I'm Persian and I have respect for Germans, the great Germans such as Hegel, Goethe, Nietzsche, Walther Hinz, Heidemarie Koch, Walter Bruno Henning, Friedrich von Spiegel, Paul Schwarz, Heinz Luschey, etc, were interested in Persia. Love Germany from Persia (Iran).
Greetings from Germany. I love ancient Persia and the Persian language, culture and civilization. You are a beautiful and lovely Persian girl, your Persian name is very beautiful, Stateira !
Just so people know the Angles, one of the Germanic tribes invading Britain during the Anglo-Saxon period, carved out the largest amount of territory on the island and the Angles territory was eventually referred to as Angle land and eventually that became, guess what? England. Angle land=England.
Most of the Germans people were not germanic tribe East Germans mixed with Slavs, South Germans mix with French, only Northwest Germans were Germanic tribe. germanic tribe is not referring to german people. german people call themself deutsh
@@blackpinkgangster8162The Angles (Old English: Ængle, Engle; Latin: Angli; German: Angeln) were one of the main Germanic peoples[1] who settled in Great Britain in the post-Roman period. They founded several kingdoms in Anglo-Saxon England, and their name is the root of the name England ("land of Ængle"). According to Tacitus, writing before their move to Britain, Angles lived alongside Langobardi and Semnones in historical regions of Schleswig and Holstein, which are today part of southern Denmark and northern Germany
@@blackpinkgangster8162 Then what was the point of your comment if it has nothing to do with mine. You corrected me when there was nothing to correct. You thought you were being a smart ass but got called out and now you look bad so your trying to save face.
I'm one of them, my grandmother ancestors were from Westphalia and migrated to the then-province of Minas Gerais during the Empire years. I have been out of Brazil for more than 2 decades by now though and I'm currently living in Japan.
Germans are the largest white ethnic group in the US. People often think the largest white ethnicity in the US is English because the de facto language of the US is English and many cities are named after English towns and people.
German 46,403,053 14.7% However, Irish, Scottish and English are counted separately, so Irish 33,526,444 10.6% English 24,787,018 7.8% Scottish 5,409,343 1.7% English speaking immigrants to USA are 20.1% It's worth saying, these numbers are for period of 2010-2015. Lets not forget that many Irish and English were enslaved first and then sent to colonize new lands.
@@elha92 true. My last name is Conrad (German - Konradt). I always thought I was 25 to 40%. Had DNA test, minimal German like 3%, minimal Irish, but 90% English. You are correct most American know little, there are some Lutheran churches whose liturgy is still in German in our area.
@@elha92 Thank you! I've been saying that for years. White-Americans are their own ethnic group, formed from a potpourri. There is no meaningful connection for them with their ancestral ethno-linguistic cultures. Though the Catholics tend to hold on to some traditions; and with the qualified exception of the children of immigrants, who almost always fully assimilate. HOWEVER, the defining characteristics of White-American culture are an extreme individualism, ahistorical progressivism, and a culturless-consumerist lifestyle. Because of this, White-Americans are an ethnicity that EXPLICITLY rejects the idea of being an ethnicity, or a People. American Conservatism is firmly rooted in this milieu. It is ironically the anti-ethnic ethnicity.
this makes you a member of the definetely most interesting germanic subgroups and people should learn more about us…..seriously ! we had this amber and flint-based golden early bronze age, climate chaos based migration movevements like the cimbrian teutonic-ambronian invasions of gaul and the northern roman provinces, this is the heart of the old suebian realm, we are the original anglos as well and saxons, lombardian culture originated also here and 20 metric km away from me you find the largest native norse city, Hedeby just two days ago I searched the Rungholtsand for mussels and clams….its named after the town of Rungholt which drowned there in 1362 together with many other settlements and basically that whole landscape which we now know as the northfrisian waddensea… in which part of Chile are you residing ? I imagine Chile as a somehow predominantly rocky and quite un-schleswig-holsteinian country ....but with plenty of coastline which is definetely very nice !
I believe that a larger number of germans will join you in the near future. Just wait.. I visited Chile a few years ago. Definitely a place to be. Loved that they said "Kuchen" at least in the south..
@@gladstanegonder4970 I'm in Santiago but have lived all around the country. It is very much like the west coast of the US geographically. We have a desert in the north, mediterranean weather in the center, and fiords with glaciers in the south. We come originally from the Förh Island near Denmark. The first one of my family arriving here came trading in a ship, and since then most members of the family have been Navy Officers, so the need for the see is in our blood. Some 40.000 Germans settled here in the mid-late 19th Century invited by the local government. Since then a small but constant influx of Germans have been going on. Germans founded many towns and cities in the south of the country (Patagonia lake regions) which is very much like parts of Germany. The influence of Germans in Chile is disproportionate to our numbers, being one of the most influential communities in Chilean History, and certainly the best, hehe. All Chileans have much respect and admiration for Germans and German values. I think Germanic influence in the world has mostly not been through conquer nor empires, but through constant migration and settlements, demonstrating all over the world the success of high German values for everyone to admire.
@@fortunekookimon4610 I believe Robert Sepehr was sent to guide the seeking to the next stage.. his HUNDREDS of videos literally fill in nearly all holes and connect nearly all the dots.. he may be WOTAN traveling among us. amazing.. and he finds the BEST most unheard of evidence to back his claims..
@@sethgrim9600 You ever listen to Jonathan bowden? If not I highly suggest starting with " the Nietzschean credo" or "julius Evola - the world's most right wing thinker". Bowden was a titan of the mind.
@@fortunekookimon4610 ill look into him. believe I have seen some clips in other vids,, asha logos has good vids on yewtube as does vertigopolitix re uploads only as his channel was wacked..
Clint Peitsch No, not really. Its not and hostile to Plutocracy ( USA) and it is very hostile to marxist socialism. It has more to do with prussian ethnic or at least inner state solidarity. What is what you called nationalism. Which is the same thing as socialism understood this way.
Yeah its a shame because the Germans have contributed so much to the world and yet they are almost ashamed to call themselves German. Just because you're German doesn't mean you're Hitler, hell Hitler was Austrian not German. You can thank liberalism for German self-hatred.
The word 'German' is not German. It comes from the Latin and Greek - essentially meaning coming from the same kind, parent. This is how the Latins from Rome saw them, as looking alike. Ergo, German. It's an ectonym.
The etymology of "German"/"Germanic" is hypothesised to come from any number of Celtic cognates meaning, varyingly, "neighbour", "battle-cry" or "noisy", or alternatively from native Germanic meaning "spear-man". The Latin 'germanus' meaning siblings is cognate to Spanish 'hermano', and likely has no relation to the name of the country or the peoples, but that is where the English word 'germane' comes from.
English speakers call the nation "Germany" and the people are known has "Germans". The other nations in Northern and Central Europe also use Germany but translated into there language. In Spain, Germany is called "Alemania" and the Germans are known has "Alemanes". In France, Germany is called Ällemange" and Germans are known has "Allemands". Allemania and Ällemange derives from the word "Alemanni". The following explains it - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alemanni
@@iulianzagan779 As far as I know the bulk of them left earlier because they were repressed by Ceaușescu and then bought free from Germany. Romania is a quite intersting country. When you think of Romania from a German perspective, you mostly think of Roma and Spätausiedler, but the most have some Italian appeal to them. But maybe that's changing as so much medical personal comes from Romania. The high esteem German products enjoy in Romania is also quite flattering. Even products that are not available in Germany are given a German appeal. Also some impressive old architecture and amazing landscapes. Definitely worth a journey, even without Romanian heritage.
A correction: The dialect of PIE that evolved into PGm went through the sound changes in Scandinavia and northern Germany, and Western Poland at the same time. Edit: Another correction: you cant use haplogroups to deduce genetic composition, only autosomal DNA can do that. Also note that Germanic and Slavic are both evolutions of an earlier united language. Edit again: "didn't have ethnic solidarity till 1800s" - Well the Germanic tribes described by Tacitus were part of a united tribal alliance that called itself Suebi, a term derived from a PIE root meaning "ones own" as in "ones own people." Its not exactly uncommon for people with mutually intelligible speech to look at themselves as an ingroup.
Germanic and Slavic languages are separated by thousands of years. Proto-Germanic dates from 1000 B.C. while Proto-Slavic hails from the 800 A.D. They are not that related if you compare Germanic languages with Celtic and Romance languages.
@@garlandstrife The Speech of 100 AD can be considered a late version of Proto-Germanic, it depends on how many sound shifts you require before it becomes truly Proto-Germanic. As for the degree of affinity to other IE families, Germanic and Slavic are much closer related to each other than many branches such as Anatolian, Tocharian, Indic, Iranic, etc. Do you have some recommended sources for Germanic being closer to Celtic and Romance than to Slavic? For a long time Ive been looking for a comprehensive discussion of the evolutions of "Classical PIE" into its daughter branches. From my understanding though Germanic has very archaic loanwords that can best be explained as loans from Proto-Balto-Slavic indicating an affinity.
@@arminius-6339 Possibly but I think its just peoples' tendency to take on simplified versions of new knowledge and overlook nuance because the shear volume of information can be overwhelming. 10 years ago I was making many of the same oversimplifications Masaman makes. I still have a lot of respect for him having the balls to talk about this stuff and enough courtesy to present it as neutrally as he does even if its not perfect.
@@wadestoss3325 While I don't have formal sources in hand, I'll search for them and share them with you. Germanic, Celtic and Romance are closer due to geographical proximity as well as historical contact between the three during different periods. The first proto-IE speakers that arrived to Central Europe were the direct ancestors of the three of them. Whereas Balto-Slavic was far from that Urheimat, they remained in the Pontic-Caspian steppe. The proto-IE speakers that went north are theorized to have assimilated an unknown substrate language of a pre Indo-European population that was endemic of the Baltic Sea coast and the Scandinavian peninsula, after that proto-Germanic came to be. Thus Germanic languages have features and vocabulary that are not found in other Indo-European languages. Balto-Slavic on the other hand was heavily conservative up until it was diversified thousands of years after the Germanic languages and families were already developed. There's almost a thousand year development gap between Germanic and Slavic languages, not to mention the geographical distance and lack of contact both populations had prior to the Middle Ages. The first contact between the Balto-Slavic populations and Germanic speakers was long after the Barbarian invasions. The Germanic vocabulary found in those languages was from that later contact. The Slavic expansion was westward to the lands vacated by the East Germanic tribes. The words that have a prior affinity are certainly from Proto-IE and not from any contact prior to the Middle Ages. Other thing to consider is that Germanic and Romance languages are centum languages, while Balto-Slavic are satem languages. This is a clear evidence of their historical and geographical distance. If you analyze the vocabulary of Romance, Celtic, Germanic and Balto-Slavic, chances are the first three are more similar than the latter. Balto-Slavic have almost all the original IE cases, whereas the other families have simplified their grammar over the centuries due to an earlier development and differentiation. Personally, I think it's easier for a Germanic speaker to learn a Romance language than a Slavic one. Romance speakers also have an easier time learning a Germanic language than Slavic. Slavic speakers could learn both easier because they have a much complex grammar and their languages are closer to what proto-IE was like.
This is great! So much information here I'll be coming back at least one more watch there's such a lot of detail here. For me, your best video yet. Cheers, Rafe
You forgot to mention the Bernese dialect of Swiss German still spoken among the Swiss Amish of Berne Indiana (anabaptist history can be a little confusing if you are reading the same sources I do). The picture of an open buggy being pulled by the horse in the video, that's them. Great Video!
Respekt back the hungarys invasion in the 9./10. Century and the battle on lechfeld 955 has foundet the german kingdom and has make your publik to an modern european publik . And the hungarian girls wow.
