Why did the French Fail to Annex Saarland? (Short Animated Documentary)

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The French, for many decades in the twentieth century, really wanted to annex a region in Germany called the Saarland. They wanted it because it had mountains of coal and industry which would bolster France's defences. Yet despite their winning two world wars they never managed to gain permanent control of it. But why not? To find out watch this short and simple animated history documentary.
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@ingsnaut_7006 3 года назад

"It's Saarland not your land." -- German probably.

@hkchan1339 3 года назад

Friedrich Nietzsche

@proactiveomnipresentvessel6569 3 года назад

Genius

@succhiatoredelcazzo4689 3 года назад

underrated comment

@Tjalve70 3 года назад

"This land is Saarland, this land's not your land...."

@TheLoraxshadenough 3 года назад

Ok that was cleaver

@itsducc0953 3 года назад

France to Saarland after they were guaranteed the coal of the land: *"I don't want to play with you anymore."*

@Dyknown 3 года назад

Saarland to France: "Thanks, we were tired of this anyway."

@selinane2Seli-zw3pz 3 года назад

The story is older. Saarlouis was created by Louis XIV, a french King, in Saarland....

@JonatasAdoM 3 года назад

@@Ball4LifeShorts You're not coal anymore

@JonatasAdoM 3 года назад

@@selinane2Seli-zw3pz Sarrloius! Where all the French Louis come from!

@abrahamlincoln14 3 года назад

@nicolasmarazuela1010 2 года назад

Fun fact: When the national team of Saarland lost against the german team, the captain of the Saarland team said: "I'm not sad that we lost. I mean I'm German, so I'm happy that we have now a chance to win the World Championship!"

@laurentschmidt2758 2 года назад

...which they did. And the coach that led (West) Germany to its second win in 1974 was the coach of the Saarland national team before.

@kolomaznik333 11 месяцев назад

I doubt that it was "national team". It were more like two german teams against each other. This "fun fact" nicely ilustrates it.

@dabbasw31 10 месяцев назад

2014 was the fourth World Cup for the German FA (DFB), the first World Cup for East Germany and the third World Cup for Saarland. :)

@AFGuidesHD 3 года назад

Let them choose (apart from the regions occupied by our empires) 😂 typical "good guys" behaviour

@nizarb.arsantaka2740 3 года назад

hello

@mayoite160 3 года назад

typical white guy behaviour

@garrettallen7427 3 года назад

@@mayoite160 Japanese co-prosperity sphere ring a bell?

@hirocheeto7795 3 года назад

@@mayoite160 White people weren't the only imperialists. The most prolific, sure, but not the only ones. Whitewashing goes both ways.

@unifiedhorizons2663 3 года назад

@@mayoite160 laughs in Turkish and Molitian empire

@AbruptandOffensive 3 года назад

I just love the fact that you call out ALL of ur supporters BY NAME at the end of every video. A man of the people, for the people, by the people.

@volodyadykun6490 3 года назад

1:51 this is very funny

@jordanfenose8554 3 года назад

Whoa another History Matters ep this week. It's definitely Christmas already

@quinnchandler7577 3 года назад

It’s crazy how much your Chanel has grow

@chrisrudolf9839 2 года назад

2:10 "France kept getting invaded by Germany", shows years 1870, 1914, 1940: Uhm actually, the 1870 war was started by France, keep it fair when counting. France was technically invaded afterwards because they lost the war and German troops (or rather: Prussian and other German allies, since Germany didn't exist as a state at that time) then pushed into French territory in retaliation, but if we counted that way, then we could also count the two latter dates as France invading Germany. ;-)

@patriciusvonkempen9810 2 года назад

Germany As a country existed Just Not AS a state. Germans existed hell

@chrisrudolf9839 2 года назад

@@patriciusvonkempen9810 Uhm ... country and state mean essentially the same. The idea of being German as an ethnicity / as a people speaking the same language existed, but a state/country named Germany (or similar) did not exist between the fall of the Holy Roman Empire of German Nation (officially disbanded with the Vienna congress 1815) and the founding of the Kaiserreich, thus it would be inaccurate to name "Germany" as one of the adversing parties of the 1870 war.

@BlueTigerTheLion 3 года назад

Video idea: Why do Belgium and France use "azerty" instead of "querty"? (as a Belgian, I ask myself this everyday)

@IceWolfLoki 3 года назад

Probably to do with the the incidence of certain letters in French words made 'azerty' work better for mechanical typewriters in French writing and maybe 'qwerty' or 'azerty' don't make much difference to Flemish writing.

@DZUP2023 3 года назад

Its just another hopeless action by the french to feel important! In the end the layout doesnt work for them but just to feel good about them selves they sticking to that keyboard layout same thing goes with many things it seems the french cant keep up with the anglosaxons leading the way nor accepting their failure and uselessness

@proactiveomnipresentvessel6569 3 года назад

Fascinating you HM sir somehow manage to find such unusual events in the most unexpected places

@TheLoraxshadenough 3 года назад

Germany: loses world war 1&2 France: Mom says it's my turn to play with the Saarland

@redcoat4ever323 2 года назад

Love the commentary.

@rasputin7297 3 года назад

I am from the saarland myself and I think that its pretty funny to hear about my own little region on this actually international Historie Chanel

@Simon-tc1mc 2 года назад

These videos are so good.

@firstcynic92 3 года назад

2:43. Fun fact. The ECSC would eventually turn into a little thing called The European Union 🇪🇺.

@51WCDodge 3 года назад

Or How to Establish a Dictatorship, Without a War.

@TorIverWilhelmsen 3 года назад

@@51WCDodge Thinking that the EU is a dictatorship is a sign of a lacking education.

