Full History of Prussia - Documentary 

why is there a gorilla in the video

Fire of Learning is prussia part of russia

@@twill3x877 no it's part of Germany

jamesidek thanks

That's ok, I knew when you were talking about regardless. Great video; you're making quarantine a lot less boring. :)

Dang

He was also fleeing Europe for homosexuality

@@charliechan8063 Considering the man had children he was also fucking women. Men during this time had romantic style relationships far more often than in 19th/20th/21st centuries, often they were no more than pen pals but they considered each other closer than we can imagine. If we were transplanted into their world we would find their culture very hard to navigate, even if we were magically given the knowledge of their grammar and speech.

@@charliechan8063 what do you mean?

@@benferris6472 he means Von Steuben was a fugitive. He fled Europe and came to America to avoid being persecuted for his homosexuality. Not sure if he was homosexual but that’s what the OP is saying. 😄

These are more southern foods tbh

@Franz Naders I wouldn't know I'm swabian

where can i get my widerguttmachungschnitzel

@@user-ul7pd7vf1l you are grounded

@@chillaxo9863 the whole world is

Ikr too bad selective history is finite

lol this comment needs more likes xD

Most people know very little about FTG. His father cut off his lover's head.... his fate was sealed then.

The one who plays flute.

The second. Considering he is literally called the great

First was the best.

factssss

Just hit that part of the video and came to the comments for an answer lol.

Same

Harambe?

That's Hank, I've hidden him in all my HNP documentaries since Germany part 2. This is the first time he's made a full appearance, though.

Im sure the Scandinavian influence, ancestry and practices of the early Prussians had an influence on the behavior of the region for centuries to come. Combined with the influence of the Templars, its easy to see how they became a Mercenary State

Much of what is modern day Poland had the Scandinavian ancestors moving through the region from what is modern day Crimea. Originally this group was Goths, and were pushed out by the Romans, or left before they could be pushed out. Woden (Odin) was likely a Chieftain of this tribe, and Asgard was likely in Crimea. If you look at some of the Gothic architecture of that area, it looks _very_ nordic. _I doubt the Norse went down to Crimea and built that centuries before their presence on the world stage, most likely that was built by the Norse predecessors._ So either from Norse invasions of Prussia, or from the proto-Norse moving up through Prussia, the early Prussians had many interactions with the Norse.

probably, but show me one country that wasn't like that at least once in their past? Raping and pillaging isn't a cultural thing dude

@SMA Productions A human thing.

@@richardmangelmann4975 Raping and pillaging? Who said anything about raping and pillaging? What does that have to do with Prussian military values and strong work ethic?

Bismarck ALWAYS had a plan.

Some archipelago and pickled herrings would be nice.

Nah don't fool yourself.. Bismarck was a militarist and absolute asshole. Fuck his plans

@@herecomestheA Relax. It is some kind of meme on RU-vid. "Bismarck has a plan. Bismarck always has a plan." And he was a typical political character of his era.

@Jason Bouphasavanh Check this video: "Otto von Bismarck - I: Der Wilde Bismarck - Extra History" by Extra Credits ( ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zc3Y-dU_GjM.html ). The 'meme' shows up the first time at 6:31.

They had tactics and the environment on their side, they did an excellent job of surviving for a long time against a force supported by christendom

It was my understanding that the Baltic pagans were hard motherfuckers and that the Teutonic Order just proved better than others at fighting them. I'm not deeply educated on the matter.

@@ronfroehlich4697 not an expert either, they later became Prussia which became.a mility superpower that ended up uniting Germany. But earliest times fighting the baltic area pagans they had a rough time of it as they focused on heavy cavalry and infantry, and the woods and marshes and light skirmishers that faced them in aforementioned areas were less then ideal as you can imagine hehe.

@@ronfroehlich4697 Lithuanians were hard, they prefered to kill own women and children, and themselves than surrender to TO. On the other hand Teutonic Order had inexhaustible source of manpower from Reich, to refill loses, just like colonists in America. Lithuania was behind Prussia which took the very first shot.