Loved your video but I'm afraid my feeble mind will not retain all of this unless I watch this every day for the rest of my life. You have incredible control of The English Language as it is at this time in History. Thanks for all your work on this and I have saved this video under "Refer Back To" Heading.
I had always been told when growing up that all those last names in Spain- Rodriguez, etc, were somehow Jewish- can you clear this up/ site correct sources so that I may correct anyone who still thinks this? Thank you.
They're not anyhow Jewish, you'll have to be more specific tough. There's many last-names from Germanic origin that only were used by Jews, yes, but most of the last-names used by Ashkenazim and Sephardi people are common among gentiles too. If you have any doubts about certain last-names you'll have to get genealogy/last-names books (easily found in archive.org) and check there, that way you can find one who may have Jewish roots (or any other root really)
m tosta Jewish communities around Europe took local surnames. So no, most Spanish last names are of Latin or German stock, mostly Latin. There are many Spanish last names that have been used by Jewish communities. Peres or Perez for example.
@@Roca005 Yeah as I said in my comment above very specific last-names were only used by Jewish people and still these names were of, as you said. Germanic/Latin roots.
Rodriguez is Son of Rodrigo/Es de Rodrigo and Rodrigo is a spanish of Roderich. Many spanish jewish coverts to catholicism took old christian names to distance themselves from their jewish origins.
Proud of my Germanic ancestors I knew I was German however I didnt know I was half German until I took a DNA test My father is from the phillipines and he has German blood and my mother is from Guatemala with German and Italian blood.
@@SCrEenNaMe-i9h German ethnicity emerged in medieval times among the descendants of the Romanized Germanic peoples in the area of modern western Germany, between the Rhine and Elbe rivers, particularly the Franks, Frisians, Saxons, Thuringii, Alemanni and Baiuvarii.
AMAZING! Absolutely love these independent history channels. I'v always wondered about this particular topic and you put it together beautifully. Thanx again.
Frankish is also the ancestor of Dutch. Frankish died out in France/Gaul, but not in The Netherlands/Holland and northern Belgium (where it originated - it originated in those areas).
@@S4NY4RKuRDBoZZ Luxemburgisch is from Frankish, but so is Dutch. Dutch is descended from Old Franconian (a.k.a. Frankish) and Frankish evolved into Old Dutch. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankish_language (Also see the "Franconian languages" section at link above.)
@@S4NY4RKuRDBoZZ So, as explained in the article linked in my last comment above (in the "Franconian languages" section), Frankish split into three branches. One evolved into Dutch, another evolved into Limburgish and Luxemburgisch, and another likely evolved into the Ripuarian dialects (spoken in a region of Germany).
The best theory of the Geats of Beowulf is that they were the people of Gotland, the island in the baltic. In Beowulf they are often referred to as "Weather Geats" which referes to the unique Gotlandish (Gutnish) word for ram. Sheepherding has also always been very important on the island and a ram is in their flag that goes back to at least the 16th century. The Gotland theory also fits together the travel times the best. And also fits archeological evidence. Bo Gräslund is the professor that launched this theory. I cant find any translation of his paper now, unfortunately. The Jutes are still there, only, in Scandinavian languages it is spelled "Jylland". As for "vikings". Well, boat culture in Scandinavia is ancient, even back in the Nordic Bronze age, 3700 years ago, the most depicted motif was the ship. And we have ship burials, so called "stone settings" that go back 3000 years, as Tjelvars Grave on Gotland. Beowulf is late migration era, early Vendel era, and long distance traders were already being buried in boats then. During the Viking age, the Geats/Gutes/Gotlanders developed into a merchant republic. So they might have done a bit of raiding but were such successful merchants so that was the part of being a viking they concentrated on.
The jutes (correctly pronounced yoots) as well as the angles survived mostly in England, as they were assimilated by north germanic and somewhat west slavic peoples by the end of the dark ages (~500-1000)
@@martinan22 My great grandfather was from Haderslev in South Denmark and my Grandfather from Nykobing S . I did try to return to my family via immigration back to Denmark but unfortunately Denmark prohibits families returning to their roots . They told me to sign up as a refugee . Other countries do accept a return on the grounds of parents or recent ancestry . Sad .
It was always my understanding that the song, _Deutschland über alles,_ wasn’t about total German hegemony but telling Germans that their solidarity for the German federation should take precedent over their solidarity towards any of the various German local provinces.
@R G If you take the song as a whole, you cant read it two ways. The song defines the borders of Germany as the rivers Etsch (border between Italy and Germany), Maas(border between France and Germany), Memel (border between Lithuania and Germany) and the Belt (border between Denmark and Germany. Those were also roughly the actual borders of german speaking areas at the time of the songs creation. So expanding is clearly not the purpose of the song. It also mentiones unity, rights and freedom in the third stanza. You can only read it two ways, if you take the first line completely out of context. But you can read most things in multiple ways, if you take them out of context. And only the nazis (deliberately) misinterpreted the song, or the first line rather. And often left out the (second) and third stanza, as it clarifies the peaceful nature of the song.
Well done, this is a concise yet detailed historical review. As a physician with 49 years of clinical experience I can tell you that many people, far younger than I, find the background music makes hearing the commentary an irritating/aggravating experience. Certainly this practice is not new with you. Actually it's pandemic, often causing sufficient irritation that we frequently abandon the project prematurely. Which regretfully, I just have. Thomas F. Fredrick
Basically, Amish and Mennonites, originally from Pennsylvania, are Pennsylvania Dutch. As are many from the old German Reformed Church, Protestants, who came from 'Germany' in the 1700's. It is a quite bit more than this, but it is what I learned growing up on a farm in South Central PA to German and Scot ancestors. As well as French by way of the Religion Wars in France, fleeing to Germany, then making way to America. So Amish are/were Pennsylvania Dutch, but not all Pennsylvania Dutch are/were Amish.
@u.s old glory Bethlehem is nowhere near Lancaster. 80 miles or so is not so close when your talking about a densely populated area like Southeastern PA.
Basically, the Pennsylvania Dutch came from the Rhineland region of Germany in the late 1600s and early 1700s. They settled in east Germany and during the American Revolution, Pennsylvania had one of the highest German populations in the colonies. “Dutch” is an anglicized form of “Deutsch.” They aren’t actually Dutch. Their language actually comes from the Palatine German dialect.
@@skeleton2082 Mason said the Amish were as actually Swiss and Mennonites were Prussian. However, both of those groups are subsets of PA Dutch. I don't think they simply came from the Rhineland.
@@jonathanwapner6262 Of course, they didn't all come from the Rhineland but most did. Mennonites weren't from Prussia, most came from the Rhineland and the Southwest.
German-Russians is an interesting 'subgroup' that I've recently been trying to find research on. Due in part growing up being told I was Hungarian/Polish, yet everyone spoke Russian and German [too]. So when I did the crazed dna testing and found out I was more German with many coming from Russia it all made sense.. yet still doesn't since now I have more questions & no one to answer them lol. So that would be a great topic to touch on.. for me, or any other Rus/Germans out there. Thank you for your videos & all the research and details you put into them! :)
I'm of partial German ancestry myself and the community in Canada my German ancestors helped build under the auspices of the Benedictines attracted a fair amount of Germans from the Russian Empire. The most famous German group in Russia are the Volga Germans. Germans settled all over Russia though. There were German communities in the Caucasus and even Anatolia! Many Germans also settled in Kazakhstan.
Many who identify as Russians in Germany are actually Russian-Germans and therefore true Germans. Some are mixed but not all since in Russia the Germans used to life among themselves in basically purely German villages. Atleast at the beginning. This is how much I know since I am a Russian-German myself and my mother and grandmother have told me this. Pretty much all of my cousins are mixed now only my parents happened to be both Russian-Germans making me in fact pure German. But even though being ethnic German many Russian-Germans including my family have strongly been influenced by the Russian culture and still speak Russian at home.
There's lots of white diversity. Am I misunderstanding you? For example the Finnish are white and they aren't even Indo-European. It's from arctic climates. That said Indo-Europeans aren't always white even though they're genetically close like the Hindi who can be as black as Africans.
@@lingvemulo Yakuts, Evenks, Tungus and Samoyeds are considered to be Arctic race in Russia, but they are not white. Climate does not change human anthropology, this is a fallacy. North Asians (Siberians) are also not white, except descendants of Russian cossacks, colonists and communists, like me.
@JeremyS I saw a documentary about a German village in Siberia. They taught the kids in German. They were living in a place in Siberia where there was no water, they needed water trucks half the year. So probably deported Germans got the worst land. But made the most of it. Some had gone back to Germany but did not like it and returned to Siberia.
There are a lot of Germans in Russia. They've settled there since 18th century. Volga Germans were deported and given land in more eastern regions when Nazis invaded in 1941. They were not sent to gulags like many think. Although, nowadays few of them really speak German and most of them intermixed with the local population, but many still follow German religious traditions or have German first names
I'm Argentinian but the grand parents of my grand parents came from the Hunrück region in Rhine Province (Germany). They havent any Frankish roots, originaly they were of Saxon ancestry from Westphalia accourding to official documents of a local church in Cologne. I hope someday I can visit those places where my ancestors came from.
I mean "dominate" is a bit of a over statement They didn't even really fight the local Celts and SMALL Latin population there once they conquered the land and when I say small I mean MICROSCOPIC small these 3 groups and later Normans from Normandy all assimilated with each other to create what we now consider to be "english"
The Romano-"Britons" were mostly displaced Gauls that the Romans had moved to the isles to govern the Germanic population which existed there prior, so yes those people were probably a bit soft from Rome's cocoon but in addition to that, the pre-existing Germanic population likely put up very little resistance to their Germanic relatives as it was mostly just a change of overlords for them despite the few hundred years spent under Roman/Gaelic rule.
Charlie Read The prominence of the Frisian gene and other “Germanic” genes in isolated rural communities is evidence enough that at least some of the previous inhabitants were Germanic. There were also reclamation laws from anglo-saxon rulers which took property from the people that the romans had brought in from Gaul and “returned” it their germanic cousins that lived there before the Roman conquest. The isles used to be connected to the rest of europe by an area called Doggerland. This area connected the isles to the Germanic areas of Europe, but this marshland sank at some point (can’t remember when exactly). So, the original inhabitants almost definitely were not celtic, but because they were somewhat removed from other germanic populations, it might be better to just call them Brythonic (as a sort of subgroup of Germanic) or something. Just not Celtic... i think the term celtic really shouldn’t be used at all. It’s been a shitty term since it’s invention in the 1600’s and has mostly been used for propaganda and fantasy since then. It is somewhat useful in linguistics but could be replaced rather easily.
I'm glad you mentioned that there remains a certain celtic influence and awareness of that past in Austria. My dad has taught me about the celtic roots of the names of local towns and small streams. He was always very proud of our regions celtic past and even referred to himself as celtic which... questionable. I thought for a long time he's just really into brave heart because I believed celtic is basically synonymous to Scottish 😂
My grandparents taught me too. They taught me their old celtic traditions and history too, showed me ancient ruins, and said we are Celtic, originally. He wasn't pulling your leg. It's very common in that entire region he speaks of in the video, especially in the mountains. My dad's hometown they've since found celtic fortifications and artefacts that are 9000 years old. Exactly like my grandmother heard from her grandmother, etc etc.
a correction: pennsylvania dutch is not influenced by swiss german, it's a variant of the palatine dialect, which is franconian, as opposed to the alemannic swiss german dialect.
This is where it can be a little confusing, there are Anabaptists(amish, mennonites) who lived in the palatinate region of Germany. The Swiss German Anabaptists would occasionally flee to this region in small numbers. It's not clear to me whether they are of Swiss German stock wholly or not from my research. The Pennsylvania Dutch, are indeed a entirely separate people group and are not Anabaptists at all. They are Lutheran and immigrated from the palatinate.