@emanuelbluminsint 3 года назад

@@51WCDodge lmao a dictatorship? definitely not. a bureaucracy? maybe but that can be improved on

@roolphthenorge5660 3 года назад

*How did europe react to mongol invasion* I know this is soembody elses idea but i really want this video to happan

@watching99134 3 года назад

You can't really reference Germany's tradition of losing wars while also citing the Franco-Prussian conflict (which he did by putting 1870 on a sign; also France declared war on Prussia in that one not the other way around). Also the Saarland was returned to Germany in 1935 in a plebiscite (90% for reunification, 9% for remaining independent, 1% for staying with France).

@nolanrichoux3538 2 года назад

Yeah : they lose the wars they cause (sidenote, I know WWI was caused by Austria, but, I mean... *Anschluss time.* )

@wertyuiopasd6281 2 года назад

Imagine thinking France is responsible for these wars lol.

@mrm0bius 3 года назад

That was very enlightening, even though I'm a Frenchman leaving 50km away from Saarland! This explains why Saarland is the second smallest German state after Bremen, I guess. And there were quite a few coal mines in the neighbouring french region of Moselle, though it wasn't reintegrated back in France till after WWI. And, I got to say, I am very grateful to the founding fathers of the European Coal and Steel Community, notably Robert Schuman. Without him there would still be instability around the Saarland issue, and above all, there would not be a European Union!

@리주민 3 года назад

Hmm. Thought Berlin was the smallest as it's actually a federated city-state.

@mrm0bius 3 года назад

@@리주민 Yeah completely forgot about Berlin! It could be something like: 1. Berlin 2. Bremen 3. Saarland Starting from the smallest. But I would ask a German (or Google ;) to confirm!

@larsdodenhoffer5211 3 года назад

@@mrm0bius German here. It goes like this, at least area wise (by inhabitants would look differently ofc) 1. Bremen 2. Hamburg 3. Berlin 4. Saarland The first three are "city states" and dont even reach four digits in square kilometers. The Saarland is the smallest "area state" tho, followed by Schleswig-Holstein.

@mrm0bius 3 года назад

@@larsdodenhoffer5211 Thanks for the info! I have to admit, sometimes the decentralised nature of Germany is quite confusing for someone that lives in a country that was still an "absolute" monarchy 3 centuries ago.

@리주민 3 года назад

@@larsdodenhoffer5211 I rather like the idea of small city states in a federal system, with a large territory(-ies?) outside of them, or even federal territory. If residents within 500 km² sign petition, then the national govt will grant them federal city-state status that cannot be taken away without referendum from those residents. A close analogue would be the UFP in star trek. The vast space within the border is under federal govt, but each planet is a member of the Federation.

@theomorsdorf5897 Год назад

As a Saarländer im very sad that the Flag in the thumbnail isn't our official Flag anymore it looks so cool

@Osterochse 3 года назад

actually self determination wasn't really a thing in Europe either. After the first world war many referendums were held but ignored by the allies, when it was against their interest. E.g. the Sudetenarea voted to become Austrian, which was ignored by the czech government. In Alsace noone was ever asked if they want to be French, German or indepentent at any point in history. in ethnically mixed areas the borders were drawn to the disfavour Germany, Austria or Hungary or the Ottoman Empire. the winning powers don't care too much if the land they seize actually fits their definition of being democratic or independent. it is just power politics and imperiaism.

@cocojumbo539 3 года назад

You forgot that eastern poland was actually ukrainian majority and nobody wanted to be a part of poland

@Osterochse 3 года назад

@@cocojumbo539 yes you are right. i didn't forget that. I just didnt mention it, because I am not here to give a complete list of all violations. Poland and the soviet union didnt have any interest in an independent Ukrainian state which is why it was crushed. The eastern polish borders in the interwar period are the result of the performance of the polish military and not due to anything the people living there wanted. Why else would Poland and the USSR occupy Kiev and Minsk. The people were never asked what they want to be. Which is why never accepted the moral highground of the Allies, who supposedly fought an imperialistic autocratic Germany/Austria etc.. When it came to their interest they acted just as imperialistic and autocratic as everyone else.

@iliveinyourwalls5193 2 года назад

Alsace has always been in favor of france. Always. And it's pretty well known too.

@sebastianzeitblom4668 2 года назад

@@iliveinyourwalls5193 So, the Alsatians were happy when the troops of Louis XIV occupied Strassburg in 1681? And the French were so sure about the allegiance of the Alsatians after WW1 that they did not allow a vote? In fact, the Alsace was one of the centers of early German nationalism in the 16th century. Today, of course, the Alsatians have been reeducated and switched completely from German to French, hating their own history, culture and their own former language, which the French have extinguished. It's understandably easier to be part of the winning team and to psychologically address the situation by suggesting one has always been part of that team.

@k.chriscaldwell4141 3 года назад

Not taught in the schools trivia: In World War II, France invaded Germany first. Months before the Germans returned the favor. Saar Offensive was a French ground invasion of Saarland, Germany, during the early stages of World War II, from 7 to 16 September 1939.

@konigmarkusvonbayern3886 3 года назад

It wasn't really an "invasion"

@ThomasHaberkorn 2 года назад

Gotta love the sign figures

@johnl9236 2 года назад

your videos are better then oversimplified and funnier by a shot load

@windykingdom6153 3 года назад

1:22 “Except the Irish” 💀

@marsregulator-1748 3 года назад

I will have you know in 1870 france invaded Germany 2:11

@janwillemdewaard354 Год назад

What? No?

@ucminhvo295 2 года назад

France: We have low coal, where could we get oh yes I remember this guy name Nguyễn Vietnam under Nguyễn dynasty: Son of a...

@directorsupremodelriodelap6422 3 года назад

Great video. Also a good idea for another: Why did San Martin left Peru to Bolivar?

