and heard this lie more often that the Germans were allegedly liberated. LIBERATED! As e.g. the title of this UA-cam video shows. "Liberation of Munich April 30 1945" ua-cam.com/video/RtCvjD56Kkc/v-deo.html the title is not the occupation of Munich by the Americans, which would correspond to historical facts. No, a lie is being spread about liberation! An unbelievable lie in which from the victory over this evil Nazi nation with the subsequent multi-annual occupation is made a LIBERATION. This white wash of the Germans of course bothers the Poles. But what bothers Poland certainly doesn't interest the shameful and pathetic West. No, their historians, politicians and journalists mendacious make Poland some kind of ally of the Nazis in the genocide against the Jews. Of course not the allies of the Germans, because the culprits were only and exclusively the Nazis!
      As for the absurd talk about the alleged Polish-German friendship, that's ridiculous, because it doesn't exist. The fact that Poland is in NATO and the EU together with the Germans is pure pragmatism. This has nothing to do with friendship! Despite the Germans, Poland is in NATO and the EU, not because of the Germans. This nation is absolutely incapable of friendship with Poland. They are much too arrogant, insulting and megalomaniac for that! Friendship with this very unpleasant nation is ruled out not only because of the murder of 6 million Polish citizens and the ruin of Poland, but also because of their insolence today. So their historians, journalists and politicians are also very keen to take part in the outrageous defamation campaign which falsely makes Poles some kind of ally of the Nazis in committing genocide against the Jews. It is self-explanatory when their journalists, historians and politicians defame Poles as an ally, not of the Germans, but of the Nazis. So they also constantly use the term Nazis not Germans whose supposed allies were the Poles as do the mendacious western propagandists. Just as they defame Poles, they wash themselves clean with the help of the gigantic Western mendacious propaganda machine. They spread all sorts of lies about Poland's past, and I only told a fraction of the lies. The German media and politicians also defame today's Poland as a kind of non-democracy, spreading the lie that allegedly the Polish judicial system does not conform to democratic standards and that there is allegedly no freedom of the press in Poland. Yes, of all things, Germans shamelessly defame Poland in this way, whereby their legal system does not correspond to democratic standards. Here is the information regarding the German judiciary system that does not meet democratic standards. One can find out in this german link (Richterwahlausschuss - Wikipedia) about the German judge election procedure and how much this procedure violates democratic standards. Translated from this German Wiki link "Richterwahlausschuss" ( Judicial Selection Committee)! "The judicial election process in Germany is worthy of criticism because of the lack of transparency of the process and that in the election in addition to the professional qualifications and the party-political orientation of the candidates play a role. Experts speaks of "party patronage" and "personal expansion of power of the political parties". The authority responsible for the selection and career of judges is not independent of the executive in Germany. If Germany were not already in the EU, Germany would be a problematic candidate for accession ... " The German Constitutional Court, which is almost exclusively made up of party members from influential parties, certainly does not meet democratic standards either. Incidentally, in Germany all public prosecutors up to and including the Federal Public Prosecutor are appointed by active party politicians of the governing parties (Ministers of Justice). This is a judicial system steeped in political influence that does not at all meet democratic standards. Germans with this miserable legal system then dare to defame Poland as undemocratic because of the allegedly democratic standards not corresponding legal system. In Germany, left-wing journalists completely dominate the media and such one-sided dominance also contradicts democratic principles. But especially the Germans with media, which do not do justice to the democratic standards at all. dare to defame Poland as a country without freedom of the press. But there are also various other impudence of this nation!
      I continue the comment below.

  • @frtzkng
    @frtzkng Рік тому +339

    Interestingly, the motorway speed limit of 140 km/h is also one of the highest in the world, shared with Bulgaria and the state of Texas (85 mph). Only a strip of motorway connecting Abu Dhabi and Dubai has a higher limit of 160 km/h, while Germany has no hard limit, but an advisory speed of 130 km/h, above which you are always at least partially liable in case of accidents.

    • @tnickknight
      @tnickknight Рік тому +6

      Montana has an 85 pmh and had no limits, but had to stop due to out of state people

    • @adammarcinkowski-ko3el
      @adammarcinkowski-ko3el Рік тому +24

      Interesting fact why Poland had such bad roads when joined EU , all that because of soviets , they where affraid that NATO forced would use good roads to advance quickly to soviet border (today Belarus , Ukraine , Latvia & Krolewiec ) , and in 90" Russia have also sabotaged Polish plans to build highways .

    • @globus3671
      @globus3671 Рік тому +2

      You are not ALWAYS partially liable in case of an accident! But it’s possible. It depends.

    • @tnickknight
      @tnickknight Рік тому

      @@adammarcinkowski-ko3el hahah what nonsense 😂😂😂

    • @Baku171717
      @Baku171717 Рік тому

      Additionally in Poland when you break the speed limit by 10kmph on any road You don't get fined for that ;)

  • @kj4923
    @kj4923 Рік тому +219

    There is one major difference between Germans and Poles. Germans love garden gnomes and Poles hate them. This difference of cultural sensitivity is sometimes too strong. Not everyone can handle it.

    • @Smok.Wawelski
      @Smok.Wawelski Рік тому +34

      You're right, my family, after 15 years of living in Germany, started in their Polish garden puts dwarfs. It looks tragic - I hate them for it.

    • @kj4923
      @kj4923 Рік тому +19

      @@Smok.Wawelski yes it can create a lot of unexpected problems (family, social and many other problems)

    • @fanfarlom4119
      @fanfarlom4119 Рік тому +13

      😂

    • @magmalin
      @magmalin Рік тому +4

      Are you talking about Gartenzwerge? I've hardly ever seen any in my surroundings here in Germany. I think they're silly and most Germans do as well. But to each his own!

    • @kj4923
      @kj4923 Рік тому +6

      @@magmalin The world is changing. Maybe they ran away or hid somewhere. They couldn't stand this love.

  • @dawidgrzeskow987
    @dawidgrzeskow987 Рік тому +145

    Origin of Polish coat of arms is coming from legend, where Eagel sits in place which later on become first Polish capital - Gniezno which comes from "nest".

    • @ahhlucas
      @ahhlucas Рік тому +3

      Interesting

    • @kj4923
      @kj4923 Рік тому +12

      @@ahhlucas The legend says that there were 3 brothers whose names are Lech, Czech and Rus. They wandered around the world and when Lech saw the beautiful White Eagle he decided to stay in this place and founded the Polish state.

    • @igorlach5120
      @igorlach5120 Рік тому +3

      ​@@kj4923Lech is an old word meaning polish person. While the other 2 brothers in the legend later went on to establish their own countries. czech established czechia and Rus established Rusia. This legend suggest a common origin to this 3 Nations

    • @kj4923
      @kj4923 Рік тому +13

      @@igorlach5120 Rus establishend Ruś (Ruthenia)

    • @quadro1337
      @quadro1337 Рік тому +5

      ​@@igorlach5120not russia, it was Ruthenia (todays Ukraine near Kiev region)

  • @danasadomaitis2149
    @danasadomaitis2149 Рік тому +132

    As for lithuanian, it would be very interesting to see you comparing The Baltic States

    • @tnickknight
      @tnickknight Рік тому +4

      Trust me. There are lots of post on that, we always have sibling rivalry

    • @gombao348
      @gombao348 Рік тому +10

      As Pole, it would be also interesting for me.

    • @GreatPolishWingedHussars
      @GreatPolishWingedHussars Рік тому

      Maybe that would be a better video then, because this video is nonsense because of some serious errors. Poland had 40 million population before the Ukrainian war because of the migrants from Ukraine and Belarus but also from other countries, whereby the migration from the Ukraine was increased by the Ukrainian war. If one does not want to accept these migrants as a Polish population, one should also subtract the migrants from the German population. Then Germany would have at least 10 million fewer inhabitants, although that would probably 15 million less. If you doubt that, you just have to See streets in German cities where the migrants are often in the majority and take a German subway where often are no Europeans in the subway compartment. The alleged number of Poles who live in Germany is also wrong. According to the German wiki link Polen in Detuschland (Poles in Germany), 783,085 Poles lived in Germany in 2016. So that's significantly less than the absurd number of 2-3 million Poles who allegedly live in Germany. There are also significantly more Muslims in Germany than erroneously 3.6% indicate in the video. This false number is spread by the government in order not to soothe the German population. The real number of Muslims in Germany is about 10% and it is increasing all the time. New mosques are constantly being built in Germany, which is also illustrated by the large number of Muslims. Muezzin prayer call is now normal in many German cities because this country is becoming more and more oriental. The number of troops of the Polish Army was also incorrectly stated in the video, as the Polish number of troops today is 207,000. 172,000 regular army soldiers and 35,000 soldiers belonging to the territorial defense force. The Polish Army also wants to increase the number of soldiers in the army to 300,000 + 50,000 Territorial Defense Force. It is also absurd to claim that the crime rate cannot be compared because of the different populations. Because the crime rates are calculated per 100,000 inhabitants! The crime rate in Germany is twice as high as in Poland. Whether murder rate, robbery rate or rape rate all much higher than in Poland! Why is that so? Does that have anything to do with the different migration policies?
      In any case, it should also be mentioned in this video that Poland is poorer today than the Germans because of the Germans. This difference in wealth is the direct result of the extreme damage done to Poland by the Germans. The fact that this Nazi nation murdered 6 million Polish citizens was definitely not good for the Polish economy. Because not only did the Germans completely ruin Poland's economy with the raid in 1939 and the occupation of 1939-45, but they also directly caused the occupation of Poland by the Soviets through their raid. The Soviets have imposed with violence a communist economic system on Poland for almost 50 years, which was very harmful to Poland's economy. The communist system was also a hindrance to the rebuilding of Poland after the war! On the other hand much of the ignominious Nazi nation that was responsible for at least 55 million deaths, most of them murdered in genocide, was able to rebuild their country and economy after the war by means of in the beneficial capitalist economic system. Yes, a large part of the Germans in West Germany could enjoy the benefits of the capitalist system, while the Poles had to suffer under communism. Because a large part of the Nazi nation was not punished for their heinous crimes after the Second World War, they were actually rewarded by the Americans! Yes, the Americans give the Nazi nation a lot of money with the so-called Marshall Plan Aid and in addition, the western victors waived the national debts of the Nazi nation, because the Nazi country was already bankrupt before the war due to the massive rearmament. Indeed, the Nazi nation then became the ally of the western victors and was absorbed into NATO in 1955, with the army being built up by criminal Nazi generals. So in the 50s, most of Germans became the ally of the West. (West Germany). However the problem was that this Nazi nation was completely megalomaniac, mad, criminal, amoral and degenerated! The West could not be allied to a morally degenerate Nazi nation that has murdered millions of children, among other crimes. So they were practically systematically washed clean to be tolerable as allies. So they were washed clean by propaganda (Western historians / media / politicians / Hollywood etc.) and the blame was put on relatively few Nazis. So there was also a Western whitewashing campaign that whitewashed Germans from the Guilt and laid the blame on relatively few Nazis. This pro-German whitewashing propaganda is continued to this day. The propagandists even claim that the Germans were liberated in 1945. I have read and heard this lie more often that the Germans were allegedly liberated. LIBERATED! As e.g. the title of this UA-cam video shows. "Liberation of Munich April 30 1945" ua-cam.com/video/RtCvjD56Kkc/v-deo.html the title is not the occupation of Munich by the Americans, which would correspond to historical facts. No, a lie is being spread about liberation! An unbelievable lie in which from the victory over this evil Nazi nation with the subsequent multi-annual occupation is made a LIBERATION. This white wash of the Germans of course bothers the Poles. But what bothers Poland certainly doesn't interest the shameful and pathetic West. No, their historians, politicians and journalists mendacious make Poland some kind of ally of the Nazis in the genocide against the Jews. Of course not the allies of the Germans, because the culprits were only and exclusively the Nazis!
      As for the absurd talk about the alleged Polish-German friendship, that's ridiculous, because it doesn't exist. The fact that Poland is in NATO and the EU together with the Germans is pure pragmatism. This has nothing to do with friendship! Despite the Germans, Poland is in NATO and the EU, not because of the Germans. This nation is absolutely incapable of friendship with Poland. They are much too arrogant, insulting and megalomaniac for that! Friendship with this very unpleasant nation is ruled out not only because of the murder of 6 million Polish citizens and the ruin of Poland, but also because of their insolence today. So their historians, journalists and politicians are also very keen to take part in the outrageous defamation campaign which falsely makes Poles some kind of ally of the Nazis in committing genocide against the Jews. It is self-explanatory when their journalists, historians and politicians defame Poles as an ally, not of the Germans, but of the Nazis. So they also constantly use the term Nazis not Germans whose supposed allies were the Poles as do the mendacious western propagandists. Just as they defame Poles, they wash themselves clean with the help of the gigantic Western mendacious propaganda machine. They spread all sorts of lies about Poland's past, and I only told a fraction of the lies. The German media and politicians also defame today's Poland as a kind of non-democracy, spreading the lie that allegedly the Polish judicial system does not conform to democratic standards and that there is allegedly no freedom of the press in Poland. Yes, of all things, Germans shamelessly defame Poland in this way, whereby their legal system does not correspond to democratic standards. Here is the information regarding the German judiciary system that does not meet democratic standards. One can find out in this german link (Richterwahlausschuss - Wikipedia) about the German judge election procedure and how much this procedure violates democratic standards. Translated from this German Wiki link "Richterwahlausschuss" ( Judicial Selection Committee)! "The judicial election process in Germany is worthy of criticism because of the lack of transparency of the process and that in the election in addition to the professional qualifications and the party-political orientation of the candidates play a role. Experts speaks of "party patronage" and "personal expansion of power of the political parties". The authority responsible for the selection and career of judges is not independent of the executive in Germany. If Germany were not already in the EU, Germany would be a problematic candidate for accession ... " The German Constitutional Court, which is almost exclusively made up of party members from influential parties, certainly does not meet democratic standards either. Incidentally, in Germany all public prosecutors up to and including the Federal Public Prosecutor are appointed by active party politicians of the governing parties (Ministers of Justice). This is a judicial system steeped in political influence that does not at all meet democratic standards. Germans with this miserable legal system then dare to defame Poland as undemocratic because of the allegedly democratic standards not corresponding legal system. In Germany, left-wing journalists completely dominate the media and such one-sided dominance also contradicts democratic principles. But especially the Germans with media, which do not do justice to the democratic standards at all. dare to defame Poland as a country without freedom of the press. But there are also various other impudence of this nation!
      I continue the comment below.