@@iamnotanumberiamafreeman2021 from what i know, following the expulsion from switzerland many anabaptists first found refuge in alsace, then in the palatinate in the early 18th century and then along with many other protestants from the palatinate went on to emigrate to north america.
@@iamnotanumberiamafreeman2021..... AND its actually worse than that as since the end of WWII those amish who have immigrated into the US from Eastern Europe had been part of the Volga Deutsch community who also speak Palatinate-Deutsch from the early 1700s, still understandable by those in the Palatinate and (Northern) Bavaria. Very confusing since most 'Germans' of today have a very poor understanding of exactly what is Germany. Germans are focused on their STATE, not their country. FWIW .... during the 1970s the German Shoe Company ADIDAS conducted manufacturing in Kutztown, Pennsylvania (west of the city of Allentown) because the dialect spoken there since the late 1600s was completely understandable by those in the German headquarters of Adidas in Herzogenaurach (Northern Bavaria).
There's a lot of Germans who settled in the Americas but here in the United States perhaps among the most infamous are the Hessians who were hired as mercenaries on behalf of the British. After the war concluded, roughly half of those who survived chose to stay and became American citizens. And several sons and grandsons of these German soldiers went on to fight the British in the War of 1812 with unconfirmed stories about these descendants using the same muskets given to their fathers & grandfathers by the British during the Revolution.
Where I live in MIchigan, Amish and Mennonites have given up the anti-technology lifestyle. They drive cars, eat at restaurants, buy processed foods, run stores, etc. The only thing that really separates them these days is the dress, where they live, language and keeping to their brand of Christianity (ideologically anyway). I think the trend of young people leaving prompted them to modify their expectations. Otherwise, they risk dying off.
Greetings from Brasil, i am half germanic with portuguese and a little of native. In my city we have Oktoberfest and a lot german traditions. Shame that my father never taught me nothing of german...
Welcome to the year 20XX where nothing makes sense everything is subjective and people dont know the difcrence between 229E and Covid 19 As someone who has recently had 229E and had to explain to people why I missed work for a few days. The SECOND I bring up its in the family coronavireadea they screamed get away from me. Then I have to explain everything once again.
@@Newbmann probably in part due to the media calling it COVID-19 instead of something that people will understand or rember. The virus is officially named SARS-COV-2, people would understand SARS-2 and act accordingly. Wuhan flu or bat flu would also work
@@AutismIsUnstoppable I mean Wuhan cold would probably be most understandable since well just like the Spanish flu was first Reported in Spain and is closely related to the flu this was first reported in Wuhan and is closely related to the cold. keep in mind closely related does not mean close in terms of severity this is MUCH worse than the cold but still closely related. Its almost like they dont care weather or not they might over complicate it in the history books.
Thank you! I find your treatment of German ethnicity interesting. According to notes with my Y-dna report I'm R1B - U106 which was part of the Indo-European migration with a focus in Frisia. I noticed your charts broke out Frisia and you referenced it as the source for Old English. It seems to be part of the Netherlands now.
Frisia is actually less defined by borders, but rather by the Frisian people. "Friesland" is in fact in the Netherlands, however in North & Northwest Germany there are also the provinces Ost (East)-Friesland and Nord (North)-Friesland, so its basically spread out over the North sea coastline from amsterdam to the danish border.
Mason, you are on fire with your recent vids. The Germans in South America is another video of yours which was fascinating. Have you got more German stories for South America?
Hi Masaman, I have seen about 30 videos from you and I like your work. One complaint: please stop using the map about Empire of Attila (on 3:22), it's historically inaccurate and simply wrong in northern parts.
I'm part German so I found this pretty interesting. We got a lot of Mennonites and Amish around here in the Missouri Ozarks. I've got a lot of respect for the Amish. They are pretty fair in their business dealings and take care of the environment instead of destroying it. I've sold them a lot of logs and they always pay better than anyone else around here. They still speak the old language amongst themselves. On the other hand I have no respect for a lot of the Mennonites. They don't practice what they preach, treat their women badly and many are scandalous in business.
This was surprisingly accurate and comprehensive - couldn't have put it better myself. In a lot of places scattered across the region sometimes referred to as Germania Slavica there is tons of naming anomalies in some cases even rooting back to celtic (basically whoever ruled would coin existing names of landmarks and cities into their respective language or dialect and with shifting rulers names would change quite frequently over the centuries). Now I will say that Germans are mostly a celto-germanic mix really with a noticable disparity between men and women - women generally more germanic and men more celtic in origin (not to mention the Czech who are on average more germanic in ancestry than Germans). As for myself being from Saxony I find it a bit odd how the Slavic past is sometimes swept under the rug while it is clearly part of our identity here and I'm looking into learning the Sorb language eventually given that I have family ties there. The Slavic Elba migration that triggered the brief period of Slavic dominance in now eastern Germany is definitely a fundamental part of Eastern German identity and in my opinion the most accurate term for Germans living in most of political eastern Germany nowadays (or ppl who descended from there) is "Wendendeutsche" given that it's historically accomodating and inclusive. This does not include Thuringians that much - they did have a massive influence on now Saxony tho and we share their German dialect for that matter (the Saxon dialect is technically a Thuringian dialect or sometimes referred to as "Easyerlandian"). Thuringians however are among the predominantly celto-germanic peoples and while they are for political/historical reasons classified as east Germans too they are for the most part not "Wendendeutsche" but rather closer affiliated with the Frankonians. However the "Wendland" region in nether Saxony and East-Holstein in Schleswig-Holstein while not technically "east-German" are part of the "Wendendeutsche"-Realm. I hope that in the future we will become more invested with the Slavic impact here again and pronounce it more as part of our identity (because it is part of it obviously) and simultaneously the Czech may become more invested in their celto-germanic rooting too. Poland is a whole other story tho and a completely different realm of essentially "Polendeutschen".
Celt of Canaan Esurix hard Tomas’s. Westphalia has changed extremely, since your family left Germany. Today, we have so many people from Turkey, Syria and other Arabian countries.
lieberfreialsgleich yes I know that, especially considering my Westphalian great grandfather left in the 1900s before ww1, and my German ancestors from Bavaria and Baden-wutemburg left in the 17-1800s
@@dionysus8967 du wirst garnix los. Den ich bin deutscher aufm Papier. Was willst du machen? Aria test 2.0 😂😂😂 selbst den würd ich bestehen, weil die dummen Nazis net gecheckt haben das Aria Iraner, Kurden und Armenier sind
I am tri racial, my grandmother comes from an Indian temple built by a Shiva avatar in Thailand, originally known as Vimana Pura(Sanskrit), modern day Phi Mai, Thailand. Also I'm Irish, black Irish and Sicilian. This is what led me to watch your videos and learn my roots. Keep up the good work, Masaman. You're doing Gods work and telling his story, thank you for inspiring me to learn about my ancestry and history. You have always been my favorite UA-cam channel.
My parents immigrated from Germany. My mom is Bavarian with some Austrian ancestors and my dad is Westphalian with some Austrian and East Prussian ancestors. My haplogroup is R1a, which I think comes from East Prussia, through my dad really can’t trace his ancestry beyond his grandparents. I’m 40% East European according to 23andMe so I’m wondering if in the eastern fringes of formerly German-speaking territory the process was one of assimilation and culture transfer more so than replacement. The Bavarians interest me most. For some reason they think they are different from and better than other Germans. My mom’s side of the family all say they are Bavarian before they are German. I can’t because I’m only half Bavarian and my dad is Prussian.
Bavarians are some strange odd people ! they think a lot but the do a little to prove it. their strange odd and strong identity is somehow an ideology to help them believe they are one united people, despite the fact that this region of Germany is heavily mixed and non-consistent by no means, their language is somehow italian with germanic with turkic with slavic with french expressions sand accents. so they need this identity otherwise they may kill each other! Hinweis: I live near Munich
Tim Salter they have such a serious problem, if you meet one of them he will try the whole day convince you that they are the original germans, they even try to mock their northern part of Bavaria namely Franconia and they show unrest talking about their dialect and life style, so you can notice that such attitude carries an underlying „germanic“ problem. And this word „germanic“ will always be touchy for them, even if they don’t say it, it also good to note that the nazi ideology was never a prussian idea, it has all started from upper Bavaria out of their internal instability, and their fear of rejection from the truly „germanic“ part of Germany! Their catholic affinity plays a role also , and in that respect they would prefer France to northern Germany, which is quite odd if you observe the german history as a whole!
@@user-lb8du4dl3o Wow. I had no idea. I spent lots of time in Oberbayern. My mom's side of the family has lots of people that speak the full on Bavarian dialect (which I don't like) while my dad who is from Westfalen tries to sound Bayrisch. I think some of them didn't originally like the idea that my mom married a Preuss, and of course certainly not that he took her to America. I never heard my mom's side of the family refer to themselves as Germanisch, but instead they have said they are "halbe Roemer." Indeed, Hitler was from Braunau, Oesterreich and began his political activity in Germany in Bayern. Bayer also seem more conservative than the rest of Deutschland. I'm an American with dual citizenship with two German-born parents and I would never identify as Bayrisch. Ich scheiss darauf.
@@TJSakowski Look if you ignore their ugly dialect (which is strange mix of everything around them) and if you tolerate their high noses, and their peasant's and harsh country-side's culture, you can still have a good time in Bayern!, but be careful about the "germanic" stuff, these things can cause unrest, I mean despite the fact that they are "relatively" conservative they can tolerate any shity foreigner before they can give a nice face to someone from the north! Persons from the eastern part of Germany are totally different drama here!. Austria is the same, but they are shy to show connection to Bavaria, in order to keep themselves away from the nazi-stuff! The US-things here are a general german problem, not limited to Bavaria, they will never save an effort to put Americans down, your smallest errors will be seen here as major and they will be magnified to a level that they will forget that they have just the same problems and more!
The Germanic people are descended from the Scythians [Saka]. The Scythians populated land as far east as central and east Asia and lands as far west as Spain [Gothalonia]. The Goths are explicitly mentioned as Scythians by Greek ethnographers. In the 'Oera Linda' book, the Germanic people fled from a great deluge which was flooding their land. In this text, Germany is called "Twissland" which means "between land", "Twissland" paramutated into 'Teuchland' and then to 'Deutschland'. In the Oera Linda text, it is said that the Germanic people are descended from Freya (The free one) and that they liberated the Slavonic people from tyrannical princes and priests whom enthralled them. Herodotus calls the Saka Tartarians "Atalanteans". The Tartarian empire was a decentralized state as were most of the Germanic and or Scythian states.
The Saka (Scythians) are an ethno cultural nexus. Proto Germanic and Proto Iranic are very similar languages, almost the same language. The Sarmatians, Bulgars, Alans [*Arons], Goths, Huns etc all carried Saka culture and haplogtoups with them when they migrated. Grailic culture for example [Arthurian mythos] was introduced by the Saka. In fact, 'Sakson' comes from "Saka son". Iranic and Germanic peoples are so similar that during WWII, Iranic people were exempt from the Nuremburg purity laws as they were seen as a similar people.
Some where "stalinized" like basically every minority, the others started to leave Russia in droves after the iron curtain fell. Many German-Germans see them as weirdos as they have to some degree preserved the "Germany" of 1800.
A lot of them were "resettled" in the Sowjetunion, like the Wolgadeutschen. They were scattered over Siberia and mostly northern Kazhakstan. In the 1990s about 4 million Russlanddeutsche came back to Germany. For being allowed back I think they had to have at least one German grandparent. But most of them are still mostly of German descent. In public life, they are almost invisible because they assimilated quickly. Despite that success, the press and politicians don't like to talk about them because they are in general more conservative and right-wing than the native Germans.
Both my Spanish last names have Germanic roots, as well as my second name. And I've been fascinated by German history well before I knew about my names.