@DonCristian_DPB 3 года назад

Bolivia you mean?

@directorsupremodelriodelap6422 3 года назад

@@DonCristian_DPB No, I was talking about the Guayaquil Conference.

@misterx1342 3 года назад

Another thing that France required when giving the Saarland back to Germany was that French had to be the second language learnt in school

@madeingermany9445 3 года назад

Eww

@Chalk_I 3 года назад

nice

@mrgreenfr6216 3 года назад

it's not that surprising, I live in the area of "Alsace Lorraine" and many people learn german as a second language while french is the first language for everyone. But many people here choose other language... I choosed spanish and english for exemple... But giving the fact we live next to the german border and they live next to our border : it's not very surprising

@charlesdegaulle6663 3 года назад

Well it did return to Germany so any other language would be second

@FF-qp4xq 3 года назад

No. It is the gouvernement of saarland who decided this, the French required nothing. And the learning of French is very useful for the people of Saarland because the salaries are higher in France.

@billpg 3 года назад

One day, I'm going to sign up to be a patron under the name "I will read out any name, no matter how stupid. Rutabagas."

@DrPhil-qj8gv 3 года назад

Bruh 1:22, gets me every time when someone brings up Russian “annexations”

@TheAdmirableAdmiral 3 года назад

You should do a vid on Tyrol and Trieste some day

@GD1082 3 года назад

The Saarland, the world's quintessential resource tile.

@jordangilbert6911 3 года назад

ay this vid B bussin

@seronymus 2 года назад

Fun fact: Karl Adenauer (Post Ww2 German Chancellor) actually wanted Saarland NOT to rejoin Germany but was pressured by NATO to accept.

@jrgptr935 Год назад

KARL Adenauer? Nie gehört!

@reality8763 3 года назад

"It may surprise you, but there was a second world war"

@Nathan47824 3 года назад

Get this guy to 1M subs.

@philipwilkin2667 3 года назад

Weil mir absolut kei Bock uff die Wakkessen han. Greetings from Saarland.

@arpudli8962 3 года назад

Can you do one about he Hungarian independence war and also one about the territorial changes of Transylvania?!

@MIKIortz 3 года назад

My man Scott Chapelle always in the shadow of Bisonnette and Moneymaker.

@evancrum6811 3 года назад

As always...great job. Love the "Except the Irish" choice.

@stevendepauw3742 3 года назад

"This may suprise you, but there was a second world war" Lol!

@mariuskaesser 3 года назад

And now coal production in the Saarland is nearly not existing anymore, with over 90% of jobs in the coal industrie lost since the 1950s. Smart move france, smart move.

@deytims 3 года назад

1:29 not all of Germany is f-ing Bavaria ffs!

@seabrain1212 3 года назад

It's hilarious that you animated a depressed Napoleon and describe him as having been "dealt with".

@jemalo36 2 года назад

It's weird how Saarländers have their own regional identity, more than people of French departments have

@suevialania Год назад

Why should be???? You May ask that about Wallonia or Luxembourg!

@edwinhuang9244 3 года назад

France is not shy about getting land, and the UK loves getting land. The US Military loves getting oil.

@giorgiociaravolol1998 7 месяцев назад

You know that domino meme? Well, we can start from "France not having coal despite conquering half of Africa" to "hundreds of farmers commit suicide because EU standards of quantity forbid their products to be sold"

@geoFrizi 3 года назад

JAMES BISONETTE 😍🤤

@CyrilFiggis36 3 года назад

How about a video on how the world reacted to Stalin's death?

@zigzag3720 3 года назад

Nato: finally! Rest of the world: oh no! Anyways...

@11Survivor 2 года назад

This video does neglect to mention that _technically_ France _did_ annex roughly _half_ of the Saarland in the early 18th century. This is why in the north of the Moselle department in Lorraine, a lot of places also have "Saar" in the name and it's also why they speak Franconian.

@tonyhawk94 2 года назад

People of Mosel don't speak Frankish because of the Saar territories, the area is bigger (my father is from there). But the Saar is also made of cities built by the French like Sarrelouis in Germany. :)

@abrahamwilberforce9824 3 года назад

France in 19th an 20th cetury: Gib coal, gib Saarland. France from the 70s onwards: Fuck coal, gib nuclear plant.

@dajaca2586 3 года назад

Wasn't expecting this territorial conflict to be the EU's secret origin story

@Tjalve70 3 года назад

For me it was the other way around. I knew about EU's origin story. But I didn't know Saarland was such an integral part of it.

@Dyknown 3 года назад

Same here, and sort of surprised the ECSC's origins were more than economic but political as well. I feel silly, given how the EU has always had a political nature to it...

@rick7424 3 года назад

Adenauer time.

@giuseppeagresta1425 3 года назад

It's not like EU was born just because of that tho, there are tons of other things that influenced its birth (mostly the Cold War, as mentioned in the video: USA had to keep the European front united etc.)

@ALEXANDER1318 3 года назад

It isn't. It's France trying to conjure magic burning rocks into its economy that forms the EU's secret origin story. It's also about France trying to keep Germany from outgrowing it economically (again) by stapling itself (and the rest of Western Europe) to Germany and its economy. Only to have the Germans end up dominating the whole thing (like 2 minutes later) anyway. The French are not very good at doing some macro-political things. Hence them being on their fifth republic.

@thehobowizard 3 года назад

Europe, where every centimeter of land has had multiple wars fought for it

@DonCristian_DPB 3 года назад

Luv Europe

@akapbhan 3 года назад

So does most parts of the world. But thanks to Europe most of the records are destroyed. I live in a place that was almost for 1000 years of Turmoil. It was a constant back and forth until the Turks invaded

@arpudli8962 3 года назад

@@akapbhan and now you have peace hahahaha

@potato88872 3 года назад

@@arpudli8962 would have you prefer war ?