    • @GreatPolishWingedHussars
      @GreatPolishWingedHussars Рік тому

      Let's ignore the fact that they murdered my grandpa and enslaved the other grandpa and didn't pay a cent in compensation for it. They supposed to be our friends? For real? This nation should be our friend who refuses to pay compensation to the entire Polish nation to this day, even though they have extremely damaged our country and completely ruined our country. They paid compensation to the Western European countries. But they refuse to pay Poland! Poles want the Germans to finally pay the justified reparation debts because these are national debts that are inherited. But the Germans definitely refuse to pay. Incidentally, this is how the Germans dare to treat Polish victims. An old Polish woman, during the German occupation 9 years and her mother were imprisoned from the Germans in death camp Auschwitz. They were there for about a month and then were freed! Her father was murdered in this death camp! This Polish woman wanted money for her grandchildren and applied for compensation from the Germans! The Germans sent her a 5 Deutsch Mark (2,5 Euro) check, with the remark that this is not compensation from the German side, but a "gesture of goodwill"! A gesture of "goodwill"! The Germans still refuse to pay compensation to Poland for the damage caused by the German occupation.
      They show their masked face to the western nations. The face of the purified Germans. Towards Poland, Germans often show the true German face! Pure outrageous arrogance! For example on German TV, Poles are regularly portrayed in jokes with the punchline that we are criminals and our women are called as prostitutes in jokes! This is politically correct in Germany! These are very popular jokes in Germany! By the way, Poles are also the millions of Poles who were murdered by the them. These jokes defame these murdered Poles too! I could name many more examples of their outrageous arrogance! Germans who defame the Poles with such jokes are supposed to be friends of the Poles? NO these are not our friends.
      But the Germans will soon stop laughing! The Germans obviously have no problem with being colonized. Perhaps because of self-loathing, they allow millions of culturally completely foreign Orientals from the middle east to colonize the own country. Because it's amazing what's happening in Germany because the German allow millions of culturally completely foreign Orientals to colonize the own country. Yes they accept their colonization! Because tens of millions come from them and settle the country the term colonization is totally appropriate. By the way, Wiki quote: "Colonization is sometimes used synonymously with settling." Already today there are about 10% of Orientals in this country. Which are a kind of aliens. It is no coincidence why Germany has twice the crime rate compared to Poland. Even before the Ukraine war, Poland had millions of migrants from Ukraine. Yes, Poland is an immigration country. And the Ukrainians have no problem integrating in Poland. They are Europeans like the Poles and will be assimilated if they live longer in Poland. This did not significantly increase the Polish crime rate. On the other hand, Orientals and Africans immigrated to Germany. The result of this immigration is an extremely increased crime rate. It's not racism if one state it, one is just describing reality. Everyone knows that these migrants form parallel societies and that must do not integrate and adapt. The Orientals also give their children Oriental first names and not German first names. There can be no talk of an assimilation of most anyway. Due to this failure to integrate, there are social problems that lead to increased crime. In addition, crime is also increased by special cultural aspects of the countries of origin. Like, for example, these migrants come from Klan-influenced societies, which leads to klan crimes. Religion is also a reason why integration fails and the crime rate increases. The Ukrainians come from a Christian country. The Orientals and many Africans, on the other hand, are Muslims. This results in terrorism, but also crimes such as the genital cutting of girls or the murder of homosexuals or honor killings. Incidentally, this migration also leads to an increase in crime among Germans themselves, because it is also a crime if one attacks migrants and migrant camps, threaten migrants and hunts or even kills them.
      Already today there is a big conflict in this country of the "natives" against the orientals, although the orientals have reached until now only about 10% of the population in this country. Only a small percentage is assimilated. Most wanted to keep their oriental identity! Moreover, this religion also prevents integration, in addition to the completely different culture, because the migrants feel superior to the native Germans because of their religion, which makes integration even more difficult. Because when you feel superior, you certainly don't conform to those who are inferior. Failed integration due to extremely different cultures is the norm for millions of Orientals in this country. Let's see what will happen when 20% or 30% of the population will be Orientals. Because of that there will be chaos and civil war for supremacy. Already today radicals including soldiers and police officers are already setting up weapons depots and planning armed struggle with the aim of overthrowing the government. The presages of the civil war are already clearly visible today. In Germany there was already a planned coup d'état with the participation of former officers of special forces of the army! It was planned to overthrow the government and replace it with a new provisional government. 3000 police officers with special task forces were deployed to arrest those responsible. A few months before this attempted coup d'etat, another far-right group wanted to provoke a civil war to overthrow the government!The German Criminal Police Office (BKA) recorded a total of 44,692 politically motivated crimes in 2020. These have increased by 8.5 percent compared to the previous year and are therefore at a new high according to the BKA. Propaganda crimes, insults and incitement to hatred made up more than half (57.3 percent) of all reported crimes. The other half are violent crimes. Right-wing extremist crimes accounted more than half of all this crimes registered in 2020. The other half are Islamist and left-wing extremists crimes. Many mosques are already being built today and there is more and more resistance to it! There is a growing demand for Muslim dietary laws to be taken into account in society. There are more and more conflicts regarding religious clothing. The Orientals also give their children Oriental first names and not German. Female teachers only want to work with their hair covered. It is demanded that girls in schools should have the opportunity to be taught with their hair covered. Girls should not participate in physical education and swimming lessons. The Christmas markets are actually renamed Winter markets. . Because the country should be de-Christianized. Let's see when there will be ramaḍān markets etc. etc. etc. In this German video one can see Germany's future with fully veiled girls! Children's street festival in Berlin with islamic veiled little girls! ua-cam.com/video/ByvcTkXhsCE/v-deo.html There are also additional Arabic street signs on German streets as this video also shows. ua-cam.com/video/Jta9hppHxd8/v-deo.html Germany celebrates its first Arabic language street sign! In the meantime are currently about 3000 mosques in Germany!
      Such news can then be read in the German media, which point to the coming civil war. "Right-wing extremists are becoming more and more radical!" "Left-wing extremists are becoming more and more radical!" "Islamic fundamentalism is becoming more and more radical!" "Attacks on refugee camps by right-wing extremists." "A group of Left-wing extremist seriously injured two right-wing extremists in Erfurt in a planned ambush." "Hundreds of masked left-wing extremists riot in Berlin!" "On New Year's Eve there were riots by orientals in various German cities. Fires were started. Firefighters trying to put out a burning bus had to flee from an oriental mob. Even ambulances were attacked and damaged. Police officers were also attacked." In the few German media that are not controlled by the left wingers in Germany, these oriental riots were seen as a demonstration of power by the Oriantals in Germany. The online offshoot "Zeit Online" of the German left-wing newspaper "Zeit", which is very well respected in Germany, has posted on Twitter that "the Germans will lose power in their own country. The Germans will become a minority in their own country. Non-Germans will take over power in the country!" But when the German journalists realized how explosive these sentences were, the article was deleted. But the internet never forgets and various people have already reported on the article.
      A civil war for supremacy in the country is therefore likely with about 30% oriental population! The future of this country will definitely be violent! These are all consequences of radical left-wing politics in Germany!

  • @kj4923
    @kj4923 Рік тому +587

    The word "Germans" in Polish language is "Niemcy" and means "people who cannot speak". 😂 It was probably because when the two sides met, they did not understand each other's languages.

    • @zixby2
      @zixby2 Рік тому +42

      It's the same for most slavic languages

    • @kj4923
      @kj4923 Рік тому +41

      @@zixby2 only among those Slavs who bordered on Germany and had contact with them.

    • @zixby2
      @zixby2 Рік тому +28

      @@kj4923 Then why do we bulgarians call them "Немци"?

    • @kj4923
      @kj4923 Рік тому +5

      ​@@zixby2 do you have any synonyms for this term ??

    • @zixby2
      @zixby2 Рік тому +11

      @@kj4923 "ням" A person who doesn't speak/unable to

  • @jorzemjo642
    @jorzemjo642 Рік тому +190

    of course, the historical aspect was taken in favor of germany.. the dispute over the city of danzig, the creator of this material presented as if it was always german, ignoring its origins and affiliation to plc. the issue of borders is the same problem. German control over the present Polish lands is clearly stated, but how far to the west the borders of Poland once stretched and that even Dresden under Bolesław Chrobry belonged to Poland and Lubusz was called the gate to Poland is completely passed over. starting the history of relations between the two countries with the Teutonic Order is also a joke and completely ignoring the history of relations (sometimes very positive) until then. in general, it looks like a compilation of basic information without going into depth and with motives resulting from specific sympathies.

    • @m1ccey
      @m1ccey Рік тому

      Go back another few 10k years.... the where no borders. everyone was just human.... and even there they fought in trybes, or any other 'monkey' evolution. And this wont stop because at some point we monkeys implemented greed and other things while 'evoluting' and here we are.... you can't get this out of peoples heads, bacause other people in power making money out of it. It's the same worldwide...

    • @viperking6573
      @viperking6573 Рік тому +21

      Right, At one point Brandenburg was slavic

    • @KaspeG
      @KaspeG Рік тому +23

      Berlin was founded by West-Slavs 😉

    • @tollictollic3610
      @tollictollic3610 Рік тому +9

      It's a short summary, how should he mention every detail which lasted for some years 1000 years ago. He could even go further back and talking about Germanic tribes in modern day Poland, but that would be an hour long video about Polish-German history. This is just an oversimplified comparison video.

    • @2MinuteHockey
      @2MinuteHockey Рік тому

      no mention of Poland being the Jewish capital of the world before ze Germans came through, and that Tatar Muslims were nobility in Poland-Lithuania before their ignorant, corrupt, and intolerant neighbors destroyed the commonwealth.

  • @kojotto1
    @kojotto1 Рік тому +49

    Fun fact
    In 1939, Poland had about 35 million inhabitants. At the same time, Spain (mainland) had 25 million inhabitants, Switzerland 4.2 million and Brazil 40 million.
    In 2020, Spain, which did not experience losses during the Second World War, had 47 million inhabitants, and Switzerland 8.5 million. Proportionally, if Poland had developed demographically like Spain or Switzerland, we would now have about 66-70 million people. This is only a guess, but it is worth noting that in both countries where there were no war-related population losses, the population more or less doubled between 1939 and 2020, and in Poland it changed by about 10%.

    • @pepeindustries6408
      @pepeindustries6408 Рік тому +3

      Czytałem gdzieś, że z tą populacją to tak nie do końca, z pewnością Polska bez wojny miałaby większą ludność, ale nie sadzę, że byłoby tak optymistycznie, że by się ona podwoiła. Zaraz po wojnie nastąpił bum demograficzny co trochę zrekompensowała straty i dalej postępował już niezależny wzrost, dodatkowo np. od roku 1990 populacja Hiszpanii zwiększyła się o prawie 10 mln, a Polski stoi w miejscu. Ja bym celował bardziej w okolice ~50 mln

    • @kojotto1
      @kojotto1 Рік тому +1

      @pepeindustries6408
      Ilość urodzeń po wojnie ma o wiele mniejsze znaczenie, niż to, że w latach 60 nie było, komu tych dzieci robić (Dorosło pokolenie urodzone w czasie wojny). Z tego wynika głęboki niż demograficzny lat 60-70. Szacunki o podwojeniu populacji są ostrożne. Przykładem może być Brazylia, która w latach 30 miała populację na poziomie 40 mln teraz ma ich ponad 200. Mnóstwo krajów, w których wojny nie było lub zwyczajnie w czasie niej nie ucierpiały podwoiła swoją populację, czasem nawet potroiła. Zmiennych jest wiele. Mój wpis nie miał za zadanie pokazać konkretnej liczby a wskazać praktyczny brak wzrostu polskiej populacji. Taki brak wzrostu pokazuje jak dewastująca była 2 WŚ dla Polski i Polaków.

    • @davidgreetman3704
      @davidgreetman3704 Рік тому +1

      Exactly!! eastern WWII front was completely different and Poland is not the only one that suffered that handicap

    • @dariuszgaat5771
      @dariuszgaat5771 Рік тому +1

      @@kojotto1 Dla porównania: Czechy mają obecnie nawet MNIEJSZĄ populację niż tuż przed wybuchem wojny.

    • @kojotto1
      @kojotto1 Рік тому +2

      @@dariuszgaat5771 ​ Po pierwsze to przed wojną nie było Czech a Pierwsza Republika Czechosłowacka. Czechosłowacja była wyjątkiem który nijak ma się do tej dyskusji. Populacja Czechosłowacji i jej konflikty narodowościowe to temat na godziny. Przed wojną na terenie Czechosłowacji żyło ponad 3 mln Niemców około 25% populacji, teraz nawet łącząc Czechy i Słowację jest to promil. Poczytaj o wypędzaniu Niemców z Czechosłowacji po II wojnie światowej. Kolejną grupą która była liczna w przedwojennej Czechosłowacji byli Węgrzy a którzy teraz również stanowią promil populacji. Tak naprawdę tylko 65% populacji przedwojennej Czechosłowacji to byli Czesi i Słowacy. Polecam poczytać zbiam.pl/artykuly/przedwojenna-czechoslowacja/

  • @Maximmuss_
    @Maximmuss_ Рік тому +139

    Poland created Prussia, and by extension the German State we know today. The unification of Germany under Prussia happened, because a Polish duke invited some crusaders to help him fight off the baltic pagans, crazy when you think about it.

    • @peterjones5243
      @peterjones5243 Рік тому +42

      That's a major stretch. Such a Polish thing to say.

    • @TheRezro
      @TheRezro Рік тому +11

      Yup. Prussia is also currently again part of Poland.

    • @tymonzmijewski3206
      @tymonzmijewski3206 Рік тому +21

      It was the Hohenzollern line from Brandenburg and not from Prussia that united Germany so what you wrote doesn't make much sense, if anything Poland creating a ducal prussia and then giving it independence as part of the war with sweden helped german unification as a butterfly effect but did not contribute directly

    • @IhaveBigFeet
      @IhaveBigFeet Рік тому +39

      @@peterjones5243Not really, had it not been for Konrad I, Duke of Masovia inviting the Teutons to Prussia then the electorate of Brandenburg would’ve never absorbed it, meaning it wouldn’t have ever got strong enough within the HRE to rival Austria and go on to form the German confederation and eventually Germany. Most of Brandenburg-Prussias power base came not from Berlin but from Gdańsk which was one of the wealthiest cities in Europe and had a higher population than any city in Poland at that time for example.

    • @ptasznik5973
      @ptasznik5973 Рік тому +1

      You know how Russia centralised after times of troubles? Russians united against common enemy....the Poles

  • @konstanty007
    @konstanty007 Рік тому +132

    Fun fact:
    At the end of 2022 Poland had the biggest population in history ~43 million
    38 million isn't accurate because it doesn't count people without citizenship (it's hard to get) so now is around 40/41 million

    • @michaszostak1105
      @michaszostak1105 Рік тому +10

      You probably mean citizenship not nationality

    • @konstanty007
      @konstanty007 Рік тому +3

      Yep my bad

    • @Endrju75
      @Endrju75 Рік тому +9

      Polish citizenship isn't that hard to get though. It's actually one of the easier obtainable citizenships in the EU. To become polish citizen through naturalization you only need to live in Poland for 3 years while having permanent residence permit. For France and UK it's 5 years and for Germany it's 8 years.
      There are also other ways to get polish citizenship. One of them is through ancestry. There's also citizenship by investment if you set up a business in Poland and it makes more than 15000 euro.

    • @gobelnik
      @gobelnik Рік тому

      ​@@michaszostak1105@konstanty007
      This is the greatest crossover since the Avengers.... Of Doges..

    • @konstanty007
      @konstanty007 Рік тому +2

      It's a lot harder if you don't have roots

  • @adamlatosinski5475
    @adamlatosinski5475 Рік тому +189

    The border between Poland and Germany is even more annoying when you look close! At it northern end it passes through islands separating Szczecin Lagoon from the Baltic Sea. But instead of going through a strait between them, it splits one of the island in two, leaving most of it to Germany but giving a small piece to Poland.
    It goes this way so that the city of Szczecin/Stettin and the town of Świnoujście/Swinemünde were inside Poland.

    • @kj4923
      @kj4923 Рік тому +70

      Yes, it's a bit annoying. The entire island of Usedom should be handed over to Poland or Denmark 😂

    • @apismelliferac
      @apismelliferac Рік тому

      ​@@kj4923 or all stolen land, ie Pomerania, Silesia and East Prussia should be given back to Germany

    • @datdumbguy1067
      @datdumbguy1067 Рік тому +21

      @@kj4923 yeah We Got Swedish Pomerania In 1814 which included those Islands, and sadly Prussia stole Them from us. It is rightful Danish land!

    • @kj4923
      @kj4923 Рік тому +21

      @@datdumbguy1067 Thanks to archaeological excavations, historical sources and partly legends, we know that the Vikings lived here. Here somewhere lies the legendary Jomsborg, where Harald Bluetooth lived and died. That is why I think that a good solution would be for the Danish-Polish border to run somewhere in this area :)

    • @General.Knowledge
      @General.Knowledge  Рік тому +14

      Wow! Is there any specific reason why they wanted to keep those specific places?

  • @kacpernurnberg6322
    @kacpernurnberg6322 Рік тому +36

    You were wrong at 10:10, there are 16 Voivodships in Poland. Also that "tiny bit" of the border not on the Oder is done that way on purpose. The southern part, if left on the river, would divide a city called Szczecin in half, so Stalin decided to give that region to Poland (I'm from there, very beautiful city, similar to Wroclaw). The northern part is on an island and was handed over to Poland to allow an internal waterway to Szczecin because of the harbour. Other than that very cool video :D