Interesting that the name Rodriguez in Spain is Germanic. That is one of the family names on my father's side. My name is Nunez with a tilde. Supposedly this family has a castle in Spain and coat of arms. My mother is Yoder from Ohio, Slavic German and Mennonite. Thank you for this video. I was born with brown hair and brown eyes. Now my eyes are grey blue. I developed strong red and blonde highlights in my hair and beard. In America our knowledge of our ancestry is suppressed for political reasons obviously.
It derived from the Germanic name "Roderic, Roderik or Roderich" which did later evolve to "Rodrigo" in Spanish. And "Roderic-son" did turn into "Rodriguez"
It's actually quiet funny for me (German) to read and hear old english amd dutch bc by nature I can understand quiet a bit, sometimes even entire sentences and stuff Also, because I grew up in the sorbian diaspora, I can quiet relate to them. But they're getting heavily assimilated. 120+ years ago german was a minority language in the area. Nowadays a lot is being done to preserve their culture and language but I myself haven't learned sorbian, like my girlfriend did
The subgroup I would love to learn more about are the so-called Chauci (probably derived from a Proto-Germanic word for “Hawk”). However, apart from the assumption they were absorbed into the Franks, Saxons and Frisians, very little is known about them.
@@КИБАРКУБИЦА-с4д the japanese are not inventive, not progressive, not creative like the germans or europeans. The japanese just copied the inventions of the europeans but did not contribute to modern civilization.
@@КИБАРКУБИЦА-с4д everything was invented in Europe. Tell me please the most important japanese inventions. Over 99% of all inventions were made by the europeans and many of those by the germans, the rest of the world didnt invent anything. The car, bycicle, space rocket technology, light bulb, dynamo, telephone and many other were invented by the garmans. The japanese invented sushi :))
@@КИБАРКУБИЦА-с4д the europeans invend over 99% of all thing we use today. The europeans are only 7% of the worlds population. The europeans ALONE invented modern civilization. Without the europeans the rest of the world would still be in the STONE AGE. The chinse and japanse only copied the european products but did not invent anything except sushi and harakiri.
I am from Morocco, it is surprising and awesome that once upon a time the Germanics were my neighbors from the north and from the east, in the north there was the Germanic Visgothic state in Iberia and in the east there was the Germanic Vandal state in Tunisia and eastern Algeria, Germanic people have a great history, greetings from an Amazigh Moroccan to the great Germanic warrior people
As a German i have lots of respect for Amazigh people and history. They have always been a brave warrior culture just like Germanic people. Many foreign powers have invaded both the Germanic lands and Amazigh lands for thousands of years, yet our people defended our homelands to the last drops of blood which is why we exist modern day :-) Glory to our ancestors my Amazigh friend.
@@ygnihteci00 Thank you. As an amazigh, i have a lot of respect and love for Germanic people, especially german people.I also have a lot of love for Germany, especially the Germans. They are a great people with a history of proud achievements, a people who have preserved their language and distinct qualities for more than two thousand years despite the conversion to Christianity, a warrior and brave people, a great people who gave birth to the greatest scientists, and the greatest philosophers like Kant and Hegel, and the greatest of musicians, you are a people full of glory, glory to the Germanic people, my Germanic friend :)
@@ygnihteci00 A lot of respect for the country of Einstein, Karl Marx, Beethoven, Neitzsche, Bach, Bismarck, Wagner, Kant, Gauss, Handel, Schopenhauer, Hegel, Von Braun, Leibniz, Heidegger, Handel, Kepler, Hertz, Haber, Ohm, Koch, ect
I’m from Brazil and I was always told the we where German Pomeranians, which I know is a Slavic people originally but from what I’ve learned they where outnumbered on Pomerania. Can you make a video?
@@gthomas3609 There were no so called Germans here till medieval... Ethnic Germans (?) Cmon...there is no such a thing... We are all mixed... Don't you know that (?)
@@gthomas3609 Wait, what? So all of the Pommeranians pre-1945 were German settlers? That's highly unlikely. Change of ethnic composition almost never is a result of total replacement, it's mostly natives assimilating to dominant culture plus few settlers here and there.
G Thomas It was both and the ones who remained in Poland are called Kashubian now, which is means Pomeranian in Slavic. My grandmother is a more Germanic while my grandfather is slightly more Slavic but both speak the East Germanic dialect that replaced the Slavic Pomeranian after the settlement during the the days of the HRE.
I am Deitsch, my family comes from Eastern, PA, my ancestors, along with many others came from the Pfalz region in the 18th century. Deitsch, or "Fancy Dutch" cukture is still alive and well in PA and Southern NJ.
Love your vidoes but please come up with some cool ancient backgroung music or something that fits whatever people you're talking about not something that sound like a1930's failing radio station.
Nowadays very many historians, archeologists, linguists, geneticists, and anthropologists all have basically completely rejected the “old” Celtic origin hypothesis -- Even though most non-professionals still (quite ignorantly) reference it as a fact. It’s now believed that the Celts originated primarily as an Atlantic Coast Indo-European civilization, which also spread significantly eastward along rivers in continental Western Europe (Gaul & Iberia). I strongly recommend that you watch a few lectures on UA-cam given by Barry Cunliffe -- a famous English🏴 archaeologist/anthropologist/historian who specializes in ancient Celtic civilization. His theory seems much much more plausible than the one you commonly reference in your videos. You will learn a lot! 💪🏻Thanks for the interesting video though 🙏🏻
I'm Persian and I have respect for Germans, the great Germans such as Hegel, Goethe, Nietzsche, Walther Hinz, Heidemarie Koch, Walter Bruno Henning, Friedrich von Spiegel, Paul Schwarz, Heinz Luschey, etc, were interested in Persia. Love Germany from Persia (Iran).
Indeed, Goethe deeply admired Hafez as "having no peer". I greatly respect Persia and hope to come visit some day. Greetings from Germany
@@haberer4510 Thank you, you are every time welcome in Iran.
Greetings from Germany. I love ancient Persia and the Persian language, culture and civilization. You are a beautiful and lovely Persian girl, your Persian name is very beautiful, Stateira !
@@friedrichmuller9319 Thank you, it's kind of you! I wish you all the best.
@Noah The Celt Thank you! maybe we've seen each other in a video about Iran :)
Just so people know the Angles, one of the Germanic tribes invading Britain during the Anglo-Saxon period, carved out the largest amount of territory on the island and the Angles territory was eventually referred to as Angle land and eventually that became, guess what? England. Angle land=England.
Most of the Germans people were not germanic tribe East Germans mixed with Slavs, South Germans mix with French, only Northwest Germans were Germanic tribe. germanic tribe is not referring to german people. german people call themself deutsh
@@blackpinkgangster8162The Angles (Old English: Ængle, Engle; Latin: Angli; German: Angeln) were one of the main Germanic peoples[1] who settled in Great Britain in the post-Roman period. They founded several kingdoms in Anglo-Saxon England, and their name is the root of the name England ("land of Ængle"). According to Tacitus, writing before their move to Britain, Angles lived alongside Langobardi and Semnones in historical regions of Schleswig and Holstein, which are today part of southern Denmark and northern Germany
@@twojacksandanace3847 i said most german are not germanic
@@blackpinkgangster8162 Then what was the point of your comment if it has nothing to do with mine. You corrected me when there was nothing to correct. You thought you were being a smart ass but got called out and now you look bad so your trying to save face.
@@twojacksandanace3847 :)
My country Brazil has around 5 million German descendants, originally from Pomerania, Hunsrück and other places
Alovio Anidio cool to see a fellow Brazilian here
I'm one of them, my grandmother ancestors were from Westphalia and migrated to the then-province of Minas Gerais during the Empire years. I have been out of Brazil for more than 2 decades by now though and I'm currently living in Japan.
Really?? Cool
Mais um brasileiro aqui.
Just wondering...are red head Germans common in Brazil? I'm a red head, but nobody believes I'm of German descent
Germans are the largest white ethnic group in the US. People often think the largest white ethnicity in the US is English because the de facto language of the US is English and many cities are named after English towns and people.
German 46,403,053 14.7%
However, Irish, Scottish and English are counted separately, so
Irish 33,526,444 10.6%
English 24,787,018 7.8%
Scottish 5,409,343 1.7%
English speaking immigrants to USA are 20.1%
It's worth saying, these numbers are for period of 2010-2015.
Lets not forget that many Irish and English were enslaved first and then sent to colonize new lands.
Yes, We are the largest group of Americans.
You're not Germans. You may have German heritage but the majority can't speak the language nor knows enough, if anything, about the culture.
@@elha92 true. My last name is Conrad (German - Konradt). I always thought I was 25 to 40%. Had DNA test, minimal German like 3%, minimal Irish, but 90% English. You are correct most American know little, there are some Lutheran churches whose liturgy is still in German in our area.
@@elha92
Thank you!
I've been saying that for years. White-Americans are their own ethnic group, formed from a potpourri. There is no meaningful connection for them with their ancestral ethno-linguistic cultures. Though the Catholics tend to hold on to some traditions; and with the qualified exception of the children of immigrants, who almost always fully assimilate.
HOWEVER, the defining characteristics of White-American culture are an extreme individualism, ahistorical progressivism, and a culturless-consumerist lifestyle. Because of this, White-Americans are an ethnicity that EXPLICITLY rejects the idea of being an ethnicity, or a People. American Conservatism is firmly rooted in this milieu.
It is ironically the anti-ethnic ethnicity.
Regards from a Chilean from German (Schleswig-Holstein) descent. Proud to hold true germanic values, fire and spirit at the end of the world.
Same, but Austrian/Hamburg and born in USA
this makes you a member of the definetely most interesting germanic subgroups and people should learn more about us…..seriously ! we had this amber and flint-based golden early bronze age, climate chaos based migration movevements like the cimbrian teutonic-ambronian invasions of gaul and the northern roman provinces, this is the heart of the old suebian realm, we are the original anglos as well and saxons, lombardian culture originated also here and 20 metric km away from me you find the largest native norse city, Hedeby
just two days ago I searched the Rungholtsand for mussels and clams….its named after the town of Rungholt which drowned there in 1362 together with many other settlements and basically that whole landscape which we now know as the northfrisian waddensea…
in which part of Chile are you residing ? I imagine Chile as a somehow predominantly rocky and quite un-schleswig-holsteinian country ....but with plenty of coastline which is definetely very nice !
Salzburg/Hamburg. Half prussian, half Austrian.
I believe that a larger number of germans will join you in the near future. Just wait..
I visited Chile a few years ago. Definitely a place to be.
Loved that they said "Kuchen" at least in the south..
@@gladstanegonder4970 I'm in Santiago but have lived all around the country. It is very much like the west coast of the US geographically. We have a desert in the north, mediterranean weather in the center, and fiords with glaciers in the south. We come originally from the Förh Island near Denmark. The first one of my family arriving here came trading in a ship, and since then most members of the family have been Navy Officers, so the need for the see is in our blood. Some 40.000 Germans settled here in the mid-late 19th Century invited by the local government. Since then a small but constant influx of Germans have been going on. Germans founded many towns and cities in the south of the country (Patagonia lake regions) which is very much like parts of Germany. The influence of Germans in Chile is disproportionate to our numbers, being one of the most influential communities in Chilean History, and certainly the best, hehe. All Chileans have much respect and admiration for Germans and German values.
I think Germanic influence in the world has mostly not been through conquer nor empires, but through constant migration and settlements, demonstrating all over the world the success of high German values for everyone to admire.
I’d like to hear more about the Prussian menonites in South America
Especially in Paraguay, Argentina and Chile
@@lionelhutz5137 Also a lot of Menonites in Mexico and Canada
Prussians are originally Baltic people
alexnickolaev those Baltic people are gone. They perished long ago in the crusade m8. I’m obviously referring to the Germanic Christian farmers.
