Just how Slavic is East Germany? 

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in eastern Germany there is a strong percentage of the element R1a1 that the Slavs brought in in the early Middle Ages. Many city names are former Slavic names, monuments of the Slavic religion, castles etc.

Future archeologists will look at the prevalence of tracksuits to answer this question.

My mother was Prussian. I‘ve traced her family back to 1700 to the same villages up till ww1. I did a DNA test to see how much German I have... None! I am a Slav! Haha proves your theory!

In parts of Austria you can definately see the Slavic influence. In Vienna, names like Morawec, Sobotka or Dvorak are common. A lot of place names are of Slavic origin too. The culture/food/architecture is also very similar to countries like Czechia or Slovenia, an obvious result of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Funny thing is that there are more Serbs living in Germany than there are Sorbs.

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About 30 % of all germans have slavic or prussian familynames, including me, so these people are not distinct. They are simply assimilated.

You even see that mixture in other parts, for example: the architecture in Saxony looks very Czech and the Saxonian dialects are heavily influenced by Sorbs, Czechs and Polish people. In the Sorbish regions every street name and sign is bilingual and the so called "Umgebindehäuser" in the region are a mixture of slavic block huts and German Fachwerk. Greetings from Leipzig/Lipsk :)

As a Balkan Serb it is very saddening and concerning to see how the number of Lusatian Serbs (or Sorbs in english) has fallen over the centuries. How they were forcefully assimilated by the Germans, destroying their language and culture. And they werent the only victims of this, there were many other Slavs in todays eastern Germany that were wiped out, such as Pomeranian Slavs. Slava Slovanom

In East Germany you still have many Slavic toponyms can be found, basically anything that ends with -itz, -in or -ow. For example, the German capital Berlin comes from Slavic *brlo which means "swamp". You once had Polabian living around Berlin. Sadly the last Polabian speaker died in the late 17th. Sorbs still exist due to persistence, although they had to face restrictions and discrimination even in the middle ages (Germans forbid them to speak their own language).

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Many Eastern Germans are germanized Slavs. Check out the history of Haus Mecklenburg. Their ancestor was Niklot, a Slavic Polabian lord.

Romanians might be the most slavic non-slavs. Not only in language but also in many traditions and life-style.

In other words, the Germans absorbed the Sorbs.

I‘m from Germany and it‘s great to see this channel giving some publicity to the Sorbs - actually, their language is already severely endangered but there are measures taken against a further decline.

Živili Lužički Srbi!

Excellent research and presentation. Well done, Masaman

I've seen many autosomal results of east Germans and they are about half Slavic genetically, it's not just paternally or that they have some Slavic ancestry, they are on average about half Slavic genetically. They have massive Slavic ancestry.

We Slavs call Germans-Nemci. Ones who are mute who doesn’t speak our language

Just for you all to know Slavic (slava, sława) means, GLORIOUS in all slavic languages, that's why they pick up so much lands in the past ®

I had this subject in school 17 years ago, so your video is a nice refresher.

So basically, the answer comes down to “how you define Slavic” as in many cases the assimilation happened a long time ago and just in the case of German names and words and folklore we often cannot tell for sure where they originated, it could be Slavic or Germanic. Also, the video made one mistake: It is not just East Germany. Parts of Western Lower Saxony, Northern Bavaria and the entire west German state of Schleswig Holstein also were once settled by Slavic peoples and especially Schleswig Holstein shows that with its many place names.

Rest In Peace to all the extinct ancient races, tribes, and people's of Europe! There is so many that are gone! 😔

I am East German. And basically asked this question: how slavic is my DNA. I know of no Sorbian ancestry of my family, still my grandmother I got tested, received 60 % predominantly Czech and Slovak heritage, much more than German, ~20 %(Ancestry DNA). I will do the test on my other grandparents as well, it's interesting. Oh and, area is Leipzig countryside. Not a sorbi hotspot today

I am East German. My paternal grandmother was Silesian. Other than that my whole family were settled in Thuringia as far back as I can tell. By family name I know I have some Hugenotte ancestry. My facial features however are very Baltic.