    • @GreatPolishWingedHussars
      @GreatPolishWingedHussars Рік тому +1

      How can you call this nonsense a cool video? This video is nonsense because of some serious errors. Poland had 40 million population before the Ukrainian war because of the migrants from Ukraine and Belarus but also from other countries, whereby the migration from the Ukraine was increased by the Ukrainian war. If one does not want to accept these migrants as a Polish population, one should also subtract the migrants from the German population. Then Germany would have at least 10 million fewer inhabitants, although that would probably 15 million less. If you doubt that, you just have to See streets in German cities where the migrants are often in the majority and take a German subway where often are no Europeans in the subway compartment. The alleged number of Poles who live in Germany is also wrong. According to the German wiki link Polen in Detuschland (Poles in Germany), 783,085 Poles lived in Germany in 2016. So that's significantly less than the absurd number of 2-3 million Poles who allegedly live in Germany. There are also significantly more Muslims in Germany than erroneously 3.6% indicate in the video. This false number is spread by the government in order not to soothe the German population. The real number of Muslims in Germany is about 10% and it is increasing all the time. New mosques are constantly being built in Germany, which is also illustrated by the large number of Muslims. Muezzin prayer call is now normal in many German cities because this country is becoming more and more oriental. The number of troops of the Polish Army was also incorrectly stated in the video, as the Polish number of troops today is 207,000. 172,000 regular army soldiers and 35,000 soldiers belonging to the territorial defense force. The Polish Army also wants to increase the number of soldiers in the army to 300,000 + 50,000 Territorial Defense Force. It is also absurd to claim that the crime rate cannot be compared because of the different populations. Because the crime rates are calculated per 100,000 inhabitants! The crime rate in Germany is twice as high as in Poland. Whether murder rate, robbery rate or rape rate all much higher than in Poland! Why is that so? Does that have anything to do with the different migration policies?
      In any case, it should also be mentioned in this video that Poland is poorer today than the Germans because of the Germans. This difference in wealth is the direct result of the extreme damage done to Poland by the Germans. The fact that this Nazi nation murdered 6 million Polish citizens was definitely not good for the Polish economy. Because not only did the Germans completely ruin Poland's economy with the raid in 1939 and the occupation of 1939-45, but they also directly caused the occupation of Poland by the Soviets through their raid. The Soviets have imposed with violence a communist economic system on Poland for almost 50 years, which was very harmful to Poland's economy. The communist system was also a hindrance to the rebuilding of Poland after the war! On the other hand much of the ignominious Nazi nation that was responsible for at least 55 million deaths, most of them murdered in genocide, was able to rebuild their country and economy after the war by means of in the beneficial capitalist economic system. Yes, a large part of the Germans in West Germany could enjoy the benefits of the capitalist system, while the Poles had to suffer under communism. Because a large part of the Nazi nation was not punished for their heinous crimes after the Second World War, they were actually rewarded by the Americans! Yes, the Americans give the Nazi nation a lot of money with the so-called Marshall Plan Aid and in addition, the western victors waived the national debts of the Nazi nation, because the Nazi country was already bankrupt before the war due to the massive rearmament. Indeed, the Nazi nation then became the ally of the western victors and was absorbed into NATO in 1955, with the army being built up by criminal Nazi generals. So in the 50s, most of Germans became the ally of the West. (West Germany). However the problem was that this Nazi nation was completely megalomaniac, mad, criminal, amoral and degenerated! The West could not be allied to a morally degenerate Nazi nation that has murdered millions of children, among other crimes. So they were practically systematically washed clean to be tolerable as allies. So they were washed clean by propaganda (Western historians / media / politicians / Hollywood etc.) and the blame was put on relatively few Nazis. So there was also a Western whitewashing campaign that whitewashed Germans from the Guilt and laid the blame on relatively few Nazis. This pro-German whitewashing propaganda is continued to this day. The propagandists even claim that the Germans were liberated in 1945. I have read and heard this lie more often that the Germans were allegedly liberated. LIBERATED! As e.g. the title of this UA-cam video shows. "Liberation of Munich April 30 1945" ua-cam.com/video/RtCvjD56Kkc/v-deo.html the title is not the occupation of Munich by the Americans, which would correspond to historical facts. No, a lie is being spread about liberation! An unbelievable lie in which from the victory over this evil Nazi nation with the subsequent multi-annual occupation is made a LIBERATION. This white wash of the Germans of course bothers the Poles. But what bothers Poland certainly doesn't interest the shameful and pathetic West. No, their historians, politicians and journalists mendacious make Poland some kind of ally of the Nazis in the genocide against the Jews. Of course not the allies of the Germans, because the culprits were only and exclusively the Nazis!
      As for the absurd talk about the alleged Polish-German friendship, that's ridiculous, because it doesn't exist. The fact that Poland is in NATO and the EU together with the Germans is pure pragmatism. This has nothing to do with friendship! Despite the Germans, Poland is in NATO and the EU, not because of the Germans. This nation is absolutely incapable of friendship with Poland. They are much too arrogant, insulting and megalomaniac for that! Friendship with this very unpleasant nation is ruled out not only because of the murder of 6 million Polish citizens and the ruin of Poland, but also because of their insolence today. So their historians, journalists and politicians are also very keen to take part in the outrageous defamation campaign which falsely makes Poles some kind of ally of the Nazis in committing genocide against the Jews. It is self-explanatory when their journalists, historians and politicians defame Poles as an ally, not of the Germans, but of the Nazis. So they also constantly use the term Nazis not Germans whose supposed allies were the Poles as do the mendacious western propagandists. Just as they defame Poles, they wash themselves clean with the help of the gigantic Western mendacious propaganda machine. They spread all sorts of lies about Poland's past, and I only told a fraction of the lies. The German media and politicians also defame today's Poland as a kind of non-democracy, spreading the lie that allegedly the Polish judicial system does not conform to democratic standards and that there is allegedly no freedom of the press in Poland. Yes, of all things, Germans shamelessly defame Poland in this way, whereby their legal system does not correspond to democratic standards. Here is the information regarding the German judiciary system that does not meet democratic standards. One can find out in this german link (Richterwahlausschuss - Wikipedia) about the German judge election procedure and how much this procedure violates democratic standards. Translated from this German Wiki link "Richterwahlausschuss" ( Judicial Selection Committee)! "The judicial election process in Germany is worthy of criticism because of the lack of transparency of the process and that in the election in addition to the professional qualifications and the party-political orientation of the candidates play a role. Experts speaks of "party patronage" and "personal expansion of power of the political parties". The authority responsible for the selection and career of judges is not independent of the executive in Germany. If Germany were not already in the EU, Germany would be a problematic candidate for accession ... " The German Constitutional Court, which is almost exclusively made up of party members from influential parties, certainly does not meet democratic standards either. Incidentally, in Germany all public prosecutors up to and including the Federal Public Prosecutor are appointed by active party politicians of the governing parties (Ministers of Justice). This is a judicial system steeped in political influence that does not at all meet democratic standards. Germans with this miserable legal system then dare to defame Poland as undemocratic because of the allegedly democratic standards not corresponding legal system. In Germany, left-wing journalists completely dominate the media and such one-sided dominance also contradicts democratic principles. But especially the Germans with media, which do not do justice to the democratic standards at all. dare to defame Poland as a country without freedom of the press. But there are also various other impudence of this nation!
      I continue the comment below.

    • @GreatPolishWingedHussars
      @GreatPolishWingedHussars Рік тому

      Let's ignore the fact that they murdered my grandpa and enslaved the other grandpa and didn't pay a cent in compensation for it. They supposed to be our friends? For real? This nation should be our friend who refuses to pay compensation to the entire Polish nation to this day, even though they have extremely damaged our country and completely ruined our country. They paid compensation to the Western European countries. But they refuse to pay Poland! Poles want the Germans to finally pay the justified reparation debts because these are national debts that are inherited. But the Germans definitely refuse to pay. Incidentally, this is how the Germans dare to treat Polish victims. An old Polish woman, during the German occupation 9 years and her mother were imprisoned from the Germans in death camp Auschwitz. They were there for about a month and then were freed! Her father was murdered in this death camp! This Polish woman wanted money for her grandchildren and applied for compensation from the Germans! The Germans sent her a 5 Deutsch Mark (2,5 Euro) check, with the remark that this is not compensation from the German side, but a "gesture of goodwill"! A gesture of "goodwill"! The Germans still refuse to pay compensation to Poland for the damage caused by the German occupation.
      They show their masked face to the western nations. The face of the purified Germans. Towards Poland, Germans often show the true German face! Pure outrageous arrogance! For example on German TV, Poles are regularly portrayed in jokes with the punchline that we are criminals and our women are called as prostitutes in jokes! This is politically correct in Germany! These are very popular jokes in Germany! By the way, Poles are also the millions of Poles who were murdered by the them. These jokes defame these murdered Poles too! I could name many more examples of their outrageous arrogance! Germans who defame the Poles with such jokes are supposed to be friends of the Poles? NO these are not our friends.
      But the Germans will soon stop laughing! The Germans obviously have no problem with being colonized. Perhaps because of self-loathing, they allow millions of culturally completely foreign Orientals from the middle east to colonize the own country. Because it's amazing what's happening in Germany because the German allow millions of culturally completely foreign Orientals to colonize the own country. Yes they accept their colonization! Because tens of millions come from them and settle the country the term colonization is totally appropriate. By the way, Wiki quote: "Colonization is sometimes used synonymously with settling." Already today there are about 10% of Orientals in this country. Which are a kind of aliens. It is no coincidence why Germany has twice the crime rate compared to Poland. Even before the Ukraine war, Poland had millions of migrants from Ukraine. Yes, Poland is an immigration country. And the Ukrainians have no problem integrating in Poland. They are Europeans like the Poles and will be assimilated if they live longer in Poland. This did not significantly increase the Polish crime rate. On the other hand, Orientals and Africans immigrated to Germany. The result of this immigration is an extremely increased crime rate. It's not racism if one state it, one is just describing reality. Everyone knows that these migrants form parallel societies and that must do not integrate and adapt. The Orientals also give their children Oriental first names and not German first names. There can be no talk of an assimilation of most anyway. Due to this failure to integrate, there are social problems that lead to increased crime. In addition, crime is also increased by special cultural aspects of the countries of origin. Like, for example, these migrants come from Klan-influenced societies, which leads to klan crimes. Religion is also a reason why integration fails and the crime rate increases. The Ukrainians come from a Christian country. The Orientals and many Africans, on the other hand, are Muslims. This results in terrorism, but also crimes such as the genital cutting of girls or the murder of homosexuals or honor killings. Incidentally, this migration also leads to an increase in crime among Germans themselves, because it is also a crime if one attacks migrants and migrant camps, threaten migrants and hunts or even kills them.
      Already today there is a big conflict in this country of the "natives" against the orientals, although the orientals have reached until now only about 10% of the population in this country. Only a small percentage is assimilated. Most wanted to keep their oriental identity! Moreover, this religion also prevents integration, in addition to the completely different culture, because the migrants feel superior to the native Germans because of their religion, which makes integration even more difficult. Because when you feel superior, you certainly don't conform to those who are inferior. Failed integration due to extremely different cultures is the norm for millions of Orientals in this country. Let's see what will happen when 20% or 30% of the population will be Orientals. Because of that there will be chaos and civil war for supremacy. Already today radicals including soldiers and police officers are already setting up weapons depots and planning armed struggle with the aim of overthrowing the government. The presages of the civil war are already clearly visible today. In Germany there was already a planned coup d'état with the participation of former officers of special forces of the army! It was planned to overthrow the government and replace it with a new provisional government. 3000 police officers with special task forces were deployed to arrest those responsible. A few months before this attempted coup d'etat, another far-right group wanted to provoke a civil war to overthrow the government!The German Criminal Police Office (BKA) recorded a total of 44,692 politically motivated crimes in 2020. These have increased by 8.5 percent compared to the previous year and are therefore at a new high according to the BKA. Propaganda crimes, insults and incitement to hatred made up more than half (57.3 percent) of all reported crimes. The other half are violent crimes. Right-wing extremist crimes accounted more than half of all this crimes registered in 2020. The other half are Islamist and left-wing extremists crimes. Many mosques are already being built today and there is more and more resistance to it! There is a growing demand for Muslim dietary laws to be taken into account in society. There are more and more conflicts regarding religious clothing. The Orientals also give their children Oriental first names and not German. Female teachers only want to work with their hair covered. It is demanded that girls in schools should have the opportunity to be taught with their hair covered. Girls should not participate in physical education and swimming lessons. The Christmas markets are actually renamed Winter markets. . Because the country should be de-Christianized. Let's see when there will be ramaḍān markets etc. etc. etc. In this German video one can see Germany's future with fully veiled girls! Children's street festival in Berlin with islamic veiled little girls! ua-cam.com/video/ByvcTkXhsCE/v-deo.html There are also additional Arabic street signs on German streets as this video also shows. ua-cam.com/video/Jta9hppHxd8/v-deo.html Germany celebrates its first Arabic language street sign! In the meantime are currently about 3000 mosques in Germany!
      Such news can then be read in the German media, which point to the coming civil war. "Right-wing extremists are becoming more and more radical!" "Left-wing extremists are becoming more and more radical!" "Islamic fundamentalism is becoming more and more radical!" "Attacks on refugee camps by right-wing extremists." "A group of Left-wing extremist seriously injured two right-wing extremists in Erfurt in a planned ambush." "Hundreds of masked left-wing extremists riot in Berlin!" "On New Year's Eve there were riots by orientals in various German cities. Fires were started. Firefighters trying to put out a burning bus had to flee from an oriental mob. Even ambulances were attacked and damaged. Police officers were also attacked." In the few German media that are not controlled by the left wingers in Germany, these oriental riots were seen as a demonstration of power by the Oriantals in Germany. The online offshoot "Zeit Online" of the German left-wing newspaper "Zeit", which is very well respected in Germany, has posted on Twitter that "the Germans will lose power in their own country. The Germans will become a minority in their own country. Non-Germans will take over power in the country!" But when the German journalists realized how explosive these sentences were, the article was deleted. But the internet never forgets and various people have already reported on the article.
      A civil war for supremacy in the country is therefore likely with about 30% oriental population! The future of this country will definitely be violent! These are all consequences of radical left-wing politics in Germany!

  • @TheRealTonie
    @TheRealTonie Рік тому +55

    4:33 How? How could we have so little people? 🤔
    I wonder if it's connected with how people were MURDERED during WWII and even after that Poland was betrayed and left behind an iron curtain so some people couldn't return back home due to repressions from the soviets and even more people were leaving even in the 2000s just because Poland wasn't the greatest of places to live and earn a good living, since, you know. The Germany (the western part) had a thing called Marshall plan and that basically helped early day Germany to fix itself. You can see the aftereffects even now by looking at the eastern Germany where Population density is less than the west, and more like in Poland.
    Then take Poland, where we had no marshall plan, not even reparations and even we had this thing called nowadays russia parasiting and stealing whatever it can.
    Oh, also. If you say that Poland refused reparations then get help. Poland was not a free country until around 1991.
    But no need for details, who the hell will even read this.

    • @JohnnieWalker044
      @JohnnieWalker044 Рік тому +2

      Remember there are 18-20 mln Polish people abroad

    • @TheRealTonie
      @TheRealTonie Рік тому +8

      ​@@JohnnieWalker044 That's literally what I said. People were leaving abroad because they couldn't make a decent living in the Poland after all what happened.

    • @cario8222
      @cario8222 Рік тому

      @@TheRealTonie even before 1990 there were millions of Poles in other countries. That's just history, read about Wiosna Ludów, Chopin had to go to Paris as well as Mickiewicz and Marie Curie and many many others... Polish land was always land of war.

    • @TheRealTonie
      @TheRealTonie Рік тому +4

      @@cario8222 Dude I know. But I believe I've already wrote long enough, I'm not gonna write another essay just because of a single youtube video on some youtube channel. Nobody pays me for it contrary to this guy's channel. I just wanted to point out a single biggest flaw in this video, which is that it doesn't talk about history ESPECIALLY comparing Germany and Poland.
      Specifically this annoyed me: 4:35 "So how? They have pretty much the same size, how does Poland have half the population? WELL IT'S ABOUT THE POPULATION DENSITY!" TOTALLY, NOTHING ELSE MATTERS!
      The entire video could be also part of Germany's propaganda and shown in schools so that they know how superior they are towards their neighbors.

    • @cario8222
      @cario8222 Рік тому

      @@TheRealTonie yeah, ok. Expensive houses and flats also don't make it better. People who maybe would want to have 3 or 4 kids can't afford it. So they have 2 kids.

  • @arturms4159
    @arturms4159 Рік тому +26

    Why the Polish and German economies are not at a similar level is primarily due to our dear neighbours.... and I am not talking about the partitions (also by the 2 German-speaking countries Austria and Prussia together with Russia, of course), I am talking about World War II and the total destruction of the Polish state, infrastructure and business by dear Germans. Of course Soviet Russia also froze our country for almost half a century.... so we started to really develop in 1990 when the economy was freed.

  • @javiervll8077
    @javiervll8077 Рік тому +73

    Note that Poland 🇵🇱 is the fifth largest economy in the EU 🇪🇺 and the fifth most populous country in the EU after Germany 🇩🇪, France 🇫🇷, Italy 🇮🇹 and Spain 🇪🇸. As we say in Spanish: “¡Ni tan mal!” 😁

    • @kamilkozowski105
      @kamilkozowski105 Рік тому +25

      Sixth economy. Netherlands are ahead of us

    • @MrPolandball
      @MrPolandball Рік тому

      Economy is manmade BS anyway, imaging treating bunch of numbers as god

    • @adammarcinkowski-ko3el
      @adammarcinkowski-ko3el Рік тому +1

      @@kamilkozowski105 Only if swamp germans are not on high ;P

    • @quadro1337
      @quadro1337 Рік тому +3

      ​@@kamilkozowski105but we are still grinding hard, brother

    • @marcinkosakowski7191
      @marcinkosakowski7191 Рік тому

      ​​@@adammarcinkowski-ko3elI've heard about mountain Germans, but never about swamp Germans. Tf. xdd

  • @FelixMapper
    @FelixMapper Рік тому +25

    3:26 Szczecin is there. A valuable port and city.

  • @frtzkng
    @frtzkng Рік тому +61

    As shown in 6:41, that one red spot in former Eastern Germany is Eichsfeld, a traditionally Catholic region which was the only religious enclave which largely resisted and survived the GDR's movement against religion, mostly due to being largely in a border region which you needed a special permission for to even travel to or from, so the government left the people their mostly on their own.

    • @tomasznasiowski5075
      @tomasznasiowski5075 Рік тому +1

      Was there any punishment for being religious in DDR? Did they forbid masses and persecute pastors? The percentage of atheism there is mindblowing.