@arpudli8962 3 года назад

@@potato88872 no, war is stupid... But why do you ask exactly?

@ComicalRealm 3 года назад

"My great grandmother was born 1898 near Saarbruecken. She changed her nationality four times, lived through two world wars and paid with six different currencies. She has been through a lot, without even moving once!" - Fred Flintstone

@ph0n1xz 3 года назад

Grand dad: origins

@Pigraider268 3 года назад

*James Bisonette

@KR-mm4el 3 года назад

saarland (1914-1957) be like: “it do be bussin’ though”

@yoyohehe2034 3 года назад

My Croatian grandpa lived in 7 different countries: 1. Austria-Hungary 2. State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs (1918) 3. Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1918 - 1941) 4. Kingdom of Italy (1941-1943) 5. Independent state of Croatia (1943-1945) 6. SFR Yugoslavia (1945-1991) 7. Croatia (1991)

@boomerix 3 года назад

Reminds me of people who lived in Transcarpathia during the 2 world wars. Austro-Hungarian, then West Ukrainian People's Republic, then Czechoslovakian, then Hungarian and in the end part of the Ukrainian Soviet Republic. People went through 5 different citizenships without even moving once.

@awc6007 3 года назад

“What was Vietnam like after the Vietnam war?” Would be a good video idea

@SamAronow 3 года назад

Still at war, just against someone else.

@danzoom 3 года назад

@@SamAronow wasn't it basically Vietnam war? Or americans left before south fell?

@alexrider2597 3 года назад

Invaded Cambodia

@Banana_Split_Cream_Buns 3 года назад

It would have to be divided into several different periods. Most notably 1975 - 1986 and 1986 to present.

@flyngbee4777 3 года назад

@@danzoom they left 3 years before,after that the north annexed the south and was immediately attacked by the khmer rogue, reason why they invade Cambodia, this make China angry and China invaded Vietnam too(with support from US). Vietnam kick the two out with soviet support and form an new communist government in Cambodia

@HipFire1 3 года назад

germany: looses another war. France: gib Saarland.

@Verner-eh4pk 3 года назад

smart

@KR-mm4el 3 года назад

germany: loses ww2 russia: gib Königsberg

@lorrainemapper7000 3 года назад

Germany: loses world war 2 Poland: gib prussia

@yellowwire3751 3 года назад

Das heißt: Gib mir BITTE das Saarland

@augustuzmoon3814 3 года назад

Eu forms: "The only thing I'm giving you guys is assimilation and euros!" Brixit:"ha what losers at least I have it figured out, right guys!?" Citizen:"I Godman hate this island. "

@DasIllu 3 года назад

Saarland native here. We had indeed a troubled past, but also a lot of "fun facts". It's worth a read on wikipedia. We are to this day very dependent on heavy industry but there is a decline due to globalization. It was not only coal but steel prduction. Once world famous, now a relic is the Völklingen Ironworks. Among the oldest in the world and now UNESCO world cultural heritage.

@0000-z4z 3 года назад

Deutscher hier. Gibt es heute im Saarland ernsthafte Bestrebungen, wieder ein Teil Frankreichs zu werden?

@philipwilkin2667 3 года назад

Ei Grüße aus Tholey. :)

@philipwilkin2667 3 года назад

@@0000-z4z Uff gar kei Fall. ;) Null.

@firespindash 3 года назад

Nice to see someone from there, does people in Saar like to be part of Germany?

@DasIllu 3 года назад

@@0000-z4z Nein. Bis in die 60'er gab es mal eine Seperatistenbewegung die das Saarland in ein zweites Luxemburg verwandeln wollten, aber selbst die haben sich nicht wirklich ernst genommen. Die gesammte Region SaarLorLux ist extrem mit einander verwoben. Warum Franzose werden, wenn du nur 2 Meter bis zur Grenze hast und es Schlagbäume mehr gibt? Ich bin früher an freien tagen ohne nachzudenken einfach morgens nach Frankreich spaziert und hab mir ein Baguette gekauft. Und am Wochenende hat man die Franzosen in den Deutchen Clubs und Kneipen getroffen. Wir haben das Beste aus 2 Welten, warum sollten wir das Aufgeben? :-D

@frostyblade8842 3 года назад

1:23 As an Irish person, this made me chuckle. This was super well done dude, as always

@dutchman7623 2 года назад

Let's hope for an Irish version in 2027!

@noodlyappendage6729 2 года назад

@@dutchman7623 the UK will out live the EU.

@dutchman7623 2 года назад

@@noodlyappendage6729 Doubt that...

@noodlyappendage6729 2 года назад

@@dutchman7623 then you have no idea how bad of a situation the EU is in. The UK’s problems are minor in comparison.

@dutchman7623 2 года назад

@@noodlyappendage6729 Correct, but the enormous difference between them is that the EU damned well realizes their position and that constant effort and investment is needed to proceed, while the UK is dividing their unity more and more to serve a few.

@harveya1a952 3 года назад

The Saarland would be apart of France if they had James Bisonnette’s support

@bottomgear4055 3 года назад

Yes

@choreani 3 года назад

Or Kelly Moneymaker’s

@sinarouhi3966 3 года назад

Or wiggly biggly or whatever 😆🤣

@jamesbissonette8002 3 года назад

If only they had reached out

@iiillliiill5917 3 года назад

@@jamesbissonette8002 The legend himself!

@Tjalve70 3 года назад

So basically, France wanted Saarland, but when they were offered EU instead, they accepted the trade off.

@dw620 3 года назад

Fun fact. No. ; ) The EU was not even a twinkle in anyone's eye at that time, except for the German plan of 1942 which was shelved due to losing the war...