Also let's not forget that the Lithuanians converted to Christianity on their own and even then the Teutonic Order continued to fight them.

Fur lebensraum????

Their history can be summed up in 3 words. They all died. Come, drink from eternal wisdom. Remember the Empire isnt "holy" without religggious ideology... This stems from wisdom of G_D. Go see his forgottten son, the anti chr- ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nDwwHyGpGQI.html We will speak no more.

@@whitealliance9540 they didn't all die...

@@whitealliance9540 “white alliance” is that racial or like white hat, black hate? Also do you mean JFK jr?

Like Prussia's borders

Damn what a fitting song

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By David Boo-hoo and Freddie Uranus...

that could be a hit in 1740 !!!!!!

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Right at the beginning of this absurd video there is the completely absurd claim that the dwarf Prussia was one of the major powers in Europe. Prussia was only a middle power that was megalomaniac! Prussia only survived the Seven Years' War by luck because the Russian Empire spared Prussia. It was megalomania by the Prussian King Frederick II to dare this war against much stronger enemies. In fact, taking part in the Seven Years' War was pure megalomania by the dwarf Prussia, because Prussia did not have enough financial means and resources to wage a war against so many enemies and above all against the great power Russia. So Prussia was only able to wage this war because of significant British financial support. Without the British payments, the dwarf Prussia would have been too poor to be able to afford the war at all. Despite this, Prussia still had too few troops to stand a chance of victory. This also makes it clear that Prussia was not a great power as it is falsely claim because great powers do not need patrons to finance their wars. Then when the British stopped paying support to Prussia, Prussia could anyway no longer continue the war. Great powers do not survive through luck, just as Prueßen survived the Seven Years' War only through luck. The fact that Prussia was not destroyed in the Seven Years' War becauses of the grace of the Russian Empire is called "the Miracle of the House of Brandenburg". Great Powers don't survive by Miracles! Also a great power cannot be degrade to a puppet state like that happened with Prussia at the beginning of the 19th century by the victory of the great power France over Prussia. Without the victory of the real great powers Great Britain and Russia over the great power France, Prussia would have remained a puppet state of the French. Prussia alone was too weak to defeat France. Prussia did not survive by own strength! So it's clear that Prussia was not a great power. Absurdly, in this video, which contradicts historical facts, Lithuania is not shown as part of the Polish Empire after the Union of Krewo in 1385. It is a historical fact that since the Treaty of the Union of Krewo in 1385 there was a de jure and de facto Polish-Lithuanian personal union with the Polish king as the sovereign also of Lithuania. The Polonization of the Lithuanian nobility progressed rapidly as early as the 15th century starting with the that in total 47 selected Lithuanian nobles were adopted by Polish nobles heraldic families and granted Polish coats of arm. The names of these Lithuanian nobles were also Polonized. This gesture signified their desire to adopt Polish customs and integrate into Polish society. It was simply worth becoming a Pole, because Poles were in power in the state. In any case, the Polonization happened voluntarily. The assimilation of the Lithuanians was favored by several factors. One of the most important factors was the cultural superiority of the Poles. The Polonized Lithuanian nobility sent their sons to Poland for education. By the way, the oldest university in Lithuania is the University of Vilnius, which was founded in 1579 by the Polish king. The oldest university in Poland is the Jagiellonian University of Karaków founded in 1364 by the polish King Casimir III the Great and by the way, this ist one of the oldest universities in continuous operation in the world. By the way, the official and written language of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania before being taken over by Poland was not the Lithuanian language, which only became a written language in the 16th century, but Ruthenian, an early form of today's Belarusian and Ukrainian languages. Before being taken over by Poland in 1385, the East Slavic language Ruthenian, as most common language, was used as the written language, not Lithuanian. Besides that after Lithuania became part of the Polish Empire in 1385 everywhere the upper class spoke Polish. Only the peasants spoke Lithuanian! In any case, due to the cultural superiority of the Poles, the assimilation was greatly accelerated. This is how more and more Lithuanians want to be Poles! It was simply worth becoming a Pole and being part of the dominant ethnic group. It was worth being assimilated by the Poles! Most of Lithuanian nobility were Polonized and spoke Polish. The nobility was a role model for the rest of the population and that is why more and more non-nobles spoke Polish. In addition, it was simply worth becoming a Pole, because Poles were in power in the state. The result of this Polishization was that in the end only 4% in the former lithuanian capital spoke Lithuanian and the overwhelming majority spoke Polish. So the Poles were the political and military dominant ethnic group of this Empire and the Poles were the imperial ruling ethnic group! The Poles ruled not only the Lithuanians but also variousother peoples and there were 10 different religious groups in the Polish Empire.