Trying to lay blame on an entire ethnicity to justify their genocide and expulsion is sick and ridiculous. Your perspective comes from communist propaganda.
I have learned through ancestry research that one of my paternal great grandparents was Greek Catholic living in Spiš before emigrating to USA. Nice to hear some more of the background of the multiculture.
This will be my second time watching this series. Greatly enjoyed! I’m traveling to my ancestral homelands in Spiš this May for the first time, and this is the best guide to Slovakia I have seen so far. I look forward to watching the series again (and “liking” them in turn). Keep up the great work!
Thank you very much for all of your wonderful videos! I enjoy watching them and learning from your travels and research. I am curious if you have any knowledge of the Henckel Von Donnersmarck family. They are of noble German family with ties to the area as far back as the turn of the 14th and 15th centuries. The oldest known member of the family is Henckel de Quintoforoa . All I know is that, and that his 3 sons Peter, Jakob and Nicholas Henckel received a coat of arms from King Sigismund of Luxembourg in 1417. The family has been part of the Austrian and Hungarian nobility since 1593, when Lazar I. Henckel of Donnersmarck (1551-1624) called the Elder provided a large loan to the Imperial Court Chamber in Vienna between 1595 and 1600 for the wars against the Turks and in 1603 participated in the working in the Banská Bystrica copper mines. In Bohemia, the family-owned, for example, Larisch's villa (Castle) in Pardubice, in Silesia the Bohumín manor , where the count's family tomb is also located. I wish to learn more about Quintoforoa, and why his sons were given a coat of arms , etc. I am watching all the videos that I can pertaining to this region and soaking up all the history I can. Hoping to find a mention of them. I have also been researching their history in Silesia. The reason for my great interest is because I am related to this distant line of the Henckel family and I have been studying my genealogy. Thanks for any possible info that may enlighten me in any way.
Yep, that's some twisted logic. The Slovaks collaborated with Hitler, helped to eliminate the local Jews, but then, when they noticed that the Russians were winning, they quickly changed the front and this was a commendable act. Meanwhile, the murdered German children, women and elderly were guilty of "passivity" and therefore deserved death or expulsion because they "did nothing" against Hitler. What were they supposed to do? The Gestapo and the camps did not spare the Germans either. Would we really risk the lives of our own family to fight for something that was beyond our reach anyway? Moreover, the previous generations were brought up differently and had a completely different mentality. Rebellions or demonstrations against authorities were unheard of and reserved for revolutions. Off course, there were some people whose protests could change something (e.g. the Pope), but the claim that in the middle of the war (when draconic laws were in force) ordinary people could change something by manifesting in their local village is absurd. They didn't even think about something like this. Therefore, you cannot judge people from today's perspective, apart from the historical context. Did the Russians do anything against it when the USSR attacked Czechoslovakia or Hungary? Or when it occupied Afghanistan for 10 years and committed terrible crimes? However, no one accuses them of the "crime of passivity" and does not claim that they deserved some terrible fate because they did not oppose the Red Army, the KGB and the Communist Party. Today, almost 90% of Russians agree with Putin's policies. Is this supposed to be a justification for killing them for their passivity? Everyone understands that life in a dictatorship enslaves the mind and will (especially during the greatest war the world has ever seen). Most people want just to survive and have no suicide instinct. But even people not living in a dictatorship, such as the Americans or the British, did nothing when the indigenous peoples of America were robbed, exterminated and confined to reservations, or when hundreds of thousands of people in British Asian and African colonies were robbed and killed. They did nothing for few centuries. The Belgians killed several million inhabitants of the Congo, but no one murders them for it, although to this day they call chocolate from Africa "Belgian chocolate". So justifying the crimes committed against Slovak (and Czech) Germans by saying that they "were not blameless" is more than cynical. This is called reversing the roles and blaming the victims. We criticize past generations and we ourselves apply twisted morality, so we are no different from those we condemn. It is a kind of alternative pseudo-morality, serving particular interests and soothing our consciences. There are always others to blame. I wonder how we would behave if we were in those people's shoes and had their mentality and upbringing. Who among us is protesting in front of the Russian embassy, defending Ukraine, which has been bleeding to death for a second year? We are all passive, not only in this matter, because it is human nature. However, this does not justify the criminals.