@theemperor-wh40k18 3 года назад

That was less of a European union and more of a German Aryan union...

@derrickthewhite1 3 года назад

@@dw620 I mean, the ECSC is not the european union by a long shot, but it is a momentous milestone in the series of treaties that eventually led to the EU. When the EU was formed, the ECSC was the oldest of the three communities that formed the first of the "Three Pillars". So its a very light precursor to the EU, but it was absolutely a light precursor to the EU. So restated: Basically, France wanted Saarland, but when they were offered a light precursor to the EU instead, they accepted the trade off.

@marcgdr7038 3 года назад

@@theemperor-wh40k18 you mean based Union?

@Qwerpy 3 года назад

"I was looking for Copper, but I found gold"

@Dyknown 3 года назад

I always love when Napoleon shows up in these things, whether he is looking down on the monarchs who refuse to personally lead armies or whether he's prancing around a visibly perturbed Austrian Emperor :).

@selinane2Seli-zw3pz 3 года назад

A lot of monarches avoided to personnaly lead their armies during French era because the result would be catastrophic. Napoleon never despised them lmao

@spinjitzustudios780 3 года назад

Dude how can you explain so much in 3 and a half minutes while still putting in various jokes like Germany sticking to tradition of losing. This really is a form of art and a really hard and underestimated thing to do. To make a kind of short video like this a lot of work goes into it and I generally appreciate you doing that for us!! I just really wanna thank you for these amazing video's🔥🔥🔥

@dw620 3 года назад

Barely even three minutes... Inevitably there are a few corners cut (e.g. Germany actually got The Saar back in 1935, nothing to do with WW2), but if it gets people reading up on the more detailed history afterwards that's a win-win. : )

@lukmigindnuforhelved 3 года назад

Hear hear !

@crkcrk702 3 года назад

@@dw620 oh really

@somebonehead 3 года назад

And that's why you should give History Matters your money

@nedsnark6479 3 года назад

👆🏼Sincerely, James Bizzonette

@Ben-jw2xh 3 года назад

Us germans joke a lot about the Saarland and the people living there but at the end of the day they pretty much had a choice to leave Germany twice and never did. Maybe we should appreciate that more

@neoDarkSquall 3 года назад

What about them is subject to jokes?

@neoDarkSquall 3 года назад

@Tinúviel Like Alabama in the US and Nord in France, then.

@nick3805 3 года назад

@@neoDarkSquall Incest and also the dialect.

@LukasZ_77 3 года назад

@Ben Jurqunov who cares haha

@nicolascadet7238 3 года назад

Im from the other side of the Saarland border (french side). I dont speak german so I never heard about that incest thing. However I used to spend all my weekends in Saarbrucken, they know how to party over there ^^ 🇨🇵🤝🇩🇪

@GuildsmanPirate 3 года назад

“Not the rest of the world, nobody asked them” I love this channel

@TurtleMarcus 3 года назад

What a rare sight to see a fellow Georgist online!

@miguelrodriguezcimino1674 3 года назад

I love when they ironically mention the hypocresy of the big powers...

@fangzhoushao5404 3 года назад

Based Georgism. I also support the pirate parties as well!

@sjoormen1 3 года назад

Same thing in Europe. Ask any small nation.

@jarlathquinn2628 2 года назад

Also the let them choose (except the Irish)

@whatiswrongwiththeworld8451 3 года назад

As a German, I can confirm that many German shops are simply called "Geschäft".

@Crom1980 3 года назад

But be careful if talking about "großes" or "kleines Geschäft". 😄😑💩

@FutureMan420Blazer 3 года назад

fo realz? lolz

@whatiswrongwiththeworld8451 3 года назад

@@FutureMan420Blazer no, I was joking

@jonnykidnap4082 3 года назад

@@whatiswrongwiththeworld8451 Wich just legitimates that you are German

@chrisrudolf9839 2 года назад

@@FutureMan420Blazer Geschäft is quite a versatile word, depending on context it can mean business, store or deal. With the latter meaning, it is also used as an ironic euphemism for peeing (ein kleines Geschäft machen - doing a little deal) and taking a crap (doing a big deal).

@cheydinal5401 3 года назад

Wanting to invade stuff because it has coal is such a 19th century thing to do

@kaslyan 3 года назад

Iraq: Who needs coal when you got oil?

@Kay2kGer 3 года назад

@@kaslyan thats the 20th and 21th century reason :)

@kaslyan 3 года назад

@@Kay2kGer indeed, scary question is whats gonna be the next resource worth going to war for

@raichu4game932 3 года назад

@@kaslyan Water for sure

@kaslyan 3 года назад

@@raichu4game932 ahh yeah thats a good shout

@bbenjoe Год назад

After a thousand year of fighting for those regions, France and Germany came up with the idea of working together. Neat.

@pagansbasin6657 3 года назад

James bisonette is from the saarland and threatened to revoke his financial support if they annexed it.

@jamesbissonette8002 3 года назад

Plausible

@dan-phone4665 3 года назад

@@jamesbissonette8002 is is this the legend himself?

@kiyru44 3 года назад

@@jamesbissonette8002 😀

@0000-z4z 3 года назад

@@jamesbissonette8002 Are you the one?

@kaiserfloppaiii5214 3 года назад

@@jamesbissonette8002 France is gay

@TailsIsDisappointed 3 года назад

WW2: _Begins_ France: _Hardly invades the Saar_ France: "We did it boys! We saved the world, let's go home."

@bruhicusmomentus3060 3 года назад

baguette located

@frankieperson1275 3 года назад

@@kei6121 Well technically it was a call it a day and go home scenario just not the ARMY saying call it a day and go home.