(Catholics, Protestants, Muslims, Eastern Catholicism, Eastern Orthodox, Armenian Apostolic Orthodox, Jews, Russian Old Believers and Mennonites.) The Poles ruled the other peoples and partially assimilated them. Lithuanians and other peoples were Polonized in the Polish Empire. Only one nation was relevant in this empire and that was the Poles. In fact, Poland was the only empire in Europe for 100 years in the entire 15th century! Lithuanians as well Ruthenians the ancestors of the Belarusians and Ukrainians like various other peoples were mastered by the Poles. It was a Polish empire, because the Poles were the nation in power. The Poles ruled the other peoples and partially assimilated them. That is why the Lithuanians were almost completely Polonized. Also first correctly the so-called Holy Roman Empire is shown on the map as a patchwork of sovereign German small states. But then, absurdly, the so-called Holy Roman Empire is shown on the map as a unified state. Thereby the so-called Holy Roman Empire was still a patchwork of sovereign German small states. Which is then shown again in the video! It's all just ridiculous! Then also additionally the nonsense that Prussia allegedly created the German nation. As if there would have been no Germans without Prussia. These fools probably don't know that the Germans lived in various German small states for centuries and Prussia was also one of these German small states. They have no idea of anything, which is why they show a unified Poland in 1226. But in reality in 1138, Poland fragmented into five principalities when the Polish King Bolesław III divided his lands as legacy among his sons. Only again in 1296 Przemysł II became the king of a reunified Poland. So in 1226 there was actually no Poland that could be shown on the map. Incidentally, this was a mistake on the part of Duke Konrad of Mazovia to prompt the Teutonic Order to fight for him. Because these mass murderers not only murdered the Baltic Old Prussians hostile to Poland, but also Poles. It's a historical fact first that the Teutonic Order exterminated the Baltic old Prussians and then tried the same thing with the population of Grand Duchy of Lithuania. So with the Baltic and Slavic Ruthenian population. The Teutonic Order's attempted genocide against the population of the Lithuanian territories, which consisted of Slavic Ruthenians and Balts. For two centuries, the German knights waged a war against the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. They made more than 300 "Reisen" (Journeys) to the slavic Ruthenian and Baltic lands of Grand Duchy of Lithuania. So-called "Reisen" journey raids were genocidal sacking, looting, and pillaging with massacre of the civilian population. These journey raids were also used for slave hunting and cattle were also robbed! It was precisely around that time that the entire swath of land between the Order and Lithuania became a scarcely-inhabited territory. These journey raids mostly took place in winter, because the horses with the heavily armored knights made much better progress in the swampy areas in winter. Always in winter, when the ground was frozen and the knights could easily ride in the swampy areas, there were veritable extermination campaigns. So, for the population of the areas of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, winter was the season of massacres. Almost 300 winter journey raids to lands of Grand Duchy of Lithuania can be verified between 1305 and 1409 using sources. So it's not surprising that in Germany in the 30's and 40's the Teutonic Order was one of the models from history that was greatly revered. So it is not surprising that in the Nazi era this genocidal behavior of the Order was a role model. By the way, the Order also murdered Poles not only Balts and Ruthenians! For example the Order massacred in 1308 the christian Polish population of the city of Gdansk! Because of this permanent Teutonic aggression, Poland and Lithuania were in the personal union in 1386 which was actually the foundation of the Polish Empire! With that, Lithuania officially became Christian! But even after Lithuania was officially Christian, aggression against Lithuania did not stop. The aggressions only stopped and the baltic and slavic population was safe when the Order was defeated by the Polish Empire. By the way, the order was not defeated after the great battle of 1410, what many believe, when the order was defeated under the leadership of the Polish king. The Polish king had to win various other battles before the order became a vassal of the Polish Empire.