Or the nazi in South America
I love this channel, it also amazes me how many commenters are incredibly competent on the matter.
@Pomo Dorino ... If u dig masaman, I highly suggest you check out Robert Sepehr's videos.
@@fortunekookimon4610 I believe Robert Sepehr was sent to guide the seeking to the next stage.. his HUNDREDS of videos literally fill in nearly all holes and connect nearly all the dots.. he may be WOTAN traveling among us. amazing.. and he finds the BEST most unheard of evidence to back his claims..
@@sethgrim9600 You ever listen to Jonathan bowden? If not I highly suggest starting with " the Nietzschean credo" or "julius Evola - the world's most right wing thinker". Bowden was a titan of the mind.
@@fortunekookimon4610 ill look into him. believe I have seen some clips in other vids,, asha logos has good vids on yewtube as does vertigopolitix re uploads only as his channel was wacked..
@@fortunekookimon4610 scandza forum.. boss . thought name was familiar
A thousand years of rich History...sadly, many people only care to see 12 dark years instead, smh. 🇩🇪🇦🇹🇨🇭
1000 years of nazis
گلای زخم national socialist is just nationalism mixed with socialism . The extreme left of Bernie sanders mixed with Donald trump. That’s it
Clint Peitsch No, not really. Its not and hostile to Plutocracy ( USA) and it is very hostile to marxist socialism. It has more to do with prussian ethnic or at least inner state solidarity. What is what you called nationalism. Which is the same thing as socialism understood this way.
Vogelschiss 😂
Yeah its a shame because the Germans have contributed so much to the world and yet they are almost ashamed to call themselves German. Just because you're German doesn't mean you're Hitler, hell Hitler was Austrian not German. You can thank liberalism for German self-hatred.
The word 'German' is not German. It comes from the Latin and Greek - essentially meaning coming from the same kind, parent. This is how the Latins from Rome saw them, as looking alike. Ergo, German. It's an ectonym.
The etymology of "German"/"Germanic" is hypothesised to come from any number of Celtic cognates meaning, varyingly, "neighbour", "battle-cry" or "noisy", or alternatively from native Germanic meaning "spear-man". The Latin 'germanus' meaning siblings is cognate to Spanish 'hermano', and likely has no relation to the name of the country or the peoples, but that is where the English word 'germane' comes from.
English speakers call the nation "Germany" and the people are known has "Germans". The other nations in Northern and Central Europe also use Germany but translated into there language. In Spain, Germany is called "Alemania" and the Germans are known has "Alemanes". In France, Germany is called Ällemange" and Germans are known has "Allemands". Allemania and Ällemange derives from the word "Alemanni". The following explains it - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alemanni
Sure. But that's not what Germans call themselves so it doesn't really matter.
@@Siegbert85 Yeah, the word "Deutsch" derives from teuto meaning people as in "we the people" (modern german: Volk).
Latin and Greek themselves come from Northern proto-European cultures.
I am a German from" elsewhere" .. called Transsylvania/Siebenbürgen..✌️😎
Unai Emery Romania
Unai Emery 😂 Me the Romanians and Germans alike !
Ich bin auch Siebenbürger!
Boandlkramer, unfortunatelly, too many of your kin left Transylvania/Siebenburgen for Germany/Deutchland in the '90 :(
Greetings from Wallachia!
@@iulianzagan779 As far as I know the bulk of them left earlier because they were repressed by Ceaușescu and then bought free from Germany. Romania is a quite intersting country. When you think of Romania from a German perspective, you mostly think of Roma and Spätausiedler, but the most have some Italian appeal to them. But maybe that's changing as so much medical personal comes from Romania. The high esteem German products enjoy in Romania is also quite flattering. Even products that are not available in Germany are given a German appeal. Also some impressive old architecture and amazing landscapes. Definitely worth a journey, even without Romanian heritage.
A correction: The dialect of PIE that evolved into PGm went through the sound changes in Scandinavia and northern Germany, and Western Poland at the same time.
Edit: Another correction: you cant use haplogroups to deduce genetic composition, only autosomal DNA can do that. Also note that Germanic and Slavic are both evolutions of an earlier united language.
Edit again: "didn't have ethnic solidarity till 1800s" - Well the Germanic tribes described by Tacitus were part of a united tribal alliance that called itself Suebi, a term derived from a PIE root meaning "ones own" as in "ones own people." Its not exactly uncommon for people with mutually intelligible speech to look at themselves as an ingroup.
True. It seems Masaman makes these "mistakes" for political reasons.
Germanic and Slavic languages are separated by thousands of years. Proto-Germanic dates from 1000 B.C. while Proto-Slavic hails from the 800 A.D. They are not that related if you compare Germanic languages with Celtic and Romance languages.
@@garlandstrife The Speech of 100 AD can be considered a late version of Proto-Germanic, it depends on how many sound shifts you require before it becomes truly Proto-Germanic. As for the degree of affinity to other IE families, Germanic and Slavic are much closer related to each other than many branches such as Anatolian, Tocharian, Indic, Iranic, etc. Do you have some recommended sources for Germanic being closer to Celtic and Romance than to Slavic? For a long time Ive been looking for a comprehensive discussion of the evolutions of "Classical PIE" into its daughter branches. From my understanding though Germanic has very archaic loanwords that can best be explained as loans from Proto-Balto-Slavic indicating an affinity.
@@arminius-6339 Possibly but I think its just peoples' tendency to take on simplified versions of new knowledge and overlook nuance because the shear volume of information can be overwhelming. 10 years ago I was making many of the same oversimplifications Masaman makes. I still have a lot of respect for him having the balls to talk about this stuff and enough courtesy to present it as neutrally as he does even if its not perfect.
@@wadestoss3325 While I don't have formal sources in hand, I'll search for them and share them with you.
Germanic, Celtic and Romance are closer due to geographical proximity as well as historical contact between the three during different periods. The first proto-IE speakers that arrived to Central Europe were the direct ancestors of the three of them. Whereas Balto-Slavic was far from that Urheimat, they remained in the Pontic-Caspian steppe.
The proto-IE speakers that went north are theorized to have assimilated an unknown substrate language of a pre Indo-European population that was endemic of the Baltic Sea coast and the Scandinavian peninsula, after that proto-Germanic came to be. Thus Germanic languages have features and vocabulary that are not found in other Indo-European languages.
Balto-Slavic on the other hand was heavily conservative up until it was diversified thousands of years after the Germanic languages and families were already developed. There's almost a thousand year development gap between Germanic and Slavic languages, not to mention the geographical distance and lack of contact both populations had prior to the Middle Ages.
The first contact between the Balto-Slavic populations and Germanic speakers was long after the Barbarian invasions. The Germanic vocabulary found in those languages was from that later contact. The Slavic expansion was westward to the lands vacated by the East Germanic tribes.
The words that have a prior affinity are certainly from Proto-IE and not from any contact prior to the Middle Ages.
Other thing to consider is that Germanic and Romance languages are centum languages, while Balto-Slavic are satem languages. This is a clear evidence of their historical and geographical distance.
If you analyze the vocabulary of Romance, Celtic, Germanic and Balto-Slavic, chances are the first three are more similar than the latter. Balto-Slavic have almost all the original IE cases, whereas the other families have simplified their grammar over the centuries due to an earlier development and differentiation.
Personally, I think it's easier for a Germanic speaker to learn a Romance language than a Slavic one. Romance speakers also have an easier time learning a Germanic language than Slavic. Slavic speakers could learn both easier because they have a much complex grammar and their languages are closer to what proto-IE was like.
This is great! So much information here I'll be coming back at least one more watch there's such a lot of detail here. For me, your best video yet. Cheers, Rafe
You forgot to mention the Bernese dialect of Swiss German still spoken among the Swiss Amish of Berne Indiana (anabaptist history can be a little confusing if you are reading the same sources I do).
The picture of an open buggy being pulled by the horse in the video, that's them.
Great Video!
I live by there!
I'm from Bern (Switzerland) and I speak the Bernese dialect, might be interesting if I'd be able to understand the Swiss Amish of Berne Indiana.
@@gurtner9 you should google berne indiana. You will find the clock tower interesting.
Respect to Germany from Hungary.
I'm hungary for German food.
Respekt back the hungarys invasion in the 9./10. Century and the battle on lechfeld 955 has foundet the german kingdom and has make your publik to an modern european publik . And the hungarian girls wow.
@@motorhorst1631 Greetings. Sorry it took so long to respond. I just saw the notification. But we were allies in 2 World Wars.
I am 50/50 german and hungarian so Respect back ma brotha :D
Typical
Loved your video but I'm afraid my feeble mind will not retain all of this unless I watch this every day for the rest of my life.
You have incredible control of The English Language as it is at this time in History. Thanks for all your work on this and I have saved this video under "Refer Back To" Heading.
My favorite German subgroup is jagerschnitzel!
My iss wiener schnitzel
Can we have ethnic origins of the English and are they more germanic or celtic
NEO CON WAR HAWK More inbred.
Roman
@@geminix365 ethnic not linguistic
Celts and germanics are ethnicly the same
@@herraugenkrebs5626 no they are not.
I had always been told when growing up that all those last names in Spain- Rodriguez, etc, were somehow Jewish- can you clear this up/ site correct sources so that I may correct anyone who still thinks this? Thank you.
They're not anyhow Jewish, you'll have to be more specific tough. There's many last-names from Germanic origin that only were used by Jews, yes, but most of the last-names used by Ashkenazim and Sephardi people are common among gentiles too.
If you have any doubts about certain last-names you'll have to get genealogy/last-names books (easily found in archive.org) and check there, that way you can find one who may have Jewish roots (or any other root really)
m tosta Jewish communities around Europe took local surnames. So no, most Spanish last names are of Latin or German stock, mostly Latin.
There are many Spanish last names that have been used by Jewish communities. Peres or Perez for example.
@@Roca005 Yeah as I said in my comment above very specific last-names were only used by Jewish people and still these names were of, as you said. Germanic/Latin roots.
Rodriguez is Son of Rodrigo/Es de Rodrigo and Rodrigo is a spanish of Roderich. Many spanish jewish coverts to catholicism took old christian names to distance themselves from their jewish origins.
Rodriguez means “son of Rodrigo” with Rodrigo coming from the Visigothic/Germanic name “Roderick” or “Roderic.”
This is a "power-packed" trove of information. It will take me several viewings to absorb all the information. Well done!
Hello laureen! How are you doing? I hope you are fine and staying safe?
I didn't intend to watch this video now, it just opened as I wanted to click away the notification. But another excellent episode, thanks Masaman!
Me, I was born in Hungary in 1955, of an Austrian father, his father being an Austrian living in Hungary, and a Hungarian mother.
Love and regards to my German brothers from Croatia 🇭🇷❤️🇩🇪
Promijeni ime :)
Sebiaaaaa my brothaaa
I like your videos Masaman big love from Tunisia
Concise and packed with historical detail. Cheers!
Proud of my Germanic ancestors I knew I was German however I didnt know I was half German until I took a DNA test My father is from the phillipines and he has German blood and my mother is from Guatemala with German and Italian blood.
Germanic not German
Even in South Africa researchers agree that in the mid 1700s 40% of the Dutch settlers and pioneers were actually from German descent.
Very good video you explained that so good!
Greetings from the germanic Slovenia.
Proud to be German!! 😘💕🇩🇪
German woman 😘
German girls are hot
Germanic and German are two different things
@@SCrEenNaMe-i9h German ethnicity emerged in medieval times among the descendants of the Romanized Germanic peoples in the area of modern western Germany, between the Rhine and Elbe rivers, particularly the Franks, Frisians, Saxons, Thuringii, Alemanni and Baiuvarii.
@@SCrEenNaMe-i9htherefore modern Germans are descendants of Germanic people or tribes
AMAZING! Absolutely love these independent history channels. I'v always wondered about this particular topic and you put it together beautifully. Thanx again.