    • @frtzkng
      @frtzkng Рік тому +1

      @@tomasznasiowski5075 I'm not quite sure as I wasn't alive when the GDR was a thing. Generally religion was a thing practiced in private, as official state doctrine was to eradicate all religious influences on politics and economy, not only Christian ones

    • @huntardhc2286
      @huntardhc2286 Рік тому +4

      @@tomasznasiowski5075 There was no official punishment. On paper you were allowed to be religous. BUT after the GDR collapse it came out that there were plenty of hidden repercussions by the state. Like intelligence services specially monitored religious people. Also you were barred from higher positions in society, many jobs and often studying at uni aswell if you were practicing religion actively.
      One famous example for that is Angela Merkel. Her family was religious - her father was a theologian - but she had to publically swear off religion and join the communist youth groups and party to be able to follow her interests in physics.
      After the unification she straight went into the "christian democratic union" and in time became chancellor of germany while running for that party.

    • @kj4923
      @kj4923 Рік тому +5

      @@huntardhc2286 do you know in Germany that Angela Merkel 's grandfather was Polish and his surname was Kaźmierczak changed than by her father to Kazner which is maiden surname of Angela :) ???

    • @tomasznasiowski5075
      @tomasznasiowski5075 Рік тому +2

      @@huntardhc2286 Thanks, really nice answer

  • @stevejohnson3357
    @stevejohnson3357 Рік тому +150

    These 2 nations along with a few others in the area have been in and out of each other's houses for a very long time. The German name Schultz and the Polish name Szulc are pronounced the same (c=ts) and old Prussian was a baltic language while Brandenberg used to be home to a west Slavic language related to Polish.

    • @marmac83
      @marmac83 Рік тому +20

      "Polish" name "Szulc." LMAO. You mean the German name "Schulz" rendered in Polish orthography? There is nothing Polish about that name. LMAO!

    • @baird5682
      @baird5682 Рік тому

      Albo Cimmerman

    • @jakubw.2779
      @jakubw.2779 Рік тому +15

      Polish name Szulc is directly derived from german. Somewhere along the history people from different regions mixed and passed different names. You can find many polish "inspired" names whenever Polish population was great enough to influence the society forming. Same with german and russian populations in Poland - west of Vistula river you will meet more german sounding names, while east of the river there will be more russian sounding names like Żewłakow for example

    • @kj4923
      @kj4923 Рік тому +16

      @@jakubw.2779 the Russian language had very little influence on the Polish language. Mutual Polish and Ruthenian influences were of much greater importance.

    • @jakubw.2779
      @jakubw.2779 Рік тому +1

      @@kj4923 yeah, i should probably go for ruthenian, but russian names also influenced polish names. During partitions quite a number of russians came to Poland and mixed with polish population and not only then, after wwII also, taged with soviet military personel.

  • @AndrzejHeller
    @AndrzejHeller Рік тому +39

    Greetings from Poland, thanks for another great video. I think Argentina vs Brazil or Germany vs France comparison video could be interesting.

    • @General.Knowledge
      @General.Knowledge  Рік тому +1

      Thanks for watching! And thanks for the suggestions :)

    • @Stiegelzeine
      @Stiegelzeine Рік тому +5

      Brazil vs Germany? That’s a 7;1 for Germany

  • @derdude6214
    @derdude6214 Рік тому +149

    I do have my fair share of problems with the polish government but I'm really happy that I live in a time where our countries are allies instead of enemies.
    Poland has some wonderful landscapes and beautiful people. 🇪🇺🇵🇱🇩🇪🇪🇺

    • @KennyNGA
      @KennyNGA Рік тому

      I don't think polish people are very beautiful

    • @nikki-op4xj
      @nikki-op4xj Рік тому +12

      honestly same i hate religion but u gotta give em credit how they handling whole ukraine thing . makes me little proud .
      although spending on army is bit excessive and i fear that may lead to some crazy Greeklike debt ...

    • @The_Radzix
      @The_Radzix Рік тому

      Whats the fuck? We dont want created one country with germans. Eu want do this. We are Poles and We love our country. Never We let our independece

    • @spooqus6541
      @spooqus6541 Рік тому +7

      @@nikki-op4xj gargamel

    • @opalek467
      @opalek467 Рік тому +1

      @@nikki-op4xj wat

  • @pppphillip
    @pppphillip Рік тому +58

    Well...in the eastern part of Germany which is closer to Poland, there may be more similarities. But when you live quite close to the Dutch and Belgian borders in the western part, you feel far away from that. Germany also has various differences between the federal states, which means, you could feel a bit foreign when you're in a different part of the country

    • @magmalin
      @magmalin Рік тому +20

      You're ever so right. I live in the south of Germany, was born here, and although part of my family came from Selesia (Schlesien), which is now Poland (the other part from Moravia), the only thing I have in common with the Polish - at least in my family tradition - is the "cuisine"/meals, which has been passed on. My mum was able to speak Polish and Czech apart from German, but these slavic languages were never in my focus of interest. And when I read some of the comments here on youtube, claiming that Poland is German soil and should be given back, it makes me feel sick. Not even my family members, who were born there, ever agreed to these demands of the German right wing parties.

    • @KrzysztofMichurski
      @KrzysztofMichurski Рік тому

      well, eastern part of germany is more russian.
      The problem with Poland is that we have our own awareness, belonging to "here" to Poland. East Germany to this day has a soft spot for the USSR. Something they did after the Second World War, this compromise between Nazism and communism ... for a Pole is a betrayal.
      In addition, Poland has decades of "gratitude" of the USSR on its back ... only after 1990 could we develop

    • @sebe2255
      @sebe2255 Рік тому

      And most people live in the West, not the East

    • @davidgreetman3704
      @davidgreetman3704 Рік тому +3

      ​@@magmalin 100%, In Poland some people claim that cities like Vilanus and Lviv are inherently Polish and should be given back which is complete stupidity to me. I think that every country that has been reshaped throughout history hare the same problematic claims

    • @PHONELAS7
      @PHONELAS7 Рік тому

      Bayern!!!!!!!!!

  • @phillipsesate1364
    @phillipsesate1364 Рік тому +81

    Next can you do how Czechia and Slovakia compare, or Austria and Hungary or the Netherlands and Belgium.

    • @General.Knowledge
      @General.Knowledge  Рік тому +23

      Yes :) Czechia and Slovakia are next on this series!

    • @glavatazelva
      @glavatazelva Рік тому +2

      @@General.Knowledge following that line (border), we come to the conclusion that a video comparison of Slovenia and Croatia should be made!

    • @czuswoe
      @czuswoe Рік тому +7

      I would actually pefare the Czech Republic compared to Austria And Slovakia compared to Hungary. It would be less of a cliche and more to talk about.

    • @Stiegelzeine
      @Stiegelzeine Рік тому +2

      Why Austria and Hungary? Austria is basically small Germany they’re far from Hungary especially since Hungary and Finnland are the only countries who speak languages from a completely different language family not from one of the 3 big European language family’s like Slavic german and Roman/italic

    • @phillipsesate1364
      @phillipsesate1364 Рік тому +2

      @@Stiegelzeine Mostly because Austria and Hungary have a shared history

  • @zeeking2299
    @zeeking2299 Рік тому +28

    Great video! Minor corrections:
    In Polish "c" is pronounced as "ts"
    So instead of "Granika" its "Granitsa" for example.
    And the word "burmistrz" is pronounced "boor-mees-tzh" with zh/rz sounding like a French "j" in "Je Taime" and such.
    Other than those painful but understandable mistakes 😂 this video is very well done.

    • @grodt88
      @grodt88 Рік тому +1

      literally no one cares

    • @le__romantisme
      @le__romantisme Рік тому +7

      ​@@grodt88we actually do

    • @starwing2524
      @starwing2524 Рік тому

      ⁠@@le__romantismeNo

    • @le__romantisme
      @le__romantisme Рік тому +1

      @@starwing2524
      Litwo, Ojczyzno moja! ty jesteś jak zdrowie;
      Ile cię trzeba cenić, ten tylko się dowie,
      Kto cię stracił. Dziś piękność twą w całej ozdobie
      Widzę i opisuję, bo tęsknię po tobie.
      Panno święta, co Jasnej bronisz Częstochowy
      I w Ostrej świecisz Bramie! Ty, co gród zamkowy
      Nowogródzki ochraniasz z jego wiernym ludem!
      Jak mnie dziecko do zdrowia powróciłaś cudem
      (- Gdy od płaczącej matki, pod Twoją opiekę
      Ofiarowany martwą podniosłem powiekę;
      I zaraz mogłem pieszo, do Twych świątyń progu
      Iść za wrócone życie podziękować Bogu -)
      Tak nas powrócisz cudem na Ojczyzny łono!...
      Tymczasem, przenoś moją duszę utęsknioną
      Do tych pagórków leśnych, do tych łąk zielonych,
      Szeroko nad błękitnym Niemnem rozciągnionych;
      Do tych pól malowanych zbożem rozmaitem,
      Wyzłacanych pszenicą, posrebrzanych żytem;
      Gdzie bursztynowy świerzop, gryka jak śnieg biała,
      Gdzie panieńskim rumieńcem dzięcielina pała,
      A wszystko przepasane jakby wstęgą, miedzą
      Zieloną, na niej zrzadka ciche grusze siedzą.

    • @PolishGod1234
      @PolishGod1234 Рік тому +2

      ​@@starwing2524I care

  • @DimoPoland
    @DimoPoland Рік тому +39

    Great video, greetings from Poland.

  • @ThePawcios
    @ThePawcios Рік тому +167

    Greetings to Germany from Poland :D

    • @UlliStein
      @UlliStein Рік тому +52

      Thanks, greetings back!

    • @mikoajbadzielewski3396
      @mikoajbadzielewski3396 Рік тому +32

      Czy to nieoficjalne konto Donalda Tuska?🤨

    • @pep-qew
      @pep-qew Рік тому +26

      ​@@mikoajbadzielewski3396nie bo gdyby to był on to by po niemiecku napisał

    • @Lord.Sinclair
      @Lord.Sinclair Рік тому

      @@mikoajbadzielewski3396 Zatrważa ilość osób chorych psychicznie - albo po prostu głupich ...

    • @spamplayer1726
      @spamplayer1726 Рік тому +30

      @@pep-qew Mam nadzieję, że to tylko żart i śmiechy z propagandy pisu, a nie jej skutek.

  • @Keeper_89
    @Keeper_89 Рік тому +33

    Poland lost a lot of its population in WW2. Based on some researchers it was even 20% of total number of people living (so it was 6-7 millions of people from estimated 35 to 38 millions people in 1938) on territory of Poland.
    Mostly polish jews but not only them. After partitions of Poland in 18 century, all national uprisings in 19 century and WW2 there was also big emigration movement and nowadays +/- 21 millions of Poles or people of polish heritage live abroad (10 millions in US only, 1 million in Canada and +/- 1,5 million in Brazil).
    If you take into consideration all those pop loses in last 200 years, no polish state for over 100 years, and politics of germanization and russification in occupied terititoris I'm almost sure that population of Poland would be much bigger nowadays. Some of those loses are our own fault (the biggest reason for partitions of Poland was lack of strong rulers in 17 and 18 century and strong aristocracy (szlachta and magnats - nowadays oligarchs) putting their wishes and needs over our own country, destroying it in the process (partitions were results of those changes not reason for it).
    Second thing that you need to take into consideration is that after Yalta agreements between Stalin and Allies Poland lost a lot of it eastern territory (Kresy wschodnie) in exchange for German (before WW2) lands of Silesia, Masuria, Warmia, Pomerania and Kashubia (so called "ziemie odzyskane" - land reclaimed, that were part of Poland in one form or another in the past - from 10th century to 18 - not all the time, just for period of time). This situation also decreased number of "citizens" because before war in Poland was a lot of minorities. In 1938 Poles accounted for only 68% of population so they was like 24 millions of Poles in Poland. There was a lot of other nationalities like Jews, Belarusians and Ukrainians living in 2RP (second Rzeczpospolita). After WW2 and border changes Soviets politics repatriated almost all Poles from western territories into those newly "acquired" lands and almost all minorities landed behind PRL (Polish People Republic) borders.
    It resulted in one of most homogenous country population wise in Europe nowadays, where over 95% of its population is declaring Polish nationality as it basic one. When you take numbers into account less then 24 millions of polish people after WW2 changed into 38 nowadays, almost doubling it size, when Germany pop after the war was +/- 68 millions of people compared to 84 nowadays. In cold war period there was almost no migration in or out of Poland, almost no foreign investments and only now it is slowly changing from EU membership, demographic reasons + war in Ukraine, when western part of Germany was open and invested in by USA and western Europeans countries all this time.
    Its really hard to compare Germany to Poland for a lot of reasons - both our countries lost WW2 one way or another and both are still paying the price for it, but the most important thing is to never again let those thing happen between us and live our lives peacefully and working together for better future, helping Ukraine to have this better future together with us.

    • @mourdebars
      @mourdebars Рік тому

      Helping to strangle Ukraine's a peace process is de facto harming Ukraine, and in the same time Poland (and in the bigger frame - world). On some fields is just simple a crime (Poland probably gave Ukraine not only ammo & guns + espionage for targeting civilians, but is also providing Zelensky with cluster munition, produced by Bumar Labedy). Poland lost II WW, but only due to Stalin's subjective decisions, it won a huge chunk of German lands. Which is the biggest win, win, Poland couldn't ever dream of, and a big leap for today's economic prosperity.

    • @Keeper_89
      @Keeper_89 Рік тому

      ​@@mourdebars Too much Russia Today or other similar media outlets;)
      First of all - it's Russia that attacked Ukraine not other way around, and Ukrainians CHOSE to defend territories of their own country and they have rights to do it, and they are still doing so. No one told them to do it, nor to not stop doing it. If Russians wanted to "protect" Russian speaking people so badly they could repatriate them back into lands of Russia - they don't need new territories. They had biggest country in the world, and enough money from gas and oil sales to settle them in. But Russian "elites" needs new yachts, dachas and golden spoons so there is no money for plebs.
      Second - Poland can't provide any reliable intelligence services - we don't have capabilities to do so. Our politics destroyed them long time ago. Intelligence services are provided mostly by UK, USA and France. And attacking civilian targets is Russian domain not other way around.
      Third - Russia is attacking civilian buildings, food chain industries, museums and churches using rockets, cluster ammo and god only know what else, when some crazy people up there are still trying to scare world with nuclear strikes and destroying power plants and Ukraine can't use cluster ammo why? Poland did't sign international convention, neither did Ukraine or (sic!) Russia so can't blame either of sides of providing or using it. Russian elites understand only 2 languages - money and military strength so it's the only way to "communicate" with them.
      Fourth - those German lands were devastated to the ground, cities destroyed, houses in ruin and all industrial capacity were bombed or striped away and transported back to Soviet Union. Poles coming into those territories needed to rebuild them from the scratch, so did my grandparents moving into these land from modern day Belarusian territories.
      Fifth - Stalin was madman - so it's hard to comment any of his decisions as good one. Killing millions of his own citizens on whim is not good prognostic for a good leader. Mr. Putin is going his way. Something about mad leaders is tradition in Russia. Allies deciding to work with him after the war was the worst decision of that war - that is still biting west ass nowadays.
      Looking at what is going on in Russia nowadays it's look more like it is Russia who will brake first and guess who will be there to take some free land from them - Chinese not Ukraine or NATO countries, but their own ally who is controlling parts of Siberia indirectly even today. Most secure and peaceful border that the Russian had before war was their western border, but Russians elites were afraid that the Ukraine common people will show their Russian counterparts that there is better live without corruption and oligarch controlling everything in their lives. If Russia would move their soldier back behind their internationally recognized borders the war would be over, but so would be parts of lives of Russian "elites" with Mr Putin on top so it's better to send wave after wave of their own people to die then move back to their own territory.
      Sorry if I missed some of your points and please don't expect any more responses from me. Have a great day in your own small world.

    • @pawelx6066
      @pawelx6066 Рік тому +6

      @@mourdebars Poland will stop helping Ukraine only if Russia will be demilitarised and denazified...

    • @pep-qew
      @pep-qew Рік тому

      ​@@mourdebarsPoland lose more land than get after ww2 + communist puppet gov = polish total lose in ww2

    • @sauronplugawy3866
      @sauronplugawy3866 Рік тому +1

      ​@@pawelx6066You realise Ukraine has offically supported neo nazi militia which is supposed to be modern OUN?

  • @yakotako717
    @yakotako717 Рік тому +13

    Bolesław Chrobry's denarius contains a bird, but there is a dispute as to whether it is an eagle or perhaps a peacock. The white eagle with a crown comes from the coat of arms of Przemysł II.