Unfortunately, the Poles, Russians and French did not finally defeat and destroy Prussia when they had the opportunity to do so. Because it would have been better for Europe if the Poles, Russians or French had finally crushed Prussia when they had the chance to do that. Prussia's only remarkable achievement was to force the other German small states into a union. Prussia was able to do this because Prussia was the strongest German small states of the various small German states. This union together with the German small states outside this union was strong enough to defeat the French in 1871. The result of this victory was the establishment of a united Germany. The consequences of of this unification to the German state were catastrophic for Europe because the consequence of this state establishment were 2 world wars and the possibility for this nation to commit various genocides. The founding of this state in 1871 was a terrible catastrophe for Europe, and without Prussia, the founding of this state in 1871 would not have happened. It is a historical fact that these two world wars would not have happened with a total of 70 million deaths for Europe if the German small states had not succeeded in founding the united German state. This nation would not have mutated into a Nazi nation either! If Prussia had not existed and thus also no unified Germany, then there would not have been also almost 50 years of communist oppression in half of Europe. The communist victory in the fallen Russian Empire was the result of the First World War caused by Germany and Austria so the communist rule over the areas of the fallen Russian Empire would never have existed without Germany like the later successes of the communists after the 2nd World War through the communists could occupy half of Europe and force the nations there to embrace communism. So NO world wars, NO genocides, NO immeasurable destruction and NO strong communism. This multiple NO would be the result of the destruction or considerable weakening of Prussia. Because Prussia made this German state possible in the first place. That was actually the only relevant achievement by Prussia! Unfortunately, when the Poles had the opportunity to do so, they did not destroy Prussia! Too bad for Europe! Others also had the opportunity to destroy Prussia or to weaken it decisively. The French and the Russians. Unfortunately they didn't use the opportunity to destroy Prussia either.

Stepina is a Slavic last name.

Wow that's amazing 👍

@@universalconquest4447 there were many slav people in prussia

​@@universalconquest4447 my brother in history prussia is a slavic country and prussian is of the slavic language branch

I have a great great uncle that was a German stormtrooper in ww1 I had his iron cross restored and turned into a necklace. I have so much respect for my German/Prussian heritage.

Yes I agree he really glossed over the napoleonic wars

Sure, but this is history of Prussia video. Not history of Napoleonic wars.

It was Prussia that declared war, and that queen was a strong responsible of the situation.

Every time I hear "personal union" in this video I get excited.

And yet Polish kids are expected to learn this (966 AD to modern time) by the time they finish high school.

@KriegLord I was actually being snarky.... Millions of Polish kids assimilate a millennium's worth of history all the time.

@KriegLord why the hostility? I think you're misreading my comments. Also, would you like to buy a comma?

I’m Polish.. this stuff is kind of a common knowledge to me. Most people I know have rough idea of history of most countries in our continent. If you claiming to be European you sure as hell have some education gaps man.. no offence. Perhaps lack of knowledge among folks is the reason we still committing the same mistakes.. Sad af.

@@skaywalker20 preach it mate,people should know their history

It’s Polish now 🇵🇱 🦅

@@TheSeanoops For now.

FDR & Churchill used it to start World War Two!

@@beebee7834 And the Polish went along and got victimized. A pawn on the great chessboard of global dominance. Or more precise, thrown under the bus of german aggression.

@@paul8158 It all depends who you ask why WWll started or even how it finished .

I think I was in high school when I heard about it

Last time I was this early Prussia was under the Polish boot oh wait.

@Connor Mcdairmant dude it is today I think you forgot what the Russians did to the region after WW2 Yeah Prussia is polish now.