I come from South Germany. The neares small river to my village is called Rems. Its a celtic name.
Frankish is also the ancestor of Dutch. Frankish died out in France/Gaul, but not in The Netherlands/Holland and northern Belgium (where it originated - it originated in those areas).
There are Frankish dialects in Germany too.
skellagyook Luxemburgisch is probably successor Language of Frankish. I am from Germany and i can understand them.
@@S4NY4RKuRDBoZZ Luxemburgisch is from Frankish, but so is Dutch. Dutch is descended from Old Franconian (a.k.a. Frankish) and Frankish evolved into Old Dutch.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankish_language
(Also see the "Franconian languages" section at link above.)
@@S4NY4RKuRDBoZZ So, as explained in the article linked in my last comment above (in the "Franconian languages" section), Frankish split into three branches. One evolved into Dutch, another evolved into Limburgish and Luxemburgisch, and another likely evolved into the Ripuarian dialects (spoken in a region of Germany).
@@S4NY4RKuRDBoZZ Yes, it might be the closest modern descendant of the original language of the Franks.
Perhaps rare to hear from an Englishman, but I love the German people.
Time to play the German patriotic music
If you are thinking of the German national anthem; that is actually Austrian. (Haydn String Quartet No. 62, 2nd movement)
@@BennoWitter Just the tune.
August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben wrote the Deutschlandlied !
@@calo-kg2cy But the melody is taken from an old Croatian folk song :)
@@ajmedosadno8131 Even back then remixing and covering was a thing
"Die Fahne Hoch"
New York Germans, specifically from the Mohawk valley and the Bavarians.
Love to learn more about the history of Fernans in Romania, the Saxon Germans.
Loved thus post, very informative and well researched. Thank you.
What happened to the Jutes in Denmark?
Are the Jutes Geats???
Were the Geats Vikings??
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The best theory of the Geats of Beowulf is that they were the people of Gotland, the island in the baltic. In Beowulf they are often referred to as "Weather Geats" which referes to the unique Gotlandish (Gutnish) word for ram. Sheepherding has also always been very important on the island and a ram is in their flag that goes back to at least the 16th century. The Gotland theory also fits together the travel times the best. And also fits archeological evidence. Bo Gräslund is the professor that launched this theory. I cant find any translation of his paper now, unfortunately.
The Jutes are still there, only, in Scandinavian languages it is spelled "Jylland".
As for "vikings". Well, boat culture in Scandinavia is ancient, even back in the Nordic Bronze age, 3700 years ago, the most depicted motif was the ship. And we have ship burials, so called "stone settings" that go back 3000 years, as Tjelvars Grave on Gotland. Beowulf is late migration era, early Vendel era, and long distance traders were already being buried in boats then. During the Viking age, the Geats/Gutes/Gotlanders developed into a merchant republic. So they might have done a bit of raiding but were such successful merchants so that was the part of being a viking they concentrated on.
The jutes (correctly pronounced yoots) as well as the angles survived mostly in England, as they were assimilated by north germanic and somewhat west slavic peoples by the end of the dark ages (~500-1000)
@@celtofcanaanesurix2245 Do you guys don't think that the people living in Jutland today are the original jutes?
@@martinan22 My great grandfather was from Haderslev in South Denmark and my Grandfather from Nykobing S . I did try to return to my family via immigration back to Denmark but unfortunately Denmark prohibits families returning to their roots . They told me to sign up as a refugee . Other countries do accept a return on the grounds of parents or recent ancestry . Sad .
It was always my understanding that the song, _Deutschland über alles,_ wasn’t about total German hegemony but telling Germans that their solidarity for the German federation should take precedent over their solidarity towards any of the various German local provinces.
Thats not only your understanding. Thats the purpose of the song.
To unite all german states into one Germany above all.
@R G If you take the song as a whole, you cant read it two ways.
The song defines the borders of Germany as the rivers Etsch (border between Italy and Germany), Maas(border between France and Germany), Memel (border between Lithuania and Germany) and the Belt (border between Denmark and Germany.
Those were also roughly the actual borders of german speaking areas at the time of the songs creation.
So expanding is clearly not the purpose of the song.
It also mentiones unity, rights and freedom in the third stanza.
You can only read it two ways, if you take the first line completely out of context.
But you can read most things in multiple ways, if you take them out of context.
And only the nazis (deliberately) misinterpreted the song, or the first line rather. And often left out the (second) and third stanza, as it clarifies the peaceful nature of the song.
@R G The Allied took it out of context.
@R G So you say. But we’ve just told you the lyrics meant something different from what you’ve been told.
@R G Yes, the Nazis deliberatly misinterpreted the songs meaning to support their ideology. But thats not the songs fault in my opinion.
As an Italian American I wish to one day visit Germany!
*"This is Germany"* : ua-cam.com/video/ZbTn9G4bhOQ/v-deo.html
I THINK YOU GET FLASHBACKS DONT VISIT TEUTOBURG
Characteristically interesting and informative, my friend - thanks!
Well done, this is a concise yet detailed historical review. As a physician with 49 years of clinical experience I can tell you that many people, far younger than I, find the background music makes hearing the commentary an irritating/aggravating experience. Certainly this practice is not new with you. Actually it's pandemic, often causing sufficient irritation that we frequently abandon the project prematurely. Which regretfully, I just have. Thomas F. Fredrick
I'd love to hear more about the Amish and "Pennsylvania Dutch". Please clear up all of this confusion.
Basically, Amish and Mennonites, originally from Pennsylvania, are Pennsylvania Dutch. As are many from the old German Reformed Church, Protestants, who came from 'Germany' in the 1700's. It is a quite bit more than this, but it is what I learned growing up on a farm in South Central PA to German and Scot ancestors. As well as French by way of the Religion Wars in France, fleeing to Germany, then making way to America.
So Amish are/were Pennsylvania Dutch, but not all Pennsylvania Dutch are/were Amish.
@u.s old glory Bethlehem is nowhere near Lancaster. 80 miles or so is not so close when your talking about a densely populated area like Southeastern PA.
Basically, the Pennsylvania Dutch came from the Rhineland region of Germany in the late 1600s and early 1700s. They settled in east Germany and during the American Revolution, Pennsylvania had one of the highest German populations in the colonies. “Dutch” is an anglicized form of “Deutsch.” They aren’t actually Dutch. Their language actually comes from the Palatine German dialect.
@@skeleton2082 Mason said the Amish were as actually Swiss and Mennonites were Prussian. However, both of those groups are subsets of PA Dutch. I don't think they simply came from the Rhineland.
@@jonathanwapner6262 Of course, they didn't all come from the Rhineland but most did. Mennonites weren't from Prussia, most came from the Rhineland and the Southwest.
Love GERMANIA
From Kurdistan
I am from Germany
Kurdistan is not country fucking idiot fool yourself
@@ottomanmapper3502 ahahahah sakin ol la
@Lukas Schmitt thanks brother
@Lukas Schmitt shut up never! Its Turkish land
German-Russians is an interesting 'subgroup' that I've recently been trying to find research on. Due in part growing up being told I was Hungarian/Polish, yet everyone spoke Russian and German [too]. So when I did the crazed dna testing and found out I was more German with many coming from Russia it all made sense.. yet still doesn't since now I have more questions & no one to answer them lol.
So that would be a great topic to touch on.. for me, or any other Rus/Germans out there.
Thank you for your videos & all the research and details you put into them! :)
If you are interested in German-Russians, check out the channel "Jonathan Pohl". He knows all kinds of stuff, and more.
I'm of partial German ancestry myself and the community in Canada my German ancestors helped build under the auspices of the Benedictines attracted a fair amount of Germans from the Russian Empire. The most famous German group in Russia are the Volga Germans. Germans settled all over Russia though. There were German communities in the Caucasus and even Anatolia! Many Germans also settled in Kazakhstan.
@@Mothman156 - "Jonathan Pohl" is a historian and has an channel here on YT. He knows more than a little bit on these things.
Many who identify as Russians in Germany are actually Russian-Germans and therefore true Germans. Some are mixed but not all since in Russia the Germans used to life among themselves in basically purely German villages. Atleast at the beginning. This is how much I know since I am a Russian-German myself and my mother and grandmother have told me this. Pretty much all of my cousins are mixed now only my parents happened to be both Russian-Germans making me in fact pure German. But even though being ethnic German many Russian-Germans including my family have strongly been influenced by the Russian culture and still speak Russian at home.
@@elbuggo I will check him out. Thanks for the heads up. Being predominantly Anglo-Saxon I'm some what disconnected from my German roots.
A.D. 1050: * multiple unique european tribes *
A.D. 2020: white people
@@Francis35288 Except for all the celts.
There's lots of white diversity. Am I misunderstanding you?
For example the Finnish are white and they aren't even Indo-European. It's from arctic climates. That said Indo-Europeans aren't always white even though they're genetically close like the Hindi who can be as black as Africans.
@@lingvemulo Yakuts, Evenks, Tungus and Samoyeds
are considered to be Arctic race in Russia, but they are not white. Climate does not change human anthropology, this is a fallacy.
North Asians (Siberians) are also not white, except descendants of Russian cossacks, colonists and communists, like me.
@@Кристина_Шульц Given enough time,- and if the vitamin D deficiency is present, whiter skin will emerge in dark habitats.
@@Кристина_Шульц Communism is an important distinction in biology? Anyways you're flat wrong I can't even believe I'm taking time to respond to this.
Excellent video. Thanks for making it.
History forgets the German tribes in North Africa which assimilated into the Berbers!
it is about Germany but not the germanic peoples!
@Georgios Alencar Chardavellas So you have Iranian blood. Alans were Iranians.
Alans were Iranians.
the Vandals, a very interesting and unique tribe/people who migrated there as whole. The Berbers are indeed most likely descended from there.
@@amestrismehrdadi7959 we are all indo-aryans
There are also still German communities in Siberia.
communists*
Mustafa Alam They have been deported there by Stalin. They are descendants of the Volga, Black Sea Germans and others.
@JeremyS I saw a documentary about a German village in Siberia. They taught the kids in German. They were living in a place in Siberia where there was no water, they needed water trucks half the year. So probably deported Germans got the worst land. But made the most of it. Some had gone back to Germany but did not like it and returned to Siberia.
Gulag communities
There are a lot of Germans in Russia. They've settled there since 18th century. Volga Germans were deported and given land in more eastern regions when Nazis invaded in 1941. They were not sent to gulags like many think. Although, nowadays few of them really speak German and most of them intermixed with the local population, but many still follow German religious traditions or have German first names
Dude at 4:05 you switched the Visigoths with the Ostrogoths.
You're right. He did.
Honestly, he does such a great job, I didn't even notice until you mentioned it.
@@mkyker i wasnt watching the video, just hearing it, so i was like, bugged out, had to rewind the video to be sure. xD
I'm Argentinian but the grand parents of my grand parents came from the Hunrück region in Rhine Province (Germany). They havent any Frankish roots, originaly they were of Saxon ancestry from Westphalia accourding to official documents of a local church in Cologne.
I hope someday I can visit those places where my ancestors came from.
it is Hunsrück.
@@markmeloni2388he’s argentinian bruh 🫠
Thank you Mason very informative video.
Good stuff. Subgroup would have to be the Saxons. How they evolved from Saxony to dominate the population mix of England is a story I haven’t heard
I mean "dominate" is a bit of a over statement
They didn't even really fight the local Celts and SMALL Latin population there once they conquered the land and when I say small I mean MICROSCOPIC small these 3 groups and later Normans from Normandy all assimilated with each other to create what we now consider to be "english"
Saxony was a colony of Lower saxony
The Romano-"Britons" were mostly displaced Gauls that the Romans had moved to the isles to govern the Germanic population which existed there prior, so yes those people were probably a bit soft from Rome's cocoon but in addition to that, the pre-existing Germanic population likely put up very little resistance to their Germanic relatives as it was mostly just a change of overlords for them despite the few hundred years spent under Roman/Gaelic rule.
newb mann I mean dominate in that we don’t call folk with English backgrounds “Anglo-Norman” or “Anglo-Briton”, or “Anglo-Dane”.