Your videos are just great... with so many facts and hard data, in times of so much nonsense... Congrats and thanks.

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The better question is just how German is Germany?

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I'm from Germany in East Germany are many cities with Slavic names

Finally some background music!! Bach goes great with this

I think the good question is how German are the Slavs ?

almost all town names in carinthia and styria have slovenian roots. even as north as southern part upper austria region theres a town "windisch-garsten", and just south of vienna there's "gloggnitz" which is clearly not german. also, big city of Graz comes from Gradec (small castle)

They're so Slavic that they substitute vodka for water..

Carinthians are Germanised Slovenes. You can see Carinthia was over 80% Slovene in the first Austro-Hungarian census. Burgenland saw extensive immigration from Croatia

Germans are the non-slavs with highest slavic influence (besides non-slavic minorities inside slavic countries. It would be very interesting to find out how germanic czechs and slovenians are as theri culture is often way more influenced by germans than other slavic people.

Great video and commentary

I'd like to hear about "Just how Slavic are the Hungarians?" I remember reading that when the Magyars arrived in the Pannonian plain, the population they found there was a mixture of Slavs and Iranian Alans. The Magyar rulers eventually assimilated them to speaking Hungarian, but the genes should still show a lot of the people's earlier identity.

1 correction: Lechitic branch is a subdivision of Western Slavs, that include Poles, Silesians and Kashubians. Czechs, Slovaks and Sorbs are not Lechites.

Greetings from an Rani Slav from Rügen!

Another good job masaman. I'm a fan.

10:21 Here in Brazil, exist Pomerode in Espírito Santo, it's a pomeraniam colionie in Southeast. By the way, many citizens from Pomerode speak the pomeriniam dialect with local linguistc influence. However, in Paraná (South of Country) is famous the so many polish, ukrainian and russian colonies. Amazing video, greetings from RJ, Brazil 😀

Regarding non-Slavs with Slavic influence, I'd like to hear more about the various Volga Finnic people in Russia.

Thanks, Mason! I just recently found out that my "German" grandfather was one of these Germano-Slavs, his parents being born in German-Poland and Russian-Poland of the late 19th century. I've been very curious about the genetics of these regions and this was very informative! I just wish that I could identify which exact groups of Slavs have lent me their DNA. Next time I'm in Texas I'll have to visit Serbin.

love your work .. keep it up ..

Nice one!..I love your videos

I would appreciate a video about the ethnic makeup of great britain, if that doesnt already exist. Specifically the extend of celts and germanics and their intermixing

I'm westgerman living in eastgermany and I often mock them a bit by calling them slavic. It's funny and they always deny. I work in a street " Wendenschlossstrasse" . Proof enough

thanks, I like what you present, thanks!

I liked the Texas part. Glad to see I'm rite in the middle of the German area of it. And even our street names are in German here in Boerne Texas

Don't you just love how in all videos about Slavs they are always shown as older people, with long white beard, dress in animal coats, with no weapon? And yet this group of old men came from somewhere and spread across half of Europe where tall, strong, brave and young soldiers with huge axes and armors on big horses lived before them…

You should provide the source of your info. Books. Maps. To study more.

I love the content 👍

Great vid

I'm from the Baltic Coast, right on the border between East and West Germany. And around here, we have lots of Slavic village and town names all over the place.

This video was particularly interesting for several reasons. My mother's maiden name could be Polish, Lithuanian, Russian or Jewish, depending on the spelling used [I've seen three different versions]. My great grandfather emigrated to the US at the time of the Bismarck unification. This video contained more information about the area he came from than is known in the family. Information about the Sorb enclave was mentioned in my high school and university courses but with far less information than what you provided. The Baltic people need more exposure as well. Altogether it was a fascinating video, keep up the good work.