@Connor Mcdairmant ok I see your point but it never really was just a "Slavic land before the 1950s since before the Germans it was mixed between Slavs, Balts, and a few other groups. and even when the Germans colonized it it still was mixed between them.

@@Newbmann i want all of you as well to drink from the well of blackness. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-n7rjEEk7q9M.html he is on earth now. See all that jesus started ? Lol things are gonna get interesting now that he is ready to leave earth. Clickk

The last time I was this early the Germanic tribes left east-European lands to settle further west.

Неки Лик hate the new comments

@@JHorsti thx bro

@@Dysfunctional_serenity same lol

on mobile the style stayed the same... are you using a computer?

@@libertystang no bro phone

It may be "Kaliningrad" to our brains, but it will always be "Königsberg" in our hearts!

@@AbrahamLincoln4 well said Abe

@@AbrahamLincoln4 Amen Brother.

the film explains the story well. what started as a crusade against pagans, then fellow orthodox christians, then slaughter of fellow catholics, then centuries of universal bloodshed, is now finally ended and all live in peace. i hope you are not sad about such status quo or you would be siding with neonazis.

@@Simon-d That peace is predisposed on ethnic cleansing, something the Nazis would agree with, the only difference is the Germans were erased instead of the Slavic elements. But don't worry, humans mingle and intermarry and once the population is mixed up enough, ethnic conflict will start again, it's only a question of time, nothing more.

He was also a cleric.

HE WAS ALSO A POLISH CLERIC !

@@romanstaniszewski1030 We Wuz Copernicus and Shit...

It is the same with Socrates.

@@zabooza74 WE LOWE PUSSIA AND TUTONIC KNAIGHT

Oh shit, really?

@@shady_the_one no, Hitler had two portraits in his office. Bismarck and Frederick. Both prussian

@@shady_the_one the NATIONAL SOCIALIST, nazi is a derogatory word meaning "redneck" from the rural common name i.e Ignatius, heavily relied on the forces of Prussia to consolidate military power. Much the same way the scarlet empress Catherine, formerly Sophia of Germany, did in russia

@@ambernelson4149 I totally buy that Hitler relied on Prussia, but I was asking if the Teutonic Order still exists as a charity organization

@@shady_the_one possibly. The allies totally disbanded and confiscated all prussian territorial claims lands and properties in the aftermath... It is in the French British merican and Russian interest to keep Germany encircled occupied and powerless

yes, a melting pot of native baltics , slavic and german settlers. impossible to identifie as part of just one of them. i think us central europes should stop identifie as slaves germans and celts. we are ALL a mixture of all 3 components, the tru heart of europe

@@Stephanthesearcher Slavs not slaves

One side of my family comes from Prussia and also settled near benton harbor Michigan.

@@lothar3610 Depends on time period

Don't feel bad about being unclear because that is the history of all of Europe, including Britain. The continent was an orgy of endless wars regardless of the time period, which includes pre-Roman involvement. In the midst of violence there were natural disasters like drought and famine, then overpopulation in some areas (i.e. Goths/Cimbri/Teutones) that resulted in huge migrations wandering over Europe fighting and settling on foreign lands. The Cimbri & Teotone alliance handed Republican Rome some of its earliest defeats. Then they moved further west toward France. The huge Goth migrations are well known especially for their sacking of Rome. Europe's history is very complex and you really need a large wall of dry erase to draw boundries of kingdoms that were in constant flux. You never knew who was going to be your ally or your enemy, since they kept changing depending whims of who was coming to power. I can get a major headache just trying to follow the crazy number of battles from Netherlands to Sweden to Prussia. There were so many.

Glad I'm not the only person who noticed

*3RdY*

The real question right there

Totally checks out

James Selkirk I spotted it random was freaking cause we listening not watching then sat back to see just to catch the image blow my mind. I don’t even think can watch the rest ; gorilla so majestic lmao.

I was told he was a proud and "out" homosexual?

@@cameroncarter3332 That's complete rubbish. He was neither.