Charlie Read The prominence of the Frisian gene and other “Germanic” genes in isolated rural communities is evidence enough that at least some of the previous inhabitants were Germanic. There were also reclamation laws from anglo-saxon rulers which took property from the people that the romans had brought in from Gaul and “returned” it their germanic cousins that lived there before the Roman conquest. The isles used to be connected to the rest of europe by an area called Doggerland. This area connected the isles to the Germanic areas of Europe, but this marshland sank at some point (can’t remember when exactly). So, the original inhabitants almost definitely were not celtic, but because they were somewhat removed from other germanic populations, it might be better to just call them Brythonic (as a sort of subgroup of Germanic) or something. Just not Celtic... i think the term celtic really shouldn’t be used at all. It’s been a shitty term since it’s invention in the 1600’s and has mostly been used for propaganda and fantasy since then. It is somewhat useful in linguistics but could be replaced rather easily.
I'm glad you mentioned that there remains a certain celtic influence and awareness of that past in Austria. My dad has taught me about the celtic roots of the names of local towns and small streams. He was always very proud of our regions celtic past and even referred to himself as celtic which... questionable. I thought for a long time he's just really into brave heart because I believed celtic is basically synonymous to Scottish 😂
My grandparents taught me too. They taught me their old celtic traditions and history too, showed me ancient ruins, and said we are Celtic, originally. He wasn't pulling your leg. It's very common in that entire region he speaks of in the video, especially in the mountains. My dad's hometown they've since found celtic fortifications and artefacts that are 9000 years old. Exactly like my grandmother heard from her grandmother, etc etc.
Glad to hear that, many people forget about the Celtic past of Switzerland, Austria and Germany
Celtic is not synonymous.with Scottish, scots are one of the Celtic ethnic groups the same with Irish, Welsh and Breton
Pretty sure Celts and Germanic peoples are the ancestors of Northern Italian people.
Bro celtic were everywhere in Europe only Today they are mostly Irish but they were all in Continental Europe in the Bronze age and classical age
a correction: pennsylvania dutch is not influenced by swiss german, it's a variant of the palatine dialect, which is franconian, as opposed to the alemannic swiss german dialect.
This is where it can be a little confusing, there are Anabaptists(amish, mennonites) who lived in the palatinate region of Germany. The Swiss German Anabaptists would occasionally flee to this region in small numbers. It's not clear to me whether they are of Swiss German stock wholly or not from my research.
The Pennsylvania Dutch, are indeed a entirely separate people group and are not Anabaptists at all. They are Lutheran and immigrated from the palatinate.
Did you ever hear about the amish who was excommunicated?
Two mennonite.
@@iamnotanumberiamafreeman2021 from what i know, following the expulsion from switzerland many anabaptists first found refuge in alsace, then in the palatinate in the early 18th century and then along with many other protestants from the palatinate went on to emigrate to north america.
@@iamnotanumberiamafreeman2021..... AND its actually worse than that as since the end of WWII those amish who have immigrated into the US from Eastern Europe had been part of the Volga Deutsch community who also speak Palatinate-Deutsch from the early 1700s, still understandable by those in the Palatinate and (Northern) Bavaria.
Very confusing since most 'Germans' of today have a very poor understanding of exactly what is Germany. Germans are focused on their STATE, not their country.
FWIW .... during the 1970s the German Shoe Company ADIDAS conducted manufacturing in Kutztown, Pennsylvania (west of the city of Allentown) because the dialect spoken there since the late 1600s was completely understandable by those in the German headquarters of Adidas in Herzogenaurach (Northern Bavaria).
@Masaman This is really interesting. Lot's of info in a short amount of time. I love it
There's a lot of Germans who settled in the Americas but here in the United States perhaps among the most infamous are the Hessians who were hired as mercenaries on behalf of the British. After the war concluded, roughly half of those who survived chose to stay and became American citizens. And several sons and grandsons of these German soldiers went on to fight the British in the War of 1812 with unconfirmed stories about these descendants using the same muskets given to their fathers & grandfathers by the British during the Revolution.
Where I live in MIchigan, Amish and Mennonites have given up the anti-technology lifestyle. They drive cars, eat at restaurants, buy processed foods, run stores, etc. The only thing that really separates them these days is the dress, where they live, language and keeping to their brand of Christianity (ideologically anyway). I think the trend of young people leaving prompted them to modify their expectations. Otherwise, they risk dying off.
Sad.
Greetings from Brasil, i am half germanic with portuguese and a little of native. In my city we have Oktoberfest and a lot german traditions. Shame that my father never taught me nothing of german...
Brasileiro aqui também de Minas.
SAS: Scandinavia has no culture
Others: They are literary the fathers of many European people
Drágoz 1994 yup, Sweden as a whole needs less men like their SAS, and more men like the other SAS, before it is too late, if it isn't already.
Welcome to the year
20XX where nothing makes sense everything is subjective and people dont know the difcrence between 229E and Covid 19
As someone who has recently had 229E and had to explain to people why I missed work for a few days.
The SECOND I bring up its in the family coronavireadea they screamed get away from me.
Then I have to explain everything once again.
@@Newbmann probably in part due to the media calling it COVID-19 instead of something that people will understand or rember. The virus is officially named SARS-COV-2, people would understand SARS-2 and act accordingly. Wuhan flu or bat flu would also work
@@AutismIsUnstoppable I mean Wuhan cold would probably be most understandable since well just like the Spanish flu was first Reported in Spain and is closely related to the flu this was first reported in Wuhan and is closely related to the cold.
keep in mind closely related does not mean close in terms of severity this is MUCH worse than the cold but still closely related.
Its almost like they dont care weather or not they might over complicate it in the history books.
And the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Afrikaners in South Africa etc. Germanic culture has spread far and wide.
Another great video
*Thank you for your history lesson Masaman! very interesting and very true.*
Before I watch this: Tollense Valley. Will there be any mention? (as it spoils all established, German historical narratives)
Thank you! I find your treatment of German ethnicity interesting. According to notes with my Y-dna report I'm R1B - U106 which was part of the Indo-European migration with a focus in Frisia. I noticed your charts broke out Frisia and you referenced it as the source for Old English. It seems to be part of the Netherlands now.
Frisia is actually less defined by borders, but rather by the Frisian people. "Friesland" is in fact in the Netherlands, however in North & Northwest Germany there are also the provinces Ost (East)-Friesland and Nord (North)-Friesland, so its basically spread out over the North sea coastline from amsterdam to the danish border.
UA-cam:'die Zuversicht' mit "Die grösste Verschwörung der Geschichte"/// Vielleicht interessiert es sie ja.
Thank you, my great grandfather came from Germany, I’m not sure the exact location in 1880. Have always found information about Germany interesting.
nice video man
Mason, you are on fire with your recent vids. The Germans in South America is another video of yours which was fascinating. Have you got more German stories for South America?
Hi Masaman, I have seen about 30 videos from you and I like your work.
One complaint: please stop using the map about Empire of Attila (on 3:22), it's historically inaccurate and simply wrong in northern parts.
I'm part German so I found this pretty interesting. We got a lot of Mennonites and Amish around here in the Missouri Ozarks. I've got a lot of respect for the Amish. They are pretty fair in their business dealings and take care of the environment instead of destroying it. I've sold them a lot of logs and they always pay better than anyone else around here. They still speak the old language amongst themselves. On the other hand I have no respect for a lot of the Mennonites.
They don't practice what they preach, treat their women badly and many are scandalous in business.
I'd be interested in learning more about the Alamanni -- my ancestors came from that area.
Whereabouts did your ancestors come from? What Do you want to know? I am not too familiar with ancient Alamanni history, but maybe I can help a bit.
@@Krakenwerfer My great-grandfather came from Haslach, Oberkirch, Baden. SW Germany close to France and Switzerland.
Ah, Oberkirch is quite close to me. My aunt lives there.
@@Krakenwerfer My brother went there several times to trace family. I've found we're related to Graf family members who still live in that area.
Nice video!
This was an informative video that I have exactly been looking for
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My first comment
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welcome to this mess!
This is not a travel guide/guidebook
This was surprisingly accurate and comprehensive - couldn't have put it better myself.
In a lot of places scattered across the region sometimes referred to as Germania Slavica there is tons of naming anomalies in some cases even rooting back to celtic (basically whoever ruled would coin existing names of landmarks and cities into their respective language or dialect and with shifting rulers names would change quite frequently over the centuries).
Now I will say that Germans are mostly a celto-germanic mix really with a noticable disparity between men and women - women generally more germanic and men more celtic in origin (not to mention the Czech who are on average more germanic in ancestry than Germans).
As for myself being from Saxony I find it a bit odd how the Slavic past is sometimes swept under the rug while it is clearly part of our identity here and I'm looking into learning the Sorb language eventually given that I have family ties there. The Slavic Elba migration that triggered the brief period of Slavic dominance in now eastern Germany is definitely a fundamental part of Eastern German identity and in my opinion the most accurate term for Germans living in most of political eastern Germany nowadays (or ppl who descended from there) is "Wendendeutsche" given that it's historically accomodating and inclusive. This does not include Thuringians that much - they did have a massive influence on now Saxony tho and we share their German dialect for that matter (the Saxon dialect is technically a Thuringian dialect or sometimes referred to as "Easyerlandian"). Thuringians however are among the predominantly celto-germanic peoples and while they are for political/historical reasons classified as east Germans too they are for the most part not "Wendendeutsche" but rather closer affiliated with the Frankonians. However the "Wendland" region in nether Saxony and East-Holstein in Schleswig-Holstein while not technically "east-German" are part of the "Wendendeutsche"-Realm.
I hope that in the future we will become more invested with the Slavic impact here again and pronounce it more as part of our identity (because it is part of it obviously) and simultaneously the Czech may become more invested in their celto-germanic rooting too.
Poland is a whole other story tho and a completely different realm of essentially "Polendeutschen".
It would be cool to see how much Celtic and Slavic admixture is in each region, especially in Westphalia and Bavaria where my 1/4 german comes from
Celt of Canaan Esurix hard Tomas’s. Westphalia has changed extremely, since your family left Germany. Today, we have so many people from Turkey, Syria and other Arabian countries.
lieberfreialsgleich yes I know that, especially considering my Westphalian great grandfather left in the 1900s before ww1, and my German ancestors from Bavaria and Baden-wutemburg left in the 17-1800s
@@lieberfreialsgleich naund ich komm aus Syrien und hör alle 2 Tage Das Palästinalied hahahhaah
@@Pegasuswurdeverkauftanalle wir werden euch schon noch los
@@dionysus8967 du wirst garnix los. Den ich bin deutscher aufm Papier. Was willst du machen? Aria test 2.0 😂😂😂 selbst den würd ich bestehen, weil die dummen Nazis net gecheckt haben das Aria Iraner, Kurden und Armenier sind
Great listen, thank you!
I enjoyed your video. It's been many decades since I took the Culture and History class as a German Major at university. Thank you for the memories.
I am tri racial, my grandmother comes from an Indian temple built by a Shiva avatar in Thailand, originally known as Vimana Pura(Sanskrit), modern day Phi Mai, Thailand. Also I'm Irish, black Irish and Sicilian. This is what led me to watch your videos and learn my roots.
Keep up the good work, Masaman. You're doing Gods work and telling his story, thank you for inspiring me to learn about my ancestry and history. You have always been my favorite UA-cam channel.