@dw620 3 года назад

Well done for calling it "the Saar" rather than Saarland (more typically used for the modern German state)... ; )

@Ihatechoosingnames242 3 года назад

@@dw620 even then it wasnt known as the Saar the Saar is the river running through the area before it became a state it was known as the "Saargebiet" or Saar territory

@omgpix 3 года назад

@@kei6121 ...You didn't refute the idea they called it a day and went home, you just explained WHY they called it a day and went home.

@cnglight 3 года назад

"Let them choose (except the Irish)" *Eamon de Valera intensifies*

@baronbrummbar8691 3 года назад

and the germans in belgium(euphen melmady) denmark(schleswig) netherland(friesa) france(alsace) and the millions of germans that were deported in easte europe

@AverageHouseofWolvesEnjoyer475 3 года назад

@@baronbrummbar8691 Yep. :(

@danielwalker6653 3 года назад

@@baronbrummbar8691 Also the french flemish, corsicans and catalonians in Perpignan (all of whose separate identities are basically extinct/integrated now)

@baronbrummbar8691 3 года назад

@@danielwalker6653 those i talked abouth where all german minoritys

@baronbrummbar8691 3 года назад

@@danielwalker6653but if we talk about france you forgot the nor(d)mans, bretons and occitaniens

@J_Gamer_Mapping 3 года назад

"Self-Determination" except when we don't feel like it

@elviscobb5922 3 года назад

Hilarious!

@Osterochse 3 года назад

@J_Gamer_Mapping 3 года назад

@@Osterochse Yep. That was what I was refferencing. Kinda shitty of the victors, but they won so they could do whatever they wanted

@MeidoInHebun 3 года назад

@@Osterochse They simply care about stability, having a huge ethnic minority be a part of another nation that mistreats them is a recipe for trouble, when the minorities are easily subjugated because they are small or kept systematically powerless then self-determination doesn't matter.

@sebazpereyra9431 3 года назад

You should make a "Why Uruguay exists" video. It's a pretty interesting story.

@DonCristian_DPB 3 года назад

I totally get behind you on this one, it would definitely be a very interesting video

@nicolasrivero3027 2 года назад

Haha that's a tough one.

@NIDELLANEUM 3 года назад

2:42 an interesting topic would be why Italy was part of the ECSC when it was founded in 1951. Back then, it made sense that the Benelux countries would be part of it, since they were sandwiched between France and Germany, but why was Italy part of that?

@baronbrummbar8691 3 года назад

becouse that are all nations that could and wanted to join ------- spain and portugal where still fachist --the uk never wanted to get in --- the northmen didn´t wanted to join --- switzerland and austria oblidged themself to be neutral ---- and east europe obviously couldn´t join ------------- that leaves only france w.Germany benelux and italy -----

@baronbrummbar8691 3 года назад

oh i forgot irland ---- it basicly was in civilwar

@baronbrummbar8691 3 года назад

and so was greece

@Valery0p5 3 года назад

See "Treaty of Rome"

@NIDELLANEUM 3 года назад

@@baronbrummbar8691 Oh so it was mostly a case of "these are the only ones who could join" and it just so happens that Italy feels like the odd one out due to its geographical position? Thanks for that. However, that leaves the Nordic countries. Why couldn't Denmark join, for instance?

@matthewwallack601 3 года назад

"This may surprise you, but there was a Second World War."

@writerconsidered 3 года назад

I literally come just for the sarcasm. And he follows that up with " Germany sticking with tradition lost that as well."

@stephenlitten1789 3 года назад

"But fun fact: No!"

@antoinemozart243 3 года назад

Where the germans were severely defeated by the french june 14, 1940.....precisely in the french Saar. The germans were far superior . 90 000 vs 20 100. It was called operation Tiger. The first !

@Fsast9707 3 года назад

He's growing more and more savage every passing day

@Delightfully_Bitchy 3 года назад

He's British; he wasn't growing more powerful, he was just revealing more of his true power.

@alandrion 3 года назад

Why is the Saarland no part of France? Well, because it was always german xD

@distance5000 3 года назад

Well Saarland used to be part of France for a period of time before the French Revolution. There are French sounding towns in Saarland like Sarrlouis and Beaumarais.

@alandrion 3 года назад

@@distance5000 There are german towns in Elsass Loraine like Mühlhausen too.

@ratlover2488 3 года назад

@@alandrion German sounding towns.

@thkempe 2 года назад

@@distance5000 Almost every town in Alsace and Lorraine spelled with Sch (Schmittwiller, Schopperten), W (Altwiller, Weyer) or K (Kuttolsheim, Kienheim, Killstedt) or umlauts (Blaesheim, Kleingoeft, Croettwiller) must surely be German because the French language does not use them. The same goes for ß like in Straßburg, which the French turned into Strasbourg, to make it look more French. Every town which name ends with -heim, -bach, -haus, -hausen (= house) is also German. You can still see on a map where the border between both nations should have been. Take for example Metz and try to find a French place named with tz. There is none, because it's a German name. Saarlouis and Beaumarais are quite new settlements. The French seized German land not only under Napoleon, but much earlier - under King Louis XIV. And this time is, when both towns got their names (around 1680).

@wertyuiopasd6281 2 года назад

@@thkempe And of all of it was under Frankish kings and our Frankish empire. Doesn't matter. Borders will always have connections.

@ambergris5705 3 года назад

Today, Saarland and France are also linked through the SaarLorLux euroregion, as a region of shared interests that comprises French Lorraine, German Saarland (and more), and both independent and Belgian Luxembourg. Quite a dynamic region in Europe actually, and a good reminder of how borders in Europe now don't separate, but rather create lines of exchange.

@MXB2001 2 года назад

Kinda reminds one of that old 3rd Kingdom that existed after Charlemagne. It lay between what were to become Germany and France.