Great video

Good videos. Hi from Sorbia.

Bro ... Very cool. I am Austrian and here most are culturally German and have Slavic ethnicity. I did a DNA test and I am basically 100% Eastern European.

Fun fact: Berlin is a Slavic name.

The photo at the 5:00 minute mark is Rothenburg OdT... We lived in Katterbach township of Ansbach for almost 7 years. Rothenburg is only a 20 minute drive away. It's in Bayern...

All of your vids are so well researched, kudos 👏🏻👍🏻 Greetings from Gdańsk Ps: I am a Kashubian Pole with some Prussian/German roots from my dad’s side.

Southern Austria had in the past a significant, if not even a majority, Slavic population (today city of Graz = Gradec, "small city" in Slavic), so it is not a recent development after WW2, but goes to the Early middle ages.

More than 20% of modern-day Germans bear Slavic Y-DNA, and Eastern and Northeastern Germany are teeming with Slavic toponyms, and the near-totality of modern-day cities in the aforementioned territories were founded by these Slavs.

You are right here. I am a Eastern German. I have about a third oft Slavic DNA and a Slavic family Name.

Slavs also settled in part of franconia (bamberg) bavaria (up from dunaj) holstein (lubeck) and thuringia

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Thanks for this video! Can you talk about the natives of asia minor?

Interesting video

thanks for your interesting informative efforts, when you signed off you said " see you next TIME" the TIME had a slight slang of a southerner to it. Are you from the South?

In Polish a German person is called Niemiec which in old slavic means mute, the man who don't speak our language. And that is the whole secret, clash of 2 totally different language groups.

*I must Say that you Videos are Amazing experience. Very good Job Masaman. You are Lord of Maps.* 🙏 *Btw Could you make Video about Slovaks? We used to Live in whole Carpathian Basin now we are forced to live in North and South (Vojvodina) of it. It's good topic and There are no professional vids about it. In Case you'll do it, Many thanks mate.*

Great video as always. As a german of sorb origin its very refreshing to see a video about the topic for once.

For anyone wondering “Extensive contact” means extensive war

"Just how Scandinavian are Northern Germans" would be an interesting topic as well.

Do a video about the genetic legacy of the Pannonian Avars in Hungary and Central Europe

Extremely interresting. Nothing to add.

I'm not sure if you've done a video on this topic yet, but I would be interested in learning more about the possibility that some Baltic groups, such as the Latvians and Lithuanians, may have ventured south into the ancient Hellenic as well as Latin worlds and lent the inhabitants of these regions their surnames ending in -us or -sus. I've heard rumors about this taking place, but I haven't researched it at all and it's not exactly a common topic of conversation lol. I would deeply appreciate any feedback that u have. Thanks!

Hi Masaman, my family actually descends from the Sorbs. It took me many years to research this as all I knew was that my grandfather was 5th generation ‘German’ in the Ukraine and my grandmother was ‘3rd generation’ there. My grandfather still fought in WW1 and the family moved westwards over time. Before WW2 my grandparents moved to South America. My grandfather had a strange surname which appeared to be Slavic but my uncles always maintained that they were Germans although the younger siblings were born in the area where the Sorbs came from in Poland/East Germany. With my research I figured that the family on my grandfather’s side was Slavic rather than German. The German side came from my grandmother. I’ve recently taken a DNA test and this confirmed the half German half Slavic descendancy in my family, including some Scandinavian and Balkan, Scandinavian probably having been the influence in the Ukraine. My father came from a Austria where the German, Balkan and even some Celt appeared in my DNA .... truly awesome. Your documentary here sheds further light on the influences and mixtures in this area of Europe over the years. Thank you for a well done research.

@Masaman We Slavs are not from Asian step, we are white and our children are blond when born. We are living in Central Europe for minimum 10,000 years. The fact that some of us especially Russians have Asian look is because of Mongolian raids and not because we are Asians. Evolution doesn't work as fast otherwise Jewish people that lived in Poland for half of millenium would turn blond too, but they didn't. Stop spreading German anti slavic propaganda.