  • @MrKotBonifacy
    @MrKotBonifacy Рік тому +47

    "Did you notice any mistakes" - yesssir. Minor one - "granica" is pronounced "granitsa", Polish c = English "ts", except for few exception in loan words (mostly English, and some Latin ones).
    While at it:
    Pomeranien (or Vorpomeranien), northern province in Germany gets its name from Polish "pomorze" ("by/ at the sea, seabord", as morze [mozhe] means "a sea" in Polish - not to be confused with its homonym, "może", which means "maybe/ possible, ~ly" or "could be").
    Polish "ratusz" [ratush] comes from German "Rathaus", a City Hall, not a house infested by rats.
    Polish "poczta" (a post and a post office) probably comes from German "post". "Bruk", a "cubic" type of a cobblestone comes from German "Brücke", a bridge - as this type of pavement )back then a very expensive one) was first used on bridges, and it is still reflected in Russian, where this type of pavement is called мостовая (mostovaya, an adjective-like noun meaning "of/ from/ related to a bridge"; however a Russian word брюки, that sounds pretty much like "bruki", plural for "bruk" means "trousers", but I digress here ;-)
    Polish "warsztat" [var-shtat], a workshop, comes from German "werkstatd", literally a place (stadt) of work (werk), or a workplace.
    And then there's this common and colloquial Polish expression, a verb "oszwabić" [oshvabitch, with very soft "ch"] which means "to cheat someone thoroughly while preserving all pretences of legality, and it stems from a rather derogatory term "Szwab", plural "Szwaby" [shvab/ shvaby] that stems from Schwaben, or Swabia, a region in southwestern Germany, and the closes English approximation of that "Szwab" would be "Jerry" or "Kraut".
    Speaking of which...
    Well, "and so on, and so forth" I, could go for hours blabbering about loan words in both German and Polish, but then there's one IMPORTANT thing that your video never addressed, and it is the fact that Poland and Germany are "friends" pretty much like Greece and Turkey are "friends".
    Yes, they both are in NATO now, in EU (not the case in the case of Turkey) and they do maintain "good and working" relations, sorta - but that's pretty much about it.
    "Marriage of convenience" at best, although "frenemies" or "managing inherent and inescapable conflicts in the best possible manner" would be the more accurate description.
    Or, "best friends ever", where that "EVER" is the operative - meaning "now we are the best 'friends' that we ever have or had been", but that's not to be confused with "friends, period" - as virtually ALL goals of Polish and German "raison d'etat" are pretty much opposite and on a conflict path (with few exceptions).

    • @aGentleUser
      @aGentleUser Рік тому +7

      Oszwabic, dobre! Living in germany and experiencing that this term is quite matching!
      Germans fingerpoint poland and say that there is alot of stealing in poland. In germany on the other hand i experienced often how companies or even authorities cheat you, take advance, let you pay pretending to being legal (although laws often leaves room how to interprete them) ...

    • @sallomon2357
      @sallomon2357 Рік тому +1

      An interesting reason for why the words like burmistrz, ratusz, (also probably) bruk, etc. were borrowed from German is because when the so-called colonisation (meaning mass founding of towns and "cities" in Polish territories, especially the west and the south of Poland) first happened, most of the settlers came from Germany. Plus, the founding rules for the towns also came from Germany.

    • @MrKotBonifacy
      @MrKotBonifacy Рік тому +4

      @@sallomon2357 It was called a "Magdeburg law" AFAIR.

    • @cebulak941
      @cebulak941 Рік тому +1

      C = C
      A nie żadne "ts"

    • @Gallusek
      @Gallusek Рік тому +2

      ​@@cebulak941ssssss 🐍🐍🐍. Podobno obcokrajowcy uważają ,że mamy sssssyczący język 🐍

  • @petitthom2886
    @petitthom2886 Рік тому +55

    The duchy of Prussia which would become the kingdom of Prussia and the leading state for the unification of Germany is now in Poland

    • @Prometeusz
      @Prometeusz Рік тому +56

      Part of it ... Central part was still Brandenburg with Berlin as a capitol I suppose . But still - Prussia was founded BECAUSE of Polish invitation for Teutonic Order 'Zakon Krzyżacki' or Cross Order ? - so they just colonized those lands - killing many Pruss people ( they aren't anymore ) and taxing and slaving some of already living there Poles. So it was not an Germaning land of origin or fatherland . German fatherland is in modern Germany

    • @KennyNGA
      @KennyNGA Рік тому

      Wow impressive you remember ww2

    • @petitthom2886
      @petitthom2886 Рік тому +4

      @@Prometeusz yes, my mistake. I thought the Brandenburg part was only "added" when it became a kingdom in 1701

    • @tymonzmijewski3206
      @tymonzmijewski3206 Рік тому +1

      @@Prometeusz Teutonic Order przyjął się w angielskim

    • @theChaosKe
      @theChaosKe Рік тому +11

      @@Prometeusz The poles invited them though specifically to conquer the old prussians, which they had tried for 200 years. Mainly because they were pagan. So not exactly innocent lol.
      There was also a lot of joint rule, with the head of the teutonic order sometimes being a pole or part of the polish nobility being german.

  • @wik7or214
    @wik7or214 Рік тому +5

    important note
    for hundreds of years the border between the Polish and what is now German areas was the safest and most peaceful border in Europe
    the conflict was mainly between Prussia and Poland
    but even that later on became eradicated (somewhat)
    and only since late 1700's was the relationship between the 2 countries non-peaceful

  • @xFurashux
    @xFurashux Рік тому +6

    Very nice presented data. One thing to add I think would be interesting is to compare Poland to ex-East Germany. The influence of almost 50 years of communism still creating many similarities despite East Germany for 30 years being connected to a country that got under Marshall plan, early EU version, had free market, actually freedom etc. always amaze me.

    • @callsigndd9ls897
      @callsigndd9ls897 Рік тому

      Well, the Marshall Plan is generally overrated. It was simply a loan that West Germany had to repay. And it wasn't money either, it was mostly agricultural products from overproduction in the USA worth 1.4 billion US dollars. It helped get through the famine years a little, but to say that it rebuilt all of West Germany is a fairy tale. No, the upswing in the West German economy was due to the fact that, due to the expulsion of people from the East, there were suddenly 14 million more people in West Germany, all of whom started doing something. In addition, after the war, Western countries had a great need to catch up on consumer goods, which Germany could produce and deliver very quickly and cheaply. I was born in ruins in 1948 and I know how quickly everything was rebuilt. I know that my father worked like an ox and always did overtime. He worked for a supplier to a shipyard that built one ship after another. West Germany's Goßindustrie was 80% destroyed, but the infrastructure was still there. Furthermore, the loss of prewar technology meant building new technology that was suddenly more efficient and productive compared sa in countries that had lost nothing. As I said, this applied to West Germany, not to East Germany, where there was also a permanent exodus from East to West as long as the Iron Curtain was not yet completely closed.

  • @elinavance3476
    @elinavance3476 Рік тому +9

    From what I´ve seen is that most German people like Poland and most Polish people like Germany.
    Don`t get too influenced by your countries politicans everyone

    • @pep-qew
      @pep-qew Рік тому +2

      Most of rational thinking poles hate germans

    • @elinavance3476
      @elinavance3476 Рік тому +1

      @@pep-qew I don't think there are many German people alive that participated in WW2.
      Well the hate between Asian countries also still exist.
      It's just a waste of time and energy imo-but of course the horrible war(s) and the loss of human life's shouldn't be forgotten!

    • @Cubus-zapasowy
      @Cubus-zapasowy Рік тому +2

      @@elinavance3476Depends. In Poland, most of older people have a grudge towards Germany. Younger people (younger than 30) are not connected to history, are very "western-oriented" and actually quite like Germany.

    • @zomfgpeewpeew
      @zomfgpeewpeew Рік тому

      @@Cubus-zapasowy it's the same everywere. Old ppl have old grudges....

  • @Vormav777
    @Vormav777 Рік тому +37

    It should also be said if we're comparing the two, that Poland never considered Germans as sub-*umans while Germany considered Poles and all of the Slavic people as sub-*uman since the times of the Holy Roman Empire and pretty much to this day still. It should always be said when comparing the two that Poland never created d*ath camps on the German territory in order to ext*rminate Germans while Germany created de*th camps of the territory of Poland to ext*rminate the Poles and other people. I like comparisons.

    • @pep-qew
      @pep-qew Рік тому +10

      Prawda

    • @Aggoenix
      @Aggoenix Рік тому +2

      Germans did create death camps in Poland mainly to exterminate Polish Jews, who were also 80-90% of those killed in those death camps. Catholic Poles were around 10-20% of casualties in those camps and some Poles collaborated and helped to run those camps, that's reality. Poles also massacred jewish groups after the war, like Jedwabne and Kielce pogroms, where Polish officers shot a few dozens unarmed Jews. Jedwabne was in 1941 where like 50 Poles collaborated with German police and killed around 400 jews.

    • @Randoms____
      @Randoms____ Рік тому +15

      @@Aggoenix 10-20% is still a very high percentage, also the Germans saw Non-Jewish and Jewish poles as subhuman.

    • @Randoms____
      @Randoms____ Рік тому +1

      @@Aggoenix Truth is, many of these poles were forced to "collaborate" with the Germans or get killed, you're also trying to blame a whole nation for 50 people in the year 1941 lol.

    • @kj4923
      @kj4923 Рік тому +1

      @@Aggoenix I know you don't care about the facts, but Kielce was a provocation by the communist services and Jedwabne in the version you are proposing is a hoax. Undoubtedly, people died and here we can only lament that this happened. There are no better or worse victims. Without the German occupation, there would be no tragedy, and the people who collaborated and helped run the German death camps were of different nationalities, including Jews. This is a small insignificant fraction. Don't transfer the responsibility to other nations than GERMANS. This is falsifying history.

  • @rix.
    @rix. Рік тому +4

    if may I add some additional points:
    10:58 Same story applies for example for cucumber ("ogórek" Polish while "gurke") in German.
    And as a Pole I really love current state of relationship between us and Germans. Even though we might not have so much in common I could tell you that we are very, very similiar (especially those from east part of Germany). Let's hope it will only better and we can build our future together.

  • @jackperson3626
    @jackperson3626 Місяць тому

    Thanks!

  • @gyurbanvikrenc6595
    @gyurbanvikrenc6595 Рік тому +40

    One word. Better 🇭🇺♥️🇵🇱

    • @sloweny2086
      @sloweny2086 Рік тому +12

      I agree, love from Hungary 🇭🇺♥️🇵🇱

    • @kubicaeeeeee2783
      @kubicaeeeeee2783 Рік тому +12

      Polak, Węgier dwa bratanki 🇵🇱♥🇭🇺 Lengyel, Magyar két jó barát

    • @RocketPal
      @RocketPal Рік тому +1

      Hungary supports russia though

    • @gyurbanvikrenc6595
      @gyurbanvikrenc6595 Рік тому +1

      @@RocketPal Against Ukraine, not Poland

    • @paweg7449
      @paweg7449 Рік тому

      Yes, we definitely love hungarians ;) soon travel to Balaton lake

  • @danielsentertainmentproduc1527
    @danielsentertainmentproduc1527 Рік тому +16

    A France Vs Italy one would be top notch

  • @ewok40k
    @ewok40k Рік тому +4

    I would add that while there were periods of intense animosity, there were whole centuries - like 1500s - when Polish German borders were most peaceful in Europe. Even for the most of 1600s the relations were pretty good, only to deteriorate with rise of the Kingdom of Prussia.

  • @wilkw3
    @wilkw3 Рік тому +11

    6:10 - Polish catholicism is mostly cultural, not religious. While it's true Poland it's 90% culturally catholic, it's hard to tell how many actually religious people are there. Probably less than 50%. Im a declared atheist when asked about religion, but if asked not specificaly about religion, i definitely consider myself a cultural catholic

    • @Blanka1100
      @Blanka1100 Рік тому

      35%

    • @Cubus-zapasowy
      @Cubus-zapasowy Рік тому +1

      35% of Polish people attend mass each Sunday and 60% attend mass at least once a month according to data.

    • @Blanka1100
      @Blanka1100 Рік тому

      @@Cubus-zapasowy And these numbers are getting smaller and smaller. Poland is not as conservative as it is shown in western media. It is not a land of people JP II anymore

    • @Cubus-zapasowy
      @Cubus-zapasowy Рік тому +1

      @@Blanka1100 I live in a rich suburb, so people should be quite secular here. Yet the church I attend is always full on Sunday

    • @vernicejillmagsino9603
      @vernicejillmagsino9603 Рік тому

      @@Blanka1100His successor Benedict XVI is from Germany

  • @TheRezro
    @TheRezro Рік тому +27

    The reason why number of reservists in Poland is unspecified is due to system change. Poland ended conscription 18 tears ago and so number of reservists with full service is relatively low. But there is large number of people, who serve in military in the past and technically can be mobilized. Though they aren't accounted and may not fit modern standard.

    • @datdude119
      @datdude119 Рік тому +11

      @@RonaldSchulz6 Living rent free in your head Schulz 😂

    • @spotlight3465
      @spotlight3465 Рік тому +2

      @@RonaldSchulz6 Don't make me laugh dear friend from Germany, do you think we have time to think about you? We have to work overtime to save and buy your old Passat 1.8 TDI.

    • @TheRezro
      @TheRezro Рік тому +12

      @@RonaldSchulz6 I assume your are a German? German backstabbing was always greatest threat to Poland. And then they cry when Muscovy raid the Berlin.

    • @RonaldSchulz6
      @RonaldSchulz6 Рік тому

      @@spotlight3465 😂😂😂😂👌🏻

    • @callsigndd9ls897
      @callsigndd9ls897 Рік тому

      @@TheRezro Well, if Moscow invades Berlin again, they have to go through Poland, there's no way around it (lol).

  • @geoffgero6081
    @geoffgero6081 Рік тому +26

    When I visited Germany everyone would switch to English after I spoke one German word. It was annoying, as I was studying German and wanted to practice. So i said to one guy "Ich kann kein Englisch. Ich komme aus Polen." He responded with "Ja też! Które województwo?". I had to admit defeat and say "I lied, I'm American".
    I have much love for the German and Polish people

    • @nuke1863
      @nuke1863 Рік тому

      Ich denke, dass diese Deutschen vermutlich selbst ihre englischen (oder polnischen) Sprachkenntnisse üben oder verbessern wollten. ^^

    • @kerim.s8801
      @kerim.s8801 Рік тому +2

      @@nuke1863 Nein, das liegt daran, dass es zu lange dauert, kaputtes Deutsch von den Leuten zu entziffern und deshalb schnell auf Englisch gewechselt wird.

    • @lioneldemun6033
      @lioneldemun6033 Рік тому +1

      That's how colonized people behave, speaking the language of the Masters

    • @njordholm
      @njordholm Рік тому +1

      @@lioneldemun6033 😬Das sage ich nächste Mal den Niederländern, wenn ich wieder über die Grenze husche. Keine Chance Niederländisch zu üben, was eigentlich schade ist. Wenn man den Mund aufmacht und sich damit als Deutscher outet gehts sofort mit Deutsch weiter, zumindest in der Grenzregion.

    • @aGentleUser
      @aGentleUser Рік тому +7

      Funny story! I have one too:
      A friend of my mother (polish woman) has married a german. They spend a lot of their time in a polish community, partying together and so on.
      The guy started to learn polish by immitating his wife. He is now really excellent, a pole would very likely not notice that he is not a native speaker!
      But then he has immitated his wife, and in the polish language a man does conjucate some verb forms different then a woman.
      Example: I went - in polish a man says: ja szedlem, woman: ja szlam.
      So he was speaking of himself of being a woman alltime :D

  • @glavatazelva
    @glavatazelva Рік тому +25

    for everyone who lives in Slovakia, northwestern Hungary and Carpathian Ukraine! how about the proposal of unification with Poland! so Poland and Germany would be mirror images of each other! 0:07 😅

    • @flpmlks5181
      @flpmlks5181 Рік тому +4

      no :D

    • @staregierki760
      @staregierki760 Рік тому +3

      sounds good xD im in!!

    • @Ізабелла-ж5ш
      @Ізабелла-ж5ш Рік тому +1

      It will never happen.

    • @RonaldSchulz6
      @RonaldSchulz6 Рік тому

      I am German, but I think Ukrainians not those from whom something can be taken away.

    • @glavatazelva
      @glavatazelva Рік тому +2

      @@RonaldSchulz6 I didn't say that the Poles should take the mentioned territory, but that the people living in that territory should think about the option of (peaceful) unification so that the political map would look a little more interesting ;) if that's not a good enough reason for unification, I don't know what is!

  • @kubeczekK
    @kubeczekK Рік тому +1

    It really hurts my polish ears (i also speak german a bit) to hear you reading polish and german words, but it was really fun to hear

  • @lisky209
    @lisky209 Рік тому +23

    My friend, you cannot imagine how these two countries are so different. I do not know more different countries and nations than Poland and Germany. History teaches it.

    • @johnnyearp52
      @johnnyearp52 Рік тому +5

      Yet you are both pale Christian countries that speak an Indo-European language. You share some of the same blood. Different for neighbors maybe but not different on a global scale.

    • @lookash3048
      @lookash3048 Рік тому +11

      ​@@johnnyearp52Germany - Christian country lol. Half of Germans have name Abdul or Muhammad. Germany is Muslim country.

    • @johnnyearp52
      @johnnyearp52 Рік тому +8

      @@lookash3048 5 or 6% of Germany is Muslim. Not half.

    • @zeisselgaertner3212
      @zeisselgaertner3212 Рік тому +10

      ​​@@lookash3048This is how propaganda works.
      After more than 1000 years of coexistance we should stop searching for conflicts between the Polish and the Germans.
      It's always other states in the background profiting from it.