@samiamrg7 Год назад

+MXB2001 The area wasn’t quite so valuable back then. Middle Francia was doomed to fail given how it was just this long strip awkwardly situated right between it’s two siblings. Lo and behold, it got gobbled up by the East and West Francia practically immediately.

@RK-cj4oc Год назад

@@samiamrg7That and it had regions like the Netherlands and Northern Italy in 1 country without modern infrastructure.

@EXTREME4YEARSTOCOME 3 года назад

"Let them choose" (except the Irish). As an Irishman that gave me a good laugh :D

@MolloyPolloy 3 года назад

Quality comment.

@ttt2080 Год назад

Saarland actually had their own international football team and nearly qualified for the 1954 World Cup. They were knocked out by .... West Germany, who went on to win the tournament. The coach of the Saarland team, Helmut Schon, went on to manage the West German team which won the World Cup in 1974 and the European Championships in 1972.

@familygash7500 3 года назад

Because "France can't have nice things" had been British foreign policy for over 400 years at this point, and that wasn't going to change anytime soon. *ALSO, VIDEO SUGGESTION:* Why did Cyprus never unite with Greece?

@galanopouloc 3 года назад

To answer your question: "Cyprus was a colony of the UK, then EOKA revolted and Cyprus became independent. Then it took a combined amount of about 5 minutes for the two communities to start fighting each other. Then the junta in Athens (with possible US backing) make EOKA-B do a coup against the government of Cyprus, and install a pro-Greek government. Turkey said no way and invaded the island and here we are."

@NuukneinMapping 3 года назад

They tried to, Turkey invaded in response and both the juntas of Cyprus and Greece fell because of it

@kamikazestryker 3 года назад

short answer turkey

@littlechemie5425 3 года назад

Turkey threw hissy fit, that's why :)

@mappingshaman5280 3 года назад

I still don't get why Greece doesn't just unite with South Cyprus. Do they need south Cyprus to just rattle their sabre at North Cyprus until they get it or something?

@leonardoleo5740 3 года назад

"But given Germany... issues...." "This may surprise you, but there was a world war II. Germany, stricken with tradition, lost this one to" I love these jokes

@rodrigobraz2 3 года назад

blatant nitpick: "sticking with tradition" :-)

@dw620 3 года назад

Although they did actually get the Saar back before WW2 (in 1935).

@macsnafu 3 года назад

Wait--you mean that The War To End All Wars didn't actually end all wars? I am shocked, SHOCKED I say, to find this out!

@_Lis25 3 года назад

I mean second world war objective of Germany doesn't really surprise why they stick to tradition.

@NekoBoyOfficial 3 года назад

"French leaders pushed for the ECSC to be guaranteed access to coal." Sounds like the EU.

@TorIverWilhelmsen 3 года назад

Yes, the ECSC was the precursor to the EEC and later the EU.

@aleksandarvil5718 3 года назад

ESCC ≈> EEC ≈> EU

@xaviertricot776 3 года назад

Or sounds like Bismark's home policies :)

@spectretacitus325 3 года назад

"Let them choose (except the Irish)". Yes, we in Ireland still have to put up with this to this day.

@ttun100 3 года назад

@@tombee9785 Because there is this little thing called Northern Ireland.

@itzimperiumxvi2620 3 года назад

@@tombee9785 the way things are going, there’s not gonna be much of a union

@LegendNinja41 3 года назад

@@Shaw4123 learning about the irish history really solved the puzzeling question of why many Irish support Palestinians, which are so far aways from Ireland, now it's totally clear, it's really a dark history but very important to learn about and i sooo hope that one day their will be a United Ireland on the Island.

@Osterochse 3 года назад

@stephenjenkins7971 2 года назад

@@Shaw4123 As always, it seems the Irish are always so unironically imperialist when it comes to Northern Ireland. It doesn't matter what you want, it matters what Northern Irish want; period. Self-determination first.

@thequeenofspades 3 года назад

Saarland: "Sure Germany has it's problems. But at least it isn't France".

@AnnoBathory 3 года назад

Britain: we believe countries should have self-determination. Ireland: Am I a joke to you? Britain: No, because that would require me to recognize you as a people capable of choice, let alone a country.

@purplespeckledappleeater8738 3 года назад

And that's exactly what happened, again. English history is so complicated.

@UkSapyy 3 года назад

Not that simple is tho. The British see the British Isles as the motherland of the British. Ireland is included as an Isle of the British Isles. The British recognised the Irish culture much like the Welsh, Scots, Cornish, Gaels, English and all the others in between but with the exemption that British culture is to be the taught culture. The problem is England created the British Empire and only share a crown with the Scots (United Kingdom). So the English took the stance to make their culture and language the new British culture, instead of trying to create a common culture. Of course it happened like this because the English crown took the title of the British Empire. It had happened with the Northern Kingdoms and Cumbric Kingdoms historically. Expect Ireland was seen as secondary importance to the British as Great Britain was more developed than Ireland. And if the British used Ireland as a agriculture Island to feed the British that be okay because their British too, right? You kinda see why the Irish were pissed but also why the British didn't see an issue. Not to mention the English and Scots are their own in identity but like the Irish much like the Welsh and Cornish identify as a Celtic nation making claims back hundreds of years, I'd bet the Irish make claims that Britons lived in Britain and Gaels in Ireland making counter claims to the one desired identity of the time as British. The Irish believe this now and at the time of the British Empire and what followed was unpleasant bloody history as the British or better put the English tried to create a British culture by basically assimilating other cultures and attending to the needs of the machine of Empire over the needs of the people in the Empire.