My parents immigrated from Germany. My mom is Bavarian with some Austrian ancestors and my dad is Westphalian with some Austrian and East Prussian ancestors. My haplogroup is R1a, which I think comes from East Prussia, through my dad really can’t trace his ancestry beyond his grandparents. I’m 40% East European according to 23andMe so I’m wondering if in the eastern fringes of formerly German-speaking territory the process was one of assimilation and culture transfer more so than replacement. The Bavarians interest me most. For some reason they think they are different from and better than other Germans. My mom’s side of the family all say they are Bavarian before they are German. I can’t because I’m only half Bavarian and my dad is Prussian.
Bavarians are some strange odd people ! they think a lot but the do a little to prove it. their strange odd and strong identity is somehow an ideology to help them believe they are one united people, despite the fact that this region of Germany is heavily mixed and non-consistent by no means, their language is somehow italian with germanic with turkic with slavic with french expressions sand accents. so they need this identity otherwise they may kill each other!
Hinweis: I live near Munich
@@user-lb8du4dl3o That would make sense. They also heavily identify with Tyrolean Austrians.
Tim Salter they have such a serious problem, if you meet one of them he will try the whole day convince you that they are the original germans, they even try to mock their northern part of Bavaria namely Franconia and they show unrest talking about their dialect and life style, so you can notice that such attitude carries an underlying „germanic“ problem. And this word „germanic“ will always be touchy for them, even if they don’t say it, it also good to note that the nazi ideology was never a prussian idea, it has all started from upper Bavaria out of their internal instability, and their fear of rejection from the truly „germanic“ part of Germany! Their catholic affinity plays a role also , and in that respect they would prefer France to northern Germany, which is quite odd if you observe the german history as a whole!
@@user-lb8du4dl3o Wow. I had no idea. I spent lots of time in Oberbayern. My mom's side of the family has lots of people that speak the full on Bavarian dialect (which I don't like) while my dad who is from Westfalen tries to sound Bayrisch. I think some of them didn't originally like the idea that my mom married a Preuss, and of course certainly not that he took her to America. I never heard my mom's side of the family refer to themselves as Germanisch, but instead they have said they are "halbe Roemer." Indeed, Hitler was from Braunau, Oesterreich and began his political activity in Germany in Bayern. Bayer also seem more conservative than the rest of Deutschland. I'm an American with dual citizenship with two German-born parents and I would never identify as Bayrisch. Ich scheiss darauf.
@@TJSakowski Look if you ignore their ugly dialect (which is strange mix of everything around them) and if you tolerate their high noses, and their peasant's and harsh country-side's culture, you can still have a good time in Bayern!, but be careful about the "germanic" stuff, these things can cause unrest, I mean despite the fact that they are "relatively" conservative they can tolerate any shity foreigner before they can give a nice face to someone from the north! Persons from the eastern part of Germany are totally different drama here!. Austria is the same, but they are shy to show connection to Bavaria, in order to keep themselves away from the nazi-stuff!
The US-things here are a general german problem, not limited to Bavaria, they will never save an effort to put Americans down, your smallest errors will be seen here as major and they will be magnified to a level that they will forget that they have just the same problems and more!
The Germans certainly have a very interesting history
The Germanic people are descended from the Scythians [Saka]. The Scythians populated land as far east as central and east Asia and lands as far west as Spain [Gothalonia]. The Goths are explicitly mentioned as Scythians by Greek ethnographers.
In the 'Oera Linda' book, the Germanic people fled from a great deluge which was flooding their land. In this text, Germany is called "Twissland" which means "between land", "Twissland" paramutated into 'Teuchland' and then to 'Deutschland'. In the Oera Linda text, it is said that the Germanic people are descended from Freya (The free one) and that they liberated the Slavonic people from tyrannical princes and priests whom enthralled them. Herodotus calls the Saka Tartarians "Atalanteans". The Tartarian empire was a decentralized state as were most of the Germanic and or Scythian states.
The Saka (Scythians) are an ethno cultural nexus. Proto Germanic and Proto Iranic are very similar languages, almost the same language. The Sarmatians, Bulgars, Alans [*Arons], Goths, Huns etc all carried Saka culture and haplogtoups with them when they migrated. Grailic culture for example [Arthurian mythos] was introduced by the Saka. In fact, 'Sakson' comes from "Saka son". Iranic and Germanic peoples are so similar that during WWII, Iranic people were exempt from the Nuremburg purity laws as they were seen as a similar people.
This is just pseudohistory. What are your sources?
What happened to the germans living un the Soviet Union after WwII? Thanks for the video
Raped and brainwashed.
Some where "stalinized" like basically every minority, the others started to leave Russia in droves after the iron curtain fell. Many German-Germans see them as weirdos as they have to some degree preserved the "Germany" of 1800.
Genocided
No there are still some small Communities in russia.
A lot of them were "resettled" in the Sowjetunion, like the Wolgadeutschen. They were scattered over Siberia and mostly northern Kazhakstan. In the 1990s about 4 million Russlanddeutsche came back to Germany. For being allowed back I think they had to have at least one German grandparent. But most of them are still mostly of German descent. In public life, they are almost invisible because they assimilated quickly. Despite that success, the press and politicians don't like to talk about them because they are in general more conservative and right-wing than the native Germans.
Both my Spanish last names have Germanic roots, as well as my second name. And I've been fascinated by German history well before I knew about my names.
The Ostrogoths... Visigoth of 🇪🇸. Hail 🇩🇪. Im a Ostrogoth descendant.
visigoths in spain and ostrogoths in italy
Germans one of the most cultured and noble people on earth.Love from Iran.
Masaman, excellent job on a giant subject.
Interesting that the name Rodriguez in Spain is Germanic. That is one of the family names on my father's side. My name is Nunez with a tilde. Supposedly this family has a castle in Spain and coat of arms. My mother is Yoder from Ohio, Slavic German and Mennonite. Thank you for this video. I was born with brown hair and brown eyes. Now my eyes are grey blue. I developed strong red and blonde highlights in my hair and beard. In America our knowledge of our ancestry is suppressed for political reasons obviously.
It derived from the Germanic name "Roderic, Roderik or Roderich" which did later evolve to "Rodrigo" in Spanish. And "Roderic-son" did turn into "Rodriguez"
It's actually quiet funny for me (German) to read and hear old english amd dutch bc by nature I can understand quiet a bit, sometimes even entire sentences and stuff
Also, because I grew up in the sorbian diaspora, I can quiet relate to them. But they're getting heavily assimilated. 120+ years ago german was a minority language in the area. Nowadays a lot is being done to preserve their culture and language but I myself haven't learned sorbian, like my girlfriend did
The subgroup I would love to learn more about are the so-called Chauci (probably derived from a Proto-Germanic word for “Hawk”). However, apart from the assumption they were absorbed into the Franks, Saxons and Frisians, very little is known about them.
Great video
This is a very good video, thank you
They are the most intelligent, productive, civilized, disciplined, inventive, creative, progressive people that ever lived on earth.
Japanese?
@@КИБАРКУБИЦА-с4д the japanese are not inventive, not progressive, not creative like the germans or europeans. The japanese just copied the inventions of the europeans but did not contribute to modern civilization.
@@КИБАРКУБИЦА-с4д everything was invented in Europe. Tell me please the most important japanese inventions. Over 99% of all inventions were made by the europeans and many of those by the germans, the rest of the world didnt invent anything. The car, bycicle, space rocket technology, light bulb, dynamo, telephone and many other were invented by the garmans. The japanese invented sushi :))
@@3dfxvoodoocards6 bro, are you serious? Even gunpowder was invented by the Chinese.
@@КИБАРКУБИЦА-с4д the europeans invend over 99% of all thing we use today. The europeans are only 7% of the worlds population. The europeans ALONE invented modern civilization. Without the europeans the rest of the world would still be in the STONE AGE. The chinse and japanse only copied the european products but did not invent anything except sushi and harakiri.
The Fresians got their name from their Goddess Freya.
The Angles and Saxons were also Freya's people.
Read the Oera Linda.
It's widely known to be a forgery, sorry.
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It is widly assumed to be a forgery, sorry.
I am from Morocco, it is surprising and awesome that once upon a time the Germanics were my neighbors from the north and from the east, in the north there was the Germanic Visgothic state in Iberia and in the east there was the Germanic Vandal state in Tunisia and eastern Algeria, Germanic people have a great history, greetings from an Amazigh Moroccan to the great Germanic warrior people
As a German i have lots of respect for Amazigh people and history. They have always been a brave warrior culture just like Germanic people. Many foreign powers have invaded both the Germanic lands and Amazigh lands for thousands of years, yet our people defended our homelands to the last drops of blood which is why we exist modern day :-) Glory to our ancestors my Amazigh friend.
@@ygnihteci00 Thank you. As an amazigh, i have a lot of respect and love for Germanic people, especially german people.I also have a lot of love for Germany, especially the Germans. They are a great people with a history of proud achievements, a people who have preserved their language and distinct qualities for more than two thousand years despite the conversion to Christianity, a warrior and brave people, a great people who gave birth to the greatest scientists, and the greatest philosophers like Kant and Hegel, and the greatest of musicians, you are a people full of glory, glory to the Germanic people, my Germanic friend :)
@@ygnihteci00 A lot of respect for the country of Einstein, Karl Marx, Beethoven, Neitzsche, Bach, Bismarck, Wagner, Kant, Gauss, Handel, Schopenhauer, Hegel, Von Braun, Leibniz, Heidegger, Handel, Kepler, Hertz, Haber, Ohm, Koch, ect
Dammit man I thank you for your work. It's great
Great vids.
Do the north Senegalese migration path or most likely or most likely for uncontacted tribes in general
I’m from Brazil and I was always told the we where German Pomeranians, which I know is a Slavic people originally but from what I’ve learned they where outnumbered on Pomerania. Can you make a video?
Grettings from Pommerania/Pomorze !
Pomeranian Germans were not Slavic. They were ethnic Germans living in Slavic lands
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There were no so called Germans here till medieval...
Ethnic Germans (?)
Cmon...there is no such a thing...
We are all mixed...
Don't you know that (?)
@@gthomas3609 Wait, what? So all of the Pommeranians pre-1945 were German settlers? That's highly unlikely. Change of ethnic composition almost never is a result of total replacement, it's mostly natives assimilating to dominant culture plus few settlers here and there.
G Thomas It was both and the ones who remained in Poland are called Kashubian now, which is means Pomeranian in Slavic. My grandmother is a more Germanic while my grandfather is slightly more Slavic but both speak the East Germanic dialect that replaced the Slavic Pomeranian after the settlement during the the days of the HRE.
I am Deitsch, my family comes from Eastern, PA, my ancestors, along with many others came from the Pfalz region in the 18th century. Deitsch, or "Fancy Dutch" cukture is still alive and well in PA and Southern NJ.
I would love to see a video on this.
Kannst du das lesen..guten Tag
@@joergfro7149 Ja, ich kann
Love your vidoes but please come up with some cool ancient backgroung music or something that fits whatever people you're talking about not something that sound like a1930's failing radio station.
Nowadays very many historians, archeologists, linguists, geneticists, and anthropologists all have basically completely rejected the “old” Celtic origin hypothesis -- Even though most non-professionals still (quite ignorantly) reference it as a fact. It’s now believed that the Celts originated primarily as an Atlantic Coast Indo-European civilization, which also spread significantly eastward along rivers in continental Western Europe (Gaul & Iberia). I strongly recommend that you watch a few lectures on UA-cam given by Barry Cunliffe -- a famous English🏴 archaeologist/anthropologist/historian who specializes in ancient Celtic civilization. His theory seems much much more plausible than the one you commonly reference in your videos. You will learn a lot! 💪🏻Thanks for the interesting video though 🙏🏻
Alamanni Germans would be a good topic to cover.