  • @emmanuelgossaki4404
    @emmanuelgossaki4404 Рік тому +6

    I really like these kind of videos and i would love to see one othet countries. Great Work!

    • @General.Knowledge
      @General.Knowledge  Рік тому +2

      Thanks! More are on the schedule! :) Iran and Saudi Arabia and then Czechia & Slovakia are next

  • @tobiwan001
    @tobiwan001 Рік тому +6

    Sometimes you use local data to compare. For example with unemployment: you should use a common metric, like the ILO unemployment metric. It’s almost half for Germany.

  • @fr0ntend
    @fr0ntend Рік тому +3

    Norway vs sweden next please. amazing series

  • @rabomarc
    @rabomarc Рік тому +1

    3:35, It’s the other way round, Oder doesn’t turn East to flow into Poland, it flows FROM the East, from inside Poland and then flows towards the Baltic Sea. The sources of this river are in Czech Republic by the way.

  • @TheJDraz
    @TheJDraz Рік тому +21

    Polish language is a lot different from German. German is closer to English

    • @kriegshammer2161
      @kriegshammer2161 Рік тому +7

      English is a germanic language. Polish a slavic.
      Even german 0% english speakers understand a little old english.
      Today , many english and german words are 70-100% similar , more sounds than written.
      Braun -Broun sounds 98% the same.Braun sounds like broun in english.Not Bruun or Braan.Haus-House,sounds 100% same. Müller-Miller 80%, Wasser-Water 70%, rot-red , blau-blue ...............German and english is mutch more similar than the most english, non german, speakers think.

    • @neon8406
      @neon8406 Рік тому +4

      @@kriegshammer2161yeah I am learning German and the hardest part about vocab is not the words themselves but the gender of the words.

    • @Galaxy-tm5ev
      @Galaxy-tm5ev Рік тому

      @@neon8406And inflections

    • @urbanistgod
      @urbanistgod Рік тому

      @@neon8406What’s the point of learning German?

  • @mikkeleangelo4939
    @mikkeleangelo4939 Рік тому +6

    There is and important reason why Polish-German border doesn't fallow Odra river near its delta and splits off. Its because Polish City of Szczecin would be split in two leaving Port of Szczecin in Polish side and Most of the city in German effectively killing the cities dockyard industry which was very important in 40s when border was drawn by the soviets. The border also cuts Island of Uznam in two parts Polish (town of Świnoujście) and german (rest of Uznam) effecticely giving Poland full control of straight between islands of Uznam and Wolin which is main sea route into city of Szczecin. So the border wasn't drew without any reaoning as the way it goes today is main reason why Szczecin can expand economicly

    • @lioneldemun6033
      @lioneldemun6033 Рік тому +2

      I call that robbing on high street by Stalin and his Polish goons

    • @kj4923
      @kj4923 Рік тому +1

      @@lioneldemun6033 You German people of peace. You didn't have to work with your friend Stalin until 1941. You spread peace and love all over Europe. :)

    • @lioneldemun6033
      @lioneldemun6033 Рік тому

      In 1918-1920 1938 -39 and 1945-1949, " Der Tod Sprach Polnisch". Enough said. I m not even German by the way, but I hate injustice!

    • @kj4923
      @kj4923 Рік тому +1

      @@lioneldemun6033 but you love selective justice and that is so much worse and dangerous for you, your community and your nation. It's very sad.

    • @lioneldemun6033
      @lioneldemun6033 Рік тому

      @@kj4923 justice is always selective, my friend . You Poles have had a field day since 1945 and particularly since 1989. Now it's time to wind down your pretentions or you will be involved again in a murderous war.

  • @EA00000
    @EA00000 Рік тому +17

    Poland and Germany had difficult time in history that is true 😊 but same time they have lots similarity as they live next to each other or sometimes together ? As this is happen in city of Gdańsk or Silesia region ! German and Poles live work together before the war ! Today you find lots similarity in food People behaviour , Poland people are very punctual same as German , Poles like kielbasa like the Germans and many more !

    • @pep-qew
      @pep-qew Рік тому +5

      No.

    • @Stiegelzeine
      @Stiegelzeine Рік тому +5

      @@pep-qew you can’t deny facts that’s why they’re called facts in the first place

    • @pep-qew
      @pep-qew Рік тому +2

      @@Stiegelzeine poles and germans "live and work together"

    • @ewazpolski692
      @ewazpolski692 Рік тому +3

      We speak in Poland : "Jak świat jest stary, nigdy Niemiec nie będzie dla Polaka bratem". Sorry, but that is True.

    • @EA00000
      @EA00000 Рік тому +1

      @@ewazpolski692 maybe ! If is like this why so little Germans living in Poland and Millions Polish people living in Germany !

  • @Porcelanix
    @Porcelanix Рік тому +24

    I am a Pole. One of my best friends is German. I know many German people some of them are my friends. One thing is sure. We are neighbours, no matter what, and we need to learn how to cooperate and work together for a better future. Alles gute für meine Deutsche Freunde. Grüß Gott!

    • @pep-qew
      @pep-qew Рік тому +9

      niemcy nigdy nie byli naszymi przyjaciółmi.

    • @kubaros7250
      @kubaros7250 Рік тому +3

      ​@@pep-qewwięc teraz jest odpowiedni czas by to zmienić

    • @pep-qew
      @pep-qew Рік тому +1

      @@kubaros7250 patrząc na to jak nas traktują widać że same szwaby nie chcą zmian

    • @ch36799
      @ch36799 Рік тому

      Unfortunetly German Gouverment is anti Polish. German still tries to rule Poland.

    • @ch36799
      @ch36799 Рік тому

      ​@@kubaros7250Niemcy muszą przestac sie mieszac do Polskiej Polityki. Niemcy chcą nadal Polską rządzic.

  • @rosspuch6769
    @rosspuch6769 Рік тому +15

    Greetings my fellow German friends 🇵🇱🤝🇩🇪 we both have bright future ahead.

    • @sebyyyhd
      @sebyyyhd Рік тому

      Niemcy nie za bardzo przes cholernie głupich młodzieszy z dupnych krajach jak Albania albo Turcja.

    • @rockyhd5gangxd784
      @rockyhd5gangxd784 Рік тому +1

      No never

    • @rockyhd5gangxd784
      @rockyhd5gangxd784 Рік тому

      😎🇵🇱🔪🔪🟡⚫🔴

  • @vaals1942
    @vaals1942 Рік тому +6

    Have you done a comparison of Austria and Hungary?

  • @deltatango6793
    @deltatango6793 Рік тому +4

    Have you ever heard of one of the origin stories of the Pied Piper? Credit to Wikipedia: "After the defeat of the Danes at the Battle of Bornhöved in 1227," explains Udolph, "the region south of the Baltic Sea, which was then inhabited by Slavs, became available for colonization by the Germans." The bishops and dukes of Pomerania, Brandenburg, Uckermark and Prignitz sent out glib "locators", medieval recruitment officers, offering rich rewards to those who were willing to move to the new lands. Thousands of young adults from Lower Saxony and Westphalia headed east. And as evidence, about a dozen Westphalian place names show up in this area. Indeed there are five villages called Hindenburg running in a straight line from Westphalia to Pomerania, as well as three eastern Spiegelbergs and a trail of etymology from Beverungen south of Hamelin to Beveringen northwest of Berlin to Beweringen in modern Poland.

    • @Har1ByWorld
      @Har1ByWorld Рік тому

      @@RonaldSchulz6 lol german kid trying to protect his precious ego from truth XD

    • @johnnyearp52
      @johnnyearp52 Рік тому +1

      Interesting. Part of my family came from Hameln.

  • @10hawell
    @10hawell Рік тому +39

    We are allies but certainly not friends, at best partners, at worst rivals.

  • @Miko80
    @Miko80 Рік тому +17

    Germany and Poland could be in even better relationship if only Germany would consider Poland as equal partner and not only as cheap labor and market to sell its products.

    • @pep-qew
      @pep-qew Рік тому +3

      True.
      But polish german relations are not good, not even neutral so I see any reason to use word "even"

    • @lukasf.1381
      @lukasf.1381 Рік тому +1

      Yeah, keep blaming Germany.

    • @pep-qew
      @pep-qew Рік тому

      @@lukasf.1381 with country made a ideology of subhumans and try to exterminate whole race?

  • @mariajoaoferrazdeabreu150
    @mariajoaoferrazdeabreu150 Рік тому +2

    Congrats on 800k subscribers! Great video as usual.

  • @wojciech8373
    @wojciech8373 Рік тому +2

    I live in Szczecin, I don't think anyone talks about whether it is a polish or a german city anymore. Businesses got mixed up. Families got mixed up.

  • @susangoaway
    @susangoaway Рік тому +7

    1:50 Would had been nice to mention, that those Teutonic Knights were invited by Poland to christianize the local pagan Prussians
    2:40 I would not call that a "connection", but rather a ground of conflict. Reminder that to this very day, Germany has not paid Poland anything for the attempt at destroying and erasing Poland from history.
    Meanwhile the electoral maps: This is not due to people living in the west and east, but rather, due to people in the east having deep ties to their local region, while the ones in the west were forcibly deported from the formerly Polish eastern territories by Russians, thus creating a complete disconnected from their local region.

    • @njordholm
      @njordholm Рік тому

      Ich sehe das etwas anders.
      Deutschland trat nach dem Krieg Gebiete an Polen ab. Diese Gebiete haben einen Wert. Sicherlich kann man darüber debattieren, wie viel diese nun wert sind/waren und ob das nun angemessen ist. Aber "not paid anything" kann man nun ja so schon mal nicht sagen.
      Ich bin einiges zu jung um dabei gewesen zu sein, jedoch habe ich auch von Geschichten nach dem Krieg gehört/gelesen/gesehen.
      Wikipedia sagt mir zum Thema Vertreibung von Deutschen und Deutschstämmiger, dass sie eine Zahl von 12-14 Mio. erreichten und das viele von Ihnen Zwangsarbeit leisten mussten, bevor sie dann bis in die 1950er hinein nach Westen in die Besatzungszonen umsiedeln mussten. Dabei kam es auch zu Konfiszierungen ihres Vermögens teils auch Verbrechen (von Gewalt, über Vergewaltigungen bis hin zu Morden/Selbstjustiz).
      Dieses Vermögen und die Arbeitsleistung ist auch etwas wert! Die Taten der Deutschen im Krieg möchte ich in keinem Fall relativieren... begangenes Unrecht mit Unrecht (den erwähnten Verbrechen) zu vergelten, ist jedoch nicht ganz der richtige Weg, meiner bescheidenen Meinung nach! Da geflissentlich drüber hinweg zu gehen, würde ich als Betroffener als einen Schlag ins Gesicht ansehen.
      Dass Polen auf der anderen Seite im Osten Gebiete an die Sowjetunion abtreten musste, dafür kann man ja nun schlecht Deutschland anprangern, oder? Deutschland hat bedingungslos kapituliert und die Siegermächte haben den Ton angegeben! Also diesbezüglich bitte den Adressaten für Beschwerden anpassen.
      Zum Thema SU, in deren Besatzungszone (DDR) haben sie alles, auch Niet- und Nagelfestes abgebaut und Richtung Osten verfrachtet. Auch das war einiges wert. Warum erwähne ich das hier? Ob nun gewollt oder nicht (forciert), war Polen Teil des Warschauer Paktes (SU Einfluss-Sphäre) und hat damit 'profitiert', da sie zusammen mit der SU in einem (Mis-)Wirtschaftssystem waren. Was man daraus (nicht) gemacht hat, das kann man Deutschland auch nicht ankreiden. Wie man es denn hätte anders (besser?) machen können, hat der Westen dann ja gezeigt und den kalten Krieg (das andauernde Wettrüsten) für sich entschieden.
      Wie hat Deutschland noch bezahlt? Ich rechne auch sowas ein, wie (immer noch) belastete/verseuchte ehemalige Militärübungsgelände der roten Armee in Ostdeutschland. Folgen für Mensch und Natur durch den ca. 220.000 Tonnen überaus sorgsamen und professionellen Uranabbau im Erzgebirge zum Export an unsere 'Freunde' im Osten, wo der Rückbau Milliarden kostet.
      Zum 'Dank' für unsere gewaltsamen Versuche den Kontinent unter unserer Herrschaft zu vereinen, hat man Deutschland Jahrzehnte lang geteilt und einen immer noch spürbaren Keil in die Bevölkerung (Ossi/Wessi) getrieben, als auch zum Hauptaufmarschgebiet in den Planspielen beider Seiten gemacht. Fair enough! Zum Thema Wiedervereinigung sagt mir Wikipedia, dass (Stand 2014) die geschätzten Gesamtkosten inkl. Sozialtransfers irgendwas zwischen 1,3 bis 2 Billionen Euro lagen.
      Alles in allem denke ich, Deutschland hat lange und genug gesühnt. Man kann die Millionen Opfer und das viele Leid nicht adäquat durch (noch mehr) Reparationen / Entschädigungen oder wie man die finanzielle Kosten auch nennen mag 'entschädigen'. Das geht nur durch aufrichtiges um Entschuldigung bitten der einen Seite und auch durch Vergeben der anderen Seite, draus lernen und in Erinnerung behalten, sich in Zukunft unterstützen bzw. zusammen arbeiten/leben und dadurch zusammenwachsen.
      Nach WW1 hat man im Gegenteil in die vollen gegriffen und damit nur noch Schlimmeres erreicht. Nach WW2 hat man es dann verdient hart gestaltet, aber einen aus meinem Verständnis in der Nachbetrachtung vertretbaren und besseren Ansatz gefunden, sodass von Deutschland nachhaltig keine Gefahr mehr für seine Nachbarn ausgeht.
      Wir sind integriert in Europa (EU), Nato, UN, etc. und arbeiten mit -allen- zusammen (stellen Basen für Allierte, stellen Kontingente in alliierten Ländern, leisten Entwicklungshilfe und so weiter).
      Dennoch geht es immer noch soweit, dass Deutschland eher schlecht als recht auf kriegerische Konflikte vorbereitet ist und sich bspw. im Ukraine Krieg von allen oft die meiste Zeit für notwendige Entscheidungen für Hilfe einräumt, was auch wieder nicht genehm ist. Wie ich meine, hat DE (zu) lange probiert Russland durch wirtschaftliche Beziehungen einzubinden und so auf einen friedlichen nicht expansionistischen Weg zu bringen und sich so zu abhängig gemacht.
      Nicht unbedingt pro Kopf aber nominell haben wir die meisten ukrainischen Flüchtlinge aufgenommen (dessen Bevölkerung im WW2 auch erheblich in Mitleidenschaft gezogen worden ist). Ähnliches gilt auch für Asylsuchende aus anderen (Krisen-)Ländern. Auch das sehe ich als eine Art der Wiedergutmachung an die Welt als Ganzes an.
      Heute sind wir in der komfortablen Situation als #1 Nettozahler in der EU u.a. Polen als #1 Nettozahlungsempfänger unterstützen zu können, sodass Polen sich (wie andere Kommentare es hier kund tun) nach den Warschauer Pakt Zeiten gut entwickelt, aufholt, mit Deutschland in einigen Aspekten gleich gezogen oder gar überholt hat (z.B. Militärausgaben).
      Zum Abschluß erlaube ich mir folgende Frage: Was wollt Ihr noch? Irgendwann reicht es! Wird der Bogen überspannt, Post WW1 revival Gefahr. Ist das ehrlich gewollt?

  • @RJDA.Dakota
    @RJDA.Dakota Рік тому +4

    Your videos are very informative and educational. I really like these types of videos.

  • @snowy5419
    @snowy5419 Рік тому +11

    Please make a video about countries that used to exist, disappeared for what ever reason, that then came back to existance

  • @petar4onachev
    @petar4onachev Рік тому +1

    Can you do similar videos for the Balkan ex-Yugo states?

  • @2000appletree
    @2000appletree Рік тому +1

    I’m from west Poland and plenty of Germans leaves here. When I asked them why they moved here they answered that is more safety in Poland and never ever they don’t want to go back Germany.