Thumbs up for the ending music!

My grandfather's East Prussian is originally from the eastern section of East Prussia. My father's Ancestry DNA Test is mostly Baltic, then Slavic, then Germanic in that order from highest to lowest % for population groups in that area. Our YDNA Haplogroup is N, and it probably was originally from the Varangian Swedes.

I read a 9th century chronicles of how the Germans and Slavs fought each other by Magdeburg. They mentioned that both parties when saw a newborn would steal it and raise them as theirs ;-)

There were also slavic nobles ruling in Germany. In Mecklenburg ruled the Obodrites with their headquarter in this castle, where is today the parliament of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schweriner_Schloss ...and they had many other dukes and castles: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obodriten_(Adelsgeschlecht) In Pommern ruled the Greifen in this castle in Stettin: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stettiner_Schloss ...and in many other castles. They also ruled in Denmark and in Sweden (Erich der Pommer). de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greifen And in Silesia ruled the silesian Piastes who were an offspring of the polish kings, with many dukes and castles: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlesische_Piasten They were the nobles, who had accepted to turn to be christians. But where the slavs didnt want to become christians and opposed christianisation for about 400 years, like it was in Sachsen-Anhalt, Sachsen and in Brandenburg, they were finally conquered and the slavic nobles lost their positions to Germans.

I am reading a lot about this topic the last days and this is finally the best summary there to find. I am from Saxony myself and all my family considers themselfes to be german. It's a question of definition in the end. Maybe I am totally german just because I was raised german, speak german and act german. But I could also say that I am slavic just because I might contain more gens from the old slavic tribes than from germanic tribes.

It is a box mix. I am of Polish descent, but my last name (which wasnt redacted) has a German and Slavic mix.

As a German, I can say that the part east of the Elbe is like 80% Slavic genetics-wise, but culture-wise almost totally part of German culture with some regional specifics due to proximity to Poland and due to socialism. The large exception is a little part of saxony and Brandenburg which has its own Slavic language and is almost entirely catholic in contrast to the atheist surroundings

Just how slavic austrians are

My wish for a upcoming video is Austria(maybe + their neighbours, former Habsburgcountries/ commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ethnographic_map_of_austrian_monarchy_czoernig_1855.jpg )

Can you do a video on the Volga Germans?

A few years ago I found on the Deutsche Welle website, an article, since removed, stating that in all of Germany, East and West, only about six percent of the population was really truly Germanic. The rest were pretty evenly divided between Slavic and Celtic origins, with a very significant admixture of Jewish genes. That information was based on extensive genetic studies.

Just how slavic is Austria?

Masaman,how about the Hungarians?They,re an Uralic people,and culture surrounded in Europe by mostly Slavic countries.So,I would imagine that they were probably influenced quite a lot by the Slavs who surrounded them,wouldn,t you? Anyway,kudos for another interesting video,my dear friend.Best wishes,Shalom,and God bless you.

all lands along the border of the Elbe River and from the Baltic Sea to the Adriatic Sea to Venice of Italy are the lands of the Venets (Slavs)

The Germans are predominantly a mix of DNA groups R1a and R1b, which are actually Slavs and Celts, Germanic I1 is just over 10%.

Of course they are. Sorbians still exist and Polabians existed until not long ago. Most will probably disagree because of the modern notion of modern states.

Good video, and accurate as far as I can tell. My mom is Czech, dad Slovak. Mom did a DNA test and she is 10-20% German, maternal haplogroup H1a. BTW, there is a belief that more German men marry Slavic women as opposed to Slavic men with German women (although I know couples of both kinds).

Ironic that Hitler considered Slavs sub-human when most western Europeans have some slavic blood according to DNA samplings. Also, far more Russians than Germans have blond hair and blue eyes, thanks to Viking marauders of 1,000 years ago. So who is the real arian?