The Zabern Affair
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- A video explaining one of the last big crises in pre-wartime Germany and its consequences.
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Music used:
- Gossec - Triomphe de la République
- Hohenfriedberger Marsch
- Camille Saint-Saëns - Danse Macabre
As mutch as we blame wilhelm, I'd lay blame on Bismarcks Kulturkampf. From what I understood, nationality wasn't as much of an issue for Alsatians as Religion was. Bismarck, by attacking catholicism and demonstrating the german empire a protestant state, alienated the Alsatians, who altough spoke german and were culturally similar to germans, identified with their catholic roots. This led them to appreciate catholic france, aided by the fact that the french 3rd republic was the most catholic and conservative form it had ever been
Bismarck was as backhanded nationalist as they came and it can be argued he and Prussia lay the roots for German fascism 😊
Religion is always omitted in European affairs.
@@rhetoric5173 only on the surface. It is a driving force behind European white morality
What mortality? @@Sport4Life
@@rhetoric5173 dont have to care about it if you didnt wanna look up history because its gotten unpopular after the 2nd world war and american liberalisation of europe
damn bro I can't believe this is your first video, it's so well done that it looks like you've been on youtube for many years
Hey mate, video really appreciated, i liked really much, nice choice of music! Finally someone that got to talk about this, its quite an interesting argoument and the video as i said was very well made, made my YT historical day! Cheers!
I grew up learning very little about this particular bit of history. I knew France was angry they lost land (Who wouldn't be?) but I had no idea how much of an asshat the German Empire was to non-Germans.
This and the Poland video has made me reconsider my somewhat warm adoration of the German Empire, as I used to be into that kind of stuff.
Apart from Wilhelm II's moustache and a cool looking flag (which is sadly becoming a symbol of the far right here in Germany) , the German Empire didn't really have too many things worthy of being praised
@@SirManateee Yeah. I will toss it up to me being a teenager and who was... let's just say not in a good place. A lot has changed and I love learning things that contradicts my previous assertions.
@@SirManateee The only big thing I feel is worthy of praise (though again this is with somewhat rose tinted glasses) is the fact that Germany was created overnight and essentially became the second strongest nation in Europe.
It was only behind UK due to the massive colonies.
But with time I have learned that this superiority was on the back of a lot of bad stuff.
@@SirManateee German imperial architetcure is cool as well. From Strasbourg.
They were a highly efficient industrialised country, one of the largest non-colonial economies in Europe and a scientific and engineering powerhouse, no?
Ngl I've watched your stuff before and only now noticed that you have a small sub count for such amazing videos. I wish it was different for I enjoy these
Rather good. Surprised the algorithms have not pushed your subscriptions more. Hopefully it's getting picked up now.
Very well done video! :D
Holds up.
It really is amazing how the nobility really shit up everything. It truly is the greatest of wisdom that the Russian method of dealing with the nobility is the only proper way.
I wholeheartedly agree
Bolshie alert
@@SirManateee Just for this expression of opinion, I will never watch a single one of your videos again.
Vive la Rhenanie francaise !
I'm the 1000th like
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i love right nationalism
Most people in Alsace were ethnic Germans, but due to the German Empire being so stupidly arrogant, most of these people didn't sympathize very much with Germany.
That and their former history as a french province which eventually made them integrate as frenchmen
@@1000eau the french only become provincial/cultural integration after the lost of alsace lorraine
Wow I didn't know you were alive 110 years ago. And you talked to a majority of the people in one state??? You must be like 450 years old then. Good on you for being so healthy. S/
@@levipierson4946 Ya know, theres something called documented history, you can just write something down and people 100 years from now can read
@@levipierson4946 people of the time that live there writhe about their lifes, the governamental (of both sides) conduct research about the peoples opnions, and historians with time get together many informations about their lifes and the state of alsassse lorraine, so we can have a opinion about that, and yeah, people dont like much the empire in this region, Catholics in general dont like the empire because many reasons
This is amazingly high quality! It’s insane how few subscribers you have considering the quality.
11:30 "The King's skirt".
You mean the King's coat. The expression "des Königs Rock" refers to the military uniform, not to a skirt.
