More on the Schleswig Wars, 19th Century Denmark, and Germany: Responding to Your Comments

This is a response to your comments on my previous Schleswig Wars video (which you can watch here • The Schleswig Wars and... )
Chapters
0:00 - Introduction
2:47 - How did the Danes retain their identity?
9:51 - Danish culture in Germany & German culture in Denmark
12:08 - German influence on Danish language
13:45 - Danish as a lower language
14:31 - Did Denmark think they could really win the 2nd Schleswig War?
17:14 - Struensee & Christian VII / German cultural superiority
19:13 - The Faroe Islands, Greenland, & the Virgin Islands
20:45 - Pressure for Christian IX to sign the November Constitution
22:04 - Medieval Schleswig-Holstein, Abel & Erik IV
23:44 - 19th Century Geopolitics / Would any country resist a German Denmark?
24:57 - German and Danish immigration to the US
25:43 - The most significant events of 19th century Scandinavia
28:27 - Revolutions of 1848, "The Whole State", and the Austrian Empire
29:56 - Holstein and Lauenburg outside of the whole state
31:09 - Animosity between modern Germans and Danes?
33:15 - Conclusion
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[@mircokunne5168]

My grandma can still speak low German (Plattdeutsch). She was raised with this language and when she came to school she first needed to learn proper high German. I also can still remember how my grand-grandmother was unable to speak high German so my grandmother had to translate. I think that's so interesting that my very close relatives from just some generations ago didn't speak the language I speak now (high German). Well, what I really wanted to say is that my grandma can understand a huge chunk of danish just with her low German skills. I also find that quite interesting. Great videos, keep up the good work!

[@metalmadsen]

Very good video mate.
As a Dane it is nice to se other people around the world getting into our history.
The way you say danish and german Word is not importent - the content is.
And your content is very good.
Keep it up 😊
One of the reason Denmark took on both Prussia and Austria was that we thought that Russia and Great Brittan would help us in the second war, like they did in the first.
We would use our navy and strongholds like Dannevirke, Dybbøl and Fredericia, to keep the enemies at bay, until the great powers would stop the war.

[@haydenarias]

I commented one your first video on this subject, but just needed to confirm what you shared at the end with the graphs on assimilated hispanics, as I myself am a first-generation American of mixed Mexican-Salvadoran heritage. Good comparison. I once heard in a video about Spanish fluency across multiple generations of hispanics that "the US is a graveyard where languages go to die".

[@saxo9266]

I highly recommend you watch the miniseries "1864"made by danish Ole Bornedal to learn more about the danish point of view in the wars, the series has 8 episodes each lasting 60 minutes and has an insane amount of realism and the true horror of the war.

[@TheWazzoGames]

Hey Bradley, I do think you should dive into other historical what ifs that ALMOST occured, as the Danish-German video was absolutely fascinating. Perhaps the potentiality of Denmark joining their northern allies in Sweden-Norway could warrant a video of it's own? Perhaps you could cover another topic? I just find these kind of topics fascinating.

[@defatsvagerumdyr]

11:50 its more simlair grammatically, but has less of the same words

[@paulosteinbock3165]

Meus bisavós vieram de schleswig Holstein em 1882 para o Brasil.

[@olekreiberg]

After these conflicts French tended to be the snobbish language. I have heard a saying that a high class Dane spoke French to his wife, Danish to his servants, and German to his dog. In that order. An anti-German animosity grew after the conflicts which only got strengthened by the German occupation in WW2. But I think the feelings toward Germany are getting more and more normalized as time goes by, and today there is only little animosity if any. Perhaps very old people who lived during the German occupation may have some hard feelings left.

[@agrayday7816]

part of my family fled during the wars in the late 1800s from Schleswig to Nebraska, i am told because there were US organizational efforts to accept fleeing Danes from the area due to the war. beginning in `1864, 50,000 North Slesvigers immigrated to the United States. Ironically, most of these Danes appear in census statistics as immigrants from Germany rather than Denmark. Many used the Homestead Act or other generous land policies to become farmers in the United States. The work of emigration agents, often employed by steamship companies and American railroads with land to sell, and a steady stream of American letters (some containing pre-paid tickets) from earlier immigrants, stimulated the exodus. During the 1870s almost half of all Danish immigrants to the United States traveled in family groups, but by the 1890s family immigration made up only 25 percent of the total. Perhaps more than ten percent of these later immigrants, largely single and male, would eventually return to Denmark.

[@BradleyGearhart]

Extremely informative! Thank you for sharing

[@dantedante839]

Bro, there wasn't a country called Germany back then, that's why. So everything was "German" since nobody had a real idea about it.

[@ErikBramsen]

Denmark holds a quite important strategic spot on the North European chessboard, it's the gatekeeper of the Baltic: own Denmark and you can close in the Baltic - and Russia.
The reason Germany never conquered it, was that the British wouldn't allow them to occupy that gateway.

[@defatsvagerumdyr]

Well they did in ww2

[@erikrungemadsen2081]

Danish culture is the result of a clash between nordic and germanic ideas, just like Sweden is a result of the same process, same process two very unique results, as for Norway I am guessing they have had a similar process perhaps with a greater influense of europes trading nations. As an example Norway most likely recieved the Potato from Dutch traders and not the Swedes or the Danes.
Anti German sentiment is still somewhat strong in parts of Denmark among the elderly, my German sister in law specialised in gerontology but due to the mindset of many of her patients, especially patients with Alzheimers and dementia became very outwards responding to her german accent, she ended up respecialising in pediatric care in stead.

[@theempyrecracy5128]

Danish modern culture is a cl-oh wait.. just sitting on their arses consooming..

[@Jack-yk7gq]

Our language too, is a mix of nordic and germanic/latin. (Protogermanic)