  • @GreatPolishWingedHussars
    @GreatPolishWingedHussars Рік тому +6

    This video is nonsense because of some serious errors. Poland had 40 million population before the Ukrainian war because of the migrants from Ukraine and Belarus but also from other countries, whereby the migration from the Ukraine was increased by the Ukrainian war. If one does not want to accept these migrants as a Polish population, one should also subtract the migrants from the German population. Then Germany would have at least 10 million fewer inhabitants, although that would probably 15 million less. If you doubt that, you just have to See streets in German cities where the migrants are often in the majority and take a German subway where often are no Europeans in the subway compartment. The alleged number of Poles who live in Germany is also wrong. According to the German wiki link Polen in Detuschland (Poles in Germany), 783,085 Poles lived in Germany in 2016. So that's significantly less than the absurd number of 2-3 million Poles who allegedly live in Germany. There are also significantly more Muslims in Germany than erroneously 3.6% indicate in the video. This false number is spread by the government in order not to soothe the German population. The real number of Muslims in Germany is about 10% and it is increasing all the time. New mosques are constantly being built in Germany, which is also illustrated by the large number of Muslims. Muezzin prayer call is now normal in many German cities because this country is becoming more and more oriental. The number of troops of the Polish Army was also incorrectly stated in the video, as the Polish number of troops today is 207,000. 172,000 regular army soldiers and 35,000 soldiers belonging to the territorial defense force. The Polish Army also wants to increase the number of soldiers in the army to 300,000 + 50,000 Territorial Defense Force. It is also absurd to claim that the crime rate cannot be compared because of the different populations. Because the crime rates are calculated per 100,000 inhabitants! The crime rate in Germany is twice as high as in Poland. Whether murder rate, robbery rate or rape rate all much higher than in Poland! Why is that so? Does that have anything to do with the different migration policies?
    In any case, it should also be mentioned in this video that Poland is poorer today than the Germans because of the Germans. This difference in wealth is the direct result of the extreme damage done to Poland by the Germans. The fact that this Nazi nation murdered 6 million Polish citizens was definitely not good for the Polish economy. Because not only did the Germans completely ruin Poland's economy with the raid in 1939 and the occupation of 1939-45, but they also directly caused the occupation of Poland by the Soviets through their raid. The Soviets have imposed with violence a communist economic system on Poland for almost 50 years, which was very harmful to Poland's economy. The communist system was also a hindrance to the rebuilding of Poland after the war! On the other hand much of the ignominious Nazi nation that was responsible for at least 55 million deaths, most of them murdered in genocide, was able to rebuild their country and economy after the war by means of in the beneficial capitalist economic system. Yes, a large part of the Germans in West Germany could enjoy the benefits of the capitalist system, while the Poles had to suffer under communism. Because a large part of the Nazi nation was not punished for their heinous crimes after the Second World War, they were actually rewarded by the Americans! Yes, the Americans give the Nazi nation a lot of money with the so-called Marshall Plan Aid and in addition, the western victors waived the national debts of the Nazi nation, because the Nazi country was already bankrupt before the war due to the massive rearmament. Indeed, the Nazi nation then became the ally of the western victors and was absorbed into NATO in 1955, with the army being built up by criminal Nazi generals. So in the 50s, most of Germans became the ally of the West. (West Germany). However the problem was that this Nazi nation was completely megalomaniac, mad, criminal, amoral and degenerated! The West could not be allied to a morally degenerate Nazi nation that has murdered millions of children, among other crimes. So they were practically systematically washed clean to be tolerable as allies. So they were washed clean by propaganda (Western historians / media / politicians / Hollywood etc.) and the blame was put on relatively few Nazis. So there was also a Western whitewashing campaign that whitewashed Germans from the Guilt and laid the blame on relatively few Nazis. This pro-German whitewashing propaganda is continued to this day. The propagandists even claim that the Germans were liberated in 1945. I have read and heard this lie more often that the Germans were allegedly liberated. LIBERATED! As e.g. the title of this UA-cam video shows. "Liberation of Munich April 30 1945" ua-cam.com/video/RtCvjD56Kkc/v-deo.html the title is not the occupation of Munich by the Americans, which would correspond to historical facts. No, a lie is being spread about liberation! An unbelievable lie in which from the victory over this evil Nazi nation with the subsequent multi-annual occupation is made a LIBERATION. This white wash of the Germans of course bothers the Poles. But what bothers Poland certainly doesn't interest the shameful and pathetic West. No, their historians, politicians and journalists mendacious make Poland some kind of ally of the Nazis in the genocide against the Jews. Of course not the allies of the Germans, because the culprits were only and exclusively the Nazis!
    As for the absurd talk about the alleged Polish-German friendship, that's ridiculous, because it doesn't exist. The fact that Poland is in NATO and the EU together with the Germans is pure pragmatism. This has nothing to do with friendship! Despite the Germans, Poland is in NATO and the EU, not because of the Germans. This nation is absolutely incapable of friendship with Poland. They are much too arrogant, insulting and megalomaniac for that! Friendship with this very unpleasant nation is ruled out not only because of the murder of 6 million Polish citizens and the ruin of Poland, but also because of their insolence today. So their historians, journalists and politicians are also very keen to take part in the outrageous defamation campaign which falsely makes Poles some kind of ally of the Nazis in committing genocide against the Jews. It is self-explanatory when their journalists, historians and politicians defame Poles as an ally, not of the Germans, but of the Nazis. So they also constantly use the term Nazis not Germans whose supposed allies were the Poles as do the mendacious western propagandists. Just as they defame Poles, they wash themselves clean with the help of the gigantic Western mendacious propaganda machine. They spread all sorts of lies about Poland's past, and I only told a fraction of the lies. The German media and politicians also defame today's Poland as a kind of non-democracy, spreading the lie that allegedly the Polish judicial system does not conform to democratic standards and that there is allegedly no freedom of the press in Poland. Yes, of all things, Germans shamelessly defame Poland in this way, whereby their legal system does not correspond to democratic standards. Here is the information regarding the German judiciary system that does not meet democratic standards. One can find out in this german link (Richterwahlausschuss - Wikipedia) about the German judge election procedure and how much this procedure violates democratic standards. Translated from this German Wiki link "Richterwahlausschuss" ( Judicial Selection Committee)! "The judicial election process in Germany is worthy of criticism because of the lack of transparency of the process and that in the election in addition to the professional qualifications and the party-political orientation of the candidates play a role. Experts speaks of "party patronage" and "personal expansion of power of the political parties". The authority responsible for the selection and career of judges is not independent of the executive in Germany. If Germany were not already in the EU, Germany would be a problematic candidate for accession ... " The German Constitutional Court, which is almost exclusively made up of party members from influential parties, certainly does not meet democratic standards either. Incidentally, in Germany all public prosecutors up to and including the Federal Public Prosecutor are appointed by active party politicians of the governing parties (Ministers of Justice). This is a judicial system steeped in political influence that does not at all meet democratic standards. Germans with this miserable legal system then dare to defame Poland as undemocratic because of the allegedly democratic standards not corresponding legal system. In Germany, left-wing journalists completely dominate the media and such one-sided dominance also contradicts democratic principles. But especially the Germans with media, which do not do justice to the democratic standards at all. dare to defame Poland as a country without freedom of the press. But there are also various other impudence of this nation!
    I continue the comment below.

    • @GreatPolishWingedHussars
      @GreatPolishWingedHussars Рік тому +2

      Let's ignore the fact that they murdered my grandpa and enslaved the other grandpa and didn't pay a cent in compensation for it. They supposed to be our friends? For real? This nation should be our friend who refuses to pay compensation to the entire Polish nation to this day, even though they have extremely damaged our country and completely ruined our country. They paid compensation to the Western European countries. But they refuse to pay Poland! Poles want the Germans to finally pay the justified reparation debts because these are national debts that are inherited. But the Germans definitely refuse to pay. Incidentally, this is how the Germans dare to treat Polish victims. An old Polish woman, during the German occupation 9 years and her mother were imprisoned from the Germans in death camp Auschwitz. They were there for about a month and then were freed! Her father was murdered in this death camp! This Polish woman wanted money for her grandchildren and applied for compensation from the Germans! The Germans sent her a 5 Deutsch Mark (2,5 Euro) check, with the remark that this is not compensation from the German side, but a "gesture of goodwill"! A gesture of "goodwill"! The Germans still refuse to pay compensation to Poland for the damage caused by the German occupation.
      They show their masked face to the western nations. The face of the purified Germans. Towards Poland, Germans often show the true German face! Pure outrageous arrogance! For example on German TV, Poles are regularly portrayed in jokes with the punchline that we are criminals and our women are called as prostitutes in jokes! This is politically correct in Germany! These are very popular jokes in Germany! By the way, Poles are also the millions of Poles who were murdered by the them. These jokes defame these murdered Poles too! I could name many more examples of their outrageous arrogance! Germans who defame the Poles with such jokes are supposed to be friends of the Poles? NO these are not our friends.
      But the Germans will soon stop laughing! The Germans obviously have no problem with being colonized. Perhaps because of self-loathing, they allow millions of culturally completely foreign Orientals from the middle east to colonize the own country. Because it's amazing what's happening in Germany because the German allow millions of culturally completely foreign Orientals to colonize the own country. Yes they accept their colonization! Because tens of millions come from them and settle the country the term colonization is totally appropriate. By the way, Wiki quote: "Colonization is sometimes used synonymously with settling." Already today there are about 10% of Orientals in this country. Which are a kind of aliens. It is no coincidence why Germany has twice the crime rate compared to Poland. Even before the Ukraine war, Poland had millions of migrants from Ukraine. Yes, Poland is an immigration country. And the Ukrainians have no problem integrating in Poland. They are Europeans like the Poles and will be assimilated if they live longer in Poland. This did not significantly increase the Polish crime rate. On the other hand, Orientals and Africans immigrated to Germany. The result of this immigration is an extremely increased crime rate. It's not racism if one state it, one is just describing reality. Everyone knows that these migrants form parallel societies and that must do not integrate and adapt. The Orientals also give their children Oriental first names and not German first names. There can be no talk of an assimilation of most anyway. Due to this failure to integrate, there are social problems that lead to increased crime. In addition, crime is also increased by special cultural aspects of the countries of origin. Like, for example, these migrants come from Klan-influenced societies, which leads to klan crimes. Religion is also a reason why integration fails and the crime rate increases. The Ukrainians come from a Christian country. The Orientals and many Africans, on the other hand, are Muslims. This results in terrorism, but also crimes such as the genital cutting of girls or the murder of homosexuals or honor killings. Incidentally, this migration also leads to an increase in crime among Germans themselves, because it is also a crime if one attacks migrants and migrant camps, threaten migrants and hunts or even kills them.
      Already today there is a big conflict in this country of the "natives" against the orientals, although the orientals have reached until now only about 10% of the population in this country. Only a small percentage is assimilated. Most wanted to keep their oriental identity! Moreover, this religion also prevents integration, in addition to the completely different culture, because the migrants feel superior to the native Germans because of their religion, which makes integration even more difficult. Because when you feel superior, you certainly don't conform to those who are inferior. Failed integration due to extremely different cultures is the norm for millions of Orientals in this country. Let's see what will happen when 20% or 30% of the population will be Orientals. Because of that there will be chaos and civil war for supremacy. Already today radicals including soldiers and police officers are already setting up weapons depots and planning armed struggle with the aim of overthrowing the government. The presages of the civil war are already clearly visible today. In Germany there was already a planned coup d'état with the participation of former officers of special forces of the army! It was planned to overthrow the government and replace it with a new provisional government. 3000 police officers with special task forces were deployed to arrest those responsible. A few months before this attempted coup d'etat, another far-right group wanted to provoke a civil war to overthrow the government!The German Criminal Police Office (BKA) recorded a total of 44,692 politically motivated crimes in 2020. These have increased by 8.5 percent compared to the previous year and are therefore at a new high according to the BKA. Propaganda crimes, insults and incitement to hatred made up more than half (57.3 percent) of all reported crimes. The other half are violent crimes. Right-wing extremist crimes accounted more than half of all this crimes registered in 2020. The other half are Islamist and left-wing extremists crimes. Many mosques are already being built today and there is more and more resistance to it! There is a growing demand for Muslim dietary laws to be taken into account in society. There are more and more conflicts regarding religious clothing. The Orientals also give their children Oriental first names and not German. Female teachers only want to work with their hair covered. It is demanded that girls in schools should have the opportunity to be taught with their hair covered. Girls should not participate in physical education and swimming lessons. The Christmas markets are actually renamed Winter markets. . Because the country should be de-Christianized. Let's see when there will be ramaḍān markets etc. etc. etc. In this German video one can see Germany's future with fully veiled girls! Children's street festival in Berlin with islamic veiled little girls! ua-cam.com/video/ByvcTkXhsCE/v-deo.html There are also additional Arabic street signs on German streets as this video also shows. ua-cam.com/video/Jta9hppHxd8/v-deo.html Germany celebrates its first Arabic language street sign! In the meantime are currently about 3000 mosques in Germany!
      Such news can then be read in the German media, which point to the coming civil war. "Right-wing extremists are becoming more and more radical!" "Left-wing extremists are becoming more and more radical!" "Islamic fundamentalism is becoming more and more radical!" "Attacks on refugee camps by right-wing extremists." "A group of Left-wing extremist seriously injured two right-wing extremists in Erfurt in a planned ambush." "Hundreds of masked left-wing extremists riot in Berlin!" "On New Year's Eve there were riots by orientals in various German cities. Fires were started. Firefighters trying to put out a burning bus had to flee from an oriental mob. Even ambulances were attacked and damaged. Police officers were also attacked." In the few German media that are not controlled by the left wingers in Germany, these oriental riots were seen as a demonstration of power by the Oriantals in Germany. The online offshoot "Zeit Online" of the German left-wing newspaper "Zeit", which is very well respected in Germany, has posted on Twitter that "the Germans will lose power in their own country. The Germans will become a minority in their own country. Non-Germans will take over power in the country!" But when the German journalists realized how explosive these sentences were, the article was deleted. But the internet never forgets and various people have already reported on the article.
      A civil war for supremacy in the country is therefore likely with about 30% oriental population! The future of this country will definitely be violent! These are all consequences of radical left-wing politics in Germany!

    • @pep-qew
      @pep-qew Рік тому +6

      Dokładnie!

    • @GreatPolishWingedHussars
      @GreatPolishWingedHussars Рік тому +4

      @@pep-qew Dzięki!

    • @Cubus-zapasowy
      @Cubus-zapasowy Рік тому +1

      GUS przy liczeniu populacji liczy tylko tych, którzy mają obywatelstwo. Imigranci nie są uwzględniani.

    • @GreatPolishWingedHussars
      @GreatPolishWingedHussars Рік тому

      @@Cubus-zapasowy To, co twierdzisz, jest nieprawdą! Przetłumaczone z niemieckiego linku niemieckiego urzędu statystycznego z tytułem: „Ludność: oficjalna populacja Niemiec 2022” Tekst: „Oficjalna liczba mieszkańców obejmuje liczbę mieszkańców, którzy przebywają w danym kraju w określonym momencie. Obejmuje to wszystkie osoby, niezależnie od ich obywatelstwa lub narodowości, które są zarejestrowane zgodnie z przepisami prawa rejestracyjnego”.

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  • @staury
    @staury Рік тому +6

    Hello. I don't know who made infographics for you, but on 2:34 there are map, with yellow colour marked as "Russian Pale". I have no idea who made the translations, but I kinda get WHY it happened. I guess it was tranlsated from polish or other slavic language and I suppose it was Rus Biala or Bialorus, which means White Rus. Nowadays BELARUS. Yes. BELARUS literally can be translated as WHITE RUS. So. It is kinda the same if we will write LOW LANDS instead if Netherlands. Or NORTHERN PATH instead of Norway. Or SUNS ORIGIN instead of Japan. Or LAND OF NEIGHBOURS instead of Germany. Or LAND OF DIVINE FLOWING WATER instead of Ireland. Or FIELD instead of Poland. I think you got my point :)

    • @michaelr.4921
      @michaelr.4921 Рік тому +1

      It's a map of partitioned lands that became part of the Second Republic after WWI. The "Russian Pale" refers to the Pale of Settelment, where Jews were allowed to live within the Russian Empire (it extended into most of Eastern Belarus and right bank Ukraine as well)

    • @staury
      @staury Рік тому

      @@michaelr.4921 ah, now it makes sense. this is a very uncommon term to use. at least because in russian empire this chunk of land was called simply north-western territories and later polish were calling it kresy wschodnie(eastern frontiers). Later in belarusian republic we had jewish language as one of official languages but... I still found "russian pale" a bit strange term to use comparing that rest of territories and countries from the list have more common names.

  • @devijankowicz9491
    @devijankowicz9491 Рік тому +2

    What a useful and well-presented account: generally accurate, with excellent statistics presented in an attractive way. Bravo!

  • @eoinruttle6059
    @eoinruttle6059 Рік тому +2

    Can you do a video comparing the uk and ireland please?

    • @Stiegelzeine
      @Stiegelzeine Рік тому

      There’s no difference except I think gnomes live in Ireland and wait with their big pot of gold at the end of the rainbow

    • @eoinruttle6059
      @eoinruttle6059 Рік тому +1

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  • @Amibingus
    @Amibingus Рік тому +29

    I love Poland! 🇵🇱

  • @ivanos_95
    @ivanos_95 Рік тому +8

    Poland is still backward when it comes to economy, due to 44 years of stagnation under socialism, but when it comes to population, Poland is actually the stable one, while Germany is not only overpopulated, but also flooded by mass-immigration.

    • @suchendnachwahrheit9143
      @suchendnachwahrheit9143 Рік тому

      Poland is about to massively depopulate though.
      You always die one death

    • @ivanos_95
      @ivanos_95 Рік тому

      @@suchendnachwahrheit9143 If depopulation is accruing naturally, it's a sign that a country is still overpopulated, while in case of Poland, the drop in population is estimated for about 34 million until 2050, which is rather small.

    • @suchendnachwahrheit9143
      @suchendnachwahrheit9143 Рік тому

      @@ivanos_95 It will have a massive Impact. Demographic aging is not only a sign of overpopulation as it is also a sign of improved living standard, especially for women.
      Poland's birthrates are even lower than Germany's. Even PiS knows that it will need some migration.