​@AnnieBlackmore go on.... I just watched a extra history series on F the G and they said that he was constantly. Though they definitely have a certain narrative perspective

@@c63amgblack In his youth Frederic was quite a ladies' man. He was married against his will to a woman he did not want, that's why he did not live with her, but he had a mistress, the dancer Barberina. The rumor of him being gay was spread by Voltaire after his friendship with Frederic broke up. It was an act of revenge.

@@AnnieBlackmore he was a homosexual though I mean have you seen some of the stuff he wrote?

The video was great I must say. I really appreciate the value of the video.

Mine also. The stories were passed down to the family how the hills ran like rivers of blood after the battles. They left to come to Canada being sick of all the fighting there.

@@blackbear1958 Mine emigrated to Illinois around 1880.

Maybe our ancestors fought on the same battle fields together. Our relatives came over to Ottawa, Ontario around 1880 also. There last names were Kropp.

@@blackbear1958 mine were wolunska's, they were from Posen in West Prussia. Most army's recruited regionally back then as some do now (i.e) the British army.

The Kropps came from Pomerania.

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​@@jackftww1Damn I was gonna do that 😂

Italy is merely a geographical expression.

@@crqf2010ruler it's still a significant expression if you asked me.

@aliceinkwell5751 My mother's family is from the Nidzica area - a stone's throw. They were Mazurens leaving in the 1800s for the US - to Minnesota, land of 10,000 lakes - so a lot like Mazuria! I had a distant cousin that visited 3 times in the 70s - we still had relatives there. In that area the Old Prussians blended with Mazovians, so fewer left after the war than did the Germans. I hope to travel there, & to stay long enough to take it in. I know your post is 3 yrs old, but it's fun to come across someone who lives there. I believe Allenstein is close to Nidzica, yes?

That's an interesting combination. My lineage is dated from XV century Prussia but now I'm living in Pomerania, so not that far away.

I second this. A peninsula in the southwest, home to both Indo-European peoples {Celtiberians, Visigoths, Romans, etc.}, Afro-Asiatic peoples {Carthaginians, Moors, Berbers}, and even Pre-Indo-European people, such as the Basques. Would very much like to see a documentary on Spain.

Spanish antisemitism

He will portray Spain in a bad way, he can only make the best of what he come across. The true sources of information are written in spanish, but he can only access to whatever is translated by english or U.S historians that had also been educated by very pro-english and anti-spanish anti-catholic historians, and they keep promoting the spanish black legend they made the world history to believe when the pax britannica was settled. It is really hard to find english speaking academics that had reviewed the original evidence and documents. Both sources of information are kept in spanish institutions and are hard to come by and even understand clearly by native spanish speakers because the old fashioned version of the language. He will miss the proto-human rights in Queen Isabella's testament that were further developed by spanish scholars and priests thinking how those were or should be affected by secular authority, which led to King Charles V to SELF WILLINGLY STOP the conquest of America at the news of power abuse by his envoys, to elucidate if his right of conquest was morally justified (this not only being his merit as person but of his mentors who better understood the catholic sense of secular authority). Also, he will most likely perpetuate this "only gold-driven conquistadors" reduction of their personas starting with Cortez that is unfairly treated as the epithome of anti-spanish trope, when in reality he just behave in the same manner as any other western conqueror from Alexander the Great to William I of England, and the only "massacre" atributed to him was military, he never order civilian kilings. Most likely he also will use savage imagery of the protestant enemies of Spain in germany and netherlands (that never set foot on America) but still used the first prints as political propaganda against them and the spanish crown. He will never mention the remarks made by Spain's enemy envoys to America on the overall happiness the spanish achieved to live and breed with indians and africans at the commoners level. But most certanly he will call the spanish dominions "colonies" only to link it with "colonization" as an undesirable word (which it is), when in fact this is the ultimate falsehood because the conquerors scarsely returned to Spain, the vast mayority stayed and married indians or freed slaves, it was a conquest, a migration and the territories were incorporated as KINGDOMS to the crown (ie: Kingdom of New Spain, Kingdom of Perú, Kingdom of Tierra Firme, etc) and they remained so until the wars of independence. The term "viceroyalty" is badly translated and is missleading, "vicekingdoms" is precise. Many more things can be said of the spanish, but never that their rule was inhumane or empathetically detached from the natives labor reality in the encomiendas, this is, the abuse of their power were the exception to the rule, and those exceptions confirm that the rule was the contrary to those abuses. Many natives were aware of this troughout the centuries and most of them fight and serve under the spanish army to defeat the independece wars that were clearly driven by sectors of spanish noble families desiring more autonomy.