@noodlyappendage6729 2 года назад

@@UkSapyy separatists like to bad talk England but so many of them move here. England is more populous partly for that reason. They left Wales, Scotland and Ireland to live in England. England only used to be three times more populous then Scotland. But now it’s eleven times more populous. What the UK gov should do is spread the British population around a bit more equally. That would kill separatism stone dead. Middlesex in the south has 4 million people and Cromartyshire in the north has 7 thousand people. This is what is causing the problem. You’re exactly right in what you say. As somebody who identifies as British the British Isles are most definitively the mother(is)land(s) of the British people. Ireland even used to be called Little Britain. We should not give into separatists.

@iamkokan 3 года назад

Can we just appriciate they didn't annex Saarland and kept borders beautiful

@seneca983 3 года назад

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Someone might consider the border between Baarle-Hertog and Baarle-Nassau beautiful.

@weeklycanvas2751 3 года назад

At this point, I don't even watch his videos for the history lessons but for those short witty lines

@wyattangle 3 года назад

I'm 40/60. I love learning these somewhat random tidbits in history, but slightly more, I love hearing the funny lines that get added in. I crack up!

@weeklycanvas2751 3 года назад

@@wyattangle right on

@piotrilichtchaikovsky4698 3 года назад

Bremember kids, everybody is allowed choose, exept the irish.

@Osterochse 3 года назад

@sarban1653 3 года назад

This doesn't explain what went on differently with Alsace-Lorraine that resulted in France being able to annex it but not Saarland. Why were the French able to annex Alsace-Lorraine, but not Saarland? What was the big difference between the two?

@fandemusique4693 3 года назад

Because Alsace-Lorraine was a french Land stolen by the prussians and their hohenzollern monarchy.

@duruarute5445 3 года назад

@@fandemusique4693 lol

@fandemusique4693 3 года назад

@@duruarute5445 what ? Look at the history matters video on Alsace-Lorraine. The people of Alsace-Lorraine wanted to be part of france, and when the prussians annexed it, it had been french longer than Germany had existed up to this day.

@SamAronow 3 года назад

"Saarland has more Michelin stars per person than any other German state...and if that doesn't make you proud to be French, I don't know what will." -The Tim Traveller

@wizzotizzo 3 года назад

Lol.

@hannofranz7973 2 года назад

The Saarland has probably always had a strong sense of identification with being German.

@calumwatt4360 3 года назад

What better way to end an international border dispute than with a shrug because it no long matters who owns it?

@patriciusvonkempen9810 2 года назад

By stopping bringin french settlers into German Elsass which IS genocide according to UN definitions?

@1000eau 2 года назад

@@patriciusvonkempen9810 wtf are you talking about

@GravitasZero 2 года назад

I don’t trust someone with a British(ish) accent to tell me anything about France. I don’t know, just feels like it could be full of bias even if they are VERY knowledgeable.

@griffinthegamer9809 3 года назад

Y’all should make a vid about the Irish war for independence

@beaucaspar3990 3 года назад

Ireland still import a tonne of stuff from Britain they aren’t as independent as you’d think.

@purplespeckledappleeater8738 3 года назад

Geography is everything. If your tiny country was half an island and your closest neighbors were your historical arch nemesis and France, I'd bet you would celebrate a strong sense of nationalism too while still establishing strong economic ties. Ireland is just cutting costs by importing from Britain. It's not like Britain doesn't immediately look at Ireland as a potential market to dump exports and make a profit.

@aravindhanil7235 3 года назад

What was Imperial Japan's reaction to the fall of Nazi Germany ?

@windykingdom6153 3 года назад

That would be a good one

@mikicerise6250 3 года назад

Probably: "Uh oh."

@plebisMaximus 3 года назад

@@mikicerise6250 Heeere's Stalin!

@QuentinWatt 2 года назад

If they wanted it to identify as French they probably should’ve tried changing the name. 😛 Also maybe encouraging many french settlers to swing the referendum. Looking at Russia and Israel for these tactics 🤫

@sonoftheway3528 3 года назад

Do what were the colonies of European countries like when their colonizers were occupied by Germany during WWII? (France, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark).

@Tjalve70 3 года назад

I don't think Denmark had any colonies left after they sold the last one to USA. Unless you count Iceland and Greenland, that is.

@sonoftheway3528 3 года назад

@@Tjalve70 I'd count Greenland and Iceland. What were they like when Denmark was occupied?

@roypennell1976 3 года назад

@@sonoftheway3528 Greenland was given to the US, Iceland to the British. Im unsure of the faroe islands, though

@charlesdegaulle6663 3 года назад

For France, North Africa was part of the Vichy government While Equatorial Africa And the far East colonies sided with Me and the Free French

@Tjalve70 3 года назад

@@sonoftheway3528 Iceland declared independence. That would probably not have happened if Denmark hadn't been occupied.

@patrickmorrissey3084 3 года назад

The French seem to forget they were the ones that declared war on Germany each time. Then when it doesn't work out they act like they are the victim.

@mappingshaman5280 3 года назад

I mean in ww1 Austria Hungary declared war on serbia which caused Russia to declare war on Austria Hungary and then Germany declared war on both russia and France. So between Germany and France in ww1, Germany declared first.

@patrickmorrissey3084 3 года назад

@@mappingshaman5280 That's because France started mobilizing its army. France did this because they were a Russian ally.

@jukahri 3 года назад

@@patrickmorrissey3084 So when France fails to help Poland in WW2, it's French cowardice. When France mobilizes to help its ally in WW1, it's French aggression. Got it.

@Osterochse 3 года назад

@@mappingshaman5280 that is wrong. Germany declred war on Russia, but France and Britain declared war on Germany.

@mappingshaman5280 3 года назад

@@Osterochse no in ww1 Germany declared war in France. Its true that Britain declared war on Germany AFTER they invaded Belgium