Dear Maciek I attended a simply fantastic tour with you around Krakow in September 2023. It’s taken me until now to do the QR code thingy and learn a little more about you via the RU-vid video. To others reading this, I cannot stress how excellent Maciek is as a Tour Guide. Thank you again.
Thanks so much for this video. My grandparents are Zipser Germans who fled to the United States, and I am planning to make a trip to Slovakia this year to see where they lived. I'm really curious about the book by Marta Krafcikova. Do you have any idea where it may be found?
Hello Maciek. Thanks again for the tour in Krakow about a month ago. I learned so much from you and I really enjoyed your style and approach. I was the guy who had grandparents from Galicia, attended a conference at the Jagiellonian Univ, and left the tour a bit early at Wawel. I hope to get back someday and take another tour!
Your videos are so well done, and you’re an amazing host! This channel is a hidden gem. I’m an American with significant Slovak ancestry. I’ve been looking for content like this that really goes beneath the surface level, and you’ve done that SO well. (And I’ll watch your other videos, too - promise.) Best of luck for success and millions of subscribers!
please syria did not "grab" golan it was already theirs it is part of syria not palestine- i am sure the zionists spread this stupid rumors- and jordan did not "grab" west bank it restored an arab land and contrary to a public belief in the west propagated by the zionists jordan did not "occupy" the west bank but rather seized an arab land in a war that land is its subject . finally my father was born and grow up in 1943, west bank and he was not persecuted by jordanians as opposed to palestinians inside isreal who were persecuted at that time so the word "grab" give the impression that there is a foreign invader which is not true the jordanians are not foreigners but the zionists are indeed foreigners
Thank you very much for making this very informative video . I only recently discovered my Great-grandfather was born in a town only 2mi from Trnava in 1851. It was fascinating to see sights that he may have seen. This video was very well put together and extremely interesting.
Andrej Hlinka was a Father of the Slovak Nation. He loved Slovak nation , he was not a fascist. He died before WWII started. He was for Slovak independence from Hungarian and Austrian empire. He suffered a lot and was locked up a lot for his beliefs. Fascists used his name Hlinkova Guard.....to promote Nazism in Slovakia!!!!!....Hlinka would never agree with that if he was alive. In his name they got rid of Jews etc.....Awful!!!! he did not deserve this. He was a honourable loving good priest, who could not be bought and chose suffering instead for the better good. He was Not a killer...like Josef Tiso was.
I just found your channel and it’s so entertaining and insightful! Great job! I wish you the best with your travels and the development of the channel.
@@GoblinExplorerENG I am a Canadian born and raised (ethnically Palestinian/Jordanian) and have been living in Jordan for the past 2 years, your commentary is not biased and and seems like a fair representation of the country.
Hey, really enjoying watching your videos! You have a wonderful, natural style (prob due to tour guiding) and I can easily see you going far. One suggestion: your titles are rather dry and don’t really say what the video is about without context. A more gripping title that emphasized what’s unique about the place rather than its name for the uninformed might be good. Keep it up :)
Hi Maciek, we did the krakow old town tour with you yesterday and it was super cool, thanks again for that! We also love history and feel pretty much your way. Visiting a place without really getting to know about it makes travelling feel so empty and pointless. We will definetely follow you around and subscribed to your channel. Greetings from inside the Flixbus going back to budapest and eventually back to Germany in june ✌️
Very cool documentary, nice commentary on the area! Didn't think I'd be interested watching 45 minutes of desert but here we are. Thanks for sharing this!
The funniest bit is that Jordanians feel the same way - they also don't think there is anything to say about that part of the country. It just takes scratching the surface a bit and wonders happen;)
I LOVE your sense of humor! Your storytelling is excellent. I am happy that I read that Slovak history book. It gives your stories context and they are sinking into my brain 😏😉
Żilina and Martin are two of the five cities I plan on visiting in April. There will be more as I develop a plan. Looks like I will be visiting Żilina on my birthday. 😊