@@Miolnir3 Good man, I agree however he'll certainly do his best effort. As long as somebody well-informed on the matter clears things up in the comments, and people do not take the video as sacred law - then it could be a worthwhile pursuit. Plvs vltra

@Death To The CCP ... Oh, if you only actually knew how scarce they are! Even the spanish speaking revisionist have caution not to portray everything too bad in english history, only to seem credible because they "don't criticise the enlgish too much". In fact it is disgusting the way the majority of regular ones choose to praise the english best, embellishing the mediocre, and avoiding the worst (namely in religious and foreign policies) or simply by repeating and copy-pasting segments of english text books without checking sources. This is how I know you either reply with spite or by taking your chances. Don't worry, I know is hard to believe when you hadn't come accross with the work of a regular spanish speaking historian.

Danke

eigentlich is es KERLE .. die Mehrzahl von Kerl .. edit but spoken in old German Kerls is fair

@@Fireoflearning Thank YOU for teaching me stuff I never heard of in history class.

Dudes, do you want eternal life?

@@winnietheshrew2957 if you can ignore his bias

I did a presentation about the 7 year war at school once and when I explained which side countries were supporting and all literally no one knew about Prussia… I’m Dutch btw

@@benedict3974 Bruh...how can Prussia be that much forgotten? I mean they were pretty relevant until the 1930s.

@@altechelghanforever9906 idk man, but most people don’t really care about history

@@benedict3974 Unfortunately that is very much true.

@Vater Prussia Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if that were more than true.

Anna, That's so interesting. My West Prussian great grandparents (on my mother's side) left in 1880! Went to Minnesota to farm.

Wentz is German for sure.

@@lowersaxon You are right but the family name Wentz comes from older immigrants back in the 18th century and they came from Rhineland-Palitanate region. This person was from a different part of my tree and the last name is escaping me right now.

Yeah you can say that again I can't stop watching the video.

@nàtsy fucket Said every Prussian ever.

That ain’t even pointing at Europe lmao At least the other one’s pointing at North America

There is a great book written about Frederick, called, Frederick the Great Absolution and Administrarion. Read it decades ago, very hard book to read but really informative of him and that era.

Spending 70% of the crowns incomes on the military and using soldiers to build infrastructure in peacetime does that.

I must say lady the video was something else because I can’t stop watching.

MorallyQuestionable Was that because it was in East Germany during the Cold War?

@@Zach-mw5so Probably

@@Zach-mw5so I would guess so.

@@thewingedserpent5823 Nice guess

Risen from the swamp, returned to the swamp. I think Brandenburg was never a highly populated area, and Berlin was never a good location for an important capital city. The East German government probably is only partly to blame. At the end of the war, people really did not want to fall into the hands of the Red Army and there was a massive exodus to reach safety with the British and Americans. Then once East Germany was established as a state, people didn't really like it and there was another gradual but still huge migration of people moving into West Germany. Which is why they put up the wall and shot everyone trying to leave, so they would at least keep some of their population. Today, almost all of East Germany is greatly underpopulated, the exception being Berlin and Saxony, where the East German industry was located. I think there's a bit more life around Magdeburg, but the states of Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, and Thuringen are all pretty much empty nature reserves these days.

Greetings, in which period your German ancestors immigrated to the US and from which territory they came from exactly ? If you know that then we can look further for the reasons and motivations.

In East Prussia the 'conversion' of the Prussian tribes got so bloody that the Pope issued a papal bull to the Teutonic Knights to cease & desist threatening their status if they didn't back off.

Lots probably do but when I was in school I just couldn’t care less about history. Boobs and games were all I was interested in.