The word "Rock" itself refers to any item of male clothing that extends below the hip. A civilian Rock was a Gehrock, and a military one was a Waffenrock. A more comfortable Rock that was worn only at home, was called a Morgenrock.
This was the first video that popped up when I googled Zabern Affair and it was super good! I'd recommend covering more of these lesser known events to get the google traffic while the channel builds.
"The king's skirt"? That's not a proper translation of "Der Rock des Kaisers".
Eh, Prussians gonna prussian, I guess.
Also, how is your first video already of the same (very high) quality as your latter ones?
There's even an English word that originated after this affair called "Zabernism" and it describes a situation where the military completely misuses and abuses their power.
And I was just trying things out, I was still very much a newby at this point
10:57
hahahah, that oversimple refrerend i do not see coming
Would love more on what life was actually like for people living in A-L. There doesn't seem to be much written about it, but I always wondered in truth whether the A-Lers actually welcomed being in a country which was culturally closer to themselves?
The more I watch this channel the less I like imperial Prussia
Ahh a german empire history youtuber nice
This is amazing, can´t wait to see more content from you!
Very interesting
Found you now. Well finally a german history channel who isnt alt right or ultra left. MrWissen2Go is his own kind. Anyway i like your style and greetings from NRW
@@shamusson yeah but I guess not the ultra left
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Excellent and very informative. Thank you.
How does this only have 8k views! This a really interesting topic that I'd never heard of and the video has been made really well!
14:25 - All Alsacians wanted to be French, so forcing independence on them, after germany just finished killing 1,000,000 Frenchmen over it would be like someone stealing your money, you fighting them back for it and winning, and then saying "maybe the money wants to be yours, though. I'll just leave it in the middle of the table."
You should do a longer video of the history of Alsace. This video implies that the area was much more French than it really was. The Alsatian people were culturally and economically much more connected with German speaking lands. When under French rule without cultural oppression things worked out fairly well. Unfortunately modern France has almost completely eliminated the Alsatian dialect and the Alsatian identity. You should comment on that as well. It is not only your Prussian predecessors that have been nasty toeards these people. My grandmother was from Alsace, was bilingual, but moved to Germany just across the Rhine because of the discrimination against German Alsatians.
History matters sent me here
When did he mention this channel?
@nathanwaterser8218 2 years on but thanks for the answer lol.
well.
I guess you got all the right kind of feedback,
because 3 years later, you're still at it!
for which I thank you.
This is your first video? Pretty good actually for a first video
"The King's skirt"! Shall we blame Google Translate for this nonsense? "Rock" doesn't only mean "skirt". In this case it means a military jacket and the phrase as a whole means "the King's uniform" as a metaphor for the prestige of the military and the power of the state.
Sehr gut!
Amazing this was your first video of this type
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Von Faustner should've been punished and tried.
Great video! Keep it up.
I binged all your videos up until now
Great video
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A good video.
Great video
Hallo
Moin
Greetings from a Brit in Strasbourg
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These old German politicians had great facial hair. Also, the political system Bismarck created was a house of cards that fell with Wilhelm II.
It was a house of concrete where Wilhelm II. descited to play the part of a blindfolded reckingball with phenomenal facial hair.
Yeah as the other bloke stated, it wasn't so fragile, it just took an especially stupid Kaiser to break it apart. If anything the only problem with Bismarck was his absolutist monarchism. The man at the height of his power could have built a more stable constitutional monarchy government, one with a still relevent but non autonomous Kaiser, and not the mutated middle ground solution he settled with. With a parliament built of men who wouldn't alienate Germany to all other relevent European powers out of pettiness and insecurity like the Kaiser managed to.
@@masterofallthelakesintown2472 eh, Bismarck’s diplomacy was built For Bismarck, not an intended political strategy without him
Bismark said he'd kill himself if the germa army took Venina. He bullied and manipulated his king and betrayed all his soilders in threatening such.
@@levipierson4946he got them to keep literally the last european power willing to ally them in WW1 if they did they would’ve made another mortal enemy like they did with France and we already know how that turned out