    • @ivanos_95
      @ivanos_95 Рік тому +1

      @@suchendnachwahrheit9143 I mean, 5 million is not massive, in case of a country which counts almost 40 million. What you're proposing, is ethnic-replacement, something which Poland tries to avoid.

    • @suchendnachwahrheit9143
      @suchendnachwahrheit9143 Рік тому

      @@ivanos_95 No not the absolute decline. The decline of working age people is the massive problem. Many more elders, very few young folks.
      And ethnic replacement? Dude, c'mon. Even I find that we have to limit migration in Germany, but Poland will inevitably fall behind again if it doesn't maintain its number of working age people. There are ways to guarantee migration and cultural identity and if Poland is interested in claiming a leading position in Europe it will have to do something. Look at the immigration policy of the PiS, it is very liberal, especially for them. Many Muslim countries are now granted countries of origin.

  • @mojekonto9796
    @mojekonto9796 Рік тому +9

    Jeśli państwo niemieckie odda to co ukradło podczas wojen, a także odpowiedzą za kwestię zacofania w rozwoju gospodarczym poprzez wciśnięcie Polski w strefę wpływów ZSRR, to może się okazać, że już nie są takie bogate.

    • @TheBentley_
      @TheBentley_ Рік тому +1

      Chłopie, jakby ciebie za grzechy dziadkow i pradziadkow rozliczono to byś karę śmierci dostał

    • @mojekonto9796
      @mojekonto9796 Рік тому

      @@TheBentley_ nie bez powodu piszę o państwie niemieckim. Moja Ciocia Emma(Niemka wspanialsza niż niejeden głupi Polaczek sprzedawczyk) nie jest Polsce nic winna. Natomiast instytucja państwa niemieckiego a i owszem tak.

  • @MaxelPLP
    @MaxelPLP Рік тому +2

    "Did you notice any mistakes?" Yes, the way you read Granica.

  • @aleksandrmedvedev9000
    @aleksandrmedvedev9000 Рік тому +2

    Poland is now in the preference of Nato and US because of the outpost situation to Russia.
    They lead down Germany and germans switch of their economy through a lot of antigerman measures and switch on the engines in Poland. They May need the polish on the coming battlefields as they needed the germans in the 2ndWW.

  • @MiSt3300
    @MiSt3300 Рік тому +4

    On the topic of immigration you could have done more research. In 2023 Poland has several million Ukrainian, a lot of Belarussian, Nepali, Bangladeshi and african migrants spread all over Poland. The average wage is also much higher than only $1000 per month. Please do your research, I don't understand why you'd use obsolete numbers in this case

    • @Cubus-zapasowy
      @Cubus-zapasowy Рік тому

      These immigrants are only in 5-6 biggest cities. The rest of Poland is very monoethnic. I live in a 300 000 inhabitants city and rarely see immigrants.

  • @papakush420-gg
    @papakush420-gg Рік тому +8

    Ich mag Polen. 🙂

    • @PiotrZora
      @PiotrZora Рік тому +3

      Ich mag Deutschland 😊. Grüße aus Polen 👏

    • @Dziki_z_Lasu
      @Dziki_z_Lasu Рік тому

      Generalnie ja też was lubię, huncwoty jedne :)

    • @pep-qew
      @pep-qew Рік тому +1

      Nice irony

  • @alh6255
    @alh6255 Рік тому +12

    WTF> Wha old German lands??? Most of these areas belonged to Poland for most of the last thousand years, with a short 123-year break (the period of Poland's partitions, mainly in the 19th century). Let me remind you that for hundreds of years, Gdańsk was a Polish port, whose development was promoted by Polish kings. It fell into the hands of Prussia only at the end of the 18th century, after which it returned to Poland for a few years (in the Napoleonic era, a large part of Poland regained independence, but then lost it again for several dozen years). In the interwar period, Gdansk was a so-called free city governed by Poland and Germany (although it should have returned to Poland after Poland regained its independence in 1918). The funniest thing is that you called the former German territories the area where the Polish state was born in the 10th century. These areas were under German occupation only during the partitions of Poland, generally in the 19th century.
    I also remind you that Lower Silesia fell into German hands only in the mid-18th century. It was inhabited by Poles, and was also part of the Polish Kingdom from the 10th century to the 14th century, and then for 200 years an independent Polish principality - ruled by a branch of the Polish royal Piast dynasty, and for the next 200 years - these lands were in the Czech Kingdom.

    • @kakashi288
      @kakashi288 Рік тому +1

      You completely ignore many things to make it fit ur polish view.
      The first inhabutants of Danzig were germanic tribes.
      And even when it was slavic (slavic doesnt necessarly means polish at that time) the germans already settled there 1184-1185. They had an HUGE impact on the economy of Danzig and 1224-1225 a german rights city was founded in Danzig. 1440 Danzig first was not under any german control. And even then it was not included into poland. Then when Danzig was on the polish site in the 13 years war the king of Poland gave them much privileges and almost fully autonomy. Then after that in the 16-17 centuries Danzig had its golden time as an independent hanseatic city. Even in the 30years war it remained independent. then the already long independent situation got attacked by POLAND 1557. Yes by Poland but the city survived and stay independent. Then in the second polish Swedish War 1654-1660 Danzig allied with poland and got again more rights which strengthen the independenc. Only 1793 there came an end to the independence of the city when they decided (Population and City council) to join Prussia (German Prussia) Then Danzig had its darkest times during frensh Invasion when 1807 Danzig got conquered and frensh polish and saxons (german) gave independence again to the city and the city lost most of its population. Then 1871 it was in the german kaiserreich. And the rest we all know. To say Danzig is rightfully german or rightfully polish is completely bullshit. It has a rich history and was a big part in german and polish history BOTH. Now it's mostly polish populated so it doesn't make sense to try to get it back to germany. But before ww2 the population was almost fully german so it was also not good to ethnic cleanse the german population from their homes even when the nazis did horrible stuff. So it's never good to erase the people from somewhere. Rn its polish and thats it. still you shouldnt deny its german history such as many polish regions.

    • @matiwierzbicki1607
      @matiwierzbicki1607 Рік тому +6

      ​@@kakashi288You talk shit bro Gdańsk was always Polish , Germans was stealing ut even Berlin was created by Polish tribes Poland was even more in West than today

    • @kakashi288
      @kakashi288 Рік тому +1

      @@matiwierzbicki1607 😂

    • @kj4923
      @kj4923 Рік тому +5

      @@matiwierzbicki1607 on nie słyszał o takich miejscach jak Polska Kopanica, polski Lubusz a nawet polski Budziszyn

    • @callsigndd9ls897
      @callsigndd9ls897 Рік тому

      @@matiwierzbicki1607 Like many places east of the Elbe, like Berlin, was founded by Slavic tribes. However, Slavic does not automatically mean Polish, as many Polish nationalists believe. When all these settlements were formed, there were no nation states. The same applies to settlements along the Baltic Sea coast, which were founded predominantly by Gothic and Baltic tribes before the Slavs immigrated. In addition, the settlements along the Baltic Sea coast only became important cities when the German Hanseatic League developed them into prosperous trading cities. All Hanseatic cities were free cities in different kingdoms, but were governed autonomously by the Hanseatic League according to Lübeck law.

  • @d..c..
    @d..c.. Рік тому +1

    Poland regained freedom in October 2023. They managed to overthrow the PiS government, which wanted to leave the EU and return to communism.

  • @ghost21501
    @ghost21501 Рік тому +2

    Do Moldova and Romania next.

  • @Fuminex
    @Fuminex Рік тому +3

    As a Polish man, I disagree
    Poland and Germany still fight eachother in politics
    For example, weber's group

    • @vernicejillmagsino9603
      @vernicejillmagsino9603 Рік тому

      Both have Popes who are not enemies they work together until a Pole died in 2005 and succiding by a German

    • @Fuminex
      @Fuminex 11 місяців тому

      @@vernicejillmagsino9603 You dont look at politics much do you?

  • @ApeironTO
    @ApeironTO Рік тому +3

    granica, not granika 10:58

  • @geistlos333
    @geistlos333 Рік тому +2

    I love the election map part of this - for fun you should compare the election maps of the US state of Indiana in 1860 and 1960 - pretty much the same.

    • @General.Knowledge
      @General.Knowledge  Рік тому +2

      Electoral maps of the US throughout the ages are super interesting, especially how states switch in party allegiance

    • @johnnyearp52
      @johnnyearp52 Рік тому

      Except parties have changed a lot since then.

  • @damian4926
    @damian4926 Рік тому +1

    They both did a pretty good job recovering from WWII taking into consideration that they were two most affected countries.

    • @martingalik9411
      @martingalik9411 Рік тому

      Please explain?

    • @damian4926
      @damian4926 Рік тому +4

      @@martingalik9411 Poland was the most affected country during WWII as a big chunk of fights happened on its territory. Millions of people got executed by Germans, majority of cities were turned into rubble, paintings, art and culture got either stolen, destroyed or burned. Poland definitely got the hardest blow during WWII in comparison to other countries like France, Britain or Denmark etc. On top of that for 50 years they were under communist regime that sucked money and resources from them and they are the only country in the world that never received any WWII reparations. Now they are 20th worlds largest economy and the growth is pretty stable. Poland was second fastest growing economy between 90-2020 right after China.
      Germany on the other hand caused WWII but got also affected a lot. Lost also millions of people, also its cities got destroyed. Then they got split into two countries and one half was communist as well. Despite that they managed to recover. Become economic powerhouse. Their comapnies and products conquered the world. The became 4th largest economy in the world, overpassed France + Britain and managed to rejoin with the communist Germany. They also condemn their imperial past which is good change (for example Russia doesn't). Overall they are doing better than ever before. They did a good progress.

    • @123pik1
      @123pik1 Рік тому +1

      @@damian4926 It wasn't "half of Germany", it was less
      "Their comapnies and products conquered the world. "
      And there also should be mentioned how these companies started? (Volkswagen etc.)

    • @damian4926
      @damian4926 Рік тому

      @@123pik1 Doesn't change the fact that they were at the bottom and now they are doing pretty well.

    • @123pik1
      @123pik1 Рік тому +2

      @@damian4926 at the bottom they were after WWI
      After WWII the bigger part of Germany get help from the US
      And some of their biggest companies were rich because of German conquering and Holocaust
      And yes, I must admit they developed very well but WWII had less impact on them than on Poland for example

  • @ziomeczek_5204
    @ziomeczek_5204 Рік тому +2

    as a pole we still wait for reparations and sorry from Germany. we should never forgive them

  • @apismelliferac
    @apismelliferac Рік тому +7

    I find it somewhat critical to speak only of border shifts without considering all the crimes that happened, it would have been more correct to point out the atrocities
    Otherwise a good video 👍

  • @TheEaglePL
    @TheEaglePL Рік тому +3

    Poland coat of arms is a reference to the coat of arms of Przemysł II - king of Poland in 1295-96. He is the first Polish king that use eagle in his coat of arms. There is still debate what kind of bird was used by Bolesław on his coins, but there is no written record that he used the eagle as a coat of arms.
    The map of 1923 does not include Vilnius as a Polish city, which is wrong because Poland took it illegally in 1922 and Vilnius was part of Poland till Russian invasion in 1939.

    • @vibranium-riprich314
      @vibranium-riprich314 Рік тому

      Wasnt illegal, it was a Polish majority city

    • @TheEaglePL
      @TheEaglePL Рік тому +1

      @@vibranium-riprich314 From the legal point of view it was illegal - according to the international agreements Central Lithuania should be part of the Republic of Lithuania. But I do not deny that the majority of the inhabitants of Central Lithuania (about 70%) were Poles.

  • @dawidgrzeskow987
    @dawidgrzeskow987 Рік тому +13

    Great series, and yeah let's just say we and Germonies were like 90% time in beef, but now a days hallo meine Deutschen.

    • @KennyNGA
      @KennyNGA Рік тому +4

      Moin, Jak sie masz, mein polischer Kupferkabel-Dieb

    • @spamplayer1726
      @spamplayer1726 Рік тому +1

      @@KennyNGA Vielen Dank für diese Kabel, Ich brauchte sie wirklich! Du bist sehr großzügig.

    • @aufr1435
      @aufr1435 Рік тому

      ​@@spamplayer1726Aber wir brauchen die doch auch. Wir müssen hier doch unsere ganzen Windmühlen und Ackerbeschattungsplatten anschließen. 😂

    • @aufr1435
      @aufr1435 Рік тому +1

      Well, it wasn't quite as bad as 90%, but definitely long enough. The dispute was never started and aggravated by the peoples, but always by power-hungry rulers. They also had the benefits of it, while the people had to pay for it. It is still like that today.
      Politicians and their helpers in the media and some very rich people stir up strife. The external enemy unites and brings votes. Strife brings better headlines and sales than positive things.
      And, when it comes to war, the rich flee and let the "common people" take the brunt of the conflict. Afterwards, they buy the property of the aggrieved countrymen cheaply.
      Unfortunately, it works again and again.
      I am glad that we now live together in peace and hope that the agitators on both sides will not change this.
      Many greetings to Poland.

    • @spamplayer1726
      @spamplayer1726 Рік тому +2

      @@aufr1435 Wir können Ihnen etwas Kohle leihen, damit die Windmühlen etwas ruhen können 😊

  • @Porcelanix
    @Porcelanix Рік тому +6

    Thank you for the video. Since you asked about mistakes, you can pay attention to both German and Polish pronunciation. In German, you don't drop the final vowel "e" in Grenze, and in Polish, there is no k in granica -> [ɡrãˈɲiʦ̑a]. Once again well done!

    • @magmalin
      @magmalin Рік тому

      Yes, it's Grenze not Grenz, you can hear the "e" at the end. Furthermore, strange way of pronouncing the name of the river Oder in the video - Odrrr. Is that the Polish pronunciation?

    • @Porcelanix
      @Porcelanix Рік тому +2

      @@magmalin Polish pronunciation is Odra, no vowels are dropped.

    • @kerstin3267
      @kerstin3267 Рік тому

      He's Portuguese and that's his natural pronunciation.

  • @Wiesto1
    @Wiesto1 Рік тому +2

    11:00 not "granika" its "Granitsa" C=Ts like in Russia

  • @konradglowka8240
    @konradglowka8240 Рік тому +2

    The current population of Poland is 40,965,978 as of Friday, July 28, 2023, based on Worldometer elaboration of the latest United Nations data

    • @Cubus-zapasowy
      @Cubus-zapasowy Рік тому

      That number you give is a number that includes Ukrainian immigrants. Official data says it's less than 38 million because polish government only counts these that have the citizenship.

    • @mile_381
      @mile_381 Рік тому

      ​@@Cubus-zapasowythat's wrong 😂

    • @Cubus-zapasowy
      @Cubus-zapasowy Рік тому

      @@mile_381 Poland before War in Ukraine was 98% Polish, so there was no need to count them.

  • @jackmason5278
    @jackmason5278 Рік тому +3

    While the narrative was great, it was impacted by poor graphics. It is really hard to compare things when the data for both are not displayed together.

    • @General.Knowledge
      @General.Knowledge  Рік тому

      I'll take this into account for future videos! For these I usually go with the logic of how does country A perform in topic 1, and then country B in that same topic after. But I can definitely do both countries at the same time for the same topic.

  • @Smetkowski24
    @Smetkowski24 Рік тому +4

    Poland plans to spend 4% of GDP this year on military. It's also one of the few countries that consistently spent 2% since joining NATO in 1999. Security and safety wise it's not accurate considering that Poland never had a terrorist attack.

  • @bartmannn6717
    @bartmannn6717 Рік тому +5

    I don't have the impression that Germany and Poland get along well at all. In the last decades, Germans had generally quite an arrogant attitude towards Polish people (not only towards them though), while the Polish behave like aggressive, nationalist bullies towards Western European countries, but especially towards Germany. Quite the difference compared to the relationship of the societies of France - Germany.

    • @suchendnachwahrheit9143
      @suchendnachwahrheit9143 Рік тому +2

      Exactly

    • @xxklesx1
      @xxklesx1 Рік тому

      The thing is that Germany is a big topic in Poland. The old enemy that is always brought forth. Populists in Poland win elections by stirring up anti-German sentiment. Germans, on the other hand, don't even think about Poles. Poland is never an issue in Germany, it's absurd. They are our second largest neighboring country and we pretend they don't exist. And if we talk about Poles, then about the migrants living in our country (the second largest group after Turks)

    • @timetraveler2405
      @timetraveler2405 Рік тому

      Still Germans invest in Poland and Polish companies are expending more and more into Germany. Business is business, I guess.

  • @pawejaroszewicz7893
    @pawejaroszewicz7893 Рік тому +1

    11:27 no, no, no. No annexation. The USSR, USA and Great Britain mark the borders after World War II in Europe. Poland was not involved in this process

  • @RDrumcajsek
    @RDrumcajsek Рік тому +1

    Note: "c" in Polish never reads as "k", like you read in "Granica", but as "c" (/ts/).