Forever Young - Brendan Fraser: Austrian Ancestry and World War I Service Revealed 

We met him at a convention a couple of years ago. He was really nice and friendly. He seemed genuinely kind and thankful to meet fans.

He was paid enough to be there. ​@@eizapez3549

I want him to record audiobooks.

@@ginaswaney514 he did one...ties into his work on the movie Inkheart and that author.

Yesssss❤❤ love his voice

@danielzimt4568 schick ihm Fotos... der kommt Dich besuchen.

@@NNorka79 soviel ich weiß, sind nur seine Söhne auf Social media vertreten aber glaube kaum dass er herkommen würde.

Yeah about wolves feeding on the dead and wounded on that front. I think both side even declared a truce in order to focus on killing the many wolves that had developed a taste for human meat. Scary stuff.

He won an Oscar. How is that underrated?

After a very long dry spell!@@AH-te5gs

@@AH-te5gsAnd the Oscar was just this year!

We are friends now.

​@@BlackRbt22Covert Narcissists don't have friends, they have scapegoats.

They usually pick a line the guest doesn't know about or has questions about, or that tells a good story with general historical value like his 2x gr-grandfather going on strike and shooting at the scab. He probably also knows quite a lot about his Fraser line. Looking forward to next week. They don't often have Native American guests and Wes Studi will be on (along with LeVar Burton).

Fraser is a very common name, and they would be going into that level of detail.

The actually mean St. Peter bei Grafenstein. Hermann was born there. There is also a parish in Klagenfurt with the same name, but that is not where he was born. But you are right: the place on the map is just somewhere in the south of Europe ;-))

The red dot is surely in the wrong place. St Peter they are referring to is, I think, in today's Southern Austria, it is one of the areas of Klagenfurt (Slovenian Celovec) where the Slovenian minority lives. Surname Drobesch is surely a Slovenian surname Drobež. So it is rather inaccurate to say that Herman was Austrian...

St. Peter in today's Austria (part of Klagenfurt) is in Carinthia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carinthian_Slovenes

The surname of Herman's wife is also a Slovene one (Polanc, Germanised as Pollanz). Should be clear also from his DNA results I guess. Welcome to our Slovenian family, Brendan!

It is quite possible that Pollanz lived in what is now Slovenia before 1776. The place where the Pollanz lived is not far from the Slovenian border. My ancestors also moved from Slovenia to Austria.​@@anav9130

Austrian, German same thing

@@intermilan9731 Imagine you have two people who speak the same language ( well, approximately ). Person A has a different faith and philosophy, different hobbies, different living environments than Person B. Are Person A and B the same? If not, then Austrians and Germans are also not the same.

​@@chrismath149 Different faith? The Austrians are Catholic and majority of Germans are Catholic too. They share history, common cultural heritage, similar tradition etc.

@@matovicmmilan Nearly half of German Christians are Protestant ( western Germany ) and a large percentage ( ~ 30 % ) atheist ( eastern Germany ). A statistically based observation of faith in Germany completley destroys that argument. And us Austrians have just as many links with Bohemia, Hungary and other eastern European nations that estrange us from Germany whose ethnogenesis revolved about other things more in modern times ( see German history ). The only time Austria and Germany were under the same legislative power was between 1938 and 1945. Don't try to teach me my own history and about my own religion.

It's Slovene. From the Carinthian-Slovenes.

Slovenia was known as the Duchy of Carniola - a crownland of the greater realm. The capital was Ljubljana/Laibach. Slovenes held a majority in the Landtag ( the parliament of Carniola ) but ethnically different peoples lived in Carniola as native inhabitants. As part of Cislethania, the inhabitants ( male, at least 26 years old ) could participate in in direct and fair elections ( the reform happened in 1906, before that there was a census election sytem in place ) and send delegates to the Reichsrat based on population numbers. So no, you were not merely called Austrians. In fact you were given minority rights and had your own government structure. Your language, ethnicity, ect was protected by law since 1867.

No flies on you eh?

He's only 1/5 German (or Austrian). He's also French (Canadian), Irish, Scottish, and Czech. And 100% Liar.

@@mytv89626 How is he German?